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Griffin Dunne: Who’s That Man? (article from ARENA magazine, Sept/Oct 1987)

Double Exposure: The $4.5 million it took to make Martin Scorsese’s black comedy After Hours and the twitchily neurotic lead performance were both the work of the same man, hybrid movie producer and actor whose next assignments involve the likes of Sidney Lumet and Madonna. David Keeps spends some after After Hours hours with Griffin Dunne.

Griffin Dunne, leading man to Madonna in the soon-come Who’s That Girl, is not the sort of actor who swoops into a photo session with an entourage of managers, publicists and gofers. He enters alone, armed with a briefcase full of business pertaining to the next three or four films he will produce, and introduces himself with a winning humility and, on this particularly sweltering Manhattan afternoon, a perfectly reasonable request for a Budweiser. He graciously and gracefully agrees to a quick bit of barbering and slips into samples from Paul Smith’s autumn collection -- clothes that look very roomy on his slight five-foot-seven frame -- without a fuss. “Are you sure these weren’t for David Byrne,” he jokes. Griffin Dunne is one cool character.

The same can not be said for the neurotic yuppies he’s portrayed in After Hours and Almost You, two critically acclaimed films that were released back-to-back in Britain and helped to establish him as the archetypal Manhattan man. “That’s a coincidence,” he explains over breakfast at a Greenwich Village eaterie a few blocks from his home. “The pictures were actually filmed a couple of years, but I guess if you looked at them as a double-header, you’d see similarities because the main character is New York. One thing I have noticed is that the guy I’m playing always wears a blazer. I’ve got to be careful about what I do next. Those jaded laconic New York type roles are creeping up on me,” he continues, his almost-black eyes widening as his voice rises in mock terror. “I may never work again and die a pauper because these two pictures are so much alike!”

Now there’s an unlikely prospect. Having successfully produced Chilly Scenes of Winter, John Sayles’ Baby It’s You and Martin Scorsese’s After Hours, Griffin Dunne is in the unique position of being able to pay the bills and choose his acting roles carefully or develop properties for himself. The latter is an option he has exercised only once (After Hours), the former is an admitted luxury. “The problem with success is, the more successful you become, the more careful and calculating you have to be. While I dread being an actor and never knowing where my next job will be coming from, there was a great freedom in going from one stupid comedy into a play in some no-name theatre down on Pitt Street in lower East Siobokia. I get sent a lot of scripts as a producer and I don’t want to spend my time looking for parts for myself. I have an agent to do that. But that still doesn’t give me the opportunity to pick up the phone and say ‘Get me a script that is completely different from anything I’ve ever done, and I want to start working Wednesday’. “

There was a time when the very prospect of working in films - as an actor or a producer - was something to be avoided. Born in New York City on June 8, 1955 to actress Ellen Griffin Dunne and Dominick Dunne, who evolved from a television stage manager to a producer and now, a writer for Vanity Fair, Griffin was raised in Los Angeles amongst the privileged sons and daughters of Hollywood. He attended a pre-preparatory school at age 11. “All boys. You wore a coat and tie and got little swats if you got out of line. It was called Fay School,” he recalls with a shudder. “It was a bitch to say ‘I go to Fay School’.” He turns his head to the side to improvise a dialogue and with a sneer asks himself sarcastically, “How’s Fay?” “Fine thank you,” he mumbles, suitably humiliated. In his final year it became his job to order films for school entertainments. His very appropriate choice was Lindsay Anderson’s public school drama If... “It was a real underground thing. The attendance rate was incredible. They were hanging off the rafters. If you know the picture you know it takes them forever to kill those fucking teachers!”

The Fountain Valley school in Colorado proved a more nurturing atmosphere for the lad. Influenced by his uncle and aunt (the literary lions John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion), Griffin thought he would become a writer. “I just knew that film business was the last thing on earth I was going to be in. It’s like if your father goes to work in a car factory in Detroit, the last thing you want to do is go into the automobile business. I didn’t sit in judgement of Peter Benchley’s (OP NOTE: author of Jaws) drinking habits, but it was just too close to me. I was really verbal about it. Openly vitriolic, I would never be in show biz. I said that right up until a friend talked me into auditioning for this play.”

That was Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story and Griffin knew instinctively that he was the best man for the job. “Somehow I just knew I could say these lines better than anyone else. It was like being the only one in that room who spoke that particular language.” An actor was born and a bullshit artist began to operate. “I was the guy who ran the drama club, the art paper, the student council planning board. Teachers treated me like an adult, they really thought I was going places. They said ‘You’re not like the other students.’ I was, of course, a source of total disappointment, because I was exactly like the other students. I would get high and take the car off campus and try to get laid at every possible moment as soon as their back was turned.”

Then, just as he was about to make a dramatic triumph playing Iago in Othello, he was busted. “Got caught smoking a little hash,” he winces. “All that was really there was what was in my lungs and it just trailed out of my mouth as I denied what was happening. And the teacher did not get a contact high and forget what he was doing. What they were saying was, ‘We’re going to change the rest of your life for that amount of smoke in your lungs’.” He was sent packing, forced to face up to parents who were “grief stricken”, he says with a comic frown, “chopped off at the knees.” Convincing the school authorities in a brilliant final thespian act that he needed to take the bus home in order to have time to think about his misdeeds, he hit the highway and hitchhiked home.

The odyssey that followed could’ve been a foreshadowing of the hassles that befell him as the stranger-in-SoHo in After Hours. “I was very worried about getting into any more trouble. And every car I got in was the most troublesome, criminal car. One guy would be driving a huge Cadillac convertible that he’d bought with a bad cheque. Another guy was AWOL from the army and there was this kid who’d just left ‘Juvie’ (Juvenile Hall) who was only a year younger than me, but also about four feet shorter. We’d spend a good deal of the time daring him to do things like climb out of the hood of the car to straighten out the antenna as we were crossing the desert. As soon as he got out there the driver would floor it, going about 95 miles an hour and swerving to throw him off. I thought, ‘OK drug possession, hot car, and manslaughter, all on the way home. Look at it this way, Mom, Dad, I was only kicked out of school for smoking hash!”

He lived in Los Angeles for the last gasp of his teenage years, working in a bookstore and as a shipping clerk for a cooking utensils firm, while going for auditions that were few and far between. After a few small roles on TV, he moved to New York to study at the Neighborhood Playhouse, where, ironically, in the days before Dustin Hoffman, Griffin’s father had left his studies when he was told that he was too short to be a leading man. Though Griffin was spared the same advice, he worked more steadily in the restaurant trade - even selling popcorn at the candy counter of Radio City Music Hall - than he did in the theatre. Then he met Amy Robinson and Mark Metcalf (OP NOTE: misprinted with an e), two equally frustrated, equally unemployed actors, and the trio decided to become producers.

(OP NOTE: Since Dunne, Robinson, and Metcalf were/are baseball fans, the original production company’s name was Triple Play Productions. When Metcalf left to focus on his acting, the company was renamed Double Play Productions).

“We went out to Cambridge and met Ann Beattie, who had written Chilly Scenes of Winter and she said it was like three of her characters walked into her living room.” Not surprisingly she allowed them to buy the rights for a film version at a very reasonable price. At age 23, Griffin Dunne had become a producer and had his first property. The trio turned the process of pitching the project to studios into an acting exercise. “It was exactly like a performance, but it was easier than going in on an audition. Here I had something tangible to sell, a book that I was passionate about. It’s hard to do that about yourself. What do you say? ‘Look at this interesting aspect of me. Then if you shade it with these particular attitudes I look like this!’ I wouldn’t want to see anybody do that.”

First released as Head Over Heels, and re-released more successfully in 1982 under the author’s original title, Chilly Scenes of Winter set the stage for the fledgling producer’s next triumph, John Sayles’ Baby It’s You, which introduced Rosanna Arquette and Vincent Spano to a large and appreciative audience of young filmgoers. In the meantime Dunne had appendaged several screen acting credits to his dossier, largely of the messenger boy variety.

“I’ve passed a ton of envelopes,” he laughs. “In this one film, The Fan (a potboiler starring Lauren Bacall as the intended victim of an overwrought admirer) I played a stage manager who was to hand a letter the killer gave me to Maureen Stapleton. The letter read ‘I’m going to kill you, I’m going to kill you,’ and sure enough he does. So they spend the rest of the movie looking for the killer instead of asking me for a description. When I told the director, he said ‘Yeah, well, fine, can we just shoot the scene please?’ So I just couldn’t resist on one take. I went up to Miss Stapleton and I said, ‘Here’s a letter from the killer -- oops! -- I mean the man outside’.”

He was able to use his comic gifts more successfully playing the sidekick role, “the very dead one” in An American Werewolf in London (OP NOTE: Title misprinted without the ‘An’) and the clean-cut brother of a gangster in Johnny Dangerously, “a big silly comedy.” Then a script crossed his desk which he simply could not ignore, for it contained all the elements he looked for in a film as both a producer and an actor. It was called After Hours, and it was the tale of a lonely word processor who meets a beautiful girl, loses her, loses his money and his house-keys and spends the rest of his evening on the run from assorted temptresses and loonies in the lofts and streets of New York’s SoHo.

Griffin Dunne was no stranger to the inherent weirdness of such a scenario. “Last weekend I was out of town and a friend was in my apartment. I said don’t use the bottom lock. She did, and so I was locked out of my own apartment. I called my neighbors to let me in, but they were locked out of their apartment too. I found that out from the neighbors below. The owners are from Japan and they’re coming to get their apartment from me. I’ve now been through so many locks it looks like a Uzi got at the door. The locksmith is now an old friend of mine. I have the worst time with keys. I believe the first stage of manhood is when you live on your own and you’re given this set of keys. I’ve been through so many keys. They just leap out of my pocket!”

Griffin Dunne became After Hours’ hapless anti-hero Paul Hackett and his run-ragged energy leaped off the screen. Despite the fact that the entire film was shot at night, director Scorsese demanded that he remain celibate during the course of the shoot. For added punishment, Dunne himself also acted as the film’s producer: “As an actor your job is not to have distractions and be in a loose state where, when things are thrown at you, you can react accordingly. As a producer your job is to constantly anticipate problems, disasters, flare-ups, fiascoes. You’re in a constant state of tension. You have this little rubber ball with spikes sticking out of it in the pit of your stomach. In After Hours if there were times when it was five in the morning and I was starting to run out of anxiety adrenaline, I could think of how much the picture was going over-budget and I would suddenly get this hollow look in my eyes, my eyebrows would start creeping up on my forehead and I was ready to roll! But I never as an actor looked at the director and thought, ‘Gee, he’s shooting too much film, I must tell him to stop.’”

Though After Hours was a huge critical and commercial success, it pointed out some rather disheartening facts about the American film industry. “People are so obsessed with how much pictures cost. It really pisses me off,” he says with a furrow of the brow that makes you an instant sympathizer. “All anybody talks about with After Hours is that we made it for $4.5 million.(OP NOTE: $4.5 million in 1985 would be about $10.8 million in 2020) Who cares? Is it a good movie? Is it a bad movie? For some reason English films have avoided that. Probably because they were made with pounds instead of dollars and the critics are too lazy to figure out the currency conversion.”

Now he’s on a roll and it becomes quite clear that Griffin Dunne, as an artist and as a businessman, cares about the cinema passionately. “There are a lot of [OP NOTE: misprinted as off] young filmmakers trying to get off the ground here. It’s treated so condescendingly,” he splutters. “Those kids made that Personal Art film. Art film is a bad word for everybody - it’s a personal film. Or it’s an independent film, which must mean it’s personal. ‘Those kids made that picture and just look what they did. And their grandmother gave them $2.5 million for that?’ I don’t think it was their grandmother,” he continues with a lethal iciness. “I think they went to a major financing entity and they got the money, it’s playing in theatres now. GO SEE THE GODDAMNED MOVIE!”

(OP NOTE: Sir, this is a Wendy’s. All joking aside, I would love to hear the off-the-record version of this rant)

All of this seems particularly annoying to a man like Griffin Dunne because he’s proved that it can be done. “It’s just treated like it’s so cute. Now it’s possible to make films like Mona Lisa, Withnail and I or one of Stephen Frears’ movies in the States. There’s a lot more avenues of finance and they’ve figured out ways of distributing movies where they actually make serious money and it’s easier for people to get their money back on videocassettes and all the other rights. What we’re having a little bit of a problem with is the material itself. How do you find a script that doesn’t reek of being an Independent Movie?”

In Adam Brooks’ Almost You, which was written as a vehicle for Dunne and his then-girlfriend Brooke Adams, he found exactly that. An offbeat comedy about an adulterous husband, the film was warmly received in Britain after having been crucified by the American press. (OP NOTE: As someone who enjoyed that movie, I think the reason for that is because British audiences are more comfortable with unlikable or dysfunctional protagonists than American audiences. Also, this was the Reagan era with traditional values and all) “I found the character very touching and pathetic, but when it came out you would have thought I was a war criminal. An immoral louse. The worst of it was they would never say my character’s name. They would say ‘Griffin Dunne is a duplicitous, weak-willed human being!’ People fuck around on their wives, what can I say? The way people went on, because I fooled around when my wife was in a wheelchair, it was like one of those Reefer Madness kind of movies. Like I was condoning it,” he says, lapsing into a sinister’s narrator voice, “C’mon kids, go out and smoke heroin. And while you’re there get married and fool around on your wife who’s in a wheelchair. Come with me to...THE MOVIES!”

His next screen appearance should raise the stakes considerably higher and may establish Griffin Dunne as a solidly commercial leading man in romantic comedies. “I’d known about the script for years,” he says of Who’s That Girl. “It was the first screwball comedy I’d read that wasn’t a rip-off or a parody . The characters were really contemporary. Over the years I just slowly watched it get put together, slowly, slowly coming around to me. I had a feeling it was going to work out and I have that feeling very rarely.” It’s the story of one Loudon Trott, the standard “uptight kind of guy” whose world is thrown into utter chaos by the appearance of a dizzy but dazzling vixen. “I’m one of those inside-the-little-globe-there’s-a-madman-dying-to-break-out characters. But I was going as much against the nitwit-nerd as possible. I wanted to wear the best suit I could find. I look unlike anything I’ve ever looked before. You don’t wake up with hair like what I’ve got in this picture. I don’t even know what the hell I look like.”

The vixen is, of course, played by Madonna. “It was externally pretty crazy,” he says of the shoot. “A lot of paparazzi and fans. I guess for my survival I just shut it out. It didn’t bother her, so why should it bother me? If it bothered me it would show on the screen, but nobody would say, ‘Gee, he doesn’t seem to be there right now, it must be the fans.’” He laughs at the very thought of it. “I’ll fight for a disclaimer at the end of the picture!”

He’ll have to juggle his next acting assignment between efforts as a producer. Running On Empty, the coming-of-age story of the son of Sixties dissidents living on the lam, is set to be directed by Sidney Lumet with River Phoenix in the leading role and Robin Williams has been signed as the lead for a Disney-financed version of the stage comedy The Foreigner.

[OP NOTE: While Running on Empty was eventually released in 1988, garnering Phoenix a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the Golden Globes, The Foreigner never materialized. I’m sure there’s some amazing stories that have yet come to light on the latter].

And industrious though he may seem, Dunne admits that he’s really good at not working, too. “It’s a talent that I’ve evolved over the past year or so. When I’m not working it never crosses my mind. I’m into maps. I’ll chart a trip and get a really good radio in the car, record a lot of tapes and hit the road. I’m really good at getting out of town and going to the beach. My problem has been collecting a lot of things over the years, but I’ve lived in sublets for the past 11 years, so I haven’t been able to settle into any pattern yet. Now that I’m moving into my own place, I’m glad. I’ll have people over so they can admire my spoon collection from my various journeys and I’ll even have shows. I will promise to bore them senseless with my passions.”

It’s unlikely he’ll be able to make the same claim in a professional capacity; his involvement on both sides of the camera and casting office have certainly produced an exemplary cross-breed of moviemaking professional, one that box office superstars-cum-executive producers of their own vanity projects could most certainly learn from. “One of the things I like about being a producer,” Dunne explains, “is that it’s opened me up on how to read a script. I like to think of the whole picture now, not just my role.” But having an awareness of what makes a film succeed in an increasingly byzantine business has not dulled his enthusiasm for acting, nor dimmed his onscreen spark. “It still is fun,” he demurs. “It should always be fun to get paid for taking fencing lessons.”

Always a wit, Griffin Dunne does seem most comfortable making a joke, even if it is at his own expense. Asked which of his screen characters he’d feel closest kinship to in real life, he deadpans, “I use so much of myself in them that I can’t imagine wanting to hang out with any of them.” And he’s equally nonplussed about his reputation as an independent force in the motion picture industry. The man simply has taste and if he likes to wear as many different hats as he can in this business, well, that’s his business - and he’s certainly very modest about his accomplishments.

“It’s difficult,” he concludes. “for me to say ‘I’m a rebel. I’m a maverick’ and put on little cowboy hats and stroll out of here into the sunset.” Especially, we both agree with a laugh, since it’s not even high noon yet.

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nicollekidman · 4 years

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one of my favorite movies of all time, phantom thread (2017) dir paul thomas anderson

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Forgive me I just got excited when I saw your mobile theme header because I KNOW that it’s from the film Inherent Vice by Paul Thomas Anderson, right? (Please say yes lol)

Good eye! WOW! Yes it is from Inherent Vice! You’re amazing, pal. 🌊

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pixelgrotto · 5 years

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The horrific Resident Evil playthrough, finale

Approximately one year ago I began the somewhat mad quest to shove as much Resident Evil into my brain as quickly as possible. I blazed through thirteen games, a handful of spin-offs, and as much supplementary material I could get my hands on. I chronicled my thoughts each step of the way via posts here, on Twitter and in a massive ResetERA thread where a lot of good people gave me advice on how to proceed with the series. Not all of the stuff I experienced was great (those Paul W.S. Anderson movies come to mind), and sometimes this massive undertaking felt like work, but now that I’ve come to the end, I can say that it was worth it, because it’s quite the feeling to bring yourself from having zero knowledge of something to morphing into a Wiki-reading fiend in just a year. At this time in 2018, I had only the barest notion of what this series was about and who characters like Jill Valentine or Leon Kennedy were. Now, I could probably write a pretty heated Twitter thread about how Jill needs to be brought back to the forefront of the series not just with a remake of Resident Evil 3, but with an entirely new game, because she’s been sidelined for years despite being the central figure in promotional material like the fancy artwork that I’ve posted above! Ahem.

My initial desire to become more familiar with Resident Evil has been part of a larger push in recent years to consume more horror media, mostly because as I get older I find myself increasingly attracted to eerie stories that I was too much of a weenie to dive into when I was younger. Some of it probably has to do with the fact that as an adult I now find stuff like health concerns, existential dread and paying taxes to be more horrifying than things that go bump in the night, but part of it is also because that even as a scaredy cat kid, I was always kinda intrigued by macabre stuff like Resident Evil, even if I couldn’t bring myself to play through the games.

Now that I’ve plowed through the franchise, I wish I could go back and whisper to my younger self that aside from the first game, RE7 and perhaps bits and pieces of both versions of RE2...Resident Evil isn’t all that frightening. The series does have its jump scares and gore, but it quickly crosses genres into the realm of action, and even in its more tense entries, Resident Evil stays dripping with a fine dollop of cheese, either through B-movie dialogue or moments when the main characters wink at the camera and suddenly take a zombie to suplex city. Action, comedy and horror are unusual but frequent bedfellows, I’ve learned, and with RE embodying all three of these genres, translating them to the realm of electronic entertainment via a format emphasizing survival, it’s only appropriate that this is the franchise that has come to serve as the face of spooky thrills in the video game world.

Resident Evil’s also in a very good place at this moment in time. RE2Make has gotten well-deserved praise from just about everyone who’s played it, and after a moment where it looked like Capcom was going to tilt the mattress and upset the delicately placed bedfellows - emphasizing action and over-the-top comedy more than horror - now it appears that the devs have gotten their heads straight and maintained the balance once more. There’s still room for improvement and careful experimentation though. As the series forges ahead into the 2020s, I hope that Capcom doesn’t get drunk off of RE2Make’s success, milking its formula to exhaustion. I want at least another mainline game to utilize the first-person perspective of Resident Evil 7, which worked better than I ever would’ve imagined, and I’d also like to see the Revelations sub-series, which was supposed to focus on stories that took place in between the main games, continue - in spirit if not in name. (A Revelations 3 or similar spin-off with fixed camera angles - perhaps in a mid-tier budget point ‘n click style a la Detention - would be something that I’d love, though Capcom probably will never go in that direction.) Finally, I’d like Resident Evil to remember that it had fabulous female representation in its earlier entries. The later titles have mostly had male protagonists front and center, which directly reinforces the trope that it’s okay for survival horror games to star the “must be protected” ladies, but anything action-orientated should star dudes so that male players can have their power fantasy trip. This can easily be fixed by doing what I said in the first paragraph - bring the queen Jill Valentine back.

Finally, because these sorts of franchise reflections are never complete without a good ol’ fashioned list... Here’s how I’d rank the mainline games, complete with a snappy sentence or two for each.

Resident Evil REmake - Because if I had to recommend just ONE game for someone to get a decent idea of this series’ mechanics and themes, it would be this one.

Resident Evil 4 - It’s survival action instead of survival horror, but when the gameplay’s this good, can you really complain?

Resident Evil 2 - Over 20 years old and still a thrilling experience. The epitome of the fixed camera angle games.

Resident Evil 7 - I was afraid that the change to a first-person perspective would alienate me, but I beat this game in two days and couldn’t put it down.

Resident Evil RE2make - Almost as good as the original, and a great sign of the franchise’s future.

Resident Evil Revelations 2 - Worth playing for the return of Barry Burton and the moving story alone, which is basically about fathers and daughters, loss and acceptance.

Resident Evil 1 - The OG that started it all. A little clunky to play in this day and age, but the magic’s still there.

Resident Evil 6 - The equivalent of an overstuffed exploding cake, RE6 is excessive as hell and sometimes infuriating...but one thing you could never call it is boring.

Resident Evil 5 - A solid series entry about Chris Redfield punching boulders in Africa, this one’s excellent if you play it co-op. Solo, a little less excellent.

Resident Evil Zero - RE probably didn’t need this prequel showing what Rebecca Chambers was doing on the night before she got stuck in Spencer Mansion, but good chemistry between the main characters makes it worth experiencing.

Resident Evil 3: Nemesis - A lot of folks love this one, but IMO it feels less noteworthy than RE2 and RE1, probably because it was originally designed as a spin-off. I rank it low but am eager to see how a RE3make could boost it.

Resident Evil Revelations - Jill Valentine’s in a wetsuit that clings to her booty this whole game and she hangs out with a partner who looks like Russell Crowe. Aside from that, Revelations is fine but kinda forgettable.

Resident Evil: Code Veronica - The only RE that truly annoyed me with backtracking and some cheap bosses, Code Veronica is technically still an okay game. But Steve Burnside is a garbage character.

Thus, we bring the horrific, 2018-2019 Pixel Grotto Resident Evil playthrough to a gentle finish. *Cue relaxing save room theme here.* It’s been fun, ladies and gents. I need to rest up a bit and try some other games that aren’t survival horror for a while. But I like the idea of doing more series playthroughs in the future...

And I think Silent Hill might be a good choice for the next one.

The header artwork is a textless version of the radical Biohazard 20th Anniversary poster that Capcom put out in 2016.

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allakinwande · 6 years

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/Pat A. Robinson

CHASING DEMOCRACY:

The attack on the American voter.

BY: JB Hanna

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"Now many of our Christians have what I call the 'goo-goo syndrome.' Good government. They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people. They never have been from the beginning of our country, and they are not now. As a matter of fact our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."

-Paul Weyrich 1968

TARRANT COUNTY TX.

In 1827, Edward E. Tarrant had established himself as a wealthy man, probably the wealthiest in all of Red River County. A veteran of the war of 1812, now a sheriff, he left his mark in Tarrant County Texas, the namesake of the former officer of the “fourth brigade.”

On September 29, 1843, Tarrant along with Texas state attorney general George Whitfield would draft The “Bird’s Fort Treaty.” Which surreptitiously states in Article XXIV, that; “The government of Texas has the right of working all mines that have been discovered or will be discovered on the territory of the Indians.”

Just as surreptitiously as the terms of Crystal Mason’s signed affidavit that stated she was not eligible to vote as a convicted felon, some hundred and seventy five years later in that same Tarrant County. Mason was on community service on November 8, 2016 for a her 2012 conviction on tax fraud. Only voting after the urging of her mother, Ms. Mason was sentenced to five years in prison on voter fraud charges, for a provisional ballet vote that was never counted.

Crystal Mason’s unfortunate miscarriage of justice is the oddity, not the model. The model being the strategy adopted by many incumbents on the right, while the left has historically supported voter registration initiatives, conservatives (since the voting rights act of 2013) have practiced down presser tactics with almost surgical precision. From good ol fashioned jerrymandring to voter caging and voter roll purges.

Stories like that of Crystal Mason, no matter how rare, are aggressively publicized and spun in efforts to paint a fanciful portrait of voter fraud gone wild. These trumped up horrors however, have never been substantiated.

Max Faulkner/Fort Worth Star-Telegram via Getty Images.

During the presidential campaign of 2016,

Vice President nominee, Mike Pence came under scrutiny from voter rights advocates when Indiana State police raided the voter registration office of Patriot Majority USA, in October of 2016. Indiana progressives called conspiracy on the would be VIce president.

The nonprofit Patriot Majority, had registered over 45,000 voters, mostly African American. Just one week from the voter registration deadline and 5,000 voters short of their 50,000 target at the time of the raid. Founded in 2005, PM was accused of registering voters twice, in addition to applications that had missing or unverified zip codes and addresses. This is often a problem with grassroots voter registration initiatives staffed by everyday citizens, the lack of experience, training, and in many cases, after work hours by constituents looking to supplement their income, have always bore such inconsistencies. Though well meaning, these efforts give way to questionable voter registration applications, that ones opponent will rightfully pounce.

When you open Patriot Majority’s web sight, the home page is striking. Waves of red and white stripes, the famous Washington crossing the Delaware painting emblazoned on the header. With the current political climate, rife with its suede patriotism and the far lefts deepening dive into a socialist creed, one might expect Patriot Majorities home page to spawn links to diatribes of pro gun advocacy and states rights. But PM claims to be a bipartisan movement. While it seems that the issue is the shotty work of some canvassers, Common Cause Indiana and the NAACP have filed a federal lawsuit against Marion County of Indian after the raid on charges of voter suppression by closing early voting in a sector with over 700,000 registered voters. Former Indiana governor mike Pence, now ironically, head of the Elections Integrity Commission, boasts “What is historic here is that our president-elect won 30 to 50 states. He won more counties than any candidate on our side.

The Georgia State showdown

Georgia’s Democratic candidate for governor Stacey Abrams finds herself in a historical yet tight race in Georgia’s gubernatorial midterms. The Gulfport native faces off against opponent Brian kemp, the self proclaimed “politically incorrect conservative.” The cautionary view in mid August was that Kemp could have a strong surge in the last two months leading to the peach state showdown, much like Nathan Deal in 2014. But as of reporting, the race is still in a dead heat. Kemp has been mocked for his ads that some on the left liken to a Dave Chapelle or SNL skit. But while democrats laugh, Brian Kemp is practicing more “politics as usual” than his campaign readaric may assert. Kemp’s influence on voter registration as Secretary of State should be no laughing matter to democrats.

The heat was on as the summer closed out in Randolph County Georgia, a sort of patient zero for the National attention to suspected voter suppression. The Georgia county quickly beat back a move to close seven of nine polling places in the historically black canton. But the victory, while sweet, is little to stop the suppression of voters in the rest of the state. Like Tarrant in Texas, Randolph county is named after another slave owning statesman, Ol’ John Randolph of Roanoke. A career politician who also served as prosecutor of the associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Samuel Chase on charges of impeachment. Chase would later be acquitted by the senate. Roanoke famously stated,

“The most delicious of all privileges, spending other people’s money.” Might be proud of his states insidious politico operandi.

Several groups, including the Georgia Democratic Party, Common Cause and the NAACP, have called on Kemp to step down from his position as secretary of state while he runs for Governor.

Greg Palast, the New York based investigative journalist and author of the compelling

The best democracy money can buy, has been hunting down Kemp and also, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach for the past several months. Armed with a Federal subpoena accusing Kobach of purging hundreds of thousands of Kansans from the voting rolls. Like his counterpart in Georgia, as Secretary of State, Kobach has oversight of the states voter rolls and similar to Brian Kemp of Georgia, Kobach has also successfully closed polling stations in low income counties as well.

As Carol Anderson of the New York Times put it, “Brian Kemp is a master of voter suppression.” For example, Kemp made a statement in 2014 regarding another lawsuit his office faced regarding over 40 thousand names of voters disappearing from the Georgia voting rolls. The Secretary of State emphasized that “The lawsuit filed by 3rd sector development, is frivolous and totally without merit. The claim that there are over forty thousand unprocessed voter registration applications, are false.” Kemp went on to contravene with the 6,525 voter applications his office found had issues of no longer being with us, had no valid date of birth, where convicted felons or provided no county or address. ( some states report day of birth instead of DOB, which substantially increases the chance of two records being reported for the same person.)

Kemp also provided a Potboiler about an application filled out by, Johnny B Cool, who’s city was listed as, Yo’ Town. While this smacks of incompetence of the registrating body or the voting applicant themselves, it seems a stretch to think that a political scenic, who would name themselves Johnny B Cool who Haile’s from Yo town would be a tactical move that any well minded voter fraud conspirator would employ. But the great voter fraud conspiracy rolls on. Kemp, by the way,

Was found to be guilty of voter suppression in 2014.

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LOCKED AND LOADED

Prior to Shelby v Holder, (2013) Texas, along with the several other Jim Crow states had coordinated a preemptive lockout of minority, elderly and millennial prospective votes in anticipation of provisions 4 & 5 of the voting rights act being overturned. The first domino to fall was that unsuspecting, overlooked little Diddy called Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District No. 1 v. Holder, or the MUD case. The stories of out of town voters using the address of a local motel to vote illegally, harassment of MUD’s minority community and a strange cloud of mystery preceding the Shelby v. Holder decision, stains the “Municipal Utility District,” just north of Austin.

That was 2009, and four years later, Shelby county found it unconstitutional for the federal government to suppress their ability to molest the Hispanics, black, elderly and young voting populous. The Supreme Court would concede that, “voting discrimination still exists; no one doubts that.” But the 5-4 decision of the highest court in the land would contradict their own logic by wiping away the voting rights act protection of historically disenfranchised constituents, specifically articles 4 and 5.

But back in Tarrant Texas, and many other counties in the Lone star state, there’s been a battle raging to oppress voter turnout since voting became public freewill. Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke are in the mezzo of a 12 round barn burner as the country tumbles towards it’s midterms like a radioactive meteor with no direction. Could it be, the land of steers could finally be done with Ted Cruz? Or is Beto’s hype just that? Progressive turnout or conservative suffragist subterfuge may answer these questions.

And yet, one of the few cases of actual voter fraud, ironically in that same state of Texas, is more doleful than relevant. Crystal Mason began her five year sentence for voter fraud in September. After being walked through the provisional ballet process by a state appointed election official, she still stands condemned by adjudication. Alison Grinter, of Mason’s legal team explained, “the federal government has stepped over the state and found Crystal guilty of violating the law.”

In august an 11 year old child hacked a Florida electronic ballet in this years DEFCON 26,

The annual hacking convention held this year in sandy Las Vegas. Emmett Brewer and 30 other kids ranging in age from 8 - 16 years old where all able to hack Florida’s faulty system. The national association of Secretaries of State responded to DEFCON with one of many proclamations in their

(Long comment regarding a proposed Exemption under 17 U.S. code 1201)

The senate stated to ES&S, the countries largest supplier of voting machines;

“Currently there are significant barriers that prevent states from working with independent, qualified, good faith researchers to conduct cyber security on election systems.”

Now it seams, after the midterms, ES&S May have to deal with not just the Senate but the people.

But the talk is done. Bluster deflated. Red and Blue candidates enter November 6th like combatants on the world stage. Like heavyweight champions with the future of democracy on the line. I’ll be watching the fight on November 6th just like Crystal Mason.

Hoping the country does right by its future.

#voter suppression #afrofuturism #stacey abrams #brian kemp #georgina #missouri #blackvotesmatter #gun control #democracy #donald trump #black woman #africa #african woman #black man #black journalists #black writers #me #my writting #my writing

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Liste aller WWE-Shows, die ich nach und nach reviewen werde

Chronologische Sortierung nach Aufzeichnungs-/Ausstrahlungsdatum mit jeweiligem Main Event. Der Main Event ist dabei IMMER das letzte Match, das in der Show zu sehen ist, selbst wenn es per se nicht der Main Event der Show war.

1985

WrestleMania 1 – 31. März 1985 (Hulk Hogan & Mr. T vs. Roddy Piper & Paul Orndorff)

The Wrestling Classic – 7. November 1985 (Junkyard Dog vs. Randy “Macho Man” Savage)

1986

WrestleMania 2 – 7. April 1986 (Hulk Hogan vs. King Kong Bundy in einem Steel Cage Match)

The Big Event – 28. August 1986 (Hulk Hogan vs. Paul Orndorff)

1987

WrestleMania 3 – 29. März 1987 (Hulk Hogan vs. Andre the Giant)

Survivor Series – 26. November 1987 (Hulk Hogan, Paul Orndorff, Don Muraco, Ken Patera & Bam Bam Bigelow vs. André the Giant, One Man Gang, King Kong Bundy, Rick Rude & Butch Reed in einem 5-on-5 Survivor Series Match)

1988

Royal Rumble – 24. Januar 1988 (Royal Rumble Match)

WrestleMania 4 – 27. März 1988 (Randy Savage vs. Ted Dibiase)

SummerSlam – 29. August 1988 (“The Mega Powers”-Randy Savage & Hulk Hogan vs. “The Mega Bucks” – Ted DiBiase & André the Giant)

Survivor Series – 24. November 1988 (“The Mega Powers” – Randy Savage & Hulk Hogan, Hercules, Koko B. Ware & Hillbilly Jim vs. Big Boss Man, Akeem, Ted DiBiase, Haku and The Red Rooster in einem 5-on-5 Survivor Series Match)

1989

Royal Rumble – 15. Januar 1989 (Royal Rumble Match)

WrestleMania 5 – 2. April 1989 (Hulk Hogan vs. Randy Savage)

SummerSlam – 28. August 1989 (Hulk Hogan & Brutus Beefcake vs. Randy Savage & Zeus)

Survivor Series – 23. November 1989 (The Ultimate Warriors (The Ultimate Warrior, Jim Neidhart & The Rockers (Shawn Michaels & Marty Jannetty)) vs. The Heenan Family (The Colossal Connection (Andre The Giant & Haku), Arn Anderson & Bobby Heenan) in einem 4-on-4 Survivor Series Match)

1990

Royal Rumble – 21. Januar 1990 (Royal Rumble Match)

WrestleMania 6 – 1. April 1990 (Ultimate Warrior vs. Hulk Hogan)

SummerSlam – 27. August 1990 (Ultimate Warrior vs. Rick Rude in einem Steel Cage Match)

Survivor Series – 22. November 1990 (Ultimate Warrior, Hulk Hogan & Tito Santana vs. Ted DiBiase & The Visionaries (Rick Martel, The Warlord & Power and Glory (Hercules & Paul Roma)) in einem 3-on-5 Handicap Survivor Series Match)

1991

Royal Rumble – 19. Januar 1991 (Royal Rumble Match)

WrestleMania 7 – 24. März 1991 (Hulk Hogan vs. Sgt. Slaughter)

SummerSlam – 26. August 1991 (Hulk Hogan & The Ultimate Warrior vs. Sgt. Slaughter, General Adnan & Col. Mustafa in einem 2-on-3 Handicap Match; “A Match made in Heaven”)

Survivor Series – 27. November 1991 (Big Boss Man & The Legion of Doom (Hawk & Animal) vs. Irwin R. Schyster & The Natural Disasters (Earthquake & Typhoon) in einem 3-on-3 Survivor Series Match)

This Tuesday in Texas – 3. Dezember 1991 (Hulk Hogan vs. The Undertaker)

1992

Royal Rumble – 19. Januar 1992 (Royal Rumble Match)

WrestleMania 8 – 5. April 1992 (Hulk Hogan vs. Sid Justice)

SummerSlam – 29. August 1992 / Ausstrahlung 31. August 1992 (The British Bulldog vs. Bret Hart)

Survivor Series – 25. November 1992 (Bret Hart vs. Shawn Michaels)

1993

Royal Rumble – 24. Januar 1993 (Royal Rumble Match)

WrestleMania 9 – 4. April 1993 (Hulk Hogan vs. Yokozuna direkt nach Yokozuna vs. Bret Hart)

King of the Ring – 13. Juni 1993 (King of the Ring-Turnierfinale)

SummerSlam – 30. August 1993 (Yokozuna vs. Lex Luger)

Survivor Series – 24. November 1993 (The All Americans (Lex Luger, The Undertaker & The Steiner Brothers (Rick Steiner & Scott Steiner)) vs. The Foreign Fanatics (Yokozuna, Ludvig Borga, Jacques Rougeau & Crush) in einem 4-on-4 Survivor Series Match)

1994

Royal Rumble – 22. Januar 1994 (Royal Rumble Match)

WrestleMania 10 – 20. März 1994 (Bret Hart vs. [Sieger aus Yokozuna vs. Lex Luger])

King of the Ring – 19. Juni 1994 (Roddy Piper vs. Jerry Lawler)

SummerSlam – 29. August 1994 (The Undertaker vs. “The Undertaker”)

Survivor Series – 23. November 1994 (The Undertaker vs. Yokozuna in einem Casket Match)

1995

Royal Rumble – 22. Januar 1995 (Royal Rumble Match)

WrestleMania 11 – 2. April 1995 (Lawrence Taylor vs. Bam Bam Bigelow)

In Your House 1 – 14. Mai 1995 (Diesel vs. Sycho Sid)

King of the Ring – 25. Juni 1995 (Diesel & Bam Bam Bigelow vs. Sycho Sid & Tatanka)

In Your House 2: The Lumberjacks – 23. Juli 1995 (Diesel vs. Sycho Sid in einem Lumberjack Match)

SummerSlam – 27. August 1995 (Diesel vs. King Mabel)

In Your House 3: Triple Header – 24. September 1995 (Diesel & Shawn Michaels vs. British Bulldog & Yokozuna)

In Your House 4: Great White North – 22. Oktober 1995 (Diesel vs. British Bulldog)

Survivor Series – 19. November 1995 (Bret Hart vs. Diesel)

In Your House 5: Seasons Beatings – 17. Dezember 1995 (Bret Hart vs. British Bulldog)

1996

Royal Rumble – 21. Januar 1996 (Bret Hart vs. The Undertaker)

In Your House 6: Rage in the Cage – 18. Februar 1996 (Bret Hart vs. Diesel in einem Steel Cage Match)

WrestleMania 12 – 31. März 1996 (Shawn Michaels vs. Bret Hart in einem 60 min Iron Man Match)

In Your House 7: Good Friends, Better Enemies – 28. April 1996 (Shawn Michaels vs. Diesel)

In Your House 8: Beware of Dog – 26. Mai 1996 (Goldust vs. The Undertaker)

King of the Ring – 23. Juni 1996 (Shawn Michaels vs. British Bulldog)

In Your House 9: International Incident – 21. Juli 1996 (Shawn Michaels, Sycho Sid & Ahmed Johnson vs. Camp Cornette – British Bulldog, Vader & Owen Hart)

SummerSlam – 18. August 1996 (Shawn Michaels vs. Vader)

In Your House 10: Mind Games – 22. September 1996 (Shawn Michaels vs. Mankind)

In Your House 11: Buried Alive – 20. Oktober 1996 (Mankind vs. The Undertaker in einem Buried Alive Match)

Survivor Series – 17. November 1996 (Sycho Sid vs. Shawn Michaels)

In Your House 12: It’s Time! – 15. Dezember 1996 (Sycho Sid vs. Bret Hart)

1997

Royal Rumble – 19. Januar 1997 (Shawn Michaels vs. Sycho Sid)

In Your House 13: Final Four – 16. Februar 1997 (Bret Hart vs. Steve Austin vs. The Undertaker vs. Vader)

WrestleMania 13 – 23. März 1997 (The Undertaker vs. Sycho Sid)

In Your House 14: Revenge of the Taker – 20. April 1997 (Steve Austin vs. Bret Hart)

In Your House 15: Cold Day in Hell – 11. Mai 1997 (The Undertaker vs. Steve Austin)

King of the Ring – 8. Juni 1997 (The Undertaker vs. Faarooq)

In Your House 16: Canadian Stampede – 6. Juli 1997 (The Hart Foundation (Bret Hart, Owen Hart, The British Bulldog, Jim Neidhart & Brian Pillman) vs. Steve Austin, Ken Shamrock, Goldust & The Legion of Doom (Hawk & Animal))

SummerSlam – 3. August 1997 (Bret Hart vs. The Undertaker)

In Your House 17: Ground Zero – 7. September 1997 (The Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels)

One Night Only (UK-PPV) – 20. September 1997 (Shawn Michaels vs. British Bulldog)

In Your House 18: Badd Blood – 5. Oktober 1997 (Shawn Michaels vs. The Undertaker in einem Hell in a Cell Match)

Survivor Series – 9. November 1997 (Shawn Michaels vs. Bret Hart)

In Your House 19: D-Generation X – 7. Dezember 1997 (Shawn Michaels vs. Ken Shamrock)

1998

Royal Rumble – 18. Januar 1998 (Shawn Michaels vs. The Undertaker in einem Casket Match)

No Way Out of Texas – 15. Februar 1998 (Steve Austin, Owen Hart, Chainsaw Charlie & Cactus Jack vs. Triple H, Savio Vega & The New Age Outlaws (Road Dogg & Billy Gunn))

WrestleMania 14 – 29. März 1998 (Steve Austin vs. Shawn Michaels)

Unforgiven – 26. April 1998 (Steve Austin vs. Dude Love)

Over the Edge – 31. Mai 1998 (Steve Austin vs. Dude Love)

King of the Ring – 28. Juni 1998 (Kane vs. Steve Austin in einem First Blood Match)

Fully Loaded – 26. Juli 1998 (The Undertaker & Steve Austin vs. Kane & Mankind)

SummerSlam – 30. August 1998 (Steve Austin vs. The Undertaker)

Breakdown – 27. September 1998 (The Undertaker vs. Kane vs. Steve Austin)

Judgment Day – 18. Oktober 1998 (Kane vs. The Undertaker)

Survivor Series – 15. November 1998 (Deadly Game Tournament Finale)

Capital Carnage (UK-PPV) – 6. Dezember 1998 (Steve Austin vs. Kane vs. The Undertaker vs. Mankind)

Rock Bottom – 13. Dezember 1998 (Steve Austin vs. The Undertaker in einem Buried Alive Match)

1999

Royal Rumble – 24. Januar 1999 (Royal Rumble Match)

St. Valentine’s Day Massacre – 14. Februar 1999 (Steve Austin vs. Vince McMahon in einem Steel Cage Match)

WrestleMania 15 – 28. März 1999 (Steve Austin vs. The Rock)

Backlash – 25. April 1999 (Steve Austin vs. The Rock)

No Mercy (UK-PPV) – 16. Mai 1999 (Steve Austin vs. The Undertaker vs. Triple H)

Over the Edge – 23. Mai 1999 (The Undertaker vs. Steve Austin) (ob ich hierzu einen Review schreibe, lasse ich mal offen – an diesem Abend kam Owen Hart zu Tode)

King of the Ring – 27. Juni 1999 (Vince McMahon & Shane McMahon vs. Steve Austin in einem 1-on-2 Handicap Ladder Match)

Fully Loaded – 25. Juli 1999 (Steve Austin vs. The Undertaker in einem First Blood Match)

SummerSlam – 22. August 1999 (Mankind vs. Steve Austin vs. Triple H)

Unforgiven – 26. September 1999 (Triple H vs. The Big Show vs. British Bulldog vs. Mankind vs. Kane vs. The Rock)

Rebellion (UK-PPV) – 2. Oktober 1999 (Triple H vs. The Rock)

No Mercy – 17. Oktober 1999 (Triple H vs. Steve Austin)

Survivor Series – 14. November 1999 (Big Show vs. Triple H vs. The Rock)

Armageddon – 12. Dezember 1999 (Triple H vs. Mr. McMahon)

2000

Royal Rumble – 23. Januar 2000 (Royal Rumble Match)

No Way Out – 27. Februar 2000 (Triple H vs. Cactus Jack in einem Hell in a Cell Match)

WrestleMania 2000 – 2. April 2000 (Triple H vs. The Rock vs. Mick Foley vs. The Big Show)

Backlash – 30. April 2000 (The Rock vs. Triple H)

Insurrextion (UK-PPV) – 6. Mai 2000 (The Rock vs. Triple H vs. Shane McMahon)

Judgment Day – 21. Mai 2000 (Triple H vs. The Rock in a 60 min Iron Man Match)

King of the Ring – 25. Juni 2000 (The Rock, The Undertaker & Kane vs. Triple H, Vince McMahon & Shane McMahon)

Fully Loaded – 23. Juli 2000 (The Rock vs. Chris Benoit)

SummerSlam – 27. August 2000 (The Rock vs. Triple H vs. Kurt Angle)

Unforgiven – 24. September 2000 (The Rock vs. The Undertaker vs. Chris Benoit vs. Kane)

No Mercy – 22. Oktober 2000 (Kurt Angle vs. The Rock)

Survivor Series – 19. November 2000 (Steve Austin vs. Triple H)

Rebellion (UK-PPV) – 2. Dezember 2000 (Kurt Angle vs. The Rock vs. Steve Austin vs. Rikishi)

Armageddon – 10. Dezember 2000 (Kurt Angle vs. The Rock vs. The Undertaker vs. Rikishi vs. Triple H vs. Steve Austin in einem Hell in a Cell Match)

2001

Royal Rumble – 21. Januar 2001 (Royal Rumble Match)

No Way Out – 25. Februar 2001 (The Rock vs. Kurt Angle)

WrestleMania 17 – 1. April 2001 (Steve Austin vs. The Rock)

Backlash – 29. April 2001 (The Two-Men Power Trip – Steve Austin & Triple H vs. The Brothers of Destruction – The Undertaker & Kane)

Insurrextion (UK-PPV) – 5. Mai 2001 (The Undertaker vs. Triple H & Steve Austin in einem 1-on-2 Handicap Match)

Judgment Day – 20. Mai 2001 (Steve Austin vs. The Undertaker)

King of the Ring – 24. Juni 2001 (Steve Austin vs. Chris Benoit vs. Chris Jericho)

Invasion – 22. Juli 2001 (Team WWF (Steve Austin, Chris Jericho, Kurt Angle & The Brothers of Destruction (The Undertaker & Kane)) vs. The WCW-ECW Coalition (Booker T, Diamond Dallas Page, Rhyno & The Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray Dudley & D-Von Dudley)) in einem 10-man Tag Team Match)

SummerSlam – 19. August 2001 (The Rock vs. Booker T)

Unforgiven – 23. September 2001 (Kurt Angle vs. Steve Austin)

No Mercy – 21. Oktober 2001 (Steve Austin vs. Rob Van Dam vs. Kurt Angle)

Rebellion (UK-PPV) – 3. November 2001 (Steve Austin vs. The Rock)

Survivor Series – 18. November 2001 (Team WWF (The Rock, Chris Jericho, The Brothers of Destruction (The Undertaker & Kane) & Big Show) vs. Team Alliance (Stone Cold Steve Austin, Kurt Angle, Rob Van Dam, Booker T & Shane McMahon) in einem 5-on-5 Survivor Series Match)

Vengeance – 9. Dezember 2001 ([Sieger aus Steve Austin vs. Kurt Angle] vs. [Sieger aus Chris Jericho vs. The Rock] in einem WWF & WCW Championship Unification Match)

2002

Royal Rumble – 20. Januar 2002 (Royal Rumble Match)

No Way Out – 17. Februar 2002 (Chris Jericho vs. Steve Austin)

WrestleMania 18 – 17. März 2002 (Triple H vs. Chris Jericho)

Backlash – 21. April 2002 (Hulk Hogan vs. Triple H)

Insurrextion (UK-PPV) – 4. Mai 2002 (Triple H vs. The Undertaker)

Judgment Day – 19. Mai 2002 (The Undertaker vs. Hulk Hogan)

King of the Ring – 23. Juni 2002 (The Undertaker vs. Triple H)

Vengeance – 21. Juli 2002 (The Rock vs. The Undertaker vs. Kurt Angle)

SummerSlam – 25. August 2002 (Brock Lesnar vs. The Rock)

Unforgiven – 22. September 2002 (Brock Lesnar vs. The Undertaker)

No Mercy – 20. Oktober 2002 (Brock Lesnar vs. The Undertaker in einem Hell in a Cell Match)

Rebellion (UK-PPV) – 26. Oktober 2002 (Brock Lesnar & Paul Heyman vs. Edge in einem 1-on-2 Handicap Match)

Survivor Series – 17. November 2002 (Shawn Michaels vs. Triple H vs. Rob Van Dam vs. Kane vs. Booker T vs. Chris Jericho in einem Elimination Chamber Match)

Armageddon – 15. Dezember 2002 (Triple H vs. Shawn Michaels in einem Three Stages of Hell Match)

2003

Royal Rumble – 19. Januar 2003 (Royal Rumble Match)

No Way Out – 23. Februar 2003 (The Rock vs. Hulk Hogan)

WrestleMania 19 – 30. März 2003 (Brock Lesnar vs. Kurt Angle)

Backlash – 27. April 2003 (Goldberg vs. The Rock)

Judgment Day – 18. Mai 2003 (Brock Lesnar vs. Big Show in einem Stretcher Match)

Insurrextion (UK-PPV) – 7. Juni 2003 (Triple H vs. Kevin Nash in einem Street Fight)

Bad Blood – 15. Juni 2003 (Triple H vs. Kevin Nash in einem Hell in a Cell Match)

Vengeance – 27. Juli 2003 (Kurt Angle vs. Brock Lesnar vs. Big Show)

SummerSlam – 27. August 2003 (Triple H vs. Goldberg vs. Shawn Michaels vs. Kevin Nash vs. Chris Jericho vs. Randy Orton in einem Elimination Chamber Match)

Unforgiven – 21. September 2003 (Goldberg vs. Triple H)

No Mercy – 19. Oktober 2003 (Brock Lesnar vs. The Undertaker in a Biker Chain Match)

Survivor Series – 16. November 2003 (Goldberg vs. Triple H)

Armageddon – 14. Dezember 2003 (Triple H vs. Goldberg vs. Kane)

2004

Royal Rumble – 25. Januar 2004 (Royal Rumble Match)

No Way Out – 15. Februar 2004 (Eddie Guerrero vs. Brock Lesnar)

WrestleMania 20 – 14. März 2004 (Chris Benoit vs. Shawn Michaels vs. Triple H)

Backlash – 18. April 2004 (Chris Benoit vs. Shawn Michaels vs. Triple H)

Judgment Day – 16. Mai 2004 (Eddie Guerrero vs. John Bradshaw Layfield)

Bad Blood – 13. Juni 2004 (Shawn Michaels vs. Triple H in einem Hell in a Cell Match)

Great American Bash – 27. Juni 2004 (The Undertaker vs. The Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray Dudley & D-Von Dudley) in einem 1-on-2 Handicap Concrete Crypt Match

Vengeance – 11. Juli 2004 (Chris Benoit vs. Triple H)

SummerSlam – 15. August 2004 (Randy Orton vs. Chris Benoit)

Unforgiven – 12. September 2004 (Triple H vs. Randy Orton)

No Mercy – 3. Oktober 2004 (John Bradshaw Layfield vs. The Undertaker in einem Last Ride Match)

Taboo Tuesday – 19. Oktober 2004 (Randy Orton vs. Ric Flair in einem Steel Cage Match)

Survivor Series – 14. November 2004 (Randy Orton, Chris Benoit, Chris Jericho & Maven vs. Triple H, Batista, Edge & Gene Snitsky in einem 4-on-4 Survivor Series Match)

Armageddon – 12. Dezember 2004 (John Bradshaw Layfield vs. The Undertaker vs. Eddie Guerrero vs. Booker T)

2005

New Year’s Revolution – 9. Januar 2005 (Triple H vs. Randy Orton vs. Chris Benoit vs. Chris Jericho vs. Batista vs. Edge in einem Elimination Chamber Match)

Royal Rumble – 30. Januar 2005 (Royal Rumble Match)

No Way Out – 20. Februar 2005 (John Bradshaw Layfield vs. Big Show in einem Barbed Wire Steel Cage Match)

WrestleMania 21 – 3. April 2005 (Batista vs. Triple H)

Backlash – 1. Mai 2005 (Batista vs. Triple H)

Judgment Day – May 22 (John Cena vs. John Bradshaw Layfield in an “I Quit” Match)

ECW One Night Stand – 12. Juni 2005 (Tommy Dreamer & The Sandman vs. The Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray Dudley & D-Von Dudley))

Vengeance – 26. Juni 2005 (Batista vs. Triple H in einem Hell in a Cell Match)

Great American Bash – 24. Juli 2005 (Batista vs. John Bradshaw Layfield)

SummerSlam – 21. August 2005 (Hulk Hogan vs. Shawn Michaels)

Unforgiven – 18. September 2005 (John Cena vs. Kurt Angle)

No Mercy – 9. Oktober 2005 (Batista vs. Eddie Guerrero)

Taboo Tuesday – 1. November 2005 (John Cena vs. Shawn Michaels vs. Kurt Angle)

Survivor Series – 27. November 2005 (Team Raw (Shawn Michaels, Big Show, Kane, Carlito & Chris Masters) vs. Team SmackDown (Batista, Rey Mysterio, Bobby Lashley, Randy Orton & John Bradshaw Layfield) in einem 5-on-5 Survivor Series Match)

Armageddon – 18. Dezember 2005 (The Undertaker vs. Randy Orton in einem Hell in a Cell Match)

2006

New Year’s Revolution – 8. Januar 2006 (Edge vs. John Cena)

Royal Rumble – 29. Januar 2006 (Kurt Angle vs. Mark Henry)

No Way Out – 19. Februar 2006 (Kurt Angle vs. The Undertaker)

WrestleMania 22 – 2. April 2006 (John Cena vs. Triple H)

Backlash – 30. April 2006 (John Cena vs. Triple H vs. Edge)

Judgment Day – 21. Mai 2006 (Rey Mysterio vs. John Bradshaw Layfield)

ECW One Night Stand – 11. Juni 2006 (Rob Van Dam vs. John Cena in einem Extreme Rules Match)

Vengeance – 25. Juni 2006 (D-Generation X (Triple H & Shawn Michaels) vs. The Spirit Squad (Kenny, Johnny, Mitch, Nicky & Mikey) in einem 2-on-5 Handicap Match)

Great American Bash – 23. Juli 2006 (King Booker vs. Rey Mysterio)

SummerSlam – 20. August 2006 (Edge vs. John Cena)

Unforgiven – 17. September 2006 (John Cena vs. Edge in einem TLC Match)

No Mercy – 8. Oktober 2006 (King Booker vs. Batista vs. Bobby Lashley vs. Finlay)

Cyber Sunday – 5. November 2006 (King Booker vs. John Cena vs. Big Show)

Survivor Series – 26. November 2006 (Batista vs. King Booker)

December to Dismember – 3. Dezember 2006 (Bobby Lashley vs. CM Punk vs. Test vs. Hardcore Holly vs. Big Show vs. Rob Van Dam in einem Extreme Elimination Chamber Match)

Armageddon – 17. Dezember 2006 (Batista & John Cena vs. King Booker & Finlay)

2007

New Year’s Revolution – 7. Januar 2007 (John Cena vs. Umaga)

Royal Rumble – 28. Januar 2007 (Royal Rumble Match)

No Way Out – 18. Februar 2007 (John Cena & Shawn Michaels vs. Batista & The Undertaker)

WrestleMania 23 – 1. April 2007 (John Cena vs. Shawn Michaels)

Backlash – 29. April 2007 (John Cena vs. Shawn Michaels vs. Edge vs. Randy Orton)

Judgment Day – 20. Mai 2007 (John Cena vs. The Great Khali)

One Night Stand: Extreme Rules – 3. Juni 2007 (John Cena vs. The Great Khali)

Vengeance: Night of Champions – 24. Juni 2007 (John Cena vs. Bobby Lashley vs. Mick Foley vs. Randy Orton vs. King Booker)

Great American Bash – 22. Juli 2007 (John Cena vs. Bobby Lashley)

SummerSlam – 26. August 2007 (John Cena vs. Randy Orton)

Unforgiven – 16. September 2007 (The Undertaker vs. Mark Henry)

No Mercy – 7. Oktober 2007 (Triple H vs. Randy Orton in einem Last Man Standing Match)

Cyber Sunday – 28. Oktober 2007 (Batista vs. The Undertaker)

Survivor Series – 18. November 2007 (Batista vs. The Undertaker in einem Hell in a Cell Match)

Armageddon – 16. Dezember 2007 (Edge vs. Batista vs. The Undertaker)

2008

Royal Rumble – 27. Januar 2008 (Royal Rumble Match)

No Way Out – 17. Februar 2008 (Triple H vs. Shawn Michaels vs. Jeff Hardy vs. Chris Jericho vs. John Bradshaw Layfield vs. Umaga in einem Elimination Chamber Match)

WrestleMania 24 – 30. März 2008 (The Undertaker vs. Edge)

Backlash – 27. April 2008 (Triple H vs. Randy Orton vs. John Cena vs. John Bradshaw Layfield)

Judgment Day – 18. Mai 2008 (Triple H vs. Randy Orton in einem Steel Cage Match)

One Night Stand: Extreme Rules – 1. Juni 2008 (Edge vs. The Undertaker in einem TLC Match)

Night of Champions – 29. Juni 2008 (Triple H vs. John Cena)

Great American Bash – 20. Juli 2008 (Triple H vs. Edge)

SummerSlam – 17. August 2008 (The Undertaker vs. Edge in einem Hell in a Cell Match)

Unforgiven – 7. September 2008 (Chris Jericho vs. Batista vs. Rey Mysterio vs. John Bradshaw Layfield vs. Kane)

No Mercy – 5. Oktober 2008 (Chris Jericho vs. Shawn Michaels in einem Ladder Match)

Cyber Sunday – 26. Oktober 2008 (Batista vs. Chris Jericho)

Survivor Series – 23. November 2008 (John Cena vs. Chris Jericho)

Armageddon – 14. Dezember 2008 (Jeff Hardy vs. Triple H vs. Edge)

2009

Royal Rumble – 25. Januar 2009 (Royal Rumble Match)

No Way Out – 15. Februar 2009 (Kofi Kingston vs. John Cena vs. Rey Mysterio vs. Chris Jericho vs. Kane vs. Mike Knox in an Elimination Chamber Match)

WrestleMania 25 – 5. April 2009 (Triple H vs. Randy Orton)

Backlash – 26. April 2009 (Edge vs. John Cena in einem Last Man Standing Match)

Judgment Day – 17. Mai 2009 (Edge vs. Jeff Hardy)

Extreme Rules – 7. Juni 2009 (CM Punk vs. Jeff Hardy)

The Bash – 28. Juni 2009 (Randy Orton vs. Triple H in einem Three Stages of Hell Match)

Night of Champions – 26. Juli 2009 (Jeff Hardy vs. CM Punk)

SummerSlam – 23. August 2009 (CM Punk vs. Jeff Hardy in einem TLC Match)

Breaking Point – 13. September 2009 (CM Punk vs. The Undertaker in einem Submission Match)

Hell in a Cell – 4. Oktober 2009 (D-Generation X (Triple H & Shawn Michaels) vs. The Legacy (Cody Rhodes & Ted DiBiase) in einem Tag team Hell in a Cell Match)

Bragging Rights – 25. Oktober 2009 (John Cena vs. Randy Orton in a 60 min Anything Goes Iron Man Match)

Survivor Series – 22. November 2009 (John Cena vs. Triple H vs. Shawn Michaels)

TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs – 13. Dezember 2009 (D-Generation X (Shawn Michaels & Triple H) vs. Jeri-Show (Big Show & Chris Jericho) in einem TLC Match)

2010

Royal Rumble – 31. Januar 2010 (Royal Rumble Match)

Elimination Chamber – 21. Februar 2010 (Chris Jericho vs. CM Punk vs. The Undertaker vs. Rey Mysterio vs. John Morrison vs. R-Truth in einem Elimination Chamber Match)

WrestleMania 26 – 28. März 2010 (The Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels)

Extreme Rules – 25. April 2010 (John Cena vs. Batista in einem Last Man Standing Match)

Over The Limit – 23. Mai 2010 (John Cena vs. Batista in einem “I Quit” Match)

Fatal 4-Way – 20. Juni 2010 (Sheamus vs. John Cena vs. Randy Orton vs. Edge)

Money in the Bank – 18. Juli 2010 (Sheamus vs. John Cena in einem Steel Cage Match)

SummerSlam – 15. August 2010 (Team WWE (John Cena, Edge, Chris Jericho, Bret Hart, John Morrison, R-Truth & Daniel Bryan) vs. The Nexus (Wade Barrett, David Otunga, Heath Slater, Justin Gabriel, Skip Sheffield, Darren Young & Michael Tarver))

Night of Champions – 19. September 2010 (Randy Orton vs. Sheamus vs. John Cena vs. Edge vs. Chris Jericho vs. Wade Barrett)

Hell in a Cell – 3. Oktober 2010 (Kane vs. The Undertaker in einem Hell in a Cell Match)

Bragging Rights – 24. Oktober 2010 (Randy Orton vs. Wade Barrett)

Survivor Series – 21. November 2010 (Randy Orton vs. Wade Barrett)

TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs – 19. Dezember 2010 (John Cena vs. Wade Barrett in einem Chairs Match)

2011

Royal Rumble – 30. Januar 2011 (Royal Rumble Match mit 40 Teilnehmern)

Elimination Chamber – 20. Februar 2011 (John Cena vs. Randy Orton vs. John Morrison vs. R-Truth vs. CM Punk vs. King Sheamus in einem Elimination Chamber Match)

WrestleMania 27 – 3. April 2011 (The Miz vs. John Cena)

Extreme Rules – 1. Mai 2011 (John Cena vs. The Miz vs. John Morrison)

Over the Limit – 22. Mai 2011 (John Cena vs. The Miz in einem “I Quit” Match)

Capitol Punishment – 19. Juni 2011 (John Cena vs. R-Truth)

Money in the Bank – 17. Juli 2011 (CM Punk vs. John Cena)

SummerSlam – 14. August 2011 (Alberto Del Rio vs. CM Punk)

Night of Champions – 18. September 2011 (Triple H vs. CM Punk)

Hell in a Cell – 2. Oktober 2011 (Alberto Del Rio vs. John Cena vs. CM Punk in einem Hell in a Cell Match)

Vengeance – 23. Oktober 2011 (Alberto Del Rio vs. John Cena in einem Last Man Standing Match)

Survivor Series – 20. November 2011 (The Rock & John Cena vs. The Awesome Truth (The Miz & R-Truth))

TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs – 18. Dezember 2011 (CM Punk vs. Alberto Del Rio vs. The Miz in einem TLC Match)

2012

Royal Rumble – 29. Januar 2012 (Royal Rumble Match)

Elimination Chamber – 19. Februar 2012 (John Cena vs. Kane in einem Ambulance Match)

WrestleMania 28 – 1. April 2012 (The Rock vs. John Cena)

Extreme Rules – 29. April 2012 (John Cena vs. Brock Lesnar)

Over The Limit – 20. Mai 2012 (John Laurinaitis vs. John Cena)

No Way Out – 17. Juni 2012 (John Cena vs. Big Show in einem Steel Cage Match)

Money in the Bank – 15. Juli 2012 (John Cena vs. Kane vs. Big Show vs. Chris Jericho vs. The Miz in einem Money in the Bank Ladder Match)

SummerSlam – 19. August 2012 (Brock Lesnar vs. Triple H)

Night of Champions – 16. September 2012 (CM Punk vs. John Cena)

Hell in a Cell – 28. Oktober 2012 (CM Punk vs. Ryback in einem Hell in a Cell Match)

Survivor Series – 18. November 2012 (CM Punk vs. John Cena vs. Ryback)

Tables, Ladders & Chairs – 16. Dezember 2012 (Dolph Ziggler vs. John Cena in einem Ladder Match)

2013

Royal Rumble – 27. Januar 2013 (The Rock vs. CM Punk)

Elimination Chamber – 17. Februar 2013 (The Rock vs. CM Punk)

WrestleMania 29 – 7. April 2013 (John Cena vs. The Rock)

Extreme Rules – 19. Mai 2013 (Brock Lesnar vs. Triple H in einem Steel Cage Match)

Payback – 16. Juni 2013 (John Cena vs. Ryback in einem 3 Stages of Hell Match)

Money in the Bank – 14. Juli 2013 (Randy Orton vs. CM Punk vs. Daniel Bryan vs. Rob Van Dam vs. Sheamus vs. Christian in einem Money in the Bank Ladder Match)

SummerSlam – 18. August 2013 (Randy Orton vs. Daniel Bryan)

Night of Champions – 15. September 2013 (Daniel Bryan vs. Randy Orton)

Battleground – 6. Oktober 2013 (Randy Orton vs. Daniel Bryan)

Hell in a Cell – 27. Oktober 2013 (Randy Orton vs. Daniel Bryan in einem Hell in a Cell Match)

Survivor Series – 24. November 2013 (Randy Orton vs. Big Show)

TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs – 15. Dezember 2013 (Randy Orton vs. John Cena in einem TLC Match)

2014

Royal Rumble – 26. Januar 2014 (Royal Rumble Match)

Elimination Chamber – 23. Februar 2014 (Randy Orton vs. John Cena vs. Daniel Bryan vs. Sheamus vs. Christian vs. Cesaro in einem Elimination Chamber Match)

WrestleMania 30 – 6. April 2014 (Daniel Bryan vs. Batista vs. Randy Orton)

Extreme Rules – 4. Mai 2014 (Daniel Bryan vs. Kane)

Payback – 1. Juni 2014 (The Shield (Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins & Roman Reigns) vs. Evolution (Triple H, Randy Orton & Batista))

Money in the Bank – 29. Juni 2014 (John Cena vs. Roman Reigns vs. Sheamus vs. Randy Orton vs. Kane vs. Bray Wyatt vs. Cesaro vs. Alberto Del Rio in Ladder Match)

Battleground – 20. Juli 2014 (John Cena vs. Roman Reigns vs. Randy Orton vs. Kane)

SummerSlam – 17. August 2014 (Brock Lesnar vs. John Cena)

Night of Champions – 21. September 2014 (Brock Lesnar vs. John Cena)

Hell in a Cell – 26. Oktober 2014 (Seth Rollins vs. Dean Ambrose in einem Hell in a Cell Match)

Survivor Series – 23. November 2014 (Team Cena (John Cena, Dolph Ziggler, Big Show, Ryback & Erick Rowan) vs. Team Authority (Seth Rollins, Kane, Rusev, Luke Harper & Mark Henry) in einem 5-on-5 Survivor Series Match)

TLC: Tables, Ladders, Chairs…and Stairs – 14. Dezember 2014 (Bray Wyatt vs. Dean Ambrose in einem TLC Match)

2015

Royal Rumble – 25. Januar 2015 (Royal Rumble Match)

Fastlane – 22. Februar 2015 (Roman Reigns vs. Daniel Bryan)

WrestleMania 31 – 29. März 2015 (Seth Rollins vs. Brock Lesnar vs. Roman Reigns)

Extreme Rules – 26. April 2015 (Seth Rollins vs. Randy Orton in einem Steel Cage Match)

Payback – 17. Mai 2015 (Seth Rollins vs. Roman Reigns vs. Randy Orton vs. Dean Ambrose)

Elimination Chamber – 31. Mai 2015 (Seth Rollins vs. Dean Ambrose)

Money in the Bank – 14. Juni 2015 (Seth Rollins vs. Dean Ambrose in einem Ladder Match)

Battleground – 19. Juli 2015 (Seth Rollins vs. Brock Lesnar)

SummerSlam – 23. August 2015 (The Undertaker vs. Brock Lesnar)

Night of Champions – 20. September 2015 (Seth Rollins vs. Sting)

Hell in a Cell – 25. Oktober 2015 (Brock Lesnar vs. The Undertaker in einem Hell in a Cell Match)

Survivor Series – 22. November 2015 (Sheamus vs. Roman Reigns)

TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs – 13. Dezember 2015 (Sheamus vs. Roman Reigns in einem TLC Match)

2016

Royal Rumble – 24. Januar 2016 (Royal Rumble Match)

Fastlane – 21. Februar 2016 (Roman Reigns vs. Brock Lesnar vs. Dean Ambrose)

WrestleMania 32 – 3. April 2016 (Roman Reigns vs. Triple H)

Payback – 1. Mai 206 (Roman Reigns vs. AJ Styles)

Extreme Rules – 22. Mai 2016 (Roman Reigns vs. AJ Styles in einem Extreme Rules Match)

Money in the Bank – 19. Juni 2016 (Dean Ambrose vs. Seth Rollins)

Battleground – 24. Juli 2016 (Dean Ambrose vs. Roman Reigns vs. Seth Rollins)

SummerSlam – 21. August 2016 (Brock Lesnar vs. Randy Orton)

Backlash – 11. September 2016 (AJ Styles vs. Dean Ambrose)

Clash of Champions – 25. September 2016 (Kevin Owens vs. Seth Rollins)

No Mercy – 9. Oktober 2016 (Bray Wyatt vs. Randy Orton)

Hell in a Cell – 30. Oktober 2016 (Charlotte Flair vs. Sasha Banks in einem Hell in a Cell Match)

Survivor Series – 20. November 2016 (Goldberg vs. Brock Lesnar)

TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs – 4. Dezember 2016 (AJ Styles vs. Dean Ambrose in einem TLC Match)

Roadblock: End of the Line – 18. Dezember 2016 (Kevin Owens vs. Roman Reigns)

2017

Royal Rumble – 29. Januar 2017 (Royal Rumble Match)

Elimination Chamber – 12. Februar 2017 (Bray Wyatt vs. The Miz vs. Baron Corbin vs. John Cena vs. Dean Ambrose vs. AJ Styles in einem Elimination Chamber Match)

Fastlane – 5. März 2017 (Goldberg vs. Kevin Owens)

WrestleMania 33 – 2. April 2017 (Roman Reigns vs. The Undertaker)

Payback – 30. April 2017 (Roman Reigns vs. Braun Strowman)

Backlash – 21. Mai 2017 (Jinder Mahal vs. Randy Orton)

Extreme Rules – 4. Juni 2017 (Samoa Joe vs. Roman Reigns vs. Seth Rollins vs. Finn Bálor vs. Bray Wyatt)

Money in the Bank – 18. Juni 2017 (Baron Corbin vs. AJ Styles vs. Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Sami Zayn vs. Kevin Owens vs. Dolph Ziggler in einem Money in the Bank Ladder Match)

Great Balls of Fire – 9. Juli 2017 (Brock Lesnar vs. Samoa Joe)

Battleground – 23. Juli 2017 (Jinder Mahal vs. Randy Orton in einem Punjabi Prison Match)

SummerSlam – 20. August 2017 (Brock Lesnar vs. Roman Reigns vs. Samoa Joe vs. Braun Strowman)

No Mercy – 24. September 2017 (Brock Lesnar vs. Braun Strowman)

Hell in a Cell – 8. Oktober 2017 (Kevin Owens vs. Shane McMahon in einem Falls Count Anywhere Hell in a Cell Match)

TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs – 22. Oktober 2017 (Kurt Angle & The Shield (Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose) vs. The Miz, Braun Strowman, Kane & The Bar (Cesaro & Sheamus) in einem 3-on-5 Handicap TLC Match)

Survivor Series – 19. November 2017 (Team Raw (Kurt Angle, Triple H, Finn Bálor, Braun Strowman & Samoa Joe) vs. Team SmackDown (Shane McMahon, John Cena, Randy Orton, Shinsuke Nakamura & Bobby Roode) in einem 5-on-5 Survivor Series Match)

Clash of Champions – 17. Dezember 2017 (AJ Styles vs. Jinder Mahal)

2018

Royal Rumble – 28. Januar 2018 (Women`s Royal Rumble Match)

Elimination Chamber – 25. Februar 2018 (Roman Reigns vs. John Cena vs. Seth Rollins vs. Braun Strowman vs. Finn Bálor vs. The Miz vs. Elias in einem Elimination Chamber Match)

Fastlane – 11. März 2018 (AJ Styles vs. John Cena vs. Kevin Owens vs. Sami Zayn vs. Dolph Ziggler vs. Baron Corbin)

WrestleMania 34 – 8. April 2018 (Brock Lesnar vs. Roman Reigns)

Greatest Royal Rumble (Saudi-PPV) – 27. April 2018 (Royal Rumble Match mit 50 Teilnehmern)

Backlash – 6. Mai 2018 (Roman Reigns vs. Samoa Joe)

Money in the Bank – 17. Juni 2018 (Braun Strowman vs. Finn Bálor vs. Bobby Roode vs. Kofi Kingston vs. Samoa Joe vs. Kevin Owens vs. The Miz vs. Rusev in einem Money in the Bank Ladder Match)

Extreme Rules – 15. Juli 2018 (Dolph Ziggler vs. Seth Rollins in einem 30 min Iron Man Match)

SummerSlam – 19. August 2018 (Roman Reigns vs. Brock Lesnar)

Hell in a Cell – 16. September 2018 (Roman Reigns vs. Braun Strowman in einem Hell in a Cell Match)

Super Show-Down (Australien-PPV) – 6. Oktober 2018 (The Undertaker vs. Triple H)

Evolution – 28. Oktober 2018 (Ronda Rousey vs. Nikki Bella)

Crown Jewel (Saudi-PPV) – 2. November 2018 (D-Generation X (Triple H & Shawn Michaels) vs. The Brothers of Destruction (The Undertaker & Kane))

Survivor Series – 18. November 2018 (Brock Lesnar vs. Daniel Bryan)

TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs – 16. Dezember 2018 (Asuka vs. Becky Lynch vs. Charlotte Flair in einem TLC Match)

2019

Royal Rumble – 27. Januar 2019 (Men`s Royal Rumble Match)

Elimination Chamber – 17. Februar 2019 (Daniel Bryan vs. AJ Styles vs. Jeff Hardy vs. Kofi Kingston vs. Randy Orton vs. Samoa Joe in einem Elimination Chamber Match)

Fastlane – 10. März 2019 (The Shield (Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins & Dean Ambrose) vs. Baron Corbin, Drew McIntyre & Bobby Lashley)

WrestleMania 35 – 7. April 2019 (Becky Lynch vs. Ronda Rousey vs. Charlotte Flair)

Money in the Bank – 19. Mai 2019 (Brock Lesnar vs. Finn Bálor vs. Ricochet vs. Ali vs. Randy Orton vs. Baron Corbin vs. Drew McIntyre vs. Andrade in einem Money in the Bank Ladder Match)

Super ShowDown (Saudi-PPV) – 7. Juni 2019 (The Undertaker vs. Goldberg)

Stomping Grounds – 23. Juni 2019 (Seth Rollins vs. Baron Corbin)

Extreme Rules – 14. Juli 2019 (Brock Lesnar vs. Seth Rollins)

SummerSlam – 11. August 2019 (Seth Rollins vs. Brock Lesnar)

Clash of Champions – 15. September 2019 (Seth Rollins vs. Braun Strowman)

Hell in a Cell – 6. Oktober 2019 (Seth Rollins vs. “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt in einem Hell in a Cell Match)

Crown Jewel (Saudi-PPV) – 31. Oktober 2019 (“The Fiend” Bray Wyatt vs. Seth Rollins)

Survivor Series – 24. November 2019 (Bayley vs. Shayna Baszler vs. Becky Lynch)

TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs – 15. Dezember 2019 (The Kabuki Warriors (Asuka & Kairi Sane) vs. Becky Lynch & Charlotte Flair in einem TLC Match)

2020

Royal Rumble – 26. Januar 2020 (Men`s Royal Rumble Match)

Super ShowDown (Saudi-PPV) – 27. Februar 2020 (Goldberg vs. “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt)

Elimination Chamber – 8. März 2020 (Shayna Baszler vs. Ruby Riott vs. Sarah Logan vs. Natalya vs. Liv Morgan vs. Asuka in einem Elimination Chamber Match)

WrestleMania 36 – 4./5. April 2020 (The Undertaker vs. AJ Styles in einem Boneyard Match / Drew McIntyre vs. Brock Lesnar)

Money in the Bank – 10. Mai 2020 (Otis vs. AJ Styles vs. King Corbin vs. Daniel Bryan vs. Rey Mysterio vs. Aleister Black in einem Money in the Bank Ladder Match / Asuka vs. Nia Jax vs. Shayna Baszler vs. Lacey Evans vs. Carmella vs. Dana Brooke in einem Money in the Bank Ladder Match)

Backlash – 14. Juni 2020 (Randy Orton vs. Edge)

The Horror Show at Extreme Rules – 19. Juli 2020 (Bray Wyatt vs. Braun Strowman in einem Wyatt Swamp Fight)

SummerSlam – 23. August 2020 (“The Fiend” Bray Wyatt vs. Braun Strowman)

Payback – 30. August 2020 (Roman Reigns vs. Braun Strowman vs. “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt)

Clash of Champions: Gold Rush – 27. September 2020 (Roman Reigns vs. Jey Uso)

Hell in a Cell – 25. Oktober 2020 (Randy Orton vs. Drew McIntyre in einem Hell in a Cell Match)

Survivor Series – 22. November 2020 (Roman Reigns vs. Drew McIntyre / The Undertaker’s “Final Farewell”)

Tables, Ladders & Chairs (TLC) – 20. Dezember 2020 (Randy Orton vs. The Fiend in einem Firefly Inferno Match)

2021

Royal Rumble – 31. Januar 2021 (Men`s Royal Rumble Match)

Elimination Chamber – 21. Februar 2021 (Drew McIntyre vs. Randy Orton vs. AJ Styles vs. Jeff Hardy vs. Kofi Kingston vs. Sheamus in einem Elimination Chamber Match)

Fastlane – 21. März 2021 (Roman Reigns vs. Daniel Bryan)

WrestleMania 37 – 10./11. April 2021 (Drew McIntyre vs. Bobby Lashley / Roman Reigns vs. Edge vs. Daniel Bryan)

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FOM BLOG: GILLINGHAM 2-0 BLACKPOOL

My Thoughts On Gillingham V Blackpool……………

Gillingham’s Home Match Against Blackpool On Saturday The 26th Of September was going to be one of Gillingham’s toughest tests of the season, which sounds bizarre on the outside looking in, Because Gillingham have played against two teams relegated from The Championship in Hull City and Wigan Athletic, and both of these matches gave Gillingham different challenges, But unlike those two clubs, Blackpool no longer have the off the field problems they experienced with the previous regime, And Manager Neil Critchley has recruited very well in the summer with Demetri Mitchell, Daniel Kemp, Bez Lubala, Jordan Williams, Ethan Robson, CJ Hamilton, Jerry Yates, Oliver Sarkic and Marvin Ekpiteta all signing for Blackpool, and the fact that all nine players mentioned are twenty five or younger suggests that Neil Critchley will focus on signing young players with potential, and Blackpool are tipped by many supporters to be one of the dark horses who can challenge for A League One Playoff Position at the end of The 2020 / 2021 Season.

Most of the messages that had been tweeted out by Gillingham Football Club on The Thursday and Friday had been regarding getting the I Follow Codes for Gillingham V Blackpool, And if you were A Season Ticket Holder, then you get to watch the match for free, But the code I received for Gillingham V Hull City was not going to work for Gillingham V Blackpool, which means that Gillingham have to constantly send out new codes for every league home league game - How is that going to work when Gillingham have back to back home league games on A Saturday or Tuesday Night, I have no idea - But if you had not renewed your Season Ticket for The 2020 / 2021 Season and you had every intention to renew your Season Ticket, but you were unable to do so because of lockdown, Then you have to pay £10 to watch every home league game on I Follow.

It also doesn’t help at all that Season Ticket Holders were only given one week to renew there Season Tickets back in February, and it also doesn’t help at all that supporters have not been given a choice regarding what happens regarding the missed home league games at the end of The 2019 / 2020 Season, Paul Scally mentions that supporters are happy to let the club keep that money to keep the club going, but the communication from Gillingham Football Club over lockdown has been very poor to say the least, Other football clubs have given supporters options, and one option I have seen from York City is the money lost from the home matches you have missed at the back end of The 2019 / 2020 Season, can be used as a partial payment to your Season Ticket for The 2021 / 2022 Season, that makes sense, the football club keeps the money and you are making savings on your Season Ticket costs in the near future.

Eventually, Gillingham’s Team News Appeared On Twitter, And Gillingham Lined Up As Follow,,,,,, Jack Bonham, Ryan Jackson, Jack Tucker, Zech Medley, Connor Ogilvie, Scott Robertson, Josh Eccles, Jacob Mellis, Dominic Samuel, Vadaine Oliver, Jordan Graham SUBS: Joe Walsh (GK), Robbie McKenzie, Alex MacDonald, Henry Woods, Trae Coyle and John Akinde - Gillingham could only name six substitutes on the bench, and one of the main reasons for that is because Centre Back Christian Maghoma had to be tested for Covid Protocols, But Jack Bonham recovering from his back strain was a unexpected boost, And I thought Dominic Samuel would be eased back into The Starting Line Up having signed for Gillingham On The Monday, And Josh Eccles is back in The Starting Line Up having been cup tied for the League Cup Third Round Tie Away Against Stoke City On Wednesday Night.

The last time Gillingham played against Blackpool, We were celebrating Brandon Hanlan’s stoppage time winner as Gillingham won 3-2 at Bloomfield Road, John Akinde and Regan Charles-Cook were on the score-sheet for Gillingham that night and I asked the question, Will we be celebrating another stoppage time winner from The Gills Today ??? - Looking at Gillingham Related News From Elsewhere, Young Striker Toby Bancroft was starting for Margate against Carshalton Athletic, And Former Gillingham Defenders Callum Davies and Finn O’Mara were both starting for Folkestone Invicta against Wingate & Finchley FC.

One thing I noticed as I was watching the pre-match warm up was the sound of the wind, and this is going to be one of those days where you appreciate watching Gillingham V Blackpool on I Follow, Because it must be freezing inside Priestfield Stadium (Even though we would love to watching Gillingham V Blackpool Live inside the ground, but right now that is not possible, But avoiding getting frozen watching the match live is something we can appreciate) - As for the match against Blackpool, I think this is a match that Gillingham need to win for three main reason’s, One, Gillingham need to bounce back from the defeat against Stoke City In The Third Round Of The League Cup and get a win which would give the players a much needed confidence boost, Two, A Win against Blackpool will see Gillingham pick up six points out of a possible nine, Which is very important when you look at the fixtures coming up in October, And Three, Gillingham would pick up there first home league win of the season, and we don’t want to be talking about Gillingham not picking up enough points at Priestfield Stadium, and therefore, It is vital for Gillingham to get that first home league win of the season against Blackpool.

I then posted the following on to Twitter,,,, Ten Minutes Until Kick Off - COME ON THE GILLS!!!!!!! - And the players came out on to the pitch ready to kick off the third League One Fixture Of The 2020 / 2021 Season, Hopefully, Gillingham can pick up all three points and start looking up The League One Table, rather then looking over our shoulder already at The League One Relegation Zone - COME ON THE GILLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MATCH DETAILS (FIRST HALF HIGHLIGHTS)

Three Minutes Into The Match, And Jerry Yates is penalised for a foul on Josh Eccles and Gillingham have been awarded a free kick, and from the resulting free kick, Jack Tucker kicks the ball long down-field and Marvin Ekpiteta kicks the ball clear away from danger when Goalkeeper Chris Maxwell was calling for Marvin Ekpiteta to leave the ball to run through to him, And Bez Lubala wins the initial aerial challenge down Blackpool’s Left Side Of The Pitch In Blackpool’s Final Third - Gillingham’s Right - And Ryan Jackson wins the second aerial challenge to header the ball forwards towards Dominic Samuel, and Michael Nottingham has come across to provide defensive cover and Michael Nottingham has completely sliced the ball out of play for A Gillingham Corner Kick.

And Michael Nottingham conceding a very cheap corner kick for The Gills proves to be very costly, Because from the resulting corner kick, Gillingham manage to open the scoring, Scott Robertson whips in a dangerous in-swinging cross and Connor Ogilvie’s looping header clips the top of Blackpool’s Crossbar with Chris Maxwell well beaten in The Blackpool Goal, And Jack Tucker does brilliantly at the back-stick to header the ball back across the face of goal and there was Dominic Samuel in the right place at the right time to header the ball against the underside of the crossbar from close range to give Gillingham the all important lead in this League One Fixture against Blackpool, Because in both matches against Hull City and Wigan Athletic, It has been the opposition who have scored the opening goal of the game - GILLINGHAM 1-0 BLACKPOOL.

Connor Ogilvie almost scored from exactly the same spot where Ogilvie scored his header against Southend United when Gillingham won 1-0 against Southend United In The First Round Of The League Cup, And I have to give plenty of praise and plaudits to Jack Tucker to be so quick to react at the back-stick to header the ball back across the face of goal, and Dominic Samuel scoring just four minutes into his second debut for Gillingham is a dream start to this match for Dominic Samuel, and also, the perfect start to this match for Gillingham as well.

Nine Minutes Into The Match, And Blackpool almost equalised in fortuitous circumstances, Ollie Turton has possession of the ball down Blackpool’s Right Side Of The Pitch - Gillingham’s Left - Just inside Blackpool’s own half of the pitch, And Ollie Turton passes the ball out-wide to Grant Ward, And Grant Ward slips and this allows Jordan Graham and Scott Robertson to close down The Blackpool Midfielder, but despite the fact that Grant Ward was down on the deck, The Blackpool Midfielder still manages to pass the ball centrally to Ethan Robson, And Ethan Robson plays a first time ball forwards to CJ Hamilton, And CJ Hamilton passes the ball square to Keshi Anderson on the halfway line, just inside Gillingham’s Half, And Keshi Anderson goes on a driving run forwards in possession of the ball, And Keshi Anderson continue’s his towards the edge of Gillingham’s Penalty Area, And Keshi Anderson tries to pick out Jerry Yates with a pass, which is intercepted by Zech Medley, But the deflection off Zech Medley is heading goal-wards and Jack Bonham dives across to his right side to turn the ball around the post at the expense of conceding a corner kick, if there was more pace on the pass from Keshi Anderson, then the deflection off Zech Medley could have beaten Jack Bonham in The Gillingham Goal and Blackpool would have equalised, And from the resulting corner kick, Grant Ward whips in a dangerous in-swinging cross towards the near post and Josh Eccles manages to header the ball clear and away from danger, However, Demetri Mitchell is first to the loose ball down the left side of the pitch - Gillingham’s Right - And Demetri Mitchell takes one touch to control the ball, and another touch to hit a diagonal cross-field cross towards CJ Hamilton and Connor Ogilvie allows the ball to go over his head and out of play for A Gillingham Throw On, In Gillingham’s Final Third, Right in the corner of The Rainham End and The Gordon Road Stand.

And with CJ Hamilton not capitalising on that goal-scoring opportunity opportunity for Blackpool, Gillingham had the chance to double there lead from the next passage of play, Jack Bonham kicks the ball long down-field and Vadaine Oliver does really well to win the aerial battle to flick the ball on towards Jacob Mellis, And Jacob Mellis manages to retain possession of the ball before being fouled by Ethan Robson and Grant Ward, And Gillingham have been awarded a free kick, and from the resulting free kick, Jordan Graham whips in a high and hanging cross towards the far side of Blackpool’s Penalty Area, And Jerry Yates headers the ball partially clear and away from danger towards the edge of Blackpool’s Penalty Area, And Jacob Mellis’ first time volleyed effort towards goal clears Blackpool’s Crossbar by some considerable distance, And had Jacob Mellis scored that volleyed effort to give Gillingham A Two Goal Lead, Then Jacob Mellis would have scored a very early contender for Gillingham’s Goal Of The Season Award For The 2020 / 2021 Season.

Thirty Eight Minutes Into The Match, And Blackpool created one of there better opportunities of the first half to try and score an equaliser, Michael Nottingham passes the ball forwards to Bez Lubala inside Gillingham’s Penalty Area Down The Left Side Of The Pitch - Gillingham’s Right - And Bez Lubala manages to retain possession of the ball despite Jack Tucker tightly marking Bez Lubala, And Bez Lubala cuts inside into a more central position on the pitch, And Bez Lubala see’s his attempted pass deflect off Jacob Mellis, into Ethan Robson’s Path and Ethan Robson plays a first time pass forwards towards Keshi Anderson, But Jack Tucker is in the right place at the right time to boot the ball long down-field and Marvin Ekpiteta wins the aerial battle up against Vadaine Oliver to header the ball forwards and Grant Ward’s Header drops to Jordan Graham, who gets the ball under control before passing a short pass inside to Scott Robertson, And Scott Robertson gets the ball under control before trying to thread a through-ball through to Vadaine Oliver, But Ethan Robson is in the right place at the right time to make the crucial interception, And Ethan Robson takes a few touches in possession of the ball before playing a short pass sideways towards Jerry Yates, And Jerry Yates runs forwards in possession of the ball before striking as fiercely driven effort towards goal from twenty five yards out and the ball bounced just in-front of Jack Bonham, and Jack Bonham does brilliantly to parry the ball wide away from goal, And Jack Bonham manages to get to the loose ball ahead of Jerry Yates, who had pushed Connor Ogilvie down to the deck and Gillingham had been awarded a defensive free kick - A Very Good Save From Jack Bonham to preserve Gillingham’s Slender 1-0 Lead.

OTHER MATCH INCIDENTS WHICH WERE NOT SHOWN ON EXTENDED HIGHLIGHTS

FIRST HALF

Five Minutes Into The Match, And Marvin Ekpiteta tries to pick out Jerry Yates with a long ball down-field which is slightly over-hit and runs all the way through to Jack Bonham to make a routine save - It’s fantastic to see Jack Bonham start in goal for Gillingham against Blackpool for this latest League One Fixture, Because I was convinced that Joe Walsh would start in goal and Gillingham would have to sign A Emergency Goalkeeper On Loan to provide Goalkeeper Cover On The Bench - Joe Walsh was excellent in goal against Stoke City for Gillingham’s League Cup Third Round Match On Wednesday Night, But having Jack Bonham back in goal is a major boost for The Gills - Six Minutes Into The Match, And Ryan Jackson tries to pick out Dominic Samuel with a long ball down-field and Demetri Mitchell had done enough to shield the ball back to Chris Maxwell and prevent Dominic Samuel from getting on to the end of Ryan Jackson’s long kick down-field.

Twelve Minutes Into The Match, And Ethan Robson is penalised for his challenge on Jordan Graham and Gillingham have been awarded a free kick, and from the resulting free kick, Jordan Graham whips in a high and hanging cross towards the edge of Blackpool’s Penalty Area and Connor Ogilvie jumps high to try and win the aerial challenge towards the back-stick, but Connor Ogilvie doesn’t win the aerial challenge, And Dominic Samuel is pushed down towards the deck by A Blackpool Player, and just when Blackpool were looking to hit Gillingham on the counter attack, there was Josh Eccles in the right place at the right time to make the all important interception to prevent Gillingham from being caught out at the back.

Fourteen Minutes Into The Match, And Jordan Graham see’s his dangerous in-swinging cross take a huge deflection off Grant Ward and Gillingham have been awarded a corner kick, and from the resulting corner kick, Jordan Graham’s dangerous in-swinging cross is headed clear and away from danger by Michael Nottingham and the chance had gone for The Gills - You do wonder with the windy conditions inside Priestfield Stadium, just how both teams will approach attacking and defending set plays throughout the entire match ???

Fifteen Minutes Into The Match, And Grant Ward is penalised for his challenge on Scott Robertson, And Gillingham have been awarded a free kick, and from the resulting free kick, Gillingham have the chance to potentially double there advantage, Zech Medley passes the ball out-wide to Connor Ogilvie, who takes a few touches in possession of the ball before passing the ball centrally to Scott Robertson, And Scott Robertson passes the ball out-wide to Ryan Jackson down Gillingham’s Right Side Of The Pitch, And Ryan Jackson takes one touch to control the ball, and another touch to play a diagonal cross-field cross pass towards Jordan Graham, who manages to keep the ball in play, And Jordan Graham runs forwards in possession of the ball, drops his shoulder to evade the challenge from Ollie Turton, And Jordan Graham’s see’s his fiercely driven effort towards goal blocked by Michael Nottingham, and that goal-scoring opportunity was the chance for Gillingham to go 2-0 up - Having Jordan Graham on the left wing gives Gillingham that player who likes to cut inside and shoot, Luke Rooney used to do that for Gillingham when he played on the left wing.

Vadaine Oliver is then penalised for a foul on Blackpool Goalkeeper Chris Maxwell, And Blackpool have been awarded a free kick, And In The Sixteenth Minute Of The Match, Blackpool really should have equalised, CJ Hamilton somehow has possession of the ball inside Gillingham’s Penalty Area, and we can consider ourselves very lucky that CJ Hamilton rushed his initial effort on goal which is hit wide of Jack Bonham’s Far Right Post, More composure and better finishing would have seen CJ Hamilton score the equaliser for Blackpool, Blackpool Supporters in the build up to this match have hyped up CJ Hamilton’s Performances for Blackpool this season, and although CJ Hamilton has not capitalised with this goal-scoring opportunity, he is a player that Gillingham need to watch out for throughout the rest of this match.

Eighteen Minutes Into The Match, And Gillingham have a throw on, right in the far corner of The Medway Stand / Brian Moore Stand Side Of The Pitch, And From The Resulting Throw On, Ryan Jackson hurls in a long dangerous throw and Blackpool not only manage to clear the ball away from danger, But the visitor’s turn defence into attack, with Ollie Turton passing the ball forwards to Keshi Anderson, And Keshi Anderson takes a touch to control the ball before managing to pick out CJ Hamilton with a long pass down the left side of the pitch, And CJ Hamilton takes on Scott Robertson, And CJ Hamilton see’s his dangerous in-swinging cross take a slight deflection off Connor Ogilvie and Jack Bonham was able to make a comfortable save catching CJ Hamilton’s Cross, However, Scott Robertson has gone down injured and requires treatment, And with Stuart O’Keefe, Kyle Dempsey and Matty Willock all out injured, Gillingham have picked up quite a few injuries in central midfield already this season, thankfully, Scott Robertson is OK to continue playing for now, and it may well have to be the case that Gillingham will need to monitor Scott Robertson and then double check his injury at half time to see if Scott Robertson is OK to continue playing in The Second Half.

Twenty One Minutes Into The Match, And Jack Tucker has possession of the ball for Gillingham in Gillingham’s Own Defensive Final Third, And Jack Tucker tries to pick out Jordan Graham with a diagonal cross-field cross and Ollie Turton’s back header towards Goalkeeper Chris Maxwell is terribly judged by The Blackpool Right Back, Because Ollie Turton has headed the ball out of play for A Gillingham Corner Kick, And we will gladly accept a cheap corner kick in Gillingham’s Favour, Because Gillingham capitalised on the mis-kick from Michael Nottingham which allowed Gillingham to take the lead in The Fourth Minute, And we were hoping that another cheap corner kick given away will achieve the same result, And From The Resulting Corner Kick, Gillingham almost doubled there advantage in fortuitous circumstances, Because Jordan Graham whips in a dangerous in-swinging cross towards the near post, And there is a mix up between Goalkeeper Chris Maxwell and Defender Marvin Ekpiteta, And Marvin Ekpiteta at least headers the ball out of play for another Gillingham Corner Kick, And From The Resulting Corner Kick, Jordan Graham whips in another dangerous in-swinging cross and Marvin Ekpiteta just about manages to divert the ball out of play for another Gillingham Corner Kick, And From The Third Corner Kick, Scott Robertson whips in a dangerous in-swinging cross towards the far post and Jack Tucker manages to header the ball back across the face of goal and Connor Ogilvie is penalised for his aerial challenge on Demetri Mitchell, And Blackpool have been awarded a defensive free kick inside there own penalty area.

Dominic Samuel is then penalised for a foul on Demetri Mitchell In The Twenty Eighth Minute Of The Match Down Gillingham’s Right Side Of The Pitch, In Gillingham’s Own Defensive Final Third, And From The Resulting Free Kick, Ethan Robson whips in a dangerous in-swinging cross and Josh Eccles headers the ball clear and Josh Eccles then clears a second cross out of play for A Blackpool Throw On, Jack Tucker is then in the right place at the right time to header Grant Ward’s cross partially clear and away from goal down the left side of the pitch in Gillingham’s Final Third, But CJ Hamilton gets the ball under control and takes on Connor Ogilvie before whipping in a high and hanging cross towards Bez Lubala, which is over-hit and runs out of play for A Gillingham Throw On.

Twenty Nine Minutes Into The Match, And Marvin Ekpiteta is penalised for his foul on Vadaine Oliver and Gillingham have been awarded a free kick, There was some decent one touch passing between Scott Robertson, Josh Eccles and Jacob Mellis in the build up to that attack as well, and from the resulting free kick, Jordan Graham stands over the ball on the halfway line and Jordan Graham kicks a high and hanging ball towards Jack Tucker, who is beaten in the air by Michael Nottingham, who wins the aerial battle, and Ryan Jackson is on to the loose ball roughly twenty five yards out from goal, And Ryan Jackson almost manages to pick out Jacob Mellis with a clipped back down the right side of Blackpool’s Penalty Area, and Jacob Mellis just cannot get the ball under control and Chris Maxwell makes a comfortable save.

But A Minute Later, Gillingham went from almost scoring for 2-0, to almost conceding for 1-1, Because Keshi Anderson has possession of the ball for Blackpool and plays a one / two with Jerry Yates, And Keshi Anderson almost manages to pick out Bez Lubala with a reverse pass down Gillingham’s Right Side Of There Penalty Area, But Jack Bonham was off his goal-line quickly to gather the loose ball, and whilst we are talking about Jordan Graham, Vadaine Oliver and Dominic Samuel as Gillingham’s Front Three, Blackpool’s Front Three Of Bez Lubala, Jerry Yates and CJ Hamilton are players Gillingham need to pay close attention to if we are to pick up our first home league win of the season.

Thirty Three Minutes Into The Match, And Blackpool are looking to score the all important equaliser, Connor Ogilvie has managed to header a dangerous in-swinging cross partially clear and away from danger and Keshi Anderson gets on to the loose ball, And Keshi Anderson tee’s up Bez Lubala, who cuts inside and see’s his fiercely driven effort towards goal blocked by Ryan Jackson and the ball ricochets off Ryan Jackson and the ball hits Bez Lubala on the arm and Gillingham have been awarded a defensive free kick for handball, Ryan Jackson is then penalised for a foul on Bez Lubala and Blackpool have been awarded a free kick in a promising position on the pitch, And we can consider ourselves fortunate that the free kick was not capitalised on and Ryan Jackson prevented Bez Lubala from getting on to the end of a long ball down-field, and Ryan Jackson manages to shield the ball out of play for A Gillingham Goal-Kick.

Thirty Five Minutes Into The Match, And Gillingham had a unbelievable opportunity to go 2-0 up, Jacob Mellis has possession of the ball and Jacob Mellis is really standing out for Gillingham in this match so far with his own individual performance, And Jacob Mellis manages to pick out Dominic Samuel with a pass in a left / central area inside Blackpool’s Penalty Area, And Dominic Samuel manages to evade the attempted challenge from Marvin Ekpiteta, and just as Dominic Samuel was one on one with Chris Maxwell, Dominic Samuel has mis-kicked the ball at the crucial moment and Blackpool survive, Because 2-0 to The Gills would put Gillingham in a very strong position to pick up all three points, And that was a golden opportunity for Dominic Samuel to score his and Gillingham’s Second Goal Of The Game.

Thirty Six Minutes Into The Match, And Ollie Turton has tried to pick out Bez Lubala with a dangerous in-swinging cross towards the far post which is over-hit and the ball runs out of play for A Gillingham Goal-Kick, and the main reason as to why Bez Lubala could not get on the end of that cross from Ollie Turton was the exceptional defending by Jack Tucker, who just did not give Bez Lubala any opportunity to get on the end of Ollie Turton’s Cross.

And Jack Bonham saving that shot from Jerry Yates was just the start of a attacking onslaught by Blackpool, Because the visitor’s are looking to score a vital equaliser just before half time, Zech Medley was in the right place at the right time to header Ollie Turton’s dangerous in-swinging cross towards the near post away from danger, And Scott Robertson manages to keep the ball in play and kick the ball against CJ Hamilton and win Gillingham A Goal-Kick, Ethan Robson was then penalised for his challenge on Jacob Mellis on the halfway line in The Forty Second Minute, And Gillingham were awarded a free kick, And From The Resulting Free Kick, Jack Tucker’s Long Ball Down-Field was to long and ran all the way through to Chris Maxwell in The Blackpool Goal, A Very Routine Save For Chris Maxwell, But the windy conditions are going to make things slightly more difficult for both goalkeepers throughout this all important League One Match.

Forty Three Minutes Into The Match, And Zech Medley makes a vital clearance to clear the ball away from danger, And In The Forty Fourth Minute Of The Match, Bez Lubala is penalised for his challenge on Jacob Mellis, And Gillingham have been awarded another free kick, And From The Resulting Free Kick, Jack Tucker has kicked the ball long down-field, and although Vadaine Oliver has won the aerial challenge up against Marvin Ekpiteta, Vadaine Oliver has been penalised for a foul and Blackpool have been awarded a defensive free kick.

And the final noteworthy moment of the first half see’s Keshi Anderson penalised for his challenge on Josh Eccles, and the free kicks awarded to both teams at the end of the first half has just slowed the pace and tempo of the game down, and after three additional minutes of stoppage time (No doubt three additional minutes were awarded for Dominic Samuel’s Goal, and the injury to Scott Robertson) Referee Lee Swabey blows his whistle for half time, and the half time score at Priestfield Stadium for the third League One Match Of The 2020 / 2021 Season Is Gillingham 1-0 Blackpool.

HALF TIME:

I wrote the following status update on Twitter,,,,,, HT: GILLINGHAM 1-0 BLACKPOOL - Dominic Samuel's goal is the difference between both teams at half time, Robertson whips in a corner towards near post, Ogilvie's header hits the crossbar, Tucker headers the ball back across the face of goal and there was Samuel to open the scoring, Jack Bonham does really well to save a deflection off Zech Medley to prevent Medley from scoring A Own Goal, CJ Hamilton has failed to hit the target for Blackpool and Jerry Yates driven effort towards goal is saved and then gathered by Jack Bonham at the second attempt. Gillingham have the lead going into half time and that is what matters the most, Gillingham really can do with a second goal, Because I can see Blackpool eventually getting themselves on the score-sheet, Thankfully, Robertson Was OK to continue playing after picking up a knock.

But will Scott Robertson be OK to play for Gillingham in the second half ??? - And should there be a enforced substitution, Then you have to say that Alex MacDonald and Henry Woods are both favourite to come on as substitute for Gillingham In The Second Half, As for other options that Gillingham can use from the bench, Trae Coyle and John Akinde are both there to provide Gillingham with attacking options, Should Gillingham need to make a attacking change, Because Dominic Samuel perhaps will play for a hour, and ideally, We want to see Gillingham go 2-0 up at some point in The Second Half, and then Gillingham are in a position where we can substitute Dominic Samuel and keep Dominic Samuel rested for the matches we have got coming up in October.

Both teams then came out on to the pitch for The Start Of The Second Half, And Blackpool and Gillingham have both opted to stick to The Starting Line Up’s Named At The Start Of The Match, The Good News at least means that Scott Robertson is OK to continue playing for Gillingham, But like Dominic Samuel, Scott Robertson is perhaps a player Gillingham need to pay close attention to, and should Gillingham double there advantage and go 2-0 up, then Steve Evans has the luxury to substitute both players, hopefully, Gillingham can pick up three vital points against Blackpool with a important Second Half Display - COME ON THE GILLS!!!!!!!!!!!

SECOND HALF (HIGHLIGHTS)

The first noteworthy moment of The Second Half see’s Blackpool look to score the equaliser straight away, But Gillingham looked liked they were in the ascendancy, Because Jordan Graham was running forwards in possession of the ball down the left side of the pitch, But Grant Ward has bundled Jordan Graham down to the deck and no foul for Gillingham was given, and play continue’s Because Grant Ward has possession of the ball in Blackpool’s Own Final Third, and Grant Ward takes a few touches in possession of the ball before passing the ball inside to Ethan Robson in a more central position on the pitch, And Ethan Robson takes a touch to control the ball and another touch to kick a diagonal cross-field cross pass towards Demetri Mitchell, And Demetri Mitchell does brilliantly to header the ball down the line, and Bez Lubala manages to get to the ball ahead of Ryan Jackson and retain possession of the ball and Bez Lubala tries to play a reverse pass down the line towards Demetri Mitchell, But Demetri Mitchell doesn’t react to the pass and the ball runs all the way through to Jack Tucker, And Jack Tucker really should kick this ball long down-field, But Jack Tucker kicks the ball straight into Demetri Mitchell and the ball loops up into the air and ricochets towards Jerry Yates, And Jerry Yates gets the ball under control with a excellent first touch, And Jerry Yates threads the ball through to CJ Hamilton with his second touch with a threaded through-ball, And Connor Ogilvie has not done exceptionally well to come across and clear the ball away from danger, But CJ Hamilton was also penalised for a foul on Connor Ogilvie and Gillingham have been awarded a defensive free kick.

But that was poor from Jack Tucker, really poor, and Connor Ogilvie did brilliant to come across and clear Gillingham’s Defensive Lines, I think it is important to note that Jack Tucker is still young and still very inexperienced, But despite that inexperience, Jack Tucker has played more senior first team matches then Zech Medley, Last Season, Jack Tucker had Barry Fuller and Max Ehmer to learn off because both players were pivotal to Gillingham’s Defensive Record throughout The 2019 / 2020 Season, and whilst Ryan Jackson does provide experience at Right Back, This is Zech Medley’s First Experience of playing competitive first team football and both centre back’s are going to have to learn and learn very quickly as the season progresses.

But despite that let off from Vadaine Oliver’s ricochet not hitting the back of the net, Gillingham do in-fact double there lead after fifty minutes of the match, Zech Medley manages to turn away from CJ Hamilton inside Gillingham’s Penalty Area - A Bit Risky I Know - And Zech Medley kicks the ball long down-field and Grant Ward wins the initial aerial challenge and Ollie Turton wins the fifty / fifty challenge with Jacob Mellis to knock the ball down the right side of the pitch - Gillingham’s Left - And Jordan Graham manages to keep the ball in play before passing the ball back towards Connor Ogilvie, And Connor Ogilvie kicks the ball long down-field first time and Marvin Ekpiteta wins the initial aerial challenge, and the second ball drops kindly to Vadaine Oliver, who nutmegs Michael Nottingham and despite Marvin Ekpiteta closing down Vadaine Oliver, Vadaine Oliver manages to retain possession of the ball before passing the ball square to Dominic Samuel in A Right / Central Area Of The Pitch just outside Blackpool’s Penalty Area, And Dominic Samuel gets the ball under control, takes on Demetri Mitchell, And Dominic Samuel has fired a low accurate effort towards the far left corner of the net and there is absolutely nothing that Chris Maxwell can do about that, and Gillingham have doubled there lead to 2-0 - GILLINGHAM 2-0 BLACKPOOL.

If the first goal from Dominic Samuel was a goal poachers finish, then the second goal is a goal of genuine quality, and Dominic Samuel firing the ball across the face of goal into the bottom left corner of the net is a sensational goal, credit must go to Vadaine Oliver, who played a pivotal role for Dominic Samuel’s second goal of the game, I said at half time that at 2-0, Gillingham would be in a strong position to pick up all three points, But Gillingham are also in a position where we can perhaps start to think about substituting Scott Robertson and Dominic Samuel, perhaps not straight away, but later on in the match, Now if Gillingham were to get a third goal, then we are defiantly in a situation where Gillingham can start to think about substituting players who need to come off, Because Gillingham put in a lot of effort against Stoke City in our League Cup Third Round Tie On Wednesday Night.

Fifty Eight Minutes Into The Match, And Gillingham had the chance to go 3-0 up, Marvin Ekpiteta plays a horrendous pass towards Ethan Robson, And Jacob Mellis plays a first time pass forwards to Vadaine Oliver, Who is clattered to the floor by James Husband, and no foul is awarded in Gillingham’s Favour, And Jacob Mellis gets to the loose ball first and Jacob Mellis see’s his driven effort towards goal blocked by James Husband, And Dominic Samuel and Demetri Mitchell compete for the fifty / fifty ball, and Demetri Mitchell and James Husband are both penalised for there challenge on Jacob Mellis, And Gillingham have been awarded a free kick, And whilst Jacob Mellis is OK to continue playing, there are concerns regarding Vadaine Oliver, who was clattered down to the deck, and Vadaine Oliver does get back up to his feat eventually and Vadaine Oliver needs to limp over to the sidelines to continue getting treatment, John Akinde and Trae Coyle are both on the substitutes bench, Should Gillingham need to make a change in attack, but whilst the treatment is on-going, Gillingham can still extend the score-line to 3-0 from this free kick.

And from the resulting free kick, Jordan Graham curls a low cross into the heart of Blackpool’s Penalty Area, And Jerry Yates has headed the ball behind and out of play for A Gillingham Corner Kick, I have to say that I am surprised that Jordan Graham did not whip this free kick goal-wards and try and get on the score-sheet himself, at least Gillingham have won themselves a corner kick, so the free kick isn’t entirely wasted, But I did think Jordan Graham should have gone for goal from that close range, and from the resulting corner kick, Gillingham came close to scoring and 3-0 to The Gills would make it very difficult for Blackpool to get anything out of this match, Scott Robertson whips in a dangerous in-swinging cross from the corner kick and Marvin Ekpiteta manages to header the ball partially clear and away from danger towards the edge of Blackpool’s Penalty Area, And Jordan Graham plays a first time volleyed pass sideways towards Jacob Mellis, who manages to get the ball under control, and Jacob Mellis passes the ball out-wide to Scott Robertson down The Gordon Road Stand Side Of The Pitch, And Scott Robertson gets the ball under control before whipping in a dangerous in-swinging cross and James Husband’s looping header inadvertently tee’s up Vadaine Oliver at the back-stick, And Vadaine Oliver’s Header was directed goal-wards and Chris Maxwell has to make a very important save to keep Blackpool in this match.

Whether Vadaine Oliver was looking to header the ball downwards towards Dominic Samuel, or header the ball into the back of the net himself, I am not entirely sure, but the good news at least is the fact that Vadaine Oliver is back on the pitch and still playing for Gillingham, But that’s now three players in Scott Robertson, Dominic Samuel and Vadaine Oliver that Gillingham need to monitor throughout the rest of this match, all three players have picked up knocks and this is also Dominic Samuel’s first starting appearance for The Gills, So I am anticipating Dominic Samuel being substituted for Gillingham very soon, With one of John Akinde or Trae Coyle likely to come on in Dominic Samuel’s Place.

Sullay Kaikai is then booked for his challenge on Ryan Jackson In The Seventy Fourth Minute Of The Match, But In The Seventy Fifth Minute, Blackpool created a very good goal-scoring opportunity to try and half the deficit to 2-1, Grant Ward has possession of the ball for Blackpool on the halfway line, And Grant Ward passes the ball back towards Marvin Ekpiteta, And Marvin Ekpiteta takes a touch to control the ball before passing a short pass forwards to Ethan Robson, and Ethan Robson is looking around for passing options before clipping a long ball down-field towards Gary Madine and Zech Medley is in the right place at the right time to kick the ball clear and away from danger and Ollie Turton headers the ball down the line towards CJ Hamilton, And CJ Hamilton manages to retain possession of the ball before passing the ball back towards Ethan Robson, And Ethan Robson takes a touch to control the ball before managing to pick out Demetri Mitchell with a cross-field cross pass down Blackpool’s Left Side Of The Pitch - Gillingham’s Right - And Demetri Mitchell manages to take on Ryan Jackson before passing the ball centrally towards Sullay Kaikai right on the edge of Gillingham’s Penalty Area, And Sullay Kaikai takes one touch to control the ball, and another touch to curl the ball goal-wards with a decent low strike towards goal and Jack Bonham manages to parry the ball wide and away from goal, and the follow up effort from CJ Hamilton is blocked and the ball is deflected out of play for A Blackpool Corner Kick.

Already, Sullay Kaikai has come on and caused Gillingham problems defensively, and that was a decent save from Jack Bonham, Because Jack Bonham was slightly unsighted because Gary Madine had ran into Jack Bonham’s eye sight line and his view was also blocked slightly by Jack Tucker, and Connor Ogilvie put in a fantastic block to prevent CJ Hamilton from scoring the re-bound, and from the resulting corner kick, Ethan Robson’s in-swinging cross towards the back-stick is over-hit and the ball runs out of play for A Gillingham Goal-Kick.

Gillingham have a momentarily attacking opportunity when Jordan Graham’s cross is over-hit, and the ball runs out of play for A Blackpool Goal-Kick, However, In The Eighty Sixth Minute, And Ryan Jackson is penalised for his foul on Demetri Mitchell, and from the resulting free kick, Blackpool came close to scoring, as James Husband is in possession of the ball for Blackpool and James Husband clips a long diagonal cross-field cross into the heart of Gillingham’s Penalty Area, And Zech Medley manages to header the ball clear and away from danger, But Ollie Turton wins the aerial battle up against Jordan Graham and CJ Hamilton is on to the loose ball on the edge of Gillingham’s Penalty Area, And CJ Hamilton works his way out-wide, and despite being double marked by Jordan Graham and Connor Ogilvie, CJ Hamilton manages to dig out a dangerous in-swinging cross and Josh Eccles glancing header can only header the ball partially clear and away from danger and Dominic Samuel had fouled Demetri Mitchell on the edge of Gillingham’s Penalty Area, But play continue’s as Ethan Robson hits a first time curling effort towards goal and Jack Bonham saves and then gathers the loose ball at the second attempt.

Gills just need to prevent Blackpool from scoring to stops the visitor’s from setting up a grand-stand finish, But Blackpool are on the offensive and Robbie McKenzie is penalised for his challenge on Sullay Kaikai in The Eighty Ninth Minute, But the next passage of play see’s Blackpool create one of there better goal-scoring opportunities, Marvin Ekpiteta has possession of the ball just in Gillingham’s Half Of The Pitch, And Marvin Ekpiteta manages to pick out Gary Madine with a clipped pass down the left side of the pitch inside Gillingham’s Penalty Area - Gillingham’s Right - And Gary Madine is twisting and turning and working his way out-side towards the byline, and Gary Madine has whipped in a fantastic in-swinging cross and Connor Ogilvie just about does enough to prevent Ollie Turton from getting on the end of that cross at the back-stick, but the ball drops to Sullay Kaikai inside Gillingham’s Penalty Area, And Sullay Kaikai’s snapshot volleyed effort flashes just wide of the far left post with Jack Bonham well and truly beaten - AND THAT WAS THE CHANCE FOR BLACKPOOL TO SCORE!!!!!! - Because if that effort from Sullay Kaikai was on target, then Blackpool would have scored for certain.

And after that effort on goal from Sullay Kaikai, Gillingham make there third and final substitution in The Ninetieth Minute, Because Alex MacDonald comes on to replace Dominic Samuel, and even then, The Fourth Official messed up Gillingham’s Final Substitution and got it wrong again, I applauded Dominic Samuel for that brace in his second debut for Gillingham Football Club, And Alex MacDonald comes on to give Gillingham additional defensive cover, as Gillingham look to protect this two goal lead.

But what is even more surprising is the fact that there are - EIGHT ADDITIONAL MINUTES OF ADDED TIME!!!!!!! - Where on earth has The Fourth Official found eight additional minutes, and just as we approach added time, Connor Ogilvie is penalised for fouling CJ Hamilton and Blackpool have been awarded a free kick twenty five yards out from goal, and from the resulting free kick, Blackpool came close to scoring again, Demetri Mitchell’s curling effort towards goal clears Gillingham’s Wall and Demetri Mitchell almost manages to pick out the bottom right corner of the net with that free kick and Jack Bonham makes a remarkable save, and Jack Bonham is quick to get up and react to Gary Madine’s follow up effort, and Jack Bonham has made a second save in quick succession and Connor Ogilvie boots the ball into the back of The Brian Moore Stand at the expense of conceding a corner kick, and from the resulting corner kick, Grant Ward whips in a dangerous in-swinging cross and Jack Bonham is off his goal-line to make a excellent catch which relieves the pressure building on to Gillingham’s Goal - Great to have Jack Bonham back in-between the sticks - although, it has to be mentioned that Joe Walsh is more then capable as Gillingham’s Back Up Goalkeeper.

OTHER MATCH INCIDENTS WHICH WERE NOT SHOWN ON EXTENDED HIGHLIGHTS

SECOND HALF

Forty Eight Minutes Into The Match, And Gillingham had a half chance to double there lead, And had this chance gone in for The Gills then Gillingham would have doubled there lead in very fortuitous circumstances, Vadaine Oliver was chasing after a long kick down-field which was running through to Blackpool Goalkeeper Chris Maxwell, and Marvin Ekpiteta has passed the ball short back to Chris Maxwell, who’s attempted clearance down-field ricochets off Vadaine Oliver and the ball goes out of play for A Blackpool Goal-Kick, Good work ethic from Vadaine Oliver, who would have fully deserved his goal had the ball ricocheted into the back of the net, But what on earth are Blackpool doing defensively ???

Blackpool are then penalised for a foul, As Jerry Yates was penalised for his challenge on Jack Tucker, And In The Fifty Second Minute Of The Match, Blackpool make there first substitution of the game, As James Husband comes on to replace Michael Nottingham, Who has put in a dreadful display for Blackpool against Gillingham, Conceded the corner kick which eventually lead to Dominic Samuel opening the scoring in The Fourth Minute, And Michael Nottingham did not exactly cover himself in glory with his defending for the second goal either.

And that all important second goal from Dominic Samuel has given Gillingham a much needed confidence boost, Because Jordan Graham see’s his dangerous in-swinging cross take a huge deflection off Ollie Turton, and the ball diverts out of play for A Gillingham Corner Kick, And From The Resulting Corner Kick, Jordan Graham’s dangerous in-swinging cross is whipped in towards the back-stick and Jack Tucker almost manages to get on the end of that corner kick from Jordan Graham, Blackpool manage to momentarily clear there lines and Josh Eccles passes the ball out-wide to Zech Medley, And Zech Medley’s diagonal cross-field cross pass is aimed towards Dominic Samuel, But Demetri Mitchell manages to header the ball out of play for A Gillingham Throw On, And From The Resulting Throw, Connor Ogilvie was lining up a long throw, but Connor Ogilvie throws the ball short to Jordan Graham, And Jordan Graham manages to pass the ball out-wide towards Connor Ogilvie, who works his way towards the byline and Connor Ogilvie whips in a dangerous in-swinging cross towards the near post which is routinely saved by Chris Maxwell in The Blackpool Goal.

Fifty Five Minutes Into The Match, And Gillingham win themselves a throw on in Blackpool’s Final Third Down The Gordon Road Stand / Rainham End Side Of The Pitch, And From The Resulting Throw On, Ryan Jackson hurls in a long dangerous throw towards Vadaine Oliver and Vadaine Oliver is penalised for a foul on James Husband, And Blackpool have been awarded a free kick in there own defensive final third, And In The Fifty Seventh Minute Of The Match, Blackpool had a half chance to try and get a consolation goal which would bring the visitor’s back into this match, However, Ollie Turton’s cross towards Jerry Yates and Bez Lubala is over-hit, And Dominic Samuel has possession of the ball in Gillingham’s Final Third, And Dominic Samuel wins Gillingham a defensive throw on by kicking the ball against Bez Lubala which just prevents any momentum gained for Blackpool to cause Gillingham problems defensively - Dominic Samuel is playing on the right side of Gillingham’s Front Three, So Dominic Samuel needs to put in the defensive work to help out Ryan Jackson at Right Back.

Sixty Three Minutes Into The Match, And Blackpool make there second substitution of the game, As Sullay Kaikai comes on to replace Bez Lubala, And I have got to say that Sullay Kaikai is a quality player and someone who is pacey, tricky and skilful, and Sullay Kaikai has only started twice for Blackpool this season, with this sub appearance being Sullay Kaikai’s first substitute appearance of the season, whether Sullay Kaikai was injured for Blackpool in pre-season, I cannot say for sure, But Sullay Kaikai will cause Gillingham problems defensively, and he is a player that Gillingham need to keep a close eye on throughout the remaining minutes in this match.

The next passage of play after Blackpool’s Second Substitution Of The Match, see’s Ethan Robson escape punishment for a foul on Josh Eccles, And I personally thought that Gillingham should have been awarded a free kick for that challenge from Ethan Robson, And In The Sixty Fifth Minute Of The Match, Scott Robertson kicks a long ball down the right flank and pressure from Vadaine Oliver forces Demetri Mitchell to kick the ball out of play for A Gillingham Throw On Down The Rainham End / Gordon Road Stand Side Of The Pitch, Now should the 2-0 score-line remain the same at full time, Then Dominic Samuel probably is going to win Gillingham’s Man Of The Match Award, But Vadaine Oliver should be praised for his own individual performance throughout this match against Blackpool, Because Vadaine Oliver has been superb up-front for Gillingham, and the only thing missing from Vadaine Oliver’s own performance against Blackpool is a goal for himself, And From The Resulting Throw On, Ryan Jackson hurls in a long dangerous throw and Chris Maxwell in goal for Blackpool was able to gather the ball with ease.

But we went from Vadaine Oliver putting pressure on Demetri Mitchell and Ryan Jackson’s long throw being saved by Chris Maxwell, In The Sixty Fifth Minute, To Gillingham almost conceding a sloppy consolation goal a minute later, Because Josh Eccles pass back to Jack Bonham was woefully under-hit, And Jack Bonham had to get to the loose ball ahead of Jerry Yates and kick the ball clear and out of play for A Blackpool Throw On, Now despite The 2-0 score-line to Gillingham, Blackpool are still a decent side and they are going to create chances, there is no need for Gillingham to create goal-scoring opportunities for the opposition - And with Sixty Six Minutes On The Clock, I am looking at the bench and I can see Trae Coyle or John Akinde coming on for Dominic Samuel, who has scored two goals for Gillingham on his second debut, and I think it is important to substitute Dominic Samuel and ensure that he is ready for the matches that Gillingham have got coming up in October.

Sixty Seven Minutes Into The Match, And Blackpool Defender Demetri Mitchell has possession of the ball down Blackpool’s Left Side Of The Pitch In Gillingham’s Final Third, And Demetri Mitchell has fired in a low cross across the face of goal and Sullay Kaikai almost gets on to the end of that low cross from Demetri Mitchell, but the chance was still there for the visitor’s to create another goal-scoring opportunity, But Jordan Graham does really well to kick the ball against Ollie Turton, and win Gillingham A Goal-Kick, which just relieves some of the pressure building on to Gillingham’s Goal.

Sixty Nine Minutes Into The Match, And Josh Eccles is penalised for his challenge on Keshi Anderson, And From The Resulting Free Kick, Ethan Robson whips in a dangerous in-swinging cross and Connor Ogilvie headers the ball partially clear and away from danger, And Ollie Turton manages to get on the loose ball down the right side of the pitch in Gillingham’s Final Third, And Ollie Turton whips in a dangerous in-swinging cross and Vadaine Oliver manages to header the ball clear and away from goal and CJ Hamilton is penalised for his challenge on Jordan Graham, And Gillingham have been awarded a free kick in there own defensive final third - It is going to have to be backs against the wall defending from Gillingham - As Blackpool are looking to score the goal they need to get themselves back into this match, 2-1 with twenty minutes to go gives Blackpool a chance to score the equaliser for 2-2, But all the while the score-line is 2-0, It gives Gillingham a more greater chance of picking up all three points.

Vadaine Oliver is then penalised for a foul on James Husband, and from the resulting free kick, James Husband kicks the ball long down-field from the halfway line towards the edge of Gillingham’s Penalty Area and Ethan Robson is penalised for a foul on Josh Eccles and Gillingham are awarded a free kick in there own half, and the fouls, free kicks and stoppages in play are suiting Gillingham down to the ground, Because this does not give Blackpool any opportunity to gain momentum, Blackpool However make there third and final substitution of the match, As Gary Madine comes on to replace Keshi Anderson In The Seventy Second Minute, Gary Madine just gives Blackpool more of a attacking option in the final third, And I am surprised that Gary Madine did not come on for Blackpool much earlier then The Seventy Second Minute to be honest.

Seventy Seven Minutes Into The Match, And Gary Madine manages to get in and behind Gillingham’s Back Line, and Gary Madine see’s his low cross across the face of goal blocked and deflected out of play for A Blackpool Corner Kick, With Zech Medley making the all important interception, But before the resulting corner kick could be taken, Scott Robertson is down injured with cramp, and unlike the injury in the first half, Scott Robertson was not going to get up and recover from this injury, and you just wonder if Steve Evans should have substituted Scott Robertson earlier, especially as Gillingham have already picked up a few injuries in midfield with Stuart O’Keefe, Matty Willock and Kyle Dempsey out injured on the sidelines, And after getting some treatment, Scott Robertson was unable to continue playing, And Robbie McKenzie comes on to replace Scott Robertson to try and help Gillingham see out the rest of this match, with the score-line still 2-0 in Gillingham’s Favour.

And From The Resulting Corner Kick, Grant Ward whips in a dangerous in-swinging cross and Robbie McKenzie manages to partially clear the ball away from danger in his first involvement in this match, And Dominic Samuel is fouled by Ethan Robson and Gillingham have been awarded a free kick which relieves pressure building on to our own goal, Dominic Samuel shows his experience winning that free kick, And In The Eighty First Minute, Ethan Robson is booked for a reckless challenge on Josh Eccles, and Gillingham have been awarded another free kick, and these stoppages in play are preventing Blackpool from gaining any momentum, but these are stoppages in play because of Blackpool’s own doing here.

Connor Ogilvie was then in the right place at the right time to make two important clearances for Gillingham, the second clearance was booted out of play for A Blackpool Throw On, And In The Eighty Third Minute Of The Match, Marvin Ekpiteta was booked for his challenge on Jacob Mellis on the halfway line and Gillingham have been awarded a free kick, personally, I thought play on should have been awarded because Vadaine Oliver had possession of the ball from Jacob Mellis’s Pass and Gillingham have been awarded a free kick, which unfortunately see’s Vadaine Oliver flagged for offside from Jack Tucker’s clipped pass down the line.

And after that offside decision, Gillingham make there second substitution of the match, With John Akinde coming on for Vadaine Oliver, And I applauded Vadaine Oliver’s Performance, brilliant assist for Dominic Samuel’s Second Goal Of The Game, And the only thing missing from Vadaine Oliver’s own individual performance was a goal for himself, It has to be mentioned that The Linesman had put up Dominic Samuel’s Number up before correcting his error and then putting up Vadaine Oliver’s Number Up On The Board Instead.

Eighty Five Minutes Into The Match, And Jordan Graham is penalised for his foul on Oliver Turton, And Blackpool have been awarded a free kick, and from the resulting free kick, Ethan Robson clips in a dangerous in-swinging cross and the ball ricochets off Ryan Jackson inside Gillingham’s Penalty Area and Zech Medley and Connor Ogilvie between the two of them manage to clear the ball away from danger and Gillingham survive, A goal now for Blackpool will bring Blackpool back into this match and it’s important for Gillingham to preserve there two goal lead.

Gillingham are busy defensively to try and see this game out in the closing stages, Jack Bonham is in the right place at the right time, As James Husband tries to pick out one of Jerry Yates or Gary Madine with a long kick down-field which runs all the way through to Jack Bonham In The Gillingham Goal, And In the Ninety Fifth Minute, Grant Ward manages to pick out Gary Madine with a clipped ball inside Gillingham’s Penalty Area, And Gary Madine has managed to get in and behind Gillingham’s Back Four, and Gary Madine has managed to stick the ball into the back of the net with a excellent finish, thankfully, From A Gillingham point of view, Gary Madine was flagged for offside.

And the final noteworthy moment of the match see’s Grant Ward being put under pressure from Alex MacDonald and running away from goal down The Medway Stand Side Of the Pitch, And Grant Ward passes the ball back towards Marvin Ekpiteta, And Referee Lee Swabey blows his whistle for full time - there was either five or six minutes played of stoppage time, and not the eight minutes we saw shown in the top left corner of the screen on I Follow - And Gillingham have managed to win 2-0 against Blackpool and pick up three very valuable points, and this is a superb win for The Gills - FULL TIME: GILLINGHAM 2-0 BLACKPOOL.

POST MATCH THOUGHTS

I wrote the following status update on to Twitter after the full time whistle had been blown,,,,,,,,,, FT: GILLINGHAM 2-0 BLACKPOOL - A Brace from Dominic Samuel see's Gillingham win there first home league game of The 20/21 Season against a very good Blackpool Side, Jack Bonham has earned that clean sheet for Gills today, especially with that double save at the end of the match. Back to back league wins against Wigan Athletic and Blackpool see Gillingham pick up six points out of a possible nine from our opening three league games, and keeping a clean sheet after conceding twice against Hull and Wigan gives our defence a much needed confidence boost. Hopefully, Scott Robertson's Injury isn't a bad one, especially as Matty Willock Kyle Dempsey and Stuart O'Keefe are all out injured and four midfielders out injured leaves Gillingham lacking central midfielders for a hectic fixture list in October. Great Win For The Gills Today.

I had re-tweeted status updates from Jordan Graham, Ryan Jackson, Vadaine Oliver, Josh Eccles, Kyle Dempsey, Zech Medley, and Jack Tucker, Faversham Town had drawn 0-0 against Hastings United, Folkestone Invicta won 4-1 against Wingate & Finchley, With Former Gillingham Defender Aaron Simpson getting himself on the score-sheet for Folkestone Invicta, Gillingham Town won 5-2 against Swanage Town & Herston, And I also re-tweeted stats from The Gillingham V Blackpool Game regarding Zech Medley from Arsenal Loan Watch.

Now, back to my thoughts on Gillingham’s 2-0 win against Blackpool, I thought this was Gillingham’s most professional league performance of the season, Hull City fully deserved there 2-0 win against Gillingham on the opening day of the season, And Gillingham’s 3-2 win against Wigan Athletic was a very end to end game, But Gillingham put in a very professional performance against Blackpool, Dominic Samuel scored two excellent goals, and whilst Gillingham were on the back-foot for the vast majority of the second half and Jack Bonham had to make quite a few saves to preserve The 2-0 score-line, Blackpool failed to score and Gillingham keeping a clean sheet will give our defenders a much needed confidence boost, I think had Blackpool scored and they scored early enough in The Second Half, That would have given the visitor’s a chance to level the game up at 2-2, then we could be talking about a completely different match entirely, But Gillingham were excellent defensively, and you have got to praise Jack Tucker and Zech Medley, both young centre back’s were superb, along with Ryan Jackson and Connor Ogilvie at full back, this was a much better defensive performance from The Gills.

That win for Gillingham moves Gillingham up to Seventh In The League One Table, and what is perhaps more important about this 2-0 win against Blackpool is the fact that Gillingham now go into a one week break off the back of a hard fought 2-0 win against a decent Blackpool Side, and make no mistake, not only was the three points needed, but the break is especially needed, Because Gillingham have got eight matches in October and those matches are as follows,,,,, Shrewsbury Town Away, Ipswich Town Away, (Football League Trophy), Oxford United Home, MK Dons Away, Portsmouth Home, Fleetwood Town Home, Ipswich Town Away and Sunderland Home, The two away games against Ipswich Town and the home game against Portsmouth are being played on A Tuesday Night, and Fleetwood Town, Portsmouth and Oxford United all reached The League One Playoffs Last Season, Ipswich Town and Sunderland you expect to see as contenders for promotion this season, and MK Dons and Shrewsbury Town Away are not guaranteed wins to say the least, I think it was vital to go into this week’s break with that win against Blackpool, especially with the matches coming up for Gillingham in October.

I have got to praise Vadaine Oliver for his fourth assist of the season already for The Gills and Vadaine Oliver’s overall performance for Gillingham was exceptional and the only thing missing from Vadaine Oliver was a goal for himself against Blackpool, Dominic Samuel will no doubt be Gillingham’s Man Of the Match for scoring a brace against Blackpool, But other players also deserve there plaudits, especially Jack Bonham, Ryan Jackson,Jack Tucker, Zech Medley and Connor Ogilvie for keeping Gillingham’s first clean sheet in League One - Great to see Jack Bonham available for selection after missing The Stoke City Match with a back strain - Scott Robertson and Josh Eccles were superb in central midfield, and I just hope that Scott Robertson being substituted was because of precautionary measures, and Jacob Melliis put in a very impressive display in the advanced midfielder role for The Gills as well.

I had re-tweeted quite a few tweets from Gillingham’s Twitter Account, The photo gallery and clips of the goals from Kent Pro Images, and I mentioned the following to Gabriel,,,, Out of the three league games played this season, The 2-0 win against Blackpool was probably our most professional win of the season to date so far. Dominic Samuel scoring a brace on his second debut for The Gills, another assist for Vadaine Oliver, Great win for The Gills Today, If there was one negative about this performance and result against Blackpool is the fact that we as supporters could not be inside Priestfield Stadium to enjoy The 2-0 win, yes, it was windy and it would have been cold inside the ground, and watching football matches on I Follow is a great alternative and better then nothing, But you want to be inside Priestfield Stadium to celebrate wins like this one against Blackpool.

One thing that every Gillingham Supporter noticed after the full time whistle was some of the pathetic comments from “Some Blackpool Supporters” Comments like,,,,, Frustrating to say the least. Gillingham players going down like Bolton doesn't make for a flowing game and our final ball was non existent. Still plenty of positives and we will learn from this. Feel sorry for Gills fans that have to watch that shite this season. and comments about how Blackpool had 69% possession and how Gillingham offered no real attacking threat and how Gillingham play pathetic defensive football, These comments were sour grapes and do not take into consideration that at 2-0, Gillingham do not need to attack and score more goals, the onus is on the opposition to score, and Blackpool created plenty of goal-scoring opportunities, but they did not stick the ball into the back of the net, and that is the only stat that matters the most.

However, there were comments from “More Sensible Blackpool Supporters” who mentioned that Blackpool have had 69% possession against Gillingham and 63% possession against Plymouth Argyle, and in both matches, Blackpool have lost without scoring a goal, and there are concerns from Blackpool Supporters that Neil Critchley will need to find another way to play besides just dominating possession, Because other clubs in League One will notice this trend from the two results against Gillingham and Plymouth Argyle and realise that if you stick men behind the ball, Blackpool struggle to break teams down and Blackpool need to find a way to win these type of matches, also, Blackpool need to find a way to win away from home, Because Blackpool have got a very disappointing away form, which means that Blackpool will put pressure on every home league game at Bloomfield Road - Something, that we as Gillingham Supporters recognise all too well, Because Gillingham went the entire 2009 / 2010 Season without picking up a away win, and that was the season Gillingham were relegated into League Two, So Blackpool dominating possession and not scoring in two away games is something to be concerned about.

I also noticed that the comments from “The More Sensible Blackpool Supporters’ Mentioned Michael Nottingham’s errors for both goals, Why didn’t Kaikai and Madine come on much earlier for Blackpool, and there was transfer talk and Blackpool needing to sign a few players to strengthen the squad, as well as having Plan B and Plan C in the locker, should Blackpool’s preferred way of playing doesn’t see Blackpool pick up any points, or, score more goals.

All in all, this was a important win for Gillingham, first home league win of the season, first clean sheet in the league for this season, Dominic Samuel scores a brace on his debut, And Gillingham have picked up six points out of a possible nine already, and all three matches against Hull City, Wigan Athletic and Blackpool were tough and very competitive matches, six points out of nine just gives Gillingham something to build on heading into eight very difficult matches in October, and this week’s break will just re-charge Gillingham’s Batteries for the tough tests that are yet to come around the corner, great performance, great result, great to see Jack Bonham back in goal and great to see Dominic Samuel score twice on his second debut, now it would be great to see Gillingham build on this win against Blackpool by picking up all three points in our next League One Fixture against Shrewsbury Town - COME ON THE GILLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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