Re: Depressing.... : Thu Nov 16, 2017 9:31 pm  

downo wrote:

you want to mention Tennis??? really??? consider Australia, historically is only second to the greatest Tennis nation to walk the face of the earth, GB can't hold a candle to Australias tennis history, you haver one surly sweaty jock who is British when he wins & Scottish when he loses

Again, Cricket, in the modern era Australia have been largely dominant & should tear you a new one this coming series

TDF.....well hes Kenyan/ South African but we get the picture, Bring on the new guard, Richie Porte

Formula one...pffft my cars faster than your car because i'm rich

boxing...thats just because you're a third world country, its admirable that you have young migrants that are eager to break free of poverty, & its nice that they want to entertain the rich

Surprised you can type these through the laughter

When was the last time an Australian won a tennis grand slam?? Why only consider modern cricket but all of tennis history?

He represents Britain because he wants to and who can blame him

Lewis Hamilton does not pay for his car, he races for the best team because he is the best driver

You obviously do not know what 3rd world means (Britain was pretty heavily involved in NATO) but I know the Aussie school system isnt too good
Also Britain was the first country to industrialise and Aus is literally 95% desert wasteland, and is a richer country than Aus by pretty much any metric
Also the majority of world boxing champions have come from the USA- the richest country in the world
Also you JUST said that Hamilton only wins because of money, but then call Britain poor

But yea apart from that you really made some good points

Re: Depressing.... : Thu Nov 16, 2017 10:34 pm  

leedsnsouths wrote:

When was the last time an Australian won a tennis grand slam??

Samantha Stosur won the 2011 US Open. She was the first Aussie slam winner since Leyton Hewitt won his second at Wimbledon in 2002....who in turn followed Pat Rafter who won the last of his slams in 1998. He followed Pat Cash who followed Christine O'Neill,who in turn followed Kerry Melville....at which stage we get to the same year that Virginia Wade won in the Queens Jubilee Year....
Tell us again about Andy Murray who was the first British man to win in 76 years and British player in 35 years since Wade....yeah...Let's talk some more about tennis...where the Davis Cup sees 47 Finals appearances and 28 wins for Australia whilst Team GB come in with 18 appearances and 10 wins.
Simply put....and I'll put it simply because the UK education system isn't all that....since Fred Perry won the last of his majors in 1936, Britain has won 5 Majors and 1 Davis Cup......compared to 111 ...that's ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN Majors and 22...that's TWENTY TWO Davis Cups for 'stalya!

So...that's the the top 7 team sports AND Tennis

Re: Depressing.... : Thu Nov 16, 2017 11:22 pm  

Now we have some serious googling up on tennis stats.

This is truly depressing

Re: Depressing.... : Fri Nov 17, 2017 1:02 am  

RoyBoy29 wrote:

Now we have some serious googling up on tennis stats.

This is truly depressing

Trying to stay on thread

Re: Depressing.... : Fri Nov 17, 2017 4:14 am  

Call Me God wrote:

Samantha Stosur won the 2011 US Open. She was the first Aussie slam winner since Leyton Hewitt won his second at Wimbledon in 2002....who in turn followed Pat Rafter who won the last of his slams in 1998. He followed Pat Cash who followed Christine O'Neill,who in turn followed Kerry Melville....at which stage we get to the same year that Virginia Wade won in the Queens Jubilee Year....
Tell us again about Andy Murray who was the first British man to win in 76 years and British player in 35 years since Wade....yeah...Let's talk some more about tennis...where the Davis Cup sees 47 Finals appearances and 28 wins for Australia whilst Team GB come in with 18 appearances and 10 wins.
Simply put....and I'll put it simply because the UK education system isn't all that....since Fred Perry won the last of his majors in 1936, Britain has won 5 Majors and 1 Davis Cup......compared to 111 ...that's ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN Majors and 22...that's TWENTY TWO Davis Cups for 'stalya!

So...that's the the top 7 team sports AND Tennis

Why are you now talkining about history?
When talking about RL or cycling or whatever you talked about the current rankings, being a bit selective aren't you

Also this is all a bit redundant, in England the only sport that the majority care about is football (which we rank far higher than you lot) all other sports are secondary by far
Just like in NZ with RU (which they rank higher at)
Aus is the only country where RL dominates the press (admittedly only in NSW and QLD) so they rank higher at that

The other sports that have a decent following in Britain we tend to do well in, boxing, cricket, athletics (though most people only watch the olympics)
I recon the majority of people in Britain prefer Federer to Murray and could not even name a single British basketball or netball or hockey player, or whatever other obscure sport you want to drag up that no-one watches or cares about

Re: Depressing.... : Fri Nov 17, 2017 11:28 am  

leedsnsouths wrote:

Why are you now talkining about history?
When talking about RL or cycling or whatever you talked about the current rankings, being a bit selective aren't you

Also this is all a bit redundant, in England the only sport that the majority care about is football (which we rank far higher than you lot) all other sports are secondary by far
Just like in NZ with RU (which they rank higher at)
Aus is the only country where RL dominates the press (admittedly only in NSW and QLD) so they rank higher at that

The other sports that have a decent following in Britain we tend to do well in, boxing, cricket, athletics (though most people only watch the olympics)
I recon the majority of people in Britain prefer Federer to Murray and could not even name a single British basketball or netball or hockey player, or whatever other obscure sport you want to drag up that no-one watches or cares about

I really dont think you have anything to crow about when it comes to football

Re: Depressing.... : Fri Nov 17, 2017 11:44 am  

downo wrote:

I really dont think you have anything to crow about when it comes to football

We got to the semi finals of Euro 96. FACT. Australia have never even qualified for the Euros. FACT.
Who's laughing now?

Re: Depressing.... : Fri Nov 17, 2017 12:43 pm  

Australia are only good at rugby league and in the grand scheme of the sporting world, isnt even recognised as a sport. All other sports they suck at.

Regards

King James

Re: Depressing.... : Fri Nov 17, 2017 1:06 pm  

downo wrote:

you want to mention Tennis??? really??? consider Australia, historically is only second to the greatest Tennis nation to walk the face of the earth, GB can't hold a candle to Australias tennis history, you haver one surly sweaty jock who is British when he wins & Scottish when he loses

Again, Cricket, in the modern era Australia have been largely dominant & should tear you a new one this coming series

TDF.....well hes Kenyan/ South African but we get the picture, Bring on the new guard, Richie Porte

Formula one...pffft my cars faster than your car because i'm rich

boxing...thats just because you're a third world country, its admirable that you have young migrants that are eager to break free of poverty, & its nice that they want to entertain the rich

You chat nowt but pure macca you fella, bobbins WUM n'all

Re: Depressing.... : Fri Nov 17, 2017 1:33 pm  

downo wrote:

I really dont think you have anything to crow about when it comes to football

Really?

The Premier League is the most popular and richest sporting league in world sport
We have highest (Premier League) and third (Championship behind Bundesliga) highest attended leagues in European football
We have had the second highest amount of European Cup winners by country in Europe with 12 (behind La Liga); the most Cup Winners Cup wins with 8; third highest UEFA Cup wins with 8 (behind La Liga and Serie A)

England have just won the U17 and U20 World Cups n’all