Hockey World Cup 2023- India

[Khota]

2 hours ago, Gollum said:

 

 

Wish I could be there. What a beautiful sight.

[Kerberos]

4 minutes ago, Khota said:

Indian cricket is not run professionally. When you have overweight Sharma and brain-dead Dravid at top, it is hard to win.

We need an honest person in place of Jay Shahji. We need someone like kejriwal sir. He might stream all the matches on YouTube free. Win win for us fans.

[Khota]

Just now, Kerberos said:

We need an honest person in place of Jay Shahji. We need someone like kejriwal sir. He might stream all the matches on YouTube free. Win win for us fans.

 

I don't think Shah is the problem, but he can improve the situation though.

[LordPrabhzy]

1 hour ago, Khota said:

You started a good thread but cannot keep your politics away from sports.

 

Punjab is a poor state and is broke too. There is no support for separatism in Punjab.

 

Back to Hockey and hoping for India to do well.

Politics is what developed the game in Odisha. The personal commitment of the CM and his party ensured funds were diverted to a good cause. The results of that are there to see for everyone.

 

I am stating a very obvious fact about why after years punjab hockey infrastructure is not modernised.. but money is there to be spent on election freeebies. Odhisha isn’t much more economically developed than Punjab. I want Punjab to be on the world map for hockey as it’s a state which traditionally makes hockey players.. am  I wrong to want that?

[Gollum]

Belgium beat South Korea 5-0

 

Netherlands beat Malaysia 4-0

 

New Zealand beat Chile 3-1

 

Germany vs Japan now

[LordPrabhzy]

2 minutes ago, Gollum said:

Belgium beat South Korea 5-0

 

Netherlands beat Malaysia 4-0

 

New Zealand beat Chile 3-1

 

Germany vs Japan now

All expected results

 

Thanks for the update- its so hard finding any live updates and results on the ToI hockey page... what a joke

[Gollum]

Great atmosphere even for non-India games. This is something we struggled with in 2011 WC, 2016 WT20.....

[Gollum]

4 minutes ago, LordPrabhzy said:

All expected results

 

Thanks for the update- its so hard finding any live updates and results on the ToI hockey page... what a joke

Indian newspapers, sites, media etc. are not covering this event well. Absolute clowns....they go on overdrive over low profile cricket bilaterals OTOH. 

[LordPrabhzy]

1 minute ago, Gollum said:

Indian newspapers, sites, media etc. are not covering this event well. Absolute clowns....they go on overdrive over low profile cricket bilaterals OTOH. 

 

Same with most of the ICF users...

[Gollum]

Just now, LordPrabhzy said:

 

Same with most of the ICF users...

Hope interest picks up in coming days and we at least see more participation in India games. 

 

Wasn't here during FIFA WC but ICF was a fun place during Tokyo Olympics. 

[Gollum]

 

[Number]

21 minutes ago, LordPrabhzy said:

Politics is what developed the game in Odisha. The personal commitment of the CM and his party ensured funds were diverted to a good cause. The results of that are there to see for everyone.

 

I am stating a very obvious fact about why after years punjab hockey infrastructure is not modernised.. but money is there to be spent on election freeebies. Odhisha isn’t much more economically developed than Punjab. I want Punjab to be on the world map for hockey as it’s a state which traditionally makes hockey players.. am  I wrong to want that?

 

You are right. Every major city in Punjab should have a stadium like that. There should be clubs based on city names where local, non-local and even some international players play and they should try to make a league of it and televise it on local channels.

[Gollum]

Glad we did the job yesterday, Spain had a great 2022 and beat us once in Kalinga in last Pro League. A team in transition with many of their greats retiring after Tokyo, watch out for them in coming years, steadily improving. 

[Frustrated]

24 minutes ago, LordPrabhzy said:

All expected results

 

Thanks for the update- its so hard finding any live updates and results on the ToI hockey page... what a joke

 

 

U may bookmark this page.   https://www.fih.hockey/schedule-fixtures-results

It has all the live updates as well as previous results.   

[Frustrated]

Ind vs Eng is scheduled for tomorrow (7 pm)

 

[Gollum]

Harmanpreet is probably the MVP in the hockey world atm, for football fans he is like peak Thiago Silva but even more areas to contribute. Ace defender, and dangerous drag flicker, our other PC specialists will have to peak big time to support him. No Rupinder Pal anymore.

 

Maybe we shouldn't have overburdened our best player with captain duties. 

[Gollum]

For those who can't watch live, Sportstar is doing decent commentary/summary, not running like cricbuzz but still good. 

[LordPrabhzy]

3 minutes ago, Gollum said:

Harmanpreet is probably the MVP in the hockey world atm, for football fans he is like peak Thiago Silva but even more areas to contribute. Ace defender, and dangerous drag flicker, our other PC specialists will have to peak big time to support him. No Rupinder Pal anymore.

 

Maybe we shouldn't have overburdened our best player with captain duties. 

is it me or compared to a lot of top teams India doesnt score a lot from PCs?

[Gollum]

1 minute ago, LordPrabhzy said:

is it me or compared to a lot of top teams India doesnt score a lot from PCs?

We are behind the other contenders, but Harmanpreet is at the peak of his powers now. Usually a team should have 3-4 good PC takers, in our case others aren't half as good as Harmanpreet, makes it easier for opponents to prepare against us. They know who will mostly take PCs for India and they prepare accordingly. 

[Lone Wolf]

23 minutes ago, Number said:

 

You are right. Every major city in Punjab should have a stadium like that. There should be clubs based on city names where local, non-local and even some international players play and they should try to make a league of it and televise it on local channels.

Unfortunately Punjab despite everything has a extremely poor industrial base...  Would love to see things change but doesn't look like happening. 

Good to see ODISHA being the hub of Indian hockey.  If game spreads there it would be pretty awesome.  Odia folks are naturally well built & warlike.  Modern Sinhalese in SL are direct descendants from Odisha.