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I understand your opinion and you may be right, but I think it's more a case of Bruce not setting the players up to play to their strengths whereas I feel you think it's more the players not working hard enough to implement his tactics. It's probably closer to somewhere in the middle, but it's up to Bruce to fix things when they're not working and to try and get the best out of what he has. Bruce is also responsible for buying a number of these players, so if they're not right for his style of play, that's also on him. For those reasons I feel he's most responsible and therefore he should go. I also think we have a more than decent squad that could do very well under a manager with a lick of tactical nous and common sense.

I think most of us realise it's a preseason friendly and you should take those performances with a pinch of salt. However, watching yesterday's game was like watching most of last season. We had some possession and passed it about the back nicely enough at times, but there's a severe lack of chances. I don't mean goals, though of course that's also true, I mean goal threats and attempts. With the players we have we should be carving teams open and always on the offensive. But we're not. We look clueless and that's down to tactics and training. Yes, it was a friendly and mainly for fitness, but it's just like he's trying the same things over and over again hoping they'll eventually click and they just aren't. There's no excuse for that kind of stubbornness. We can see it, why can't they? I don't think he'll last three months personally, and nor should he if that's all he can serve up, and I can't see it improving anytime soon. I just hope Tony and co. have plans in place, though obviously looking at other managers when you already have one isn't exactly inspiring for the current incumbent.

See, I'm usually a stickler for a film needing to have an identity, so I probably wouldn't have enjoyed it if I didn't think Baby Driver knew what kind of a film it wanted to be. It's an action/heist film with a romance running through the middle and the occasional gag. It never tries to take itself seriously and I think that's pretty clear from the outset. It's not a musical, but it incorporates the music more directly into the film and uses it in imaginative ways. Anyways, I saw Spider-Man: Homecoming last night. Was okay. I'm a big Spidey fan and I didn't dislike it, but it didn't really do much for me either. I can't think of any criticisms really, but I can't say I was all that wowed. I do like Tom Holland though and Keaton was a good villain. War for the Planet of the Apes is up next. Love the first two films so hoping this will end it on a real high. I was a bit pissed off that the newest trailer I saw last night at Spider-Man seemed to show the entire film, though.

I really wanted to like it. In many of the screenwriting books I've read it's hailed as the perfect script and story, but i just didn't love it like I knew I should.

I wasn't being totally serious in all fairness, though I adored it so I guess any criticism, no matter how minor, is going to be viewed as an insult by me

@BOF is in my bad books for insulting Baby Driver and Schindler's List within the same page Didn't find Schindler's List or Godfather I or II boring, quite the opposite in fact, but I did struggle through The Deer Hunter. Apocalypse Now is another one I tried in my youth and got bored, though I suspect I'd enjoy both AN and TDH a lot more if I watched them now. I watched Chinatown a couple of years ago and still found it all a bit dull, though. I guess I'm not all that cultured.

The car we rented told us the limits but only when there was a road sign. Must be a chip in it as it changed as soon as we passed them. But the roads with no signs? The car didn't display them. To say I felt hard done by is an understatement. Youre right about the limits changing a lot too. On the way back to the airport there was one stretch of road where there was no sign for a mile or so, then a sign for 70km/h and literally maybe twenty feet behind that, one for 60. There was absolutely nothing in between the two signs.

So yesterday I got back from a few days in Poland to attend a friend's wedding. I was the driver of our group because one can't and the other two were too nervous. We got a rental car from the airport and off we went. I was a bit nervous at first, first time driving abroad and in a country that drives on the right, plus the wedding was being held in the middle of nowhere in rural Poland. There's a general lack of road signs that tell you the speed limit over there, but I'd read up on the generally accepted national speed limits and was getting along fine enough. We'd driven about three hours to my friend's little town and she'd arranged for her brother-in-law to meet us at the petrol station on the edge of town so we could follow him the rest of the way to the hotel as it was in the sticks and hard to find. So we meet him, nice, big, cheery German chap, very friendly and insanely impressive grasp of the English language. I notice he's driving a small truck with Team Honda Racing on the side just before he sets off with us in tow, four weary tourists. My fear comes to pass; he's a petrolhead and despite knowing he was leading someone and we were foreigners who drive on the other side of the road, he drove about 30km/h over the speed limits, but then again it seems most Polish drivers do. They also have an interesting and widely accepted policy on overtaking that is frankly downright scary at times. We near the hotel, just managing to keep up. I'm trying to slow him down by hanging back a bit so I don't get caught speeding. Well you know what happens next. Him and the other three or so cars in front of him are screaming round this road with a blind curve and a convenient little trail off to the right where two cops are waiting with a speed gun. They're all close together and I guess the cops don't have time to wave them down to nick them, but guess who comes round the corner next only to get caught doing 60km/h in a 40? Thankfully one of the cops spoke English but I was tired and naturally worried about getting nicked in a foreign country. Apparently that road, which had no sign stating the limit and by my reading should have been at least a 70km/h limit, was a 40km/h. They fined me 100 zloti (about 20 quid which we split four ways so not too bad) and wrote me a ticket. I'm unsure on whether I'll hear anything from the DVLA regarding further punishment or points but the cops made no mention of it. Kept me delayed for half an hour and were unsympathetic to our plight though, the words removed. Wedding and reception was bloody brill though! Didn't get caught on the way back either. Their Highway Code seems to be made up on the spot and Polish drivers are **** nuts.

I do agree with what you say, and I'll also state I haven't read up much about this whole thing so I'm not very well informed, but in the case of the parents creating a media firestorm, do the ends not justify the means somewhat? I'm not a parent, but I can imagine that any parent worth their salt would go to any lengths necessary in order to save their child's life. Is that not what they're doing?

Yup, Lafayette was the best. Shame, 39 is no age.

So, what can I say about Baby Driver? Saw it earlier this week and I think it's one of the best films I've seen at the cinema. I loved everything about it. It's not just the awesome soundtrack but how it's implemented into the film and I came out wondering why more films don't do it. Perhaps they will now, obviously I'm talking about more mainstream films as opposed to musicals. It was so much fun and super slick and the choreography of everything from the car chases and shoot outs to the simple scene where he goes to get coffee is just wonderfully done. We all had massive grins on our faces throughout. The story was good and you knew right away that it wasn't taking itself totally seriously and that whilst the film is set in the real world, it's not meant to be totally grounded in reality. I thought the characters were pretty well developed despite not being very deep and the romance running through it was believable if a little fairytale, but who doesn't love a fairytale? The actors all did a good turn, particularly Jamie Foxx and the young lad playing Baby who I'd never seen in anything before. The characters were colourful and the dialogue was punchy. I think I read somewhere that they matched the lines to the rhythm of the music to some extent, which if they did is brilliant. The little extra details and flourishes really make this a special cinematic experience. I think my only very minor gripe with the story would be... But aside from that? I was glued from start to finish and I came out of the cinema absolutely buzzing and it's rare that a film makes me feel that way. Seeing it again next week.

Pretty much the entire Baby Driver soundtrack.

I can't really believe we're even having this discussion to be honest. It's a joke.

I was going to post the same but he did specify last twenty years and he was only at Lazio until 1995, which is over twenty years ago now. /pedant.

Seeing Baby Driver tonight. Haven't looked this forward to a film for quite some time. Hope it's as good as some of you lot are saying. I'm sure it will be, I bloody love Edgar Wright. Even Scott Pilgrim which I know divides a lot of people (though I am a fan of the source material admittedly).

Figured it was obvious that I meant it in the sense that it was relevant to the current topic of conversation... but obviously not to some.

Joe Hart is not going to play in the Championship. I don't care if he's been a bit naff whilst out on loan, he's still a quality keeper and a number of Premier League teams would love to sign him, as well as a number of top foreign teams too, I'd wager.

Surprised this hasn't been mentioned or shared:

I've been in a similar position myself @Xann and if I'm honest, despite never making a move on the girl I was telling everyone I was just friends with, I knew I fancied her and I was playing the shoulder to cry on and putting the time in so it would pay off later. It never did. The girl knew what was going on and to her credit after a number of months she even decided to stop spending so much time with me. She described it as 'having her cake and eating it' since between me and her boyfriend she had two halves of a successful relationship but she felt she was betraying him so she canned it with me. She didn't go about it well and we're no longer on speaking terms (her choice) but I'm over it. It was an unhealthy pseudo-relationship and whilst I got a lot of fun times out of it and we came close to giving in on occasion, we never did. It wasn't sustainable. I'm not saying this is how your situation is, just that's what happened to me. Funnily enough I have been good friends with another girl for a couple of years now but we were just genuinely mates despite her being gorgeous and wonderful and us having a ton of stuff in common. Six months ago she broke up with her boyfriend of seven years and we've gotten a lot closer since. I'd be fibbing if I wasn't hopeful something will happen, but as I said, she was always off limits whilst she was with someone. Now it appears that it may turn into something I never even thought about and she may well be the just girl I've been looking for. She's damn near perfect. Fingers crossed for the both of us. Edit - Just realised you said you already had another half! Looks like you're being a genuine friend which renders my entire post pretty pointless. Oh well.

It annoys me that the idiot who uploaded the video titled it incorrectly.

The Man Who Fell to Earth was on last night at the local contemporary gallery so my friends and I went. I love Bowie, but this film is absolute shite. I know it's of its time being from the early seventies but Jesus film and visual storytelling have come a long way since then. They took an alien film and made it about corporations and the government. The flashbacks to his home planet are laughably bad and their interpretation of alien life is just ridiculous and embarrassing. The story is cack and it goes on for far too long. After seeing Don't Look Now and realising what a steaming turd that film is, my opinion is Nicholas Roeg is a garbage director who stole a living. Needless to say, I didn't like it. Baby Driver next week though. Really excited for that.

I remember seeing the trailer for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and laughing my ass off thinking it was a ridiculous idea. Then when it came out I went to go see Cowboys and Aliens but it had sold out so I begrudgingly saw Dawn instead. Bloody loved it. Saw Cowboys and Aliens the week after and well, we all know how forgettable that film is. Looking forward to the new one a lot.

Perfectly logical reasoning and I'm not averse to improving our defensive options with players comfortable with the ball and building from the back, I just think we have other more pressing issues. I also think ball-playing centre backs are less of an issue in the Championship though it'd obviously be preferable if we could get a couple, I'm just not sure Terry is the answer considering his age.

I'd be amazed if Terry signs for anyone this early in the window, but especially for a club in the Championship. You'd think he'd wait around till there's a few weeks in the window left and see what offers come his way. Kinda hope we don't sign him to be honest. That's nothing against him personally though I'm not a fan of his, and not to say he wasn't a great player, but at his age, the wages he'd be on and the current state of our squad, I just don't think he's the answer. We need to bring in players further up the pitch and a solid goalkeeper, defence is arguably our strongest area. If he does join I hope we have plans to strengthen in the positions we really need it though the reported lack of funds is worrying.