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Heard you were a dab hand at the old Horse Polo yourself.
avonali (Dublin) - Posts: 1972 - 03/07/2023 14:00:06 2491835 Link 9 |
Well done on the reverse snobbery there ulsterman
KillingFields (Limerick) - Posts: 3359 - 03/07/2023 14:03:27 2491841 Link 2 |
Went to Wimbledon last year for the first and last time, the level of pretentiousness is off the charts. Sat on Court 1 and realised after an hour how rubbish tennis actually is when you watch it live.
dolfos (Longford) - Posts: 106 - 03/07/2023 14:33:20 2491854 Link 0 |
Been to loads of tennis matches live when travelling for work. Totally disagree. I have seen some amazing matches in the flesh. Do we have to hate tennis now because some upper class British people love Wimbledon?
TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 7683 - 03/07/2023 18:41:21 2491959 Link 9 |
Since UK left EU there are restrictions on players under 18 from EU countries. This has had a big impact on players going from Ireland to premier/uk clubs. There are no restrictions on U18 players going to Clubs in EU. Our world has changed since Brexit we just have to keep up with the new changed world we are now in.
arock (Dublin) - Posts: 4875 - 03/07/2023 18:42:23 2491960 Link 0 |
Yeah Nick Krygios is posh alright and sure Novak Djokovic is descended from Serbian monarchy. It's a great sport even if Wimbledon is definitely pretentious. Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 8885 - 04/07/2023 09:26:58 2492038 Link 0 |
Anyone any experience applying for the Vacant Property Refurbishment grant? if_in_doubt (Kildare) - Posts: 3685 - 04/07/2023 10:05:17 2492054 Link 0 |
Congratulations to Ricky Fowler (PGA) and Talor Gooch (LIV) for their great wins on Sunday. Trump2020 (Galway) - Posts: 2005 - 04/07/2023 10:10:25 2492056 Link 0 |
Exactly. I play squash a bit, and played tennis once. I was unbelievably useless at it. Lot harder than it looks lol. If there were prizes for whacking the ball into the net, or sending it out of they court, I'd have been a star lol. It's a tremendous sport, which requires high skill and fitness to play it well. Saying you don't like tennis because of a few hoorays (and they're harmless enough when you ditch your ingrained anti-posho prejudice and get to know them) is like saying in the 80s you wouldn't watch Maradona because of a few English hoodlums. All sport is good.
points50swiththeargyllsonthewrongfeet (Tyrone) - Posts: 212 - 04/07/2023 11:23:09 2492082 Link 0 |
100 per cent.
TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 7683 - 04/07/2023 11:36:53 2492092 Link 8 |
All I can tell you is that after an hour I was over the whole thing, Kyrios hammered some lad 3 sets to 0, it was dull af, and some of the people hanging around the bar were next level posers.
dolfos (Longford) - Posts: 106 - 04/07/2023 12:39:28 2492113 Link 0 |
Cool so you saw 1 match that was unbalanced and then people were uninterested so that means the sport is rubbish. Good stuff.
TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 7683 - 04/07/2023 12:44:01 2492119 Link 8 |
Haha. I went to see Benfica one time in the Stadio da Luz and they absolutely whipped FC Nacional 10-0. Since then I have declared that Portuguese, no make that all association football to be rubbish. ;) Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 8885 - 04/07/2023 13:44:14 2492136 Link 0 |
Exactly, imagine if Mayo fans were like that after Sunday.
Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 3302 - 04/07/2023 14:15:11 2492149 Link 0 |
Yep that's exactly what I said. It was dull due to the fact 50% of the game is spent either walking around with a towel, sitting down for a rest and the spectators tutting if someone had the cheek not to sit down as soon as the umpire told them to, like being at school, except everyone is in chinos. dolfos (Longford) - Posts: 106 - 04/07/2023 15:03:29 2492175 Link 0 |
So there's no skill at all in the hand-eye coordination needed to return a serve travelling at 140 m/ph? You seem to be suffering from some sort of inferiority complex which has nothing to do with the sport of tennis.
Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 8885 - 04/07/2023 16:10:31 2492214 Link 0 |
What are you rambling on about? Where did I say any of that? If someone pinged a ball at me at 50mph I'd probably struggle to hit it! Hitting a baseball is also a very difficult thing to do, doesn't mean it's not a dull activity to watch. I suppose if I didn't have this inferiority complex I could have played for Finn Harps. dolfos (Longford) - Posts: 106 - 04/07/2023 16:33:44 2492218 Link 0 |
Baseball and tennis in the same sentence. Jesus wept.
TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 7683 - 04/07/2023 21:18:03 2492293 Link 8 |
Ohhh ouch.
Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 8885 - 05/07/2023 08:43:42 2492317 Link 0 |
I'm sorry we don't like the same thing, what do you think of Supertramp?
dolfos (Longford) - Posts: 106 - 05/07/2023 10:52:28 2492344 Link 0 |