Any else happy that there is no sports coverage?

v638sg7k1a92bx

Finally some respite from all the nonsense and constant chatter about Rugby, GAA, Soccer and all the stats, what players are injured, what diet they're on, how many away points they need, how many games they won at home vs away games, the players confidence, how many yards or wtf they covered in 90 mins.

Are the people who avidly follow this rubbish having a type of mid life crisis where they realise how meaningless all this stuff is and now that there is this massive void in their life how much time they've been wasting or are they so lumpen that they will just mullock through life waiting for the next away game?

Rodney Bathgate

Yeah, everyone talking about covid-19, number of infected, number of deaths, lockdown is so much more interesting than sport.

Signore Fancy Pants

Sport is fer qwares.

JPCN1

God, I'd love to watch competitive anything now.

Level 5 Vegan

If United sign Kane like I'll back him, I'm just concerned about his injury record tbh. Him and Pogba would be the guts of a million a week in wages hanging out together in the physio room.

8-10

Gatlin Shapely Spectrum wrote: »

Are the people who avidly follow this rubbish having a type of mid life crisis where they realise how meaningless all this stuff is and now that there is this massive void in their life how much time they've been wasting or are they so lumpen that they will just mullock through life waiting for the next away game?

I'd much rather be looking forward to the Champions League game that was due to be played tonight rather than this nightly gather around the TV to see the announcement of how many deaths there's been in the past 24hrs

41 was today

More concerned that home&away and fair city are no longer being recorded

I’d love to see Italia 90 from qualifying up until final game Ireland played in the World Cup. Would RTÉ have all of those games archived?

The programme a few weeks back about Jackie Charlton was great and watching those games would put a smile on all our miserable faces.

Rodney Bathgate

[Deleted User] wrote: »

More concerned that home&away and fair city are no longer being recorded

Start watching them from season 1 episode 1.

lertsnim

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

I’d love to see Italia 90 from qualifying up until final game Ireland played in the World Cup. Would RTÉ have all of those games archived?

The programme a few weeks back about Jackie Charlton was great and watching those games would put a smile on all our miserable faces.

I'd hope they skip over the Egypt game.

Quantum Erasure

Why would you be happy though? It doesn't bother me either way

lertsnim

lertsnim wrote: »

I'd hope they skip over the Egypt game.

Can’t remember but I’m guessing they lost.

Could you imagine telling all your kids that Ireland are trying to get through to the World Cup in Italy. They’ve got a new squad of players, new manager. Then watch their little faces when Ireland qualify. Would they believe ya?

El_Duderino 09

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

I’d love to see Italia 90 from qualifying up until final game Ireland played in the World Cup. Would RTÉ have all of those games archived?

The programme a few weeks back about Jackie Charlton was great and watching those games would put a smile on all our miserable faces.

I think ITV is going on show the 1996 euros. I know Ireland didn't qualify but it might plug a gap in the need for sports.

I'm missing the rugby. I look forward to it each weekend. Of course it doesn't really matter. Lots of things in life matter. My job, my family, the economy, the environment and pollution caused by Chinese industrialisation. Sport is great relief.

There's a bit in the intro to the Second Captains podcast from the time the interviewed Michael Parkinson about his days as a sports reporter. He says " sport is important because it's not war or famine, it's to remind us there's a world outside all that"

Your Face

I miss the actual sports but not the constant reporting of it.
Too much analysis.

Howitzer the 5th

Gatlin Shapely Spectrum wrote: »

Finally some respite from all the nonsense and constant chatter about Rugby, GAA, Soccer and all the stats, what players are injured, what diet they're on, how many away points they need, how many games they won at home vs away games, the players confidence, how many yards or wtf they covered in 90 mins.

Are the people who avidly follow this rubbish having a type of mid life crisis where they realise how meaningless all this stuff is and now that there is this massive void in their life how much time they've been wasting or are they so lumpen that they will just mullock through life waiting for the next away game?

The sheer petty mindedness of this is quite something. Imagine taking satisfaction from a singular relatively harmless aspect of life such as sport, being essentially nullified by an insidious historical shattering global pandemic, a once in a century event of disastrous consequences for so many people around the globe. Imagine being happy that others can no longer enjoy a pursuit as benign as sport simply because your perspective is so utterly devoid of empathy or humanity. Mind you, your post is so truly stupid as to be a particularly poor attempt at trolling.

blueser

Level 5 Vegan wrote: »

If United sign Kane like I'll back him, I'm just concerned about his injury record tbh. Him and Pogba would be the guts of a million a week in wages hanging out together in the physio room.

That wasn't the question.

somesoldiers

It’s fun to see the news struggling to fill the last few minutes tonights 6-1 was
Leinster manager/ coach thinks they might be back training in May
Some Galway hurler might not get to play again

Nope, though certain events like the Olympics are a welcome omission.

Sport is a great morale booster. Id watch more of the Olympics than World Cup games and it’s a real shame that the entire world doesn’t have that feel good boost this year.

JohnnyFlash

Your Face wrote: »

I miss the actual sports but not the constant reporting of it.
Too much analysis.

That’s the one. I’d watch sport all day, but the constant analysis, previews, post-mortems, and end of year reviews get tiresome. If any good comes of this it’s that Neil Francis has ran out of things to write about.

AllForIt

Your Face wrote: »

I miss the actual sports but not the constant reporting of it.
Too much analysis.

This is exactly it.

I think this is what the OP was getting at, not that he takes enjoyment out of the fact ppl don't get to have their sport or that he thinks life is much better with a virus if it means no sport.

v638sg7k1a92bx

Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

Yeah, everyone talking about covid-19, number of infected, number of deaths, lockdown is so much more interesting than sport.

So you’d prefer to bury your head in the sand and watch your favourite action hero run around a field chasing a ball?

Grow up.

Gatlin Shapely Spectrum

Gatlin Shapely Spectrum wrote: »

So you’d prefer to bury your head in the sand and watch your favourite action hero run around a field chasing a ball?

Grow up.

You don’t need to be balls deep in the coverage of this though. A lot of it is perverse really.
Once you keep up with the announcements of what’s expected of you then that’s all you need to know.

Gatlin Shapely Spectrum

Gatlin Shapely Spectrum wrote: »

So you’d prefer to bury your head in the sand and watch your favourite action hero run around a field chasing a ball?

Grow up.

It’s not good for anybody’s mental health to be fixated on the virus news constantly. I’ve been following the outbreak since January/February and personally, I have to take a step back from it for periods of time.

Still waters

8-10 wrote: »

I'd much rather be looking forward to the Champions League game that was due to be played tonight rather than this nightly gather around the TV to see the announcement of how many deaths there's been in the past 24hrs

41 was today

I don't think it's one or the other

v638sg7k1a92bx

AllForIt wrote: »

This is exactly it.

I think this is what the OP was getting at, not that he takes enjoyment out of the fact ppl don't get to have their sport or that he thinks life is much better with a virus if it means no sport.

Yes, it’s the amount of time that people waste outside of the main event itself. The constant coverage and analysis, the endless office talk about which players are pulling their weight. Or the best one is when two rival supporters in the office start slagging each other over which team made and or lost money on the buying and selling of players. Football teams in another country whose players aren’t even from the same continent and they refer to themselves as “We”. “We bought him for €50m and him for €60 whereas You bought that fella for €40 but he was crap and you sold him for €10m.” These people would be better off researching the stock market than that fantasy football bs that they play.

Seriously, they need to get a life.

v638sg7k1a92bx

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

It’s not good for anybody’s mental health to be fixated on the virus news constantly. I’ve been following the outbreak since January/February and personally, I have to take a step back from it for periods of time.

Here we go with the mental health again. Ever thread and someone has to talk about mental health.

You don’t know what it means and you’re demeaning it’s value by over using it.

The term you’re really looking for is “having a bad day”.

v638sg7k1a92bx

Still waters wrote: »

I don't think it's one or the other

Still living in the past I see.

Stacksofwacks

Don't worry when this is all over there will be 100 days of bread and games to celebrate

Church on Tuesday

Gatlin Shapely Spectrum wrote: »

Finally some respite from all the nonsense and constant chatter about Rugby, GAA, Soccer and all the stats, what players are injured, what diet they're on, how many away points they need, how many games they won at home vs away games, the players confidence, how many yards or wtf they covered in 90 mins.

Are the people who avidly follow this rubbish having a type of mid life crisis where they realise how meaningless all this stuff is and now that there is this massive void in their life how much time they've been wasting or are they so lumpen that they will just mullock through life waiting for the next away game?

I miss football like you wouldn't believe.

I can never understand the attitude someone like you has; so you don't like sport, we get it. I don't like Brussels Sprouts but lots of other people do, so to each their own.

People like different stuff, interests are varied amongst people.

Gatlin Shapely Spectrum

Gatlin Shapely Spectrum wrote: »

Here we go with the mental health again. Ever thread and someone has to talk about mental health.

You don’t know what it means and you’re demeaning it’s value by over using it.

The term you’re really looking for is “having a bad day”.

You are really narky.

Zaph

Gatlin Shapely Spectrum wrote: »

Yes, it’s the amount of time that people waste outside of the main event itself. The constant coverage and analysis, the endless office talk about which players are pulling their weight. Or the best one is when two rival supporters in the office start slagging each other over which team made and or lost money on the buying and selling of players. Football teams in another country whose players aren’t even from the same continent and they refer to themselves as “We”. “We bought him for €50m and him for €60 whereas You bought that fella for €40 but he was crap and you sold him for €10m.” These people would be better off researching the stock market than that fantasy football bs that they play.

Seriously, they need to get a life.

You're a very angry person, aren't you?

What difference does it make to you if people watch and enjoy sport? Is it causing you any harm? Personally I despise soaps, but millions love them. However I take no pleasure in knowing that they'll all probably come to a halt shortly as all recorded episodes will have been shown and no new ones can be filmed, because they simply aren't part of my life. I'd suggest that your life would be better and less stressful if you took a similar approach to sport. There's enough crap going on at the moment for people to be stressing over without finding things to add to it.

Birneybau

Gatlin Shapely Spectrum wrote: »

Finally some respite from all the nonsense and constant chatter about Rugby, GAA, Soccer and all the stats, what players are injured, what diet they're on, how many away points they need, how many games they won at home vs away games, the players confidence, how many yards or wtf they covered in 90 mins.

Are the people who avidly follow this rubbish having a type of mid life crisis where they realise how meaningless all this stuff is and now that there is this massive void in their life how much time they've been wasting or are they so lumpen that they will just mullock through life waiting for the next away game?

If you don't care, so what? I probably don't care about what you're into but I'm the bigger person and not going to make a thread about it.

WashYourHands

Did you see that ludicrous display last night?

Church on Tuesday

WashYourHands wrote: »

Did you see that ludicrous display last night?

What was Wenger thinking, putting Walcott on that early?

MrMusician18

Zaph wrote: »

You're a very angry person, aren't you?

What difference does it make to you if people watch and enjoy sport? Is it causing you any harm? Personally I despise soaps, but millions love them. However I take no pleasure in knowing that they'll all probably come to a halt shortly as all recorded episodes will have been shown and no new ones can be filmed, because they simply aren't part of my life. I'd suggest that your life would be better and less stressful if you took a similar approach to sport. There's enough crap going on at the moment for people to be stressing over without finding things to add to it.

It's easy to avoid soaps though.

To be fair, sport and the media circus that accompanies it is almost all encompassing and coverage relentless in our culture. And if the coverage was good, you might forgive it but they have devoted so much time to it and consequently needs to fill so many hours, it has become completely inane.

Yes, following sport is relatively benign in the grand scheme of things and I like most I'm sure enjoy watching it. That said, I'm not one bit sad that the hype train has come of the rails.

MrMusician18

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

What was Wenger thinking, putting Walcott on that early?

The thing about arsenal is that they always walk it in.

Hangdogroad

lertsnim wrote: »

I'd hope they skip over the Egypt game.

Dunphy fecking down the pencil was the highlight of that.

fatknacker

Yep. Absolutely delighted.

moonage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NLXrpImBCQ

Rubberchikken

While I've no interest in sport I'd still prefer it to be on rather than the endless cycle of virus news and death tolls.

v638sg7k1a92bx

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

I miss football like you wouldn't believe.

I can never understand the attitude someone like you has; so you don't like sport, we get it. I don't like Brussels Sprouts but lots of other people do, so to each their own.

People like different stuff, interests are varied amongst people.

Brussels sprouts? What a great analogy.
Difference is that people who like Brussel sprouts don’t spend copious amounts of time talking about an analysing Brussel sprouts. But maybe that’s why you like watching sports so much.

Canis Lupus

I'm loving it. No longer have to put up with half my facebook feed being about us this and we won that (I didn't see you out on the field kicking the ball John or did I miss you?) or the 'you'll never walk alone' twats and none of them have any connection to the clubs other than arbitrarily choosing them as children.

I'm a bit tired of all the death though..... Shame the idolising of millionaires kicking about a ball wasn't replaced by something more cheerful.

cj maxx

Miss sport alot. Building up to the championship now.
Liverpool winning the league and the banter with friends .
Putting the odd bet on s race / match
I don't get the hate for it

BuboBubo

Rubberchikken wrote: »

While I've no interest in sport I'd still prefer it to be on rather than the endless cycle of virus news and death tolls.

Same as.

Some of the lads I work with are bereft. It's an interest, a harmless one too. It's something to talk/whoop/whinge about. Some of them train kids sports teams and are missing that too.

I'd prefer non-stop sports coverage and Liverpool vs Man U banter than see their sad faces every day. Sport is life to some.

Normality is sorely missed.

KungPao

Did Ireland win the Euros?

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

Lots of things in life matter. My job, my family, the economy, the environment and pollution caused by Chinese industrialisation. "

And I feel guilty about it, just like wearing some pairs of boxers more than others.

Mehaffey1

My two favourite sports of MMA and Road Cycling are rarely talked about in the mainstream so I've hardly noticed, just no events as the cycling season should really be in full flight is surreal.

Tell me how

Gatlin Shapely Spectrum wrote: »

Finally some respite from all the nonsense and constant chatter about Rugby, GAA, Soccer and all the stats, what players are injured, what diet they're on, how many away points they need, how many games they won at home vs away games, the players confidence, how many yards or wtf they covered in 90 mins.

Are the people who avidly follow this rubbish having a type of mid life crisis where they realise how meaningless all this stuff is and now that there is this massive void in their life how much time they've been wasting or are they so lumpen that they will just mullock through life waiting for the next away game?

What are your hobbies OP? Be honest now

Tell me how

cj maxx wrote: »

Miss sport alot. Building up to the championship now.
Liverpool winning the league and the banter with friends .
Putting the odd bet on s race / match
I don't get the hate for it

I know people who have no interest in it. None. And they are able to avoid it without much trouble.

Anyone who expresses genuine hate for it, I think is primarily motivated either by a jealousy that others have something which seemingly fulfills them so much, or, they are channeling anger they feel at a sports mad partner in to a hatred for the sport.

Sam Quentin

Not so concerned about the TV coverage....but I do not miss the radio coverage at all. Terrible terrible listening especially on Saturdays when you better have a good cd in your car or else...EVERY BLOODY STATION.