Are you sick of hearing about soccer?

**Genie** · 18th June 2010, 16:07

Originally Posted by sinfull

To many pies has two 0's IE : How many pies has Craig Sherrifs had ? Too many ! If it were, how many pies would Craig Sherrifs share ? Not too many ! My post have no point ! I think I must be to pissed !

again??? are you ever sober???

**Mudfart** · 18th June 2010, 17:25

north korea is the worst team at the WC apparently ranked 105.
I reckon we got a good chance of draw with the eyeties, and win against uraguay.
go NZ, although our racist team names are a bit off! All Blacks, All Whites...and the NZ cricket team, the KFC's.

**JimO** · 18th June 2010, 17:31

Originally Posted by oldrider

I want soccer to go away and give me back my TV channel choice again, there is enough rubbish on TV without this damn soccer flood!

dont worry once the football is over we will be back to rugby this rugby that like usual

**cowpoos** · 18th June 2010, 21:35

Originally Posted by FROSTY

YOU BUNCH OF HYPOCRITS. --- Ohh woe is me --not enough support for bike racing on tv. Ohh bike this bike that. Yet a bunch of kiwis at ANY sport are actually there against the best in the world and you wanna put em down --SHAME ON YOU.
For gosh sakes its not like the football world cup is on every week.

your a bumbling fool!!

**oldrider** · 18th June 2010, 23:48

Originally Posted by JimO

dont worry once the football is over we will be back to rugby this rugby that like usual

Well currently I only have a choice of TV 1,2, and 3 and don't see much of anything worthwhile but even that is full of bloody FWC repeated over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over...........................if you know what I mean!

**GOONR** · 19th June 2010, 16:07

Originally Posted by oldrider

Well currently I only have a choice of TV 1,2, and 3 and don't see much of anything worthwhile but even that is full of bloody FWC repeated over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over...........................if you know what I mean!

You should get Sky then, you would have even more stuff not to watch!

**crazyhorse** · 19th June 2010, 17:11

Also sick of rugby - wish there was more v8 racing and motorbikes too

**Bikemad** · 19th June 2010, 19:12

Originally Posted by dipshit

I couldn't give a flying fuck whether they win or lose... whatever... big fucking deal.

I would still rather watch grass grow than watch a fucking game of fucking rugby.

what he said...........stopped watchin Rugby when they started wearing fuckin eyeliner and puttin beads in their hair...............

**ynot slow** · 20th June 2010, 13:45

Always was soccer for me,when playing(over 36yrs)to me football is not the kiwi name,neither is it for rugby,to me it's soccer or rugby or league.Probably the poms saying football annoyed me lol,when playing.

We went with no expectations of going to next round,maybe a draw if lucky,but on any given day any team can be beaten,and Italy won 4-3 last year so an upset on the cards?Don't think so but who knows.The difference this time is we have some top class players in the squad,and they can tough it out,so look out Italy.
We must be doing alright the bloody aussies have stolen us with reference to Australaisia getting a draw.

**rustyrobot** · 20th June 2010, 14:31

Originally Posted by ynot slow

Always was soccer for me,when playing(over 36yrs)to me football is not the kiwi name,neither is it for rugby,to me it's soccer or rugby or league.Probably the poms saying football annoyed me lol,when playing.

You know where the name soccer comes from? Rugby and Soccer used to be known as Rugby Football and Association Football. Rugby Football was shortened to RUGger but Association Football had to be shortened to SOCcer since they didn't want to use ASSer. True story.

**oldrider** · 20th June 2010, 17:46

Well, whatever anyone wants to call it, I hope that the New Zealand team (allwhites) at the world cup thingie in South Africa tonight do well.

In fact it would be wonderful to see them achieve the apparent impossible and come through with a "win"!

I wont be sitting up to watch but I will be hoping they can do it!

**Winston001** · 21st June 2010, 01:18

Yeah good luck to the All Whites although I can't see them making much of an impression against the likes of Italy. At least they are at the Cup.

Frankly I'm puzzled by the soccer thing - in its current form. As a game its attractive for its simplicity. All you need is an open space, a ball, a few players, and goal posts. Hmm...sounds like rugby.

But soccer doesn't require physical prowess or involve collisions of players and therein lies the difference. It can be played by any able-bodied person - geeks, girls, nerds, people wearing spectacles, anyone and anywhere.

So its not difficult to see why its the worlds most popular game.

But.....but.....what frustrates me is that a match can be played for 90 minutes and end NIL-NIL. All that effort, all the enthusiasm, which is wasted on a non-result. Consider the All Whites draw. Its been lauded as an upset but really its almost meaningless. A boring match.

What I think needs to happen is for the goal to be heightened by 300mm and widened by 1 metre. At least. Unfortunately this makes the goalie the scapegoat for all losses but can't think of any other simple world-wide change which would produce some decent scoring and reward for both players and spectators.