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Re: WE LIKE SPORTS
« Reply #600 on: 17 Jan 2010, 14:46 »

Hey tommy, I had a dream last night in which Leeds beat Manchester United, 2-1 (Man U scored a late consolation goal after being 2 down for much of the match). In the dream my dream-self even thought "tommy's going to be so happy with this result".

I thought you'd like to know.
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« Reply #601 on: 17 Jan 2010, 15:45 »

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« Reply #602 on: 17 Jan 2010, 15:59 »

So since my last NHL-based post my team has completely imploded and instead of looking for a top 8 finish and home advantage in the playoffs they are now looking to just scrape their way into the playoffs at all. However, each other supported team here is doing fairly well; Bruins are in the playoff places and results look to be going their way enough to stay there; Capitals are still top 3 in the NHL, 1st in the Eastern Conference and Buffalo Sabres are comfortably within the playoffs too.

Now that it is coming up to trade time and the Olympics we will see what this does to the rosters for the teams on the bubble such as Flyers, Canadiens, Stars, Kings, Rangers and maybe surprisingly the Red Wings although with the shocking performances of Chris Osgood in net it has been up to rookie keeper Jimmy Howard to take the reins and he is doing fairly well, if not amazingly. However, at the bottom we can safely add Columbus and Edmonton to Carolina and Toronto for being completely out of the running for a playoff place and it is likely that they will lose players in order to gain draft picks next year.

Some better news (for me anyway) is that I am still well within touching distance of winning my fantasy hockey league so I guess that is some consolation, even though it is pretty small.
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« Reply #603 on: 17 Jan 2010, 17:10 »

Totally called Jets over Chargers. AND it was the only truly entertaining game of the weekend. Nice.
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« Reply #604 on: 17 Jan 2010, 17:23 »

Yeah, that was a good match up for the Jets. I think I'm on record as thinking the Rivers-Jackson hook up is borderline unfair, but Revis is probably the only corner in the league that can practically cancel that advantage out single handedly.
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« Reply #605 on: 17 Jan 2010, 18:19 »

I thought that was a most boring game. Must be me.

Halfway through, I went to do my WoW dailies.

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« Reply #606 on: 17 Jan 2010, 18:23 »

I love Rex Ryan though. A week after he said his team would never make the playoffs he was declaring they'd win the super bowl. Plus, he gets animated on the sideline, and not in a creepy way like Andy Reid.
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« Reply #607 on: 19 Jan 2010, 07:50 »

Oh hey we beat Burnley for our first win in...is it a month? All competitions?
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« Reply #608 on: 19 Jan 2010, 09:12 »

I saw this thread and thought "Woo! A sports thread where I can admit to being a Glasgow Rangers fan without being hated on." Then I read through the thread and saw that Rangers get hate here too. I suppose it's better than the Aberdeen Music Board where the hatred is pretty vitriolic. Anyway...

Delighted that we're currently 9 points clear at the top considering that Celtic have a game in hand. The string of games in December where we couldn't stop scoring was magic, but I can't see that continuing since a lot of our best players are injured at the moment, and I think the 0-1 result at Hamilton was indicative of this. If we win tonight I reckon it'll be the home advantage that swings it for us, but I can see Hamilton maybe pushing it to penalties. 
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« Reply #609 on: 19 Jan 2010, 09:17 »

See, I heard Rangers fans booed a minute of silence in the 60s after JFK was assassinated.

So yeah, pretty much fuck Rangers.
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« Reply #610 on: 19 Jan 2010, 09:39 »

Yeah, Rangers on the whole are let down by some of their fans. See UEFA cup final 2008.
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« Reply #611 on: 19 Jan 2010, 09:49 »

Growing up in Scotland I've met a number of intelligent, knowledgable Rangers fans. Unfortunately, they aren't the ones who everybody hears on matchdays. The problem is the folk nailing a bottle of Buckfast on the way to the match then chanting. Certainly doesn't reflect well on the club, which is probably the reason a lot of folk hate them.

That and the fact that they are the club of the establishment and win all the time, of course. If it makes you feel better I don't like either of the Auld Firm, and would happily see the back of the both of them. Can't imagine you'd miss going to places like Kilmarnock anyway.
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« Reply #612 on: 19 Jan 2010, 10:06 »

You're spot on about Rangers fans. The drink fuelled sectarianism and traditional unionism doesn't win a lot of fans.

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« Reply #613 on: 19 Jan 2010, 10:15 »

This is very true. Walk down Union Street wearing a Celtic top and you're fairly safe. In a Rangers top? I've never worn my Rangers top in town without wearing a jumper over it. You'd think being a girl would make folk think twice but after almost getting lamped in a bar for just cheering when they won a game (against Fiorentina) I've decided to exhibit some common sense.

Seeing a lot of Leeds utd. love here though which is nice. My girlfriend got me watching them last season before the playoffs so it's been good to see them improve a lot under Grayson. She's mental about Leeds, being from there. I watched the Man Utd. v Leeds game down at her folks and it was brilliant, although the ball seemed to take forever to cross the line!
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« Reply #614 on: 19 Jan 2010, 10:23 »

Don't remind me. I thought the planet stopped spinning for a second or something.
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« Reply #616 on: 19 Jan 2010, 15:01 »

Fucking Carlisle.

But yaaay for Rangers scraping a 2-0 win over Hamilton in extra time even though it looks like another first-team player is now injured. Hopefully Miller's hamstring isn't too bad and he'll be back in time for the game against Hearts. He may have the first touch of a baby elephant but he's what we need in front of goal. Knowing my luck he'll be out against Hearts, we'll start Novo and some bastard will go through him as well.
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« Reply #617 on: 19 Jan 2010, 15:24 »

Fucking Carlisle.

Never mind, there's an away fixture too. I'm not bothered about the cup competitions. I expect we'll get thumped by Spurs over the weekend. As long as we finish second this year I'm happy. Beating Manchester United at Old Trafford was good enough for me.
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« Reply #618 on: 19 Jan 2010, 15:51 »

I prefer Celtic to Rangers simply because in situations where I'm neutral, I always cheer the team with the better uniform.

The test cricket season's finished here with Australia scoring an utterly predictable 3-0 series whitewash against Pakistan. There was a lot of carry-on about Australia's supposed "great escape" in Sydney when they came back to win after having only scored 127 runs in the first innings - but the media coverage almost universally ignored the fact that Australia only won because Pakistan had a massive choking fit and set an appallingly defensive field at the end of Australia's second innings, which allowed Michael Hussey to score the runs that ended up making the difference. Make no mistake: Australia didn't win that match, Pakistan lost it (a point made fairly emphatically by Michael Slater in an otherwise embarassingly partisan Channel 9 commentary team). Ricky Ponting is now the most succesful captain in Australian history, in terms of number of wins, which of course is impressive especially given that he's had to see the side through a huge transitional phase (losing Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath alone would've crippled most teams) - but it's hard to escape the feeling that under his captaincy the Australian cricket team has become ever less gracious in victory and in defeat, less likeable even than they were before. Sometimes, frankly, it's embarassing to watch them and think that these are the men who are representing Australia to the rest of the cricket-playing world.
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« Reply #619 on: 19 Jan 2010, 16:36 »

I hate to break away from Scottish football but the Winter Olympics are starting soon, so I hope you'll all be watching on February 13th when Canada pound Slovakia (just a guess, but highly likely).

Also if Rob is around anywhere, we'll be playing in Sheffield at some point this year (BUIHA div III nationals, I think, but I can't find anything on the web about it).
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« Reply #620 on: 19 Jan 2010, 16:40 »

having only scored 127 runs in the first innings

Yr sport is insane.
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« Reply #621 on: 19 Jan 2010, 16:58 »

It's not like they actually have to run all the way round the field every time. They get six "runs" just for hitting it over the fence and they don't even have to take a stride!
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« Reply #622 on: 19 Jan 2010, 17:26 »

it's hard to escape the feeling that under his captaincy the Australian cricket team has become ever less gracious in victory and in defeat

The Australian team come across a hell of a lot less childish and petulant than the England. England's constant persecution complex about umpiring decisions is frankly embarrassing, and Stuart Broad really needs to grow up at some point. Going to the bother of officially complaining about the umpire after South Africa had let the ball tampering thing slide was just about the opposite of gracious.

And I feel Ponting gets a fairly hard rep a lot of the time. I don't think the team is any less sportsmanlike than it was under Waugh. If anything it's friendlier than it used to be. Or it might just seem that way now that they are no longer give the same impression of invulnerability.

Michael Slater is surprisingly good in the commentary booth. I expected him to be biased the same way most of them are, but he's remarkably knowledgable. Him and Atherton are probably the best I feel. No idea if you get Atherton down under, but he's superb. I talk about cricket far too much.
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« Reply #623 on: 19 Jan 2010, 18:03 »

Actually I almost never listen to the T.V. commentary; if Channel 9's not actively cheering on Australia then they're trying to sell you some cheap piece of "memorabilia" or touting their latest crappy show. I prefer to listen to the ABC radio commentary.

As for the Australian team, I don't really follow cricket apart from the domestic test season so I couldn't say how they compare to other teams, but this ridiculously petulant display by Shane Watson upon his dismissal of Chris Gayle a couple of months ago (apparently all because Gayle had the temerity to say he was looking forward to scoring a few runs) seems indicative of the team's attitude at the moment: sore losers, and sore winners. Under Steve Waugh's captaincy they weren't exactly likeable, but you at least got the impression they were fair. Under Ponting the team seems more willing to try anything to get an angle, even (last summer) claiming as catches balls that the batsmen had blatantly missed - something I can never remember happening under Waugh or Mark Taylor.
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« Reply #624 on: 19 Jan 2010, 18:55 »

I haven't seen much of the Australian team since the Ashes, where I thought they handled themselves quite well, though that clip of Watson is pretty laughable. I think the biggest difference from the days of Waugh and Taylor (though I was pretty young at the time and could be misremembering) is that the teamused to carry a genuine air of menace. The current team just seem a bit childish, like a young kid trying to act the part that isn't really in them. The fast bowlers especially seem a bit too keen to play the part of a panto villain, snarling and glaring everywhere. I'm hoping they'll grow out of it.

As to the dishonesty, I think that's pretty much across the board. Everybody now claims bump balls as catches and the like, or excessively appealing. My particular favourite is England's New Great Hope appealing for LBW when the ball hit nothing but bat. Pretty embarrassing, and indicative of the direction the game seems to be taking.
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« Reply #625 on: 19 Jan 2010, 20:19 »

That's why I think there was a huge missed opportunity for Australia, who were so dominant for so long, to set the tone for the rest of the cricket-playing world. Because they were the team everybody wanted to emulate they were in a unique position to demonstrate how the game ought to be played, and really I think that's the only thing they had left to achieve - if they'd wanted to - when they were at their peak. It's not like they didn't have senior players of genuine integrity in the team - Adam Gilchrist, a famous walker, springs to mind - but of course the issue never even came up and as ever in professional sport the win-at-all-costs mentality has proven to be the dominant one.

EDIT: also that clip of Shane Watson doesn't show the whole thing: after screaming in Gayle's face he then proceeded to jump up and down on the spot three or four times laughing and shouting at Gayle, almost exactly like a spoilt child.
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« Reply #626 on: 20 Jan 2010, 00:05 »

I hate to break away from Scottish football but the Winter Olympics are starting soon, so I hope you'll all be watching on February 13th when Canada pound Slovakia (just a guess, but highly likely).
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« Reply #627 on: 20 Jan 2010, 01:07 »

Hopefully every other competitor will fuck up completely and Australia will come out with a medal again.
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« Reply #628 on: 20 Jan 2010, 02:46 »

I prefer Celtic to Rangers simply because in situations where I'm neutral, I always cheer the team with the better uniform.

I was about to say Rangers generally have the better strip...but I'm horribly bias. However, the Celtic Away kit makes them look like fluorescent bumble-bees. Why they don't have the all-white third kit as their away strip just bamboozles me. Then again...Partick Thistle's away kit...

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« Reply #629 on: 20 Jan 2010, 04:33 »

Holy . . . I didn't realise the military had special "attacking a rave in a snowy field" camouflage.
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« Reply #630 on: 20 Jan 2010, 05:24 »

However, the Celtic Away kit makes them look like fluorescent bumble-bees.

Perhaps why we call it the "Bumblebee strip", then. ^_^

Away strips are allowed to be a bit daft, though. Let us not forget Rangers'... *cough* "tangerine" kit from a few years ago.
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« Reply #631 on: 20 Jan 2010, 10:07 »

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We don't win anymore. It just doesn't happen. Burnley was a complete fluke.
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« Reply #632 on: 20 Jan 2010, 11:13 »

As I mentioned previously in this thread, Tevez is a very literal example of Ferguson's incompetence which has in no small way contributed to their current debt of $1.17 billion. With Giggs on the verge of retiring they are one Rooney away from being a nothing club.

The thing is about Ferguson is he genuinely doesn't give a shit about Manchester United. He's in it for Alex Ferguson and to hell with everything else. If he cared an iota about Scum he'd have left at the top of his game a few years back, when he was still roughly par for the course considering his expenditure. The fact that he didn't suggests it's all about him, not about the club he ostensibly serves. His stupid selfish pride has contributed to unmanageable spiraling debt of over £700m, the sale of their prize assets and very soon most likely two cup exits to their two most bitter rivals due to the unremarkable, negative team he has created.

In his mind, he is Manchester United and so he feels as if he is absolutely entitled to destroy them, which is absolutely fine by me. If any of the prawn sandwich brigade had a clue they'd stone him to death during the next home fixture but they're too thick to realise that he's busy playing Nero as Rome burns all around him.
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« Reply #633 on: 20 Jan 2010, 14:02 »

However, the Celtic Away kit makes them look like fluorescent bumble-bees.

Perhaps why we call it the "Bumblebee strip", then. ^_^

Away strips are allowed to be a bit daft, though. Let us not forget Rangers'... *cough* "tangerine" kit from a few years ago.

Yes, well. Quite. I was hoping most folk had forgotten about that.
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« Reply #634 on: 21 Jan 2010, 11:38 »

I kinda liked the orange one, actually.
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« Reply #635 on: 21 Jan 2010, 17:22 »

The problem with that strip wasn't how it looked; rather the very negative, sectarian connotations it carried.
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« Reply #636 on: 22 Jan 2010, 00:33 »

moving to american football for a second.... prince wrote a song about the vikings. um. it.... um. i am sorry prince, i'm very very sorry (though i do appreciate the oddity of it)

(((((i still love you prince, always)))))

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« Reply #637 on: 22 Jan 2010, 02:35 »

The problem with that strip wasn't how it looked; rather the very negative, sectarian connotations it carried.

Yup, and, as if our own orange strip wasn't enough, some Rangers fans took to wearing the Holland national side's strip as well...

On the transfer window, I am not loving these reports about Boyd and his agents talking to Aston Villa. Don't get me wrong, it'd be a fantastic move for him and it would bring some much needed money into the club, but I'm not so keen on losing our most prolific striker when we have a real chance at the domestic treble this year. In addition to this I don't think we can afford to lose another striker be it to injury or a transfer. Thankfully Mendes seems to be talking down any rumors of him moving, and is almost back to match-fitness. Could do with him for the Hearts game at the weekend as we'll be luck if Novo or Lafferty are fit. Also, I don't like Lafferty. Lanky diving git.
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« Reply #638 on: 22 Jan 2010, 09:53 »

I'm looking to come up to Scotland at some point next year to get to the Auld Firm Derby.

What are the chances of me getting tickets for this?
I also want to catch a Partick Thistle home game too.

I was thinking of coming up for a weekend, Thistle on Saturday, Celtic/Rangers Sunday.

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« Reply #639 on: 23 Jan 2010, 11:29 »

Well I wasn't expecting that. By the last ten minutes I was just hoping Leeds wouldn't concede another then all of a sudden Leeds have a penalty, Beckford puts it away and we've got a replay with Tottenham at Elland Road.
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« Reply #640 on: 23 Jan 2010, 12:08 »

Oh man. When the ref pointed at the spot I about fell off my seat.
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« Reply #641 on: 23 Jan 2010, 17:30 »

So, NFL predictions?

Personally I can't see the Jets beating Indy (even though I said the same about them beating the Chargers), but Saints/Vikings I just cannot call. The part of me that loves a beautiful sport story would really like to see Favre win the Superbowl, but the Saints deserve to be there more than anyone based on this season.
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« Reply #642 on: 23 Jan 2010, 17:46 »

I'm only a casual American Football follower at best, but it seems to me that "Team representing the most fucked-over city in recent American history wins Superbowl" would be a much more beautiful sports story than "Old guy comes out of retirement, plays surprisingly well, and wins Superbowl."
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« Reply #643 on: 23 Jan 2010, 18:59 »

Yes, but then I wouldn't get to bathe in Wisconsin's tears.
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« Reply #644 on: 23 Jan 2010, 19:26 »

I  really, really want the Jets to beat the Colts. I have this beautiful mental image of Rex Ryan going right up to Peyton Manning at the end of the game and yelling "POW! Right in the kisser!" and then eating an entire pig.

Saints-Vikings? Good family friends of mine are purple and gold, so they're who I'm rooting for, but I have no freaking clue how that game is going to turn out. Just gonna sit back and gorge myself, and probably cry into my food that Manning's in the Super Bowl again.
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« Reply #645 on: 23 Jan 2010, 19:40 »

I'm just amazed that either the Saints or the Vikings are going to have a chance to win the Superbowl. I mean, it's the Saints and the Vikings.

I'm not really all that fond of the Vikings chances right about now though because it sounds like our defensive line is all nicked up again. They're the Viking's real weapon, not Favre, and I give the Vikes even odds against anyone if they're healthy. But right now? I dunno. Kevin Williams and Ray Edwards are missing practices and Pat Williams played kinda bad during the second half slump due to age and that nagging elbow injury. If those guys aren't able to cover for the rest of the defense it'll be a disappointing game.
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« Reply #646 on: 23 Jan 2010, 23:42 »

Yeah if the Vikings can't get pressure on Brees then they'll be pretty fucked. Unless they can score 50 points to New Orleans's 45.
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« Reply #647 on: 24 Jan 2010, 00:50 »

Well I wasn't expecting that. By the last ten minutes I was just hoping Leeds wouldn't concede another then all of a sudden Leeds have a penalty, Beckford puts it away and we've got a replay with Tottenham at Elland Road.

I am kind of following Leeds from afar at the moment.  I figure they're gonna go up into the Championship next year, and deservedly so if their current form is anything to go by.  I am very much enjoying their run in the FA cup, and particularly as an Arsenal supporter I would also very much enjoy Tottenham being knocked out :D
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« Reply #648 on: 24 Jan 2010, 09:32 »

Oh how Fortuné infuriates me. Give him the ball five yards out in front of an empty net and he'll put it over the bar; well outisde the box at a totally absurd angle and he buries it in the top corner.

Still, we won in a very convincing manner which is excellent. Let's hope we can keep it up and start to close down on Rangers.
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« Reply #649 on: 24 Jan 2010, 18:55 »

Shit like this is why I don't trust Childress. I mean, hey, why run to the left and get the kicker square with the uprights when you can try to fake out the other team, get called for a dumb penalty so you have to throw it to have a prayer of making the kick?

I don't even want to talk about Favre's decision making behind that throw either.
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