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03-02-14 01:18PM |
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quote: Originally posted by Unregistered
they honestly couldn't have picked a worse game to cover as their feature. Its so incredibly boring having just a bunch of consecutive blank ends and you know both of these teams are going to be content to just play this way as long as they can
Unfortunately there seems to be more and more games where many ends are played like this. Even at Trials in Wpg, there were several ends that could put a viewer to sleep. Teams are getting too good at cleaning up after first 4 FGZ rocks -- I suspect another rule change will be needed or even more games are going to become snoozers.
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03-02-14 01:59PM |
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what the hell is up with new Brunswick? they've been outscores 23-6 in their first 2 games
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03-02-14 02:20PM |
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what the hell is up with new Brunswick? they've been outscores 23-6 in their first 2 games
They're just not very good.
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03-02-14 02:35PM |
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they honestly couldn't have picked a worse game to cover as their feature. Its so incredibly boring having just a bunch of consecutive blank ends and you know both of these teams are going to be content to just play this way as long as they can
OMG. Its called strategy and if you can't generate the points or want hammer in ten its smart.
Theres more to skipping than putting a clusterf--k of stones jn the four foot and then hucking a hand grenade at them.
Only proves you don't know the game, or at least how to call one.
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03-02-14 02:42PM |
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OMG. Its called strategy and if you can't generate the points or want hammer in ten its smart.
Theres more to skipping than putting a clusterf--k of stones jn the four foot and then hucking a hand grenade at them.
Only proves you don't know the game, or at least how to call one.
well its this kind of game that is turning people off the sport and cause them to think its boring and simple when its anything but.
I can also appreciate wanting to feel out the ice and get hammer in even ends so I don't care if they blank the first 1 or 2 ends but blanking over half of the first part of the game away makes for boring tv.
There comes a time when you maybe just have to accept that things aren't setting up take a point and move on. Sure it worked out for quebec today but ive seen so many games where a team has blanked the first 3 or so ends and then got burned with a steal and had to play catch up.
Case and point Jacobs at the Olympics in the game against switzerland
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03-02-14 03:59PM |
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Lol-that last bit of nonsense proves my point, you don't know the game at all.
ive been watching this game for 25 years, I know it well.
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03-02-14 05:18PM |
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quote: Originally posted by Unregistered
well its this kind of game that is turning people off the sport and cause them to think its boring and simple when its anything but.
I can also appreciate wanting to feel out the ice and get hammer in even ends so I don't care if they blank the first 1 or 2 ends but blanking over half of the first part of the game away makes for boring tv.
There comes a time when you maybe just have to accept that things aren't setting up take a point and move on. Sure it worked out for quebec today but ive seen so many games where a team has blanked the first 3 or so ends and then got burned with a steal and had to play catch up.
Case and point Jacobs at the Olympics in the game against switzerland
You know the game well... and you are absolutely correct!
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03-02-14 05:44PM |
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quote: Originally posted by dbsdbs
You know the game well... and you are absolutely correct!
LMFAO. Would love to play you two anytime.
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03-02-14 05:50PM |
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quote: Originally posted by fresca
vic says there are 4700 seats - doubt that there are 2000 there .. sometimes 500 of which there are probably 400 volunteers
we used to see tv ratings for curling - havent seen them for a long time .. expect there are about a million watching
peak curling was about 2010 maybe
Attendance might pick up towards mid week and certainly for the final weekend. Weather needs to improve for drivers from the coast.
Might even be a silent anti-Curl BC protest also for the Morris decision. You never know.
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03-02-14 05:59PM |
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LMFAO. Would love to play you two anytime.
and id like to stay as far away from that as possible
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03-02-14 07:19PM |
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quote: Originally posted by fresca
vic says there are 4700 seats - doubt that there are 2000 there .. sometimes 500 of which there are probably 400 volunteers
we used to see tv ratings for curling - havent seen them for a long time .. expect there are about a million watching
peak curling was about 2010 maybe
Stat report indicates 7899 after 3 draws.
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03-02-14 07:57PM |
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So did they ever come up with the reason the ice was so disastrously lost at the end of Stoughton v Gushue?
I have no television so count on streaming. Which, once again, TSN is not doing. Sigh.
The CBC took the logical leap forward into the age of the internet these Olympics with their Webcast Channel. Something so popular that Americans were paying what they had to in order to be able to access it.
It is obvious that this is the future of TV. Integration with the web. Unsurprisingly it is our public broadcaster that makes the leap forward while the private stations like TSN and NBC remain stuck in short term thinking.
I sent TSN an email pointing out that they were losing 'eyeballs' by missing such an obvious opportunity.
If anyone else would like to do the same. This is the email address I found.
audiencerelations@tsn.ca
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03-02-14 08:07PM |
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Balsdon beats Menard and Gushue and loses to NWT.
Menard on the other hand beats Laycock and Morris.
And NWT loses to Laycock and Stoughton.
Bit of a merry-go-round so far.
Would have been even more of one if the ice hadn't gone on Gushue as he would almost certainly beaten Stoughton had it not.
Bad luck notwithstanding it's early times to have 2 losses especially with Alberta up next. If he goes to 3 losses he might have to win 7 in a row to make the playoffs. And certainly 6 in a row to have control of his own fate going in to his last game. Yikes.
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03-02-14 08:32PM |
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Yeah Manitoba has not looked good at all. Honestly from the look of it they are lucky to have a win
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03-02-14 08:55PM |
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quote: Originally posted by JB42
So did they ever come up with the reason the ice was so disastrously lost at the end of Stoughton v Gushue?
I have no television so count on streaming. Which, once again, TSN is not doing. Sigh.
The CBC took the logical leap forward into the age of the internet these Olympics with their Webcast Channel. Something so popular that Americans were paying what they had to in order to be able to access it.
It is obvious that this is the future of TV. Integration with the web. Unsurprisingly it is our public broadcaster that makes the leap forward while the private stations like TSN and NBC remain stuck in short term thinking.
I sent TSN an email pointing out that they were losing 'eyeballs' by missing such an obvious opportunity.
If anyone else would like to do the same. This is the email address I found.
audiencerelations@tsn.ca
http://www.curling.ca/curlingtv/201...-hortons-brier/
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03-02-14 08:55PM |
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2012. Team Howard won their first five games by a total of five points. The way they were playing they could have already been out of the playoff hunt. But instead were undefeated.
By weeks-end their form had returned and they finished 12-1 for the week. In the final Wayne shot 98% and the team 92%.
What matters is winning. As they say in golf, "There ain't no pictures on the scorecard."
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03-02-14 09:41PM |
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I guess NL is TSN's team this year, twice in one day!!!! More puzzled looks from Brad's boys as they miss their shots and more circus shots from Brad,
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03-02-14 09:52PM |
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So far, the Brier curling is good, and is fun to watch, but not quite the calibre of the Scotties this year. But in fairness, the Scotties field was probably the best it has ever been.
I think the play will pick up. I wish I was there.
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03-02-14 11:36PM |
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quote: Originally posted by curlerbroad
I guess NL is TSN's team this year, twice in one day!!!! More puzzled looks from Brad's boys as they miss their shots and more circus shots from Brad,
So who will be moving in the off season? Brad Gushue (who's team looks awful tonight!) or John the Parachute Morris :D
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03-02-14 11:54PM |
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JB42
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I've been really impressed with Gushue the last couple of years. He has elevated his consistency to the level of the best skips in the country. What he does not have however is a Johnny Meade or Wayne Middaugh or Johnny Mo. Teams nowadays really need at least two superstar shooters to make it all the way to the top. Martin had the good fortune of having Johnny Mo, and Marc Kennedy and Ben Hebert. All four capable of being the No 1 at their position for the week of any competition. Glenn had Richard Hart and now Wayne Middaugh. And of course Savill and Laing are no slouches. He could never have been as dominant with the teams Gushue has been fielding.
So he is left with a major dilemma. Stay on the Rock and possibly never have the kind of talent that will allow him to achieve his curling goals. Or wait for the right opportunity and make a move to a 'super' team.
Could he leave the Rock? He must have a very good life there. Family, life long friends. Also given how rare it is for Nfld to have a sports star and Olympic Champion he likely has access to a level of sponsorship that helps make it possible for curling to be his vocation. And a good gig in the off-season as well.
I guess it comes down to how driven he is by his curling goals. He would be giving up a great deal by leaving. In any case it has been entertaining watching his maturation into one of the best throwers in the game.
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03-03-14 12:15AM |
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quote: Originally posted by Unregistered
So who will be moving in the off season? Brad Gushue (who's team looks awful tonight!) or John the Parachute Morris :D
Probably Brad, after NFLD gets relegated.
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03-03-14 12:56AM |
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quote: Originally posted by ott-am
So far, the Brier curling is good, and is fun to watch, but not quite the calibre of the Scotties this year. But in fairness, the Scotties field was probably the best it has ever been.
I think the play will pick up. I wish I was there.
Wow which scotties were you watching? The field was one of the weakest in memory and the play was atrocious in the first half of the week especially.
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