oldtype Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 I’ve never watched cricket before but from the description it sounds like baseball, except all the terrible parts that make baseball semi-unwatchable are even worse. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsunami Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 Hang on, people actually questioning a 7 hour bender on the Western Terrace over a game of rounders with hot dogs and weak beer and some bloke playing an organ after the 7th innings as the entertainment? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomas Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magpie Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 54 minutes ago, bowlingcrofty said: Imagine not liking cricket. Not sure how I’d get through the summer months without it. As the Ashley years continued cricket easily became my number 1 sport tbh. Hopefully that'll change soon enough. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsunami Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 Apologise as off topic but I used to play football for Bournmoor and in the days before all day opening the cricket club would put a bus on down to Headingley. Depart at 7am, cans on the bus, decant at Headingley, more cans up to lunch. At the lunch interval rush to the pub in the terraced houses and have as many pints as you could before more cans on the Western Terrace throwing ripped up copies of The Yorkshire Post all over the place. Coach would stop at Wetherby on the way back until closing time and then back up the road. On the flip side I went to a Cubs v Browns baseball game on a Wednesday afternoon and by Christ it was awful. One home run for the Browns and they didn’t set off any fireworks. Oldtype, you need to learn the finer sides of cricket. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_R Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 Cricket is a day of getting pissed in the sunshine, whilst a match just happens to take place in front of you. It's superb. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toon25 Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 11 minutes ago, Chris_R said: Cricket is a day of getting pissed in the sunshine, whilst a match just happens to take place in front of you. It's superb. Doing both at the same time is also good fun Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
54 Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 The absolute blasphemy going on against Cricket here, imagine not knowing the joys of advancing down the track to an absolute pie missing completely and getting stumped Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeepShow4life Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 Cricket is awful in my opinion but the only sports I like are football, MMA and boxing/kickboxing Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raconteur Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 1 hour ago, thomas said: Yeah, baseball fans criticising cricket is exactly like mackems saying the Toon are shite… Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fantail Breeze Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 I can watch cricket, but I don’t. If that makes sense. If it was on the TV, I’d sit and watch it, but I wouldn’t actively go “ooh, the crickets on, I better watch that”. It’s way above the likes of rugby and golf but way behind tennis and football. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilko Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 Cricket is class. Love being there getting pissed or equally lounging about on the sofa with a hangover watching the Test match coverage. Along with football and darts it's easily one of the best three sports to watch live. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
midds Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 Test matches are generally ace, it's a background thing, just put it on, relax and chill out and the game gradually unfolds over a few hours. Commentary normally makes a huge difference too mind, got to be said. Good commentators are like the host of the most chilled bbq you've ever attended. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleBingo Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 Another massive fan of cricket, go to at least one test match a year and also watch a fair bit at Jesmond as I live around the corner. Also enjoy listening to it on TMS, the commentary is brilliant. Watching sport and drinking, what's not to like? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ameritoon Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 1 hour ago, Tsunami said: Apologise as off topic but I used to play football for Bournmoor and in the days before all day opening the cricket club would put a bus on down to Headingley. Depart at 7am, cans on the bus, decant at Headingley, more cans up to lunch. At the lunch interval rush to the pub in the terraced houses and have as many pints as you could before more cans on the Western Terrace throwing ripped up copies of The Yorkshire Post all over the place. Coach would stop at Wetherby on the way back until closing time and then back up the road. On the flip side I went to a Cubs v Browns baseball game on a Wednesday afternoon and by Christ it was awful. One home run for the Browns and they didn’t set off any fireworks. Oldtype, you need to learn the finer sides of cricket. Did you come over to watch baseball back in the 1940s? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
St. Maximin Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 16 minutes ago, UncleBingo said: Another massive fan of cricket, go to at least one test match a year and also watch a fair bit at Jesmond as I live around the corner. Also enjoy listening to it on TMS, the commentary is brilliant. Watching sport and drinking, what's not to like? Maybe you’ve seen me play there mate when I lived in Newcastle. Many good memories of that ground! It’s definitely my favourite sport overall. But admittedly so many things to hate about it also, as someone who plays lots Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happinesstan Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 Nowt better than St. John's Wood on Test Match day. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manxst Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 Edgbaston for me, where a lot of my family now reside- spent many a day (and evening) there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilko Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 I quite like Lords but my personal favourite is to take a month off to watch Test matches in the West Indies before I start a new job, and then fuck off at short notice from said job four or five months later. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 On 01/10/2021 at 12:07, 54 said: With hindsight, seems like he did quite fucking well Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raconteur Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 40 minutes ago, Pilko said: I quite like Lords but my personal favourite is to take a month off to watch Test matches in the West Indies before I start a new job, and then fuck off at short notice from said job four or five months later. Yeah, Lords might be nice, but I’ll take being one of 90,000 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Boxing Day, thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manxst Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 3 minutes ago, Raconteur said: Yeah, Lords might be nice, but I’ll take being one of 90,000 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Boxing Day, thanks 90,000 drunken Aussies watching cricket would be painful. Hard pass. (Been there for a game, but it wasn’t Boxing Day!) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsunami Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 8 hours ago, Ameritoon said: Did you come over to watch baseball back in the 1940s? I’ll be honest, I was a young lad and it was when that DC-10 crashed at O’hare airport. We were the first DC-10 flight out afterwards and the CEO made a thing of being on the flight and there was an engineer jumping up and down inside one of the engines as we boarded ?. I’ve still got the program somewhere. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUHRLYASLEEVESUP Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 Let's play Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LV Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 Surely in contention for the Barca job? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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