Those sports stars you just can't warm to
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Is the point of the thread guys you can't quite place your finger on why you don't like them...<br><br><br><blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Cookie" data-cid="593955" data-time="1467629045"><p>
You know the ones, they're great at their chosen discipline, they don't do or say anything particularly twattish and yet, and yet...</p></blockquote>
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Guys like Quade, Ponting, Pocock etc all say and do twatrish things so it's easy to understand why they grind your gears. -
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<p>Is the point of the thread guys you can't quite place your finger on why you don't like them...</p>
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<p>Or it could be one trait that bugs you about them - like people who just rub you up the wrong way. Not necessarily offensive but...</p>
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<p>See with Kwade, I've seen him up close at games getting on really well with the kids and holding respectful conversations with people of all ages about rugby.</p>
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<p>But those "toxic" comments and the bullshit niggle and knees. You can't go back from that.</p> -
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<p>Fuck it, basically any<strong>thing</strong> Straya<strong>n</strong> <strike>sportsmen</strike> gets on most people <strong>who follow Veitch's </strong>wick, <strong>but I just hate on Aussie stuff full time, bro</strong></p>
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<p>Kwuaydes actions gave me reason to think he is a knob, similarly the Kyryzos knob...</p>
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<p>I cant really think of anyone that winds me up like that gif above right now</p>
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<p>Obviously this is different to hating on say Gregan cos he was so damn good.</p> -
As far as ABs Howlett I never really warmed too. Never quite knew why, the closest I could get is his overly smiley nature after scoring points. When he announced he was leaving after the WC in 2007 I wasn't too cut up about it. The guy was the leading try scorer and everything. Aucklander too.
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<p>Lewis Hamilton is a fluffybunny. A fuckwit of the highest order.</p>
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<p>LBJ i have no time for. Same with Kobe. </p>
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<p>Phil Mickelson </p>
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<p>Lewis Hamilton is a fluffybunny. A fuckwit of the highest order.</p>
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<p>LBJ i have no time for. Same with Kobe. </p>
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<p><strong>Phil Mickelson </strong></p>
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<p>Tom fucking Brady</p>
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<p>Yeah agree on that, not sure why I don't like him, but think he is a knob.</p>
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<p>Also disliked Colin Montgomerie in his day too, sad sack looking m/f</p> -
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<p>Richie McCaw. Should be put in a glass case that says "Break in case of Rugby/Aviation".<br><br>
Personality of a dial tone, which I'm not sure is either a defense mechanism for privacy, or just the fact he's a boring git (I've been told both).<br><br>
Also, maybe due a lack of practice, is a poor losing captain interview post-match. The rare times I've seen it, his general tone is "we were shit" and almost never "they played really well and deserved it". Though really, that could be anyone here ;)<br><br>
First noticed when I think the Clan (or Canes) played a really good game years ago to beat the Crusaders, and he basically didn't mention them at all. Sometimes the questioning doesn't go that way from the interview, but mostly seems to be him.</p>
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<p>Gotta agree with all of what you say NTA, probably get a virtual beat down but stiff shit. Rueben Thorne for similar reasons although Richie obviously gets more respect for his play. Give me a speech by Anton Oliver or Jerry Collins any day.</p>
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<p>Mind you both of them are personality plus compared to footballs Rufers, fuck sake, give me some paint to watch dry.</p>
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<p>Any number of dreary European tennis players for similar reasons as above....</p>
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<p>For completely different reasons I also hated that little fluffybunny Prince Naseem Hamed, nothing pleased me more than when he finally lost a fight to some tough acting ( not talking ) Mexican.</p>
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<p>My genetic blueprint tells me I have to hate English and Aussie sportsmen, truth be told it's much tougher than I thought.</p>
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<p>Brad Haddin of course. Shane Watson, Michael Clark Matt Dawson.....</p>
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<p>Devastating to learn that Will Carling, Austin Healey, Ricky Ponting, Allan Border, Shane Warne, George fucken Gregan and any number of others come across as thoroughly decent guys in interviews and articles they write.....</p>
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<p>Hansie Cronje......the dull personality, the eyebrows, the fact he was an average player, the cheating.......this genuinely pales into insignificance for the fact that he once raised his bat after being dismissed....not for a double ton, ton or even a fifty but for a score IN THE FUCKEN THIRTIES ?!?!?!?!?! </p> -
Jeff Wilson<br>
Nick Farr Jones<br>
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<p>Jeff Wilson<br>
Nick Farr Jones<br><strong>Girvan Dempsey</strong></p>
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<p>He should be pleased he's done enough to be mentioned with those two greats.</p>
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<p>That reminds me, Add Brian "I could have died" O'driscoll to the list for the whining everyone knows and for being overrated.</p> -
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<p>Damien Mackenzie</p>
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<p>How come? He always looks so happy when he is kicking a goal.................</p>
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<p>Yeah agree on that, not sure why I don't like him, but think he is a knob.</p>
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<p>Also disliked Colin Montgomerie in his day too, sad sack looking m/f</p>
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<p>Yeah third the hate for Mickelson, he's mine too. Supposedly a really nice bloke, the all-American smile, etc, but I can never warm to him and find myself taking a lot of joy in his failures.</p>
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<p>I hate most American golfers, actually. Only ones I like are Speith, DJ, Kuchar. Rest can all go and get fucked.</p> -
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<p>Yeah third the hate for Mickelson, he's mine too. Supposedly a really nice bloke, the all-American smile, etc, but I can never warm to him and find myself taking a lot of joy in his failures.</p>
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<p>I hate most American golfers, actually. Only ones I like are Speith, DJ, Kuchar. Rest can all go and get fucked.</p>
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Cameron Smith - excellent league player and seems to be a good guy off the field from all those I know close to the Storm organisation, but I just can't stand him when he plays. Maybe it's the way he's hyped and then is a grub out on the field. <br><br>
Mark Worthington - NBL player<br><br>
John Eales - I was a fan of Burke and Gregan, but this guy just irritated me with his interviews and sour looks on his face. Perhaps it was the whole Qld, Brothers, Marist thing that I couldn't stand....<br><br>
Marion Jones - before the drug scandal. She was the darling of track, I couldn't stand her and I was a great fan of the US track team, even the arrogant ones! -
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<p>Cameron Smith - excellent league player and seems to be a good guy off the field from all those I know close to the Storm organisation, but I just can't stand him when he plays. Maybe it's the way he's hyped and then is a grub out on the field.<br><br>
Mark Worthington - NBL player<br><br>
John Eales - I was a fan of Burke and Gregan, but this guy just irritated me with his interviews and sour looks on his face. Perhaps it was the whole Qld, Brothers, Marist thing that I couldn't stand....<br><br>
Marion Jones - before the drug scandal. She was the darling of track, I couldn't stand her and I was a great fan of the US track team, even the arrogant ones!</p>
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<p>I fucking hated Wortho before. But not so much now...</p>
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<p>In keeping with the theme of the thread, in the NBL it's the non-entities i hate for some reason. Schenscher, Wagstaff etc</p>
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<p>Eales is the Aus equivalent of McCaw, great player, no personality. And played for the wrong teams. </p> -
<p>This may come as a shock, but based on his public persona I find Pocock to be an insufferable twat.</p>
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<p>And it may be heretical for someone from Crosby Park to suggest it, but John Eales has the personality of roadkill. Nice guy but after 30 seconds you're looking for anyone else to chat to.</p>
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<p>I find tennis boring so anyone who looks like they're enjoying themselves I'll prefer, but Tomic and Kyrgios could save a bus full of orphans on their way to adopt puppies and kittens from the pound and I'd still hate them. A mate's son went to school with Nick and says he was a fluffybunny back then too.</p>
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<p>Lewis Hamilton - I don't know why, I just want anyone else to win.</p>
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<p>And any American that believes making noise and shameless self promotion is a substitute for talent.</p> -
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<p>but Tomic and Kyrgios could save a bus full of orphans on their way to adopt puppies and kittens from the pound and I'd still hate them. A mate's son went to school with Nick and says he was a fluffybunny back then too.</p>
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<p> :lol: Quote of the Day.</p>
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<p>Obviously this is different to hating on say Gregan cos he was so damn good.</p>
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<p>But I think time is a factor there - how did you feel about him after "Four more years, boys!" for example? :)</p>
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<p>Once an opposing great retires I think we learn to appreciate their game more. No doubt Gregan was one of our greatest ever halfbacks, but there were still two seasons where Chris Whitaker was the best 9 in Australia and still got shafted.</p>
