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If you could ban one sport...

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    #452
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Noopti wrote: »
    I wouldn't ban any sport really, but I would not televise certain sports.....like walking.

    Synchronised swimming......for the love of jaysus.....


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    #453
    [Deleted User]
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    MooseJam wrote: »
    which one would you, I'd go for golf, bloody elitist knobbers robbing the countryside for their stupid game, I wouldn't even call it a sport
    ThE_IVIAcIVIAIV wrote: »
    Cricket. could never understand it.
    these are the first two posts in this thread. pathetic.

    a golf course looks better than a silage pit and if you understood cricket, you'd realise it's not a bad game.


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    #454
    Mr.Lizard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,476 ✭✭✭Mr.Lizard


    I'd ban horse-racing. Whilst I hate GAA and F1 and Golf and Cricket I can at least appreciate that most people watch those sports for the sport themsevles. However with horseracing the fact that it is almost entirely associated with gambling shows that pretty much no one even cares about it as a sporting entity in itself.


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    #455
    aDeener
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    these are the first two posts in this thread. pathetic.

    a golf course looks better than a silage pit and if you understood cricket, you'd realise it's not a bad game.


    how is that pathetic? they are the sports those posters would want to get rid of. just because you might liek them doesnt mean others do


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    #456
    partyguinness
    Registered Users Posts: 8,203 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    Any so called 'blood sports'...such as hunting...do they realise how silly they are??


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    #457
    Mr.Lizard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,476 ✭✭✭Mr.Lizard


    partyguinness wrote: »
    Any so called 'blood sports'...such as hunting...do they realise how silly they are??

    It's good exercise for the hares and foxes tho.


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    #458
    DrumSteve
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    foxhunting.


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    #459
    builttospill
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    hot2def wrote: »
    talking about UFC.

    I mean, do Irish men talk about anything else when the number in the group passes 2....?

    Are you taking the piss? If someone in my group of my mates started talking ardently about UFC they'd get a swift kick in the balls. I'm scared to think what kind of camp company you keep.


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    #460
    nomorebadtown
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    LouOB wrote: »
    Women's volleyball
    You take that back:mad:
    Women's volleyball is a great and noble sport!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8uqqk2dlXQ


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    #461
    Bandit883
    Registered Users Posts: 34 ✭Bandit883


    Chess..........its to rough


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    #462
    [Deleted User]
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    aDeener wrote: »
    how is that pathetic? they are the sports those posters would want to get rid of. just because you might liek them doesnt mean others do
    one used the term "bloody elitist knobbers" to describe golfers and the other admitted to not understanding cricket.

    that's why it's pathetic.


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    #463
    Yo Mamma
    Registered Users Posts: 954 ✭✭✭Yo Mamma


    FOOTBALL

    ..................It's a game for Steamboats !!!


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    #464
    brenchman
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    square_igloo wrote: »
    Boxing.
    Because most boxers are either extremely arrogant or downright thick. (In some cases, both)

    and you're a moderator?!?!


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    #465
    smileysurfer
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    Boxing!!!!

    its disgustingly brutal! Like young thugs fighting on the street only they have ''rules'' and idiots cheering them on!
    Im not even going to get started on Bernard Dunnes fight a few weeks ago where he continued punching yerman in the face whilethe poor guy was leaning against the ring as he could no longer stand! :mad:
    Disgusting!!


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    #466
    LaMer
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    Mr.Lizard wrote: »
    I'd ban horse-racing. Whilst I hate GAA and F1 and Golf and Cricket I can at least appreciate that most people watch those sports for the sport themsevles. However with horseracing the fact that it is almost entirely associated with gambling shows that pretty much no one even cares about it as a sporting entity in itself.

    Too right. The 'sport' is a joke, its just pure greed and a couple of big companies exploiting gambling addicts. I can appreciate the skill of jockeys, trainers, etc. but its just a mess of greed, money and total disregard for horses.


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    #467
    CamperMan
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    I would ban fox hunting!!, it's a disgusting "sport" and what gives the hunters the right to hunt on private property?


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    #468
    Killaqueen!!!
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    Rogby loike


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    #469
    javaboy
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    brenchman wrote: »
    and you're a moderator?!?!

    Mods are just like normal posters outside of the forums they mod. And even he was a mod on this forum, he's still entitled to opinions, even controversial ones.


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    #470
    colly10
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    smileysurfer wrote: »
    Boxing!!!!

    its disgustingly brutal! Like young thugs fighting on the street only they have ''rules'' and idiots cheering them on!
    Im not even going to get started on Bernard Dunnes fight a few weeks ago where he continued punching yerman in the face whilethe poor guy was leaning against the ring as he could no longer stand! :mad:
    Disgusting!!

    Are you serious, they don't call it the sweet science for nothing. There is alot more going on in the sport than what can obviously be seen. It's a sport of skill where you can win by outthinking your opponent.
    People who just jump in throwing haymakers tend to get their ass handed to them, even if they are the naturally stronger


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    #471
    tommybrennan15
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    cricket,to confusing


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    #472
    Mars Bar
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    I don't get Boxing either. That's the one I would ban...

    To the OP, golf isn't all snobbery and elitist, I live in a semi - detached house on a road full of travellers, My Dad is an average earner and works hard, My mam has 2 jobs. Our pleasure is a round of golf once a week.

    Get with the times.


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    #473
    Quint
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    CamperMan wrote: »
    I would ban fox hunting!!, it's a disgusting "sport" and what gives the hunters the right to hunt on private property?

    I wouldn't even call it a sport.
    I used to work in an apple orchard, every year the fox hunting guys would ask permission to go across the land which would be refused. It didn't matter, they went across anyway, making shíte of any row of trees they went down.


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    #474
    Hephaestus
    Registered Users Posts: 293 ✭✭Hephaestus


    Bowls. Awful awful game


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    #475
    Morag
    Registered Users Posts: 8,427 ✭✭✭Morag


    Soccer, and take all the money and hours that people waste on it and put it to good use doing stuff like ending world hunger and curing cancer.


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    #476
    Morag
    Registered Users Posts: 8,427 ✭✭✭Morag


    And that water ballet crap, synchronised swimming.


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    #477
    Orizio
    Registered Users Posts: 9,460 ✭✭✭Orizio


    Probably Gaelic Football, but I understand it must exist to occupy lesser, more common creatures (Kerry folk for example, or nordies) so they don't contaminate the beauty and majesty of Gaelic Hurling with their lack of skill and wit. ;)


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    #478
    Orizio
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    BTW does anyone else find it hilarious when soccer fans complain about the lack of ethics and morals in other sports? :p


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    #479
    Agamemnon
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    nomorebadtown wrote: »
    You take that back:mad:
    Women's volleyball is a great and noble sport!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8uqqk2dlXQ
    Never mind the "Thanks" button, we need a "****" button.


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    #480
    masonman
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    Soccer. That way the only small talk conversation I'd have to contend with would be the weather.

    Hate the way people assume all lads like/ give a flyin' f8ck about soccer.

    Over-rated


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    #481
    Aidric
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    Road Bowling. Too many knackers.


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