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Cos they're shite?? Well if you didn't know ice hockey is my world of sport. Watching & playing, used to coach but gave that up, way toooo much politics. I play twice a week and it kills me but love it. Watch every night on TV and live at the weekends. I follow Buffalo Sabres in the NHL (who are rubbish so far this year, Steve Ott for Derek Roy, great trade NOT) and Manchester Phoenix here in the UK.

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well Strat I have to say that English wicketkeeper really needs to learn to keep his mouth shut "There should be no reason why we can't DOMINATE Australia in these two Ashes series" really? how about the fact that Michael Clarke has scored over two thousand runs in the last eighteen months, how about the fact that since Clarke took captaincy Australia have only lost one test series, how about the fact that Mitchell Johnson has run back into the form that saw him terrorise South Africa a few years back, that David Warner has quickly adapted to test cricket, that our battery of fast bowlers are all ready for international level cricket (Mitchell Starc, James Pattinson, Ben Laughlin, Ben Cutting, Jackson Bird, Pat Cummins) but most importantly how about the fact that Australia has absolutely nothing to lose

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when you stop to think that Australia and South Africa are essentially tied as the number one nations in test cricket and Australia has gotten there with a side still rebuilding after losing so many great players in such rapid succession four or five years back, and considering Ricky Ponting and Mike Hussey had players ready to replace them immediately (Phil Hughes replaced Ponting and any number of players could replace Hussey including George Bailey, Callum Ferguson, Tom Cooper, Usman Khawaja, Shaun Marsh, Rob Quiney and that's just a short list)

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Thank goodness you said football and not soccer. It's FOOTBALL, invented in England and called FOOTBALL. Soccer is an American term because of their strangely titled football, a game in which they very rarely touch it with their feet. ???? Right that's out of the way. I fucking hate football. A game played by over paid prima dona's who cheat regularly and don't care about it. Should one of them chip a nail you would think they had lost an arm. Fucking tarts. Footballer - Gets tackled, must have broken his leg, can't get up, needs a stretcher, carried off then suddenly he OK and comes back on. Ice Hockey player - Takes a stick to the face and is cut. Goes to the dressing room and gets stitched up then come back and is pissed off coz he missed a shift. Rant Over

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Big agreement, Satan. Women's football is a much better game, less moaning, more playing, and for the men and hard game of rugby sorts the men from the boy. Or a good game of ice hockey, of course. It's amazing really when you think that Italy are so good at football - "Now, from the nation which brought you the Roman Empire and the vast bulk of Renaissance Art come a bunch of cheating popinjay pansies!"

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seems this thread has been totally forgotten about, let's see if I can't do something about that and promote a little known sport called Australian Rules Football at the same time, and I can think of no better way to do that then highlights of my favourite player (even though he doesn't play for my team) Cyril Rioli pV4t7nWb3fE

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