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Listed below are comments made by unounos between Monday, 26th October 2009 and Sunday, 1st November 2009.

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Farewell to a brilliant season - and roll on 2010 11:39pm on 01 Nov 2009 Nibs - Britain has produced the last two world champions. Everything you write is anti-british. The BBC is a British forum and has every right to promote our drivers over others. Pathetic mate.

Get your chip off your shoulder. And if you are the Aussie you seem to be, I loved the Ashes!
Farewell to a brilliant season - and roll on 2010 11:06pm on 01 Nov 2009 I hope you get to know Lewis even better next season. I have a feeling he will be regrabbing the headlines from Jenson next season.
Is there a flaw in the 2012 legacy pledge? 8:04pm on 27 Oct 2009 You obviously have no idea about sport then!
Is there a flaw in the 2012 legacy pledge? 10:37am on 27 Oct 2009 I do think it is a journalist's progative to always look at the negatives, particularly in the build up to an Olympics.

Athens was completely panned in the build-up to 2004 and Beijing was hit hard by stories on human rights and pollution.

Both games survived.

What I would add though is that when they did bid for the games London did make a lot of big ideological promises in order to get the olympics from Paris' grip. They have set themselves impossibly high tasks to reach and it would be a miracle if most of them were kept.
The time for making decisions has arrived 10:28am on 27 Oct 2009 Just none of that years x-factor singers. We don't need some wanabee singing who in a year after the games will be completely forgotten about.
Is there a flaw in the 2012 legacy pledge? 00:44am on 27 Oct 2009 'I think many people remember the F1 champions and who remembers the 50km Gold medal winners'

Why choose a random event... actually is there a 50k whatever in the games??!!

Yes people remember the F1 champions but then everyone tends to remember who win the Olympic 100m. And various nations make legends out of their Olympians.

In the UK the likes of Seb Coe, Daley Thompson, Kelly Holmes, Steve Redgrave come to mind and beyond these shores Jessie Owens, Carl Lewis, Mark Spitz, Natalia Commonechie, Michael Phelps and Michael Johnson are just a few that come to mind.
Is there a flaw in the 2012 legacy pledge? 00:33am on 27 Oct 2009 'End of the day the London 2012 is and will be a waste of money for this country and a small percenteage would be better spent in other sports not this!'

The truth is that in a recession, the huge building programme for the Olympic games has been a massive shot in the arm for the UK construction industry and employs hundreds of contruction workers and associated workes. It was not intended to be. Spending public money on building projects is one way to help in a recession and regardless of what happens during the game, building the Olympic infrastructure is an unexpected benefit to the British economy.
Kangaroos and Kiwis show England the way 00:15am on 27 Oct 2009 'The passion from the Kiwis was outstanding. Having been brought up in Onion heartland (come on it's a perfect game for the middle classes similar to cricket, 30 seconds of actions, 30 seconds of drinking) it is no contest.'

Yeah the problem with that comment is that the passion shown from the kiwis would be much greater had the All Blacks been playing. I mean it was nice for New Zealand to win the league world cup but if they won the union world cup them would go mental, the nation went into national mourning after going out in the last world cup. I would think league was more suited for drinking, the chances of a turnover are slim so you usually have to wait for 6 tackles and then a kick before the other team gets the ball.

'For me the top 8 international rugby union teams are average teams, whereas the top three international teams in league are top quality, aussies a little more so, and the rest of the 8 are average international rugby league teams.'

Top three? England got spanked at the last world cup. So that leaves two decent sides and I would say union has five or six very good sides (the all blacks, south africa, australia, france, wales and possibly Ireland).

'With more tests in rugby union they get to fan out the rubbish for the world cups(which are still rubbish), whereas league its win or bust, put on a show or bust. Eng union losing 42-6 last year at home in repeat of your world cup final, doesn't cover glory in union internationally.'

Firstly the union world cup is much better and secondly England being annihilated by the Aussies and then struggling against mighty Papua New Guinea does not cover league in international glory. Having only two sides capable of winning the tournament and England occasionally having a chance is a bit rubbish.
Is there a flaw in the 2012 legacy pledge? 1:03pm on 26 Oct 2009 The Goverment should have use an existing stadium like Wemberly and put 'some money in to other sports like F1 and we could then have a F1 race to be proud of and for many many years and not just a few weeks for one year and then pull bits of it down!'

Right, so this is the 'Wemberly' which was about 10 times over budget and you also want the government to pour millions into a glorified rich boys race which only happen 3 days every year? F1 certainly does not need funds from the government!
Kangaroos and Kiwis show England the way 10:19am on 26 Oct 2009 'Neither even made it to the RU WC semifinals!

'As someone said to me at the game last night, this was a game between the 2 best rugby sides in the world. A complete priviledge to witness, now England to step up to the plate.'

Just shows that there is a much greater strength in depth in union. You could not even have a world cup semi-final stage in leaugue without NZ, Aus or England being there as there is no one else good enough to stop them.

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