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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2015 17:42:35 GMT
Watched 2nd half of USA Vs Australia and first half of USA Vs Sweden.
Utter rubbish.
If USA are supposed to be one of the better teams and that's the standard I won't bother watching any more.
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Post by tauntongas on Jun 13, 2015 18:05:44 GMT
Watched 2nd half of USA Vs Australia and first half of USA Vs Sweden. Utter rubbish. If USA are supposed to be one of the better teams and that's the standard I won't bother watching any more. Yeah, you tell 'em! Bloody women and their bloody cr@p football. Who the hell do they think they are? |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2015 18:27:49 GMT
Watched 2nd half of USA Vs Australia and first half of USA Vs Sweden. Utter rubbish. If USA are supposed to be one of the better teams and that's the standard I won't bother watching any more. Yeah, you tell 'em! Bloody women and their bloody cr@p football. Who the hell do they think they are? Oh, sorry for any offence. In that case, it's fantastic, great standard, played at a good pace, no hopeless passes missing their target by a mile, I'm loving it. Next time I'm thinking of having an opinion I'll be sure to ask your permission first  |
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Post by billyocean on Jun 13, 2015 20:20:16 GMT
Agree with Bamber and Controversial. The BBC try to put it on an even keel but it is laughable at times. Watch the defending in the highlights of the first England game. Keys and Gray had it bang on watching that FA Cup Final
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2015 20:27:56 GMT
Agree with Bamber and Controversial. The BBC try to put it on an even keel but it is laughable at times. Watch the defending in the highlights of the first England game. Keys and Gray had it bang on watching that FA Cup Final I'll probably get in trouble for this, but it looks to me as if the women are (naturally) nowhere near as strong as the top men and lack the initial burst of speed needed to catch wayward passes, from what I've seen, the quality drops significantly as the girls tire, would the women's game be improved if played on a slightly smaller pitch? Tin hat on! |
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Post by billyocean on Jun 13, 2015 20:34:20 GMT
Brave that Bamber I try to be objective but every time I watch it I still think it's nowhere near as good as the men's game. Bad defending, powder puff shots, a lot of wayward passes and shots, some very weak goalkeeping etc etc. If I watch swimming for example, the women's times are slightly off the men's but I can appreciate the technique and the style being as good as the men's. Not so in for football. Not even close |
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Post by dagnogo on Jun 13, 2015 20:42:40 GMT
Nowt wrong if folk don't like it - I'm certainly not a huge fan.
But the FA should big it up, if only by way of apology for their banning women playing competitive football for 40 years.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2015 22:35:55 GMT
England were awful again tonight. Only real positives were Greenwood, Carney and the ever brilliant Fran Kirby.
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Post by Gregory Stevens on Jun 14, 2015 5:51:33 GMT
Pub teams are a better standard. Why watch women? Have some backbone gentlemen. It's garbage being served. Say it's garbage. Why does having a vagina and baby making apparatus entitle female players to respect which is not deserved? it's a total insult to women to judge them by a different standard. Women have many, many unique talents, but there are many areas, football being one, where they will never, ever be as good as men, and it's insulting to both sexes to begin to think otherwise.
I'm not saying it should be prevented or banned, I'm saying it should have coverage based on the REAL public interest level. The BBC often run headlines on its sport website like "England captain moves to Sheffield Wednesday", click bait so they can run to the funding people and say "women's football articles get 1,000,000 clicks...see, it IS popular...they ARE just as good as men....anything a man can do a woman can do" etc. So, then more funding, more coverage. Nobody wanted it.
It IS part of the general agenda. It IS a cynical way of promoting am equality ideology so rampant within the BBC. I hope to god Cameron gets rid of the license fee and we they will actually have to compete to get funds by....you know, creating articles and coverage of things people ACTUALLY like, not what they THINK we should like.
If it gives one a fuzzy feeling of being all enlightened and fair, good for you, but in the same way I have no desire to see midgets play basketball, men's netball, obese long distance running or geriatric boxing, please leave women's football as the amateur weekend hobby it would be if it didn't have a double cartload of political, feminist point proving tied to it.
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Post by strung out on Jun 14, 2015 7:02:49 GMT
How controversial
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2015 8:49:40 GMT
What a controversial post.
Maybe, just maybe people enjoy it? It doesn't need to make sense to you but people can enjoy things that you don't like. Speaking from a personal point of view I like watching live football, I went to over 100 games in 14-15 and that includes plenty of women's football. It's different to the men's game as I've said, it's almost pointless comparing the two. I enjoy it though and if you don't you don't have to watch it. It's cute that it's riled you so much.
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Post by Peter Parker on Jun 14, 2015 9:01:20 GMT
If you dont like it, you are not forced to watch. It os tucked away on BBC 3 and the red button mainly.
The worse thing is to compare it to mens football. The rules might be the saame but it is a different game.
I enjoy it for what it is, not what i think it should be. Personally i would make changes perhaps to pitch size slightly, because the pace of the game is not quite up there but still their is some good technique on show.
The English girl having a pop from around 40 yards to catch the.keeper out or the first goal last night with great close control.
I would like to know the audience make up and how many women and girls arr watching it and being inspired, not how many moserable blokes watching it thinking its crap.
The U21s and.thr Copa America start soon if you need 'proper' football
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2015 10:31:08 GMT
Controversial may have a point.
The BBC were advertising for a weather forcaster / presenter recently, no qualifications required, but the successful applicant needed to be disabled. What on earth is that all about?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2015 10:42:05 GMT
Controversial may have a point. The BBC were advertising for a weather forcaster / presenter recently, no qualifications required, but the successful applicant needed to be disabled. What on earth is that all about? Bring back Moira Stuart. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2015 11:33:49 GMT
Controversial may have a point. The BBC were advertising for a weather forcaster / presenter recently, no qualifications required, but the successful applicant needed to be disabled. What on earth is that all about? Bring back Moira Stuart. As far as I can tell, Moira got the gig because she was very good at the job. Compare that to the comically woeful Steph McGovern, utterly clueless. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2015 11:37:43 GMT
As far as I can tell, Moira got the gig because she was very good at the job. Compare that to the comically woeful Steph McGovern, utterly clueless. I just loved Moira's voice, often I'll watch youtube videos of her anchoring on the Balkans crisis to make me feel warm inside. |
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Post by dagnogo on Jun 14, 2015 12:29:48 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2015 13:08:51 GMT
What a pathetic piece of nonsense disguised as journalism. A men's Conference (National Premier now isn't it?) team would totally blow these Women's teams away, it could literally be 30-0, by half time. I'm not sure that Oliver Holt has ever watched a live tennis match in his life. If he had he would know that there are plenty of male tennis players in the top 200 who would lose to Serena. And there's the point, a truly elite female won't be that far behind an elite man. Paula Radcliffe was around 15% slower than an elite man over the marathon distance, if it could be expressed in percentages, the females that I've seen in this World Cup are an awful lot more than 15% away from their male counterparts. But anyway, thanks Oliver for telling us all how we are allowed to think.... Idiot! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2015 13:12:16 GMT
But anyway, thanks Oliver for telling us all how we are allowed to think.... Idiot! Which is exactly what you and Controversial have been doing all thread. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2015 13:16:33 GMT
But anyway, thanks Oliver for telling us all how we are allowed to think.... Idiot! Which is exactly what you and Controversial have been doing all thread. The difference being that I've given an opinion and respect that others may take a different view. Oliver says that if you don't agree with him then you don't understand the nature of sport. |
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