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  • #6662
    Shaka Hislop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 486 ✭✭Shaka Hislop


    hold my beer wrote: »
    Having flashbacks of Peter Enckelman's similar brain fart for Villa years ago

    I'd never have..."peqged" you as a Villa fan...


  • #6663
    stephen_n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,920 ✭✭✭✭stephen_n


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I couldn't get into Z Nation, it's nothing like Black Summer.



    Black Summer and Walking dead aren't really all that similar albeit both play it relatively straight.

    Black Summer is one part Dawn of the Dead (2004 remake) one part 28 days later. It's a much better show than Walking dead, less meandering storylines, better written and much better paced.

    Well I meant more that they are both serious takes while Z Nation is more an evil dead type take. I’ve only watched one season of Black Summer. If you compare it to the first season of TWD I don’t think they’re that different in quality. If Black Summer makes it to 10 seasons, I’m sure it will meander too.


  • #6664
    Podge_irl
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 30,008 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    HOPP SUISSE!

    Come on you bastards


  • #6665
    swiwi_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,558 ✭✭✭swiwi_


    Podge_irl wrote: »
    HOPP SUISSE!

    Come on you bastards

    It’s been a great match. I would have no faith in Switzerland to win penalties. 6 fantastic goals.


  • #6666
    swiwi_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,558 ✭✭✭swiwi_


    Good night fellas :)


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  • #6667
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers Posts: 43,488 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    comp blown right open


  • #6668
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 20,606 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    swiwi_ wrote: »
    The Spain own goal

    It’d be a bad error at an U8 game.

    The only bit of the Euro's I've watched so far was that own goal as per the reaction here and yes it was a howler but I wonder was the sun in his eyes?

    My eldest lad walked in as I was skimming through the highlights to get to the incident and said "YOU'RE watching Soccer...??"

    stephen_n wrote: »
    Well I meant more that they are both serious takes while Z Nation is more an evil dead type take. I’ve only watched one season of Black Summer. If you compare it to the first season of TWD I don’t think they’re that different in quality. If Black Summer makes it to 10 seasons, I’m sure it will meander too.

    Yeah the first season of Walking dead was better than the dross it's become (or what I can only presume it's become as I gave up a few seasons back) but I still think both seasons of Black Summer are better than anything the Walking Dead has produced and I say that as someone who had read all comics by the time the show launched.

    It's a vastly superior show in my opinion, Zombies much more threatening and there really is none of the filler episodes that even season 1 of the walking dead had in abundance. The episode with the Diner in season 1 was brilliant in showcasing the scale of threat they were facing and the episode with the military base / robbery / escape was as good a claustrophobic zombie outbreak sudden clusterf*ck as I've ever seen on screen.

    It still has narrative inconsistencies but it's a much faster moving show and I like the way they use point of view characters to show events from a few different perspectives - the showrunner must be a big pulp fiction fan.


  • #6669
    Podge_irl
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 30,008 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    swiwi_ wrote: »
    Good night fellas :)

    Couldn't sleep if I wanted to. ****ing mayhem in Geneva.


  • #6670
    swiwi_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,558 ✭✭✭swiwi_


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    The only bit of the Euro's I've watched so far was that own goal as per the reaction here and yes it was a howler but I wonder was the sun in his eyes?

    My eldest lad walked in as I was skimming through the highlights to get to the incident and said "YOU'RE watching Soccer...??"




    Yeah the first season of Walking dead was better than the dross it's become (or what I can only presume it's become as I gave up a few seasons back) but I still think both seasons of Black Summer are better than anything the Walking Dead has produced and I say that as someone who had read all comics by the time the show launched.

    It's a vastly superior show in my opinion, Zombies much more threatening and there really is none of the filler episodes that even season 1 of the walking dead had in abundance. The episode with the Diner in season 1 was brilliant in showcasing the scale of threat they were facing and the episode with the military base / robbery / escape was as good a claustrophobic zombie outbreak sudden clusterf*ck as I've ever seen on screen.

    It still has narrative inconsistencies but it's a much faster moving show and I like the way they use point of view characters to show events from a few different perspectives - the showrunner must be a big pulp fiction fan.

    The euros have been great Venjur. The match tonight was way better than any rugby dross I’ve seen recently tbh.


  • #6671
    Squidgy Black
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,741 ✭✭✭✭Squidgy Black


    swiwi_ wrote: »
    The euros have been great Venjur. The match tonight was way better than any rugby dross I’ve seen recently tbh.

    Two of the most entertaining matches I've seen in quite some time, and it looks like the rest of the knockouts could be pretty similar considering the bigger teams aren't performing to the level they were hyped up to and some of the smaller teams like Denmark and Switzerland are taking the competition by storm


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  • #6672
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 20,606 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    swiwi_ wrote: »
    The euros have been great Venjur. The match tonight was way better than any rugby dross I’ve seen recently tbh.

    I obviously can't in anyway deny the popularity of soccer, and I know from friends that it's been a solid tournament but I never took to it as a spectator sport with the exception of the Charlton / McCarthy (I) years.

    Have never had any interest in supporting a premiership team and there are aspects of the game that really put me off so I'll have to stick with the rugby and Zombie shows on netflix!


  • #6673
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Extra time tonight was the first time I switched on the euros. I tend to watch football as a social thing so pandemic meant I never switched it on. I have almost zero interest if I'm on my own. Strange to be completely out of the loop for this one.


  • #6674
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 55,189 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    I watched the walking dead until the season where they were at the prison and then I just gave up. It seemed to go on forever.


  • #6675
    swiwi_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,558 ✭✭✭swiwi_


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I obviously can't in anyway deny the popularity of soccer, and I know from friends that it's been a solid tournament but I never took to it as a spectator sport with the exception of the Charlton / McCarthy (I) years.

    Have never had any interest in supporting a premiership team and there are aspects of the game that really put me off so I'll have to stick with the rugby and Zombie shows on netflix!

    I wouldn't watch a lot of soccer, but the euros have been really enjoyable so far. Firstly the VAR has been excellent, so I have yet to see a wrong controversial decision. Secondly, they have increased subs from 3 to 5 in regular time plus a 6th sub in extra time. As a result you get fresh players and new tactics, and there have been heaps of goals towards the end of matches.

    Rugby at the moment has mickey-mouse competitions, where it be NH or SH, and non-stop tinkering with the rules. There have been endless red card for high tackles, but I'm not yet convinced they have produced safer rugby. And so on. IMHO rugby has lost its mojo a bit for the moment. I've hardly watched any games recently, the most recent was the first half of Lions vs Japan, I switched off at about 48 minutes I think once the Lions went ahead 28-0.

    Last night's game Fra vs Swi was full of drama, excellent bits of skill, and to my utter disbelief, Switzerland held their nerve and didn't choke. Usually a country that lacks the killer instinct in sport - name a famous Swiss sports person outside of tennis...?


  • #6676
    Buer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,258 ✭✭✭✭Buer


    swiwi_ wrote: »
    Last night's game Fra vs Swi was full of drama, excellent bits of skill, and to my utter disbelief, Switzerland held their nerve and didn't choke. Usually a country that lacks the killer instinct in sport - name a famous Swiss sports person outside of tennis...?

    Sepp Blatter!


  • #6677
    swiwi_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,558 ✭✭✭swiwi_


    Buer wrote: »
    Sepp Blatter!

    Sports administrator.

    I get u on a technicality :p


  • #6678
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers Posts: 43,488 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    swiwi_ wrote: »
    .. Usually a country that lacks the killer instinct in sport - name a famous Swiss sports person outside of tennis...?

    cesaro :D


  • #6679
    swiwi_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,558 ✭✭✭swiwi_


    sydthebeat wrote: »
    cesaro :D

    Had never heard of him :o


  • #6680
    Zzippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,166 ✭✭✭✭Zzippy


    swiwi_ wrote: »

    name a famous Swiss sports person outside of tennis...?


    William Tell wasn't too shabby at the oul' archery...


  • #6681
    Yeah_Right
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,244 ✭✭✭Yeah_Right


    swiwi_ wrote: »
    Sports administrator.

    I get u on a technicality :p

    You said sports person. You didn't say athlete. He is/was a person involved in sports, therefore a sports person.


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  • #6682
    swiwi_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,558 ✭✭✭swiwi_


    Yeah_Right wrote: »
    You said sports person. You didn't say athlete. He is/was a person involved in sports, therefore a sports person.

    Is he a person though? Or a Swissbot?


  • #6683
    errlloyd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,634 ✭✭✭✭errlloyd


    swiwi_ wrote: »
    - name a famous Swiss sports person outside of tennis...?

    Sebastian Buemi was a decent F1 driver and now quite a successful Formula E Driver


  • #6684
    Zzippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,166 ✭✭✭✭Zzippy


    errlloyd wrote: »
    Sebastian Buemi was a decent F1 driver and now quite a successful Formula E Driver

    Who? ;)


  • #6685
    Richie_Rich89
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭Richie_Rich89


    Mujinga Kambundji is the only one that springs to mind.


  • #6686
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,150 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Those Albanian guys with impossible to pronounce names who play for Switzerland, Stephane Chapuisat, probably some skiers


  • #6687
    Shaka Hislop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 486 ✭✭Shaka Hislop


    A good history of cycling, Tony Rominger, Cancellera & Zulle are the ones I remember


  • #6688
    swiwi_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,558 ✭✭✭swiwi_


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Those Albanian guys with impossible to pronounce names who play for Switzerland, Stephane Chapuisat, probably some skiers

    There is no doubt that the Yugoslavian War made Switzerland the team that it is today!


  • #6689
    Bridge93
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,018 ✭✭✭Bridge93


    Been a long time since I’ve been as angry as I am with this extension of restrictions based on hot air. What an embarrassment we are


  • #6690
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers Posts: 43,488 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    Bridge93 wrote: »
    Been a long time since I’ve been as angry as I am with this extension of restrictions based on hot air. What an embarrassment we are

    we are the very clear European outlier now.

    on the day that sweden, with the light touch restrictions, announce eateries and cafes can seat up to 300 indoors and 3,000 outside and remain open after 10:30 p.m. .....

    we cant have 6 people eat together indoors

    the way this is going i easily cannot see indoor dining reopening on the 19th either.
    there will be another "grenade" announcement by NPHET a few days beforehand


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  • #6691
    Bridge93
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,018 ✭✭✭Bridge93


    Philip Nolan, our supposed best statistician, is either grossly incompetent with that latest model, or flat out lying to the population. Honestly, how can they expect anyone to swallow that rubbish about 700k cases in a few months and over 2k deaths? It would be hilarious if it wasn’t quite literally destroying lives


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