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Points: 430 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 12 2005 at 04:28
Originally posted by Flyingbebert Flyingbebert wrote:

Originally posted by Citanul 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.
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Points: 69 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 12 2005 at 11:40
Originally posted by Citanul Citanul wrote:

Originally posted by Flyingbebert Flyingbebert wrote:

Originally posted by Citanul 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 !
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 12 2005 at 19:53
I am from the USA and i mostly follow baseball,Hockey(my favorite),Amercian footbal and regular football when i can(the soccer/football coverage even of the national team is basically non-existant over hear)
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f**k SPORT! WHY PLAY SPORTS WHEN YOU CAN LISTEN TO MUSIC?
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Points: 3839 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 12 2005 at 20:48
im american and i love
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but not so much baseball or really anything else.
plus, you can listen to music while watching sports.... there's always a marching band!
actually, our marching band often plays Kansas' "carry on my wayward son" during games, and last year did a Styx medley and a Who medley during the halftime show.
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1. volleyball
2. soccer
3. snooker
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4.bridge
5.sailing
6.riding a bicycle
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Points: 430 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2005 at 03:42
Originally posted by Flyingbebert Flyingbebert wrote:

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 !



I do think the Tri-Nations should be expanded to include other teams.  Unfortunately, the people running things don't feel the same way.  Argentina definitely deserve to be involved in something like the Tri-Nations.  The only problem with including them is that they probably couldn't be based in Argentina, due to the long distances that would need to be travelled.  Also, most of their players are playing professionally in Europe, so getting a competitive team together might be a bit tricky.  But if a serious effort was made, solutions could be found.  The other team who could be included in an expanded Tri-Nations is the Pacific Islanders.  This is a team similar in concept to the British Lions - it's made up of players from Fiji, Tonga and Samoa.  I don't think individually any of the three are strong enough to mount a serious challenge, but the combined team may do quite well if given the chance.

But, as I said, the people running things aren't interested in including other teams, and have instead expanded the Tri-Nations so that every team plays the other two four times each instead of two, as it stands currently.
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Points: 599 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 16 2005 at 17:16

Originally posted by BitchBrew 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?

Vive le Québec libre!...
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Points: 140 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 18 2005 at 08:02
I love basketball and football and I agree on baseball being boring but so is tennis, IMO.
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Points: 216 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 18 2005 at 10:54
Originally posted by Borealis Borealis wrote:

Originally posted by BitchBrew 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?


Yeah that to.....
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Points: 319 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 18 2005 at 21:25

I am a sport addict as well as a prog addict

I play football(american), hockey(I'm still Canadian),Baseball.

American Football is pretty complicated.
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