Talk:Bandy

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1 No Picture ?
2 History
3 Essentially field hockey?
4 Ancestor of ice hockey

[edit] No Picture ?

At least one picture of this game would be great. It'd help to understand what this game looks like. Lvr 22:41, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

There are pictures there! Anonymous 16:18, 6 July 2006 (62.127.25.108)

Yes, now there are some, but they were probably not there yet when Lvr made his comment. 84.217.123.200 00:16, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

How about the picture near the bottom of the page be moved up to the top, since it seems to be the only decent picture that shows what a bandy game looks like. Perakhantu 00:21, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

I was thinking about the same thing myself when I realized that it took a looong time to get to it, reading a lot of rules and stuff. :) I've moved it into "Nature of the game". Suede 06:47, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] History

What's left of the origin after I've removed what turned out to be a copy of this page, isn't very nice IMO. Needs reworking. The page I'm linking to could certainly be used as a source. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Suede (talk • contribs) 22:27, 7 January 2007 (UTC).

Whoops. Probably shouldn't be named Origin now that the scope has changed. Changing to History... Suede 22:29, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Essentially field hockey?

I dislike the wording "essentially field hockey", since bandy has fewer similarities with field hockey than with soccer. Linkan 13:52, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ancestor of ice hockey

I dispute the statement that bandy is an ancestor of ice hockey...in my opinion they probably developed in parallel out of shinny (informal ball and stick on ice game)... whereas ice hockey developed its own set of rules, bandy adopted the rules of association football...further evidence is contained in the official code dates...whereas ice hockey was codified in 1875 in montreal Canada, this article states that bandy was not codified until 1890... who is the ancestor... I attempted to correct this in the article but my edit was deleted...granted it wasn't very eloquent but I beleive it was more factual —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.138.172.55 (talk) 03:15, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

I agree that "ancestor" may not be the right word. Doesn't it imply that bandy in no longer played? I also find the history section confusing. The Bury Fen Bandy Club is sometimes credited with introducing the sport to other countries, but it would appear that some countries, for example, Russia, already had a form of bandy.81.102.15.200 (talk) 10:54, 7 February 2008 (UTC)