Most hated sporting team

[pasag]

 

[Matt79]

What can I tell you that you don't already know - deep down in the ****les of your heart Zac, or maybe even lower, maybe in the sub-****les?

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Not winning the flag for 18 years defines pathetic, imo.

 

[Matt79]

Meh, cause 16 years until this year is so much better. How recently did you hop on that bandwagon anyway?

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Meh, cause 16 years until this year is so much better. How recently did you hop on that bandwagon anyway?

March.

Before that I'd be hard pressed to name more than two AFL clubs tbh.

 

[Matt79]

At least you're honest.

 

[Smudge]

There's been worse perhaps. Not in my lifetime.

Go on, talk us through what was so incredibly bad about it? Please don't tell me you're one of those deluded Lions supporters who genuinely thought Mealamu and Umaga deliberately went out to target BOD? Look at the two teams - that wasn't a necessity, we owned the biggest lump of **** touring team to leave the British Isles. Best prepared my arse, Clive Woodward.

 

[GIMH]

I *think* he's talking more as an Irishman than a Lions supporter

 

[BoyBrumby]

Go on, talk us through what was so incredibly bad about it? Please don't tell me you're one of those deluded Lions supporters who genuinely thought Mealamu and Umaga deliberately went out to target BOD? Look at the two teams - that wasn't a necessity, we owned the biggest lump of **** touring team to leave the British Isles. Best prepared my arse, Clive Woodward.

I don't want to reopen old wounds, but it was a bad foul that went unpunished, by and large. If the camera angle from the crowd had been available at the disciplinary commitee one would've hoped that was the end of Kevan's & Tana's series.

Provoked a lot of hysteria on both sides & definitely didn't change the outcome of the series, but was a pretty ordinary effort from both players. You lift a bloke up and it's your responsibility to get him down without injury. Quite aside from the fact that lifting a player from a ruck is serious foul play anyway.

 

[PhoenixFire]

Go on, talk us through what was so incredibly bad about it? Please don't tell me you're one of those deluded Lions supporters who genuinely thought Mealamu and Umaga deliberately went out to target BOD? Look at the two teams - that wasn't a necessity, we owned the biggest lump of **** touring team to leave the British Isles. Best prepared my arse, Clive Woodward.

Bolded part is pretty irelevant to the actual issue. I mean, I don't know whether there was deliberate intent and neither do you, but regardless of that, it was a pretty poor tackle. There isn't much denying that. I'm not saying it was the worst tackle ever or anything like that, mind.

 

[luffy]

Hate Manchester United. Don't get me started on them.

 

[PhoenixFire]

Has to be Liverpool TBH, can't stand the ****s.

 

[Smudge]

I don't want to reopen old wounds, but it was a bad foul that went unpunished, by and large. If the camera angle from the crowd had been available at the disciplinary commitee one would've hoped that was the end of Kevan's & Tana's series.

Provoked a lot of hysteria on both sides & definitely didn't change the outcome of the series, but was a pretty ordinary effort from both players. You lift a bloke up and it's your responsibility to get him down without injury. Quite aside from the fact that lifting a player from a ruck is serious foul play anyway.

Yes, I agree it was a poor effort from both players, but I do believe that neither of them realised what the other was doing. It may not be legal to lift the leg of someone when cleaning out at the ruck, but it's standard practice. What screwed it up is the fact they did it at once. However, is it the All Blacks' fault that Mealamu and/or Umaga weren't punished? No. The citing commissioner was a South African.

Bolded part is pretty irelevant to the actual issue. I mean, I don't know whether there was deliberate intent and neither do you, but regardless of that, it was a pretty poor tackle. There isn't much denying that. I'm not saying it was the worst tackle ever or anything like that, mind.

It wasn't a tackle. Once you get that through your head, come back and try again.

 

[sledger]

For long periods I would say that the team I liked the least would have been Man Utd, but I find it hard to truly dislike any team who play's to the standard that they do.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

You're not trying hard enough.

 

[99*]

New England Patriots
Denver Broncos
Australian cricket team
NZ Warriors

In that order.

 

[Tom Halsey]

Australian cricket team out of that poll, but the answer would be Liverpool.

 

[Uppercut]

Go on, talk us through what was so incredibly bad about it? Please don't tell me you're one of those deluded Lions supporters who genuinely thought Mealamu and Umaga deliberately went out to target BOD? Look at the two teams - that wasn't a necessity, we owned the biggest lump of **** touring team to leave the British Isles. Best prepared my arse, Clive Woodward.

I don't think it was premeditated, but IMO it was, as O'Driscoll believes, "deliberate and reckless". You don't accidentally both grab someone's leg, lift him up onto your shoulders then spear him to the ground directly onto his head. When the ball was nowhere near. Don't see how you can watch it and say it was accidental, bit of a ridiculous concept.

And before you ask, i played rugby for seven years. Spear tackles are rare, but they do happen, usually out of recklessness or over-aggression (they actually get much rarer as the standard of rugby increases). Something i've never, ever seen is two players at a finished ruck lift a leg each of an opposition player and throw them forcefully to the ground on their head.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Go on, talk us through what was so incredibly bad about it? Please don't tell me you're one of those deluded Lions supporters who genuinely thought Mealamu and Umaga deliberately went out to target BOD? Look at the two teams - that wasn't a necessity, we owned the biggest lump of **** touring team to leave the British Isles. Best prepared my arse, Clive Woodward.

You're ****ing kidding yourself.

I'll be honest, it's the first time I've seen this (not a ruggers fan) but dead set, that "tackle" is a ****ing killer. You think it was alright? They could've broke his neck for Christs sake, and the ****ing ball was 15 meters away.

I don't give a **** about the bull**** the British media must have spat out about it, but IMO that's the worst tackle I've seen on a rectangle field in the last ten years.

 

[Jamee999]

It's not a tackle - it's illegal rucking.