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swiwi_ · 28-06-2021 11:04PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

The only bit of the Euro's I've watched so far was that own goal as per the reaction here and yes it was a howler but I wonder was the sun in his eyes?

My eldest lad walked in as I was skimming through the highlights to get to the incident and said "YOU'RE watching Soccer...??"

Yeah the first season of Walking dead was better than the dross it's become (or what I can only presume it's become as I gave up a few seasons back) but I still think both seasons of Black Summer are better than anything the Walking Dead has produced and I say that as someone who had read all comics by the time the show launched.

It's a vastly superior show in my opinion, Zombies much more threatening and there really is none of the filler episodes that even season 1 of the walking dead had in abundance. The episode with the Diner in season 1 was brilliant in showcasing the scale of threat they were facing and the episode with the military base / robbery / escape was as good a claustrophobic zombie outbreak sudden clusterf*ck as I've ever seen on screen.

It still has narrative inconsistencies but it's a much faster moving show and I like the way they use point of view characters to show events from a few different perspectives - the showrunner must be a big pulp fiction fan.

The euros have been great Venjur. The match tonight was way better than any rugby dross I’ve seen recently tbh.

Squidgy Black · 28-06-2021 11:26PM

swiwi_ wrote: »

The euros have been great Venjur. The match tonight was way better than any rugby dross I’ve seen recently tbh.

Two of the most entertaining matches I've seen in quite some time, and it looks like the rest of the knockouts could be pretty similar considering the bigger teams aren't performing to the level they were hyped up to and some of the smaller teams like Denmark and Switzerland are taking the competition by storm

28-06-2021 11:30PM

swiwi_ wrote: »

The euros have been great Venjur. The match tonight was way better than any rugby dross I’ve seen recently tbh.

I obviously can't in anyway deny the popularity of soccer, and I know from friends that it's been a solid tournament but I never took to it as a spectator sport with the exception of the Charlton / McCarthy (I) years.

Have never had any interest in supporting a premiership team and there are aspects of the game that really put me off so I'll have to stick with the rugby and Zombie shows on netflix!

28-06-2021 11:32PM

Extra time tonight was the first time I switched on the euros. I tend to watch football as a social thing so pandemic meant I never switched it on. I have almost zero interest if I'm on my own. Strange to be completely out of the loop for this one.

awec · 28-06-2021 11:34PM

I watched the walking dead until the season where they were at the prison and then I just gave up. It seemed to go on forever.

swiwi_ · 29-06-2021 07:19AM

Deleted User wrote: »

I obviously can't in anyway deny the popularity of soccer, and I know from friends that it's been a solid tournament but I never took to it as a spectator sport with the exception of the Charlton / McCarthy (I) years.

Have never had any interest in supporting a premiership team and there are aspects of the game that really put me off so I'll have to stick with the rugby and Zombie shows on netflix!

I wouldn't watch a lot of soccer, but the euros have been really enjoyable so far. Firstly the VAR has been excellent, so I have yet to see a wrong controversial decision. Secondly, they have increased subs from 3 to 5 in regular time plus a 6th sub in extra time. As a result you get fresh players and new tactics, and there have been heaps of goals towards the end of matches.

Rugby at the moment has mickey-mouse competitions, where it be NH or SH, and non-stop tinkering with the rules. There have been endless red card for high tackles, but I'm not yet convinced they have produced safer rugby. And so on. IMHO rugby has lost its mojo a bit for the moment. I've hardly watched any games recently, the most recent was the first half of Lions vs Japan, I switched off at about 48 minutes I think once the Lions went ahead 28-0.

Last night's game Fra vs Swi was full of drama, excellent bits of skill, and to my utter disbelief, Switzerland held their nerve and didn't choke. Usually a country that lacks the killer instinct in sport - name a famous Swiss sports person outside of tennis...?

Buer · 29-06-2021 08:28AM

swiwi_ wrote: »

Last night's game Fra vs Swi was full of drama, excellent bits of skill, and to my utter disbelief, Switzerland held their nerve and didn't choke. Usually a country that lacks the killer instinct in sport - name a famous Swiss sports person outside of tennis...?

Sepp Blatter!

swiwi_ · 29-06-2021 09:00AM

Buer wrote: »

Sepp Blatter!

Sports administrator.

I get u on a technicality

sydthebeat · 29-06-2021 09:03AM

swiwi_ wrote: »

.. Usually a country that lacks the killer instinct in sport - name a famous Swiss sports person outside of tennis...?

cesaro

swiwi_ · 29-06-2021 09:18AM

sydthebeat wrote: »

cesaro

Had never heard of him

Zzippy · 29-06-2021 09:22AM

swiwi_ wrote: »

name a famous Swiss sports person outside of tennis...?

William Tell wasn't too shabby at the oul' archery...

Yeah_Right · 29-06-2021 09:49AM

swiwi_ wrote: »

Sports administrator.

I get u on a technicality

You said sports person. You didn't say athlete. He is/was a person involved in sports, therefore a sports person.

swiwi_ · 29-06-2021 10:27AM

Yeah_Right wrote: »

You said sports person. You didn't say athlete. He is/was a person involved in sports, therefore a sports person.

Is he a person though? Or a Swissbot?

errlloyd · 29-06-2021 10:29AM

swiwi_ wrote: »

- name a famous Swiss sports person outside of tennis...?

Sebastian Buemi was a decent F1 driver and now quite a successful Formula E Driver

Zzippy · 29-06-2021 11:02AM

errlloyd wrote: »

Sebastian Buemi was a decent F1 driver and now quite a successful Formula E Driver

Who?

Richie_Rich89 · 29-06-2021 11:37AM

Mujinga Kambundji is the only one that springs to mind.

pickarooney · 29-06-2021 11:41AM

Those Albanian guys with impossible to pronounce names who play for Switzerland, Stephane Chapuisat, probably some skiers

Shaka Hislop · 29-06-2021 12:10PM

A good history of cycling, Tony Rominger, Cancellera & Zulle are the ones I remember

swiwi_ · 29-06-2021 12:39PM

pickarooney wrote: »

Those Albanian guys with impossible to pronounce names who play for Switzerland, Stephane Chapuisat, probably some skiers

There is no doubt that the Yugoslavian War made Switzerland the team that it is today!

Bridge93 · 29-06-2021 12:53PM

Been a long time since I’ve been as angry as I am with this extension of restrictions based on hot air. What an embarrassment we are

sydthebeat · 29-06-2021 12:59PM

Bridge93 wrote: »

Been a long time since I’ve been as angry as I am with this extension of restrictions based on hot air. What an embarrassment we are

we are the very clear European outlier now.

on the day that sweden, with the light touch restrictions, announce eateries and cafes can seat up to 300 indoors and 3,000 outside and remain open after 10:30 p.m. .....

we cant have 6 people eat together indoors

the way this is going i easily cannot see indoor dining reopening on the 19th either.
there will be another "grenade" announcement by NPHET a few days beforehand

Bridge93 · 29-06-2021 01:04PM

Philip Nolan, our supposed best statistician, is either grossly incompetent with that latest model, or flat out lying to the population. Honestly, how can they expect anyone to swallow that rubbish about 700k cases in a few months and over 2k deaths? It would be hilarious if it wasn’t quite literally destroying lives

Zzippy · 29-06-2021 01:08PM

I've been on the cautious side all along, health conditions meant we cocooned a lot more than most, but even I think this is getting ridiculous now. The "grim and sobering" modelling presented by NPHET (out of the blue) is not compatible with the experience from other countries with similar vaccination numbers and where Delta is already dominant. It doesn't affect me in the slightest as we wouldn't get a babysitter anyway to mind our 3, so not like I'd be going out for dinner, but I know a lot of people working in tourism and hospitality - this is a real gut punch to them.

Former Former Former · 29-06-2021 01:12PM

Bridge93 wrote: »

Philip Nolan, our supposed best statistician, is either grossly incompetent with that latest model, or flat out lying to the population. Honestly, how can they expect anyone to swallow that rubbish about 700k cases in a few months and over 2k deaths? It would be hilarious if it wasn’t quite literally destroying lives

It's a worst case scenario and that will always grab the headlines.

The best case, also presented to government, is for 81,000 cases and 165 deaths. That's about double the cases we're running at now but about a tenth of the worst case.

This is what their job is. Present the different possibilities to government and let them make the call.

The last time the government caved to pressure from the vintners to reopen, it didn't 'literally destroy lives', it literally (in the actual sense of literally) killed hundreds of people.

Squidgy Black · 29-06-2021 01:12PM

The media handling has been insane lately. Over the last week or two it's been "there won't be a delay to the reopening", or "we don't invision any way the reopening will be delayed" to now, yep it's almost confirmed we'll be delaying it.

Bridge93 · 29-06-2021 01:19PM

Former Former Former wrote: »

It's a worst case scenario and that will always grab the headlines.

The best case, also presented to government, is for 81,000 cases and 165 deaths. That's about double the cases we're running at now.

This is what their job is. Present the different possibilities to government and let them make the call.

The last time the government caved to pressure from the vintners to reopen, it didn't 'literally destroy lives', it literally (in the actual sense of literally) killed hundreds of people.

Right you’re one of those comparing it to Christmas again. Useless waste of time. It’s not worst case scenario it’s is completely rubbish and not even the remotest of possibilities.

Why are we the only country on the continent still hiding from this? Living with covid or whatever they called their plan last September was some load of nonsense

Shaka Hislop · 29-06-2021 01:30PM

No vaccine, no pubs is the gist going forward

sydthebeat · 29-06-2021 01:40PM

https://twitter.com/davidmurphyRTE/status/1409851716133175296

the rest of 2021 is written off lads....

get onto the web and book your holidays abroad now

aloooof · 29-06-2021 01:50PM

Bridge93 wrote: »

Right you’re one of those comparing it to Christmas again. Useless waste of time. It’s not worst case scenario it’s is completely rubbish and not even the remotest of possibilities.

Why are we the only country on the continent still hiding from this? Living with covid or whatever they called their plan last September was some load of nonsense

As an aside, it's worth noting that what played out at Christmas far exceeded their worst case models for that time.

Obviously, the vaccination picture should dramatically change things now (and while I've leaned on the cautious side, I do agree things too stringent at the moment) but personally I'm not going to claim absolutes such as the above when I'm not in the least bit qualified to do so.

molloyjh · 29-06-2021 01:53PM

Bridge93 wrote: »

Right you’re one of those comparing it to Christmas again. Useless waste of time. It’s not worst case scenario it’s is completely rubbish and not even the remotest of possibilities.

Why are we the only country on the continent still hiding from this? Living with covid or whatever they called their plan last September was some load of nonsense

I'm sure you can back up your assertions with a strong evidence based case through your extensive knowledge and/or research into the subject, yeah?

I get people being pissed off about it and all that, but calling it nonsense or lies is a bit much. Who exactly are any of us to say that? The term "back in your lane" really needs to be used a lot more these days.

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