Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[Dylan8]

The trick with NFL is not to watch it live. I record games and then watch only the actual plays. It takes about 15 minutes to watch a 3 hour broadcast.

Don't they do a broadcast where they bounce between all the games on at the time when the actual plays are happening? Some sort of simulcast.

NFL is pretty great at its best.

 

[raman]

eh?

You called the two sports cripple sports. They are richer, wider spread and internationally recognised through the Olympics. Unlike Aussie rules.
Basically in nearly every objective criteria.

Therefore to consider them crippled in comparison to Aussie rules is a bit daft....that is all.

So money and popularity are objective criteria for quality. Right.

 

[PepeSilvia]

Don't they do a broadcast where they bounce between all the games on at the time when the actual plays are happening? Some sort of simulcast.

NFL is pretty great at its best.

Redzone. Pretty handy.

 

[Dylan8]

Thank you.

I don't think I'll ever enjoy soccer, it just doesn't do it for me.

Liverpool's 2013/14 was probably my favourite season of any sport ever. Port 2013 probably a close second, 2007 and 2014 behind that.

Was nuts. Every game was high scoring on both sides and Suarez and Sturridge, mostly the former, pulled the inconceivable out of their asses with astounding regularity. Pure heartbreak not winning that season.

 

[PepeSilvia]

Liverpool's 2013/14 was probably my favourite season of any sport ever. Port 2013 probably a close second, 2007 and 2014 behind that.

Was nuts. Every game was high scoring on both sides and Suarez and Sturridge, mostly the former, pulled the inconceivable out of their asses with astounding regularity. Pure heartbreak not winning that season.

I dunno, the risk of sitting through 90 minutes without a team scoring is too high for me.

I also can't stand watching some get the tiniest amount of contact (or none at all), roll around in 'agony', then hop back up and be totally fine for the rest of the game.

 

[PepeSilvia]

Also, a quarter of games resulting in a draw is just far too high a proportion.

 

[Steve Dore]

So money and popularity are objective criteria for quality. Right.

Which means that all amateur sports are shyte. Lucky Rugby Union went professional.

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

I dunno, the risk of sitting through 90 minutes without a team scoring is too high for me.

I also can't stand watching some get the tiniest amount of contact (or none at all), roll around in 'agony', then hop back up and be totally fine for the rest of the game.

Sounds like Dangerfield

 

[Dylan8]

Sitting through the majority of Rodger's last season and a bit was very boring admittedly.

High scoring doesn't necessarily make a sport entertaining though. Basketball for example has little tension until the last quarter and points scored before that feel a bit hollow.

A goal in soccer is worth so much more and a team creating a chance and failing to score is more entertaining than watching a team sink 30 points in a quarter in basketball, because there's a **** load of tension due to the importance of the goal.

Agree with the acting and rolling about. Can't stand it but you take the bad with the good.

 

[Zakk Wylde]

Basketball is infinitely more boring than soccer and what's up with how they play 1000 games a season. Most games don't mean shit.

Carn

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

I'm with Dylan I only take a vague interest in the NBA when it's playoffs time

 

[tribey]

Agree with the acting and rolling about. Can't stand it but you take the bad with the good.

And as much as we accentuate that part of the game in this part of the world, though the behaviours may be different, playing for frees happens in all sports.

Personally, I'm sick of a jamoke like Joel Selwood coming up with Travis Boak at the same time and both playing the same role, yet Selwood has 340 more frees than our man.

 

[chiwigi]

So money and popularity are objective criteria for quality. Right.

Who mentioned quality? You called the games crippled.

The amount of money people pay and the amount of people who watch will also have some bearing on the assessment of quality, though I admit people are idiots.

The reason I used the term objective (and you know this) is because in terms of quality of product EVERBODY on this forum would say Aussie Rules, its an irrelevant and subjective term in the way you are using it.

 

[Dylan8]

And as much as we accentuate that part of the game in this part of the world, though the behaviours may be different, playing for frees happens in all sports.

Personally, I'm sick of a jamoke like Joel Selwood coming up with Travis Boak at the same time and both playing the same role, yet Selwood has 340 more frees than our man.

Yeah, it's not as prevalent and downright cringeworthy as in soccer, but I try to appreciate that running full pelt and having a dude slide into your legs is going to hurt. But get on with it, ffs.

 

[chiwigi]

Sitting through the majority of Rodger's last season and a bit was very boring admittedly.

High scoring doesn't necessarily make a sport entertaining though. Basketball for example has little tension until the last quarter and points scored before that feel a bit hollow.

A goal in soccer is worth so much more and a team creating a chance and failing to score is more entertaining than watching a team sink 30 points in a quarter in basketball, because there's a **** load of tension due to the importance of the goal.

Agree with the acting and rolling about. Can't stand it but you take the bad with the good.

Yup, you are waiting for people to miss rather than score.

Aussie rules has the balance just right.

 

[chiwigi]

Also, a quarter of games resulting in a draw is just far too high a proportion.

Draws are great and often a 'win' for your team. It also keeps the result in doubt right until the end.

 

[raman]

Who mentioned quality? You called the games crippled.

You're a funny old guy, Chiwigi.

 

[NoddyHolder]

I'm a fan of the draw as a legitimate sporting result. Too many in soccer for my liking though. The feeling you get with a nil-all result is the coitus interuptus of sport.

 

[tribey]

Draws are great and often a 'win' for your team. It also keeps the result in doubt right until the end.

Sidebar: WHO ARE YOU.

My latest guesses are Toutai Kefu or Clyde Rathbone

 

[Jim Dixon]

Bloody hell, first time I've watched the Wallabies play this World Cup and I have a question for anyone who has watched other games.

Have they been as frustrating to watch for the whole campaign or is it just this game?

They were immense vs Wales. Defended like demons.

Nobody will beat NZ anyway.

I watched them destroy France. Was like men vs boys.

Not a huge fan of rugby but the World Cup is a fun diversion in October.

 

[tribey]

Nobody will beat NZ anyway.

That's said pretty much every World Cup and every World Cup they have one performance which is effing dreadful.

Even in 2011 they only fell over the line against the French in the final on their own turf.

I can see them dropping a bollock against the Saffers.

 

[Del80659]

i don't think goals has anything to do with entertainment. you can watch a basketball game finish 131-132 and just feel ripped off that you saw over 100 "goals" but were taken on this emotional rollercoaster that ends with some bullshit decision and a 1 point game. in footy when two teams score over 100 each it's like we're too spoiled by goals to appreciate them, also there is probably not a great deal of solid defense going on so what's the fun in watching two teams score until time runs out? you fight hard and win a game 1-0 and you were taken on an emotional rollercoaster that doesn't feel like it ripped you off.

 

[Jonts]

Get around cricket

 

[El Zorro]

That's said pretty much every World Cup and every World Cup they have one performance which is effing dreadful.

Even in 2011 they only fell over the line against the French in the final on their own turf.

I can see them dropping a bollock against the Saffers.

We can only hope. The final will be a lot more entertaining with NZ out (for everyone but the Kiwis of course).

 

[tribey]

Get around cricket

Now if we're talking about pointless games...

Even apart from all the meaningless T20, does anyone remember the ODI series result when Australia went to India two tours ago, or when the West Indies played Pakistan in Sharjah?

Apart from the Ashes and the World Cup, cricket's always being played but nothing ever seems to be on the line. It's like perpetual friendlies/trial games.