A Sea Change is Occuring

[Kieran]

PS: no interest in rugby Bunch of hairy fellas jumping on each other isn't my cup of tea but good for Ireland at least.

We've gone through all your inconsistencies before, just pout our names in the search engine and maybe 75% of our posts over the last ten years refer to it. :snicker

You don't like Gaelic fupple, or hurling, mainly because the Dubs are giving me bragging rights in the football, and the whole of the rest of Ireland are still in mourning.

And you don't like rugby either - well I'm not a huge rugby fan, but...the All-Blacks have been smashing every record under the sun for years - and we've never beaten them. But now we're ahead 33-22, with 20 minutes left. It was 30-8, but they're starting to respond... :sofa:

Of course, it's not on television. Not even on Sky. BT have bought the rights... :cover

By the way, do you watch The Walking Dead?

Only sport I follow these days is tennis Used to watch soccer but Klinsmann ruined it when he started the diving craze. If they brought in action replays and sent players off for diving for penalties and free kicks like they're auditioning for the next Superman I might watch it now and then but seeing these pu$$ie$ dive into the air and then roll around like Ronnie Coleman just kicked them in the face is downright embarrassing. A total disgrace to the male population imo. Ronaldo and Drogba took diving to new levels of embarrassment.

Have The Walking Dead downloaded and would gladly watch it but my wife doesn't watch those kind of things so I'd have to watch it on my own but never get around to it. Looks nice and gory though so I must watch it soon alright.

It's excellent and gory - and Ireland just beat the All-Blacks! clap:clap

Sorry, Kskate but this is a bit of history - 111 years in the making! :clap :hug

 

[Front242]

Whoa, didn't realize it was 111 years in the making. Great result.

 

[Carol]

^ Indeed they are 2 very different cases and age is not the only determining factor at all. Style of play and wear and tear are the main things to focus on. These are Nadal's slam results in the last 2 last years:

2015 QF, QF, 2R, 3R
2016 1R, 3R, A, 4R

Here are Federer's:

2015 3R, QF, F, F
2016 SF, A, SF, A

Not really too much of a hunch that El Dude and others are going on based on 2 year's worth of results which show Federer's attacking tennis is still getting him way deeper in slams than Nadal. So forget the age part. They've clearly declined differently

The good news for you and other Nadal fans is Nadal says ""I'm going to die to be ready again to compete for everything". Now either that means he's going back full retard on the PEDs or he's actually gonna give it one last big push and die before the next slam even starts

http://www.news18.com/news/sports/ready-to-die-to-win-another-grand-slam-says-rafael-nadal-
1308459.html

And you have the guts to say something about stupidity and retard after to make such nonsense comment? if you like to accuse to anyone try to learn to hold on when others are doing the same like you

 

[Front242]

You should chat w/ Kieran and the other gents in the TV forum about the many tv shows they're binging.

Cheers. I've checked out the tv forum a few times and I actually have literally so much stuff to watch I wouldn't manage it if I lived to be 5 million years old So much to watch, so little time.

 

[TennisFanatic7]

A sea change is always occurring in tennis, slowly but surely. Emphasis on slowly for the past 12 years or so but it's always changing.

Let's not jinx it re: the youngsters though. Dimitrov, Nishikori and Raonic were getting right on the Big Four's case a couple of years ago, now where are they?

Thiem getting to London this year is a good one though, hopefully Kyle Edmund can continue his rise to give us some British interest in the long term besides Murray.