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

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.

It seems to mainly be a hand to eye coordination issue, rather than a height issue.

Most of them seem to look clumsy trying to save the ball.

On the news yesterday they felt the need to keep mentioning the attendance of 75,000 at the Irish match. But it's like comparing apples and oranges, when looking at the price of the tickets for the mens and womens world cup.

A ticket for the men's World Cup final category 1 cost roughly €1,440. A ticket for the women's world cup final category 1 costs roughly €74, a child's ticket is half price. So you can imagine how much all the other stages below that cost by comparison. A category 1 women's group game costs €25, a child's ticket costs half that. A men's group game cost roughly €200, there's no child option.

The tickets for the women's final are 20 times cheaper than the men's. 40 times if you include the children and from the pictures I seen on the news, there's at least as many children there as there are adults attending. Category 1 by the way is the most expensive option. Category 3 women's group game tickets are €18 for an adult and €9 for children. The cheapest Category 3 group game ticket for the men's World Cup was €62.

Have they called the Irish team the cailíns yet. Media can't stop calling the Australian team the Matildas. Or English the loinesses

From driving around there’s feck all flags or bunting out. Even the likes of outside pubs and social venues.

Cmon women (in particular) of Ireland where’s your national pride!!??

Damn all interest in the real world yet RTE are gone completely gaga with their coverage. So wierd.

This Netherlands v Portugal match is atrociously poor quality.Surprising to be honest as I would have expected the dutch in particular to be better. They've some very good players on their team.

Standard in this tournament so far appears to be a lot lower than the last euros and the last world cup.

All the women in my life have absolutely ZERO interest in this World Cup.....they are far more interested in the All Ireland Final today....

I still don't get the accusations of hype from RTE.

They are giving it as much attention as any national broadcaster with a team in it would.

When Ireland are not playing it's not superseding hurling or the Open golf championship in the sports headlines.

There’s a lot of guff in the media (especially RTE and OTB) about the numbers of fans who have travelled from Ireland. Seriously, how many fans have travelled from Ireland to Australia to watch? Fair play to anyone who has but the cost must be horrendous.

Bigger stronger hands & wrist also help ,

Goal keeping between men & women is night & day , that why i think teams should approach scoring goals differently,

I have to say I found this weird. I’m no expert on broadcast technology but I am sure if you can show something on a player, live, that it can be shown easily enough on TV ? it’s all satellite / digital technology so…..

Great header to win the game for Italy.