Canada 23 England 3 - World Lacrosse Championship

[gopher]

What a bloody stupid thread, populated by the usual bunch of 10-year-old kids.

Can anyone tell me just how many people actually play lacrosse in England? That silly game, of which I know so little, may be popular in Canuckia and Yankeeland but don't go round believing it's popular the world over.

How many people actually play lacrosse in England, compared to the numbers who play football, cricket, rugby league, rugby union, tennis? Just how popular a sport is it there? How many people in England actually knew - or even cared - that England have just played Canada in it?



Tough and physical? I'm sure our rugby league players would laugh at that description. After boxing, rugby league is the most physical and brutal sport on the planet. Lacrosse is for schoolgirls.

Not a nice post at all.

A British pal of mine is an assistant lax coach at the youth level in England and he is very devoted to the sport. While it is true that the sport does not have a massive following like the others you mentioned, its following in England is intense. It was England who invented international competitions in the sport when they invited the Iroquois team to play there in the 1800s and this may have helped lead to the re-creation of the Olympic games in 1896.

Lacrosse is a wonderful sport and is the fastest growing in the USA. The Big Ten conference now has its own lax league - this will lead to an even greater increase in its popularity. All it takes now is for the University of Minnesota to have a varsity team and the sport will explode in popularity as Gopherland is fast becoming one of the biggest producers of high school talent in the USA.

Don't knock it until you've tried it.

 

[Blackleaf]

Not a nice post at all.

And most of the previous posts weren't very nice either.

The only reason this thread was set up was to have a gloat over the fact that Canada - the only country in the world in which lacrosse is the most popular sport, the country's national sport - beat a country in which the players are merely amateurs and not professionals, a country in which lacrosse is very much a minor sport, a game in which the vast majority of the population know little about and have very little interest in.

It would be like me setting up a thread gloating over England thrashing the USA in Test cricket.

 

[Kreskin]

They wouldn't be laughing after a heavy and solid Indian rubber ball smokes past their ears at 160kph. Best for you teatotallers to stick to games where you can stand around and do nothing most of the time.

 

[captain morgan]

they will need much more than 'a stiff upper lip' to do well in lacrosse.

I'm thinking that the British team will be walking off with 'fat upper lips' when it's all said and done.

They wouldn't be laughing after a heavy and solid Indian rubber ball smokes past their ears at 160kph. Best for you teatotallers to stick to games where you can stand around and do nothing most of the time.

Maybe they'll be better off competing in some board game tourneys; snakes and ladders, monopoly or card games and whatnot.

 

[Blackleaf]

They wouldn't be laughing after a heavy and solid Indian rubber ball smokes past their ears at 160kph. Best for you teatotallers to stick to games where you can stand around and do nothing most of the time.

Wow! Big tough lacrosse players having a little rubber ball smoke past them at "160kph"!

Let's look at the stats shall we:

A lacrosse ball is made out of rubber and weighs between 140 and 147 grams.

A cricket ball is made from a core of solid cork, which is layered with tightly wound string, and covered by a leather case with a slightly raised sewn seam. The ball must weigh between 5 1/2 and 5 3/4 ounces (between 155.9 and 163.0 g), quite a bit heftier than a lacrosse ball.

A lacrosse ball is 125.4 millimetres in circumference, whereas a cricket ball is between 8 13/16 and 9 inches (between 224 and 229 mm) in circumference, quite a lot larger than a lacrosse ball.

A bowler can bowl a cricket ball to the batsman at 95 mph (over 150kph) and, in turn the ball could then be hit by the batsman at 124 mph (that's 200 kph that a lethal piece of cork will be whizzing through the air).

Compare that to lacrosse, where average ball speed is only 80 mph (129 kph).

As you can see cricket balls are, much more so than lacrosse balls, very hard and potentially lethal, hence most of today's batsmen and close fielders often wear protective equipment.

In 1998, Indian cricketer Raman Lamba died when a cricket ball hit his head in a club match in Dhaka. Lamba was fielding at forward short-leg without wearing a helmet when a ball struck by batsman Mehrab Hossain hit him hard on the head and rebounded to wicket-keeper Khaled Mashud.

Other cricketers known to have died as a result of on-field injuries in a first-class fixture after being hit while batting: George Summers of Nottinghamshire on the head at Lord's in 1870, Abdul Aziz, the Karachi wicket-keeper, over the heart in the 1958-59 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy final, and Ian Folley of Lancashire (playing for Whitehaven), in the face in 1993.

In short, I'd much rather be standing in the path of a lacrosse ball at full pelt than a cricket ball.

 

[captain morgan]

Are there any sports in which you and your nation can claim mastery?

 

[Blackleaf]

Good news is you know enough to shoot off your ignorant mouth, to the amusement of all.

This coming from someone who wrote this....

Guess Engerland's branching out from sucking at soccer

..... in a thread which was set up for no other reason other than to gloat that Canada beat an AMATEUR team in a minor sport.

Canada must be terrible at sport when you gloat over beating a bunch of part-timers and amateurs from a country which has less lacrosse players than sumo wrestlers.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Wow! Big tough lacrosse players having a little rubber ball smoke past them at "160kph"!

Let's look at the stats shall we:

A lacrosse ball is made out of rubber and weighs between 140 and 147 grams.

A cricket ball is made from a core of solid cork, which is layered with tightly wound string, and covered by a leather case with a slightly raised sewn seam. The ball must weigh between 5 1/2 and 5 3/4 ounces (between 155.9 and 163.0 g), quite a bit heftier than a lacrosse ball.

Fifeteen grams is "quite a bit?" It's half an ounce.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

They wouldn't be laughing after a heavy and solid Indian rubber ball smokes past their ears at 160kph. Best for you teatotallers to stick to games where you can stand around and do nothing most of the time.

Like their soccer team?

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Like their soccer team?

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

..... in a thread which was set up for no other reason other than to gloat that Canada beat an AMATEUR team in a minor sport.

Coming from a King of minor sports posts (such as cricket and fox hunting) that is quite amusing.

I don't know who thinks Lacrosse is our national sport. If you went by what people actually watch it would be hockey (another game which England sucks at).

 

[Kreskin]

Wow! Big tough lacrosse players having a little rubber ball smoke past them at "160kph"!

Let's look at the stats shall we:

A lacrosse ball is made out of rubber and weighs between 140 and 147 grams.

A cricket ball is made from a core of solid cork, which is layered with tightly wound string, and covered by a leather case with a slightly raised sewn seam. The ball must weigh between 5 1/2 and 5 3/4 ounces (between 155.9 and 163.0 g), quite a bit heftier than a lacrosse ball.

A lacrosse ball is 125.4 millimetres in circumference, whereas a cricket ball is between 8 13/16 and 9 inches (between 224 and 229 mm) in circumference, quite a lot larger than a lacrosse ball.

A bowler can bowl a cricket ball to the batsman at 95 mph (over 150kph) and, in turn the ball could then be hit by the batsman at 124 mph (that's 200 kph that a lethal piece of cork will be whizzing through the air).

Compare that to lacrosse, where average ball speed is only 80 mph (129 kph).

As you can see cricket balls are, much more so than lacrosse balls, very hard and potentially lethal, hence most of today's batsmen and close fielders often wear protective equipment.

In 1998, Indian cricketer Raman Lamba died when a cricket ball hit his head in a club match in Dhaka. Lamba was fielding at forward short-leg without wearing a helmet when a ball struck by batsman Mehrab Hossain hit him hard on the head and rebounded to wicket-keeper Khaled Mashud.

Other cricketers known to have died as a result of on-field injuries in a first-class fixture after being hit while batting: George Summers of Nottinghamshire on the head at Lord's in 1870, Abdul Aziz, the Karachi wicket-keeper, over the heart in the 1958-59 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy final, and Ian Folley of Lancashire (playing for Whitehaven), in the face in 1993.

In short, I'd much rather be standing in the path of a lacrosse ball at full pelt than a cricket ball.

Unlike cricket the object is stop the the ball.

You have lost all your marbles if you think cricket is even close to the same category of danger or physicality.

 

[captain morgan]

You have lost all your marbles if you think cricket is even close to the same category of danger or physicality.

Well, it is very possible to die of boredom during a rousing game of cricket

 

[Blackleaf]

Are there any sports in which you and your nation can claim mastery?

We're a much more successful sporting nation than you are.

 

[captain morgan]

Like?

 

[Blackleaf]

Coming from a King of minor sports posts (such as cricket and fox hunting) that is quite amusing.

Cricket is the No2 sport on the planet after football. There's nothing minor about it.

I don't know who thinks Lacrosse is our national sport.

I'm not from Canada, have no interest in lacrosse and know almost nothing about it, but even I know that it is Canada's official summer sport.

Canada is the only nation in which lacrosse is the national sport, and the USA is the one other nation with any degree of interest in it, yet you gloat over the fact that you beat a nation in which the sport is a minor, amateur game. You gloat over the fact that your professional side beat a bunch of barmen, plumbers, taxi driver and lawyers.

If you went by what people actually watch it would be hockey (another game which England sucks at).

And Canada sucks at football, cricket, rugby union, rugby league, snooker and darts. You're no good at chucking darts onto a dartboard. Pathetic.

Unlike cricket the object is stop the the ball.

What do you think the fielders are there for? Decoration?

I'd love to see you as a wicketkeeper.

You have lost all your marbles if you think cricket is even close to the same category of danger or physicality.

The opposite is true. A game with a solid cork ball, almost twice the size of a lacrosse ball travelling at a greater velocity, is a much more dangerous sport.

 

[Kreskin]

Ah, snooker and darts. Kind of like monopoly only less physical.

 

[Blackleaf]

Ah, snooker and darts. Kind of like monopoly only less physical.

And you suck at them. Even the Chinese are better at snooker than you, and the Dutch are better than you at darts.

 

[Kreskin]

And you suck at them. Even the Chinese are better at snooker than you, and the Dutch are better than you at darts.

Games played by drunks. You stick to them while we play real sports.

 

[Blackleaf]

Games played by drunks. You stick to them while we play real sports.

Real sports? Like running around a field trying to catch a bouncy ball in wicker baskets?