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No Tuberski, you see, I'm only a very casual and occasional follower of sport. Much like Wezil stated it earlier, sometimes the non-die hard sports fans among us nonetheless liked to talk a little about sport, when something came up that caught our attention. We can't do that now, because there's zero interest in that kind of casual discussion in the Sports Forum.
In June of this year, for example, an unprecedented drama occured in a Euro football qualifier between Sweden and Denmark. It literally shook up the entire country for several days afterwards, dominating the news and it was all people could talk about.
Now in the old days before the Sports Forum came into existence, this would have provided a good basis for an elaborate thread in the OT. As it turned out, I posted about it in the World Football Thread and was lucky enough (!) to solicit just a couple of replies, and then it was back to Bolton and West Ham going into stoppage time with no more substitutions available for either side.
My point is, you can't have a discussion on any kind of subject if the people who were likely to be just somewhat interested aren't there. And from browsing the Sports Forum on and off since its inception, there aren't anybody there who'd like to talk about sport other than the U.S. ones, the English Premier League and a couple of fringe sports in the global scheme of things. There's just one thread with NO replies on the World Athletics Championships, for crying out loud! Before, it'd have gotten massive responses in the OT for the two weeks' duration of the meet.
As it is, the very invention of a Sports Forum has killed off any broader discussion of sports like we used to have on here. This is not an opinion, but a fact. And I'd like to hear the admins' views on it, and what should be done to correct the situation. As I see it, there are two options, "Nothing" and "Sport threads back in the OT". I'm a little anxious to see which one it'll be.
In June of this year, for example, an unprecedented drama occured in a Euro football qualifier between Sweden and Denmark. It literally shook up the entire country for several days afterwards, dominating the news and it was all people could talk about.
Now in the old days before the Sports Forum came into existence, this would have provided a good basis for an elaborate thread in the OT. As it turned out, I posted about it in the World Football Thread and was lucky enough (!) to solicit just a couple of replies, and then it was back to Bolton and West Ham going into stoppage time with no more substitutions available for either side.
My point is, you can't have a discussion on any kind of subject if the people who were likely to be just somewhat interested aren't there. And from browsing the Sports Forum on and off since its inception, there aren't anybody there who'd like to talk about sport other than the U.S. ones, the English Premier League and a couple of fringe sports in the global scheme of things. There's just one thread with NO replies on the World Athletics Championships, for crying out loud! Before, it'd have gotten massive responses in the OT for the two weeks' duration of the meet.
As it is, the very invention of a Sports Forum has killed off any broader discussion of sports like we used to have on here. This is not an opinion, but a fact. And I'd like to hear the admins' views on it, and what should be done to correct the situation. As I see it, there are two options, "Nothing" and "Sport threads back in the OT". I'm a little anxious to see which one it'll be.
But it seems to me that everyone loses out.
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