Don't you mean punch ups?addo wrote:You need to watch some Aussie Rules. Much more dynamic.
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Yes Aussie rules is what I meant, famed over here for having mass brawlsaddo wrote:No, that's Thugby League.
Aussie Rules is where they get points for kicking behinds, and have to bounce the ball whilst running with it.
Rugby leaves me cold, too slow and too easy to score points where games are won on a weird scoring system and by a mass collection of penalty kicks.
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Points for missing you meanaddo wrote:No, that's Thugby League.
Aussie Rules is where they get points for kicking behinds, and have to bounce the ball whilst running with it.
"not very good at the sport at all"? Not to worry, we#ll add an extra set of posts for you so you'll score anyway.
It kind of liek this "everyone wins" stuff they teach kids nowadays with medals just for showing up.
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As someone with a weak and malleable mind, Aussie Rules appeals to me.
Why? Firstly the scoring is almost guaranteed for both sides - whereas in soccer you can have a full match (before extra time etc) where nobody scores a point.
Secondly there is less of the "primadonna" element; everyone is too busy running along and keeping up for some highly paid star team member to ponce on, then limp off five minutes later with an alleged scratched knee or whatever.
Thirdly, again because of its physicality and this aspect of it (the team as a whole) being a contiguous mass I find it very motivating - as in, watching it makes me more inclined to get up and keep moving briskly.
Why? Firstly the scoring is almost guaranteed for both sides - whereas in soccer you can have a full match (before extra time etc) where nobody scores a point.
Secondly there is less of the "primadonna" element; everyone is too busy running along and keeping up for some highly paid star team member to ponce on, then limp off five minutes later with an alleged scratched knee or whatever.
Thirdly, again because of its physicality and this aspect of it (the team as a whole) being a contiguous mass I find it very motivating - as in, watching it makes me more inclined to get up and keep moving briskly.
Although it doesn't appeal to me, I have no objection to football as such.
What I can't understand is that so many fans become so obsessed with it that they seem to lose all sense of reason. When this means tying up large numbers of police to control them, it seems to me that things are completely out of hand. Any other event where so much potential violence and vandalism was anticipated would be banned, but football appears to be largely exempt from any normal considerations.
It also annoys me on other counts - the business model based on regular breaking of employment contracts and paying the consequent fines as a norm, and the way that the results of a GAME are headline news (even though there are dedicated TV and radio channels), etc.
According to a recent TV item, it's largely the fault of one Jimmy Hill, who first demanded and obtained 'celebrity' fees for players.
What I can't understand is that so many fans become so obsessed with it that they seem to lose all sense of reason. When this means tying up large numbers of police to control them, it seems to me that things are completely out of hand. Any other event where so much potential violence and vandalism was anticipated would be banned, but football appears to be largely exempt from any normal considerations.
It also annoys me on other counts - the business model based on regular breaking of employment contracts and paying the consequent fines as a norm, and the way that the results of a GAME are headline news (even though there are dedicated TV and radio channels), etc.
According to a recent TV item, it's largely the fault of one Jimmy Hill, who first demanded and obtained 'celebrity' fees for players.
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Football seems a keen passion of senior IT managers...
I know of a number who will have the most earnest and intellectual discussions on their favourite teams performances and where their managers has got it all wrong and what they really should have done to make it good... The inquests after any game are almost surgical in their search for the cause of failure or otherwise iffy performance by one of 'their' players. Indeed in all their discussions it's as if it's their own personal property they're speaking of when they refer to say, Manchester Rovers as 'their' team..
It all flies tight over my head but then again so I guess so does our discussions when us engineers get together for a natter...
I know of a number who will have the most earnest and intellectual discussions on their favourite teams performances and where their managers has got it all wrong and what they really should have done to make it good... The inquests after any game are almost surgical in their search for the cause of failure or otherwise iffy performance by one of 'their' players. Indeed in all their discussions it's as if it's their own personal property they're speaking of when they refer to say, Manchester Rovers as 'their' team..
It all flies tight over my head but then again so I guess so does our discussions when us engineers get together for a natter...
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I love the Football. Love them all really . Premier League, Championship the lot. The only TV I make a point to watch............plus the Tennis of course.
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