COYGIG - Women’s Football World Cup 23 **Mod Warning in Post #58**

I'll probably watch some of the games but I find it so hard to watch women's football be it international or club football, the quality just isn't good enough to interest me

Thank Christ these games are on in the early AM so we don't have to tolerate the coverage the rest of the day ....womens football bores me into a stupor it's atrocious, like watching someone you don't know playing a computer game simulation....badly

I'd be up for joining a sweepstakes. Whatever way you want to allocate the teams is all good for me.

Can't say I'm an expert in any way about women's football. I've watched bits and pieces of games over the last campaign and I know the gist of the challenge that awaits Ireland: done very well to get there but up against it in a hard group.

As for women's football generally. I have watched bits and pieces of the last Euro's and WC. Tbh I've struggled to watch entire games because the quality is quite low, but I'm trying to make an effort to appreciate it for what it is, rather than comparing it to the standard of PL or Champions League football. Watching something like that twitter video from above would do more to encourage me to take an interest because I'd rather try to find the good in something, than to find myself in agreement with the haters.

I do watch the men's national team and it sure isn't for the quality - it's more about the emotional investment over years and years, so I will be wishing the women well and hoping they have a good tournament.

I think if they manage to compete in the group or even get out of it, the level of general interest will be quite high.

I’m ready to hop on the bandwagon- women’s World Cup is a far bigger and more meaningful sporting contest than the men’s Rugby “World Cup” , if you want to talk about hype and getting something rammed down your throat save it for that comp.

having said that match times and days of the week they are on are a shite buzz- only hope of a weekend game for Ireland is if they make second round

You can say whatever you like. And, likewise, I can have an opinion on what you say.

Fair enough, any explanation as to the reason you said someone saying womens football is low quality and boring is unsportsmanlike ? is that all across the board for any sport people don't like or just this one.....

Okay I’m basing this on the assumption that you do enjoy the men’s game. But the women’s game is atrocious due to the low quality in your opinion.

There seems to be a “it’s shitt and I want nothing to do with it” attitude from quite a few in this thread. So it’s not solely directed at you, I just don’t see how that helps the women’s game improve, or add anything to a thread supporting women at the peak of their game.

Having competed in a few sports at a beginner (atrocious) level I’ve always been encouraged by far superior athletes than me. That’s good sportsmanship.

If we just train a goalkeeper to save average harmless shots we will win the world cup easily. 😉

Look I’m not gonna go on about this and derail the thread, so this is my last post on this topic.

Go back, read your own post and tell me how you think you come across as a good sport.

They do get crowds it seems, at the highest level ...but they're certainly not what you'd consider a 'football crowd' more event trippers ......tbh I've tried watching it I see the crowds in attendance the enthusiasm of the commentary and wonder what the fuk am I missing? I just don't get it .......there are no obvious stand out players in the womens game ability wise nor any obvious villains it's all much of muchness 1 paced ....beyond drab, reckon smaller pitches smaller goals would have been a way to go forward but with the equality mantra that's never happening ......I'd equate it to underage kids playing full size game and trying to replicate the mens game the physicality is just not there for it .........I have no problem with women having their own platform but there's definite attempt at a crossover of codes by the media in general, they're trying to sell it on a par even on Irish tv you see advertised Ireland v so and so in WC qualifier .......it takes a bit of research to find out it's a womens International they failed to mention

Best of luck to the squad and i will be watching

I do feel we might get a tanking by the Aussies and Canada

Insulting to who? am I supposed to give someone elses opinion rather than my own not to cause insult.............if I said I thought the Tour de France was over hyped gets saturated coverage and I find it boring would that be insulting or 'unsportamnlike' ............the defending of womens football by those I would take a wild guess don't actually watch it to any degree is more condescending to women than my critical opinion of it

20,000 free tickets giveaway in NZ cos people dont want to pay to go to it...

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/fifa-womens-world-cup-2023-lack-of-sales-prompts-20000-free-ticket-giveaway-in-new-zealand/VRBHN2SOEVBZ7KDLE5WCYGLL3Y/

I (and my 11 year old daughter) will be watching as many of the games as we can manage. She plays and its great for her to see women representing their country playing the same position she does (those rubbish goalkeepers someone was talking about!), and maybe wonder could she do the same herself one day. The rest of the family will have no choice to but watch with us and expect will end up very invested in the whole thing by the end. We've a few nationalities and allegiances in the family so we've a few teams to follow, and I'm sure battle lines will be drawn at some stage.

I'd have loved to have had women's football to watch and aspire to myself as a football mad teenager (although I was objectively rubbish at playing).

Yes, the quality might not be the same as the men's game, and the investment certainly isn't anywhere near that level, but that doesn't mean it won't be an enjoyable few weeks of football (and there's certainly less rolling around on the ground pretending they are dying because someone breathed on them in the women's game)