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

I'd start Barrett

Tend to agree with a lot of the comments here.

The media are hyping this up big time, and I have heard comparisons to Ireland qualifying for their 1st men's WC in 1990. Its not even remotely similar.

Yes it's a huge achievement for the girls on the team, but in 1990 the entire nation bought into our participation. There was a natural, massive interest. For this, I think the media are trying to tell us we are excited, when the majority aren't.

It's down to the fact that the women's game doesn't have the same attraction as the men's game, which is understandable. It's gaining traction for sure, but it will reach its natural peak, and after that you won't get any more supporters.

I can understand the media bombarding us with it too. It's their job. We should all be patriotic and cheer them on, but for many they simply won't buy into it.

Careful of ye'll be banned for making comments like that...

what turnaround?

This is a fantastic result for us!

Can a separate thread be set up for those who want to moan about the Women's World Cup? Keep this one for those of us who want to engage with it for what it is and, dare I say, enjoy it!

The most streamed live event on RTE so far... must be some interest in it so!

Kick-off times are a bit of a mess, and not just because we are in the wrong time-zone.

Women's World Cup 2023 On TV Schedule UK (live-footballontv.com)

Like there's absolutely no logical shape to this at all. First game veers between 1am, 2am, 6am. Last game today is over by 10.30am, whereas other days it doesn't start until 1pm. I think a lunch-time GMT/CET game each day should have been a no-brainer.

I understand there's multiple time-zones in the 2 host countries but this hasn't been an issue in the Mens World Cup. i.e., Russia has different time-zones but the kick-off times were always 1pm, 4pm, 7pm for us, so clearly the host adapted around the time zones.

I think a consistent schedule would help with getting people to tune in.

Look like they will be hard to beat but have little to nothing going forward,

Real lack of confidence from our attacking player on the ball

Feels like they missed a huge chance to get a result v the Ozzies ,

All in all we look a very limited outfit

I think we along with other countries miss a big trick in women's football, There is one huge glaring difference between the men's game & the women game that people seem to overlook & pretend that isn't there & its that the goal keeper's are absolutely awful in comparison to the outfield players , The outfield players can play football no question about it but keepers don't have the same size & physical attributes to get across the goal like men do ,

Its like the game doesn't want to ever mention or address it, They coaches all set up to play the game in the same way with the same tactics that you see men's football , It boggles my mind why they wouldn't take a slightly different approach & set up tactically to provide more chances for long shots and take advantage of weakness.

In all the games so far you can see its more difficult to create clear cut chance's in the box due to the lower skill levels & speed compared to the men's game, They need to set up and take advantage of the goal keepers by getting more shots off even if they are at range, ,

It wouldn't be pretty but it would be effective ,

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It is cultural I suppose, slowly changing though - at least interested young girls will now have the role models from the Soccer and can get their own kids interested etc. But it could be a real slow burner.

I was thinking it could take 50 -100 years for Women's soccer to reach the popularity levels/viewing levels of women's tennis/women's athletics. Even though in Ireland there the name recognition of Kelly Harrington/Katie Taylor in boxing how many Irish women/girls would know female boxers names beyond that?

I remember watching a programme on the RTE player by Anna Geary about women in sport - one of things said why young girls are not interested in team sports - is because they look messy etc in front of their peers. Hopefully, the Women's soccer on now will help make some girls less self conscious, and have a bit of confidence in themselves at the very least.