11-11-2003, 18:41
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Oh Lanky Lanky.
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Re: Sports you watch?
Or, Rugby is a game for men, with funny shaped balls,
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11-11-2003, 18:46
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11-11-2003, 20:15
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Re: Sports you watch?
I like all sports that is played with a round ball. Odd shaped balls for odd men. Therefore Rugby and American Football out and badminton for the pansies. I prefer not to watch sports as it is more fun to play them. Though Snooker, Pool or darts are not serious sports, they are fun to play.
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11-11-2003, 21:10
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Oh Lanky Lanky.
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Re: Sports you watch?
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Originally Posted by Undisputedtruth
I prefer not to watch sports as it is more fun to play them
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Quite agree there UDT. Even in my dotage ( the wrong side of 50) I still play squash 3 to 4 times a week. I think that Man United in a European Cup Final or England FA in the World Cup Final would be the only things that I would miss a game for.
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04-08-2018, 06:56
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Originally Posted by Chris
Can I be the first person to make the inevitable point that what Americans call Basketball and Baseball, we call netball and rounders, and are played by little girls at school. American 'football' meanwhile, is glorified Rugby, which elsewhere in the world is played by men without the aid of helmets and heavy padding.
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Indeed Chris..... I think what you guys call them IS BETTER!!
I used to watch alot of Sport until I found out they get PAID!!!
All along I thought it was like a hobby and they did it for fun..... When I found out they only do it for $$$$$$ I lost respect.....
I used to love Rounders and some rugby (Football) and hockey.... (I love hockey) it just doesnt seem the same to me knowing they are getting $$$$$$$$ to do this...... (It would mean more if they really wanted to do it (Not getting paid))
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Football (not the US version).
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Ya I think the UK version is nicer also....
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04-08-2018, 08:05
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Re: Sports you watch?
Only 14 years.
Its not like there's a whole board for sports now rather than a generic thread.
You expect sports starts to committ to 6 days a week of their sports profession and still somehow work a separate job to create income? You're entirely aware that being a Footballer, Rugby, Basketball or any major sports star generally is a full time job? Footballers for example committ to 9-5 training 5 days a week as well as a typical weekend match.
I highly doubt sports stars spend years of their life becoming the best 1% of the world in their sports just for money. It doesn't work like that. You have to be elite to make it.
The amount they're paid is debatable but at the end of the day it's a ~15 year career with little prospect at the end of it for most and they're paying massive amounts of tax on a weekly basis.
There's plenty of sports stars past and present that clearly love their professions too so that argument is void.
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04-08-2018, 17:49
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Ya you have a point there....... I guess I just thought it was for fun...
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04-08-2018, 18:08
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06-08-2018, 14:34
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Re: Sports you watch?
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Mrs towny keeps asking me why I'm so happy lately. I can't think what's changed, I've definitely not been in the drinks cabinet Maybe it's 'cos we've started talking about moving away from hemel and back closer to family ... it kind of feels like we've been in exile for the last 4 years.
The other thing is, I've been around nthellworld .com/.co.uk for almost a year now and I feel like I know you all (despite missing out on two meet-ups ). Time to relax a bit and have some fun!
Sorry, that was waaaaaay off topic...
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Eee.. The old days, when we had Bexy et al, and you had the forum name "towny".
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06-08-2018, 14:53
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Re: Sports you watch?
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Eee.. The old days, when we had Bexy et al, and you had the forum name "towny".
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And we had Jerrek and his guns, and Undisputedtruth foaming at the mouth about “NTL mobs” ... them were the days.
I was right though, towny was very happy at the prospect of moving out of Hemel Hempstead, a feat we achieved precisely 12 months after posting about it in this thread, which was ALMOST 15 YEARS AGO. We’ve had some thread in this forum from time to time but this one might be the all-time record.
Dude111, you must be immensely bored.
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06-08-2018, 22:47
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Oh Lanky Lanky.
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Re: Sports you watch?
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Originally Posted by iadom
Quite agree there UDT. Even in my dotage ( the wrong side of 50) I still play squash 3 to 4 times a week. .
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Good grief, a real blast from the past with many of the original posters inactive or sadly no longer with us.
Me, I’m now the wrong side 70 (only just ) and am now down to playing squash or the occasional game of racketball 2 or 3 times a week.
Now recently retired I have a season ticket/ membership for both Old Traffords. No substitute for watching live IMHO.
Young Jim.
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07-08-2018, 00:23
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An Awesome Dude
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Dude111, you must be immensely bored.
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Thank you mate for your kind words...... I like to scan the bases for good threads to reply to
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03-02-2019, 21:41
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Re: Sports you watch?
Anybody watching this tonight?
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04-02-2019, 08:04
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Re: Sports you watch?
l was just getting ready for bed so you can count me out.
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05-02-2019, 10:57
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Re: Sports you watch?
I enjoy watching Rugby Union - nice fast open games, if it gets too bogged down in the forwards I get bored.
AFL - Aussie rules. Hey what can I say. It's gone a bit soft since they ruled out weapons :P
Archery - it's the sport I participate in and so I can watch it. Unfortunately most coverage is target and there are so many other variations that would be nice to see. Forms of field, clout, flight, wand.
I do like cricket sometimes.
I do not like soccer, rugby league or the US sports where they play games and call the tournament "world" something with only the US playing. Most US sport seems to be padding around adverts.
Any event where the intent is to injure/incapacitate someone else should be banned. So judo, karate etc where you get points for "strikes" are OK but others like boxing (professional certainly) are mostly not.
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