Was just reading through the sports news and noticed the current debate surrounding Formula 1 and the Qualifying rules being contested..

It appears the 'bigwigs' involved F1 fear that it's becoming predictable and too obvious for the viewer. So they experiment in order to keep an interest in the sport which is possibly dwindling? Along with others?

Which led me to think about how many sports over the years have such a fluctuated audience and how many people still watch the same?

With Fast car Eddie trying to claw Boxing back on the market compared to the hey-days of the 80's-90's..

Is there any sports that you watch now that you didn't before? Or has everyone just switched sports completely?

"Football is a bullshit world. Agents are nasty scum. They're evil and divisive and pointless. They only survive because the rest of the sport is so corrupt and because leading football club people employ their sons in the job."

Formula One is mind numbingly boring. Everyone knows it and the interested parties are trying desperately to promote it as something exciting.

As Stuk says, so much choice now, both sport and channels. Frank Bough & Dickie Davies mainstays of Saturday afternoon TV

When I was a lad you had Grandstand and World of Sport. before the final scores wrestling from some civic hall in Batley with old grannies trying to hit Mick McManus or Kendo Nagasaki with their handbags. I miss those days.

I am always bemused as to why sports seem to have as a priority the constant need to ensure wider participation.

Test cricket rocks. Twenty20 sucks ("cricket for people who don't like cricket".) (Alright, it doesn't suck - it's alright for whatever it is, I suppose, as a passing momentary distraction - but whatever it is, it is just not cricket.) Yet we need it to ensure test cricket won't die. Or so we are constantly told.

Why will it die? Because no-one watches anything other than the A-list games. Okay. So?? What's up with letting those uninterested in test cricket have their fun elsewhere while I and my 40 like-minded friends enjoy some test cricket over here? At a tiny, tin-pot ground, ideal for our needs. Smashing. Or is sport validated as magnificent only when witnessed by hordes, irrespective of their genuine interest?

Should interest and participation in top-level football fell to miserable levels - as it probably ought to, given its many huge flaws - would you stop following Palace? Will you stop following Palace when an inevitable further administration episode ends less well and we wnd up re-forming as a park team? You would?? Fair enough See ya. I'll be having larks over here with my mates. You enjoy your Twenty20. Everyone wins.

And if all the sport becomes is is a lunch-time car-park kick-about because there isn't any funding, so f***ing what? Sounds marvellous to me. Why must we forego what we are - and enjoy being - to manufacture something we don't really want, simply to encourage a following we equally don't don't want?

(I'll draw you a line between this and video-refereeing for anyone interested. Anyone...?? ANYONE??)

As a woman, I can step aside, or step up my game...

Sorry. You lost me after "The".

Formula is not real racing. It is just a competition between car and engine manufacturers for promotional purposes.
Each driver needs to have exactly the same car or you don't know who the best driver is.

Borrrrrrrrring!

Sunday roast then working off the calories with your mates in the street after this.........

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Happy days

Edited by -TUX- (07 Apr 2016 6.10pm)

Time to move forward together.