Friday Dilemma: which sport to watch this weekend?

Steve says:

01:28pm | 09/09/11

Sam stosur is in the last 4 of the US open!

If you can get some good odds on the Eagles they are actually a bit of a chance against the pies. The Cox/Natinui combination is potent at the moment. Given a good performance from the other big man Lynch the pies will have some big men to cover. Big and mobile.

Go WC Eagles.

My 8 year old son barracks for whoever won last year’s final. As a result I have had a Collingwood supporter in the house for nearly 12 months!
That needs to be tidied up.

jf says:

01:25pm | 10/09/11

Unquestionably your most astute contribution ever TChong.

Not that my girls are sufficiently educated to understand that Rugby truly is the game that they watch in heaven, I shall toast you as I watch game after game this weekend.

Now to help them understand that Richie McCaw is not attractive.
If only my wife would stop undermining me.

Have a great weekend’s viewing TChong.

Tim says:

12:34pm | 09/09/11

RahRah old chap, good show.
I’ll be having a snifter of port and supporting the Wallabies with some polite applause.

Richard M says:

04:32pm | 09/09/11

Geez - All Blacks v Tonga and Wallabies v Italy - can’t wa….zzzz…. sorry, dropped off there for a moment.  I’ll bet there’ll be lots and lots of “steady…pause…engage…WHISTLE…no, no..try again” etc etc etc.  And there’ll also be lots of lovely incomprehensible penalties which just might mean that the team which scores more tries doesn’t actually win the game.  As well, the ball will be kicked out of bounds deliberately many many times without a single free kick being paid.  How tremendously exciting, chaps.  I’m so excited I could burst the seams of the leather patches on the elbows of my tweed sports coat.

UP THE SWANNIES!!!

Tim says:

10:25pm | 09/09/11

Richard,
Don’t worry the swans will still get a point for missing and there will be eighty million ball ups. Excitement plus.

Richard M says:

08:30am | 10/09/11

And there’ll be a couple of goals scored and continuous exciting action, while the referee is still trying to set the scrum on the other channel, followed by a penalty for not sniffing the team-mate’s bum correctly, or some such.

Rev says:

01:03pm | 09/09/11

ibast…i am meeting the Foxtel man today to hook up the coverage.

Why?  Because after watching Ch 9’s effort on the last Tri-Nations match, I know I can’t sit through a RWC like that.  Every single ad break was terribly managed.

Furthermore, it’ll play second fiddle to the league - instead of Ch 9 pulling their head out of the proverbial and screening the RWC on one of the HD channels.

Pete #205 says:

12:39pm | 09/09/11

Agree, agree, agree.  Sure, we’re not expecting the main channel to show RWC, but jeebus… you have two other channels.  Even worse, if they didn’t bother with transmitting “HD” on GEM, they could stuff another temporary dedicated SD channel for RWC in there, in their existing bandwidth.

Sheedy's Left Foot says:

12:56pm | 09/09/11

Agree. My loathing of Channel 9 knows no bounds.

Delayed NRL, delayed cricket, delayed rugby. why bother acquiring the live rights to something and then delaying it?

SM says:

01:56pm | 09/09/11

@Sheedy’s Left Foot - “why bother acquiring the live rights to something and then delaying it?”

So you can run more ads

SM says:

01:57pm | 09/09/11

About time you union fans got a taste of what us league fans have been putting up wuth from 9 for years.  They are a disgrace

Leto says:

12:46pm | 09/09/11

+1 Formula 1 (Monza this weekend)
Neanderthals giants don’t interest me in the slightest.

Shane* says:

12:57pm | 09/09/11

If you rely on a machine to do most of the work, it’s not a sport.

Nigel says:

02:17pm | 09/09/11

@shane,

spoken like someone who has never driven a racing car.

As a CAMS Licence race driver (and retired footballer), I can tell you that driving one of those cars is incredibly physically demanding and if all you’ve ever experienced is a road car, you have no idea what effect the g-forces have on your neck, legs and arms.

TTop says:

02:50pm | 09/09/11

Get real Shane*, it’s not a sport if it is judged.

Shane* says:

04:24pm | 09/09/11

Whatever. It’s a skill, an incredible feat of endurance… but a sport it is not.

In sport the best man wins by virtue of his physical ability, not by virtue of a machine’s reliability. Was Schumacher always the best driver? My F1-mad mates assure me he was not, he simply had the best car.

Phil says:

06:52pm | 09/09/11

Ben agree and for the first time in my life I am blessed to find myself in Northern Italy at the correct time of year. So I will be literally watching this live as in at the track. After a party the night before with many great life long friends I will take great delight in making them watch the wallabies smash the azzurri as the calm before the storm. Would love Webber to come through but think it’s Alonso for the win with Justin Beiber on the podium.

SC says:

08:50am | 10/09/11

I can’t believe that there hasn’t been a mention of round 10 of the World Rally Championship, right here in Coffs Harbour this weekend! It’s even on the telly tomorrow….

jf says:

01:27pm | 10/09/11

With so much sport on, you might want to get the wife some fresh batteries as well.

Ando says:

01:58pm | 09/09/11

If you fast forward through the stoppages the union is better.  I can watch an NFL game in half and hour.

Richard M says:

09:08pm | 09/09/11

Even better if you fast forward through the whole bloody boring game and just find out the score at the end.

Cricketer. says:

01:33pm | 09/09/11

Obviously you’ve never ran in hard and bowled a 10 over spell. My guess is you don’t play anything other than with your knob.

Steve says:

02:16pm | 09/09/11

More like someone elses knob!

Max, of Rocky says:

05:47pm | 09/09/11

I agree sport is for playing, so long as you do not half kill your opponent.
Mind you, golf is the a waste of a good walk, I don’t really feel it’s a sport, more a diversion.

Thank God it’s spring and we are waiting for the cricket to be broadcast.

Something non-violent and more refined than brutalising the opposition.  Tactics, psychology and physical fitness - poetry in motion !

I put the TV on and go about doing what needs to be done and when something interesting happens I watch the re-play.

C’mon Aussie c’mon back to # 1     8-)

Sitting cross legged in a kaftan says:

05:47pm | 09/09/11

For you, @cricketer you like the game because you can pretend to be playing sport without the physical training and effort proper sport requires. “ran in hard” after 30 meters is very amusing.
@Steve - yes it was, same time next week?

Tim says:

12:53pm | 09/09/11

Haha,
yeah I made a comment on that too before they pulled it?
Obviously the Punch editors are already on the Friday arvo grogs waiting til the cricket starts this afternoon and didn’t realise they had a pertinent sports dilemma to pose.

Knemon says:

04:08pm | 09/09/11

Agree Dave - I’m about to head off to watch the Hawks give the Cats a football lesson…if they don’t then my weekend will be a depressing disaster!

Richard M says:

08:35am | 10/09/11

Sorry, Knemon - you must be in some pain after last night.  And Buddy seriously injured as well.  But you need to brace yourself for more pain mate as Hawthorn go out in straight sets when the Swannies win tonight and then beat a Buddy-less Hawks next week.

Knemon says:

10:53am | 10/09/11

@ Richard M - Yes, I well and truly put the mockers on them, they’re gone. I’m currently in a worse state than Mary Jo :-(

Kurisu Sonsaku says:

01:24pm | 09/09/11

Go the Bengals

Seanr says:

02:10pm | 09/09/11

I don’t mind the NFL, bit like a chess match. Don’t know what it would be like to watch live though with all the stoppages…anyone else seen a live game?

Pete #205 says:

04:42pm | 09/09/11

Seanr… Been to a college game.  As a cultural experience, great!  As a sporting experience, terrible!  Had bad seats and couldn’t see the screen, so had no idea what was going on.  And the stoppages…geez….  Love a TV game though.

Richard M says:

08:38am | 10/09/11

Saw an NFL game in Washington a couple of years ago.  No wonder Americans are so fat - every few minutes there’s another opportunity to buy a hot dog and a beer.

Direct says:

10:53am | 12/09/11

I don’t mind NFL, but it would be better if there were no stoppages and there was just one team, not an offensive, defensive and special teams.

ibast says:

03:04pm | 09/09/11

Our household is a 1 TV household as a matter of principle rather than economics.  In fact we have an old CRT in storage waiting for a junk night to throw it out.

Bill says:

03:17pm | 09/09/11

TV is full of crap haven’t you noticed?

Billy Whizz says:

12:38pm | 10/09/11

Our house has one TV and it rarely goes on except when a low ambient light source is needed.  Kids have grown up with the internet so they like to watch what they want, when they want it and cannot abide having to view what others have scheduled.

Pete #205 says:

11:19pm | 09/09/11

I’d love to watch South Africa v Wales this weekend, but Nine is showing only three of eight possible games this weekend .  Three.  At any time, delayed, live, parked in at 2am or otherwise.  What the hell is the point of having three channels?!

I wish I had a local pub.

I also wish Fox had a Fox sports only package, at say, $30 a month.  But no, they’d rather you bend over and take it any which way.  Do you know they monitor the number of new subscriptions at those kiosks in malls twice a day?!  Twice a day?! 

Now can’t sleep… too angry…

Tim says:

09:15am | 10/09/11

Watch out, your skirt is showing.

Al Chunk says:

12:50pm | 10/09/11

Stevo can’t be from melbourne can he?  his open mindedness and gracious attitude is heart warming and certainly not the usual cold, insular narrow minded, unsophisticated eurowannabes that I’ve met.