Re ***** supporting both India and Bangladesh

[Adders]

@*****: Thanks for the answer. Obviously saying one doesn't need a reason to support a specific team is fine, I think we all understand that as sports fans.

In no way did I mean to attack you or anticipate that you didn't want this discussed on a thread. For example, SilentStriker is quite clear that he grew up in India and supports India in cricket and having spent so many years in US, has follows US in a lot of sports like soccer when they make a world cup etc.

You have given me some answers (ambigious though they might be), that you have had connections with these countries or seen people growing up support some of these countries which has made you support these countries. I for one love telling people the reasons I support particular countries and given that you support a fair few countries, I thought it would be interesting to know.

That was your first mistake right there tbh.

 

[S.Kennedy]

I had a theory that he just supports the Asian sides whenever they play the non-Asian sides, and when two Asian sides meet he flips a coin.

 

[Pratters]

***** supporting India, Bangladesh, NZ and WI.

 

[cnerd123]

Hahaha that posts is 6 years old wtf how did you find it


I used to like NZ till they stole Mark Chapman. ****ing ****s. So glad they're now BD's whipping boys.


Had a soft spot for the Windies for a while, don't really care for them much now.

 

[S.Kennedy]

***** supporting non-Asians (Kiwis/Windies?). Well there goes my theory about him supporting all the Asian sides!

 

[Pratters]

Just searching on the forum. Grew up supporting India..

 

[cnerd123]

I clearly have shared way too much information on this website

 

[S.Kennedy]

To paraphrase Winston, *****'s cricket inclination is a ''riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma''.

 

[trundler]

This thread has made me even more confused about *****, wtf

 

[Burgey]

Trundler, it’s easy as a callow youth to be confused about the world, but in this case your first instincts are right. ***** is just a ****.

 

[Gnske]

***** supporting India, Bangladesh, NZ and WI.

Is this even the same person? This same, sweet and innocent young man turned out to be someone who would defend the Nagpur pitch?

 

[Prince EWS]

If you support Bangladesh in Bangladesh v India, how can you support India in all other series India play? Then you are a neutral in India v England..

If you have a strong preference for who you want to win a given game or series, for whatever reason, you're not a neutral IMO. I don't think whether you like another team not involved into the contest at all even more really has any bearing on that.

 

[Bijed]

Fairly sure ***** posted a hierarchy of who he supports somewhere a while back, from memory it was something like:

Bangladesh > India > Anyone playing England or Australia > England > Australia

Not sure who he prefers in a, for example, match between SA and Pakistan. Maybe he's like Shakib and DGAF

 

[Prince EWS]

Fairly sure ***** posted a hierarchy of who he supports somewhere a while back, from memory it was something like:

Bangladesh > India > Anyone playing England or Australia > England > Australia

Hong Kong actually seems to be #1.

This hierarchy can change if a game is much more important to one team than another though. If HK was playing Bangladesh in a World Cup game that was almost meaningless for HK already but Bangladesh needed to win to progress to the next stage, he'd probably support Bangladesh (but then party hard after the game if HK won anyway).

 

[Bijed]

*****, please could you provide a flowchart covering all scenarios so that we can work out who you're supporting in any given international match? Thanks

 

[Howe_zat]

Fairly sure ***** posted a hierarchy of who he supports somewhere a while back, from memory it was something like:

Bangladesh > India > Anyone playing England or Australia > England > Australia

Not sure who he prefers in a, for example, match between SA and Pakistan. Maybe he's like Shakib and DGAF

This is the most unremarkable thing though. Most of us have one or two at both ends and then just hope for something popular and interesting in the middle, like an away win or Herath five-for.

Two teams meme could just as easily be about GS (Aus&WI) or Dan (Aus&NZ). In fact Cribbage managing to dodge this despite supporting Australia, England, Ireland and Zimbabwe is the odd bit.

 

[Prince EWS]

This is the most unremarkable thing though. Most of us have one or two at both ends and then just hope for something popular and interesting in the middle, like an away win or Herath five-for.

Two teams meme could just as easily be about GS (Aus&WI) or Dan (Aus&NZ). In fact Cribbage managing to dodge this despite supporting Australia, England, Ireland and Zimbabwe is the odd bit.

***** really hams it up by using "we" to describe his favourite 47 teams, and posting emotional reactions when they win/lose all the time.

 

[Bijed]

This is the most unremarkable thing though. Most of us have one or two at both ends and then just hope for something popular and interesting in the middle, like an away win or Herath five-for.

Two teams meme could just as easily be about GS (Aus&WI) or Dan (Aus&NZ). In fact Cribbage managing to dodge this despite supporting Australia, England, Ireland and Zimbabwe is the odd bit.

Tbh mine goes: Herath > England > Anyone else > Australia

Actually, I'd go so far as to suggest that anyone who's hierarchy doesn't start with His Roundness isn't really a true cricket fan

 

[Howe_zat]

***** really hams it up by using "we" to describe his favourite 47 teams, and posting emotional reactions when they win/lose all the time.

Goes to show that being loud has copped him flack more than anything else though. Whoever said he was to become the new Jono was right

 

[Prince EWS]

Goes to show that being loud has copped him flack more than anything else though. Whoever said he was to become the new Jono was right

Jono wasn't just criticised despite being a good poster like ***** though; it seemed like Jono was criticsed almost because he was a good poster (he was the best we had IMO). CW culture can be odd.