Big Salad

We will win 1-0 Watkins with the goal, scoring with a bicycle kick from outside the box

I still have him getting 15+ this season, he'll be fine

3 minutes ago, Johnnyp said:

He hasn’t. If hype is becoming a 2 time unified HW champ, fair enough. All these hindsight merchants pop up after the event. Same as when Hamed lost to Barrera. He was a hypejob etc etc. Again, he wasn’t. Incredible fighter. Beat some great featherweights. Why can’t we just acknowledge they weren’t good enough and beaten by better men on the night without pissing over there careers.

I am not pissing on his career pal, he is a good fighter, I just don't think he as good as people thought he was. Not taking away from his accomplishments. He could never live up to the hype he was given though that's mainly what I'm saying.

About to have my fifth Moscow Mule

And let us just be honest here: Joshua has been overrated since he turned pro just because he's British.

Some critics had doubts that Usyk could make it at heavyweight due to his stature but obviously they look like idiots now. The dude is a natural boxer and one of the best I have seen.

2 hours ago, Xela said:

Been 10 years or so since I used to read crime fiction - used to do 30 or 40 books a year. Struggle with concentration now since I moved into a high pressure role at work. 

But from memory

James Patterson - Alex Cross series

Michael Connelly - Harry Bosch series

Mark Billingham - Tom Thorne series

Val McDermid - Dr Tony Hill series

Also, I did read a few of the John Connolly books - are they the ones with a slight supernatural edge? I did enjoy those. 

 

Really wish I could get back into them! 

Another Thorne fan! Awesome. He is one of my favorite authors and besides the Thorne series, his standalones are good also. If you have never seen it David Morrissey plays Thorne on the tv series they did based on the books which I thought was nicely done.

And yeah the Connolly have that supernatural tilt to them; all fantastic, his prose is some of the best I have ever read would deffo recommend getting back into them. The 19th in the series comes out next month.

I am so so proud of the guys, played as a unit the whole time, awesome finish by Hause, and Bruno Fernandes and all the plastic Man U fans can **** the right off.

Usyk schooled him from round one and has to be considered one of the best pound for pound in the world now. Joshua has a rematch clause and I am sure will act on that, but I don't see anything changing in a second bout, Usyk is just the far superior boxer

16 minutes ago, Seat68 said:

I like the Alex Cross series from James Patterson. That said the latest remains unread, I will come round to it though. 

Those are good and I think the only series he now writes where he is the only author. I think almost all of his other series he has a co-author. I swear they have to do most of the writing because I see no way he can release as many book a year as he does if they don't.

2 minutes ago, The_Rev said:

@mjmooney absolutely.  I'm still of the opinion that genres only exist so you know which shelves to look at in the shop.   

 

@Big Salad I'm torn between the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams and the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian.   Hitch Hikers is a much easier recommendation, Douglas Adams is just a master of the English language and the books are hilarious.  I'd go as far as to day it's the best five book trilogy ever written.   Aubrey-Maturin is a bit more niche, it's a "historically accurate" tale of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic wars.  The plot is mostly the same in every book, Aubrey falls into a bucket of shit and emerges smelling of roses but O'Brian is another author whose prose are utterly delightful. The gentle humour, the ensemble cast of well rounded characters, even the HMS Surprise becomes a character on some level. 20 books which were written over 35 years and the rarest of rare things, a movie adaptation which was actually good. 

 

 

As for me?  I'd been on a long kick of reading about WW2 and The Cold War and it's bought me back to John Le Carre.  I'd read Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Spy who came in from the Cold years ago and I read his final book Agent Running in the Field pretty much on release just to see Le Carre's take on post Brexit Britain (he wasn't a fan) and now I'm about half way through A Perfect Spy which a lot of people consider to be his best work.   I'm still at the point where the strands haven't been pulled together but clearly it's the work of a masterful author at the top of his game.  If you love 80's Cold War stuff then I can highly recommend it even at this point.   

Have never read anything by O'Brian but of course have heard of him. However, I have read every book in the Alan Lewrie series by Dewey Lambdin if you're looking for something in a similar vein.  As far as Le Carre he is quite hard to beat when it comes to the spy genre if you will, but I would also recommend Bernard Samson series by Len Deighton if you have never read them, all are great

5 minutes ago, stegzy said:

Has anyone else tried the free 10 hours of this yet? I’ve had a go and feel it’s a massive upgrade on previous versions. I wonder if they spent the last 2 years trying to get this one right as feels like a proper upgrade.

I haven't yet but did see on youtube where they are missing tons of third kits including ours; sure they will fix that in a title update a couple weeks after release just sucks not in their to begin with.

2-1 to us Ings with the brace.

Just now, maqroll said:

I was a huge fan of S1 but I thought S2 was a disaster and I gave up on S3 when the plot became unfollowable.

Wish they kept it simple like S1. 

Fair enough pal.

I think it's an awful idea, if the World Cup happens every two years it would take away from the thrill and anticipation of it. Same goes if the Olympics all of a sudden decided to have it every two years. In the end don't think it will actually happen but if enough money gets passed around who knows

Just out of curiosity and this may be a stupid question but why is it called Soccer AM instead of Football AM as that is what ya'll call it?

What's is yall's favorite series of any genre? 

Mine are the Rebus series by Ian Rankin and the Charlie Parker series by John Connolly, both brilliant.

Will throw in the Joe Pickett series by CJ Box as well

The Stars My Destination is brilliant also.

I'm sorry but every time I watch golf I think of this scene from Happy Gilmore:

And @Phil Silvers  USA! USA! USA!

I knew a girl in college who had Somniphobia (Fear of sleep or going to sleep). She was genuinely petrified that if she went to sleep either she would not wake up or something would happen to her while she was sleeping. She always was popping caffeine tablets or whatever else to stay awake; it was disheartening to see. She eventually left school and I haven't seen her since, hopefully she got over it and is doing ok.

Germany and Spain allow that crap and I think its ridiculous that they do. Please don't allow it in England.

Granted the above countries don't allow those teams to be promoted but still stupid.

1 minute ago, Panto_Villan said:

Funnily enough I demolished most of Mark Lawrence's work over the past year or so and read Revelation Space recently too. Excellent stuff. I particularly enjoyed Red Sister.

Any of Reynolds other work you'd recommend? Revelation Space was very good. A bit heavier than I usually go but it was worth it. Similar to Children of Time by Aiden Tchaikovsky in that regard, that's well worth a read if you've not 

I'm assuming you've read most of the big name fantasy if you've worked down to Lawrence? Lies of Locke Lamora, the First Law trilogy, Name of the Wind, Brandon Sanderson's many series, etc?

I am a fan of all of Reynold's work. Poseidon's Children series is great if want to read some more of his work, the ending blew me away.

Yeah I've read all of those(Hopefully a new Locke book releases soon), can't really go wrong with Abercrombie, I'll be in the grave before Rothfuss finishes the trilogy lol, and Sanderson is always good to dive into.

14 minutes ago, Panto_Villan said:

I mostly read sci-fi and fantasy these days.

There's quite a lot of good fantasy that's come out in the last 20 years (i.e. post Game of Thrones) that's much more grounded than it used to be. Older fantasy work often comes across as the fantasy of a weird and slightly pervy old man but there's a lot of good authors writing fantasy now.

Sci-fi is a similar story in some regards (except many of the classics still hold up). Happy to make some recommendations about books involving aliens and laser guns if anyone is interested, but as that's a bit niche I'd recommend Flowers for Algernon and the book of The Martian for anyone that isn't. Both really good books and neither are particularly "genre".

I read a lot of sci-fi and fantasy as well.

If I had to say my favorite authors of those genre's they would be Alastair Reynolds and Mark Lawrence and their respective series.

Favorite 'classic' series would probably be the Riddlemaster of Hed