O/T Are you enjoying your sport this year?

[AdiSalisbury]

Sorry to hear about your shoulder and arm injuries MA, in my case it was my back. Did a disc which laid me up for three months, afterwards could play about 3 holes before the pain was unbearable. Refused surgery and now watch the golf on sky of which there's plenty!
Can still play a bit of snooker/billiards which provides some kind of ball in hole fix!! (Awaits some GP retort!)

I'm not sure dunking your teabag is the way to do it!

[Ram59]

I enjoy watching most sports and I think that sometimes, you need to understand the sport, to enjoy it. I've given up on baseball, I just can't get into it, however, I love to follow The Rams in the NFL.

Hamilton today, has shown what a great racer he is. In a race where driver skill was paramount, he was head and shoulders above the rest of the field, in not the best car, for a change.

On a side note, is it just me that feels there is far less play acting going on in the premier league, without having a crowd to play to?

[MadAmster]

Sorry to hear about your shoulder and arm injuries MA, in my case it was my back. Did a disc which laid me up for three months, afterwards could play about 3 holes before the pain was unbearable. Refused surgery and now watch the golf on sky of which there's plenty!
Can still play a bit of snooker/billiards which provides some kind of ball in hole fix!! (Awaits some GP retort!)

Ta mac. The road to recovery was a long one. I blame the first surgeon I had. Had the accident August 2014, 3 whole weeks into my retirement on a bike I had bought just 4 weeks earlier to replave my provious one which had served me well having paid 750 Dutch Guilders (which was about £220 at the time) back in 1986 for a 2nd hand bike.

They reset the break (which was just under the ball joint at the shoulder) and I went back every 2 or 3 weeks for new X-rays to check progress. The surgeon said it was going fine. From early October I had severe doubts and told him that I was convinced there was still tissue damage that needed repairing at the very least and that I thought there was more at hand based no more than on a lifetime of various sports and knowing my own body. He said it was going according to plan and not to worry. From then until mid February 2015, we had the same conversation every 2 or 3 weeks. I wanted an MRI to check what was wrong and he thought it unnecessary. Finally, mid February 2015, I started on again and he said, enough! I'm as sick of hearing this as you must be of saying it. You can have your MRI just to shut you up. A week later the MRI. A week after that back for the results. The consult lasted about 35 seconds. I'm afraid I don't know what to tell you. I think it's best I refer you to another surgeon. I asked which one and he replied with the surgeon's name. I was happy. The new surgeon had done my ACL operation 18 months previously. He went on to say I should go to the reception and make the new appointemnt. That was 1 week later. 3 months later followed the first op and the 2nd 9 months after that. The arm had been poorly reset and the ball joint was also in the wrong position in the socket. There was 4 or 5 bits of tissue damage to repair. Oh how I hated being right. What might have been had he listened to me from the off?

1st op they sawed the ball joint off and put it back into position. A wedge of bone was cut out of the upper arm bone so that it would grow back more correctly. All held together with a plate and screws. More reparatory action in the second op and there was a minor 3rd to remove the plate and screws. The prognosis is that it is now as good as it ever will be and I have physio on it every other week and the expectation is that I will need that for as long as I live.

I still play the odd frame of snooker but find that I don't have the cue ball control I used to have and have lost maybe 30% of the "power" I used to have in my shots.

I concentrate on the things I CAN do rather than mourn those I can't.

[macstheman]

Sounds horrendous, did you get any compo??
Deffo negligence!!
I suppose the first 'specialist' sleeps well at night whilst you probably don't!
I agree, do what you can and enjoy.

[MadAmster]

Sounds horrendous, did you get any compo??
Deffo negligence!!
I suppose the first 'specialist' sleeps well at night whilst you probably don't!
I agree, do what you can and enjoy.

I did get a few bob mac but I'd give it all back for a fully functioning and painless arm/shoulder.

[StensonRam]

I enjoyed watching Sir Lewis Hamilton turn a 5 second deficit in qualifying into a 1st place finish with 30 second lead becoming 7 time WC equalling Schumacher plus all the other records of his he broke this seaaon

[macstheman]

I'm sure you would, health is priceless.

[Geoff Parkstone]

I enjoyed watching Sir Lewis Hamilton turn a 5 second deficit in qualifying into a 1st place finish with 30 second lead becoming 7 time WC equalling Schumacher plus all the other records of his he broke this seaaon

But to my untrained eye, Schumacher remains the superior driver as he has 2 less wins wins from 30 less poles, suggesting he needed to demonstrate his skills in coming from behind more, rather than just driving away from the field in a far superior car on race day. Or am I wrong, F1 buffs?

[MadAmster]

But to my untrained eye, Schumacher remains the superior driver as he has 2 less wins wins from 30 less poles, suggesting he needed to demonstrate his skills in coming from behind more, rather than just driving away from the field in a far superior car on race day. Or am I wrong, F1 buffs?

Schumacher -306 starts, 7 Championships, 91 wins, 155 podiums, 68 polls
Hamilton -264 starts, 7 Championships, 94 wins, 163 podiums, 97 polls

The stats say same number of titles, Hamilton ahead on wins, podiums and polls. Schumacher only ahead on the number of starts. Compare the records once Hamilton gets to 306 starts. Chances are he'll be ahead or well ahead on all of the other stats.

[Andy_Faber]

But to my untrained eye, Schumacher remains the superior driver as he has 2 less wins wins from 30 less poles, suggesting he needed to demonstrate his skills in coming from behind more, rather than just driving away from the field in a far superior car on race day. Or am I wrong, F1 buffs?

But he was a cheat and that makes him F1's Lance Armstrong as far as I'm concerned. Controversial but my strongly held opinion. I am frustrated by LH's brilliance being amplified by having the best car and by his politicising but the first is hardly his fault and the second has just resorted me to watching him on the track not listening to him. If you want a faber list of best ever drivers (and I wouldn't even consider anyone I hadn't seen in action) I'd go Senna Hamilton Bellof (yes Stefan Bellof, no F1 wins, no F1 points, Stenson may understand if not agree)