NI Women's Football Manager to be cancelled for telling the truth

13-04-2022 08:16PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058241501/ni-womens-football-manager-to-be-cancelled-for-telling-the-truth

He should have said "the average woman" and "the average man" because otherwise many people would interpret the statement as the obviously false "all women are more emotional than men".

gmisk · 13-04-2022 08:17PM

It's kind of predictable that this thread would turn into an opportunity to slag off woman's football.

I watch a lot of football including some woman's football matches. A lot of football podcasts have female contributors and the vast majority are terrific Jacqui Oatley, Natalie gedra etc. Woman's football is really taking off the Barcelona woman's team broke an attendance record recently, Women's euros tickets selling out too. Terrific to see.

deeperlearning · 13-04-2022 08:30PM

Whatever next?

If premiership managers were cancelled and sacked for blaming the players, then premiership clubs would be firing managers every few years.

Obviously, premiership footballers are sound lads and take their criticism unlike those emotional primadonnas in the NI Women's football team.

Ave Sodalis · 13-04-2022 08:30PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118922971#Comment_118922971

Except... that statement is also false...

The coach on the other hand, judging by the link posted by @gmisk, is the emotionally cracked one.

Faugheen · 13-04-2022 09:32PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118923057#Comment_118923057

There’s criticising players and there is making baseless claims about women’s football teams conceding in quick succession because women are too emotional.

Why am I not surprised people are trying to downplay what he said as just ‘criticism’?

13-04-2022 09:40PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118921015#Comment_118921015

Definitely the worst thing he's done. Well, aside from the rape maybe.

13-04-2022 09:45PM

I do hope though that this guy who's dedicated his working life to a sport he loves and has coached thousands of men, boys, women and girls across all levels of the sport has that destroyed for saying a silly sentence he probably shouldn't have.

Brucie Bonus · 13-04-2022 10:21PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058241501/ni-womens-football-manager-to-be-cancelled-for-telling-the-truth

Sounds like a **** idiot. Have you seen the lads crying when they miss penos or riding each other when they score? Not to mention rolling around holding their shins for getting grazed. Man's an idiot.

deeperlearning · 13-04-2022 11:38PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118923391#Comment_118923391

Faugheen, I think you completely missed the irony in my post.

14-04-2022 12:37AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118921015#Comment_118921015

It's OK. When a show is cancelled it normally gets a rerun or 5.

sam t smith · 14-04-2022 12:43AM

Does women’s football use the same size goals as men’s football?

if so, do the ladies just lob the keeper the whole time?

MisterAnarchy · 14-04-2022 01:09AM

You only have to look at tennis to see that what he said was correct.

6-0, 0-6, 6-1 sort of nonsense.

Zero consistency especially in finals where one opponent usually fails to turn up.

magicbastarder · 14-04-2022 04:45AM

Tennis, where the actions of the likes of McEnroe and plenty of other players somehow didn't lead people to conclude that men are too emotional to play.

kowloonkev · 14-04-2022 04:59AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118922977#Comment_118922977

Personally I think it is being artificially propped up by shaming men's football into funding the whole thing at a loss. Now, I don't really have a problem with that as long as people are not telling me that the rise of women's football is something they achieved organically. They give tickets away a lot of the time to get people to watch, as in the Barca game you mentioned, and they get a massively disproportionate media coverage over other sports that actually operate profitably and might now be in danger because of media bias and media willing to take losses in order to appear inclusive.

Again I think it's a good thing that girls and women play sports, and maybe as a result of the biased promotion of women's football it might one day be able to operate without near total handouts from the men's game, but I the market is just too saturated in Europe and I just can't see it happening at all.

Zebra3 · 14-04-2022 06:41AM

I wonder what Kenny thought of all those emotional men in the Atlético v Man City match last night. 🙄

Ash.J.Williams · 14-04-2022 07:34AM

A mate trains a ladies gaa team, said they’re a great bunch apart from days where there’s a wedding on and literally nobody turns up at all

14-04-2022 07:56AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118920563#Comment_118920563

I think they deliberately do that in order to lure people into accidentally clicking on the women's sport articles. Increase the number of clicks. Artificially boost the numbers and then later point to the stats of clicks and say there is a demand for these women's sports articles. Sneaky stuff but par for the course as part of the movement to graft women's sport onto the already successful men's sports.

14-04-2022 08:02AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118922947#Comment_118922947

All people are looking for is a little bit of clarity. Funnily enough this didn't seem to be an issue 10 years ago. It's a recent thing and I'm sure nearly every sports fan has been duped into clicking on something in the last 2-3 years because of this trickery.

14-04-2022 08:11AM

What will happen in 5 years time when people get bored of the current trend of pretending that people care about women's sport?

If everyone is honest about it, nobody really likes women's football or women pundits. It's so forced and unnatural. Even my own mammy bless her said it's too much.

sonic85 · 14-04-2022 08:13AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118922977#Comment_118922977

Natalie Gedra is brutal and Jacqui Hurley isn't much better. To be fair though I find most pundits male and female are desperate - very little in the way of insight and most times the analysis is bland and generic. Robbing a living most of them

Is it slagging to say that you don't find womens football to be as good as the men's game?

Also I think I read an article recently that said a large chunk of those tickets for the Barca game were pretty much given away - they weren't sold as such. Open to correction on that one though. I think a similar tactic is used in the game here - tickets are given away in schools and stuff to try get kids into it with the hopes they become life long fans. It's a great thing to do and I'd love to see more of it being done in the men's game too

sam t smith · 14-04-2022 08:20AM

US womens team, world number 1 team at the time, World Cup holders etc, beaten by FC Dallas U-15 boys academy team in 2017. Gives an idea of the standard of women’s football.

sam t smith · 14-04-2022 08:23AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118924585#Comment_118924585

You are correct re the Barcelona game tickets. Barcelona season ticket holders got heavily discounted or free tickets then that was extended to anyone who wanted them basically.

You would have to wonder if the gate receipts even covered the cost of stewards and security etc.

14-04-2022 08:39AM

I suspect the fact that the Barcelona match at the Nou Camp was against Real Madrid also helped to put bums on free/discounted seats.

Ive heard managers explain bad behaviour by players being due to their “Latin temperament”, don’t remember there being any trouble about it.

Fandymo · 14-04-2022 09:18AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118921140#Comment_118921140

He's brought NI from absolute minnows to a decent standard in International football. He has sorted his team out unbelievably since he came in. NI are all amateurs with day jobs vs England who are all professional footballer's.

It'd be more in your line to sort out your posts than to play Dunphy on Boards.

ohnonotgmail · 14-04-2022 09:19AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118924565#Comment_118924565

a sports fan would know when there team is playing. how could an ireland fan click on a link to a womans game expecting that it is a mens game when they know that the mens team are not playing?

magicbastarder · 14-04-2022 09:21AM

DUPED, i tell you, into reading about a sport they are interested in. oh, the humanity.

sam t smith · 14-04-2022 09:23AM

^ It is usually a case of ‘hold on, I didn’t realise xxxx team was playing last night, how did I miss that?’, then you open the article… ‘oh right, the team wasn’t playing’.

Happened me regularly on the BBC website due to the way they present the articles. Seems to have improved recently though.

magicbastarder · 14-04-2022 09:24AM

jesus, if people use language like that about being 'tricked' into reading about womens' sport, spare a thought for those of us who have to deal with trying to catch up with current affairs on the radio and being bombarded with sports news, as if sport is in any way important.

on the radio the other day, after the proper news, the lead story on the sport section afterwards literally was 'football team intend to win their next match'.

Fandymo · 14-04-2022 09:25AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118922906#Comment_118922906

Big fan of the NI womens team, are you? Ever been on a team?

He's taken on the NI team leaps and bounds qualifying them for their first and only tournament. I'm sure the women would be happy to go back into the doldrums of football.

sam t smith · 14-04-2022 09:25AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118924792#Comment_118924792

First world problems, am I right?

NI Women's Football Manager to be cancelled for telling the truth

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