What is the Jankest Sport

[Matt the Shrimp]

Quote[/b] (shrimper4life @ June 28 2006,16:51)]

Quote[/b] (hexagon_sun @ June 28 2006,09:33)]Other - cricket. Utter tedium dressed up as a sport. I've had more fun watching BBC Parliament.

Totally agree with you. Apart from some of the Ashes, its pretty boring. Especially long 5 day tests. Must be pretty demoralising for cricketers in the top division of english cricket to play in front of a crowd of 100.

Tsk, tsk... so many infidels on here, as yet in the darkness about the wonderful sport that is cricket...

 

[hexagon_sun]

Quote[/b] (Matt the Shrimp @ June 28 2006,16:38)]

Quote[/b] (hexagon_sun @ June 28 2006,09:33)]Other - cricket. Utter tedium dressed up as a sport. I've had more fun watching BBC Parliament.

I do appreciate, though, that you either "get" cricket or you don't. But to call it "utter tedium" demonstrates only your failure to understand it, rather than any intrinsic weaknesses in the sport itself.

Surely that could be used as an argument about anybody who dislikes a particular sport though?

Quote[/b] (Matt the Shrimp @ June 28 2006,16:38)]
For me, motor racing (particularly F1) has to be the most utterly pointless load of crap going. It isn't sport, it's Professor Heinz Wolff's "Great Egg Race" with wheels. It's simply a test of which group of engineers is the best... it used to be Ferrari, now it's Renault. Why exactly should I care?

As for F1, I'm no fan (especially not these days) but my family were all fans back in the sport's heyday so I've had to sit through many a GP and even someone like me with little/no interest in the sport began to be won over to some degree - something I've never been able to say about cricket which, let's face it, is just a sport for public schoolboys, Yorkshiremen and blokes who like spending whole days away from the missus

 

[Slipperduke]

If you'd met my missus, Hexagon*.......

I've got to back Matt up here, Cricket is great. It's completely different to every other sport in its reliance on tactics and strategy, yet still has enough room for courage, strength and agility. You have to be in the right frame of mind for it, admitedly. Which is usually a frame of mind found after the fourth pint actually.

People who like Rugby and Football? It shouldn't be possible. That's like having two wives.




* - I am, of course, joking. The current Mrs Slipperduke is a lovely person who I would never dream of hiding away from. She also knows I post here and could be checking up on me at any time.....

 

[Grayson]

People who find cricket boring are just ignorant to the game and what it's all about. I understand them a bit if people find it annoying when they listen to commentators though, as the language used is very much for those that know the rules, positions etc of the game.

Still, cricket is much better than many sports, only bettered than football, it at all.

 

[tomasufc 4eva]

Come on people, if you don't love cricket then you've gotta sort ya life out !!!

Under other, can we have golf please - worst and most boring sport ever, both to watch and to play.

 

[Xàbia Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (tomasufc 4eva @ June 28 2006,19:37)]Come on people, if you don't love cricket then you've gotta sort ya life out !!!

Under other, can we have golf please - worst and most boring sport ever, both to watch and to play.

Sort MY life out?! Sort MY life out?

Cricket is ABSOLUTE sh!tE! And the rows and rows of empty seats at league games seems to suggest that most people agree!!

 

[EastStandBlue]

I don't mind 20twenty Cricket and the occasional ODI... The South Africa Australia ODI earlier this year was fantastic and would've had anyone on the edge of their seat.

 

[Xàbia Shrimper]

How can a sport as DULL as cricket have ANYONE on the "edge of the seat"?!

 

[West Country Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (Slipperduke @ June 28 2006,17:55)]People who like Rugby and Football? It shouldn't be possible.

I'm afraid it is possible, mister!

 

[southend_utd_fan]

Bowls? Is that even a sport, or just for old blokes?

 

[BrettieAngell]

Quote[/b] (Xàbia Shrimper @ June 28 2006,21:06)]

Quote[/b] (tomasufc 4eva @ June 28 2006,19:37)]Come on people, if you don't love cricket then you've gotta sort ya life out !!!

Under other, can we have golf please - worst and most boring sport ever, both to watch and to play.

Sort MY life out?! Sort MY life out?

Cricket is ABSOLUTE sh!tE! And the rows and rows of empty seats at league games seems to suggest that most people agree!!

The fact that they play when most people are working might have something to do with it but there you go.

 

[shrimper4life]

Quote[/b] (Museshrimper @ June 28 2006,18:18)]People who find cricket boring are just ignorant to the game and what it's all about. I understand them a bit if people find it annoying when they listen to commentators though, as the language used is very much for those that know the rules, positions etc of the game.

Still, cricket is much better than many sports, only bettered than football, it at all.

Disagree with you there, i know most positions and technical terms as i play cricket (which i find much more enjoyable than watching it) but still its a boring sport

 

[Xàbia Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (BrettieAngell @ June 28 2006,23:54)]The fact that they play when most people are working might have something to do with it but there you go.

So, it's a elitist sport as well! Even more evidence to claim the title "dullest sport in the world"!

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Quote[/b] (Xàbia Shrimper @ June 29 2006,09:27)]

Quote[/b] (BrettieAngell @ June 28 2006,23:54)]The fact that they play when most people are working might have something to do with it but there you go.

So, it's a elitist sport as well! Even more evidence to claim the title "dullest sport in the world"!

Stop fishing, Michael...

 

[Xàbia Shrimper]

jejeje

(it is rubbish though)

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Quote[/b] (Xàbia Shrimper @ June 29 2006,12:17)]jejeje

A Spanish laugh... we like...

(We will have to agree to disagree... on the playing fields of Elysium, there is room for football and cricket, in my view...)

 

[Wessex Blue]

Golf - what the f%&k is it about this most tedious of games that makes millions of middle aged men come in their pants and spend thousands on a collection of odd shaped sticks?


American football - Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
hahaha what a load of nancy-boy sh!te.

F1 - Was a good sport in the 60's and 70's but that was only because you had the excitement of drivers being incinerated in their cars live on national TV. It's very tedious now that nodoby dies........

Fishing....................what is the point?

 

[Slipperduke]

Quote[/b] (Wessex Blue @ June 30 2006,00:14)]F1 - Was a good sport in the 60's and 70's but that was only because you had the excitement of drivers being incinerated in their cars live on national TV. It's very tedious now that nodoby dies........

Quote of the day!

 

[canveyshrimper]

Quote[/b] (Wessex Blue @ June 30 2006,00:14)]Fishing....................what is the point?

Fish without chips - pointless.

 

[SARF]

On the subject of 'radish bottoming'.. sorry rugby, I will say in its defence that at least the Ref has respect (they are usually ex players) and if one of the players went down screaming like the modern International footballer it would be because some huge fijian had actually snapped a leg off or something.
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As for the rest, well F1 has to be the most tiresome for reasons mentioned.. they should go the whole hog and let them build cars with every single technological wizardry they can fit onto a set sized chassis.. skirts, active suspension, turbo chargers, launch this, traction that.. the only requsite is that the driver (or computer operater) is still alive at the end of the race after all the G force they will be exposed to