Fuck it, let's have a Gladiators thread

[Ian]

a) moar freds
b) Stops cluttering up the TV thread
c) There's another two months after these so I'm sure a few of us can post a lot of shite about it.

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/17B54/production/_131580179_shutterstock_editorial_733580jo.jpg

[Ian]

Do you think they specifically don't pick contestants who are absolute units? They must apply. Would love to see a Jonah Lomu type in powerball. Would just absolutely wreck the Gladiators.

I was thinking this. The bloke in blue at 6'1 is comfortably the biggest contender of the four men we've had so far.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It hasn't happened yet but Clattenburg (who is desperately trying and failing to be John Anderson) was way too hasty with the "RELEASE" last week, especially on gauntlet.

The chumps should actually have to beat the gladiators.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Oh and Viper is the shittest new Gladiator, fuck him.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Apparently the ratings for the first one were 6.2 million which is freakishly high.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

This new event is horseshit.

[Ian]

Legend looked very lumbering up there, I thought after he'd done well on Hang Tough he might be nimble enough for this.

Fun idea for an event though.


Apparently the ratings for the first one were 6.2 million which is freakishly high.

Christ, really? That's loads these days, isn't it?

[Ian]

This new event is horseshit.

I reckon it'd be alright with a Gladiator who moved.

[Ian]

Where's the Wall though?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I reckon it'd be alright with a Gladiator who moved.

Yeah it does seem a bit better, women's have been better as they're more agile.

Fury going for a big tackle and whiffing was good.

[niko_cee]

Surely you should get maximum points for taking the Gladiator out on that one?

[Ian]

Hm, maybe this event isn't good. The Gladiators could probably just do a flying crossbody to do this.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Viper is so wank, especially in Gauntlet.

He's been bullied every single time. Might as well not even be there.

[Jimmy Floyd]

A lot of the male gladiators seem very immobile by comparison with the original. Pretty sure they were all pretty nimble despite their size, a few of these are just immobile obelisks.

It is really well done as a show though. Perfect family entertainment.

[Ian]

I wonder if you go back to the first OG series if the Gladiators were also just a bit poo at some of the events until they got used to it? But yeah, Viper is rank at Gauntlet in particular.

[Ian]

If I was a Gladiator in Gauntlet I'd just be hoping I didn't get the sofa cushions.

Also in the absence of them having cloned Jet I reckon I might be a Sabre guy.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Some of these Gladiator "FACTS" are amazing.

I believe last week it said one of them car run as fast as car, going at 22mph...

[Jimmy Floyd]

The gauntlet used to be a lot narrower I think, you can just breeze through this one.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The only person who hasn't made it through the gauntlet was the last who twisted his knee.

Maybe throw it in the bin as it seems way too easy now.

[Ian]

Right are the Gladiators being told not to move up to meet them at the edge of their zone? They're so passive.


Some of these Gladiator "FACTS" are amazing.

I believe last week it said one of them car run as fast as car, going at 22mph...

https://cdn0.itrwrestling.com/app/uploads/content/1651084392344668756/Matt-Hardy-Matt-Facts.jpg

[Jimmy Floyd]

Quite impressed that the Mercury estate are still letting them use Another One Bites The Dust.

[niko_cee]

Also in the absence of them having cloned Jet I reckon I might be a Sabre guy.

Sabre and Diamond.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Sabre and Diamond.

And a bit of Fury.

[Ian]

Woooo The Wall!

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Where's the Wall though?

WALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wouldn't mind seeing the Pyramid coming back too.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Pyramid must be a health and safety nightmare.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Nitro was rapid up there.

Fair play to John too.

[Ian]

That little dweeb in the crowd with ear defenders on.

[Disco]

Please tell me Wolf is involved in some way.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Please tell me Wolf is involved in some way.

Nothing yet sadly.

[Ian]

Turns out you can win the wall if you just don't do your laces up properly.

They need to get them in proper lace-up boots.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I reckon I could smash the travellator.

Yesterday I went to B&Q, I couldn't find a working lift and the travellator going up to the first floor was out of order so I CASUALLY walked up the travellator that was going in the reverse way.

Piss easy.

[niko_cee]

Serious faceplant from John. Ouch.

[Ian]

John have a mare here. The fall off the beam looked sore.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Zoe is completely gassed.

[niko_cee]

:lol:

They must dial it back after a while.

Women gladiators is much more fun than men gladiators.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Oh dear, the ladies have completely borked this.

[Ian]

I love a "both contenders standing at the bottom of the travelator looking shattered" moment.

Another fun episode. So glad they've not fucked this.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Barney needs punting though.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The eliminator is just great TV. Props to whoever designed the run 30 plus years ago.

Barney has Roman Roy vibes which I have to say I'm not entirely against.

[Ian]

It's telling with the Eliminator that other than the bendy balance beam they haven't, I think(?), felt the need to change anything else. Has a bit of everything.

[niko_cee]

No handbike for the men, guess that's equality.

[wullie]

I read somewhere that Bradley Walsh and the mannequin he brought with him are only signed up for one series so it might be a new presenting team next time. Who will line up alongside Jermaine Jenas is the question

[-james-]

The women tonight looked liked they'd never climbed a rope or a cargo net before. I feel like those would be things you'd have a go at before going on telly.

[Gray Fox]

I read somewhere that Bradley Walsh and the mannequin he brought with him are only signed up for one series so it might be a new presenting team next time. Who will line up alongside Jermaine Jenas is the question

Rochelle from off of The Saturdays.

[Shindig]

Wolf. In a suit.

[randomlegend]

This new event is horseshit.

The game is far too dangerous as designed so the gladiators have clearly been told they have to be careful, which just makes it a bit tragic. If they were allowed to go all out someone would die.

[Yevrah]

What's the event? :D

[Shindig]

I hope it involves scaffolding.

[niko_cee]

What's the event? :D

Sort of bulldog 30 feet up on a lattice of balance beams.

[Shindig]

Okay, that's a lot of good ideas at once. :D

[Ian]

The game is far too dangerous as designed so the gladiators have clearly been told they have to be careful, which just makes it a bit tragic. If they were allowed to go all out someone would die.

Even being tackled down onto the netting doesn't seem like it'd be worse than most of the bumps the blokes were taking during Powerball.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The bloke clattering his head on the balance beam is surely a concussion check? Maybe Clatters doesn't go in for that sort of thing.

[randomlegend]

Even being tackled down onto the netting doesn't seem like it'd be worse than most of the bumps the blokes were taking during Powerball.

If you fell directly through one of the holes it would be fine, but you wouldn't because of the forward momentum. You'd get tackled into the beams on the way down and there'd be arms, legs and necks getting bent at all sorts of angles.

[Ian]

That is a fair point. I suppose there are other events where you can take those sorts of falls but not with a roidy powerlifter actively tackling you in the process.

[Waffdon]

A lot of the male gladiators seem very immobile by comparison with the original. Pretty sure they were all pretty nimble despite their size, a few of these are just immobile obelisks.

It is really well done as a show though. Perfect family entertainment.

I recognise 3 of them as meatheads from YouTube so that doesn’t surprise me that they’re immobile

[Jimmy Floyd]

Before we go to rose-tinted in our eyewear selection, the original had a few, erm, less good events as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2h9i-OO-9I

[Ian]

I have a soft spot for Danger Zone. The one where they had to swing to grab the nerf balls off the central pillar was maybe my least favourite.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Before we go to rose-tinted in our eyewear selection, the original had a few, erm, less good events as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2h9i-OO-9I

I fucking loved that event.

My least favourite was this one I believe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8io0XtnF8CM

Like a weird scalextric.

[wullie]

I'd forgot that Clattenburg has tattoos on his arms for the Euros and the Olympics

https://c.tenor.com/0RmZme-sU6gAAAAC/what-a-mark-raven.gif

[Lofty]

Wasn't pyramid banned because a few gladiators retired after nearly being paralysed on it?

[Manc]

John looking like a roided/retarded Limmy.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-68033264

Comet got a bad injury at one point in filming.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Bronte?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

They're still trying to make Viper into the Wolf and he's still utterly wank.

[Boydy]

30 feet in the air for that game seems a bit unnecessary.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That whole game seems a bit unnecessary.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Legend is a better Wolf than Viper is.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Gauntlet needs to be retired.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Dismissed for being good at gauntlet? lol.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Bionic is a bit good at gauntlet mind :D

I think that's the first time someone hasn't gone through (other than the lad who twisted his knee).

[Ian]

Viper is fucking shit at absolutely everything.

Glad to see the manglads had a better showing on Gauntlet though and Bionic was absolutely fucking not having it on that second run was he? :D

[Ian]

Can't decide if this ultimate frisbee and ballet lad is either doomed for being a manlet or if there's so little point trying to overpower the Gladiators that he just needs a bit of luck with the events.

[Ian]

Chung was doing well there right up until he'd breezed by the Gladiators a bit too easily three times on the bounce and then they just started monstering him. :D

[Ian]

Nitro was pretty rapid up the wall there but this boy Chung is rapid.

Dynamite was embarrassing on Hang Tough though, she's very much the Viper of the womens group. Rubbish at everything.

[Ian]

They clearly need to give them some actual lace-up boot things if only for The Wall because it's basically pointless to try and grab them unless the Gladiator gets right on top of them.

[Ian]

It's nice to see some of the Glads finding their events. Giant in Duel, Legend in Hang Tough, etc.

[Ian]

Best Eliminator of the series, there.

[Pepe]

Just posting something to break Ian's streak.

[Ian]

You'll never silence me.

[niko_cee]

Moving it in the schedule to accommodate the rugby obviously played havoc with the viewing. Also I guess regular contributors may have been watching the Afcon.

[Ian]

They lack my dedication.

[Ben]

I gave it 10 minutes last night in between stuff. It’s ok but Walsh Jr and the contestants had about as much charisma as a brick wall. And is Clattenburg doing fake Scottish? :D

[Ian]

I saw somebody else asking if Clattenburg was trying to be Scottish but I'm not hearing that at all.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I think it's just his shit Durham accent coupled with desperately trying to be John Anderson.

I did think it was slightly Scottish at first.

[Ben]

Shinners would know better than me being a Durham native but I know the accent well and he’s definitely putting something foreign on for “Gladiator, ready!” at least.

Actually on further inspection, it seems he hasn’t got a Durham accent at all. Sounds more like Ashington to me (Mark Wood, for our cricket fans), with an attempt to water it down unlike Wood, which is proper mong territory, so as you were.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'm watching it now and Chung is rapid, especially up that wall. Christ, Nitro had no chance.

[Spikey M]

I don't know how you guys are still watching it. I watched the first one and it's absolute dog shit.

[Ian]

Yeah but you're a boring old shitebag.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

With a small head.

[Ian]

Yeah!

[Pepe]

:lol:

[Lofty]

I caught a bit of the end of it last night and it was worth a perv on the muscle girls but that's about it.

[Giggles]

I don't know how you guys are still watching it. I watched the first one and it's absolute dog shit.

They're all WWE fanatics. This is basically the same shite.

[Ian]

You can't keep Jimmy out of the wrestling thread.

[randomlegend]

Viper is fucking tragic. Not fit to lace Wolf's boots

[wullie]

Instead of nasty and mean he just looks like his mum's told him off.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I like the show. Has lots to offer: dumb fun, nostalgia, fit lads/lasses, immensely charismatic presenting from both Walshes, something for everyone.

WWE I could write a book on why I hate it. Main one is childhood trauma as all my friends preferred it to football so I had to find new friends.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

You haven't lived until you've tombstoned one of your friends or wrestled in a "cage" match.

[randomlegend]

Legend is a good character however.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Legend is great, he's the Wolf replacement.

[randomlegend]

I saw somebody else asking if Clattenburg was trying to be Scottish but I'm not hearing that at all.

It sounds like he's just too aware of how he sounds and it's made him sort of forget how to speak. Like when you think too much about something automatic and then you can't do it.

[Waffdon]

Legend is great, he's the Wolf replacement.

His Youtube channel is pretty decent. (mattdoesfitness) Somehow not on roids

[Ben]

Somehow not on roids


As the kids would say:

[x] doubt

[wullie]

Does Bradley Walsh definitely have a son and they haven't just generated a dead-eyed AI hologram based on him?

[Ian]

I dunno but it's very weird that a supposed real human can still trigger the uncanny valley effect.

[Waffdon]

As the kids would say:

[x] doubt

Well, unless he paid someone off I suppose. Joe Rogan had someone on his Podcast who tested him for 6-12 months and he showed no changes to strength or physique during the period in question.

[Ben]

A lot of YouTubers think it’s a badge of honour to be drug free then a lot of them got rumbled (raw liver guy springs to mind instantly). Everyone knows everyone is on gear, so what.

Baseball was much better when it was a load of meatheads smashing the ball miles.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

You can really tell that Fury is/was a rugby player.

[Ian]

The size difference between the male contestants and the Gladiators tonight. :D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I want Giant to face them at some point.

[Ian]

Not convinced by this game.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It looks too easy.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I like the game, I can't remember if it was on the original but it feels very old school. I only remember the similar game when they chucked balls at them on the bridge.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I like the game, I can't remember if it was on the original but it feels very old school. I only remember the similar game when they chucked balls at them on the bridge.

They had GIANT BALLS before:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leqP5HaL7FQ

[Ian]

That was a lot of effort for two points.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Legend :cool:

He should knock Viper out for being useless.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Wait, Paul is 57? He could have been on the original, comfortably in fact.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Diamond has clearly learnt not to grab shoes now.

[Ian]

Viper being useless? What a shocker.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That was the best game of THE EDGE so far.

Fury actually had a good strategy to start but got unlucky with that tackle.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I think that's a concussion.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Whoever designed The Edge is clearly not a fan of health and safety.

[Ian]

Tuahlaith's gonna have about a half hour head start here.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Betti looks so cautious at all times.

She's just trying to survive all the time.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It seems that the standard rope fucks people up the most here.

[Ian]

Tuahlaith's trying to throw this.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

What a bottlejob that was.

[Ian]

Well, bugger me.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I've never seen anyone fuck up the trapeze like she did. Travelator remains amazing TV.

[Shindig]

Especially when it goes on so long the music loops.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Bronte is THE most Northern woman ever.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

No fucking chance this guy is 35.

[Ian]

Bionic was shite there.

[Ian]

If I got Nitro as my Gladiator while the other person got Viper I'd be fucking livid.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Viper looked like he's barely seen a wall near the start of that.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That locker room exchange was the worst they've done.

[Ian]

There are genuinely events in this where I reckon I'd fancy my chances against Viper.

[Ian]

https://i.ibb.co/YkKtFQQ/image.png

Viper.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Please just remove this event.

[Ian]

Well she's absolutely beefed that.

Imagine she'd fallen after the Gladiator was gone though. :D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Fair play from Wes.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Legend :cool:

Eat a dick Viper, that's what a heel looks like.

[Ian]

Legend always looks slow to start on this but he's had that exact round three times now where he gives up early points fast while he susses them out and then stops them on 6ish.

Big fan of Wesley though. Hoping for a Wes vs. Chung final.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

:lol:

That was incredible from Sabre.

[Jimmy Floyd]

For some reason Guy Mowbray exclaiming DISGRACEFUL! at Fire's actions in the gauntlet has made me lol.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Finlay is a wet blanket.

[Ian]

Fuck off, Finlay.

#TeamWesley

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

RIP Bronte.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

What an eliminator that was.

[Ian]

The Eliminator really is great.

[Ian]

Wesley. :cool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Another cracker.

[randomlegend]

I don't really get why they had all those 5 foot nothing 60kg wastes of time as main contestants when they had a beast like Wesley as a stand-by.

I'd understand if the little lads had super entertaining personalities, but they didn't at all.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Mon Chung.

[Ian]

Mon the Chung. :cool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

They know Chung is the danger man, they're double teaming him.

[Ian]

"Get in the bin!" :lol:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Jake took some BIG hits.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

RIP Nia.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I don't think they'd have let a contestant have a break if injured back in the day.

Just get up.

[Ian]

I don't think they'd have let a contestant have a break if injured back in the day.

Just get up.

Can't remember the specifics but I'm sure I remember a few replacements, etc. They'll be more on it these days obviously but I don't think they were just shouting MAN UP while Trojan dislocated their arms or whatever.

[Ian]

Chung vs. Nitro. :drool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Holy fuck, Nitro was up there like lightning.

[Ian]

Chung vs. Nitro is the best Wall we've had so far.

[Ian]

Holy fuck, Nitro was up there like lightning.

It's appalling how fast he is.

[Ian]

Sabre is quick on the wall but she needs to stop going for the feet.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Legend is quality.

[Ian]

I think Legend has really grown into the heel thing. He's good fun.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Chung even makes the shit games great.

[Ian]

Chung is the best. A Eunice for this generation.

[Ian]

Fury is the best female Gladiator at the actual Gladiatoring and it's not even very close.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

"This feels real"

lol.

[Ian]

Whatever is wrong with Gauntlet they need to fix it next series.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

They need to make it narrower for a start, it's too easy if you attack the sides. Nia is the only one who has just run up the middle right at the gladiators.

Should also allow the gladiators to get a bit more physical and hold.

[Ian]

It also used to have 5 Gladiators and was narrower I think.

[Jimmy Floyd]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvSnllyBc4c

Looking at this old clip of 'Lawrence-Jean' besting them in 1995, it looks as though the gladiators had a lot more freedom about what zones they went into and when, and there were also five of them. Could be wrong. Hard to judge if it's narrower or not. And 20 seconds, isn't it 30 seconds now?

Come for the historical event comparison, stay for the surprisingly lounge lizard timekeeper.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I think their pads weren't as soft back then too.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvSnllyBc4c

Looking at this old clip of 'Lawrence-Jean' besting them in 1995, it looks as though the gladiators had a lot more freedom about what zones they went into and when, and there were also five of them. Could be wrong. Hard to judge if it's narrower or not. And 20 seconds, isn't it 30 seconds now?

Come for the historical event comparison, stay for the surprisingly lounge lizard timekeeper.

The moves he made in that run were incredible, especially how he pretty much flipped over the first gladiator.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Chung :cool:

Absolutely left Jake behind.

[Ian]

Nae luck, Jake. You don't get to win the Chunger Games.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Nia really didn't want to land on her arse.

[Ian]

Bit of ebb and flow to that Eliminator and was close-ish in the end.

[-james-]

I'm all for Chung, and maybe I'm taking this too seriously, but you shouldn't be able to win an event that you face different gladiators on 18-0.

[Ian]

How can Viper be this bad at literally everything?

[Jimmy Floyd]

He even looks like a twat on the profile shots.

Nitro is an amazing casting, props. Bet he's every kid's favourite.

[Ian]

Yeah Nitro's good.

And Giant may just prove unbeatable on Duel.

[Ian]

Kerry fucking rapid up the wall there.

[Ian]

"This is a terrible segment move on" :D

[Jimmy Floyd]

If I had just suffered a huge competitive disappointment and was out on my feet, I don't think I'd want to open my eyes to find Mark Clattenburg giving me a pep talk.

[Ian]

:D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

How can Viper be this bad at literally everything?

I'm watching it now, he's absolutely pathetic.

I'm not sure why they've gone down the route they have. He can't actually be this shit.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I hope Betti lost, she's annoying as fuck and her performance on duel was embarrassing.

[Jimmy Floyd]

She was as cynical as possible in every event which strikes me as a weird way to approach a TV gameshow. Got her comeuppance in Hang Tough.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I cheered audibly when she moved out of the red zone.

Cowardly twat.

Male eliminator was quality.

[Manc]

Why are all the male contestants complete manlets?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Are they or do they just look it next to the adonis gladiators?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Wesley isn't a manlet, which is probably why he was a stand in.

[Ian]

Are they or do they just look it next to the adonis gladiators?

I reckon they're mostly below average height. Probably selected that way to make the Glads look extra enormous.

Or the amateur swole gym rats aren't deemed suitable for whatever other reasons.

[Lofty]

Definitely manlets to make the gladiators proportionally monstrous. The same way in porn they aim to cast women 5ft or under to make the geezers look like John Holmes.

I know plenty of former second row/prop forward types turned fitness fanatics around the 6'4" mark so find the lack of any in the contestant pool suspicious.

I suppose it wouldn't look good if some rough and tumble man mountain just bulldozed them all on the strength tasks.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Tbf I think the spirit of the original show was everyday fitness fans taking on massive professional hulksters, with nimbleness and bravery their main weapons. So a roidhead v roidhead clash wouldn't make for great viewing.

[niko_cee]

Why are all the male contestants complete manlets?

Isn't it just that most of the events, and particularly the one defining event, are better suited to speed and agility? Also, fast/agile people are generally better at 99% of sports/physical activities than lumbering 'roid mess folk.

[Manc]

The female contestants by comparison are perfectly normal sized.

[Lofty]

Isn't it just that most of the events, and particularly the one defining event, are better suited to speed and agility? Also, fast/agile people are generally better at 99% of sports/physical activities than lumbering 'roid mess folk.

Yeah I bet peak Jonah Lomu would have been shit at it.

[niko_cee]

The manlets would have beaten him on the eliminator.

Anything where gravity is your enemy would ruin the big lads.

Powerball and Gauntlet would be worth the admission alone though.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

ffs, Betti made the semis.

[Ian]

Dunno if that's the case with her but it's a weird format where you could make the semis without winning a round.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Dunno if that's the case with her but it's a weird format where you could make the semis without winning a round.

She did win in her heat as she skipped an even to be fresh for the Eliminator and came back from 13s behind or something.

But you can lose every round and make the semis.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Jake coming back, ugh.

[Ian]

Dev just didn't want to risk making the final and being obliterated by Chung.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It's a shame we're getting Chung v Wesley in the other semi.

That should have been the final.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

What a point from Finlay.

[Ian]

That was a proper slugfest.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Bronte/Diamond is a duel I could watch forever.

[Ian]

Finlay chucking that because he doesn't want to enter the Chunger Games.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Bronte :cool:

Not even trying to go to the sides which is the easiest strategy, just ramming it up the middle.

[Ian]

They need to do something with Gauntlet.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Nitro is a cheat code on the wall.

Fucking hell he's lightning.

[Ian]

He really is, he's so good. Apollo is better than you'd expect on this for the size of him.

[Ian]

Here we go, Guy making the Edge sound like they're entering Jason Vorhees' house

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Finlay's life must have flashed before his eyes, he was really fucking close to the metal (why not pad it?) when he was pushed off there.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Get fucked Betti and Jake.

[Ian]

Hold up, I've got to wait a fortnight for semi final 2 because it's the fucking Saudibowl next week? Get fucked, put that shit on BBC3.

[randomlegend]

Wesley was ROBBED against Giant on Duel. Seething.

[wullie]

They need to either scrap Gauntlet or ditch the pads and let them properly chuck the contestants around.

[randomlegend]

The mittens are irredeemable but the only issue with the logs is the hand holds are too close together.

[Ian]

A) Chung :cry:
B) christ almighty, that women's eliminator. Amazing stuff. Eliminator is, as our man Jimmy Floyd pointed out, perfect.

[Ian]

They need to either scrap Gauntlet or ditch the pads and let them properly chuck the contestants around.

Add the fifth Glad back in and it might have a chance

[Ian]

What an episode that was tonight. Emotions all over the gaff.

[Baz]

I’ve been watching this with the kids. Only up to episode 5 (old man called Paul) whereas last nights was 10 apparently.

It is entertaining, but Bradley Walsh’s son is dreadful.

[wullie]

I thought Apollo's little promo was quite good but his floppy mortgage advisor hair really betrays him.

[Lewis]

My mother is watching this for some reason. Was it always this crap?

[Ian]

Nitro mugging off Wes big style on the Wall tonight, and in the final no less. Its all well and good being smug when there's no Chung to show you up there.

[wullie]

The woman definitely should have been disqualified on the bridge game for standing still. Get Pierlugi Collina in for S2 to lay down the law properly if Clattenburg isn't up to the job

[Jimmy Floyd]

More of a Nigel Owens gig I think, as we're looking for Saturday night camp.

[phonics]

The big lady off Gladiators came in again today. uwu. :3