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

You mean the comments made while sitting beside Vera and saying that it's nothing out of the ordinary to have disagreements with your manager? That they're used to her management style?

You think the captain should reverse Saipan it and have the manager sent home the week before the world cup?

Joe public has gotten pretty big into recent hockey and rowing tournaments because Irish are doing well. This is much bigger than that. In fact I'd say the demographic would skew more towards males from pre-teen to old age than women of the same demographic in a lot of cases here which is as ever a shame but is improving all the time.

At least people will probably watch the matches this time which is more than you can say for the likes of the Katie Taylor bandwagon in recent years.

Bright enough performance against France, after Zambia I had expected the worst.

The non-selection of Leanne Kiernan still seems crazy to me. I'd have chosen her over a lot of members of the current squad.

This thread in AH will descend into the usual cesspit of begrudgery, innuendo and rumours... 🙄

Im off to the soccer forum ........................

Is Leanne Kiernan the Andy Reid or Wes Houlihan of ladies soccer ?

If you're doing a sweepstake, put me in. I'll probably get Haiti or The Philippines anyway...😄

I'm sure the method of allocation wouldn't really matter, but I'd probably go with the first way you mentioned.

Best of luck to our ladies in Australia. It is a great showcase for women's sport. I am looking forward to the games.

They lost 3-0 against France. 🤔

The men's team only lost 1-0 to France and were very unlucky not to have got a draw, and that's against the best team in the world in a competitive match.

So its on the TV then? Last I heard about it, all the european broadcasters refused to pay the ridiculous amounts FIFA were trying to sell the rights for

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.