Sports you do not "get"

[Woodsey]

I don't get how people can enjoy watching test cricket. 20/20 is just about tolerable but I can't stand watching test cricket.

But on the flip side I enjoy watching golf which I know lots can't stand.

Hehe. I am the polar opposite of this. I can watch any day or session of a test match yet don't even watch ODIs or 20/20 s on telly let alone go along.

Me too.

Yup yup, can watch the others but test is what I want to watch.

[Woodsey]

Here's a question for union fans.  Do you enjoy watching Sevens?

As an alternative its ok for a change, but its a bit like 20/20 cricket really, 15's is the true test of the full all round game and what I really enjoy.

[Alverton]

I was trying to figure out where 600 stoppages would be in a Rugby League game, but I'm assuming it counts tackles, and wriggling around like a fish.  Which quite clearly aren't stoppages.

[Woodsey]

I was trying to figure out where 600 stoppages would be in a Rugby League game, but I'm assuming it counts tackles, and wriggling around like a fish.  Which quite clearly aren't stoppages.

er.....yes that most definitely is stop/start.

[Jon MW]

They're not 'stoppages' though, there's still something going on when someone is tackled (the defence wants to wrestle them to slow them getting up, the attacker often wants to play the ball ASAP so that when the ball is played there are gaps in the defensive line where defenders haven't got back the 10m and markers aren't square, etc.

If you're not a fan of league, you're not going to understand what's going on - so you see it as stoppages.  Obviously though, the game hasn't 'stopped' as if the player drops the ball, knocks on, etc., then they are penalised - so the game is continuing.  A stoppage should surely only be when the ball is not in play?

pretty much all sports I'm looking as from the recreational - don't really know the game in depth - point of view.

When there's a tackle in league it certainly looks from a casual viewers point of view like the game stops and starts again - it stops therefore, a stoppage.

But it pretty much comes back to confirming the principle that any sport is more interesting the more you understand it.

[TightEnd]

at each play the ball the player stands up, stationary, and hooks it to the man behind him

Dull as dishwater, especially when so few attempt hand offs

its a stoppage

[kinboshi]

at each play the ball the player stands up, stationary, and hooks it to the man behind him

Dull as dishwater, especially when so few attempt hand offs

its a stoppage

No it's not.  As pointed out above.  That's like saying a footballer passing the ball backwards to a defender or the keeper is a stoppage.

That's like saying when a union forward runs into his opposite number falls down and rolls the ball back is a stoppage as well.

[Alverton]

I was trying to figure out where 600 stoppages would be in a Rugby League game, but I'm assuming it counts tackles, and wriggling around like a fish.  Which quite clearly aren't stoppages.

er.....yes that most definitely is stop/start.

Meh I see it differently, which they quite clearly aren't stoppages.  I see it as a fast moving exciting game.  While watching 10 min scrums, penalty after penalty, to maybe inch out a chance for a drop kick isn't.  But guess that's why we have two codes.  Each to their own.  

[Longy]

at each play the ball the player stands up, stationary, and hooks it to the man behind him

Dull as dishwater, especially when so few attempt hand offs

its a stoppage

Give me that over a ball in being somewhere in between a bunch of blokes for 2 minutes and then the ref gives a penalty for god knows what. Then the team who is lucky enough to get this pen is forced to kick for the posts in the majority of situations as that is +ev thing to do.

Tbh the league/union argument could continue forever and neither side will agree. I know I have had enough times!

[outragous76]

I was trying to figure out where 600 stoppages would be in a Rugby League game, but I'm assuming it counts tackles, and wriggling around like a fish.  Which quite clearly aren't stoppages.

er.....yes that most definitely is stop/start.

Meh I see it differently, which they quite clearly aren't stoppages.  I see it as a fast moving exciting game.  While watching 10 min scrums, penalty after penalty, to maybe inch out a chance for a drop kick isn't.  But guess that's why we have two codes.  Each to their own.  

Playing the ball isn't a stoppage just like rucking (or whatever its called when they recycle in Union) isn't a stoppage. There is no ref interference at playing of the ball.

League is so much faster than union the 2 really aren't comparable.

I accept League scrums might as well not occur, but its just a way of restarting the game. And if the alternative is the rugby union farce of a scrum Ill take league any day

[Woodsey]

Tell ya what though, the birds that go and watch league could deffo take down the ones that watch union  

[kinboshi]

Obviously, I prefer league to union, but I do prefer union to a host of other sports - including NFL.

[tikay]

Basebell seems a good pick , I mean I've been to baseball games and I will probably go again but it is really just rounders for druggies isn't it?

Yeah, but you get to sing songs.

[bobby1]

That is very true, it's great if you like singing the same song every day ;o)

[Longy]

You get to do Sweet Caroline at a lot of ballparks as well!

I have been to quite a few games in the US and I think it is a great night out. I think as a tourist going to a baseball game is one of the best ways to get an idea for American culture that isn't right wing politics and religious nutcases!