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Wimbledon

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  1. neveroffsidereff

    neveroffsidereff Well-Known Member

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    Whats the point in Baseball, glorified rounders!! :)
     
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  2. ValleyGraduate12

    ValleyGraduate12 Aberdude's Puppet
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    He also looks more assured f himself in his pits match interview knowing that he can win Wimbledon rather than hoping for the best. If this Federer turns up in the semis and final, he'll be crowned champion again. Truly outstanding performance today.
    He also seems a lot stronger too when hitting the ball.
     
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  3. ValleyGraduate12

    ValleyGraduate12 Aberdude's Puppet
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    I'd rather watch Cardiff play <laugh>
     
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  4. neveroffsidereff

    neveroffsidereff Well-Known Member

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    ****ing hell Valley, just spat me tea out.

    Don't do that again or I'll send my boy round to bore you to death about him leading the punters league.
     
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  5. ValleyGraduate12

    ValleyGraduate12 Aberdude's Puppet
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  6. mustyfrog

    mustyfrog Well-Known Member

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    sadly young Nick blown away by the Canadians serve and no rest day probably did not help but even he said he was outgunned. I hope Bouchard wins the Ladies. Grigor has an Aussie connection, Roger Rashid is his coach but playing Roger Federer is always a tough gig. sports I cannot watch are ice hockey, baseball and basketball
     
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  7. swanseaandproud

    swanseaandproud Well-Known Member

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    wash your mouth out with carbolic soap and water valley ..<laugh>
     
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  8. DragonPhilljack

    DragonPhilljack Well-Known Member

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    I used to go up to Wimbledon every year in my younger days from Middle Thursday on, had some great Center court seats watching John boy, Borg, and Becker, old Connors was a slugger, great times they were, I thought Nadal was looking good in his early games, shame he's out, he looked like he wanted the title this year, though Federer must surely be favourite, with Djokovic, shame about Murray!.................<ok>
     
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  9. roofjack_22

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    Bouchard : A Star is Bjorn , We have a French Canadian contingent of athletes is many sports but tennis iis looking pretty good for us these days , in both genders for years to come
     
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  10. Terror ball

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    Baseball is the one I will never be able to get into....tried to watch it but I just don't get it.

    In fact the American sports aren't too hot for me in general;

    American football - fascinating but too stop start, the game seems to go on forever and there aren't too many moments of skill that take your breath away
    Basketball - I love to play, and it is very skillful, but totally boring on the telly until the last 5 minutes of the game.

    ....I tend to watch only the finals of American Football and Basketball but I do like Ice Hockey. Never even tried to skate so have very limited understanding but it makes great T.V. imo

    Sports I love....

    Football
    Boxing

    Sports I like to watch on T.V.....

    Rugby Union,
    Rugby League,
    Cricket (but only the tests),
    Athletics (but only the Worldies and the Olympics),
    The Winter Olympics (the sports involved are exotic to me as I have never experienced any of them, a lot of them lend themselves to good T.V.),
    Snooker,
    Darts,
    Tennis (although it has to be a really good game....don't watch the early rounds of a tournament),
    Aussie Rules (although you hardly ever see it on T.V. over here and people tell me that lately there has been a lot of one sided games.....any game that finishes 78-11 is not interesting in the slightest),
    Golf (but again it has to be the Open or the US Masters or the Ryder Cup to get me interested....not interested in watching European golfers you've never heard of hacking around a course in Germany or somewhere).

    Sports that I don't like....

    Motorsport (although I admit I have enjoyed the odd Formula 1 or Super bike race in my time....in general I find it boring),
    Cycling (Understand it, just find it dull),
    Surfing
    and
    Baseball (how this became so popular in America I'll never know....but I guess they feel the same about cricket!)
     
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  11. daimungeezer

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    I would agree with that. I don't watch any but take your point about ice hockey. They're too insular in general but I can understand that to a certain degree, geographically speaking. That's why I've never been the slightest bit bothered whether football takes off over there. I've never understood the rest of the world bending over backwards to accommodate them, there must be money in it!

    I watch Rugby (all), snooker, darts, (some) golf, Olympics, (some) athletics, (some) tennis and that's about it really.
     
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  12. glamexile

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    Each to their own but I had a great 3 hours in the sun at Richmond last night watching Glammy beat Middlx in a last over game.
     
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  13. daimungeezer

    daimungeezer Well-Known Member

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    That's why you've got such a great tan Glam :grin:
     
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  14. glamexile

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    Exactly and currently enjoying the tropical heat of St Albans waiting to go into a meeting :)
     
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  15. daimungeezer

    daimungeezer Well-Known Member

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    And I'm just off to London Colney! Ahhh, the joys of exotic travel :)
     
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  16. roofjack_22

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    Played over 50 seasons of baseball , great and fun times that took me around Canada on more than a few occasions . I never watch it though , only play it.... until youve played it youll never know the fun involved .
     
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  17. glamexile

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    I'd rather play rounders ;)
     
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  18. ValleyGraduate12

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    Another sublime performance from Federer at Wimbledon again so far.
     
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  19. Libertyswan

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    Yes Roger through to another final & Djokovic saw off the young pretender Dimitrov a little earlier but I can see the Bulgarian becoming a firm favourite in years to come.

    Regarding other sports my other half loves Grand Prix motor racing & so have been with him to Silverstone & the Belgian circuit in the past but it can be boring watching at home & can sometimes send me to sleep. Recently went to my first ever horse racing meeting at Bath races, helped that we had hospitality for the day including free bar & had great day especially as we won some money on a six race accumulator.
     
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  20. ValleyGraduate12

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    I fancy Federer to win this if he plays like he has all tournament.
     
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