ButchReedMark

So wait, if someone likes something, but doesn't know why they like it then they're lazy or something, or just don't want to put the effort in? Alright then lad...

If I thought about things too hard I'd have an aneurysm. For example, recently I decided that Jimmy Del Ray is just fucking awesome. I tried to think about why he was awesome, but all I could think of was just "because he is". I could tell you why I don't like someone all day (with joy joy enthusiasm too!), but why I do is something I can't explain. Thanks for explaining to me my thought processes though.

yeah, I mean if I was to do a list with tiers it'd wouldn't be anything more complicated then "He's in Tier 2 because I don't reckon he's as good as that bloke in Tier 1" method wise. I mean, it's overly simplistic, but I see wrestling in overly simplistic terms when I come to rating people. For example, I think Jerry Lawler is the best ever because I like watching his matches the best. It's that simple for me.

Batista pre-heel turn a few years back? That's the last one that comes to mind.

Clean as a whistle.

The fun of CM is how shit the wonder players off it turned out in real life. Sean Dundee for example became a Liverpool player of Istvan Kozma and Torben Piechnik levels of shite. And Maxim Tsigalko? Well. He probably still dines off being good on CM as he was shit in the real world. Thinking back, I'm pretty sure Cantona was in 96/97, yes. I just had a look through 97/98 on my PC and he's not on that one. Obviously as he retired, although a cursory look online says the game has his details in it if you want to edit him in. Tom Youngs started at 17 and had top stats for almost everything. Shit, in 97/98 the whole Cambridge United team was MIGHTY for some reason. There's updates for 08/09 on the site, so you'll be sorted there. I even found one for 89/90 on there which I've been hammering as of late. Ian Rush, Dean Saunders and my home village's very own Mark Hughes up front banging them in. Surely it's every man's dream to play a manager game where they can sign John Wark, Clayton Blackmore and Mel Sterland?

That tournament deserved the Wales vs ABs final as well. I reckon that'd have been a far better game. The RL WC is on in my home town in a couple months. Never been huge on it, but I'll give it a good go.

I really enjoyed him after he got the heave-ho from Nexus working as a babyface on Superstars in '10. Had some solid bouts with William Regal.

I don't think I've ever been more excited/crushed/more emotional about a game than by the Wales vs France semi in the 2011 WC. I was in tears for the rest of the weekend. I fucking hate Alain Rolland.

Not quite. ESPN's showing Aussie Rules and some foreign football leagues as well as overflow from BT Sports proper. Which to be fair is a massive improvement on the competitive fucking eating ESPN America used to show.

no one is born that way that's cop out garbage, its VERY much a choice, it's not comparable to your sex or race, those are things your born with, deciding you want to be in a relationship with the same sex is a choice period My dick likes what my dick likes. I don't choose what gives me a stiffy. It just does.

This was back in CM 2.0 and the one right before it, so I don't know how applicable it would be to later games. With guys like Schmeichel it was easy: how many Dannish keepers regen to 16 year old in a given year? There were few Dannish players in the game: this was before CM/FM started doing massive work on the non-EPL players. Baggio was tougher, because there were more Italian players, and Italy was an alternative "league" you could play in at the time: when installing/loading, you were asked what league you wanted to play. EPL / England of course, Serie A / Italy being the second... and that may have been it or perhaps also the Scottish League. Anyway, lots of Italian players. My recollection is that there was that there were several outside-the-game editors. You could edit club characteristics, and you could edit player ones. Each player was assigned a # by the game, like 1 to 3000+ or so. You write down the numbers of your players or the players you want, and then search them after they die. They always get assigned to a club in their home country. Then you try to buy them. Cheat? Sure. But after you've already Won Everything and Won Every Game, you're looking for something to interest you. So developing Baggio 2.0 and Bergkamp 2.0 and Matthias Sammer 2.0 (who was a kick as in 2.0 since it was after BvB won the CL) and Maldini 2.0... that was fun to do when you're starting to get bored. For my my version of CM 2.0 version, my buddy Scott sent me a modified player database that added in Cantona since he had just retired before the version I had came out, and thus wasn't in it. This was before I got the editor utility. So we talked about what type of ratings Eric should have, he added him, sent me that db to drop on in my folder just after installing, and bang! I had Cantona back on United at the age of 31 heading into the 97/98 season, he died shortly there after, and Scott told me go look at young French players to see if there was a new 16 year old forward. Bingo~! there he was, and transferred him in. He was the first of those younger regen players that I developed, with Schmeichel some years later being the second. I don't know how the later versions handled it. I do seem to recall reading that they added "editor" tools to the official game at some point. I never did the original CM2 db much, but I did 96/97 and 97/98 a lot which used the exact same engine and you could actually edit that going into a .txt file in the data. I'm a Champ Man obsessive so would spend hours pissing around with stuff like that. I even edited all the in-match commentary on 96/97 to be euphemisms for having a dump when I was 18. I believe the first to come with a proper editor was 00/01, the final installment before THE GREATEST GAME OF ALL TIME in Champ Man 01/02. I only really used the editor tools though to give all scummy EPL teams fuck all money so they can see what it's like for a change, now and again. If Cantona wasn't on your version I imagine you were playing the 96/97 or 97/98 db updated version then, also known as "Tom Youngs from Cambridge is King of the Universe" as Cantona was on the first CM2 with it being released in 1995. And yeah, the third playable was the Scottish, IIRC, along with Italian and English as Italian football was massive here in the UK at the time due to Platt, Walker, Gascoigne, Sharpe and DANNY DICHIO (!) going to play there and it getting top nation coverage every Sunday afternoon of a Serie A game, and a Saturday morning magazine on Channel 4. CM01/02 still has a lot of support, updates, tools and patches due to a thriving online following which only bolstered by it being made freeware recently. I suggest you have a nose around http://www.champman0102.co.uk/

How did you find the regens? A tool like CMScout or obsessive scouting? I really saw my cock when the regen for Stefan Selakovic after retiring from Wrexham was in the Chester City youth system on 00/01.

I think being Welsh and supporting a perennially financially fucked lower league football team I'm not quite too bothered about losing. Welsh teams have lost at everything for so long I'm more arsed about being competitive, or for years "as long as we beat the fucking English". But since 2005 and the massive strides made by our Rugby team I won't accept anything less than victory with them, which I can get quite passionate about (shouting, tears, tantrums) at times. I mean, when I think between the differences of my reactions in 2003 ("Well, at least we gave them a game") to now ("Winning by 4 or 5 isn't e-fucking-nough though, we've France next week. Then the English!") maybe there is something to be said for winning being everything. Or maybe winning just breeding greed for more of it in the diehard supporters, resulting in bigger emotional crashes when we don't succeed. I mean, when I look at it from the outside, we're only a nation of 3 million people, maybe we're even overachieving. But I'm not on the outside, I've been obsessed with Welsh rugby since the age of 6 in 1991, and that's bred massive emotional outbursts on my behalf when things do or don't go my way. I've forgotten my point. I think it was "shitting yourself about a result makes sport better".

Ha! I did that once. I renamed it HOGAN, and every single match on the card was Hogan beating someone with a Hogan celebration ceremony angle thing afterwards. Didn't last long.

Then you played it wrong! Real men take some team in the Conference (or personally, Wrexham as I support them) and make diamonds from coal with no money due to diligent scouting, hard work and tactical knowledge and lose days of sleep as it's more addictive than smack. I actually lost relationships due to the time I spent nurturing 16 year old Finnish lads I got on a free for Cefn Druids on CM01/02. But yeah. Screw EWR. I had some mod from 1993 or something and Barry Windham had about 60/100 for Brawl and fuck all else for Technical and Speed, and Christian Cage (who I'm not even sure was wrestling at the time) had 90odd for everything. I don't think I've ever got more than 3 or 4 months into a game either as I'd get really frustrated with Jerry Lynn getting 100 over without ever winning a match as the game decided he was having great matches with everyone.

I don't know much about Bob Brown, but I do know that he has a haircut Hank Hill would be proud of.

He worked the UK quite a lot in that time.

Indeed. I could swear Sean Herbert said that after TNA it was far and away the most successful thing he'd broadcast, ratings-wise.

Sorry mate but I've got to ask this, are you here to discuss wrestling or plug your vlog? I mean I'd be more likely to watch them personally if you put yourself about a bit talking about the wrestling on here due to the fact that most wrestling video blogs I've seen have been pretty turd. Join in the convos buddy!

IGNORE: Buggered up and doubled posted.

He's about 5'9" and 14st stone now. Mind, all our backs are pretty hefty. George North is 6'4 and 17st or so, Dr Jamie Roberts weighs about the same but is 6'3". Massive culture for massive physical strength and fitness in current Welsh rugby. And I'd wager they're clean, so there's no reason all wrestlers can't get big and develop their physiques and be clean while doing it.

I don't think Danielson's been arrested outside of enough clubs for that yet! I'd say he's the Leigh Halfpenny, physical development wise. Large change in his physique between 2009 and 2011.

No, I wish he'd give it a rest too.

Are you definitely saying there's absolutely no way he got that physique cleanly then, for the sake of clarity? Personally I'm saying neither of the two extremes, just that it is possible to get a great physique cleanly as an athlete and there's many people who I know who can attest to that. Do you not acknowledge that it's possible? Is there any possibility that his change to a protein-rich meat filled diet could have anything to do with his physical development?