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Odd Team Sports

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    #32
    massdebater
    Registered Users Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭massdebater


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    There are quite a number of odd team sports around the world

    Aussie Rules is similar to Gaelic but its just odd that you get a point for hitting a wide

    American Football- how many players are actually touch the ball ???.

    You posted my two favourite team sports! Aussie rules is a great game to watch, always lots happening and some great athletes. I used to hate American football too, before I understood the rules. Especially if you appreciate tactics - it's like a chess match with beast humans

    Both sports made even more fun by the draft process so bad teams get first selection of the best players the following year which keeps it cyclical and keeps fans interested. Used to love soccer and gaa but it's the same teams competing every year so gets boring. Only follow Ireland in soccer and my county's gaa games nowadays


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    #33
    salmocab
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    massdebater wrote: »
    You posted my two favourite team sports! Aussie rules is a great game to watch, always lots happening and some great athletes. I used to hate American football too, before I understood the rules. Especially if you appreciate tactics - it's like a chess match with beast humans

    Both sports made even more fun by the draft process so bad teams get first selection of the best players the following year which keeps it cyclical and keeps fans interested. Used to love soccer and gaa but it's the same teams competing every year so gets boring. Only follow Ireland in soccer and my county's gaa games nowadays

    I like American football but can’t agree with you on Aussie rules I find it numbingly bad.


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    #34
    biko
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    Sepak Takraw


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    #35
    jmayo
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    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    Cricket is an easy enough sport to understand. There’s a bit of complexity with scoring in the test series, but the rules of the sport itself are far easier than genuinely complex sports like rugby.

    It’s also good to stick on and watch if you’re lying on the couch dying of a hangover. Moves at a gentle pace, and the commentators are picked for their gentle bonhomie and smooth speaking voice.

    Don't like it ever since fell asleep and got sunburnt watching a live match.

    AS for people saying American football is better than Aussie rules, what fooking planet are you on. :eek:

    American football is a joke of a game.
    A game's duration is 60 minutes, but it takes on average around 3.5 hours to run it.
    Oh and the ball is only in play for on average 11 minutes.
    WTF.

    When the other side gets the ball you change your team from offence to defence .
    Only a few players actually ever touch the ball and if you need to kick the ball you bring on a specialist player to do it.

    In Aussie rules the ball is in play, every players gets a chance to play it at some stage and they all get to kick the fooking thing if they want.

    American football should be done under the Trade Descriptions Act as it involves shag all foot meeting the ball.

    And claiming that it is the tactics that make it great is like claiming F1 was improved when they passed each other through pit stops and not racing on the track.


    Rugby is weird with a myriad of weird rules when you sit back and analyse it, but at least they don't change the team every few minutes and everyone has a chance to engage with the ball.


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    #36
    PTH2009
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    quite like Aussie Rules football after watching a few clips

    my god its a physical game and kicking a ball of that shape is quite skillful


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    #37
    fryup
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    Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »
    Aussie Rules is a great game.

    ...for thugs

    played by thugs, played on a oval pitch, with an oval ball, 18 men a side, 4 goal posts, you can get away with almost anything as no one gets sent off....its like something a bunch of bored school kids made up during a lunch break - its daft!


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    #38
    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    Judo team competition might look a bit brutal I guess. I've fought some really close club mates, usually I'll shake hands before stepping onto the mat ''Friends again in five minutes, lets have fun'', then go hell for leather trying to throw, strangle, joint lock or pin your mate for the fight.

    Big hug at the end :)

    That horsey polo is a bit weird I guess. I've watched it a few times in the Phoenix Park, thought it was a load of gick.


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    #39
    Zebra3
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    sugarman wrote: »
    Curling.

    First thing that came into my head when I saw the thread title.

    Bizarre nonsense.


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