Hockey

[andrew057]

Watching the Australian women on GEM. The blue field looks terrible with the sun out, the glare makes it hard to watch. Might look better at night.

 

[IanG]

Yeah what's the go with that?
Kiwis up 1-0 early in the 2nd Half

 

[Russell Crowe's Band]

dafuq?

kiwis?

and geeez that blue is bad.

 

[ozbash]

Those refferals look fun.

You'd think the umps could speak the lingo...

 

[bileduct]

The pitch looks great. There's no reason for synthetic pitches to be green.

The glare of the sun coming from the water on the pitch does make it hard to see the ball in the wide angle shots though.

 

[Russell Crowe's Band]

Those refferals look fun.

You'd think the umps could speak the lingo...

hahah yeah

no worse than the NRL reffs tho.

 

[Horrie Is God]

There are some fine specimens on display out there..

 

[bileduct]

Wow that was a dodgy call.

That should have been a penalty stroke to Australia.

 

[Manu Vatuvei]

Plenty of time here for NZ to do an NZ

 

[IanG]

Full Time: New Zealand 1 Hockyroos 0
Their first win over Australia at the Olympics

 

[Manu Vatuvei]

Wow, we didn't do a New Zealand

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[ozbash]

Onya girls.

 

[IanG]

Wow, we didn't do a New Zealand

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So you'll be familar with the joke doing thr rounds at the moment.
"Don't Let a Warrior take your dog for a walk because he'll lose the lead"

 

[andrew057]

So you'll be familar with the joke doing thr rounds at the moment.
"Don't Let a Warrior take your dog for a walk because he'll lose the lead"

As long as he doesnt lose the dog Id be ok with it.

 

[wittyfan]

Women's Hockey is in a very bad state here at the moment.

 

[Danish]

Watching the Australian women on GEM. The blue field looks terrible with the sun out, the glare makes it hard to watch. Might look better at night.

Even in the afternoon it will be better. Whenever they showed reverse angles so the sun was behind the camera it looked immaculate.

 

[bileduct]

Even in the afternoon it will be better. Whenever they showed reverse angles so the sun was behind the camera it looked immaculate.

Yup, I'd like to see more of it. It would be pretty cool to see some pitches that are designed around club/national colours.

It's a long way from sand covered synthetic surfaces. I haven't played in over ten years but I still have some scars around the knuckles and knees from playing on those.

 

[Horrie Is God]

If the Aussie & Kiwi girls were such good sorts,i can't wait to see the others teams..

Much better eye candy than the Beach Volleyball..

 

[Danish]

Yup, I'd like to see more of it. It would be pretty cool to see some pitches that are designed around club/national colours.

It's a long way from sand covered synthetic surfaces. I haven't played in over ten years but I still have some scars around the knuckles and knees from playing on those.

Dont be fooled, even the new stuff will tear you to shreds.

There is a FIFA approved artificial field that I play soccer on that would be an even softer surface than required for hockey and if you slide it takes skin off like sand paper.

The yanks play around with all sorts of coloured pitches in their college football leagues. It's very hit and miss as to what colour combos look good and what look like ass

 

[bileduct]

Yeah I played a few games at a more social level around 2007 on the new pitches in Lyneham, Canberra. You only needed to put your knee on the surface to come up with a big red friction burn.

They are particularly nasty if they're not being adequately watered too. The sand ones were just a complete pain in the ass because not only would you get a bad burn the wound would also be filled with sand.

Still, watching the game right now it looks great.