Sports you respect but cannot abide.

[Colinjb]

We all have them, sports that we respect as noble disciplines but cannot get into ourselves and hate watching. What are yours?

Me, I cannot get into either code of rugby. It just doesn't stir me, blokes running at each other while holding an egg. I cannot get into it, I used to play it but that was to be with friends rather then out of enjoyment of the sport. I do not understand the appeal, despite trying to. The game has is all hammer and no subtlety to me.

[Turkish]

Darts, not really a sport as its played a pub. I admire their ability to throw a dart an accurate distance from 10 foot away but it's odd. And I say that as someone who's dad was a top darts player in the area in the 70s and 80s.

[swannymere]

Golf, although technically a hobby its see by some as a sport. The only reason its thought of as a sport is to give middle-aged men an opportunity to get away from the family.

[farawaysaint]

I like rugby and golf you buggers Never understood dressage, respect the discipline as a very difficult technical achievement but it just seems really silly to me.

[The Kraken]

Golf, although technically a hobby its see by some as a sport. The only reason its thought of as a sport is to give middle-aged men an opportunity to get away from the family.

Golf is no less a sport than hammer throwing, shot put or discuss, and they're considered part of "athletics". If you're discrediting golf I think your list of actual accredited sports is going to be pretty low.

I'll go for Aussie Rules. Bores me to tears within 10 seconds. But, especially back in the 80s, they really knew how to have a good on-field team punch up.

[Turkish]

I like rugby and golf you buggers Never understood dressage, respect the discipline as a very difficult technical achievement but it just seems really silly to me.

Dressage?! How the f*ck is that a sport?! What next dog walking?

[OttawaSaint]

Basketball. Sure they are great athletes and very skilled but there is too much scoring for it to be exciting. At least when you go to an ice hockey or football match you don't know whether your team will score and can go mental when they do. Basketball doesn't seem to be remotely exciting until the last 2 or 3 minutes, all seems a bit pointless really.

[Lighthouse]

American football. I know it's highly demanding both physically and tactically but I just can't really get into it, it's too stop start. I've tried watching it a few times when I've visited the states and even lived there once but it just seems like 10 seconds of play followed by a load of commericals.

Moto GP and NASCAR too. I know both have a lot more overtaking than F1 but they just don't do it for me.

[TopGun]

Darts, basketball, baseball, showjumping, badminton, tennis, rugby league.

[Jonnyboy]

I respect watersports but Ive got no time for it.

[angelman]

another one for basketball. Synchronised swimming, Gymnastics. Boxing and any fighting sports. Greco-Romano. Handball. Polo.

[Saint in Paradise]

Any horse sport, basketball, both rugby codes, wrestling, tennis, golf and finally polo.

[Pilchards]

Taekwondo for me, why does one want to kick someone round the head full power?

Also that underwater swimming thing, as a spectator how can you get excited about feet sticking out the water?

[doddisalegend]

Cricket.....can't stand it. I know loads of people love it and it seems to be growing into a massive world wide commerical sport (IPL) but I can't understand why. To me it seems like a sport where hardly anything happens for 90% of the game only people hitting a six or a wicket falling seem vaguley interesting.

[Dibden Purlieu Saint]

Basketball is boring as sin.

[badgerx16]

Basketball and baseball.

[Turkish]

/\ and NFL. I just don't see the appeal. It seems to be watched over here by English blokes that wish they were yanks.

[Thedelldays]

I cannot stand yank golf fans..

They act as if they own the sport and the shouts they make.....

"get in the hole"
"be the club"..

Annoy the fuk out of me.... The ryder cup is going to be painful

[Dibden Purlieu Saint]

/\ and NFL. I just don't see the appeal. It seems to be watched over here by English blokes that wish they were yanks.

Or people who just enjoy it as a sport? Don't think it has anything to do with nationality or wanting to be something they're not.

[Dibden Purlieu Saint]

I cannot stand yank golf fans..

They act as if they own the sport and the shouts they make.....

"get in the hole"
"be the club"..

Annoy the fuk out of me.... The ryder cup is going to be painful

It was the same at the US Open tennis as well. Would never quieten down.

[dronskisaint]

Cricket, rugby (either code), dressed up, messed about with rugby (American football)...not really sure I respect the rugby variants as the most skilful thugs beat the lesser variety but the common denominator is basically to be a bruiser which makes it less about the skill.

Cricket bores the cr ap out of me but I can respect the skill.

[Turkish]

Or people who just enjoy it as a sport? Don't think it has anything to do with nationality or wanting to be something they're not.

Well most of the people I know who are into are obsessed by America. Go on about it all the time, seems they wish they were yanks.

[Dibden Purlieu Saint]

Well most of the people I know who are into are obsessed by America. Go on about it all the time, seems they wish they were yanks.

May be true with the people you know I suppose, thats all you can judge it on. Personally I love it, very exciting, skillful and pretty brutal at times.

[The Kraken]

I cannot stand yank golf fans..

They act as if they own the sport and the shouts they make.....

"get in the hole"
"be the club"..

Annoy the fuk out of me.... The ryder cup is going to be painful

If it were up to me I'd instantly eject anyone who shouts out cr*p like that. The new fad is to shout random irrelevant nonsense like "Mash potato" or other such hilarity.

As you say the Ryder Cup is going to be intolerable; I may have to watch on mute.

[krissyboy31]

Equestrian sports, mainly because you have to be upper middle-class even to have them as a hobby let alone become good enough to compete at a decent level. Nowt wrong with Rugby League!!

[JackFrost]

Cricket has to be the number one for me. Followed by Basketball. I've just never 'got' the fascination with them.

Also I am a big fan of Rugby Union but just cannot get into Rugby League at all despite numerous attempts.

I totally agree with Lighthouse re: American Football. If they didn't keep stopping I would find it exciting.

I can only get into golf unless I watch the whole tournament, it must be a kind of meditative thing.

As for darts, I am a huge fan but I can totally see why people can't get into it/find it boring. I always think you have to have a certain 'thing' about it, a certain obsession with it to really into darts.

[adriansfc]

We all have them, sports that we respect as noble disciplines but cannot get into ourselves and hate watching. What are yours?

Me, I cannot get into either code of rugby. It just doesn't stir me, blokes running at each other while holding an egg. I cannot get into it, I used to play it but that was to be with friends rather then out of enjoyment of the sport. I do not understand the appeal, despite trying to. The game has is all hammer and no subtlety to me.

I don't much like Rugby, seems there's next to no flair. But mostly, I hate the 'gentlemans' sport ********, when anyone who has been around rugby teams knows they're just as scummy if not a bit more homoerotic than footballers. They seem a bit defensive about the 'our sports better' thing. I don't see why it matters, it's possible to like more than one sport. Or the even better 'rugby players are harder' stuff. If a sport is being judged on how hard people are, surely you should be watching boxing or cagefighting or something? I don't go to see sport for the joy of watching hard men, but each to their own.

I don't get cricket. I can't watch it. The only sport I'd just never watch, play or listen to anything about.

[badgerx16]

Equestrian sports, mainly because you have to be upper middle-class even to have them as a hobby

Well that, at least, makes me feel so much superior to you then ! We used to regularly go riding, and kept my children's ponies in the back garden.

[Trader]

Any sport where you need a judge or judges to decide the winner.

It becomes just a matter of opinion.

Therefore boxing should just carry on until there's one man left standing.

And diving, ice skating, synchronised swimming, gymnastics etc should be relegated to the circus where they belong.

[Lighthouse]

Basketball is boring as sin.

I can't respect basketball really. It's not so much a sport as a competition to see who can sign the tallest freaks on the planet.

[Thorpe-le-Saint]

Rugby: both codes are awful.