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ScubascottScubascott Posts: 815
edited January 2007 in A Moving Train
Australia adds insult to injury after a 5-0 ashes whitewash with a sound flogging in last night's 20-20 match.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/sport/2007/01/10/scengl10.xml
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  • OutOfBreathOutOfBreath Posts: 1,804
    I have no idea what you just said, but I'll hazard a guess. It's obviously sports, and I don't have a clue what you're talking about. So I'll hazard cricket, as I have no idea how you count in that game, or indeed how it works at all. :p

    Go Australia then. :)

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  • E.KE.K New South Wales, Australia Posts: 7,722
    Yeah it's cricket (yawn). Personally, I'd rather sit and watch paint dry..
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  • Matt8townsendMatt8townsend Posts: 112
    E.K wrote:
    Yeah it's cricket (yawn). Personally, I'd rather sit and watch paint dry..

    Being a Pom myslef I'd like to contratulate the Ozzies on their victory, and hope they continue to administer as many beatings as it takes before my whole nation tires of this depressingly dull so called sport sufficiently enough for it to be forever pulled from my TV screen.
  • nuffingmannuffingman Posts: 3,014
    Scubascott wrote:
    Australia adds insult to injury after a 5-0 ashes whitewash with a sound flogging in last night's 20-20 match.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/sport/2007/01/10/scengl10.xml
    As an English guy I can honestly tell you most of us couldn't give a shit. Now if you beat us at football in the world cup then we would choke.

    We can live for years on Johnny Wilkinson's last minute kick and the look on your PMs face as he handed out the medals. Fat chance of that happening next year.
  • sapperskunksapperskunk Posts: 684
    Right right, itn't that a sticky wicket then? Bunch of cheeky chappys whose heads are as rough as a badger's arse.


    Sorry if I offended. ;)
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  • yield2meyield2me Posts: 1,291
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  • nuffingmannuffingman Posts: 3,014
    yield2me wrote:
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    baseball zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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  • CorporateWhoreCorporateWhore Posts: 1,890
    nuffingman wrote:
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    baseball zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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    How could you not like the NFL???

    It's so entertaining and quick. Rugby can be fun too, though :)
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  • ScubascottScubascott Posts: 815
    nuffingman wrote:
    As an English guy I can honestly tell you most of us couldn't give a shit. Now if you beat us at football in the world cup then we would choke.

    We can live for years on Johnny Wilkinson's last minute kick and the look on your PMs face as he handed out the medals. Fat chance of that happening next year.

    Johnny Wilkinson WAS the english rugby team in that world cup. Without him there was no way they would have got so far. You just got lucky to have one freakishly good kicker who could carry the rest of that mediocre team to a very narrow victory.

    I find it funny how the poms suddenly decide that they don't care about cricket now. It was a different story when you won the ashes last time. You were all standing up on your pedestals yelling "Hah! In your face Australia! You silly looking smelly colonialist bastards!" Now that you've had a sound flogging, you all pretend not to care.

    Anyway, it doesn't matter. I just love watching the poms get slaughtered. Now if only the americans would learn to play something that the rest of the world gives a shit about, we could flog them too. :D
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  • yellowled24yellowled24 Posts: 3,118
    E.K wrote:
    Yeah it's cricket (yawn). Personally, I'd rather sit and watch paint dry..
    the more you learn about cricket the more interesting it is. Its not just about trying to whack the ball, theres alot more to it. Spin on the ball, fielding positions and even the type of umpire youve got can change the whole game! I dont mean to bore you...but I could watch cricket all day. And Im a chick!
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  • bingerbinger Posts: 179
    yellowled24 wrote:
    the more you learn about cricket the more interesting it is. Its not just about trying to whack the ball, theres alot more to it. Spin on the ball, fielding positions and even the type of umpire youve got can change the whole game! I dont mean to bore you...but I could watch cricket all day. And Im a chick!


    Sounds like baseball.
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  • PickrPickr Posts: 161
    Go Canucks!
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  • MrBrianMrBrian Posts: 2,672
    yellowled24 wrote:
    the more you learn about cricket the more interesting it is. Its not just about trying to whack the ball, theres alot more to it. Spin on the ball, fielding positions and even the type of umpire youve got can change the whole game! I dont mean to bore you...but I could watch cricket all day. And Im a chick!

    I'm from Canada and I love cricket, well I first really found out about it while living in South Africa, it really is a great sport. Not as good as Football of course, but it's high up on my list of great games.
  • yellowled24yellowled24 Posts: 3,118
    MrBrian wrote:
    I'm from Canada and I love cricket, well I first really found out about it while living in South Africa, it really is a great sport. Not as good as Football of course, but it's high up on my list of great games.
    Where Im from football is quite different from your football! Cricket on the other hand, is universal!
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  • MrBrianMrBrian Posts: 2,672
    yellowled24 wrote:
    Where Im from football is quite different from your football! Cricket on the other hand, is universal!

    ooops, I mean soccer. not american football. In australia it's Aussie rules right? kinda like rugby only more kicking I think.
  • yellowled24yellowled24 Posts: 3,118
    MrBrian wrote:
    ooops, I mean soccer. not american football. In australia it's Aussie rules right? kinda like rugby only more kicking I think.
    For me soccer only got big when aust. actually made it into the world cup. But yes, the football term is confusing. It is aussie rules over here, or AFL. I must admit the rugby was never my thing so I cant compare the two. Something about men having no necks didnt do it for me!
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  • MrBrianMrBrian Posts: 2,672
    oh I see, you don't really like sports for the sport itself, just for the guy's.
    bad bad!
  • ScubascottScubascott Posts: 815
    MrBrian wrote:
    ooops, I mean soccer. not american football. In australia it's Aussie rules right? kinda like rugby only more kicking I think.

    Actually when you say 'football' in Australia you could be referring any one of four different games, depending on which part of the country you're in.

    Soccer is being referred to as football more often these days, especially since the last world cup, then we have Aussie Rules football and Rugby League, which are completely different games that are both commonly referred to as football. Aussie Rules is derived from Gaelic football, and is more popular in the Southern and Western states than it is in Queenland and NSW. Rugby League is derived from rubgy, but has some major differences and is mostly only taken seriously in Australia, New Zealand and some of the Pacific Island nations, although the poms have been known to have a go every now and then. Lastly there is rugby union, or just rugby, which is the international form of the game. It's usually called 'union' or 'rugby', but sometimes called by the generic term 'football' or 'footy'.

    Just so we don't get confused, we call that stupid game that the americans play Gridiron.
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  • MrBrianMrBrian Posts: 2,672
    Scubascott wrote:
    Actually when you say 'football' in Australia you could be referring any one of four different games, depending on which part of the country you're in.

    Soccer is being referred to as football more often these days, especially since the last world cup, then we have Aussie Rules football and Rugby League, which are completely different games that are both commonly referred to as football. Aussie Rules is derived from Gaelic football, and is more popular in the Southern and Western states than it is in Queenland and NSW. Rugby League is derived from rubgy, but has some major differences and is mostly only taken seriously in Australia, New Zealand and some of the Pacific Island nations, although the poms have been known to have a go every now and then. Lastly there is rugby union, or just rugby, which is the international form of the game. It's usually called 'union' or 'rugby', but sometimes called by the generic term 'football' or 'footy'.

    Just so we don't get confused, we call that stupid game that the americans play Gridiron.

    oh yeah, I forgot about rugby league, that had had paid players before rugby union went pro, correct?

    I remember the day's of jonah lomu, that guy could run.
  • nuffingmannuffingman Posts: 3,014
    Scubascott wrote:
    Johnny Wilkinson WAS the english rugby team in that world cup. Without him there was no way they would have got so far. You just got lucky to have one freakishly good kicker who could carry the rest of that mediocre team to a very narrow victory.

    I find it funny how the poms suddenly decide that they don't care about cricket now. It was a different story when you won the ashes last time. You were all standing up on your pedestals yelling "Hah! In your face Australia! You silly looking smelly colonialist bastards!" Now that you've had a sound flogging, you all pretend not to care.

    Anyway, it doesn't matter. I just love watching the poms get slaughtered. Now if only the americans would learn to play something that the rest of the world gives a shit about, we could flog them too. :D
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