Those sports stars you just can't warm to
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<p>How about the guy out off position on the play Leon MacDonald? Instinctively didn't like his style of play from the get go with Canterbury and gave plenty of ammo to back that assessment up in black (especially when contrasted with Mils or Evans in the latter part of his career).<br><br>
For a "safe pair of hands" he made some boneheaded errors - in the republic in 00 and the 2002 Bledisloe that somehow never gets mentioned yet Dowd and Cribb cop it for their Bledisloe blemishes. Ditto on his woeful goal kicking in the semi final that IMO had a bigger effect than the early intercept.<br><br>
For a guy who played as many tests as he did tricky to think of a great Leon memory.</p>
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<p>I always liked Rangi as a player, but he wasn't a centre's arsehole. And yep he did some dumb stuff and yep some players cop it unfairly - seems to be Aucklanders (Spencer, McAlister pre the fat return from Europe, Cribb) for the most part. </p> -
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<p>point is someone you don't like, but you <em>cant quite put your finger on why</em>, not post up a bunch of reasons....</p>
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<p>HA! yes, I was about 3rd & posted a guy I loathed & knew exactly why I loathed him.</p>
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<p>Ditto 90% of the posts. Almost no one in these 8 pages dislikes a normal, seemingly likeable guy & isn't sure why. Maybe just change the title now to "Sports stars you, and many other people, hate & why, and why everyone hates them"</p> -
<p>The sports stars I've met (including some listed in this thread) have been almost always been charming, good-humoued and humble in person.</p>
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<p>The big exception was Lord Sebastian Coe who I thought was a narcissistic fluffybunny of the very worst sort. Vile man.</p> -
<p>On the opposite side of the spectrum - guys who you just KNOW are wankpots and then when you meet them straight up guys.</p>
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<p>Will Carling.</p> -
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<p>On the opposite side of the spectrum - guys who you just KNOW are wankpots and then when you meet them straight up guys.</p>
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<p>Will Carling.</p>
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<p>Phil Tufnell, genuinely top bloke. Also buys rounds. And will talk to literally anyone.</p> -
Has anyone mentioned Armstrong?
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<p>On the opposite side of the spectrum - guys who you just KNOW are wankpots and then when you meet them straight up guys.</p>
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<p>Shane Warne, Jamal Idris & Wendell Sailor.</p>
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<p>Always thought Steve Waugh was a top bloke, but there is a certain section of the Aussie public that think he is aloof or whatever - also top drawer. Complete opposite for his twin.</p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="infidel" data-cid="595278" data-time="1468004602"><p>Nine pages is it and no mention of Marshy?<br>
Ruined ten years of my life when he was the AB halfback.<br>
Trying to ruin another ten years as a commentator.</p></blockquote>
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For me he gets a lifetime pass for his performances vs the boks in 96. He was brilliant, so many line breaks and physicality and he was up against a great halfbackin Joost.<br><br>
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An Olympic legend with medals out the wazoo and clearly one of the giants of the sport of track cycling but if I never see Sir Chris Hoy's face ever again I won't lose any sleep at all. I'd love to say he was overhyped but he obviously wasn't. He's done great things for charity and sport, is always very polite and no doubt loves his Mum, but get the fuck off my TV.
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I'm not really sure whether Ian Thorpe counts as an irrational dislike. And i guess his personality was stifled as a closeted teen swimming idol. I'd probably get branded as gayist or something, but he's mine. <br><br>
I really enjoyed the Dutchman with the concave chest, Pieter van den Hoogenband, cutting Thorpe's lunch in a few events at Sydney 2000. -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Billy Tell" data-cid="595272" data-time="1468000151"><p>Has anyone mentioned Armstrong?</p></blockquote><blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Billy Tell" data-cid="595272" data-time="1468000151"><p>Has anyone mentioned Armstrong?</p></blockquote><br>Not really a sportsman.
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<p>given the tangent from original subject to just sportspeople that are fluffybunnys... no underarm incident yet? coutts?</p>
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<p>I thought it was guys that weren't overt a-holes but you just can't like them</p> -
Cian Healy, Geordan Murphy, Trevor Ringland, Bradley Davies, Matt Dawson, Ali Williams, Richie McCaw, Schalk Burger, Michael Lynagh, Jim Beglin, Thierry Henry, Pakkie Bonner, Jamie Redknapp, Ronaldo, Freddie Flintoff, Andy Murray, Ma' Nonu, Jonny Sexton, Martin Johnson, John McEnroe, Willie John McBride, any racing driver, Sergio Parisse, George Gregan, to name a few
