British Sport

[highlandsflyer]

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[dyna-ti]

You hardly ever see sailing on the TV. Unless its an international event when they plug it like theyre old friends

 

[videojetman]

We just need a team that can win the World Cup.

 

[dyna-ti]

We just need a team that can win the World Cup.

That game is all about big money and that knock on has seriously damaged the prospects of young local talent.
Come world cup all the UK players go to their respective countries and the UK is left with a handful.

 

[suburbanreuben]

We just need a team that can win the World Cup.

That game is all about big money and that knock on has seriously damaged the prospects of young local talent.
Come world cup all the UK players go to their respective countries and the UK is left with a handful.

Rubbish!
I don't see the Spanish, Germans, Italians etc suffering 'cos of all the big money in football. Our national shame has more to do with the antiquated coaching techniques for youngsters, not just in football but in all the traditional big sports. Too many competetive matches and not enough having fun while learning the basics.
The sports where we succeed all have innovative coaches/managers with fresh ideas. Football has a bunch of old farts patting themselves on the back if we manage to beat Scotland.

 

[kenaltobelli]

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we have a great chance of a team winning the world cup ;its played here next year
think odd shaped ball big geezers wales or the irish :facepalm:

 

[technodup]

Seeing as I missed the other thread I'd like to say I also think Hamilton is a knob. I was choking for his engine to blow the whole race. All time great my arse. He's a bawbag. For a British driver so wonderful why do so many dislike him? I was rooting for a German ffs.

It's been a pretty boring year tbh, Merc have been too good. Ferrari have failed Fernando yet again, hopefully McLaren give him something halfway decent. Happy to see Williams back doing well, good on Massa and Bottas looks like a future champion.

Oh and you should really include McIlroy, maybe not a world champ but world no 1 and four time major winner. And he's a lot more likeable then Lewis. Which is why he'll win SPOTY and Hamilton won't imo.

 

[Mike Muz]

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I've heard from someone in the team that he's not well liked within it. But he gets results, apparently, and that's what matters.
Not watched F1 since Barrichello let Ferrari team mate Schumacher go past on the last corner of the A1 ring to win the race, sometime in the '90s.
FWIW, I don't like golf either.

I do like winter biathlon though, but don't hold that against me !

Mike

 

[Mike Muz]

Funny that, because I was just off the Skype with my bro who used to work with a few of that team, and he says the opposite. Everyone loves a winner, I am sure your source will reappraise that assessment!

Don't know mate, can only go on what he told me

 

[Neil]

The team shots after the race on Sunday, didn't really show any ambivalence to him.

Everything I've read about the driver / team dynamic tells me, if a driver is performing, the team seem to like them.

Rosberg impressed me greatly during and after the race. He had the honesty and transparency to recognise, after the race, that the fault didn't make any true difference - Hamilton was already leading and pulling away. And he made a balanced, lucid synopsis of both their seasons, and recognised his own shortcomings - all within a brief period after the race.

A lot of drivers would have lept at the chance to park it when the team called him in, but he didn't - and by that point, I doubt it was a last wild hair of hope - think he was 12th at the time.

I'm hardly a big fan of Hamilton - but not really a hater either. However you spin it, though, he more than deserved this WC. He out-raced Rosberg all season, and Rosberg never put a true overtake on him that stuck, or wasn't down to car problems.

That said, Rosberg also proved something - he was the man in qualifying - which is a bigger surprise over Hamilton. What I'm a little unsure on, was whether that was purely because he has managed to be truly quicker in qualie scenarios, or whether simply he's less prone to mistakes over very limited / short runs.

I choose to think Mercedes done good this year in letting them compete - largely. That said, I think it was a mistake to be anything other than impartial over the Spa incident - let them call it as they see it behind closed doors, but I think it was an error to air that in public. I think it (and previous instances that were the triggers for that) went, someway, to undermine Rosberg - although in fairness, I think Hamilton was just better racer than Rosberg this season.