Orraloon Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 The Scottish men's team have just finished 3rd in the European championships. Eve Muirhead takes on Sweden it the women's final this afternoon. One of the few sports that we are good at and it gets virtually no coverage on UK TV. This is one of the problems with sport in Scotland. Our TV media focus almost totally on one sport which we aren't very good at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanderark14 Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 11 minutes ago, Orraloon said: The Scottish men's team have just finished 3rd in the European championships. Eve Muirhead takes on Sweden it the women's final this afternoon. One of the few sports that we are good at and it gets virtually no coverage on UK TV. This is one of the problems with sport in Scotland. Our TV media focus almost totally on one sport which we aren't very good at. Our TV media focus is about whatever sport england wants to watch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted November 23, 2019 Author Share Posted November 23, 2019 10 minutes ago, vanderark14 said: Our TV media focus is about whatever sport england wants to watch True. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted November 23, 2019 Author Share Posted November 23, 2019 The only time they get much of a mention on our TV is at the olympics when Scotland represent GB. Typical bias. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted November 26, 2021 Author Share Posted November 26, 2021 Scotland doing not too bad in the curling. Mens and womens teams both getting to the final of the European Championships. BBC coverage of this has been appalling. One of the few sports Scotland are actually good at, but it barely gets a mention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wee-toon-red Posted November 26, 2021 Share Posted November 26, 2021 1 hour ago, Orraloon said: Scotland doing not too bad in the curling. Mens and womens teams both getting to the final of the European Championships. BBC coverage of this has been appalling. One of the few sports Scotland are actually good at, but it barely gets a mention. The BBC were showing live coverage of the men's game on their website but now that the game is done there's literally no mention of it anywhere on the site. An absolute joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted November 26, 2021 Author Share Posted November 26, 2021 6 minutes ago, wee-toon-red said: The BBC were showing live coverage of the men's game on their website but now that the game is done there's literally no mention of it anywhere on the site. An absolute joke. And the feed broke down half way through. If anybody is interested in watching the final you can get it on the Recast app. Both finals are on tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted November 27, 2021 Author Share Posted November 27, 2021 Double European Champions. Possibly the best in the world right now. Must be favorites for gold at the Olympics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grim Jim Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 Wow! 🥳 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted February 2, 2022 Author Share Posted February 2, 2022 Good start for Scotland in the mixed doubles beating Sweden 9-5. They got out of jail a wee bit though. It should have been an 8-8 draw but the Swedish lassie missed a fairly straight forward take out with the last stone of the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted February 20, 2022 Author Share Posted February 20, 2022 Well, that's the diddy competition over and done with. Well done to all of the women's team, the men's team, and the mixed doubles team. They all played very well. In the next couple of months we get down to the main curling events with the World Championships. Let's see how much coverage we get of them on the bbc now that we will be watching Team Scotland instead of Team GB? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted April 30, 2022 Author Share Posted April 30, 2022 Scotland are World Champions in the mixed doubles again. Well done Eve Muirhead and Bobby Lammie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThistleWhistle Posted May 3, 2022 Share Posted May 3, 2022 On 4/30/2022 at 5:29 PM, Orraloon said: Scotland are World Champions in the mixed doubles again. Well done Eve Muirhead and Bobby Lammie. Have you seen 'Losers' on Netflix? Really good series and one of the episodes is about a bloke who loses at the big curling tournament in Canada. Takes the hump and comes back the next year and perfected a style of play so boring they changed the rules to what they are now: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted May 3, 2022 Author Share Posted May 3, 2022 18 minutes ago, ThistleWhistle said: Have you seen 'Losers' on Netflix? Really good series and one of the episodes is about a bloke who loses at the big curling tournament in Canada. Takes the hump and comes back the next year and perfected a style of play so boring they changed the rules to what they are now: Haven't seen it but I assume it's about the "Free Guard Zone" rule. It was pretty controversial and ground breaking at the time, but I don't think anybody would want to go back to the old rules now. It started with only 3 rocks, then went to 4 and very recently they changed to 5 rocks not being allowed to be removed. They are about to change it again and some of the top players are not happy about it. They aren't going to be allowed to move those rocks at all, never my mind remove them. It will put an end to Halley Duff's trademark "tick" shots. I'm sure she will manage to adapt though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThistleWhistle Posted May 3, 2022 Share Posted May 3, 2022 3 minutes ago, Orraloon said: Haven't seen it but I assume it's about the "Free Guard Zone" rule. It was pretty controversial and ground breaking at the time, but I don't think anybody would want to go back to the old rules now. It started with only 3 rocks, then went to 4 and very recently they changed to 5 rocks not being allowed to be removed. They are about to change it again and some of the top players are not happy about it. They aren't going to be allowed to move those rocks at all, never my mind remove them. It will put an end to Halley Duff's trademark "tick" shots. I'm sure she will manage to adapt though. Yeah that's the one! It was interesting too because the other teams at the time were like pub amatuers but his team turned up like pro-athletes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanderark14 Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 Scotland win the world championship by beating Canada in the final in Ottawa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Ramy 1314 Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 1 hour ago, vanderark14 said: Scotland win the world championship by beating Canada in the final in Ottawa I was supposed to go to the final with my mate, he had 2 passes, but his daughter wanted to go as Canada made the final, sold out.. I watched it though. 96 percent shot rate, the highest in any World Tournaments history. The boys were flawless. Nice to see Hammy McMillan son win the world's just like his dad. There was a good Scottish contingent in the crowd and the boys thanked them. Just a great story all around, well done lads...🏴🏴🏴 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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