Bradley Saunders Result

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  1. Strike

    Strike Boxing Addict banned

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    He lost. And he lost to a French guy he beat earlier this year and without much trouble.
    All the promise for the Olympic boxing team is in tatters.

    The only medal chance is Price really.
     
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  2. hitman_hatton1

    hitman_hatton1 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    yeah hasn't gone well has it.

    terry edwards already talking up 2012 as the main target. :patsch

    so much for the 'new cuba' terry. :yep

    they don't like scoring body shots do they.

    saunders had 2 or 3 of em that he sunk in. :bbb
     
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  3. GazOC

    GazOC Guest Star for Team Taff Full Member

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    ****!!
     
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  4. Betty Swollocks

    Betty Swollocks James 'Lights Out' Toney Full Member

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    the boxing is a farce anyway. The scoring is beyond a joke.
    Britain are doing shite in everrything and it's funny as ****, hopefully that **** Ainslie sinks to round it off.
     
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  5. Strike

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    I don't want to hear them complaining about body shots not scoring. Yes it is crap but that has always been the case with amateur boxing. It is tough to get body shots scored properly, so knowing that don't go in there and target the body and then complain when you lose.

    If you are such a body puncher that you cannot adapt to the amateur game then the team should not be picking you.

    Saunders was complacent. He admits that he was looking past the French guy and hadn't studied him much before the fight because he beat him easily 7 months ago.

    The set up is a bit of a joke. Saunders should have been made to watch tapes and work out a game plan with the coaches. The French clearly prepared for what he was going to bring.
    Just like Gavin should not have been fighting at light welter for the whole of 2008 when they knew he had to make the weight for lightweight.

    It is more than feasible that we go home without a medal after taking 8 fighters initially and with at least 3 expected to win a medal and 1 odds on for gold.
     
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  6. Top Dog

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    That was a terrible bout, he bounced about like an arsehole, deserved to get beaten. After all the hype, and the "new cubans" remarks thats going about, what a feckin joke. Just goes to show you that these english coaches arent anywhere near as good as theyre made out to be. If the english boxer beat the guy months ago, there is NO excuse to get beaten by the guy now, arsehole took his eye off the ball.
     
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  7. GazOC

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    I agree about the body shots Strike, the boxers/ trainers know the score on that regard from the outset.
     
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  8. hitman_hatton1

    hitman_hatton1 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    yeah before it started i thought maybe 3 medals. :p

    admittedly going on last years world championship form.

    1 of those potential medallists failed to make weight. :patsch

    so ya drop that down to 2 potential medallists.

    unless price and degale deliver something it's looking grim. :-(
     
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  9. Top Dog

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    How much money did the english fighters get from the sports body anyway? Or lottery etc? Whatever it is , it's too feckin much, get rid of that duffer Terry
     
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  10. Strike

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    Not really. We have 2 golds, 2 silvers and 3 bronzes on the 6th day of competition. In Athens 2004 we won our first medal on the 7th day of competition.

    Some of it has been poor performances, such as the judo. Some has been bad luck in terms of the draws. Get a good draw and you are there for a bronze straight away in things like badminton, boxing etc.
    When you consider that Australia are considered a top Olympic performing team and they are on 16 medals, most coming in the pool...

    It is clear where we could and should pick up more, and that is swimming. We have only 22 Olympic size pools in the whole of Britain, Australia has 47 and only 5 cities to split them between. We should pick up medals in the rowing, sailing and cycling yet.
     
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  11. hitman_hatton1

    hitman_hatton1 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    yeah we definitely under-achieve in swimming.

    thank the lord for becky adlington. :yep
     
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  12. Strike

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    It is such an easy thing to rectify. When building a new pool, how much more does it really cost to make it 50m instead of 25m?
    Just the building of a couple of velodromes a few years back has seen us become a major force in cycling.

    When you think about the range of towns that our athletes come from and then imagine that most of the potential swimmers have to train in a half size pool.:patsch :lol:

    Another 40 pools nation wide is not a huge outlay. Think how much money we will spend on a fancy opening ceremony and how much is wasted on numerous other public spending projects. Just 40 pools would offer swimming clubs across Britain close by facilities to bring through the next generation of Olympians.
     
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  13. D-MAC

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    Terrible result for Saunders; looks like the French guy had seriously studied him since their last fight.

    As for the body shots question, it appears that they have to be dead obvious concussive shots thrown in a hook/uppercut way to score properly. The Cuban guy who was on a few bouts before, who looked fantastic, won most of his points on body shots, but they really were crippling punches that almost folded his opponent a couple of times, and he made sure to make them obvious so that the judges could see (even if his opponent couldn't due to the speed with which he threw them).
     
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  14. Beeston Brawler

    Beeston Brawler Comical Ali-egedly Full Member

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    All I will say is that Saunders was ****, but the French guy is bloody lucky that Joe Cortez wasn't referring - punching behind the head, throwing bombs when told to break up etc.
     
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  15. darwoody

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    Its not as simple as that. Our coaches are sadly lacking the credentials to bring prospects through, so much so that we had to hire an Australian to head the swimming team a few years back.
    As you say though the cyclers have got it spot on. The coaches have turned athletes from other sports in to Olympians. Every coach in the country should be looking to what they are doing and copying the formula.
     
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