What Sports Do You Play/Watch?

69 responses to “What Sports Do You Play/Watch?”

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   Snammus

   July 10, 2012 at 11:10 am

   The only sports I find myself watching these days is AFL and Pro Starcraft 2. Both are often exciting and intense to watch.

   Playing? I’m pretty awesome at table tennis… and drinking games.

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      Trjn

      July 10, 2012 at 11:20 am

      If we’re going to count eSports, I should add SC2 and LoL to my list of stuff I watch.

      Loved Homestory Cup this weekend. Was surprised to see Nerchio, of all people, come away as the winner. Fell asleep early in the first game of MC vs Nerchio, thinking that MC would win the series easily. Wake up in the morning with the stream still going, with Take saying that Nerchio just beat Yonghwa 4-1.

      It was a confusing morning.

      Oh and Stephano won the French National Championships without losing a single game. I doubt any one else is going to be able to pull of that feat in their nationals.

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         Harli

         July 12, 2012 at 12:29 pm

         eSports is the only sport I watch.

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   Trjn

   July 10, 2012 at 11:10 am

   I’ve been going to the AFL since I was a kid (when the Gabba still had standing sections, we’d run around collecting the knockoff pogs that were on the bottom of Coke cups). Was there for the first night game. Was behind the goals when the Mark of the Century happened. Was there when Jason Dunstall kicked some milestone amount of goals (he also managed to hit me in the face earlier in the same match because my seats were behind the goals and I wasn’t paying attention).

   So yeah. AFL is definitely one of the sports I follow.

   Right now, the other big one is the Tour de France. I don’t really follow any other cycling, there’s just something about the Tour that’s pretty damned awesome.

   Two days into the Tour, my TV decided that it would no longer show SBS. Good thing they stream the coverage live on their website.

   Shame that Cadel Evans is losing time to Bradley Wiggans. Not too sure how he’ll get all of that time back.

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      Ben “Falkirion”

      July 10, 2012 at 11:57 am

      He should be able to pull back the time in the mountains since Wiggins isn’t as good as climber as Cadel is. If Cadel isn’t at least 2 minutes ahead by the time of the last TT then I doubt he’ll take the yellow in Paris. Of course thats assuming both steer clear of any crashes in the mountains or on the transition between the Pyrenne’s and the Alps.

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         Trjn

         July 10, 2012 at 12:38 pm

         He’s a better climber and one of the best descenders but I can’t see Cadel doing a Contador-like burst up a mountain to get some serious time on anyone. Maybe I’m just too used to seeing Contador and Schleck do insane things on the way up mountains, so I can’t see how Cadel is going to get in front.

         Last year, Cadel won with a herculean chase and a great time trial. That’s very different to what he needs to do this year.

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      Inquisitive

      July 10, 2012 at 11:58 am

      I have a feeling Cadel may make a few unexpected moves in the mountains 🙂

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         Trjn

         July 10, 2012 at 12:36 pm

         I don’t those moves are unexpected at all :p

         Sky did well to deprive Cadel of his teammates in the first couple of climbs. If they keep riding like that, I don’t know what BMC is going to be able to do to get Cadel enough time.

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   Ben “Falkirion”

   July 10, 2012 at 11:11 am

   Watching. Pretty much anything. AFL if I’m in the mood and the Bombers are in decent form. Saturday nights match was hard to watch after the 1st quarter. I watched every Celtics game from the NBA regular and post season. Enjoyed the heck out of it. If One HD has a decent NFL match up I’ll watch that. And Nascar/F1.

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4. 

   The Cracks

   July 10, 2012 at 11:11 am

   I’ll watch the football (soccer for the plebeians) occasionally, State of Origin whenever it’s on, occasional NRL matches, most Wallabies matches, tennis finals, occasionally UFC, and occasionally the F1.

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   Jordaan Mylonas

   July 10, 2012 at 11:13 am

   I used to play Rugby. After you dislocate your spine (bad tackle), the doctors aren’t so keen on you playing contact sports.

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      D.C.

      July 10, 2012 at 11:15 am

      Ouch.

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6. 

   SunSkorpion

   July 10, 2012 at 11:14 am

   I play squash, and I used to play badminton. Squash gives a much better workout though.

   The only sport I’ve found interesting to watch is actually Rallying (or Rally Racing), particularly the WRC. Something about idiots + roads with normal speed limits of 60km/h + actually busting down them at 100km/h = crazy times.

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      The Cracks

      July 10, 2012 at 11:17 am

      Oh man, rally driving is the best motorsport. Takes far more skill than most other racing (I’m looking at you, NASCAR).

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         Trjn

         July 10, 2012 at 11:32 am

         “Okay, so we’re going to do an extensive overview of today’s course. After the start, there’s a steady left hand bend. You’ll want to be careful as everyone is going to bunch up there and it might get a bit hectic. After that there’s a bit of a straight before a longer left hand bend. Some of the boys are probably going to try and overtake you on the inside. Keep an eye out for them, could lead to some trouble. Then you’ve got another straight. Just punch it down this one. After the straight, looks like there’s another left. Should hold the same as the other ones you’ve had so far. Then there’s a straight. After that a left. Then a straight. Looks like there’s a right after that. No, sorry, my mistake. That’s a left.”

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            Trjn

            July 10, 2012 at 11:32 am

            If NASCARs turn right, I’m going to look really silly.

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            1. 

               Tigerion

               July 10, 2012 at 11:56 am

               Not reallyis just needs to be updated slightly
               After the start, there’s a steady left hand bend. You’ll want to be careful as everyone is going to bunch up there and it might get a bit hectic. After that there’s a bit of a straight before a longer left hand bend. Some of the boys are probably going to try and overtake you on the inside. Keep an eye out for them, could lead to some trouble. Then you’ve got another straight and Oh god a bunch of cars coming right at us!

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         Inquisitive

         July 10, 2012 at 12:01 pm

         The South Park NASCAR episode is one you’ll enjoy

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7. 

   PrettyTones

   July 10, 2012 at 11:15 am

   Watch/follow: NBA, MLB, tennis

   Play: basketball, although not as often as I’d like anymore…

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   1. 

      Brendan

      July 10, 2012 at 3:40 pm

      Serious question, how do we actually watch the NBA in Australia? do we need foxtel/austar?

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      1. 

         garnet 23

         July 10, 2012 at 4:32 pm

         you can get League-Pass and stream games to your phone/pc and potentially xbox if MS bring the service to Aus

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   nightFlarer

   July 10, 2012 at 11:16 am

   I watch and play basketball, well I mostly watch basketball and play for fun nowadays.

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9. 

   Si

   July 10, 2012 at 11:17 am

   I recently started watching NHL, I’ve played the games quite a bit over the years, but never got around to watching the actual games on TV (mostly because it is never on free to air)

   Thanks to the internet though I can watch it. It’s just a shame I started getting in to it at the end of the season. Now I have to wait for the next one to start

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   1. 

      SeoN

      July 10, 2012 at 11:41 am

      FYI there’s an Australian league – the AIHL: theaihl.com

      Not quite as fast paced as the NHL, but that’s because our rinks are bigger than theirs! Plus, Our season runs in the NHL off season – Hockey all year round!

      Go North Stars!

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   2. 

      Blackhawk

      July 10, 2012 at 12:48 pm

      This guy is awesome. NHL,NRL and NFL all the way. NHL: Blackhawks, NRL: St George Illawarra Dragons and NFL: Bears. The new season of NHL starts up around September so you can watch it then. May I ask what team you go for? NHL is such an underappreciated sport in Aus.

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10. 

    DaBow

    July 10, 2012 at 11:24 am

    NRL and Cricket are the front runners. With MLB close behind.

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11. 

    N3RD1001101

    July 10, 2012 at 11:28 am

    The closest i get to sports, is e-sports… and even then its only QuakeCon. ¶:Þ

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12. 

    gHost

    July 10, 2012 at 11:31 am

    I’ll watch any sports but the mains ones are Soccer, Basketball, Tennis and American Football.
    I use to play a bit of indoor soccer, tennis and table tennis.

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    Choc

    July 10, 2012 at 11:36 am

    Football (Soccer). Don’t play it but referee it at a high level (State League NSW)

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14. 

    Botchy

    July 10, 2012 at 11:37 am

    i mainly just watch le Tour de France and Cricket if it’s on. i play Football/Soccer and will watch if it’s on.

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    adam

    July 10, 2012 at 11:44 am

    I watch (whenever its on) and play field hockey. one of the reason why im looking forward to the Olympics is that the games will be broadcast on TV.

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    SeoN

    July 10, 2012 at 11:48 am

    Baseball, NFL, Ice Hockey – Can you see a trend here? Yeah, I find that North American sports are the easiest for me to get in to, mainly because of the atmosphere. As a result, I haven’t really found an Australian sport that I can watch without getting bored\annoyed…

    Thank Goodness for the Australian Ice Hockey League that has a team in Newcastle! Live Ice Hockey FTW!

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    1. 

       Blackhawk

       July 10, 2012 at 12:50 pm

       Where can you watch the ahl games?

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       1. 

          Blackhawk

          July 10, 2012 at 12:52 pm

          Also is it anywhere near as intense as NHL games?

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             SeoN

             July 10, 2012 at 1:42 pm

             You can watch Melbourne Ice and Adelaide Adrenaline play on their live streams, but at the moment they’re the only 2 teams streaming. The Melbourne Ice are the sister team of the San Jose Sharks from the NHL, so they manage to pull a fair bit of sponsorship here in Aus.

             You can watch the Melbourne Ice games live and recorded at livestream.com/melbourneice. You can also watch the Trans Tasman Championship League (2 New Zealand teams Vs. 2 Australian teams) games that were played this weekend just gone online at livestream.com/aihl

             You can catch Adelaide’s games online via adelaideadrenaline.com.au/ and clicing on their Watch Online button, though they’ve only just started streaming so the quality may not match the Ice’s feeds.

             It looks a little less intense compared to NHL, but that’s because the NHL rinks are smaller, whereas ours are olympic sized.

             The AIHL games sell out most of the time, so the support base is getting bigger and gaining more media attention as a whole. It’s pretty awesome to follow a sport that is starting to become more mainstream in Australia!

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17. 

    Hyperthx

    July 10, 2012 at 11:48 am

    F1, World Rally Championships, NBA and all the Extreme sports. Love playing basketball though haven’t played in a while.

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    Batguy

    July 10, 2012 at 11:50 am

    ALL the sports. Particularly love watching rugby league and cricket, playing soccer. Really enjoy watching the good tennis players in the majors too.

    But generally, I find any sport fascinating to watch where the quality is high and the passion the players show for it is even higher.

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    mobo

    July 10, 2012 at 11:56 am

    Used to be big into AFL and Rugby Union but I’ve fell off those in the past few years. Tennis I kind of do watch but at the same time I didn’t even bother to turn on to Fed v Murray. I will watch whenever the Socceroos play, though I’m not to sure if I’ll get back into the A-league or anything this season.

    I’m pretty half-arsed when it comes to sport these days, perhaps the Olympics will do something for me.

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    Tigerion

    July 10, 2012 at 12:00 pm

    I watch and follow cycling. TDF at the moment but I have watched the Giro as well as all the classic this year. Generally stick to pro-tour, I might check to see what is happening in something like the tour of California but won’t get up early to watch it.
    Might watch some AFL if it is on down the pub and occasionally will watch international league. And when they come around I watch a lot of Olympics. I will generally watch any sport that is at an international level, I generally ignore national or local sport.

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21. 

    Jinjo

    July 10, 2012 at 12:00 pm

    Played football (AFL) my entire life. Watch the NBA (Nash to the Lakers bitches), cricket and a bit of NFL and F1 too.

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    1. 

       garnet 23

       July 10, 2012 at 4:46 pm

       such good news about nash. Lakers still need to lose 20mil before season starts to stop paying insane luxury tax

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    js

    July 10, 2012 at 12:05 pm

    Football (AFL to the heathens), cricket, basketball, baseball, NFL, rugby league.

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23. 

    Inquisitive

    July 10, 2012 at 12:08 pm

    Play: Aussie Rules
    Watch: Aussie Rules, soccer, NBA and College hoops

    And currently watching the Tour de France

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24. 

    Braaains

    July 10, 2012 at 12:08 pm

    AFL. Had the same seats for Crows home games since round 1, 1991 🙂

    Occasionally watch (European) soccer if it’s on TV and I’m feeling too lazy to do anything else, but don’t actually follow it as such or support any particular team etc.

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    Michael

    July 10, 2012 at 12:10 pm

    I watch Rugby League, Formula 1 and to a lesser extent these days Cricket.

    I’ve been playing Soccer for over 20 years. I do enjoy watch professional soccer too, though I’m usually only really interested in it once it gets to international level.

    I actually don’t like watching most Olympic sports. I find them boring.

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26. 

    Anonymouse

    July 10, 2012 at 12:25 pm

    Socer. I can’t get enough of it. Watch it whenever I can, play on the weekends, and administrate it at my local club.

    My parents tried to groom me to AFL, but I just haven’t cared about it for a good couple of years now, it’s more infuriating to watch than anything.

    That said, I’ll watch any sport (aside from bloodsports like Boxing and MMA) if it means hanging out with my friends.

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27. 

    masha2932

    July 10, 2012 at 12:36 pm

    I watch soccer a lot of the time. The premiership and some La Liga are my main leagues to follow.

    I don’t really watch other sports as much.

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28. 

    zwonker

    July 10, 2012 at 12:41 pm

    F1. ’nuff said.

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29. 

    the cake

    July 10, 2012 at 12:58 pm

    Watch: tennis, nba, f1, olympics when it’s on
    Play: tennis and basketball

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30. 

    Trikeabout

    July 10, 2012 at 1:02 pm

    Cycling, both watching pro cycling and riding (commuting every day, touring holidays, plus some weekend riding on the road bike along with Around The Bay and other sportif type events). Watch F1, AFL and Rugby on the telly, sit up late to listen to internet radio coverage of AFC Wimbledon during the English footie season, follow test cricket and go to watch Melbourne Rebels, Melbourne Victory and Carlton…

    I really don’t know how I find time to sleep. Or work. Or game. But I do, somehow I do.

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    Scruffy

    July 10, 2012 at 1:10 pm

    Play: Indoor cricket
    watch: just about everything else. F1, soccer, cricket, afl, basketball, i’ve even got the netball on right now ’cause there’s nothing better to watch.

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32. 

    DivineMonkey

    July 10, 2012 at 1:25 pm

    Soccer is about it these days. Looking forward to the A -League starting again, even though at times it is not the most exciting thing to watch,

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33. 

    Revolution

    July 10, 2012 at 1:27 pm

    Fucking Luke… shit journalist… what has this got to do with gaming etc etc

    Am I doing it right?

    Oh wait, this isn’t from Luke…

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    Robert Janssen

    July 10, 2012 at 1:32 pm

    I enjoy watching soccer and AFL. With soccer, I watch both the A-League and EPL.
    As for playing, I currently play soccer and have been since I was 7, also about to start a season of indoor soccer 🙂

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    Darren

    July 10, 2012 at 2:03 pm

    I watch AFL and soccer. I’ve recently started playing AFL s a club level and am kicking myself that I never progressed from a social side to club level.

    It’s so much goddamn fun and I highly recommend that anyone who has thought about it to do so. It’s so rewarding.

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36. 

    Reign

    July 10, 2012 at 2:21 pm

    Used to watch UFC until Channel 10 started running it later before not showing it at all.

    I’ll watch the ‘big’ soccer (Euro, World Cup), some AFL if it’s the Crows playing, and sometimes Formula 1 if it’s on early enough.

    Aside from that, I’m fairly meh about watching sport – playing sport is far more interesting.

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    1. 

       Badger

       July 10, 2012 at 8:28 pm

       Yeah, the Fox deal sucks for Australia. We’re finally going to get our own version of The Ultimate Fighter, but there’s no one to watch it because it’s going on FX and the vast majority of us don’t have or want pay TV.

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    Ben J

    July 10, 2012 at 2:21 pm

    I don’t play any sports (used to play hockey, and I’m good at tennis though), but I love watching formula 1, and to a lesser extent v8 supercars. That’s it really.

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    Brad

    July 10, 2012 at 2:27 pm

    Used to play cricket semi professionally before shoulder problems put me out for good. Now I watch cricket occasionally, but I’m all about eSports, F1 and football (of the real variety) huge tottenham fan!

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    Madzay

    July 10, 2012 at 2:44 pm

    I play soccer but cant stand watching premier league! I watch very few sports, but I do occasionally watch NRL

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40. 

    mccawsome

    July 10, 2012 at 2:59 pm

    Mainly Rugby League for me. Been a Bulldogs supporter since 85 grand final. My dads a St George fan and I decided to cheer for Canterbury just to piss him off. They won and I have been a doggies fan ever since.

    I used to watch the NBA back in high school but lost interest . I was in Florida during game 5 this year and watched the game as it was on in the Bar at the hotel. Reignited the passion some what so I think I will be watching this too next season

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    Luke

    July 10, 2012 at 3:14 pm

    What the fuck is sport? 😀

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    Brendan

    July 10, 2012 at 3:46 pm

    Watch Soccer, Rugby Union, Cricket and basically whatevers on, just not the NRL anymore.
    Play Football (soccer) Touch Footy, Cricket, basketball and ref soccer at State League level

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    Jartuk

    July 10, 2012 at 3:57 pm

    I watch NRL, Cricket, AFL, the odd F1 or V8 race and even some NFL…but I love my NHL.

    Play inline hockey twice a week at Moore Park…more social than competitive but damn good fun (and a great way to lose those extra kilos!!)

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    garnet 23

    July 10, 2012 at 4:54 pm

    Watch NBA all the time when the season is on. When you pay $200 for a season pass your encouraged to watch your money’s worth. Have always been a Laker fan. Pretty much check the NBA.com at least once a day. Also wastch footy, big West Coast fan.
    Cannot stand watching soccer and don’t really thing racing as a sport.

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45. 

    jabso

    July 10, 2012 at 7:36 pm

    Watch Collingwood every week. Go to every game in Melbourne (18 a year plus finals, although only 17 now due to GWS). The truly national football code.

    Soccer’s probably my # 2 sport. Support Tottenham mainly. Also Melbourne Heart.
    Will watch NRL when I jump on the storm bandwagon. Like NBA and don’t mind american football. I also play basketball.

    Sports I don’t like: motor sport. Cricket (don’t hate it but can never get into it), baseball. I also hate how NRL is run and how NSW-centric the league is, no attempt to aid development outside of QLD/NSW. You could barely field a side combined of WA/SA/VIC/TAS players in the NRL. In the AFL you would be able to field a team for every state. NT might need a few top up players.

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46. 

    mount-eerie

    July 10, 2012 at 7:40 pm

    Premier league mostly. Come on you Spurs!

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47. 

    SmurfyDog

    July 10, 2012 at 8:50 pm

    I like my cricket, Tour de France, and the occasional soccer match.
    I like to think of myself as the sort of person who hates fighting sports, but the few times I’ve been dragged to the pub to watch the Boxing I’ve really enjoyed it.
    I can get into an Aussie Rules match if I’m there, (not just AFL, but local comps too) but I never watch it on the telly.

    Back when I used regularly have a big night out on the weekend, ABC’s coverage of the lawn bowls was the perfect way to nurse myself back to feeling halfway human the next day.

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    Bokke

    July 10, 2012 at 9:33 pm

    I watch Cricket the most, but AFL is catching up considering it’s such a tight season this year. I’ll always watch the Socceroo’s and big International championships, like the World Cup or (recently) Euro’s. Don’t mind either Olympics too.

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