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Any else happy that there is no sports coverage?

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  • #182
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Omackeral wrote: »
    A real adrenaline-filled tag line.

    PGA tour on quite late at night. Very relaxing. I spend most time on my phone so its perfect to have on in the background.

    Btw if I need adrenaline from it I can place a bet.


  • #183
    meeeeh
    Registered Users Posts: 11,624 ✭✭✭✭meeeeh


    I like to have cycling on when ironing or cooking.

    Where we live we are actually able to have fairly active and busy life despite Corona so I'm not exactly bored but I think I actually know a bit too much about Corona for my own good. Formula 1 race, football or similar would be nice distraction.


  • #184
    Huntergonzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,160 ✭✭✭Huntergonzo


    meeeeh wrote: »
    I like to have cycling on when ironing or cooking.

    Where we live we are actually able to have fairly active and busy life despite Corona so I'm not exactly bored but I think I actually know a bit too much about Corona for my own good. Formula 1 race, football or similar would be nice distraction.

    The Tour de France is great, they've put that back to the end of August, hopefully things are much better by then and it can go ahead.


  • #185
    KiKi III
    Registered Users Posts: 2,653 ✭✭✭KiKi III


    I’m not interested in competitive sports so I just change the channel and watch other stuff even when it is on.

    I’d consider myself quite the problem solver that way.


  • #186
    Agricola
    Registered Users Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Canis Lupus wrote: »
    God this a million times. There's moments I could actually enjoy soccer but it's so completely ruined by the constant falling over looking for free kicks/penalties. How fans can endure that sh*te is beyond me.

    This is the thing that caused me to drift away from the premiership. Of course the diehards will never admit it, but the attitudes of players today versus those of 20 plus years ago is enormous.
    A lot of the diving and play acting has been imported with foreign players and coaches over the last 25 years and the culture has slowly changed from one of a sport which had plenty of hard hitting passionate contests to one where the personnel on the pitch care an awful more about their own contracts and luxurious lifestyles than actually winning trophies year in year out.

    Clubs are multimillion businesses now and players are valuable assets so it stands to reason that the whole industry would eventually devolve into more of a theatre / spectacle than an actual sport. Very similar to F1. The safety standards and rule changes that ensure no driver dies in a car are also the changes which have killed the thrill of the sport as it was in years gone by.


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  • #187
    Strumms
    Registered Users Posts: 24,800 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    meeeeh wrote: »
    I like to have cycling on when ironing or cooking.

    Where we live we are actually able to have fairly active and busy life despite Corona so I'm not exactly bored but I think I actually know a bit too much about Corona for my own good. Formula 1 race, football or similar would be nice distraction.

    It’s weird, cycling I always found a really interesting watch on tv, for the sport, the racing primarily but also finding out about different places, getting an inside track on ideas for a holiday even.


  • #188
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,748 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    Agricola wrote: »
    This is the thing that caused me to drift away from the premiership. Of course the diehards will never admit it, but the attitudes of players today versus those of 20 plus years ago is enormous.
    A lot of the diving and play acting has been imported with foreign players and coaches over the last 25 years and the culture has slowly changed from one of a sport which had plenty of hard hitting passionate contests to one where the personnel on the pitch care an awful more about their own contracts and luxurious lifestyles than actually winning trophies year in year out.

    Clubs are multimillion businesses now and players are valuable assets so it stands to reason that the whole industry would eventually devolve into more of a theatre / spectacle than an actual sport. Very similar to F1. The safety standards and rule changes that ensure no driver dies in a car are also the changes which have killed the thrill of the sport as it was in years gone by.

    Yeah, back to shattered footballers legs and dying in a flaming car, much better.

    I won't even get into the whole bloody foreigners ruining the game part. Makes one sound like a Big Sam type.


  • #189
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,174 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Agricola wrote: »
    ...The safety standards and rule changes that ensure no driver dies in a car are also the changes which have killed the thrill of the sport as it was in years gone by.

    Jackie Stewart and Kenny Roberts Sr. would disagree. Grand Prix speeds are twice as high as they were back in the Good Old days, you know.


  • #190
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    jimgoose wrote: »
    Jackie Stewart and Kenny Roberts Sr. would disagree. Grand Prix speeds are twice as high as they were back in the Good Old days, you know.

    All the tracks are bland and boring these days with very limited options for overtaking. It’s a bit of a snooze fest. Slower cars with more overtaking, hairpins, mad chicanes, and multi car crashes is what the sport needs. Maybe the off fistfight as well.


  • #191
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,174 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    All the tracks are bland and boring these days with very limited options for overtaking. It’s a bit of a snooze fest. Slower cars with more overtaking, hairpins, mad chicanes, and multi car crashes is what the sport needs. Maybe the off fistfight as well.

    Well, GP is more about driving technology than providing entertainment, but you do have a point. In fairness the newest more eco-friendly engines are less powerful than the howling V10/V12 monsters of a few years back. The overtaking is the best part of MotoGP though, it's proper hairy-arsed stuff.


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  • #192
    Agricola
    Registered Users Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Deebles McBeebles wrote: »
    Yeah, back to shattered footballers legs and dying in a flaming car, much better.

    I won't even get into the whole bloody foreigners ruining the game part. Makes one sound like a Big Sam type.

    Doesnt have to be blood and guts of the 60s/70s in either football or motor racing. There's a happy medium and I think it was achieved in the 90's and early 2000s when prem football was still a physical and highly competitive game but had been cleaned up massively by stricter regulations around fair play. F1 was stilll exciting and compelling to watch by hadnt been castrated completely by all the rule changes and car tech which arrived in the last 10 years.


  • #193
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Well OP, I'm sad that the Olympics is postponed for a year because I love the Olympics and I don't know if I'll still be alive in a year to see them. I can only look ahead for a few months at a time because of the capricious disease I'm living with and right about now I would have started looking forward to the Olympics but now I can't and that is really shit.

    Maybe being disappointed makes me a lumpen dullard. But the small things are what make life bearable. We all need escapism.


  • #194
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    MrMusician18 wrote: »
    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.

    It as easy to avoid sports as it is soaps. I know because I do it with ease.


  • #195
    Mister Vain
    Registered Users Posts: 6,037 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    Fans using the word "we" when referring to the team they support. :D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN1WN0YMWZU


  • #196
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    I'm part owner of my club so I've no bother saying it :P


  • #197
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Once you get up off your hole and go then it’s fine. That said, I’m not missing the soccer or GAA nearly as much as I thought I would. It’s only 3 hours on a Friday and 3 hours on a Sunday that need to be otherwise filled.


  • #198
    AllForIt
    Registered Users Posts: 8,268 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    I'm having withdraw symptoms from no longer hearing the name Sexton multiple times per day when I'm in earshot of the news.

    I've actually no idea who he actually is but I'd guess rugby.


  • #199
    Tell me how
    Registered Users Posts: 21,517 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    AllForIt wrote: »
    I'm having withdraw symptoms from no longer hearing the name Sexton multiple times per day when I'm in earshot of the news.

    I've actually no idea who he actually is but I'd guess rugby.

    If you've heard him discussed several times a day for a period, and still don't know who he is, that doesn't reflect well on your ability to comprehend things does it?

    I wouldnt be shining a light on that unless it was asking for advice on how to overcome this shortcoming.


  • #200
    Markx
    Registered Users Posts: 929 ✭✭✭Markx


    Agricola wrote: »
    This is the thing that caused me to drift away from the premiership. Of course the diehards will never admit it, but the attitudes of players today versus those of 20 plus years ago is enormous.
    A lot of the diving and play acting has been imported with foreign players and coaches over the last 25 years and the culture has slowly changed from one of a sport which had plenty of hard hitting passionate contests to one where the personnel on the pitch care an awful more about their own contracts and luxurious lifestyles than actually winning trophies year in year out.

    Clubs are multimillion businesses now and players are valuable assets so it stands to reason that the whole industry would eventually devolve into more of a theatre / spectacle than an actual sport. Very similar to F1. The safety standards and rule changes that ensure no driver dies in a car are also the changes which have killed the thrill of the sport as it was in years gone by.

    What you have said in this post is mainstream thinking among diehards I think you'll find, and has been for a long time.


  • #201
    Ironhead93
    Registered Users Posts: 60 ✭✭Ironhead93


    Yeah ive never understood or followed the obsession with football , maybe just because my da didn't either, but it refreshing not hearing people yap about the same 4 teams that everybody follows, I do miss the rugby however.


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