I can promise you though,here in scotland, cricket would win a most hated game poll of any sports.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I should add that rugby is a sport so shit that even the British Empire couldn't force it onto most of its subjects.
― Tits Bramble (Matt DC), Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:42 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Sclungethorpe United (country matters), Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― C-Word Waddell (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:45 (fourteen years ago) link
oh i know that tom. I bet Accies get more
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:45 (fourteen years ago) link
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)
― Sclungethorpe United (country matters), Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link
i dont think louis understands how league is important in the north of england
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link
BRING IT
― hugging used to mean something (call all destroyer), Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Sclungethorpe United (country matters), Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:48 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― C-Word Waddell (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Northern GB? Theres no rugby league in Scotland,louis
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Dude you wait til the next round of franchises. Also you had the big Easter weekend this year.
― C-Word Waddell (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Basically you're accusing me of namby-pamby southern elitist classism, NV ;-)
― Sclungethorpe United (country matters), Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
But Scotland has an international rugby league team. Certainly used to have.
― Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Likewise Wales and Ireland.
I used to enjoy watching the challenge cup final back in the 80s early 90s. Ellery Hanley's Wigan side.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Nah I'm not LJ, more like not recognising the awesome skills and thrills and appeal of the one true Rugby code.
― C-Word Waddell (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― C-Word Waddell (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
It does mean that they at least play it there! (xp)
― Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
football my favourite I guess, I watch it more than anything else, but I love rugby union, more and more each year too.
― Local Garda, Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link
football is def the worst of these
Go to a 20/20 match then Lex
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Out of interest Lex why do you hate team sports so much?
xpost that's what everybody does at the cricket
― C-Word Waddell (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
this is both hilarious and actually kinda otm, as NV indicates
― Sclungethorpe United (country matters), Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
also also also take out your frustrations here, my good fellow: best code of rugby
― Sclungethorpe United (country matters), Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Basically, the only reason for watching Rugby Union is to see England lose
― Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― C-Word Waddell (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Unlike the old days when Scotland were good and were worth watching as it was the one team sport we were good at
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 4 June 2009 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Thursday, 4 June 2009 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― hugging used to mean something (call all destroyer), Thursday, 4 June 2009 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link
hating team sports suggests to me a preference for people, personality (ego) and (obv) individuality over interest in the nature of the game itself
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Thursday, 4 June 2009 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Sclungethorpe United (country matters), Thursday, 4 June 2009 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link
impure? nah im not gonna refer to a certain country in a certain period of time
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 4 June 2009 17:03 (fourteen years ago) link
the point of professional sport is attaining individual gloryu can't do that w/teammates dragging u downteam sports just seem so impure in comparison to individual sports
tongue-in-cheek i'm sure but...wow
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Thursday, 4 June 2009 17:03 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Thursday, 4 June 2009 17:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Louis likes proper scrums
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 4 June 2009 17:04 (fourteen years ago) link
I find Rugby Union exhilarating to be honest, think it's really well run and since more players went pro it's just been getting better and better. The growing interest in it reflects that too I reckon.
It's not that League is slower, it's that League is like basketball. I can't see any appeal in league whatsoever, it's just Union minus all the set pieces and tactics.
x-post louis otm, after a big game of Union the players are utterly fucking butchered, it's astonishing athleticism.
x-x-post lex this is utterly mental, you can't possibly believe this nonsense.
― Local Garda, Thursday, 4 June 2009 17:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Rugby League is to Rugby Union as Sky Sports All Stars Indoor Soccer is to the World Cup
― Local Garda, Thursday, 4 June 2009 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link
the point of sport is to enjoy yourself and to entertain as well as having a will to win, but if you lose you do it with dignity is what the lex means surely
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 4 June 2009 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link
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)
― ailsa, Thursday, 4 June 2009 18:03 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― I donated and I expect some sort of reward measured in virgins. (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 4 June 2009 18:07 (fourteen years ago) link
ailsa you are allowed 5 further mentions, allusions or otherwise before i object. use them wisely.
― Sclungethorpe United (country matters), Thursday, 4 June 2009 18:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Maybe the lex will get excited by the start of the 20/20 cricket world cup today.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 5 June 2009 13:11 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― ears are wounds, Friday, 5 June 2009 13:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Rugby
― Dr.C, Friday, 5 June 2009 13:29 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― ears are wounds, Friday, 5 June 2009 13:30 (fourteen years ago) link
hurling, you little bitches. hurling.
― U2 raped goat (darraghmac), Friday, 5 June 2009 13:51 (fourteen years ago) link
sorry that came across a little aggressively. GAA does that.
anyway:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luQ2Vxez2V4
― U2 raped goat (darraghmac), Friday, 5 June 2009 13:54 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Sclungethorpe United (country matters), Friday, 5 June 2009 14:07 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― U2 raped goat (darraghmac), Saturday, 6 June 2009 12:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Thought that was this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI-HqszRq0g&feature=fvw
― Gordon Brown Reason to Live (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 6 June 2009 12:26 (fourteen years ago) link
it should be:
footballcricketrugbykorfball
― James Mitchell, Saturday, 6 June 2009 12:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Stuff that could've replace hockey: tug of war, morris dancing.
― Scrum of the Earth (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 6 June 2009 12:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 15 June 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
may as well give this one the big bump
― gosh I actually dig this shit (country matters), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 10:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
England just fucking won the European Championship of hockey, I feel vindicated
― They are known for contracting the ugliest players, like Kuyt (country matters), Sunday, 30 August 2009 22:56 (fourteen years ago) link