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Has your interest in womans football increased in the past couple of years ?

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Tubey said:
Yep, spot on.

I'm a massive advocate of, say, female boxers, because the technique of the likes of Katie Taylor and Nicola Adams is as good and in some cases better than the men. Objectively.

But female footballers are, for want of a better word, comparatively terrible to men. Goalkeeping is completely awful, as is physical defending.

This is the best female goalkeeper ever...



A massive lack of technique in attacking areas from 99% of them too, meaning it only takes someone to be average to be a superstar.

And the lack of pace and power in the game makes it boring to watch.

Anyone who gets through 10 minutes of your average female game and tells you they aren't bored and continuing to watch for any reason beyond wanting to make some sort of feminist point is lying to you.
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Rob Green feels her pain.
 
Few fit ballers in the game last time I checked. I think the American goalie was fit, then I found out she beats people up and I got scared lol
I did like womens football for a short period, I think it was during a world cup year, BBC tried attracting people to support England in the build up to it. Then of course I think City tried buying a load of players based on full time wages ? Maybe wrong ?
 
I won free tickets to Chelsea women v Reading women at Farnborough a couple of years ago in a raffle. Absolutely dreadful quality game, but great entertainment. It finished 3-2. I was laughing most of the way through it.
 
The quality of women's football has vastly improved over these past several years.

Good to see increased funding, resources, and interest.
 

No, not really. I have watched some women's football and find it to be poor quality. Particularly the goalkeeping. I have played and watched a great deal of junior football over the years, I enjoy watching junior football live, I like the effort those players put in, they try to make up for the lack of ability with endeavour. In the top class women's football that I have seen on TV it appears to lack both skill and that level of endeavour.
In time I have no doubt women will bring the level of skill up, it is just not there at the moment in my opinion.
 
Even though the American women's football league may be the best one going, I find it hard to get into the club game. When the stadium is half-empty as it usually is, the lack of energy is palpable. That applies to all football, men or women.

When two quality international teams play it's very good. There just aren't that many competitive national teams, and considering how various countries treat women in general, there may never be.
 
Paul Bernard said:
Few fit ballers in the game last time I checked. I think the American goalie was fit, then I found out she beats people up and I got scared lol
I did like womens football for a short period, I think it was during a world cup year, BBC tried attracting people to support England in the build up to it. Then of course I think City tried buying a load of players based on full time wages ? Maybe wrong ?
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Not that it matters but you are looking in the wrong place. There are loads of them especially in the German and French leagues.

Dont look in the English league. English women are ugly.

..What?
 

Caolam said:
No, not really. I have watched some women's football and find it to be poor quality. Particularly the goalkeeping.
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Interesting shout here. Not many 6'6" women around to become goalkeepers, but they still have to defend the same size net. They'll probably always be less successful than the men.
 
The standard is terrible.

It's not a knock, but it really is. It's like the same quality, if not lower than the Northern Premier League, and aside from Skem & Marine, i couldn't tell you anything about that league, but i check to see how they've got on.

Lets face it, until the quality gets better, the interest will always be low. It'll take a long long time, but they're going in the right direction!
 
Tennis is a good example of where Women's sport is widely appealing. I think the reason for that is that men and women's tennis has shared the same stage for so long. They compete in the same arena's at the same events at the same time which means they are part of the overall package and appeal. So the stars of Women's tennis become recognised over time. The arguments of technique and speed and intensity drift away and some of the advantages of longer rallies and less emphasis on serving mean that people enjoy it for what it brings.

You see this in athletics and boxing is starting to become the same since the London games.

The problem for women's football is that it does not share the same stage as the mens game. It takes place at remote venues under a totally different schedule. It's seen as an aside.

If women's tennis never took place at Wimbledon, and was at some remote venue under a different name at a different time of year, maybe we wouldn't have known the names of Female tennis stars over the years either. Which would be a shame.
 
Librarian said:
Tennis is a good example of where Women's sport is widely appealing. I think the reason for that is that men and women's tennis has shared the same stage for so long. They compete in the same arena's at the same events at the same time which means they are part of the overall package and appeal. So the stars of Women's tennis become recognised over time. The arguments of technique and speed and intensity drift away and some of the advantages of longer rallies and less emphasis on serving mean that people enjoy it for what it brings.

You see this in athletics and boxing is starting to become the same since the London games.

The problem for women's football is that it does not share the same stage as the mens game. It takes place at remote venues under a totally different schedule. It's seen as an aside.

If women's tennis never took place at Wimbledon, and was at some remote venue under a different name at a different time of year, maybe we wouldn't have known the names of Female tennis stars over the years either. Which would be a shame.
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Indeed. It's no coincidence that the sports where both sexes compete in parallel are those that have been established for decades, nay centuries. Tennis, gymnastics, swimming, etc.

But sports like football and rugby, the only point of reference for decades has been the mens game, and thus the women's game is judged based on that. Sad but true, as they'll never get even footing.
 

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