Any else happy that there is no sports coverage?

v638sg7k1a92bx · 14-04-2020 8:53pm #1

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 · 14-04-2020 8:56pm

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

Signore Fancy Pants · 14-04-2020 8:56pm

Sport is fer qwares.

JPCN1 · 14-04-2020 8:57pm

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

Level 5 Vegan · 14-04-2020 8:57pm

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 · 14-04-2020 8:58pm

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

14-04-2020 8:58pm

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

14-04-2020 8:58pm

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 · 14-04-2020 9:00pm

[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 · 14-04-2020 9:00pm

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 · 14-04-2020 9:02pm

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

14-04-2020 9:03pm

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 · 14-04-2020 9:13pm

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 · 14-04-2020 9:15pm

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

Howitzer the 5th · 14-04-2020 9:16pm

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 · 14-04-2020 9:17pm

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 · 14-04-2020 9:18pm

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

14-04-2020 9:18pm

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

14-04-2020 9:21pm

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 · 14-04-2020 9:25pm

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 · 14-04-2020 10:07pm

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 · 14-04-2020 10:29pm

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.

14-04-2020 10:32pm

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.

14-04-2020 10:34pm

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 · 14-04-2020 10:35pm

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 · 14-04-2020 10:38pm

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 · 14-04-2020 10:40pm

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 · 14-04-2020 10:42pm

Still waters wrote: »

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

Still living in the past I see.

Stacksofwacks · 14-04-2020 10:48pm

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

Church on Tuesday · 14-04-2020 10:49pm

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.

14-04-2020 11:02pm

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.

Any else happy that there is no sports coverage?

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