Boardsies decide: Best sporting moments (nominations closed, knockout ongoing)

irishejit · 29-10-2019 12:19pm

quickbeam wrote: »

You're younger than me, but I don't remember anything until Seoul.

I wasn't long out of hospital round that time after a big operation and remember vividly everything that was on as I wasn't allowed to venture off the sofa for a couple of weeks. It and Mexico 86 World Cup are the first major sporting events I remember watching.

quickbeam · 29-10-2019 12:31pm

irishejit wrote: »

I wasn't long out of hospital round that time after a big operation and remember vividly everything that was on as I wasn't allowed to venture off the sofa for a couple of weeks. It and Mexico 86 World Cup are the first major sporting events I remember watching.

Yeah, don't remember anything pre Italia 90 football wise.

smelly sock · 29-10-2019 12:40pm

Michelle Smith 3 gold medals on 96 has to be up there.

The Nal · 29-10-2019 12:45pm

Green&Red · 29-10-2019 12:55pm

@Smelly @ The nal - nominations are closed but voting is open, we're onto voting on the 64 moments

Collie D · 29-10-2019 1:04pm

I'm going to go with the Christmas Day game - a lovely piece of humanity in a horrible war - uniting people of different sides like international football should - the epitome of the sporting spirit which is so often missing.

Zaph · 29-10-2019 1:41pm

Daley Thompson, on the basis that the football match wasn't a real sporting event

Barney92 · 29-10-2019 11:16pm

Whilst I do appreciate the nomination of the Christmas game and I had been thinking of doing something similar myself, albeit for a different moment, I won't be voting for it. Daley Thompson for me. Athlete at the peek of his powers and only five people have beaten that record since.

Green&Red · 31-10-2019 9:28am

Right, I'm going to tie this up, I'll give it another go in December

Electric Nitwit · 31-10-2019 10:57am

Fair enough G&R, shame it never built momentum

Thanks for trying

MrKingsley · 31-10-2019 11:54am

Gutted GnR. Cheers for giving it a go

Necro · 31-10-2019 11:56am

That's a shame. This could have been a lot of fun imo

Spook_ie · 01-11-2019 5:40pm

Necro wrote: »

That's a shame. This could have been a lot of fun imo

Only just realised this was going on, perhaps still being in the sign up threads doesn't help it's cause.

Bounty Hunter · 03-11-2019 4:07pm

Spook_ie wrote: »

Only just realised this was going on, perhaps still being in the sign up threads doesn't help it's cause.

Yeah I didn't know it was running tbh as it was in the sign up thread not the other games forum and that WW game had me completely distracted at the start too. Think I submitted the Christmas game as one of my votes so would have voted for that if it was still going here.

iirc G&R said every nomination would make it in so that means in a game where Wimbledon winners were eliminated me starting a the referee's a w@nker chant mid game I was playing remains undefeated. I'm going to consider myself a winner by default, wooo!

Green&Red · 09-12-2019 10:10am

Might look at resurrecting this tomorrow if theres enough interest?

Maybe a MOD could move it into the reveal sub-forum, cheers

ArnoldJRimmer · 10-12-2019 3:59pm

Green&Red wrote: »

Might look at resurrecting this tomorrow if theres enough interest?

Maybe a MOD could move it into the reveal sub-forum, cheers

I'll definitely throw a few into the ring if its going ahead

Green&Red · 10-12-2019 4:02pm

ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »

I'll definitely throw a few into the ring if its going ahead

Nominations are done and we were part of the way through the voting but got very little traction.

I’ll have a chat to QB and see about either running it with her Christmas movie or holding off until she’s done

quickbeam · 10-12-2019 4:41pm

Run away GnR if you like.

Rikand · 10-12-2019 4:46pm

Now as good a time as any
Theres good traffic to the forum with qbs thread

Green&Red · 10-12-2019 4:49pm

So a quick recap

Sonia O'Sullivan's medal in the sydney olympics beat Nana Novtovna's 1998 Wimbleton triumph
and
Goran Ivanisevic's 2001 win beat Beckers 1985 win both at Wimbledon

Green&Red · 10-12-2019 4:54pm

Next up Daley Thompson and his 1984 gold

Versus the 1914 Christmas day match in WWI

Actual footage

Rikand · 10-12-2019 4:56pm

Daley Thompson winning gold

Do I need a reason ?

Cause I was alive when it happened ?

Green&Red · 10-12-2019 4:57pm

No reasons required

Daley cause it was an actual sporting event

treade1 · 10-12-2019 4:58pm

Daley cause it was a sporting moment

ArnoldJRimmer · 10-12-2019 4:59pm

1914 Christmas day match as even though it was over 100 years ago, its sticks more in the memory. Forgot that Daley Thompson existed until this was posted

10-12-2019 5:03pm

Daley Thompson as it was real and real stuff is generally better then fake stuff

irishejit · 10-12-2019 5:04pm

Daley Thompson....one of my first olympic memories, and can still remember him on all the cereal boxes for what seemed like an eternity afterwards

quickbeam · 10-12-2019 5:04pm

The 1914 match was real???

Tell me how · 10-12-2019 5:04pm

The Christmas Day football match.

Because every sporting event is looked on more and more favourably and imaginatively as time passes (341,459 attending Munster v New Zealand in 1978 for example) and while it is likely such a game was not sanctioned by UEFA or anything, I can believe that it happened. (I'm ignoring the fact that the only supporting evidence I can find leads to an article from the Telegraph)

Necro · 10-12-2019 5:05pm

Daley Thompson for me as I agree with the above it was an actual sporting moment not just a warm fuzzy memory

greenspurs · 10-12-2019 5:05pm

Kilkennys display Vs Waterford in the 2008 All Ireland Final - poetry in motion.

Roche winning the Giro in 87 - Against his own team and the host country, he grabbed it and won it with only one teammate willing to help him!

Katie Taylor - Olympic Champion … The moment her hand was raised … Unforgettable! An absolute legend...

Shane Long's goal in Lansdowne Vs Germany - Wow ….

Zaph · 10-12-2019 5:05pm

Daley Thompson, because it was actually sport.

10-12-2019 5:05pm

quickbeam wrote: »

The 1914 match was real???

O i thought it was an add. o wait o right never mind

ArnoldJRimmer · 10-12-2019 5:05pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Daley Thompson as it was real and real stuff is generally better then fake stuff

Yeah, the footage above wasn't from the actual event, the soldiers weren't allowed to take their iPhones into battle in 1914 in case they interfered with the various propaganda machines

Green&Red · 10-12-2019 5:06pm

greenspurs wrote: »

Kilkennys display Vs Waterford in the 2008 All Ireland Final - poetry in motion.

Roche winning the Giro in 87 - Against his own team and the host country, he grabbed it and won it with only one teammate willing to help him!

Katie Taylor - Olympic Champion … The moment her hand was raised … Unforgettable! An absolute legend...

Shane Long's goal in Lansdowne Vs Germany - Wow ….

So we did a nominations bit a month back, we're now down to voting for the winner

quickbeam · 10-12-2019 5:06pm

Deleted User wrote: »

O i thought it was an add. o wait o right never mind

Never change Mick. Never change :P

10-12-2019 5:06pm

ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »

Yeah, the footage above wasn't from the actual event, the soldiers weren't allowed to take their iPhones into battle in 1914 in case they interfered with the various propaganda machines

Blonde moment rimmer you stay outta this, i'll have it out with myself :pac:

10-12-2019 5:07pm

Im changing to the soldier footy match, i will try read more carefully in future

Spook_ie · 10-12-2019 5:07pm

Daley Thompson great medal performence and NO DRUGS

Green&Red · 10-12-2019 5:08pm

Daley runs, hurdles and jumps his way into round 2

Green&Red · 10-12-2019 5:09pm

Next one is going to be very tight

Ciaran McDonalds wonder point versus the dubs in 2004 after the battle for the hill. One of my favourite days in Croke Park

Versus probably the greatest underdog story of all time

Green&Red · 10-12-2019 5:10pm

Ciaran Mc gets my vote, great to see him back this week

Necro · 10-12-2019 5:10pm

Leicester's win, no contest.

Should go very far in this comp imo anyways

Spook_ie · 10-12-2019 5:13pm

Gotta be Leicester City, there were even die hard Utd and Pool fans willing them on, except when they were playing Utd and Pool of course

10-12-2019 5:13pm

Sorry gnR i gotta go with Leicester

ArnoldJRimmer · 10-12-2019 5:16pm

Similar to how my beloved Donegals win over Dublin in 2014 is one of my favourite days as a sports fan, they ultimately lost the final

So Leicester for me, amazing achievement

buckwheat · 10-12-2019 5:17pm

And Solskjaer has won it:cool:

irishejit · 10-12-2019 5:18pm

Leicester for me....breaking into the usual top 4/6 hadn't been done in the Premiership since Blackburn Rovers

Tell me how · 10-12-2019 5:20pm

Leicester.

Seems a mismatch in a singular sporting action by an individual compared to a teams efforts throughout the entire seasons.
If it was Ciaran McDonald versus Rooney strike against Newcastle for example, I'd have gone with Ciaran.

Kolido · 10-12-2019 5:20pm

irishejit wrote: »

Leicester for me....breaking into the usual top 4/6 hadn't been done in the Premiership since Blackburn Rovers

Everton did it unfotunately. Leicester gets my vote, greatest story I've seen in football. Flying high this season also

Boardsies decide: Best sporting moments (nominations closed, knockout ongoing)

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