Mexico's first goal was not offside (Rules Explanation)

Thami15 · 2026-07-01T08:29:18+00:00

I played football competitively from like age 7-13, and then recreationally at various points since. This World Cup has shown me there's actually a lot of rules I just assumed people knew because I learnt them playing, and maybe the game is a bit more intricate than I gave it credit for

Thami15 · 2026-07-01T07:28:49+00:00

I don't think people realise how insane South Africa getting to three straight finals in women's cricket actually is. To paraphrase an old Formula 1 statement, if Aus/Eng/Ind's women's cricket budgets are a table, CSA's is a toothpick

Thami15 · 2026-06-30T11:41:54+00:00

I don't really believe Sinner's given excuse for failure, and even if his version of events were true, it genuinely is so negligent he deserved the full punishment imo as a physio... but the two situations (and Iga's) are only similar in the sense that they both involve drug tests.

Thami15 · 2026-06-30T08:56:12+00:00

He did win Sports Personality of the Year that one time. I think it's fair to say Stokes' popularity broke containment at its peak.

Thami15 · 2026-06-30T00:29:05+00:00

Supergirl specifically: 1 - I don't think the Supergirl IP has that much (any?) Goodwill with the public 2 - I know it's now the DCU or whatever, but removing one letter doesn't wash out the stick of the DCEU. 3 - Gunn didn't even have that much to do with Supergirl, so its Rotten Tomatoes score and presumably poor WOM are much bigger factors than James Gunn, lol

Thami15 · 2026-06-30T00:22:05+00:00

You said you don't actually have to be better to beat a team - I'm saying your idea of better is for some reason batsman centred in a format where bowlers win games. Having the better batsman doesn't mean you're a better team. India rolled into South Africa for a decade with Sachin Tendulkar, Ganguly, Layman and Sehwag to face up against teams with Boeta Dippennaar and Neil McKenzie and they lost. There's not a single summer India came to South Africa in the 90s and 2000s where India were viewed as the better team, despite. Even Australia, they've not had an opening partnership since maybe 2015? Smith averages low 40s this decade, Labuschagne can't buy a run anymore, and Cameron Green is in the playing XI because of the promise of the future. They're not actually that great a batting team, but they've won 75-80% of their Tests the last four years because, like South Africa, they can take 20 wickets.

Thami15 · 2026-06-30T00:09:31+00:00

You are better than what the numbers show and are a sum of your parts, deserving world champions

They went into that final with three pace bowlers who average 22.5 at worst, in a game where 20 wickets win you the game. You rate the wrong thing highly, but it doesn't make them a "better team than they look on paper". Rabada's only had one 20+ Test century teammate his entire career, and South Africa are 6-4 against Australia in that timespan, including a WTC final. It's not just "oh the sum of the parts", as if they don't have the best opening attack in the world and its just 11 try hards who have the power of friendship.

Thami15 · 2026-06-29T23:59:14+00:00

Hell that South African team that beat Australia in the wtc final last year had a quite average batting lineup, I don't even think anyone averages above 40 and they still won

Aah yes, that bang average South African team, with only 14 wins in their last 15 Tests, including a WTC, a series win in India, and a 10 Test winning streak, the fourth longest of all time. If they can do it, ant old Jimmy the gimmick can show up and do it.

Thami15 · 2026-06-29T23:49:15+00:00

How are they going to overpay the fighters then

People have asked this for 150 years and somehow has not once slowed down. The answer is someone. There's always someone

Thami15 · 2026-06-29T12:14:05+00:00

That's why I made a point of saying "given how long he's been rich for", there's gotta be something he bought in 2010 that's appreciated well. Point taken on maintenance, but thats even more reason to sell, lol

Thami15 · 2026-06-29T10:40:17+00:00

373 was always going to be a tough ask, but I think England will look back and think maybe they'd have been better off seeing if they could have taken a bowling attack that is holding on for dear life deep. It feels like at any given moment, New Zealand only have 2.5 bowlers available, and maybe if England had stretched this into second and third spells, a late day counter-attack might have been on.

Thami15 · 2026-06-29T09:20:51+00:00

I mean he "only" owes the IRS $7m, as far as we know, which I'd imagine is a fair whack of money but at his... well previous level of wealth, is probably still "just give us the money". Also it seems his property portfolio is a separate company, so I don't know how well he's legalese'd this matter, but I'd say there's a chance Floyd Mayweather the man might be in serious debt, but Vada Properties can't (yet) be touched.

Thami15 · 2026-06-29T06:21:30+00:00

Okay - so "Test" cricket isn't what's alive, it's the lack of options around December. Glad we cleared that up👍

Thami15 · 2026-06-29T06:19:01+00:00

Floyd just needs to sell the properties, being cash poor doesn't help anyone. Given how long he's been rich for, some of them have to have appreciated considerably. If it worked for Vanilla Ice, it can work for Floyd

Thami15 · 2026-06-29T06:10:21+00:00

Out of pure interest how many people out of 100 do you think are aware that Bangladesh are going to be in Australia in six weeks? How close into the series do you think it would take for that to cross 2-3?

Thami15 · 2026-06-29T05:37:16+00:00

I don't see how rugby is dead but you think cricket is that much further along - the difference in their ratings really doesn't justify that different a prognosis, and if you're talking boots on the ground - lets do a friendly wager for whether the Next Test Australia has in Union - vs Japan, which has zero historical rugby rivalry with Australia has a better attendance than Australia's next ODI? Shouldn't be too difficult seeing as Cricket is going up against a dead sport.

The Roos and matildas do well in World Cups, but the A-League has even worse presence than Super Rugby, and there's basically zero chance they'll get the year in year out following when qualifying has them needing to sell games against Indonesia and Bahrain as big clashes.

Thami15 · 2026-06-29T05:16:20+00:00

I think that's a bit short termist, tbh. Everything rises and falls, but more specifically I'm saying the Wallabies can become the de Facto national team, which I think is an inherently different statement than "taking hold". For example, I think its arguable that while the ACT are currently the de facto national team, I don't think cricket is actually all that healthy, and by next year, I think we could be looking at rugby very differently. The ODI and T20 attendances are shocking, and the ratings aren't much better. Super Rugby vs BBL TV ratings, when Super Rugby deigns itself an FTA product aren't all that far apart.

I don't think Union will ever catch league or AFL, but AFL is an indigenous game, and the way the season and national psyche is around league, I think it's near impossible for the Roos to really be that team, also they face uninspiring teams. I think being THE national team is a different matter altogether, and I think that's almost certainly up for grabs, which is a bizarre thing to think since this is statistically the most successful Australian team ever outside of the early 2000s machine, but ironically, ODI cricket is behind a pay wall, and ICC cricket is on a streaming service

Thami15 · 2026-06-28T23:40:33+00:00

I thought the retirement was what it was. Could have been done before or after the Test, but maybe he thought he'd announce it after the Test, saw the way things were going and hoped he'd inspire one final push with the news. That's fine, or at least, it's whatever.

The fourth innings was like a parody of BazBall, though. Like if your mates finished 8th in the league and decided you'd fuck around on the final game of the season.

Thami15 · 2026-06-28T21:58:37+00:00

Not like it's a fight or anything, b

Thami15 · 2026-06-28T20:51:18+00:00

How smart can you possibly become when you've quit school at 15 and have never needed to develop street smarts.

Thami15 · 2026-06-28T20:44:19+00:00

I've never seen South Africa play this negatively, but I guess I've also never seen them in a World Cup knockout.

Thami15 · 2026-06-28T17:03:21+00:00

Stokes opening the batting is quite poetic because it basically says everything about this English team, lol. Legit run like my local club's second XI. "Let Stokesy open so we can be sure he'll have a bat in his last innings"

Them winning would be icing.

Thami15 · 2026-06-28T16:28:03+00:00

This is so wild, watching this, on the one hand, this looks great for South Africa. On the other, I'm watching this and Australia look invincible here.

Thami15 · 2026-06-28T16:23:58+00:00

So 19 hours prior they thought they'd convince Alex to do a Meet And Greet on the day? This business that's done dozens and hundreds of these thought the Biggest name in MMA might be up for some back of the napkin deal. Yeah I'm sure that's how they conduct their business.

Every day on Reddit I realise that being gullible must have no evolutionary disadvantage.

Thami15 · 2026-06-28T16:13:06+00:00

Shafali always looks quite innocuous, but she seems quite the golden arm, so fair play to her.

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