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

Not watching but is it genuinely that bad??

barrett must be bulling to not get a run out. crying out for a finisher.

poor first half (possession wise) but they really went for it the last half an hour after Australia scored. loads of corners and free kicks and could easily (and deservedly) equalized. defence was strong just lacking that finisher up front, also need to play McCabe in midfield.

I'd say the Irish player got caught ball watching and then all of a sudden she was on top of the Aussie. It didn't look like a push, it looked like a player who was trying to stop herself from falling and used the player in front of her to do so.

Still a peno. Just unfortunate.

Poor girl, you could see she was heartbroken

Massive last minute chance

First 2 matches combined had 7 shots on target. I doubt I'll be watching too much of this tournament.

Clare Shine on the 2FM commentary was dire, it was like listening to a pub ‘expert’. The stuff after the match about just getting there being a victory in itself was cringeworthy.

Are they the women fans that you’re ranting about with stubby fingers and cans of beer? I think most women fans are quite well behaved tbh and as for their stretched, protruding pink stomachs, did it not occur to you that those women might be pregnant???

Jack Daw and StrawbsM (Fix! Fix!) off to a good start today. 😀

Yes because the matches are on weekday mornings. I mean if it was the men's, yeah there would be a lot more interest but there's not an awful lot of sporting events on weekday mornings that would drive a lot of convenience store traffic is there?

I dunno looked like a stone cold penalty to me....I'm not sure I buy the just steadying herself at all tbh...either way that's one thing you should do your damndest not to be doing in the penalty area....hands to the back like that and you can't have many complaints imo

Even the lack of activity on this thread tells its own story.

If you are going to play a defensive game than you need pace to counter on the break, Mccabe and Payne were simply playing way too deep. Mccabe needs to play alongside osullivan on the left and Payne needs to play upfront because her high energy can put pressure on the opposing backs. At times today the aussies were playing their way out way too easy.

I hope so , there is no point playing a defensive game where all you do is defend and chase players.

Being fair we showed way too much respect to Australia and when we chased the game we played alot better.

I would start Caldwell, place connolly in front of the back 3, drop Littlejohn, and positionally switch both mccabe with sheva and Payne with farrelly.

The Irish girls need to control the middle better against Canada, pack it more and sheva farrelly osullivan and connolly I think it would work better

I didn’t know it but seemingly Canada are the No1 team in the world. Tough group .

I heard they were Olympic champions and thought they were no 1

I agree. But I feel they are facing a losing battle as to have a successful women's football you must not only get the women interested to participate, but also to watch it. If the woman's sport is dependant on the male population it only ends up as a pretence. The majority of women are not interested in watching sport, never mind women's sport. Maybe it will change and the generations younger than you might get this interest. But most girls lose interest in sport when they hit their teens.

If the WNBA - women's basketball is anything to go by, just throwing money at it to generate interest is not the way to go. it is still a laughing stock after well over twenty years despite being heavily subsidised by the male NBA - the main demographic that follow women's basketball are middle aged men. And the crowds are very low.

The reality is bar tennis all year round (which is an outlier IMO) for women's events - the tickets have to given away for free/cheap to get a crowd. It does not generate interest nor do majority of sports supporters take it seriously. But I suppose they have to at least look like they are doing something - equality so on and so forth.

What I noticed from watching about 10minutes of the opening game was the absolute dread in Darragh Maloneys voice of saying anything that might cause offence.....

Really poor quality and skill (that would be highlighted and destroyed ad nauseum in the mens game) is glossed over and just accepted...

Womens soccer - Zero criticism allowed, with endless euphemistic guff..... "She was unlucky there", "She will be disappointed with that", "Amazing atmosphere" etc

Mens soccer - Maximum Criticism encouraged and rewarded..... input your Roy Keane quotes here....

Finally, Can you imagine if a mens team walked off from a game that was deemed " too physical"....they would be labelled a national disgrace.....

If you want equality and the same pay....expect the same levels of criticism.....

That last line doesn't make sense. They aren't receiving equal treatment in those other areas. So isn't much of a justification for equal criticism.

If anything, you're just highlighted why the relaxed criticism is appropriate

Despite the fact they've been in three...

That's actually a good result for us. Our 2 main rivals for the 2nd qualifying spot both dropping 2 points. A win and a draw is now likely to be enough for us.