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

Very one dimensional analysis. You focus on cheap points and miss out the good stuff they did.

Some of the best in the world have been dumped out of tournaments too so they are hardly unique for that.

Point missed entirely but anyway, I’ll try again, there are very loud voices from all quarters calling for the women’s game to be treated with the same respect that the men’s game has, and as we all know calls for same pay and conditions. With all that, they should not only expect criticism when it’s due, but the media and general public should be respectful enough to give an honest and “equal” appraisal of how they did, that’s not happening, quite the opposite in fact, you’d swear they did well and got to the knock out stages. Reality is, they couldn’t have done any worse.

By the way those best teams in the world that have been dumped out of tournaments early are generally lambasted for being shįt, and rightly so. What we are seeing this evening and all day is nauseating adulation for a silly fluke goal and all that hero nonsense. You should really accept there was little to no “good stuff” which is why they are out after two games, third team to be knocked out of WC on day 7, pathetic outcome really.

Probably a bit harsh to say it’s going nowhere, the national team just qualified for and participated in their first World Cup…. That is progress to be fair….

Not true. People on Boards for example are still losing their sh1t about Ireland being beaten by Luxembourg a couple of years ago.

on the game today, I thought the first half was actually the best I’ve seen the Irish team play, but ultimately a lack of quality caught up with them in the second half.

I’m nearly sure that line (or something very similar) has been used before in the men’s game. Was there a German international called Bachman ?

“Begrudger”….I took my young son out to Tallaght stadium only a short few weeks ago to watch ROI Vs Zambia, and we were behind the goal and leapt up with Barrett’s superb header. I brought him to teach him a valuable lesson about how women’s football and sport is also at an elite level, I was in the vast, vast minority of both men and fathers with their sons there, so kindly reserve your judgements.

“We treated the mens team exactly the same”

First article I looked for, you honestly believe if the mens team got knocked out after two games with two goals scored one of which was an own goal and the headlines that evening would read “Ireland have shown they belong on biggest stage”. Laughable.

There were 75,000 people at the Australia-Ireland game (mostly women). Those are seriously big numbers for any team sport.

I think you make a good point there. Soccer is a great game to play , unfortunately at this level it is not a great game to watch.

Some people on here seems to think that it should be obligatory to watch and praise the Ireland’s women team, wrong approach in my opinion.

It was in 2017, and it wasn't a real game.

https://www.90min.com/posts/4833646-some-people-think-it-s-funny-that-the-usa-women-s-national-team-were-apparently-beaten-by-u15-boys

I would agree the goal was a fluke, and Ireland made some very silly mistakes - even going back to that last game Sheva giving away that penalty to the Aussies/'Matilda's. Putting hand on a players back like Sheva did is asking for trouble, that is nothing to do with skill it is just cop on. It was needless.

But sure if the whole thing gets a few more girls involved in sport then would be otherwise it is no bad thing IMO. To me it is more about improving participation levels at the moment, getting more people involved/interested etc.

Well, check out this stat then from Australian TV :

Sorry, but I'm going to stick with the first hand evidence from George, a guy who works for RTE who are hyping this no end.

I'm sure that stat could be torn asunder with stats about NRL or AFL (both regional sports) viewing figures.