2018 Woman's World Cup (London)

citytillidie

Ireland playing in their 1st World Cup in 16 years

Pool A
Netherlands
South Korea
Italy
China

Pool B
England
India
USA
Ireland

Pool C
Germany
Argentina
Spain
South Africa

Pool D
Australia
New Zealand
Japan
Belgium

Pool Fixtures
Saturday July 21st
Germany 3 V 1 South Africa
England 1 V 1 India
USA 1 V 3 Ireland
Australia V Japan 8pm

Sunday July 22
China V Italy 11am
Argentina V Spain 1pm
Netherlands V South Korea 5pm
New Zealand V Belgium 8pm

Tuesday July 24th
Japan V New Zealand 12:30pm
Australia V Belgium 2:30pm

Wednesday July 25th
Germany V Argentina 6pm
USA V England 8pm

Thursday July 26th
Spain V South Africa 12pm
India V Ireland 2pm

Friday July 27th
China V Netherlands 6pm
South Korea V Italy 8pm

Saturday July 28th
Spain V Germany 12pm
Argentina V South Africa 2pm
Japan V Belgium 6pm
New Zealand V Australia 8pm

Sunday July 29th
South Korea V China 11am
Netherlands V Italy 1pm
India V USA 5pm
Ireland V England 8pm

Pool winners go into the Quarter Finals
2nd and 3rd in pools go into play offs
4th is out

bobbyss

Never really watched a hockey game until Ireland v USA. Impressed with the skills. But very impressed with the pace. Constant movement. When a free was given it was taken in seconds unlike football. No dissent. (Why?) Great fitness levels required.

citytillidie

bobbyss wrote: »

Never really watched a hockey game until Ireland v USA. Impressed with the skills. But very impressed with the pace. Constant movement. When a free was given it was taken in seconds unlike football. No dissent. (Why?) Great fitness levels required.

Green cards, if the umpire blows for a free hit and the person who gave it away tries to stop it they are more than likely get a warning, but if they do it within the 23 they will get a green card which is 2 mins sin bin.

Also with the free hit there is no need to wait until the opposing team is 5 yards away before taking it. You can take the free hit to yourself run and the opposing player can’t tackle you if they are with in 5 yards. Ball has to travel 5 yards before they can attempt a tackle. Rolling unlimited subs also help with the constant pace

bobbyss

citytillidie wrote:

Also with the free hit there is no need to wait until the opposing team is 5 yards away before taking it. You can take the free hit to yourself run and the opposing player can’t tackle you if they are with in 5 yards. Ball has to travel 5 yards before they can attempt a tackle. Rolling unlimited subs also help with the constant pace

citytillidie wrote:

Green cards, if the umpire blows for a free hit and the person who gave it away tries to stop it they are more than likely get a warning, but if they do it within the 23 they will get a green card which is 2 mins sin bin.

I see. But no arguing with the ref. No harraunging. That's good. No-one rolling around looking for frees. No simulation. All very refreshing.

Who are the Brazil of world women's hockey? Who is the Ronaldo or Messi?

citytillidie

One player can speak to the ref at a time, does not have to be the captain. If more than one player comes to talk to the ref they run the risk of getting a green card. At this level each team also has one video review, but if they ask for a review and it is right they keep it again they have to ask a question for it that is yes no answer. If they ask for a review and it is wrong they lose it.

Netherlands would be the favourites for this World Cup and keep an eye on Eva De Goede

citytillidie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9uV1DjBoV8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUsjw8Cd_aA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GPauBcwRc4

citytillidie

Highlights from the Ireland V USA game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbObG_C2NMM

citytillidie

Goals so far

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yQWHLv5BdY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TlMFljQNbU

citytillidie

Ireland are the 1st team into the Quarter Finals after beating India today 1-0 and top their group as England only drew with USA last night

riffmongous

I didn't even realise this was on till I saw about the result today. I thought the hockey forum here was mostly for the ice variation

citytillidie

Why not have it for both, since field hockey is played more here than Ice

Mr_Man2121

citytillidie wrote: »

Why not have it for both, since field hockey is played more here than Ice

I watch ice hockey. Only time I've watched field hockey was at the Olympics. I forgot the game was on today. Will definitely watch the quarter final.

citytillidie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FT8n25bKrI

riffmongous

citytillidie wrote: »

Why not have it for both, since field hockey is played more here than Ice

Yeah it makes no sense how there is almost no field hockey discussion, considering it's much more popular here

citytillidie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvSjoeqxaiI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxqW3az7S2U

citytillidie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q54-E0Ntogo

Inquitus

When will our QF be played? of course we have the dead rubber, for us, against the English before that.

riffmongous

Any good website for following it?

curly from cork

riffmongous wrote: »

Yeah it makes no sense how there is almost no field hockey discussion, considering it's much more popular here

A couple of years ago I put in a request for a split on the hockey to field and ice ( although to be fair in Ireland if you mention hockey people presume it’s field hockey ) I was turned down .. the hockey population is bigger than is realized in Ireland. Shame we haven’t a dedicated “field” hockey forum as the chat totally gets lost amongst the ice hockey threads

citytillidie

Inquitus wrote: »

When will our QF be played? of course we have the dead rubber, for us, against the English before that.

Ireland's QF will be on Aug 2nd @ 20:15 last QF

riffmongous wrote: »

Any good website for following it?

http://fih.ch/events/world-cup/world-cup-2018/hockey-world-cup-london-2018-w/

is the official website, then there is irishhockey twitter feed too

citytillidie

One more day in the pool stage left

Sunday July 29th
South Korea V China 11am
Netherlands V Italy 1pm
India V USA 5pm
Ireland V England 7pm

Knock out rounds so far look like this
Pool C & D Cross over games
Argentina V New Zealand
Belgium V Spain

Quarter Finals
Germany V Belgium/Spain
Australia V Argentina/ New Zealand

citytillidie

Cross Over Games
July 30th
Belgium V Spain - 6pm
Argentina V New Zealand - 8:15pm

July 31st
Italy V India - 6pm
England V South Korea - 8:15pm

Quarter Finals
August 1st
Germany V Belgium/Spain - 6pm
Australia V Argentina/New Zealand 8:15pm

August 2nd
Netherlands V England/South Korea - 6pm
Ireland V Italy/India - 8:15pm

Semi Finals
4th August
Australia/Argentina/New Zealand V Netherlands/England/South Korea - 2pm
Ireland/Italy/India V Germany/Belgium/Spain - 4:30pm

5th August
3rd play play off - 2pm
Final 4:30pm

BionicRasher

Well capable of a semi final.
Fingers crossed for the girls.

Livefornow

Brilliant performance by the team.
World rankings make interesting reading for the semi-final make up. Germany (6th) and India (10th) are the only top ten teams on Ireland's side of the draw. Spain are 11th, Belgium 13th & Italy 17th.
The other side has Netherlands (1st), England (2nd), Argentina (3rd), New Zealand (4th), Australia (5th) & Korea (9th). Good move not beating England today

citytillidie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CDHa8N9svs

riffmongous

Isn't it a bit odd that we are likely going to be playing India again already?

citytillidie

Quarter Finals
August 1st
Germany V Spain - 6pm
Australia V Argentina 8:15pm

August 2nd
Netherlands V England - 6pm
Ireland V India - 8:15

kooga

why was our game moved from 8.15 to 6pm?

citytillidie

kooga wrote: »

why was our game moved from 8.15 to 6pm?

English organizers and England were expected to be playing at that time from the Pool stage so I am guessing they changed them around to have the England game as top billing

citytillidie

RTE are jumping on the bandwagon and showing the game tomorrow at 5:45pm

BionicRasher

Just goes to show what levels we might reach if properly funded.

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/other-sports/ireland-s-hockey-world-cup-heroes-pay-to-represent-country-1.3582319

KaneToad

Am watching this QF at the min... finding it hard going. For those of you in the know, would this be considered a good game??

Mr_Man2121

KaneToad wrote: »

Am watching this QF at the min... finding it hard going. For those of you in the know, would this be considered a good game??

No

Mr_Man2121

Unbelievable.

KaneToad

Mr_Man2121 wrote: »

No

Oh well, they got the win in the end. Congratulations. It's not often that we compete at the upper levels of international sport.

curly from cork

Mr_Man2121 wrote: »

No

Poor game but what an unbelievable result ! Really game changing for Irish hockey

Mr_Man2121

curly from cork wrote: »

Poor game but what an unbelievable result ! Really game changing for Irish hockey

Really hopes it gets more popular here. The only field hockey I've watched B4 this was the Olympics.

Strazdas

curly from cork wrote: »

Poor game but what an unbelievable result ! Really game changing for Irish hockey

I'm no expert on the game but both teams looked nervy (that can happen in the knockout rounds of any sport, especially with teams not used to playing in semis or finals).

Fair play to the goalkeeper and the three girls who scored in the shootout.....that took real bottle considering the pressure they must have felt

KaneToad

Mr_Man2121 wrote: »

Really hopes it gets more popular here. The only field hockey I've watched B4 this was the Olympics.

Not sure if games like that will help it's popularity. Then again, everyone loves a winner...

Mr_Man2121

KaneToad wrote: »

Not sure if games like that will help it's popularity. Then again, everyone loves a winner...

I know I'm getting ahead of myself here but if we make the final it would be great for it.

curly from cork

Mr_Man2121 wrote: »

Really hopes it gets more popular here. The only field hockey I've watched B4 this was the Olympics.

Wouldn’t it be great if they didn’t have to pay to play for their country going forward !

Rjd2

will the semi be on rte?

vektarman

Rjd2 wrote: »

will the semi be on rte?

No news yet but I imagine it will. There's a swelling of interest with Ireland doing so well.

citytillidie

Have to laugh at the event organiser keep changing the times of the pass back for Ireland games tonight that game was was set for 8:15 and they were scheduled for the later semi final but because Ireland topped the group and not England it has all be changed

citytillidie

Semi Finals
4th August
Ireland V Spain - 2pm - Live on RTE from 1:45pm
Australia V Netherlands - 4:30pm

5th August
3rd play play off - 2pm
Final 4:30pm

Strazdas

Rjd2 wrote: »

will the semi be on rte?

It will indeed, they said so towards the end of tonight's broadcast.

KaneToad

curly from cork wrote: »

Wouldn’t it be great if they didn’t have to pay to play for their country going forward !

They're not unique in that. Many of our amateur international athletes have to pay their own way.

Drifter50

Mr_Man2121 wrote: »

Really hopes it gets more popular here. The only field hockey I've watched B4 this was the Olympics.

Hockey is the 4th biggest sport in this country behind GAA, rugby and soccer. Kinda goes under the radar a bit.

BionicRasher

Drifter50 wrote: »

Hockey is the 4th biggest sport in this country behind GAA, rugby and soccer. Kinda goes under the radar a bit.

Pity the funding for the sport doesn't reflect that.

Also media coverage is almost non existent. Although the Irish hockey association should be pushing media coverage more it is still seen as an elite sport and many people think it's only for private schools and the toffs!

It's a great sport and many people play competitive hockey well in to their 40s. It's good for winter as pitches are almost always playable no matter what the weather.

Time we took it more seriously as we are now in the top 10 playing nations both women and men

vektarman

I was involved in the game for a long time, both as a player and umpire, great to see the game now being highlighted in the media. Best of luck to the girls at the weekend.

Drifter50

BionicRasher wrote: »

Pity the funding for the sport doesn't reflect that.

Also media coverage is almost non existent. Although the Irish hockey association should be pushing media coverage more it is still seen as an elite sport and many people think it's only for private schools and the toffs!

It's a great sport and many people play competitive hockey well in to their 40s. It's good for winter as pitches are almost always playable no matter what the weather.

Time we took it more seriously as we are now in the top 10 playing nations both women and men

I know the Mens team are ranked 10 but last time I checked the Girls were at 16. Do the results in the HWC mean the girls move up to 10?

Unfortunately there is no money for the game in Ireland be it north or south. I suggest it is because it is seen as a D4 sport by the general public. Obviously those of us who are involved in the sport day to day know thats not true but perhaps there is that perception among the general public.

Most of the mens squad will be plying their trade in Europe come September which unforunately will devalue our All Ireland EYHL this season and domestic mens hockey in general. Employing a coach based in Holland with a full time role in Kampong is not going to help anything in the domestic game either.