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don't forget Darts.. and multiple World Champ Phil Taylor..
England's true national sport.. you don't even have to leave the pub.
Snooker's a great sport. And, like a lot of British sports - including cricket and darts - it is loved by mathematicians because of its high scoring and all the mathematics you have to perform in your head whilst playing (or whilst watching as a spectator) to work out how to win. In fact, snooker is often used in schools to help children learn maths.
In most people's opinions the greatest player ever to play the sport is, without a doubt, England's Ronnie O'Sullivan. He is regarded as snooker's Pele. The guy is a genius and some of the shots he has pulled of over the years are almost miraculous.
Absolute Essence of Ronnie O'Sullivan - World Championship 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wWKN9OOtvHE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=irFTwwElVg8
I've got to admit that snooker has it all over American billiards (pool). It seems to have all but disappeared in North America over the last 30 years though.
When i was a teenager i used to play at Cliff Thorburn's Billiards in Don Mills.. a 'snooker only' establishment. In 1973 Cliff scored 3 perfect 147 games in 8 days and won the Embassy World Championship in 1980.
When i was a teenager i used to play at Cliff Thorburn's Billiards in Don Mills.. a 'snooker only' establishment. In 1973 Cliff scored 3 perfect 147 games in 8 days and won the Embassy World Championship in 1980.
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don't forget Darts.. and multiple World Champ Phil Taylor..
England's true national sport.. you don't even have to leave the pub.
We can play the game in the pub with our mates and watch it live on the pub's telly at the same time. What more could you want?
I've got to admit that snooker has it all over American billiards (pool). It seems to have all but disappeared in North America over the last 30 years though.
And it's growing in some parts of the world. It's becoming ever more popular in China. The Chinese love it. Whenever there is a tournament held at the Crucible in Sheffield (the home of snooker in the same way that Wembley is the home of football and Twickenham is the home of rugby union and Wimbledon is the home of tennis) there is always a large Chinese contingent in the crowd, and Ding Junhui is now one of the sport's best players. There are estimated to be between 500 and 1,000 snooker clubs in the capital of Beijing and there were 15 television channels in China showing the Snooker World Championship in April/May 2012.
So it's yet another British sport - invented in 1884 by British Army officer Sir Neville Chamberlain in India - which is currently conquering a nation.
BBC Sport - China's love affair with snooker continues to grow
Me and my mate Stuart (he's 50, balding and with a huge beer belly, I'm nearly 33) often go down to the snooker club on Manchester Road in Bolton on Friday nights. We never play snooker. Just drunkenly play British pool (different from the version you play in North America). The place is often frequented by famous current and former snooker players, like Northern Ireland's Dennis Taylor (now a BBC snooker commentaor), who go to watch the aspiring snooker players in action and play one or two frames.
Stephen Hendry when in his prime is the best I ever saw. I use to watch with my dad, who was very good in his own right. He played an exhibition with Thorburn at one point. We were watching Hendry when he was still quite young. I made the comment imagine how good he will be years down the road. He said to me he will never be better than he is right now. No one will be.
I digress, back to trolling, the Uk invented curling. I would say Canada has pretty much owned the world in curling. And if you don't think it's physical try sweeping on ice for a few hours.
I digress, back to trolling, the Uk invented curling. I would say Canada has pretty much owned the world in curling. And if you don't think it's physical try sweeping on ice for a few hours.
if you're talking about lacrosse, you forgot 'bouncy ball, while someone is crosschecking you in the back,
across the hips, legs, just short of mugging, i watched it for years, with first a brother playing, who
fought in almost every game, then my future husband, who came away black and blue, but then his opponant
would have looked the same, he didn't fight, but he did the rough play better than most, and managed to score
goals as well, hmmm, have you ever tried to control a lacrosse ball with the stick, pick up, and pass and
shoot, not easy for the beginner at all, takes practice.
i appreciate snooker, but darts is a joke, and it is annoying that it actually takes up tv time, when
something that is actuallya sport could be shown.
I've got to admit that snooker has it all over American billiards (pool). It seems to have all but disappeared in North America over the last 30 years though.
When i was a teenager i used to play at Cliff Thorburn's Billiards in Don Mills.. a 'snooker only' establishment. In 1973 Cliff scored 3 perfect 147 games in 8 days and won the Embassy World Championship in 1980.
lots of pool in this area, competetive, they travel back and forth to other island cities to play.
my husband was up at 6 everymorning, till recently, and down to the local pool hall to play, recreational
pool, but he use to be tops at the game, now he just wants to play. a great game of skill, as well
as billiards, i like them both.
Here's Hendry scoring a maximum 147 during the 2012 Betfred.com World Snooker Championship at the Crucible in Sheffield. It was the seventh frame of a First Round match against Stuart Bingham, and Hendry went on to win the match 10-4. He would later be defeated 13-2 by Stephen Maguire in the Quarter Finals. Ronnie O'Sullivan won the tournament.
It was Hendry's 11th maximum break, the third in the World Championships and it equalled Ronnie O'Sullivan's 11 maximums. It was the 10th 147 at the Crucible.
Stephen Hendry 147 - World Championship 2012 - YouTube
That's only because it's played on ice. Had curling been a game that was played on grass the Canadians would be useless at it, because you're generally no good at sports not played on ice.
I've said before that if Wimbledon was played on an ice rink, a Canadian would win it every year.
No. I can't say that I have. Like most people in Britain I have never played the sport, never watched it, have no idea how it works and have no interest in it.
The only thing I do know about lacrosse is, that for all its supposed "hardness", lacrosse players would cry like babies on a rugby pitch.
It's not annoying for those millions of people in Britain who like watching darts on telly.
We love watching darts on telly so much that, between 1981 and 1995, we used to have a darts gameshow called Bullseye:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdZd2rVW6rU&feature=player_detailpage
Pool is for those who aren't skilfull enough to play snooker, and for those who struggle to add up points.
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It's nice that you declare your complete ignorance before you give us your informed opinion.
Thanks.
Of course, it's no different to those telling us how boring and rubbish cricket is and how it's "not as tough" as the supposedly tough lacrosse, yet being so ignorant of the game they can't understand its scoring system.
Cricket is an interesting and highly strategic game. It is not, nor is it intended to be, the high-physical-contact sort of sport that, say, Rugby or NFL football or lacrosse is. Comparing cricket to lacrosse is a bit like comparing a sports car to a motorboat, i.e., something only a fool would do. Particularly a jingoistic fool who denigrates everything "foreign" simply because it's not of his country, usually motivated by utter ignorance.
Of course, I know the rules of cricket, have watched it, and have even played it. That's the difference.
In terms of physicality and danger, I would rank sports thus:
1) Boxing
2) Rugby League
3) Rugby Union
4) Cricket
5) Gridiron
6) Lacrosse
7) Baseball
Lacrosse LOOKS more dangerous than it actually is, but stick a lacrosse player onto a cricket field as the wicketkeeper, a batsman or even an ordinary fielder and they'd run for their life in no time at all.
I agree. The latter is played by pansies dressed up in girly kevlar body armour, and the former is played by tough sportsmen who place their bodies into the paths of balls which are bigger, harder and travel faster than lacrosse balls and do so with much less body protection than lacrosse players.
And, of course, anyone in North America who knocks the fine sport of cricket, calling it "boring", know all about the game, don't they?
Cricket is so "boring" that it's the No2 sport in the world after football. In fact, Canada is probably unique in being the only large (largeish) Commonwealth nation in which cricket isn't popular.
I don't think it's physically possible to throw a ball by hand and get the same velocity as throwing with extended leverage. Those cricketers wouldn't know what went past them if a pro lacrosse player drilled a lacrosse ball their way.
In Canada box lacrosse is bigger than field lacrosse. Like Talloola said, it's legal to crosscheck. Not just body check. Is there any body checking in cricket? Or cricket bat cross checking? And there is fighting. The penalty for fighting is sitting out for 5 minutes. I know many lacrosse players who would destroy boxers in fights. Is there any fighting in cricket? Tell me again how cricket is tougher than lacrosse?
In Canada box lacrosse is bigger than field lacrosse. Like Talloola said, it's legal to crosscheck. Not just body check. Is there any body checking in cricket? Or cricket bat cross checking? And there is fighting. The penalty for fighting is sitting out for 5 minutes. I know many lacrosse players who would destroy boxers in fights. Is there any fighting in cricket? Tell me again how cricket is tougher than lacrosse?
Shows you how much you know. A cricket fast bowler can bowl at up to 100mph. And I'd like to see you or any lacrosse player face a 100mph bodyline delivery without ducking and diving all over the place.
After boxing and rugby league, bodyline is the most brutal of sporting spectacles.
*BRUTAL* | Most dangerous ball Bowled in any cricket match - YouTube
Are you trying to tell me that lacrosse is a "tough" sport just because it's got a few players barging into one another? Let's stick a lacrosse player onto a rugby league pitch and see how they deal with a 20 stone monster bearing down on them at great speed. Let's see how they cope with a rugby body checking.
As for cricket, cricketers don't have players barging into them. They often have big, heavy cricket balls barging into them at over 100mph. And don't reply that lacrosse players also do. Lacrosse players face little rubber balls, not big, hevay cricket balls which travel faster and are twice the size.
Whoopee doo. Big hard lacrosse players.
Where do you know them? In your dreams?
There's plenty of fighting and scraps in cricket. I'd say much more so than in lacrosse.
Why? I've already done so.
Are you seriously trying to say that an American footballer, even with all his soppy kevlar body armour and over-the-top helmet, would take out a rugby league player?
In your dreams, pal.
Your American footballer would be decapitated and have an eye gouged out by your rugby league player if it wasn't for the fact he wasn't wearing all that stuart body armour.
Where's your American football's eye gouging? How many American footballers have cauliflower ears?
Here's what Wikipedia says:
Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, or simply league is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 as a split from the Rugby Football Union over the issue of payments to players. Its rules gradually changed with the purpose of producing a faster, more entertaining game for spectators. It is frequently cited as the toughest, most physically demanding of team sports.
You're American footballer would get murdered on a rugby league pitch.
I'm saying 5 guys who weigh 350+lbs each lined up to hit rugby guys would bury the rugby guys before they got to a hospital. Your scrum would be demolished in a flash.
just fixing a typo for you sir.
1- some sort of rugbiesh sport
2- MMA
3- Hockey
4- North American football
5- Boxing
6- Hockey again
7- Couch Rugby
8- Spelling Bee
9- Chess
'baseball'...*snerk*
It's just a short little video, but it shows what happens when an American football lineman plays rugby.
Hint: the guys getting knocked on their a$$es are rugby players, and the guy doing the knocking is the football player.
Haloti Ngata, Rugby Star - YouTube
Hint: the guys getting knocked on their a$$es are rugby players, and the guy doing the knocking is the football player.
Haloti Ngata, Rugby Star - YouTube
cricket can be dangerous as shown in the old "Bodyline" story - but at least the bowler is in front of you and the batsman can avoid getting corked
But lacrosse, in general, is more physical as you can get blind sided by someone twice your size.
But lacrosse, in general, is more physical as you can get blind sided by someone twice your size.