Rugby World Cup

think you'll find that's Scotland!

 

Other than Britain winning a few medals at the Olympics and England winning a couple of Ashes series I have never seen my football team or country win anything in my lifetime (no the Intertoto Cup and Faulklands War don't count). Ahh, what about the Rugby World Cup in 2003 you may ask? Well I can't count that because I was backpacking through Central America at the time and missed the whole thing. Totally passed me by.

So... it was no surprise to get knocked out today by Australia.

 

English football, Rugby and Cricket all gone out in World Cup group stages with a game to spare. Simply not good enough and a sign that we need to look at ourselves as a country and work out what is going wrong, perhaps look at want went so right in the Olympics and see if we can implement that into those sports.

 

Football, rugby and cricket are all pro sports. They all rely on the sponsor power. They all dncourage people who desire money, fame and the fast life. They all encourage English teams to sign 'cheaper' foreign players, rather than invest in developing local talent! They are all commercial.

Olympics is all about developing 'our own'. Also, these are folk who train EVERY day; regardless of weather, regardless of funding, regardless of having 'a life'. They do it for pride. Thet do it becsuse they WANT to. They do it because their country MEANS something to them.

No contest.

 

Have these things changed now in football ?

 

Looks like someone has been chopping firewood on her face

 

The sports are full of too many foreigners and too many talented kids can't afford to get the required training. Only the rich kuds with less physical and genetic ability get through.

Fact.

 

If you were a tramp it's as good as finding a tin of beans

Either is like winning the tramp post code lottery

 

Cricket doesn't have that many overseas players and if they do come over it's for a quick pay day think likes of Chris Gayle at Somerset. Think the problem is more we don't encourage our players to go abroad, I was staggered to hear the other day that if an English player go to play abroad then he's not available to be selected in the England Rugby club thus meaning that players like Dylan Hartley are unavailable, cricket as similar problems with IPL which have been well documented. It's a global world we live in now and sadly sport is part of that, haven't got a problem if a Rugby player wants to play in France or a Cricketer wants to play in the IPL, as long as he is still available to represent England. At the end of the day we weren't even in it from minute one on Saturday night.

 

Its too expensive

 

This is very similar to the problem the football team has. Our players rarely play in Europe and never in South America. Other nations players tend to get experience of a number of leagues and so develop technical and tactical experience that ours cannot compete with. The strength of the premier league financially means that very few of our players (if any) get experience of playing abroad, and don't even get that much game time here in some squads.

 

Physical and genetic?

 

I hear you ha ha

 

Pardon

 

Have you been eating crisps again

 

No Ive had a tea of Turkey dinosaurs on a bed of potato smiles with a generous dollop of peppa pig psghetti.

 

How many dinosaurs did you manage?

 

Dinosaurs are turkish?

 

Four. I'm not an animal.

Birds evolved from dinosaurs, so yes.

 

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Imagine some peppa pig psghetti instead of the baked beans. Less sauce also. Heaven forbid soggy Dino's and tatties.