My sporting wish list

[Lambretta]

Right - the question is simple

Name 5 events anywhere on the planet that you would go to if money were no object and you could get in

Do you yearn to see Serena Williams in hot pants?
Do you wish you could see rich men on horses hitting balls with a mallet?
Does the thought of Accrington Stanley away to Rochdale in the Johnston Paint Trophy have you dribbling jizm in your undies?
What about camel racing in Karachi?
Maybe you'll stay in Oz and go for the dogs in Dapto
Or maybe you'll be predictable and say the Super Bowl....

Whatever your sporting wet dreams are post them here

 

[SunnyCoast85]

1. UFC at the Mandalay Bay Arena
2. A RL game in PNG
3. Football (soccer) World Cup
4. Thai Boxing
5. A boxing match anywhere in the world where Mundine loses

Most of these are pretty achievable

 

[Mr Angry]

1. US Masters Golf @ Augusta, Georgia
2. NHL - Chicago @ home V anyone
3. Wimbledon Mens Final
4. World Rally Championship in Corsica
5. Cricket Test match V RSA @ Capetown

 

[Bulldog Force]

1. Bulldogs NRL Grand Final
2. State of Origin decider game 3 in Sydney
3. El Clasico Champions League Final
4. WWE Royal Rumble
5. Wimbledon Womens Singles Final

 

[Lambretta]

My wish list

* An NFL game - preferably in Seattle, Atlanta, New York, San Fran, Oakland or New Orleans. But really I'd go anywhere
* Wimbledon - I lived in the UK for 22 years and didn't go once. Silly me.
*Super League game in the UK - Warrington v St Helens or Wigan or the Hull derby or Leeds v Wigan or Saints
* Saturday May 16, 2015 West Ham v Everton - Boleyn Ground, Upton Park. West Ham play their final ever Premier League game at the Boleyn Ground before moving to the Olympic stadium. It would be so emotional but it would be amazing to be there.
* Detroit Tigers finals series MLB game (or any major finals series game of MLB)

(honourable mention - the Highland Games. OK, so it's a bit daft, but watching Scotsmen in skirts throwing trees up a field while everyone gets smashed on single malts has to be done once in your life)

 

[AlwaysGreen]

1. Canberra v Anyone in the NRL grand final
2. A test match in Galle Sri Lanka.
3. Mens 100m Olympic final athletics.
4. US Masters Augusta (as far away from the patrons following Tiger Woods or Phil Mickelson as possible).
5. Ashes Test at Lords.

Bonus: GWS game v anyone. :^o

 

[thorson1987]

- EPL game at Anfield (Preferably Merseyside Derby or against Man Utd)
- Dallas Cowboys game
- College Football game
- Duke v UNC basketball game
- Bathurst 1000

 

[soc123_au]

1. NRL match in Shenzhen (like the Manly v Canberra one touted a few years ago)
2. Formula One at Spa
3. A Test match anywhere on the subcontinent
4. An EPL game at Old Trafford
5. At the pool featuring swimming finals at the Olympics

 

[Jono Russell]

1- Red Sox vs Yankees @ Fenway
2- Lakers vs anyone @ Staples
3- Canucks vs anyone @ Rogers Arena
4- Wrestlemania
5- Wimbledon men's final.

 

[Surrogate]

Monaco Grand Prix
Winter or Summer Olympics anywhere
Wimbledon
EPL - Old trafford
US Masters - Augusta

 

[retch]

1. NHRA Winternationals Pomona California.
2. F1 GP Spa or Monaco.
3. Moto GP [probably in Spain]
4. Ashes Cricket Test at Lords where we flog the poms.
5. SoO at Lang Park where Qld wins and I don't get covered in beer and urinated on.

 

[Lambretta]

I'd also like to be brave enough to go to Upton Park or the New Den when West Ham play Millwall

But I value my life far too highly and will never do that

Old Firm game at Ibrox or Park Head would be amazing
I've been in the away end at Ibrox (Glasgow Rangers ground) and that was terrifying
I was with Kilmarnock supporters and none of them would have lent a hand to stop a pom getting battered had it kicked off :lol:

 

[veggiepatch1959]

1. Pipeline Masters surfing in 15 foot + perfection.
2. Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival.
3. Valencia MotoGP.
4. Game 3 decider in the SOO.
5. Weightlifting in the Olympics.

 

[the beavers]

1 Caribbean tour if/ when the Windies are competitive
2 pm13 game in png
3 a full kangaroo tour...mid week games and all
4 tour de France
5 Paris to Dakar if it ever returns to north Africa....

some of my choices are as much for the event as the sport...

 

[veggiepatch1959]

4 tour de France

1. Watching paint dry
2. Watching two flies race up a wall
3. Watching grass grow
4. Waiting for global warming to happen
5. Waiting for the world's first honest politician to be elected

Those five things are way more exciting than the Tour de Pounce. Lycra clad tossers....

As much as I love SBS, it pisses me off that normal programming gets shafted at the expense of this wankfest.

 

[The Charlatan]

1. The Ashes at Lords;
2. Athletic Bilbao v Real Sociedad at San Mames;
3. United v Liverpool at Old Trafford;
4. An F1 race in Europe, preferably Barcelona or Hockenheim;
5. Pittsburgh Penguins v anyone.

 

[Lambretta]

Those five things are way more exciting than the Tour de Pounce. Lycra clad tossers....

Watching it on TV, maybe so. But being there would be a whole new experience

The atmosphere, the occasion

I reckon it would be an amazing thing to witnes.
Plus it is one of the hardest events on the planet. You have to be seriously fit to compete.

 

[the beavers]

1. Watching paint dry
2. Watching two flies race up a wall
3. Watching grass grow
4. Waiting for global warming to happen
5. Waiting for the world's first honest politician to be elected

Those five things are way more exciting than the Tour de Pounce. Lycra clad tossers....

As much as I love SBS, it pisses me off that normal programming gets shafted at the expense of this wankfest.

I am not a massive cycling fan but I like both the tour and the hell of the north (the cobblestone race) for the events that they are... both the sport and the sideshow..
and both go through parts of France, Belgium etc That I really want to see..

 

[Red Bear]

1. Bears first game back in the NRL (however unlikely that is).
2. Chicago Cubs World Series (bonus if game 7 at Wrigley)
3. Ashes @ Lords
4. Agree with someone earlier, Carribean tour if the Windies were ever one of the premier teams again
5. Liverpool vs either United or Everton @ Anfield

 

[kia ora storm]

1. Soccer World Cup final.
2. Rugby World Cup final.
3. Summer Olympics - 1500 Metres final.
4. EPL Game - Old Trafford
5. Auckland Nines