FIFA Women's World Cup Canada 2015, Mod Note in OP 7/6

Jjiipp79

Ffs it's the women's WC!!! Hardly something to write about. Sure let the foolish have their fun. We'll all enjoy a laugh from the outside, bc again that's what they are good for, making a laughing stock of themselves.

SantryRed

Jjiipp79 wrote: »

Ffs it's the women's WC!!! Hardly something to write about. Sure let the foolish have their fun. We'll all enjoy a laugh from the outside, bc again that's what they are good for, making a laughing stock of themselves.

It obviously means the Women's game.

Jjiipp79

Look, I don't want to get into this whole debate about the English cricket team not having any English players!


C'mon japan...... I would say if I cared enough about it, but I don't.

GLaDOS

Yeah the men's game and the women's game are incomparable.

One is full of moany wingebags who can't stay on their feet and cry when they break a nail. The other is women's football.

SantryRed

Jjiipp79 wrote: »

Look, I don't want to get into this whole debate about the English cricket team not having any English players!


C'mon japan...... I would say if I cared enough about it, but I don't.

You care enough about it to post many times about it?

Jjiipp79

SantryRed wrote: »

You care enough about it to post many times about it?

Bored.... So may as well post on a boring thread.

Guy:Incognito

Jjiipp79 wrote: »

Ffs it's the women's WC!!! Hardly something to write about. Sure let the foolish have their fun. We'll all enjoy a laugh from the outside, bc again that's what they are good for, making a laughing stock of themselves.

Because we're crap and dont qualify, like the mens game?

We certainly occupy the high ground, thats for sure :rolleyes:

Jjiipp79

Look as I said, I not getting into how the English cricket team has no English players.......

You lot.....lol.... See how you can make ppl laugh at you! Brilliant

Dozen Wicked Words

Brilliant stuff there. Truly brilliant.

Amirani

Jjiipp79 wrote: »

Bored.... So may as well post on a boring thread.

You "may as well" take 3 months off for continued trolling and ignoring mod instructions. Please try and find other ways to handle your boredom when you return.

dfx-

Dozen Wicked Words wrote: »

Hahaha, don't think people should worry yet! I think England are slight underdogs for Semi final but would be absolutely massive underdogs if they got passed Japan. The other semi teams are a huge jump in class from what England have appeared capable of.

It was a very good win and well deserved based on the second half in defence. But I didn't think they played well with the ball after about 30 minutes onwards and let Canada back into it. I think they are far too quick to drop back and hold what they have. It should have cost them in the first half against Norway too.

Jodie Taylor was excellent, hard to believe she was left out in the cold

fryup

england v japan live tonight on bbc1

Mars Bar

Spain are playing France in the U17's on Eurosport so it's a good warm up for the semi later. Some of the goalkeeping has been outstanding and same in the Germany v Switzerland game. Switzerland scored a great goal in the final minute (79th minute) to beat Germany 1-0.

Edit: Just jinxed the Spanish goalkeeper. She dropped an easy ball and France scored.

efb

Best of luck to the English Women tonight.
A good few gunners on the team.

Dozen Wicked Words

Fingers crossed for the Lionesses!

They seem like a decent bunch the England team, regardless of result, I hope they give it a real go.

Looper007

efb wrote: »

Best of luck to the English Women tonight.
A good few gunners on the team.

Wasn't the captain of England a Arsenal player but went off for the money at Man City??. I think their are one or two others who are ex Arsenal players in the first tea along with the ones who are still playing with Arsenal. Good luck to them. It seems the press and TV (they've got a spot BBC 1) have jumped on the bandwagon after they made the Semi Finals.

Junkyard Tom

The Japanese seem very self-assured. I was a neutral but now I think I'll be hoping for a win from England.

dfx-

Height could make a difference. England need to score first, Japan seem more than able to keep the ball and wear a team out

Bowlardo

How long are the halves. Japan's manager is a bit cocky

efb

Looper007 wrote: »

Wasn't the captain of England a Arsenal player but went off for the money at Man City??. I think their are one or two others who are ex Arsenal players in the first tea along with the ones who are still playing with Arsenal. Good luck to them. It seems the press and TV (they've got a spot BBC 1) have jumped on the bandwagon after they made the Semi Finals.

In fairness to the BBC they have covered every game. BBC 3 and Red Button for the early games, now they are on the main channel.

Mezcita

Um.... Is the standard of football normally this bad?

Junkyard Tom

Mezcita wrote: »

Um.... Is the standard of football normally this bad?

Compared to what?

SantryRed

England's gameplan is obvious to see, trying to get the CF into the holes behind the two full backs. However, they're almost too fixated on it, as they've got in some great positions in the middle, but still looked for that pass.

Mezcita

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Compared to what?

Gentleman's football.

Junkyard Tom

Mezcita wrote: »

Gentleman's football.

Oh dear, I thought you might have been bench-marking this game against another one in this tournament but you'd prefer to compare it to men's football.

The internet has plenty of places where you can learn the differences between men and women if that type of thing confuses you.

Guy:Incognito

Why did she go near her there? She'd made it back . Very silly.

Only turned it on about 5 mins ago,which England keeper is in goal? What was the outcome of the eye injury the other day, still blamed on the grass?

SlickRic

Outside the box.

The officiating is abysmal.

~Rebel~

Silly pen to give away, no need for it. She had already miscontrolled so the danger was low.

efb

That's that then

Mezcita

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Oh dear, I thought you might have been bench-marking this game against another one in this tournament but you'd prefer to compare it to men's football.

The internet has plenty of places where you can learn the differences between men and women if that type of thing confuses you.

Bullshi.t but bravo on the "oh yes you did!" response.

When I watch Serena take on somebody in tennis she looks every inch the professional world class player. The same goes for Katy Taylor or any number of sportswomen at the top of their game. These players are professional, playing in the semi finals of a world cup but the standard of play is awful.

Anyway, enjoy.

Guy:Incognito

Peno

EDIT: Great hit. 1-1

BoJack Horseman

Defo peno....

Edit... Maybe not?

Guy:Incognito

BoJack Horseman wrote: »

Defo peno.

Defo very generous peno.

Junkyard Tom

Mezcita wrote: »

Serena .. Katy Taylor.

Neither would last long against the equivalent men because men and women are not the same.

Google 'differences between men and women' if you're still confused.

SlickRic

Horrendous refereeing again.

Never a pen.

Mezcita

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Neither would last long against the equivalent men because men and women are not the same.

Google 'differences between men and women' if you're still confused.

Sexist.

SlickRic

BBC unsurprisingly biased.

Trevor Sinclair started to say soft penalty as they began, but thought better of it by the end. He valued his balls more than honesty.

I hope Japan thump them now just for this 'analysis' alone.

Guy:Incognito

Mezcita wrote: »

Sexist.

Serena(and Venus) already tried.

"a "Battle of the Sexes" took place during the 1998 Australian Open[29] between Karsten Braasch and the Williams sisters. Venus and Serena Williams, aged 17 and 16 respectively, had claimed that they could beat any male player ranked below 200, so Braasch, then ranked 203rd, challenged them both. The matches took place on court number 12 in Melbourne Park.[30] Braasch first took on Serena and beat her 6–1. He then played Venus and won 6–2.[31] Braasch said afterwards, "500 and above, no chance." He added that he had played like someone ranked 600th in order to keep the game "fun.""

Karsten Braasch? No, me either.

Junkyard Tom

Great strike of the ball.

Guy:Incognito

Ooooo. Thought that was in there for a sec. 3 good chances for englan in a couple of mins. Might end up regretting not putting one away.

Jelle1880

Right at the end England score... an own-goal :pac:

Guy:Incognito

What a sickening end for them. Og with 13 secs to go.

Ball could have gone anywhere but it goes in off the underside of the bar.

Junkyard Tom

Cruel ending.

efb

Tough on England.

redarmy

Trevor Sinclair talkinf some waffle, englands first was a peno and japans was not:rolleyes: typical english

NIMAN

Terrible way to go out of a WC semi. That poor girl will be running over that interception for many years to come.

Thought England were the better team, should have won in the 2nd half.

Neither of the penalties was a penalty.

Nidgeweasel

Harsh on England.

Kamikaze defending. If they can iron out those mistakes they'll do well in the future.

dfx-

Don't think either penalty was a penalty but in real time, they both looked penalties, don't really blame the ref tbh. Sinclair's attempts at justification for England's was risible. No way did the ref see that, she gave for it a pull back that looked right at first sight.

Pearce was awful commentating, judging the referees and assistants while being just as wrong, 'clear penalty' at first sight according to him. I don't think he was biased as such, because he always does it in any game.

Very harsh way to lose.

NIMAN

Strange listening to how different the commentary is on a womans game compared to what we normally listen to every week.

How often did he mention a players sister or family, meeting players whilst out a walk?

Dozen Wicked Words

Well that was disappointing but it has been a good tournament for England, and the women's game in England, it will be interesting to see if there's a bump in the FA cup final crowd now after this. Hopefully there is.

Comment and analysis was crap but no surprise, and it was biased, but so what, that's what I want from a national broadcaster. You'd get the same worldwide from other national broadcasters, this just happened to be the coverage people in Ireland watched it on, that's not the BBC's fault. Hoping a team loses because of half time analysis is a new one on me. Baffling.

Anyway for the Lionesses its onto the most pointless game in the world cup, the 3rd place play off. Can't see anything other than a convincing German win.

Hopefully Japan can win the final now.