Surprised you can type these through the laughter

When was the last time an Australian won a tennis grand slam?? Why only consider modern cricket but all of tennis history?

He represents Britain because he wants to and who can blame him



Lewis Hamilton does not pay for his car, he races for the best team because he is the best driver

You obviously do not know what 3rd world means (Britain was pretty heavily involved in NATO) but I know the Aussie school system isnt too good
Also Britain was the first country to industrialise and Aus is literally 95% desert wasteland, and is a richer country than Aus by pretty much any metric
Also the majority of world boxing champions have come from the USA- the richest country in the world
Also you JUST said that Hamilton only wins because of money, but then call Britain poor

But yea apart from that you really made some good points

Samantha Stosur won the 2011 US Open. She was the first Aussie slam winner since Leyton Hewitt won his second at Wimbledon in 2002....who in turn followed Pat Rafter who won the last of his slams in 1998. He followed Pat Cash who followed Christine O'Neill,who in turn followed Kerry Melville....at which stage we get to the same year that Virginia Wade won in the Queens Jubilee Year....
Tell us again about Andy Murray who was the first British man to win in 76 years and British player in 35 years since Wade....yeah...Let's talk some more about tennis...where the Davis Cup sees 47 Finals appearances and 28 wins for Australia whilst Team GB come in with 18 appearances and 10 wins.
Simply put....and I'll put it simply because the UK education system isn't all that....since Fred Perry won the last of his majors in 1936, Britain has won 5 Majors and 1 Davis Cup......compared to 111 ...that's ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN Majors and 22...that's TWENTY TWO Davis Cups for 'stalya!

So...that's the the top 7 team sports AND Tennis

Now we have some serious googling up on tennis stats.

This is truly depressing

Trying to stay on thread

Why are you now talkining about history?
When talking about RL or cycling or whatever you talked about the current rankings, being a bit selective aren't you



Also this is all a bit redundant, in England the only sport that the majority care about is football (which we rank far higher than you lot) all other sports are secondary by far
Just like in NZ with RU (which they rank higher at)
Aus is the only country where RL dominates the press (admittedly only in NSW and QLD) so they rank higher at that

The other sports that have a decent following in Britain we tend to do well in, boxing, cricket, athletics (though most people only watch the olympics)
I recon the majority of people in Britain prefer Federer to Murray and could not even name a single British basketball or netball or hockey player, or whatever other obscure sport you want to drag up that no-one watches or cares about

I really dont think you have anything to crow about when it comes to football

We got to the semi finals of Euro 96. FACT. Australia have never even qualified for the Euros. FACT.
Who's laughing now?

Australia are only good at rugby league and in the grand scheme of the sporting world, isnt even recognised as a sport. All other sports they suck at.

Regards

King James

You chat nowt but pure macca you fella, bobbins WUM n'all

Really?

The Premier League is the most popular and richest sporting league in world sport
We have highest (Premier League) and third (Championship behind Bundesliga) highest attended leagues in European football
We have had the second highest amount of European Cup winners by country in Europe with 12 (behind La Liga); the most Cup Winners Cup wins with 8; third highest UEFA Cup wins with 8 (behind La Liga and Serie A)

England have just won the U17 and U20 World Cups n’all

Not at all....you missed this post regarding current world rankings I presume?


Now, Cycling, Darts et al are all individual sports......but as the orif=ginal aside was aimed at ANZAC RL and RL being a team sport, I believe this is as "on point" as possible....

Cycling is a team sport in many events.

England also regularly win the darts world cup, which is played in a team.

NZ also will not be ranked above England in RL after this tournament

...You forgot straw clutching.....You're excellent at that!

SECOND ranked team at the premier multi sports event on Earth ?

Congratulations......but the Olympics isn't what was being discussed here. Team sports are though and in both the case of Australia and New Zealand, the Anzacs are better in 5 of the top 7.....which in the case of NZ v GB is shocking given the massive difference in Population......