never seen the allure. i like my shins.Quote:
Originally Posted by SÓC
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never seen the allure. i like my shins.Quote:
Originally Posted by SÓC
Shins? I've always worried more about teeth and long term memory loss.Quote:
Originally Posted by ShedEnd.com
Cricket is deffo my number 2 sport.
Played it through college and beyond.
Great Laugh.
Playing + Watching:- Rugby, Darts, Cricket
Just Playing:- Basketball
Just Watching:- Womens Tennis (slower, more skillfull game unless the Williamses are playing), Ice Hockey, Heavyweight Boxing
I have the unusual family claim that my great grand pappy was the first professional cricketer in Ireland, so always had an interest. Fair nuff, the test matches can be unbelievably boring, but the limited over matches are the stuff of legend. Particularily in the World Cup in England a couple of years ago ( one match (poss semi-final) between Aus and Sth Africa) there were a few classics!!
Love the GAA , the Rugger although I never played and only found out the proper rules(are there any?) a couple of years ago due to a yr long sojurn in Cahirciveen!!
Hurling is a fabulous game , but unfortunately the Gah was the only "home" sport in my school.
Golf and P+P are daycent too.
Rugby
Tennis
Ice Hockey
Greyhound Racing
In order
To play & watch:
Hurling
To play:
Volleyball
Basketball
Rounders (no baseball when I were young)
To Watch:
Baseball (no rounders likely to be on Setanta yet for a spell)
Cricket
Playing: Darts, B-ball.
Watching: Iomaint, Rugby (played them both for a while but I prefer to be able to be able to walk 7 days a week rather than 4),Datrs, Peil Gaeilach (would still play but none of my friends are into it), and pretty much everything else besides Tennis, but i've have to be pretty bored to watch cricket.
Ok favourite other sports to watch
1/ Hurling
2/ Ice Hockey
3/ Rugby Union
4/ Women's basketball
5/ American Football
6/ Men's basketball
7/ Paint drying
8/ Cricket
9/ Bogball
Hockey (Ice of course)
Canadian Football
American Football
London losing in the Championship
Rugby (Union & League)
There's something wrong with a sport where a game can be played for 5 days and still end in a draw.Quote:
Originally Posted by razor
I love a bit of rugby union, hurling and golf.
I've no time for bogball - see it is a bit of a skill-less sport but I am from Kilkenny and we don't even play it.
To play: Darts......
To watch: Soccer,Golf.. Thats about it, not too keen on the GAA and EGG scene.
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Originally Posted by davros
is there not a risk of ......er.........electrocution :D
Played and Watch - Rugby (both codes), Hockey, Tennis, Golf, GAA, Snooker, Field (Javlin + Shot)
Played League one day in school. This a shocking game to play IMO. The stop start of it drove me mad. Just when you'd get a good move going you have to stop and give the defending time to reorganise after the tackle.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roo69
Unconstested scrums are for girls
Union any day
how can you tell it is a skill less sport if you haven't played it. :confused: :confused:are you telling me maurice fitsgerald, seamus moynihan graham canty and anthony lynch have no skill?Quote:
Originally Posted by finlma
Totally agree, and yet League heads claim it's a faster more skillfull game! I'd watch it if it's on, but if it was a choice between the two no contest. I have played both, but frankly league is for girls (or fat backs) - no proper scrums, no rucks and mauls....Quote:
Originally Posted by SÓC
played league in football training a few weeks back.really enjoyed it.good craic.i suppose with my frame rucking and mauling wouldn't be for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by SÓC
Played a good few sports when I used to be fit. Apart from Football (soccer), my favourite was rugby. It was great fun. Delighted the 6 nations has started. Now I'm just about fit enough to manage darts and the odd round of golf.
Aswell as these sports, I like to watch a good game of hurling. Nothing like it. (Mostly on TV. Not much chance of a great game down my way! :D )
I like American Football too. Was disappointed the Pats won last night.
Is anyone else interested in 9-ball pool? Don't think anyone's mentioned it.
Always thought union was a very stop start start sport with the ball being in rucks and mauls and other exotically named things and also fouls are award for bizzare things in union.Quote:
Originally Posted by SÓC
I have played it plenty of times but in comparison to hurling in skill level.......well, there is no comparison.Quote:
Originally Posted by ollie
Whenever they made us play bogball in school we used turn it into a game of soccer.
Aye love to play whenver I get the chance-with ma borthers, mates, dad grandad etc. Snooker is good raic to-ma mate got a (half size) table recently and I learned the rules! Great fun cannae stop! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Kerry Blue
I spent manys a school day in the local snooker hall. I still suck at it though.
I'm not a huge fan of 9-ball. You can pot all the balls except the 9 and then the other guy, who's potted nothing comes along and pots the 9 to win. I prefer normal pool.
doesn't this tell its own story. :rolleyes: i'll agree with you that hurling is an ultra skillfull game but football is still a skillfull game.if you put any game up against hurling it wont compare favourably.i'm a big fan of hurling BTW.Quote:
Originally Posted by finlma
a "skillless" game wouldn't attract the biggest crowds year after year!
Fair point. As I said though I'm from Kilkenny where there is zero interest and therefore zero appreciation of the sport.Quote:
Originally Posted by ollie
Favourites To Play:
Darts :)
Kayaking :) :) :)
and handball when I was in school
To Watch:
Soccer
Darts
Hurling
Womens Tennis
and snooker depending on who's playing
Darts,table tennis,mixed martial arts
What possessed you to resurrest a 3 year old thread???
Anyway, I enjoy watching ice hockey, gaelic football, hurling, motorsports and darts.
Never seen it before:eek:
GAA, Rugby, Boxing, Darts.
add table-tennis to that list will ye sligoman?!
Pitch and putt also please!
It might be easier to make a list of sports I don't like. But I can't think of any!
Will play or watch pretty much anything.
If pushed for favourites I'd have to say hurling and darts. With Gaelic football not far behind, oh and golf.
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Originally Posted by paul_oshea
I posted that in 2004 so edit time is up at this stage:D. Doesn't need to be on the list anyway sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kingdom
To watch:
Badminton
Spanish football
Rugby
To play:
Badminton/football
Played most sports but would watch on TV:
Cricket
International rugby and Heineken rugby (if Irish involvement)
Hurling (if Waterford playing)
Snooker (if Doherty involved or a Final)
Poker on Sky (great viewing)
Grand National Horse race (only one I'd watch)
Athletics if Olympics or Irish involvement
Good oul GridIorn for me, partial to a bit of Baseball too
Rallying, particularly the tarmac variety :)
to watch:
golf
rugby(good games!)
hurling
soccer
gaelic
darts
snooker
horse racing(when i have money on)
boxing(big fights/irish person except bernard dunne)
tennis(grand slams)
basketball
athletics
american football
poker
bowls(its not that bad!)
motor sports
To play:
darts(at the moment but im starting to get p1ssed of with it)
hurling
gaelic
table tennis
soccer
golf
badminton
poker(is it a sport?)
go karting
tennis
athletics
to support:
soccer
What the hell:confused: That post is a lie! I never voluntarily played Hurling, Rugby or Gaelic??!Quote:
Originally Posted by Stevo Da Gull
Did I really post that? 2005 wasn't that long ago and this just aint true:confused: And I never got the point in lying.
Time to type Schizophrenia into Wikipedia :D
Anyhow the truth in 2008:
Favourite to play:
1. Tennis
2. Pool
3. Darts
4. Football
Favourite to watch:
1. Tennis
2. Football
3. Darts
=. Ice-Hockey