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  • caja-dglh
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    Is it just that Boat race that Rogin has issues with, or rowing races in general?

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  • ursus arctos
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    That has nothing to do with the competition and everything to do with "your" bizarre culture and the BBC's interpretation/promotion of same.

    As someone who has done it, I can assure you that a four mile race in eights on a river course is bloody difficult.

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  • Rogin the Armchair fan
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    Oh, I'm never disappointed by it. It's a marvellous occasion. But it is completely and utterly pointless. It's like the country stopped every year to watch the fucking Eton Wall Game.
    Last edited by Rogin the Armchair fan; 12-06-2019, 14:16.

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  • Kevin S
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    Originally posted by Rogin the Armchair fan View Post
    The Boat Race
    Dunno how you could be disappointed in The Boat Race. Its name tells you exactly what it is.

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  • andrew7610
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    Oh, add doubles tennis to the list for endless unnecessary fist bumps and high fives.

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  • ursus arctos
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    There are contractual obligation angles to that one

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  • Rogin the Armchair fan
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    The Boat Race

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  • andrew7610
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    Collecting a football from the top of a plinth before a football match - whoever put it there in the first place should simply give it to the referee in his dressing room instead.
    Also, this act being shown between 6 and 8 times per episode of Match of the Day.

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  • Sporting
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    1) Football players who are seemingly unable to remember that removing their shirts after scoring a goal gets you a yellow card.
    2) The very fact that a booking exists for this at all.

    3) Goalkeepers who try to stop the their opponents from picking the ball out of the net after the latter have pulled a goal back, If you need to delay the kick off then simply walk back more slowly to the halfway line.

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  • ursus arctos
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    One wonders if batsmen would consciously become more aggressive in overs 20-25,/which wouldn't be a bad thing.

    Would be worth trialing, rather unlike The Hundred.

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  • Sporting
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    Originally posted by Rogin the Armchair fan View Post
    In 50-over one day games, what about splitting the innings? 25 overs each side then start again where they were (ie at 120 for 3, same batsmen come out and carry on?). Would that be fairer re conditions and would it work?
    I quite like the idea but partnerships in progress would lose momentum.

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  • Rogin the Armchair fan
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    In 50-over one day games, what about splitting the innings? 25 overs each side then start again where they were (ie at 120 for 3, same batsmen come out and carry on?). Would that be fairer re conditions and would it work?

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  • ursus arctos
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    Jump balls in basketball (abolished in the college game)

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  • Janik
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    Originally posted by tee rex View Post
    Anyway, the toss in sport is a particular event with a great range from vital to irrelevant. It could decide the winner (literally, back in the day, and theoretically still), it could give a huge advantage (first use of the pitch in cricket), or it could seem entirely pointless. I don't know enough about tennis to know how much serving/receiving first really matters, but certainly in football the pre-match toss has become like one of those ceremonies that open Parliament or give mayors something to do, a tradition kept on long after its original importance has faded.
    Weirdly Cricket, where it matters a lot, is one of the few sports to do away it, at least for some games. County cricket mathces these days are done without a mandatory toss. Rather, the visiting captain is offered the option of fielding first. If they take that up, there is no toss. If they decline, a toss happens. Some have suggested bringing this in to Test cricket for similar reasons - it counteracts the advantage the home side has in preparing the pitch.

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  • WOM
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    Same with free-throws in the NBA. Score one point, finger tap everyone within a ten foot radius. Score second point, repeat. Drives me nuts.

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  • johnr
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    Originally posted by Sporting View Post
    High fives between all or most of the players after just about every point won in volleyball matches.
    This. I walk along the beach most days, past the volleyball court, and it sometimes seems that the players use more energy walking around the court high-fiving than actually playing the game.

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  • Kevin S
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    But it seems like the shift is happening naturally anyway
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...=.aeaa5f055db0

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  • Sporting
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    High fives between all or most of the players after just about every point won in volleyball matches.

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  • Kevin S
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    Originally posted by Sporting View Post
    One point conversion in American Football. Hardly ever misses (anyone know the, er. percentage conversion rate)?
    Hmmm, making it two or nothing would be interesting...

    They increased the distance for one-point coversions a few seasons ago and it did drop the rate down to around 93%. What's curious is that the success rate when going for two extra points has crept over 50%; so the expected points is greater for that option.
    Last edited by Kevin S; 12-06-2019, 10:44.

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  • Rogin the Armchair fan
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    Organisations' rankings in professional boxing. In fact professional boxing organisations full stop.

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  • Sporting
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    One point conversion in American Football. Hardly ever misses (anyone know the, er. percentage conversion rate)?

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  • johnr
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    Originally posted by ooh aah View Post

    Or just rugby league
    I've been enjoying the Beeb's coverage of the Challenge Cup, hence the OP. Just don't get the scrum. Also agree with Sporting's take on the Rugby Union scrum. What we need is some sort of centrist alternative that the whole country can unite behind.

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  • Wouter D
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    Olivier Giroud at the 2018 World Cup.

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  • ooh aah
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    Originally posted by johnr View Post
    ...to the casual viewer:

    Scrums in Rugby League.
    Or just rugby league

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  • tee rex
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    Football has a whole theatre of pointlessness. The manager's assistant getting out the tabletty thing and explaining at length to the 3rd sub exactly what is required, in the 93rd minute of a 3-0 win. And ... oh never mind, it'll just be another rant about the modern game, at least in the upper echelons.

    Anyway, the toss in sport is a particular event with a great range from vital to irrelevant. It could decide the winner (literally, back in the day, and theoretically still), it could give a huge advantage (first use of the pitch in cricket), or it could seem entirely pointless. I don't know enough about tennis to know how much serving/receiving first really matters, but certainly in football the pre-match toss has become like one of those ceremonies that open Parliament or give mayors something to do, a tradition kept on long after its original importance has faded.

    Occasionally the captain will almost look surprised when they win, and have to make a decision. Everything else was meticulously prepared, but not this. I think they should choose to change ends every time, as used to happen a lot (and still does at lower levels with slopes and wind etc). They rarely do now.

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