Off Topic The Stingrays have done one...

1 in every 4.3 for me & I'm a ****.

Like it or not, I'm a well liked ****, you ****s.

 

Dislikes must have been added to likes on the move.

Only reasonable explanation.

 

Absolutely terrific post
And it's not confined to any one club/team
We seem to live in a city that's hates itself and will do plenty of backbiting
West hates east,east hates west , football hates rugby etc etc blah blah blah it's about time people grew up
People from other cities don't under stand the mentality between the rugby and footy fans.
It just sums up the backward thinking mentality that has prevailed in this city for decades and makes us look petty

 

Hard to read my phone in the sun, but remind me, where did I say you did? Do you deny the constant tone of your posts would lead folk to believe you are one of the bigots I speak of?

 

Nothing against the game of rugby league. Used to go to games at one time when I lived in Hull. The fitness and toughness of the players is to be admired.
My beef is with those that big it up into something it isn't and those sad people, and there are some, who actively wish the local football team to fail. I used to live in Leeds and you never saw a Leeds rugby fan rejoicing when Leeds United lost or going around with a Leeds RL sticker next to a Man U or Liverpool one in their car.
The moderator on the FC forum used to have a signature of "Hull FC and Leeds United - The Pride
Of Yorkshire" FFS.
The obsession of some in Hull with RL and how it supposedly brings the city world wide recognition has done little for the city in my opinion.

 

1 like per 18.7 posts.

I'm ****ing popular I am.

 

To be fair how Happy has a better ratio than yourself is a complete and utter mystery.

 

Try ignoring them, instead of joining them in their petty ****e. You come across as a sporting bigot, perhaps that's not your intention, but ...

 

Like I said. The correct figures for likes didn't carry over to the new forum software.

Regular posters, like quillio, will have lost the most.

 

It's always a struggle for minority sports in this country sadly with the over emphasis the media pays to just a select few things. Baseball (which formely had it's UK HQ in Hull) is another example, as is speedway. I remember the great times with the Humberside Seahawks in the early 90s when I was at university and saw them play in various southern arenas. Ice hockey clubs are in perpetual danger of going under and the various incarnations of Hull's ice hockey team is just another illustration of that. There's always a dedicated buch of people willing to go against the sheeples and fight for a minority interest, so one day maybe an ice hockey team will rise up again. As a sport it can definitely be very skillful, fast and excitingly attack driven. No permanent man advantage so you have to exploit such an advantage immediately you have it.

 

Sheeples is a great word.

 

The media concentrates on things people want to watch generally. If enough wanted to watch or read about a sport then they would feature it. Of course if a lot if people wanted to watch a sport it wouldn't be a minority sport.
Lacrosse is more popular world wide than rugby league so why don.'t we hear more about that?
If everyone decided to follow the lead of those advocating ice hockey wouldn't they in turn be sheeples?

 

Football dominates more because of tradition than anything else. Anything with less history will struggle for that reason alone and the fact that the national media and TV companies are ultra conservative. Variety is the spice of life but to find it with anything you have to explore for yourself. It's the same with any entertainment, whether it be music or anything else.

 

Football dominates because it is the most popular sport in this country. If rugby league or rugby union was they would dominate. Nothing more complicated than that.

 

Obviously tradition is what makes it so dominant (or if you want 'popular', though oversaturation doesn't help it these days I think). People grow up with it, watch it with their parents, play it at school.....

 

Those are the things that make it popular. Ice hockey is a foreign sport, like baseball. Some countries have newspapers full of ice hockey. That is because it is popular there and people want to read about of it. It isn't the case here so you will just have to deal with it.

 

Some wonderful theories about success on here, such a pity they are all total bollocks. Football is successful due to their incredibly short club names; Ice Hockey has no chance with names like Stingrays ffs. It's on his CV, get a copy, get educated and stop wasting space on this board.

 

I don't like to limit myself to a 'this is British that is foreign argument' with culture and entertainment, the internet has encouraged me even more in that direction being as global as it is.

 

that last sentence made me chuckle , history repeating ...