Prog and sport

BitchBrew wrote: f**k SPORT! WHY PLAY SPORTS WHEN YOU CAN LISTEN TO MUSIC?

Why doing sports when you can play on your fu*king computer, you mean?

Citanul wrote: Flyingbebert wrote: Citanul wrote: I like cricket, but I prefer rugby to cricket.  In fact, those are the only two sports that South Africa has really been any good at, other than a few isolated incidents in things like swimming, athletics and tennis.   Yeah another vote from me in favor of Rugby ! It is by far the most progressive sport...The build-up of the actions before scoring is as gorgeous as the best prog build-ups by Genesis, Yes... Of course rugby was better in the 70's, the new rules make it such a stereotyped game (just joking, I'm not old enough to have really known rugby at that time) ! Moreover Rugby is not really well-known and appreciated in the whole world (like prog). Only a few countries have good teams (England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, France, Australia, New-Zealand, Argentina ... and I think South Africa too) Yeah, South Africa aren't doing too badly at rugby at the moment (2nd on the IRB rankings).  The problem with rugby is that there is a big gap between the top teams (the ones you listed) and everyone else.  Cricket has a similar problem.  It's very difficult to create more interest in the sport when the well-established teams consistently beat the newcomers by huge margins.

I don't know anything to cricket, in France it is mostly viewed as a very strange anglo-saxon game !
Concerning rugby things are evolving very slowly, in the North hemisphere there has been an opening to Italy in the now-called "Six Nations Tournament"...this team sometimes creates the surprise but often loses widely...but it reminds the way France itself used to lose against other teams (from its entry in 1910 to 1940 France was often severely beaten by Anglo-saxon teams in the Five nation Tournament).
Don't you think the Tri-Nation could be opened to other promissing teams of the Southern Hemisphere such as Fidji or Tonga ? It would make this competition more interesting !

Ben2112 wrote: Borealis wrote: ^ I like Hockey too, but will get a real interest if Québec get a team once again. Now I a bit taking for Montréal (well...) and Vancouver. Khabibulin, Aucoin and Lapointe sure are great acquisisions. Montréal ; No change in the team! I wasn't liking them much, but now... I hear ya man. I'm an American fan but there has been no greater crime in pro sports over the past decade than what Gary Bettman (and others I am sure) has done to the Canadian fans of the sport. It's actually the same type of thing that has killed the Blackhawks in recent years: the inability to compete with teams like Detroit , Colorado and others with so much money to throw around that other teams have basically no chance. Hockey has been screaming for a hard salary cap for years, and I think it will be just what the doctor ordered for smaller market teams.

Bettman prefered place like San Jose, Carolina, and Pheonix (who are ruining the league right now) than Winnipeg and Québec. Québec's arena was always full, and they probably shared the biggest rivality in the sport leagues of North America with Montréal. And when Québec because the team in the league, after tons of awful seasons, they moved to Colorado and won the Stanley cup that year. How's that?

I hope that with the new convention, small markets in Canada will have a chance to live, and maybe we'll get a new team (Winnipeg might be the firsts, but well...). Edmonton and Calgary were about to move (can you imagine that? They have so much history, and fans!). And even if the team was to stay, we couldn't get much player because we didn't have enough money...

I hope we'll have a good season this year!