Like all Oz sports lol...it's the constant sunshine and life spent running and dodging animals that can kill you.. The game is just so far beyond in terms of fitness and technique to when I played it.
About 5-6 years ago (although not at the last Olympics oddly). Its only International events and in reality its still two halves just with a minute (or so) break in each half. In fact International hockey is shorter than domestic, we all play 35mins each way with only a half time break. Don't like all these breaks and with having squad of 15-18 at tournaments and hockey having rolling subs really think they could cope with straight through halves (try playing with a bare minimum of 11 or even a 10). However I suppose its water breaks in a place like Rio International hockey is actually really different to club hockey. There is far more running with a ball, less passing and far more reverse shooting (which I hate and think is actually really dangerous).
Yeah tbf I haven't watched it for a while..it was still 35mins when I went to a club game a year or so ago. Yeah, after watching it for past couple of days I see what you mean about the passing..looks more like when I started playing rather than when I finished. Which is strange as I always thought it was the introduction of the Astro and it being easier to cut a longer pass out that brought in the very short triangles game. Same with high balls that seem to be back which had pretty much been forced out by the time I quit. And there seems to be 5 rule changes every time I watch it again on tv lol...
There are rule changes almost every year, its ridiculous. They brought one in at the end of the season (literally about 3 games to go) for the Olympics, which was to counteract a rule they have brought in the year before to benefit the Internationals, who ended up abusing it hence the new rule. Like I say ridiculous. The water base pitched (the blue Smurf turf) make a flat game piratically impossible as its so so bouncy. So areals and whats called 3D skill (little lifts and playing with the ball off the ground) have come back into the game. I've been playing on the 2012 pitch this summer, which is now a Sheff Hallam, and it really encourages that type of game. However because the vast majority of pitches are still sand based or hybrid (water/Sand) the game generally is still about passing and moving.
Is it still on? I don't think I've really given much of a damn about the olympics in a couple decades now.
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Stadium is around 15% full for the womens egg-chasing. A couple of thousand at most. Everyone saying how egg chasing is going to be massive now it's in the Olympics. Not so sure, It's 7's anyway and there is hardly anyone there!!
Wrong country for its introduction. Had it been London things might have been different. Numbers should pick up in Tokyo, where people are interested in the game. Also bringing Baseball back for Tokyo Why not just hand USA another two golds (mens and Womens). And yet squash can't get a look in
Wouldn't have thought Brazil would be the best country for it to explode attendance wise lol..either too poor or too into football..
That gets my goat. A sport widely played that would view an Olympic medal as the pinnacle always gets overlooked and they put Golf in when most players couldn't give a f**k. Same with Football and tennis really. Squash should really be in by now!
Couple of heifers out there trundling around as well mind, they put em in positions where they're not on camera much, or in goal
