Hockey

[Doon frae Troon]

It's a bit dreary and a bore to watch.

Have a look at shinty, that's a real man's sport.
Great to watch live in the Highlands but, like hockey, does not transfer onto the TV screen.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Wow ..small world...he was an exceptional player..very canny..I learned a lot of tricks from him......he was an expert at sliding his stick into any opponents midriff that were marking him too close before leaving them for dead....umpires never ever spotted it.....

He was a very good coach - I used to be battered when he marked me when he played for the masters against us. Spot on about being canny

 

[Fish]

Cant say its a sport thats ever really appealed, its pretty hideous as a spectator sport on tv too imo, hard to see it overly succeeding in terms of air time in an ever more competitive area compared to soccer/rugby x2/cricket etc which it needs to if it wants more exposure. Destined to remain a minority sport, at least from a spectator perspective imho

 

[Foxholer]

England doesn't seem to be having such a good time of it at the World Cup that's on at the moment - at least not in the Ladies where they had high hopes!

Hard to actually get any info as BBC isn't featuring it and the W/C Site is not very user friendly - can't find a 'standings' page!

Black Sticks are 2 from 2 in the Men (always a pleasure to beat South Africa and that was a drubbing!) but must be disappointed to lose to Korea in the Womens.

 

[DanFST]

Hockey is incredibly boring to watch, unless you saw Sohail Abbas!

Only good thing is going on tour to Holland!

 

[Birchy]

I used to watch quite a bit of ice hockey as that was great to watch but never really enjoyed watching standard hockey.

I would love to go watch hurling though, that looks brutal

 

[Rooter]

Consultant that looked at one of my kids was an ex GB Olympic hockey player.

Thats all i know about hockey, once tried to play it at school, nearly killed someone and was not allowed to play again.