rocket_scientist

You and millions of others. This is the lowest viewing audience of a major in living memory. They're wanting us to subscribe to 11 sports and pay £49 before we can screen mirror. They can fuck off. Watching it on the wife's iPad. Pain in the fucking arse. A fanny pad of a tournament from the coverage point of view.

Until 2 bogeys in a row right now at 18 & 1, thus jeopardising the each way element.

Tiger playing and putting so good. Rory putting so bad. Shaping up to be a very exciting major. Brookes is class.

Download the tournament App for perfect coverage. Well, hardly "perfect". They don't allow us to screen mirror on to our tellies. Why do that? It wouldn't have cost them to allow it. Cunt Americans.

Outstanding example. Nicks could've had the world. Best selling album. Blonde girl. Dreamy voice... but a total cunt. Something in those black eyes of hers screamed poison.

In the post you deleted kitns, you said that Tiger would be more likely to win a major before Rory. After only 6 holes of 72 in the final major of 2018, I hope you didn't put money on that. Tiger is shocking.

McIlroy has a brand new putter this week. Very good idea. If it's working, we don't fix it. If it's not working, the best initial intervention is a new weapon. A change is as good as a rest etc. but looking down on something new implicitly assists forgetting the past, one shot at a time being the most difficult mental challenge in golf. He's always been a streaky putter but his streaks of good putting have become increasingly less frequent these last 3 years. This change might be coming at exactly the right time, his last chance of a major for 8 months.

+3 thru 6. Note to self: you should've learned by now. Dumbass mistake.

It's quite remarkable how ugly Debbie Harry became in later life. The smack wouldn't have helped obviously but having been blessed with natural beauty, she's a fucking mess now. This is down to one thing only. Her thinking is ugly. She's quite obviously not a nice person. Every cunt wears their lives in their faces. Some cunt said that, canna mind who but it's bang on.

Brilliantly articulated. That's the principal reason why I can't stand the man. People who play it safe and never see the boundaries of possibility far less try to go beyond them never achieve anything. My instinct has always been repelled by him and I knew we were total opposites. I just never fully appreciated why until your two simple words. Risk taking is necessary for progress. Making mistakes is good in the first decades of life. It's how we learn. He's been cowed by the prevailing culture, ergo he's a fud.

Thanks for the tip. Just took a bit of each way on him. I wouldn't have at 66's or 80/1 but that's too good a price to ignore, especially given his last two majors. When I say he makes me cringe sometimes, it's just that if I'm still learning at more than twice his age (just), he's sometimes too forceful in his views. He expresses his opinions as facts and doesn't appreciate this crucial distinction. He's young, he'll learn. I also thought I knew more than I did at that age.

Excellent golfer and his direct and forthright nature is good for the game. Being twice his age however, I cringe at some of his posturing. Like many with talent and riches beyond their dreams - and trust me, he is well beyond his dreams until his Challenge Tour win (on an invite) kick-started him - they think they know everything.

Everyone forgotten about Bruce already? Brainwashed by McInnes' lack of belief in youth by any chance? SAF went with youth.

You didn't read carefully. The penalty was his second fuck up. Pulling his shirt, even for the briefest of moments was ASKING for trouble. I said "BEFORE the red card". When he tried to step out for offside, he failed to see that another defender was playing his own man on. When the ball came over him, he left a simple one-on-one and his blushes were saved by a combination of poor finishing and Joe Lewis's right leg. We were lucky not to be one down by then and we were lucky to get a draw, given one shot on target all day, in the 93rd minute. I thought McInnes was spiking shite about doing ok in the first 10 minutes. We were fucking terrible before they had 10 men and also after.

I said it was a soft red card at the time. A player gets barged off the ball, twice, in deliberate provocation. He reacts by kicking out, not with his studs, just a natural reaction, a wee kick that McKenna hardly noticed and gets sent off. That was the ref applying the rules to the letter of the law but it wasn't the right decision, a yellow would have been more fair. Imagine if it was the other way round! It wouldn't have even been a yellow in previous years. As Jerry Sadowitz says, Britain's gone gay. Poor wee lambs needing protection from a wee show of petulance. It was clever by McKenna given Morelos's known temperament. The decision cost Rangers three points as they were going to HORSE us on Sunday and should have been one up before the red card following Ball's major fuck up.

No I never argued that Norman and Colon underachieved by virtue of being discentivised by their already healthy bank balances. I don't even think Monty underachieved. His European Tour and Ryder Cup records were exceptional. He did fail to win majors however and he bottled the best chance he had at the 72nd. Him and Norman did have questionable mentalities in the big ones, Faldo coming from 5 back at Augusta being the most painful for Greg, an ELEVEN shot swing on the day that matters, the Sunday. In my opinion, DESIRE is the quality above all others that determines success at the highest level. The desire to work harder, the desire to work smarter.

McIlroy has four majors. Colon Monty has none. Norman got two. I agree with your point that some sportspeople (inc. golfers) underachieve once they're loaded. I don't think it applies in Rory's case.

Yes I did. And furthermore, and unnecessarily explained where I had received the recommendation. Unfortunately the trail runs cold at this point. Canna mind the boy who recommended it over the airwaves far less being able to ask him who telt him

Good post Rico min. There were two angles spouted by Gerrard. The match on one hand and the victimhood paranoia on the other. On his match comments, he was obviously gutted not to pick up 3 points and was probably as surprised as many of us were that we finally managed our first shot on target, well after the 90 minutes. He was right that we had "no ideas" and his comments about being a "different class" were obviously designed to 1. ingratiate himself to the knuckledraggers as well as 2. tell his own team that they should be destroying the likes of Aberdeen and have no excuse finishing behind us come May. And if they were half-well managed, there is no doubt that they will finish above McInnes's AFC at the end of this season. He saw how shite we were yesterday and must've have been wondering how on earth we managed second last season, without appreciating that we aren't always that bad. On his victimhood shit, that doesn't interest me. It's just total bollocks from a scouse ned prick who showed his true colours.

I've also not seen any "ridiculous knee jerk reactions" but not using any other social media for AFC matters - the pub, mates and family and this forum being my only outlets for spikkin aboot AFC - I would be unlikely to. Whatever a fan or a bunch of fans say online doesn't really matter in any event. The only fan action that matters is heads through the turnstiles. Actually, that's not even true, the number of tickets sold is the true indicator of customer satisfaction. That performance won't have done much to assist ticket sales this season. The quality of footballers in the squad and the imbalance within it is screaming for additions in the right places and unless McInnes adds quality to assist our midfield and attacking options, we can only expect to face a long, hard and fruitless season.

Tom Watson - probably my fav golfer in history - said that putting was 10% mechanics and 90% feel. That was in his book that was published before the invention of the first "golf psychologist", or should I say the first dedicated or labelled golf psychologist because great coaches and players have always recognised the influence of the mind. I borrowed from that in that I say that putting is 10% technical and 90% mental. However, it is understanding the relationship between the mechanics and the mind that is key. For example, when you say repetition, you may be referring to consistency of process with regard to the putting stroke itself (technical) or you may be referring to the need to think the same way (mental), or both. Until we have actually invested hundreds and thousands of hours on the subject, let alone the tens of thousands to hours to become expert in it, we are just enthusiastic amateurs. Thousands of hours playing doesn't equate to hours studying, examining and teaching by the way. One thing I'm convinced of, your "confidence, feel and repetition" is pretty close to the money and a whole lot closer to the truth than the places McIlroy has been searching in. I reckon that great putters (and great golfers) have big imaginations. Not everyone has the intellectual artistry and mental flexibility to understand the importance of the role of the mind in golf and therefore your words like confidence and feel, not being tangible and therefore not capable of being held in their hands, are unattainable for them. A "streaky putter" is a poor putter. We have data to prove this. When Rory had his meltdown at Augusta, they showed him in the houses left of the 10th. They don't point out he missed THREE times from 7 feet and less before that and his 4 putt at 12 from 25 feet was a man who's putting confidence had been wrecked. Two months later, he won at Congressional (possibly his first major?) and he putted superb that week, his first (and only) 3 putt coming deep in Rd 4 when he was already as good as victor. When it was Rory v. Luke for OWGR no. 1 at the season-ender in Dubai, Rory putted superbly to blow him away, finishing the tournament with 4 or 5 straight birdies. McIlroy's streaks of good putting are now so infrequent, he's getting nowhere near winning majors.

So it sounds like you're saying his pace control is out on his putting too. I'm pretty certain the data would not support your impression that he's putting it long all the time. I remember a lot of low and short sides from him at Akron and at The Open, which is what we can expect from a putter low on confidence. For me it's not so much that he's trying too hard. Rather, he's scared. He's not won a major for a long time (relatively, for him, given his enormously powerful talent) and he's starting to question whether he'll ever win another. I'm sure that he will, and I'm sure that he's sure that he will but the doubt and the mental scarring is patent now, particularly visible in his interviews when he just bullshits, putting on a mask, softening his tones and adopting a facade of humility. The true winner is ruthless to the core. He's becoming afraid of himself. And the one thing above all others that is worrying him and may eventually sink him and thwart his ambition is his horrible putting. He doesn't have a clue what he's doing on the greens and is stuck at an impasse having consulted "specialists" who have been unable to connect with him.

I recommend The Football Cub; an artist in residence. Channel 4 Catch Up. Available for another 2/3 weeks. Heard one of the TalkSport commentators recommending it a few days ago.

Arena about Spitting Image starting on BBC4

I'd never seen the chuckle brothers until that clip but is this "comedy" not for 13 & 14 year old boys? I'll be seeing this guy at the Fringe next week... and Jerry Sadowitz later in the month. Neither of whom are dead. To my latest knowledge.