Sports personality of the Year

Sorry, football is a massive sport in the UK, not rowing. How many people row every week compared to how many play football? How many watch it every week compared to how many watch football? What percentage of people at Henley are there because they are rowing enthusiasts and what percentage because they want a piss-up with their posh mates and / or because they are on a corporate jolly. I know lots of people who have been to Henley, I have never knowingly met a rower or rowing enthusiast.

Regardless of your personal experiences, rowing is vastly popular in the UK. I'd wager Rowing at the olympics gets more spectators than football does.

Sure it'd be great if more people participated, but it's hardly niche. Niche sports are things like Gaellic Football or Handball.

However, rowing is smaller than football, that is true. But in regards to success it's put more world beaters out there than our football infer-structure ever will. They are also not greedy, stupid individuals who shame our nation by infidelity, racism and generally being twat's.

I also don't really see how a popularity of a sport should affect it's chances of getting national praise. You'd be hard pressed to read in a newspaper of how our GB triathletes get on, or that as I said earlier that we have a Squash world champion. Even sailing is looked over these days and we're pretty much #1 in the world as a nation. And they're all far better ambassadors for British sport than a footballer ever will.

It's always got me about British sport that the things we're genuinely good at always get overlooked by things we think we should be good at (Football, Rugby, Tennis)

Jeez - your assessment is hilariously one-eyed.

+1

rowing as "massive" is fucking hilarious, too.

this bullshit award throws up some brilliant opinions. year after year.

jeez, got to say, your pontificating on who and who isn't worthy of winning the thing to a certain extent are immaterial, as are your personal opinions on who should and shouldn't be on the shortlist.

All I want is for Cav to win it this year. and I want to know what we can do as cyclists to make this happen, all the rest of it is just piss and vinegar. I would have started a new thread, to avoid the pointless whose worthy and who isn't arguments but it would have got merged into this one anyway.

So let's all agree to disagree, apart from getting Cav the win eh...

Who gives a fuck, seriously?

It's utter wank.

^abso-fucking-lutely

andyp, everytime a cyclist is in it, I'm for them winning, not just because of the obvious good it will do their earning power, look at Chris Hoy for evidence of that, but also because of the intangible good it will do for cycling in this country.
got to take every opportunity to bolster cycling's reputation/recognition with the general public, and if that means getting a concerted effort going to get Cav the big camera trophy then so be it..

Cyclists obeying the rules of the road and staying off the pavements would be a far, far bigger boost for cycling than one winning this shitty little award.

Hoy is a track cyclist, a discipline where renumeration is limited. Cavendish, by contrast, is a road cyclist and is very well renumerated, especially after this season's exploits.

doesn't he just get towed to the front by his team, anyway?

GB Ladies Netball are World champs.

Just sayin'

Yeah, but netball? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

^not really. They've done very well.

Actually, I apologize, England Ladies Netball are World Champs

Debating the Nuts, Zoo, Evening Standard, Metro and Daily Star nominated Sports personality of the year is a waste of energy

It beats what I am doing right now

Exactly. He is now renumerated to Number 1.

Next year, he may well be renumerated to Number 2.

Grrr, beat me to it. I would add that there are far more numbers in road riding than even the busiest scratch race on the track, so that the chances of getting the same number every time are much smaller.

Nominations for Thread Personality of the Thread:

1. Jeez
   
2. andy.w
   
3. Absent friends
   
4. King Saxlingham
   
5. villa-ru
   
6. bodieanddoyle
   
   

Complain about the omissions all you like, but this is meant to be a shortlist.

Voting will be by non-democratic, self-selecting vote, with the number of votes allocated in descending order of personality.

Not entirely, though the methods of nominating and the vague concept are pretty poor.

I am curious to know which INDIVIDUALS can beat Cav on the following three criteria (Also, what criteria are better ones to use if you can help me on that) -

(1) How highly regarded they are in their chosen sport and is that regard based on proven success?
(2) How successful they have been in the big events in the last year?
(3) How successful are they in comparison to the British Greats in their sport through history?

but the general knuckle dragging populace vote so you're just pissing in the wind. The above will barely be thought about

Cav wins sports journalist sportsman of the year.

The point is, Cav's girlfriend is a Page 3 model. Now, like the shortlist, this forum is 100% male, so we needn't be embarrassed to say Phwoar, get in there lad! Show us the mother of your unborn child's tits! This is what sport - I mean real sport, not niche sports or poofs' sports - is all about. And for that reason I shall be voting Cav on June the 9th.

Will, how do you even know that the unborn child has tits? Do you have information we don't?

I thought about adding some - for clarity but then thought about Oliver.

I'm pretty sure it'll have wasabi peas at least.

agreed... apart from Cav none of the individual performers have performed to amazing standards... as for the team sports people I suppose Cook battering the Aussies with a 127 average isn't too bad, but I still find it very hard to say that one member of a team deserves special recognition when the rest deserve nothing. Clearly some players have contributed more than others, but ultimately the ashes were won because we crushed an inferior team from an inferior nation, not because of cook per se.

I see what you did there..