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    SPOTY

    in The Jim Smith Room

    Posted

    3 hours ago, FindernRam said:

    I think the BBC have a right nerve bigging up SPOTY given how little live sport they cover.

    Then they compound it by having Lineker on it. 

    Then they pick just six who we can vote for from an apparently woke agenda.

    But the saddest thing, and its nothing to do with the BBC, is that when I spent a few idle minutes thinking about who I would have nominated I couldn't come up with anybody. As a nation we seem devoid of star quality winners. Even our top football teams are stuffed full of foreigners.

    From the 'England Football' Website:

     

    'The industry panel for this year’s BBC Sports Personality of the Year included former Lioness and Euro 2022 winner Ellen White, ex-Olympian Colin Jackson, Paralympian Ellie Simmonds and former Scotland rugby union international Chris Paterson.

    Sports journalists David Coverdale (Daily Mail), Rob Maul (The Sun) and Charlotte Harpur (The Athletic) were on the panel alongside Olympian Katherine Grainger, now Chair of UK Sport.

    Representing the BBC were director of sport Barbara Slater, head of sport content Philip Bernie and Sports Personality of the Year executive producer Gabby Cook.'

     

    I don't know about you but I'm sick of the woke agenda pushed by the Daily Mail and the Sun.

    SPOTY

    in The Jim Smith Room

    Posted · Edited by AndyinLiverpool

    53 minutes ago, FindernRam said:

    I think the BBC have a right nerve bigging up SPOTY given how little live sport they cover.

    Then they compound it by having Lineker on it. 

    Then they pick just six who we can vote for from an apparently woke agenda.

    But the saddest thing, and its nothing to do with the BBC, is that when I spent a few idle minutes thinking about who I would have nominated I couldn't come up with anybody. As a nation we seem devoid of star quality winners. Even our top football teams are stuffed full of foreigners.

    I have a suggestion. I know that this might give you less to moan about but how about ignoring Sports Personality of the year?

    QoS

    in The Jim Smith Room

    Posted

    On 18/12/2023 at 18:26, SSD said:

    Glad it's gone. Tried to freshen it up and it backfired. Part of me thinks the BBC are getting rid of their old guard who present their shows because they're on a ridiculous wage and it's unsustainable and the other part thinks they're on their crusade to tick boxes and don't actually care how talented someone is anymore. Let's give them a job because we haven't filled out that quota of specific person.

    Eventually I don't think they'll make shows anymore because they have limited money. It's quite clear they don't give a crap about local radio anymore and it's a great USP. Oh but we need the money to pay for Lineker and Fiona Bruce's ridiculous salary.

    Most of Netflix now genuinely is just background TV which you put on when family comes around and nobody gives a second look about what's on. It's flooded with some absolutely garbage. There's a gap in the market for BBC to make more low budget quality dramas like a Happy Valley, Line of Duty, Time. If they keep making that kind of show, it'll bring more viewership back to then tell government to give them more funding.

    What box does Paddy McGinnis tick?

    Kaide Gordon

    in Ex Rams

    Posted

    2 hours ago, Crewton said:

    I noticed that Kaide started for a young Liverpool team against Union St.Gilloise in their last Europa League group match in Belgium, which they lost 2-1. He was substituted after 75 minutes.

    Goal.com report said of him :

    Kaide Gordon (4/10):

    Gave the ball away too much and struggled against a strong defence

    At least he's playing again.

    Consensus up here is that he will get a transfer to a lower league club for more than they paid but won't ever be a first team regular at Liverpool. 

     

    Watchable telly

    in The Jim Smith Room

    Posted

    1 hour ago, The Last Post said:

    Yes I gathered that, Maybe this sort of viewing aint my cup of tea 🤷‍♂️

    It is one of those things that only reveals itself fully in the final episode and tests the patience in order to stick to that (people not answering a straight question with a straight answer, improbable ommissions in the story telling etc). I found I could only judge whether it was worth it once I'd watched it all. I didn't think it was 2/10 but it also ain't anywhere near 10.😀

    Watchable telly

    in The Jim Smith Room

    Posted

    2 hours ago, The Last Post said:

    I watched the 1st episode of Bodies on Netflix last night, Completely lost me, A naked man is found dead in a back alley in todays London, Then the same body is found in the 1940s, The 1890s and the 2050s, I get the drift about time travel...but 🤷‍♂️

    2-10

    You need to watch the other episodes 

    Max Bird

    in Transfer Forum

    Posted

    11 minutes ago, jono said:

    This is so funny. Now I know we have our grammar police division, I try very hard not to join them (even though I know they’re right most of the time,  certain “things” do grate 🤪, thing is I am with a mixed group of folk with diverse roots but for the most parts we all have similar brain cells. We also have no pretensions to grandeur or superiority or even claims to elevated knowledge . After all we are just folk who love talking about our club. Who we are, where we come from, our intellectual prowess is entirely secondary.

    THIS bloke is an effing JOURNALIST. He is supposed to be an informed, articulate wordsmith. It’s his flipping job ! I mean do you decide to be be a micro surgeon when you’ve got a manual tremor and visual impairment ?
     

    Dazza  can’t  write clear coherent English. How the eff has he got this job ? why on earth do we give him headspace or even a click ? A One legged man at an arse kicking party springs to mind. About as useful as a car park extension at Wycombe! 

     

    This bit is especially good:

    'Derby midfielder Max Bird among the admirers'

    It says the opposite of what he wants to say. A Twitter Spoonerism.

    It should be called 'doing a Marilyn': During the filming of one scene of 'Some like it Hot', Marilyn Monroe  (as the character 'Sugar') had to say the line, 'It's me, Sugar' but kept saying, 'Sugar, it's  me,' which,  of course, is something quite different. (as an aside, she messed it up so many times that they had to write it down for her.)

    Max Bird

    in Transfer Forum

    Posted

    28 minutes ago, Caerphilly Ram said:

    The previous thread on Max is locked so starting a new one, hopefully a mod will merge them. Silly season is upon us with the inevitable tenuous links between Rooney and our players starting;

    For context Witcoop is the Sunday Mirror’s Sports News editor so take with a massive pinch of salt, but I don’t think this will be the last speculative link about Bird. 

    Further context, he seems to be a halfwit with a poor grasp of English.

    Portsmouth or Bolton?

    in Football Forum

    Posted

    37 minutes ago, ram59 said:

    I've seen more so called 'Warneball' from Portsmouth in the first half than I've seen from us in the last 10 games. You can see where their points come from, excellent cross and run for the goal, otherwise no better than us.

    They have more points than us.

    Rate the last film you saw partie deux

    in The Jim Smith Room

    Posted

    4 minutes ago, Bob The Badger said:

    On the way to Florida I decded to rewatch The Godfather trilogy.

     

    My goodness those first two that I'd not seen in 20 years were sooooo good. Almost flawless acting, direction and script.

    I watched the 3rd on the way home, in as mentioned above, a horrible mood and feeling sick because I presumed that I'd overreacted with Part 3. So maybe I'm overreacting.

    But, jeez, it was an utter trainwreck of biblical proportions.

    Sofia Copella would have been laughed off the set of Crossroads, Eli Walch was almost as bad, and Al Pacino was hamming it up too.

    Even the ending was laughingly bad.

    It's incomprehensible to me that it was Coppola and Puzo involved and that it scored 7.6 in IMDb.

    I think 'trainwreck' is a bit unkind. His search for, and failure to attain, respectability, is a good angle. He attracts corruption and violence like a magnet and ultimately, he can't escape. So he dies alone. I find the final scene quite moving, with the flashbacks of him dancing with his wives and daughter before he slumps in his chair and finally falls.

    I don't really have as big a problem with Sophia Coppola as others seem to have. She's a relatively minor role.

    Strangley, the main thing that bugs me is that Don Tomassino is played by a different actor.

    Ali Al-Hamadi - Signed for Ipswich Town

    in Transfer Forum

    Posted

    On 09/11/2023 at 09:48, Kernow said:

    At first glance I thought this was Ali Al-Habsi, the Wigan keeper from about 10 years ago. Then I saw the story and realised that he’d be much more like to join than Al-Hamadi.

    This reminded me that a few years ago I was working with a group of Omanis in Liverpool. I tried to organise a meeting one afternoon but they couldn't attend because they were all off round Al-Habsi's house for tea. Nice bloke.

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