favourite of the big four english team sports

I am going to Suggest Ban anyone who admits to voting for rugby.

and as for rugby union, didnt there used to be like 7 leagues just for the west of scotland? its popular. And Murrayfield sells out for Scotland games,unlike the smaller hampden park for Scotland footy games

but its impossible to choose between cricket and football, but i guess football as i have club allegiances and in cricket i dont. but im gonna give cricket a vote anyway since footy will walk it

I can promise you though,here in scotland, cricket would win a most hated game poll of any sports.

I should add that rugby is a sport so shit that even the British Empire couldn't force it onto most of its subjects.

and that includes synchronized swimming

my defence of promoting field hockey above rugby league: we already had one rugby, ice hockey needed a counterpart, it's a good sport, and it's WAY more popular abroad than it is in britain (germany, holland, australia and pakistan especially)

scotland are playing in the world twenty20 AGAINST ENGLAND tomorrow, surely the spirit of caledonia will rear its head

no RONG they are not playing england. but still.

Murrayfield sells out for Scotland games,unlike the smaller hampden park for Scotland footy games

I'd bet that Rangers and Celtic get more people going to watch them on one Saturday than would watch every club rugby match in Scotland in one entire season

There's plenty of cricket clubs in Scotland. But in no way is it popular.

Scotland played England in a 20/20 the other day

I can promise you though,here in scotland, cricket would win a most hated game poll of any sports.

I can promise you that that is bollocks

I am going to Suggest Ban anyone who admits to voting for rugby.

I heartily endorse this position unless it's a write-in for League.

oh i know that tom. I bet Accies get more

I take your points Louis but "we already had one rugby" is kinda adding insult to injury.

yeah that was it xp to pfunk

and i don't think you posted about it once

scottish cricket rip ;_;

(i DID hear that Aberdeen has the most cricket clubs per person in the UK)

i dont think louis understands how league is important in the north of england

I am going to Suggest Ban anyone who admits to voting for rugby.

BRING IT

NV, I'm only posting the sports that are most widespread in their popularity. League isn't particularly popular, not least on the global stage where only really (northern) GB, Aus and NZ take it at all seriously. You may write-in a vote for it, yes.

Nah I still prefer footie and cricket to League but it is a strong scoring third. Also, like I said, I could probly buy the broadcast rights to the next hockey world cup so fuck that shit imo

Northern GB? Theres no rugby league in Scotland,louis

Dude you wait til the next round of franchises. Also you had the big Easter weekend this year.

Basically you're accusing me of namby-pamby southern elitist classism, NV ;-)

But Scotland has an international rugby league team. Certainly used to have.

Likewise Wales and Ireland.

I used to enjoy watching the challenge cup final back in the 80s early 90s. Ellery Hanley's Wigan side.

Nah I'm not LJ, more like not recognising the awesome skills and thrills and appeal of the one true Rugby code.

Scotland has a cricket team but it doesnt mean its a popular sport

Or, y'know, the one version of Rugby where England actually run with and pass the ball.

It does mean that they at least play it there! (xp)

lol my favourite of these is actually hockey, which i don't think i've ever watched or played, but the others are so boring and awful. team sports suckkkk so much

football my favourite I guess, I watch it more than anything else, but I love rugby union, more and more each year too.

i probably wouldn't mind attending a cricket match as long as i could just booze it up and not care about the people doing nothing on the court/pitch/field/whatever it's called

football is def the worst of these

Go to a 20/20 match then Lex

Out of interest Lex why do you hate team sports so much?

xpost that's what everybody does at the cricket

League's a bit turgid, it reminds me of American Football. Union's just a bunch of tits running about like headless chickens, occasionally coalescing into something interesting but not often enough.

i probably wouldn't mind attending a cricket match as long as i could just booze it up and not care about the people doing nothing on the court/pitch/field/whatever it's called

this is both hilarious and actually kinda otm, as NV indicates

also also also take out your frustrations here, my good fellow: best code of rugby

Basically, the only reason for watching Rugby Union is to see England lose

League's got a couple of obvious similarities to American Football but I never get why people think it's slow, there's way more passing and running than most domestic Union.

LJ I swear I'll stop getting into League vs Union fights. It's only cos I live in a place where everybody agrees so our usual level of discussion is zinging Union if it happens to be on in the pub.

Unlike the old days when Scotland were good and were worth watching as it was the one team sport we were good at

team sports

- rubbish to watch as u can't see everything that's going on, too many people, always seems crowded
- rubbish conceptually as surely the point of professional sport is attaining individual glory, pushing the self to its physical and mental limits. u can't do that w/teammates dragging u down. team sports just seem so impure in comparison to individual sports. tbh i can't really think of them as sports at all, they're pastimes and games
- rubbish to play for a literally endless list of reasons

speaking as an amurrcan rugby is sort of a more fluid version of american football, which i can basically dig. i've also hung out w/some irish rugby dudes and they were pretty cool.

i like football well enough but it's a little fucked as a game--worse officiating than all 4 american sports which is amazing.

hating team sports suggests to me a preference for people, personality (ego) and (obv) individuality over interest in the nature of the game itself

rubbish conceptually as surely the point of professional sport is attaining individual glory, pushing the self to its physical and mental limits. u can't do that w/teammates dragging u down. team sports just seem so impure in comparison to individual sports. tbh i can't really think of them as sports at all, they're pastimes and games

what is this weird social darwinist bullshit?

I think the biggest problem people have with League is that it's too...easy? It's geared towards flowing play and plenty of tries, which is a good thing, but it doesn't have the mystical 'battle lines' Herculean war-struggle-epic-clash element which gets peoples' rocks off in the Union code. Also, in Union, when something spectacular does happen, it comes as more of a surprise, it's somehow more momentous. I personally have disdain for much of Union's mysticism, and I can completely see your point, but mine stands.

impure? nah im not gonna refer to a certain country in a certain period of time

the point of professional sport is attaining individual glory
u can't do that w/teammates dragging u down
team sports just seem so impure in comparison to individual sports

tongue-in-cheek i'm sure but...wow

also, the point of sport is to WIN, and any win that u have to share w/people who have perhaps done less than u have is diluted

Louis likes proper scrums

WSM is quality entertainment!

I never miss it!

Scottish sports: The sheaf-toss is my absolute favorite. I'll be watching some on Saturday, now that you mention it.

Football is a lot more posh than it used to be. A lot of people simply cant afford to go to football anymore. Just look at the prawn sandwich brigade,that didn't exist in the 1980s.

Think you're confusing league football with football here. Also, a lot of people can't afford to do a lot of things any more, it's not exclusive to football.

(also, a kid's season ticket at Celtic Park is £50, which is like under £3 a game, which wouldn't even buy you a prawn sandwich)

Sorry, LJ, I mentioned Celtic on your thread, please mock me forever in your stylish and inimitable way.

Voted football. Cricket is pretty great as well tho.

ailsa you are allowed 5 further mentions, allusions or otherwise before i object. use them wisely.

Maybe the lex will get excited by the start of the 20/20 cricket world cup today.

I went with cricket. I follow football more closely, but I enjoy a good Test match far, far more than any football match. Rugby union I could take or leave, but as a team sport it requires the most teamwork out of all 4 sports, so it has a certain appeal to me as well.

Rugby

Lex: if you go to a cricket match and you don't get steadily pissed whilst keeping half-an-eye on the match then you are basically doing it wrong. Cricket is the best spectator sport in this regard.

hurling, you little bitches. hurling.

sorry that came across a little aggressively. GAA does that.

anyway:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luQ2Vxez2V4

darraghmac that truly seems like a brilliant sport in every single way except for the "unbelievably dangerous for your health" element, which, and I have to be candid, puts me off a bit

i have some decent scars from playing it up to u-14 level, true, but last year was a record low for fatalities i'll have you know. fastest ball sport in the world.

Thought that was this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI-HqszRq0g&feature=fvw

it should be:

football
cricket
rugby
korfball

Stuff that could've replace hockey: tug of war, morris dancing.

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may as well give this one the big bump

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England just fucking won the European Championship of hockey, I feel vindicated