The Fish

Wasn't Marvel Studios, but it's a Marvel product and certainly operates more like their own in-house movies, than it does Sony's and Fox's. Didn't want to seem too Marvel fan-boy.

Aye, and while Logan was very Shane at times at least it was a bit of a departure. Curious as to how, armed with the confidence to strike out away from those formula, the big stables will approach establish properties like Thor and Spider-Man, and how they'll handle fresh properties like Black Panther and Ms Marvel.

To be fair, he might not have signal on the 9th hole.

Reckon if Moyes had had a full preseason he would have got them more points, but £25m isn't a huge amount for the presumptive favourites for relegation to spend to try and fix their squad. Still dunno why they didn't re-sign M'Vila who seemed important for them last year. Like @@Rayvin says, this season is just the end result of years of mismanagement from the top down.

Could have been mint, but DC (Batman/Superman/WonderWoman et al) seem 5 years behind Marvel at the minute. Hoping Wonder Woman nails it, not only because it'll be the first successful female lead superhero movie, but it'll hopefully show DC how to get it right for the modern audiences. People enjoyed Nolan's Batman trilogy and the Marvel movies because they spent time establishing the character(s) rather than just tossing them straight into the action. I thought Man of Steel was going that way, but too quickly they dumped the interesting origins and relied on destruction porn to distract the audience from the lack of any meaningful story. For me, Marvel's epiphany was to stop following the same formula for every movie. Yes AntMan was another Origin story, but at it's heart it's a heist movie. Guardians of the Galaxy is a Space Opera, Logan is a Western, Winter Soldier is more a Spy thriller than anything else. That's why Nolan's Batman movies worked. They didn't feel like any superhero movie you'd seen before. Unfortunately, DC threw that out the window and have gone back to; drag protagonists to big city, have mindless monsters smash it up a bit, protagonists stop McGuffin, big fight lots of damage, yay we won. I realise you didn't ask and don't care Guarantee the Justice League will see Batman et al go up against a legion of baddies that, once the big bad is killed/banished/exorcised all fuck off/die/revert to normal.

So distracted by the shamble in the White House that when I heard about this I though, "Oh yeah! I forgot they also did this shit". Looking forward to hearing Trump's carefully considered, measured, response to this tragedy.

Dunno like, Moyes' biggest problem was a disrupted pre-season in the wake of Allardyce's exit. Say Allardyce stayed, he knows that squad, who needs replacing/getting rid of, the players know his style of play. I don't think Moyes is a terrible manager, I just think he's not good enough, to do well enough, quickly enough, with the shitshow he inherited. He wouldn't have lead them to the top half, but I reckon he'd certainly have got more points on the board than Ol' Big Eyes.

They do, undoubtedly. I think Fat Sam is a very limited manager, with a massive ego. Where Pulis seems stoic and a little humble, Allardyce genuinely thinks that the only reason he's not had a shot at a "big" job is that he's part of the old British manager coterie. Where in fact the reasons are legion. He has one style of play and when it works it can undo much, much better sides, but it will also often come hopelessly unstuck against very average sides. It's negative, it's boring, it's inflexible and ultimately he values not losing over winning. Because he goes out intending to get a point, he'll rarely do better than c1.2PpG, which is good enough for about 46pts in a Premier League season(around 13-14th). The Crystal Palace side he's inherited will likely see flair replaced with function and they'll likely end up around 13th-14th for a few seasons before pressure from the fans force Allardyce out.

Don't disagree with any of this. We've a very good record against sides in the middle 3rd, best in the division in fact. 2.31PpG over 13 games, only losing once and we've only failed to score once in these games (Wolves). Brighton have dropped 14 points from a possible 36 in games against midtable sides. I'm hoping that those we meet (Ips, Pre, Car, Bar) have all clocked off for the summer. And looking at the table, they should have; Ipswich are 9pts clear of 22nd with 15 to play for, and they've 4 teams between them and danger. Preston are 8pts off the Play Off spots and by the time we meet them they may have already run out of time. Cardiff are as mid-table as it gets, 15pts off the drop, 14pts off the Play Offs. They'll have their boots off and the flip flops on, surely? Finally, last game of the season, at home, Barnsley. They'll have nowt to play for, hopefully we'll be either gunning for the top spot, or parading the trophy. I'd also say that Brighton have to face Norwich and Villa, who are better teams than their league position, imo.

A decent player would just bend it over or round it man

To be honest, I do think Allardyce would have had them further up the table. Not midtable as some predict, but he'd have got them within a win or two of safety at this point, I reckon. Same as he's done with Palace. I think it's fair to say his ability is hugely overstated on RTG, but his football will keep limited squads up.

That sounds all right to me. Which one do you use?

Kodi's been pretty poor for me lately. all the streams seem poop; SportsDevil, AdrianSports, etc.

Maybe giving the world cup will stop all their shenanigans, like that Kardashian and the Pepsi cured racism.

Alberta to Mexico City is only a 48hr drive.

2nd prize is 8 tickets.

Piece of piss mate, just stick a load of unlikely clauses/bonuses in the deal with his club (an extra £2m if we win the Premier League, £4m if he makes 30 international appearances etc), then loads of bonuses in his contract (£750k if he's the league's top goal scorer, £1m if we win the FA Cup)

I mean, he clearly knows it's wrong, otherwise he wouldn't have deleted it.

In Gayle's likely absence, I'd personally love it if Mitro's picked ahead of Murphy and launches us into 1st place with goals, assists and controlled aggression. Love. It.

I think those issues would be sorted with more experience in the league, but I doubt he'll get the chances.

What did he say like? it's been deleted.