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Just as I wanted to migrate somewhere.The list of candidates shrinks every day...
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Well, there's always:
The Carteret Islands
Kepidau
TARAWA, Kiribati
Maldives
Seychelles
well, then, again, at least there's Cayenne[^], or Texel.
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Ahhh, not so disimilar too Nigel Fargare...
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Except this one can - and does - get elected.
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The majority of Europe know what they want. Nigel would get elected here too if we didn't have such an old boy two party set-up.
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Soapbox 
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Congratulating someone on a choice? 
Did you mean to post this as a reply to Griff as he is the only one who has brought Soapbox worthy material into this thread?
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Maybe I should wash my mouth with soap
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Hardly - I just answered a question with a news link.
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And slipped the anti-immigration bit in i.e. the political bit.
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Pom Pey wrote: the anti-immigration bit
FTFY - and that was the subheading to the news article, if you look.
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Never having watched the sevens format of the game I'm astonished how enjoyable it is. Fiji is going to whip their arse in the final. Comes from bringing a first line team to a second string tournament. Most of the Commonwealth teams are in Brisbane for the games there.
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Fast and furious, isn't it! 
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It does make any other form of football seem slow and pedestrian. I understand why it is only 7 minutes a half. But some of those guys have played 3 matches today.
I also did not realise there is a Sevens circuit, they play all over the planet, I can see me making time to go to a tournament or two in the future.
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Yeah - and the finals are ten minutes per half, so they gotta be pretty knackered by then!
A young man's game, I think... 
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: I also did not realise there is a Sevens circuit, they play all over the planet
Mycroft, it happened right here in Singapore last year (and before): 2017 Singapore Sevens - Wikipedia[^]
Mycroft Holmes wrote: I can see me making time to go to a tournament or two in the future.
well... HSBC Singapore Rugby 7s 2018[^]
Me, I'm more old school, rugby (league and union) should be 80 minutes, and cricket's not really proper cricket if it's not 5 days long.
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Lopatir wrote: cricket's not really proper cricket if it's not 5 days long.
That's between any two things actually happening, I assume?
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My good sir, it's proven more than 1 exciting events within the same hour can lead to hot flushes, palpitations, febrility and other indispositions. No, no, no, those brutal forms of this fine sport are nothing in which a proper gentleman should partake nor peruse, and God forbid never be performed in any arena where the fairer sex may happen upon it. It's distinctly a colonially working class inspired activity which we must swiftly move to ban and outlaw from our fair shores.
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Lopatir wrote: well... HSBC Singapore Rugby 7s 2018[^]
Ah damn I'll be in Margaret River that weekend 
I do enjoy Rugby (League should not count as Rugby, have you seen those scrums, what a joke) and AFL, the bash thing is just fun to watch, I've never been to a 5 day match, not even 1 day of it, I think 5 days of spectating cricket would be really bad for my liver.
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Lopatir wrote: Me, I'm more old school, rugby (league and union) should be 80 minutes, and cricket's not really proper cricket if it's not 5 days long.
As a cricket lover, I concur. I really hate what T20 is doing to the game, particularly the way that it has produced a generation of batsmen who largely don't have any idea how to pace a test innings and are all to ready to play airy-fairy shots when they should be dropping anchor.
As a non-rugby fan, I do much prefer 7's to the full format in a similar way to the way that T20 appeals to people who don't really care for cricket.
Does the 7's circuit have the same sort of detrimental effect on the real game that T20 has on test cricket or is it more self-contained?
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Luckily the 7's doesn't have a huge effect on the main game, it's played mostly off/holiday season and per venue within a few days so it doesn't have much too detrimental effect on rep / club games.
With only 7 a side it develops the running and passing games which is directly applicable (and often lacking) to the full game - in other words unlike T20 cricket (swing/bash every ball) it both develops good habits and doesn't inspire habits that are bad/wrong for other formats of the game.
I also believe the ownership structure helps: not luring players away from the traditional game with stupid money (or they play traditional below full effort to avoid injury and for big-name players shirk all but a token few club games.) Not to say they don't get paid, but it's in line with the usual games.
Then again that ownership model is probably the first thing that will change in the next few years. (They all promise not to, but end of the day money always talks loudest.)
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Yes, as you say, money talks. And let's face it, players will go where the money is (can't blame them for that!)
But, this is what I don't get about the IPL: it's obviously attractive to players - they're getting millions rather than the pennies that they'd get playing test cricket for the West Indies. But what is there to attract the fans?
Okay, you get to see all the big names in one place and that's fine but not unique (we already have the T20 World Cup for that) but where are the clubs? The franchise sides don't have any kind of continuity in terms of playing staff and just don't seem to carry an identity in the way that a genuine club side would. I find that even more off-putting than the fireworks, the bad music and the dancing girls.
Whilst I'm not a great fan of T20, I'll probably pop down to 2 or 3 of the T20 games a season at Edgbaston (where I'll be watching Warwickshire CCC rather than the "Birmingham Bears" or whatever the marketing department decide to call us next) and I'll watch a few games between other counties on the TV. In each of those cases, I'll have some kind of involvement with the clubs that are playing in that there'll be players that I have come to associate with those clubs over a period of time (I know it's not like the good old days when we had players for life but neither is it like football where players seem to move every season).
I just don't get that with the IPL. It's more, "Oh look! There's so-and-so playing for the Rajastan Rocket Ships, wasn't he with the Mumbai Mega-Sharks last year?" As such, I just can't feel any kind of connection at all with any of the franchises (and the utterly silly names don't help either!)
I sincerely hope that rugby doesn't go down the same soul-less route but I find it hard to be optimistic about any sport in the age of global broadcasting.
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: a second string tournament
Back in the day, Hong Kong used to be *THE* Sevens tournament.
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I think it still is, I did not realise there were other tournaments in other cities and I wonder how many others are int the same situation.
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