Sport miscellaneous

Congratulations KATIE TAYLOR 👏👏👏

AMAZING ACHIEVEMENT 👍👍👍

A bloodied and bruised Katie Taylor achieved her long-held goal of unifying the world lightweight championship with a wildly entertaining majority-decision win over Belgium’s Delfine Persoon at Madison Square Garden.

Taylor (14-0, 6 KOs), who entered with the WBA, WBO and IBF titles at 135lbs, survived her toughest moments as a professional to add Persoon’s WBC strap to her collection.

One of my nephews was big into the sports betting some time ago. He always bet on Manny, and won more than he lost. Congratulations Manny...

Yes, well done Shane, making us proud.

I don't know a lot about golf, but this is generally being regarded as a pretty spectacular achievement, and Lowry seems to be an all-round good guy - so, congratulations

Yes well done Shane Lowry. I dont play golf but follow as a fan, particularly the majors, ryder cup and irish open. We were in Portrush on friday and you could see even then there was a momentum growing around Lowry. Winning the Open would be considered the prize for a European golfer. It has a global TV audiance of 600 million which is huge exposure. Lowry is a good guy by all accounts, down to earth, never refuses an autograph etc. Was delighted for him, its great for Ireland.

That game is on at around 11 am (Saturday morning) here.

Dunno much about rugby in general Pat, but have been following this a small bit. If Ireland beat Samoa, and get a bonus point (to do with what you score in the game I think) then they are def out of our group and into the quarter-finals where we are likely to play either New Zealand or South Africa. Even if we don't get the bonus-point win there is still a chance of going through, depending on other results ....

The main area of controversy at the moment - although it doesn't affect the Ireland match seemingly - is that there is a "super-typhoon" landing in Japan about now. This is a huge deal and could cause major disruption, risk to life and limb etc. There are a couple of at matches scheduled for areas where the typhoon is likely to hit, so they have been cancelled. However, they will not be rescheduled: what happens is each cancelled match is treated as a "scoreless draw" , and both teams get two points. However the impact of this is that teams that might have needed more than the 2 points have no say in this.scotland seem to be the ones most affected by this, they would have a good chance of beating (I think) Italy if that match were to go ahead - that would give them enough points to go through. But the two points they get for the cancelled game means they don't have enough and are knocked out. So, they are threatening all kinds of legal action etc if the match does nor get rescheduled ...

That's a very brief whistle-stop of what I think is happening. Those on here who know much more than me about all this, feel free to correct any or all of above ...

Edited by Rahenyrhythm - 12-October-2019 at 11:02

Ireland 7 up after 9 mins.

Can't get it on the tv.

It was super for Ireland...quarters now...

That typhoon was as bad as predicted, 19 people dead I think, RIP.

But looks like the Japan/Scotland match will def be played, that will be an interesting one ...

Ireland playing the Swiss tonight in football a win and they are thru to the euros ,,I think

So its and buts in both soccer and rugby?