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View palacepat_1's Profile palacepat_1 Flag Selhurst 07 Apr 16 2.32pm Send a Private Message to palacepat_1 Add palacepat_1 as a friend

Was just reading through the sports news and noticed the current debate surrounding Formula 1 and the Qualifying rules being contested..

It appears the 'bigwigs' involved F1 fear that it's becoming predictable and too obvious for the viewer. So they experiment in order to keep an interest in the sport which is possibly dwindling? Along with others?

Which led me to think about how many sports over the years have such a fluctuated audience and how many people still watch the same?

With Fast car Eddie trying to claw Boxing back on the market compared to the hey-days of the 80's-90's..

Is there any sports that you watch now that you didn't before? Or has everyone just switched sports completely?

 


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View Stuk's Profile Stuk Flag Top half 07 Apr 16 2.42pm Send a Private Message to Stuk Add Stuk as a friend

There's too much choice now.

The Cup final used to be on TV for about 8 hours, as did test cricket or Formula 1 and if you didn't like it the other options were all s***. Not other sports that's for sure!

Whereas now you could watch the F1 race or a football match, or golf, or cricket, or rugby or a million other things on demand.

I used to only watch F1 live, now I'm happy to record it and watch it any time that day so long as I can avoid the result.

 


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Originally posted by palacepat_1

Was just reading through the sports news and noticed the current debate surrounding Formula 1 and the Qualifying rules being contested..

It appears the 'bigwigs' involved F1 fear that it's becoming predictable and too obvious for the viewer. So they experiment in order to keep an interest in the sport which is possibly dwindling? Along with others?

Which led me to think about how many sports over the years have such a fluctuated audience and how many people still watch the same?

With Fast car Eddie trying to claw Boxing back on the market compared to the hey-days of the 80's-90's..

Is there any sports that you watch now that you didn't before? Or has everyone just switched sports completely?

Formula One is mind numbingly boring. Everyone knows it and the interested parties are trying desperately to promote it as something exciting.

 

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View Stuk's Profile Stuk Flag Top half 07 Apr 16 2.55pm Send a Private Message to Stuk Add Stuk as a friend

Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger

Formula One is mind numbingly boring. Everyone knows it and the interested parties are trying desperately to promote it as something exciting.

The races have both been blinding this season. The only desperation is from the fans who liked the qualifying that we had, and that worked but Jean Todt refuses to let us go back to.

Should never have been made head of the FIA either, he's a prick. It should've been Ari Vatanen who isn't a prick.

 


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View Y Ddraig Goch's Profile Y Ddraig Goch Flag In The Crowd 07 Apr 16 3.16pm Send a Private Message to Y Ddraig Goch Add Y Ddraig Goch as a friend

As Stuk says, so much choice now, both sport and channels. Frank Bough & Dickie Davies mainstays of Saturday afternoon TV


When I was a lad you had Grandstand and World of Sport. before the final scores wrestling from some civic hall in Batley with old grannies trying to hit Mick McManus or Kendo Nagasaki with their handbags. I miss those days.

 


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View Stuk's Profile Stuk Flag Top half 07 Apr 16 3.38pm Send a Private Message to Stuk Add Stuk as a friend

Originally posted by Y Ddraig Goch

As Stuk says, so much choice now, both sport and channels. Frank Bough & Dickie Davies mainstays of Saturday afternoon TV


When I was a lad you had Grandstand and World of Sport. before the final scores wrestling from some civic hall in Batley with old grannies trying to hit Mick McManus or Kendo Nagasaki with their handbags. I miss those days.

Exactly. And if that week it happened to be horse racing, bowls or skiing etc. it was just tough luck.

 


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View Eustace H. Plimsoll's Profile Eustace H. Plimsoll Flag Aldershot 07 Apr 16 3.46pm Send a Private Message to Eustace H. Plimsoll Add Eustace H. Plimsoll as a friend

I am always bemused as to why sports seem to have as a priority the constant need to ensure wider participation.

Test cricket rocks. Twenty20 sucks ("cricket for people who don't like cricket".) (Alright, it doesn't suck - it's alright for whatever it is, I suppose, as a passing momentary distraction - but whatever it is, it is just not cricket.) Yet we need it to ensure test cricket won't die. Or so we are constantly told.

Why will it die? Because no-one watches anything other than the A-list games. Okay. So?? What's up with letting those uninterested in test cricket have their fun elsewhere while I and my 40 like-minded friends enjoy some test cricket over here? At a tiny, tin-pot ground, ideal for our needs. Smashing. Or is sport validated as magnificent only when witnessed by hordes, irrespective of their genuine interest?

Should interest and participation in top-level football fell to miserable levels - as it probably ought to, given its many huge flaws - would you stop following Palace? Will you stop following Palace when an inevitable further administration episode ends less well and we wnd up re-forming as a park team? You would?? Fair enough See ya. I'll be having larks over here with my mates. You enjoy your Twenty20. Everyone wins.

And if all the sport becomes is is a lunch-time car-park kick-about because there isn't any funding, so f***ing what? Sounds marvellous to me. Why must we forego what we are - and enjoy being - to manufacture something we don't really want, simply to encourage a following we equally don't don't want?

(I'll draw you a line between this and video-refereeing for anyone interested. Anyone...?? ANYONE??)

 


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View Stuk's Profile Stuk Flag Top half 07 Apr 16 4.10pm Send a Private Message to Stuk Add Stuk as a friend

Originally posted by Eustace H. Plimsoll

I am always bemused as to why sports seem to have as a priority the constant need to ensure wider participation.

Test cricket rocks. Twenty20 sucks ("cricket for people who don't like cricket".) (Alright, it doesn't suck - it's alright for whatever it is, I suppose, as a passing momentary distraction - but whatever it is, it is just not cricket.) Yet we need it to ensure test cricket won't die. Or so we are constantly told.

Why will it die? Because no-one watches anything other than the A-list games. Okay. So?? What's up with letting those uninterested in test cricket have their fun elsewhere while I and my 40 like-minded friends enjoy some test cricket over here? At a tiny, tin-pot ground, ideal for our needs. Smashing. Or is sport validated as magnificent only when witnessed by hordes, irrespective of their genuine interest?

Should interest and participation in top-level football fell to miserable levels - as it probably ought to, given its many huge flaws - would you stop following Palace? Will you stop following Palace when an inevitable further administration episode ends less well and we wnd up re-forming as a park team? You would?? Fair enough See ya. I'll be having larks over here with my mates. You enjoy your Twenty20. Everyone wins.

And if all the sport becomes is is a lunch-time car-park kick-about because there isn't any funding, so f***ing what? Sounds marvellous to me. Why must we forego what we are - and enjoy being - to manufacture something we don't really want, simply to encourage a following we equally don't don't want?

(I'll draw you a line between this and video-refereeing for anyone interested. Anyone...?? ANYONE??)

No different to big business or an economy. They're all obsessed by growth.

T20 and ODI cricket are needed to ensure test cricket doesn't die in India, pakistan, Windies etc. It's perfectly healthy in England, Australia, NZ, SA.

 


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Yellow Card - User has been warned of conduct on the messageboards View Hrolf The Ganger's Profile Hrolf The Ganger Flag 07 Apr 16 4.35pm Send a Private Message to Hrolf The Ganger Add Hrolf The Ganger as a friend

Originally posted by Stuk

The races have both been blinding this season. The only desperation is from the fans who liked the qualifying that we had, and that worked but Jean Todt refuses to let us go back to.

Should never have been made head of the FIA either, he's a prick. It should've been Ari Vatanen who isn't a prick.

Sorry. You lost me after "The".

Formula is not real racing. It is just a competition between car and engine manufacturers for promotional purposes.
Each driver needs to have exactly the same car or you don't know who the best driver is.

Borrrrrrrrring!

 

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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger

Sorry. You lost me after "The".

Formula is not real racing. It is just a competition between car and engine manufacturers for promotional purposes.
Each driver needs to have exactly the same car or you don't know who the best driver is.

Borrrrrrrrring!

Don't bring something up if you don't want to hear about it.

Formula 1 is the pinnacle of motorsport driving and innovation. I know who the best drivers are, as I know more about the sport and the feeder formulae where they may have raced in cars with the same specs.

Boring is reading comments from someone who clearly doesn't have a clue about it.

 


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View -TUX-'s Profile -TUX- Flag Alphabettispaghetti 07 Apr 16 5.42pm Send a Private Message to -TUX- Add -TUX- as a friend

Originally posted by Y Ddraig Goch

As Stuk says, so much choice now, both sport and channels. Frank Bough & Dickie Davies mainstays of Saturday afternoon TV


When I was a lad you had Grandstand and World of Sport. before the final scores wrestling from some civic hall in Batley with old grannies trying to hit Mick McManus or Kendo Nagasaki with their handbags. I miss those days.

Sunday roast then working off the calories with your mates in the street after this.........

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Happy days

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Formula One and downhill skiing: the two things that everyone watches and hopes for a disaster to make it more entertaining

 


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