BlackDogg
There is nothing to do in Mockingbird Heights
- Oct 3, 2015
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I no longer care if the NHL does the Olympics.
I’m watching practice, you can determine how they are setting up for corner kicks, how they break out offensively - do they lean towards short or long distance kicks to move the ball out, and really any other strategic changes that they may make from prior games.There's very little tactical benefit to spying on a practice. You gain nothing that you can't get from watching the last ten games or so from the team.
It's stupid by the coaching staff, because there is no actual benefit and only downsides.
When the US team did it in Qatar, there was no punishment.
Tim Peel hates it.Stade de France going nuts after the French try against Fiji in the gold medal game. Never knew how much the French loved rugby until a watched a World Cup with my friends at their house.
I also love how rugby refs are mic'd up and you can listen to them explain every decision in real time.
7s is like that.Dupont looks like he was genetically created in a top-secret French rugby lab. Guy is a beast! Fun match to watch!
Yeah very enjoyable. I regret not getting out to any matches when Edmonton hosted some games a while back.7s is like that.
Every ref should be miked up all the time.Stade de France going nuts after the French try against Fiji in the gold medal game. Never knew how much the French loved rugby until a watched a World Cup with my friends at their house.
I also love how rugby refs are mic'd up and you can listen to them explain every decision in real time.
Nope. It reinforced the norm of society. When a group is powerless you make sure they know it.I too am shocked that the performance during the Opening Ceremony that centered around a fashion show theme decided to push the norms of society.
French win their first gold medal of the Olympics by beating previously undefeated Fiji in rugby on home turf in front of 80k cheering fans. Great moment!
Amazing strategy by the French coaches. They bring in Antoine Dupont, a "closer" type player, with 5 minutes left and he plays at 100% while everyone else is tired. He scores/assists on 3 straight tries to take a 7-7 game to a 26-7 win.
Yes, with the addition of more team sports to the Olympics (e.g., rugby 7s) the organizers have had to expand the total number of competition days for certain sports. Otherwise, the number of venues and resources (e.g., dorms) required over only 16 days would be untenable.Not following it at all, but a good medal in a team sport a day after the opening ceremonies? Did the tourney start well before the official games opening?
Yep, pretty much just showing up and playing the tournament for experience now.Canadian Women's Soccer punished severely by FiFA. 6 point deduction in the standing among other sanctions. Essentially , the team is out of contention.
We would have remembered in just a few months when the NHL season begins and all the show shill for the fun of gamblingThank god for the Olympics. I’d forgotten how much I ”enjoy” watching gambling advertisements at every break in the action.
Oh and now I know what Dan O’Toole has been up to since he got pumped from TSN. Nothing.
We’ll see how much the players knew going forward. 17 members of the men’s team have come forward already saying they viewed footage of a Honduras practice leading up to a World Cup qualifying game in August 2021. I suspect the players have known but didn’t have any choice in the matter. Not sure they can be blamed when the rot runs as deep as it appears to here but I guess we’ll see.Shockingly FIFA gets it right when cracking down on spying, unlike the NFL. Feel terrible for the players, if they truly did not know anything about the coaches' actions.
I’ve seen European teams sanctioned points in league play for infractions.Isn't this unprecedented in team sports? I've never seen anything like it. I've seen individuals sanctioned but not complete teams getting a 6pt deduction, essentially thrown out of tournament, because its impossible for the Gold Medal defending champs to now advance.
But not just a blight on the individuals that were behind they spying but on Soccer Canada for continuing to hire such imbeciles. Or for being composed of imbeciles hiring like minded...
some solace I guess that Christine Sinclair is retired and doesn't have to be around this debacle. Nobody deserves this.
Stade de France going nuts after the French try against Fiji in the gold medal game. Never knew how much the French loved rugby until a watched a World Cup with my friends at their house.
I also love how rugby refs are mic'd up and you can listen to them explain every decision in real time.
Well, at least the women's team can get a new coach. Very unimpressive performance from Priestman at the World Cup last summer and wrong of her to throw her staff under the bus. Also, stupid to fly a drone where it is banned. Amateur hour from the staff.Isn't this unprecedented in team sports? I've never seen anything like it. I've seen individuals sanctioned but not complete teams getting a 6pt deduction, essentially thrown out of tournament, because its impossible for the Gold Medal defending champs to now advance.
But not just a blight on the individuals that were behind they spying but on Soccer Canada for continuing to hire such imbeciles. Or for being composed of imbeciles hiring like minded...
some solace I guess that Christine Sinclair is retired and doesn't have to be around this debacle. Nobody deserves this.
My Jesus doesn’t have 3 chins.
What if Jesus is an extraterrestrial?
Maybe he has 3 chins and 4 asses
That’s not Jesus, that’s Jann Arden.What if Jesus is an extraterrestrial?
Maybe he has 3 chins and 4 asses