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[Saintos The ITK]

Well done on your acting breakthrough Mowman landing the role of the Knight of Pennygrew in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
You were absolutely huge in episode two just aired.

 

[Saintscomemarchingin]

Well done on your acting breakthrough Mowman landing the role of the Knight of Pennygrew in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
You were absolutely huge in episode two just aired.

Not alot of action yet, well none really.
Bloody funny though.

 

[Saintos The ITK]

Not alot of action yet, well none really.
Bloody funny though.

I think it’s building into a great spinoff.

 

[StFly]

Halfway through going "it's 43C, what to do for food?" and power goes out.
Sister up the road asks if I have power, we confirm nope, then have a chat whilst getting updates from the company.
Me: 12am recovery, her 3am.
We chat a bit.
her: 3am still, me; 4am recovery.
I clean the bath as too damned hot with no cooling, we say goodbye and I spend a few hours in said bath trying to stay cool.
10mins ago...
Get interrupted by an SMS into my song choices to say power is restored.
Tentatively turn things back on.
It's now 9:35pm, dropped from 43 and change to 33 and change, I've not eaten anything since midday and I've work tomorrow and a meeting at 9am.

I hope to all hell power remains static and should probably work on maximising my solar choices to pop in to the house as a backup if this is going to happen on 40C+ days.

As an aside, still had to use the hot water in said bath even though 43C as straight cold was still too cold on some parts, and song choices ranged from Rammstein to Evanesence, and after said bath I sat down at my dining table and after a few thoughts decided to turn my torch on to see an ant train going from table to my legs back to table, so about time I fire the spider colonies for sucking at their one job of keeping the pesties outta here.

 

[dudeintheswamp]

Pretty bloody amazing day of tennis yesterday, I'm cramping up just thinking about it. Can't stand the arrogant f#ck but ya gotta give it to him. Just very much hope he loses to Carlos in the final

 

[Marlo]

Pretty bloody amazing day of tennis yesterday, I'm cramping up just thinking about it. Can't stand the arrogant f#ck but ya gotta give it to him. Just very much hope he loses to Carlos in the final

That win clearly cements him as the goat of tennis

Win tomorrow and he's the greatest athlete of all time

 

[PoppedCorn]

Greatest athlete of all time?

Better than Jordan, Pele, Ali, Brady, Gretzky?

Spose he has to be considered up in that bracket

 

[Saintscomemarchingin]

Greatest athlete of all time?

Better than Jordan, Pele, Ali, Brady, Gretzky?

Spose he has to be considered up in that bracket

Daley Thompson- British decathlete
Broke the world record for the event four times
2× Olympic gold medals
He was unbeaten in competition for 9 years

 

[Marlo]

Greatest athlete of all time?

Better than Jordan, Pele, Ali, Brady, Gretzky?

Spose he has to be considered up in that bracket

Novak's competition has been the 2nd and 3rd greatest Tennis players of all time

Tiger Woods has been the best I've seen for the majority of my life

Maradona I'd rate well above Pele. So unbelievably freakish

Jordan the best to watch. Just a style and aura that sent the world crazy

The thing I'll give golfers and tennis players, is that there is nowhere to hide. The silent moments which would mentally crush a lot of players. Think of what a set shot at goal does to some in footy

 

[Dard Ball Get]

Novak's competition has been the 2nd and 3rd greatest Tennis players of all time

Tiger Woods has been the best I've seen for the majority of my life

Maradona I'd rate well above Pele. So unbelievably freakish

Jordan the best to watch. Just a style and aura that sent the world crazy

The thing I'll give golfers and tennis players, is that there is nowhere to hide. The silent moments which would mentally crush a lot of players. Think of what a set shot at goal does to some in footy

Yep, greatest athlete of all time is an impossible question, but there are some standouts.

Kelly Slater for similar reasons you mentioned, Alex Honnold for the sheer consequences and skill required. No doubt many, many more who have dominated individual pursuits over the years.

 

[Marlo]

Yep, greatest athlete of all time is an impossible question, but there are some standouts.

Kelly Slater for similar reasons you mentioned, Alex Honnold for the sheer consequences and skill required. No doubt many, many more who have dominated individual pursuits over the years.

Slater is a great shout. Some epic competition over the years too

Marc Marquez is something else in the motogp also

 

[PoppedCorn]

Maradona is a cheating ****.
Pele 700+ goals and 3 world cups, dwarfs the cheats achievements imo

 

[gringo2011]

Maradona is a cheating ****.
Pele 700+ goals and 3 world cups, dwarfs the cheats achievements imo

Bloody hard to rate guys from the past as the best ever. Can only contextualise them from their time. Sport becomes more professional and more cut throat every year. Cricket was a pretty amateur game in Bradman's time. He might have been so good that he would have transcended the changes but doubt it.

I honestly doubt Lockett, Carey, Brereton types would have been kicking over 80 goals a year in today's game. That's if guys like Lockett and Ablett could have kept up with the gruelling fitness and off field standards.

Guys liker Federer, Tiger Wood, Michael Jordan were immense figures outside of the game. They were bigger than just their performances.

 

[PoppedCorn]

It's like the whole Jordan v LeBron debate.
It was diff eras of course, but the stat's and achievements don't lie.
It's Jordan by a country mile.

The whole Maradona thing I'm a little bias, I saw that hand of God live on TV as a young soccer nut in the UK and was devastated
Mind you, that other goal with the run from the back half was one of the greatest ever in a world cup.

What about Ali v Tyson, what's people's thoughts,?

 

[Dard Ball Get]

Bloody hard to rate guys from the past as the best ever. Can only contextualise them from their time. Sport becomes more professional and more cut throat every year. Cricket was a pretty amateur game in Bradman's time. He might have been so good that he would have transcended the changes but doubt it.

I honestly doubt Lockett, Carey, Brereton types would have been kicking over 80 goals a year in today's game. That's if guys like Lockett and Ablett could have kept up with the gruelling fitness and off field standards.

Guys liker Federer, Tiger Wood, Michael Jordan were immense figures outside of the game. They were bigger than just their performances.

Federer has everyone fooled thinking he’s a gentleman and a statesman when in reality he’s a sook when things don’t go his way.
He also won his slams in a time of transition, oppo weren’t as strong.

Djokovic clearly the goat tennis player but that hurts people’s feelings

 

[Stan_Darsh72]

Maradona is a cheating ****.
Pele 700+ goals and 3 world cups, dwarfs the cheats achievements imo

Messi is the GOAT soccer player.

Scores goals like Pele and can create like Maradona.

 

[Marlo]

What about Ali v Tyson, what's people's thoughts,?

I'm choosing prime Tyson over anyone, but eras apart, who knows if Ali came through in a more advanced era of training, etc

 

[Marlo]

I honestly doubt Lockett, Carey, Brereton types would have been kicking over 80 goals a year in today's game. That's if guys like Lockett and Ablett could have kept up with the gruelling fitness and off field standards.

Definitely. Unfortunately I think Carey would still be the best player in the game today tho

 

[Joffaboy]

 

[StFly]

Bloody hard to rate guys from the past as the best ever. Can only contextualise them from their time. Sport becomes more professional and more cut throat every year. Cricket was a pretty amateur game in Bradman's time. He might have been so good that he would have transcended the changes but doubt it.

I honestly doubt Lockett, Carey, Brereton types would have been kicking over 80 goals a year in today's game. That's if guys like Lockett and Ablett could have kept up with the gruelling fitness and off field standards.

Guys liker Federer, Tiger Wood, Michael Jordan were immense figures outside of the game. They were bigger than just their performances.

In a way, cricket anyway, as a bowler the batsman would not compare at all.

Uncovered pitches.
No helmets.
None of this manicured nonsense with preparation or how built bats are.
How actually different the game is since Phil Hughes death.

However, a guy like Bradman was meticulous in his preparation, stories being he used a stump to just practice, so with better practice standards and bats you can make a decent enough argument to say plug him in any decade and he'd dominate many a bowling attack, as these days he'd know;

What the pitch was like.
What the weather would be like.
What the blowing strength would be, what sort of variants to expect, how people have tells with what they do via grips and such.
Just as he'd prepare to counter it all.

You'd run into problems with guys like Murali and Warne and the better bowlers doing less as you can only do so much to a ball before it gets banned, outside cheat or is no longer a ball.

So I'd say doubt at your doubt in that regard. Might have been not as professional, but to that I say maybe he'd have been a full 100% then if he had correct diet, skin fold checking, catered pitches instead of uncovered and there are things like stopping for lightning and helmets around.

 

[Stan_Darsh72]

Bloody hard to rate guys from the past as the best ever. Can only contextualise them from their time. Sport becomes more professional and more cut throat every year. Cricket was a pretty amateur game in Bradman's time. He might have been so good that he would have transcended the changes but doubt it.

There is one bloke's single season that i feel is one of the only few rating from the past to modern day that works.

Dan Marino's 1984 NFL season, 5000 yards of passing when a defence could do close to murder, the 2nd 5000 yard season was in 2008 and the rest have been in the last 15 years.

 

[PoppedCorn]

Pele 12 goals in 14 appearances for 3 world cups

Messi has more goals sure, but one cup, the ultimate is where it's at for me.

But messi is an absolute gun no dpubt

 

[PoppedCorn]

Oh and LeBron would cry to his mum while running off the court if he got the Jordan treatment from the Pistons.

I'd take Kobe and shaq over the sook

 

[Marlo]

Oh and LeBron would cry to his mum while running off the court if he got the Jordan treatment from the Pistons.

I'd take Kobe and shaq over the sook

I can't stand LeBron. His phoniness makes my skin crawl. But he is a once in a few lifetimes type basketball player.

Not saying he is better than those guys, but he is very unique. Think it was the loss in the JR Smith brain fade game, where I was like, "OK, you're a freak show. Still hate you tho".

 

[Marlo]

Luke Littler in darts still has 50 years ahead of him