Parity for Women's Football

[The Gee Man]

5 minutes ago, milne_afc said:

Oh m8 

What! Park dildos me I aubergine them. It’s the same. Except park thinks they are better than everyone else and no one else should have an opinion. 

[maryhilldon]

Noticed the Partick against Hearts wummins match was on yesterday whilst flicking through the channels. You're lucky if there were 50 spectators, and most of them were probably staff and friends. Not sure it deserves national live coverage, it's more of a hobby than a proper spectator sport. The interest just isn't there in this country, no matter how hard the media push it.

[maryhilldon]

1 hour ago, Parklife said:

Nah. I'm not that interested in women's fitba. 

Sexist pig. Shameful 

[ericblack4boss]

Fucking Rachel Corsie is a Duke too I always  thought  she was straight one of the better looking players

[Parklife]

1 hour ago, milne_afc said:

Oh m8 

He's not the sharpest of laddies. 

[Parklife]

1 hour ago, The Gee Man said:

What! Park dildos me I aubergine them. It’s the same. Except park thinks they are better than everyone else and no one else should have an opinion. 

You can have an opinion if you like, just don't expect not to be told it's stupid. Too often  these days folk don't get called out for talking shit. 

I trace it back to when Gordon brown backed down and apologised for calling a bigoted old woman a "bigoted old woman". 

[The Gee Man]

11 minutes ago, Parklife said:

You can have an opinion if you like, just don't expect not to be told it's stupid. Too often  these days folk don't get called out for talking shit. 

I trace it back to when Gordon brown backed down and apologised for calling a bigoted old woman a "bigoted old woman". 

Dildo’ing someone when you are not involved in the conversation is not “telling them they are stupid “. It’s hiding in the background. 

[Parklife]

40 minutes ago, The Gee Man said:

Dildo’ing someone when you are not involved in the conversation is not “telling them they are stupid “. It’s hiding in the background. 

I've got more posts in this thread than you, dingus. 

[The Hulk]

On 4/2/2024 at 3:56 PM, Roberto said:

I coached a young girls team before Covid and realised then the difficulties with getting funding. Good wee players but then Covid.

So I was interested as such.

What annoys me is pushing it to hard like they do in the media before they can even walk... they are trying to run.

As you know, I coach in girls/womens football and can say that this is true.

The national governing body in grassroots girls football makes the ADJFA look like MENSA. I could tell lots of tales about how dim-witted they are but I'd be here all day.  I've come to a certain conclusion recently about why that is as well and while I won't put it down in black and white, it wouldn't look out of place in this thread...

It comes from a good place though; the problem is that they need to be patient.  The womens football we see now is based on a limited participation pool.  The numbers in girls football has been growing by about 30% each of the last 5 years.  What I see is better adults beginning to get involved in coaching and in turn making the players better.  It's a cyclical process and my opinion is that when the girls of say between 2010-2013 dob start to get into the adult game in 4-8 yrs time the womens game in this country will improve massively.

Goalkeepers are a problem because there's just so few that actually want to be goalies, so again  a limited participation pool.

The national team is regressing because we had a very good crop of players 4-5yrs ago and haven't supplemented the squad with better players; all the while the national team manager is trying to coach them like a club, which just isn't working.  He hasn't been sacked because the decision makers in girls & womens football are too soft (see my second paragraph).

So while it isn't the great spectacle we would all like it to be (I think the English Women's Super League is a good standard; I spent an evening flicking between Man Utd v Arsenal and Dundee v Morton and the women's game was far better to watch), I think when it professionalises itself (bear in mind there are only three full time clubs in Scotland) it'll be a more level playing field and a better overall standard.

[RabidGiraffe]

On 4/3/2024 at 6:19 PM, The Hulk said:

 

Goalkeepers are a problem because there's just so few that actually want to be goalies, so again  a limited participation pool.

 

There's some interesting points in your post here Hulk but this one stood out.  Is there a reason they don't want to be goalies?

The poor quality of goalkeeping is something that really stands out whenever I've tried watching women's football, even the world cup.  Whereas in men's football the goalies are often the two tallest people on the pitch, with the women a lot of the goalkeepers seem short, even in relation to their team mates.  Any shot just inside the post, under the crossbar or aimed at the top corner is a guaranteed goal because they'll never reach it.

[The Hulk]

1 hour ago, RabidGiraffe said:

There's some interesting points in your post here Hulk but this one stood out.  Is there a reason they don't want to be goalies?

Quite a few. Participation pool for one; you might not have a willing goalie.

Secondly, a sweeping generalisation but based on learned experience; young girls don’t like the idea of getting footballs battered at them and this in my view is just down to girls being of a different mindset to boys.

Thirdly, in boys football, and again based on experience, you can usually sacrifice a good outfield player if he is the best goalie, because you’ll more likely still have a pool of players to pick from; the boy that runs and runs will also likely want to dive about like a daftie.  A lot of the time (not always) it might be a struggling outfielder that gets stuck in goals in a girls team; that same way that dinosaur coaches stick the worst footballers at the back. She might not stick at it.

So mostly it’s about character. We all know a big daft goalie. Well boys are more daft for it than girls. I once had a goalie so daft she turned up to a game with two-inch fake nails and still played. A tailor-made goalie right there. Show me a daftie and I’ll make her a goalie.

[manboobs109]

I seen the bird's team got beat 11-0 at home from the huns. If they want parity surely no manager of the men's team survives that?

[maryhilldon]

1 hour ago, manboobs109 said:

I seen the bird's team got beat 11-0 at home from the huns. If they want parity surely no manager of the men's team survives that?

Get with the programme, they're all strong, brave empowered women that are beyond critique. Bloody dinosaur.

[sigh]

13 hours ago, manboobs109 said:

I seen the bird's team got beat 11-0 at home from the huns. If they want parity surely no manager of the men's team survives that?

Are they both part time or full time teams?

If both the same then shameful, if AFC are part time and Huns are full time then that would explain it, a bit

 

[The Hulk]

2 hours ago, sigh said:

Are they both part time or full time teams?

If both the same then shameful, if AFC are part time and Huns are full time then that would explain it, a bit

 

Rangers, Celtic & Glasgow City are full-time.

Hearts have some kind of hybrid thing going on where some of their players are full-time and they have a plan in place to go FT in a couple of years. Hibs going in a similar direction but Hearts have jumped ahead of them.

The rest of the teams in the league are part-time.

Aberdeen have been skirting around the edges of a similar thing to what Hearts were doing but the investment isn't there. They have only recently signed up (because they had to) to forming youth teams.  There's alot of good young players coming through the system but we won't see them in the first team for two or three years. There's a couple of really good 2008 & 2009 players who might see game time next year but a better crop coming through in the younger group.

[The Gee Man]

See media outlets can't see it's a UK bid to host the woman's world cup. According to Sky we won it in 66 and we won it last time we hosted it!! F Off biased c×nts.