England Lionesses

[BobyBrno]

I was in the gym at the Whites hotel a few years ago and the England Womens Team were in. About 8 of them and me. It wasn’t the worst experience of my life.

Watching it now and It’s pretty good. The quality has improved massively over the last few years. Never seen VAR technology checking goal line technology before.

[victor meldrew]

for those of a certain age it's prisoner cell block h v cell block i

[Arrested development]

24 minutes ago, BobyBrno said:

I was in the gym at the Whites hotel a few years ago and the England Womens Team were in. About 8 of them and me. It wasn’t the worst experience of my life.

Watching it now and It’s pretty good. The quality has improved massively over the last few years. Never seen VAR technology checking goal line technology before.

There was no need for it to be checked. No idea why they did that. 

[Tonge moor green jacket]

Is there a way to turn the pitch down on the crowd noise?

[bolton va va]

The trick is to treat it as a completely different game to men's football ( & filter out the squaling from commentary & crowd ), then it can be watchable.

[Max Cherry]

6 minutes ago, bolton va va said:

The trick is to treat it as a completely different game to men's football ( & filter out the squaling from commentary & crowd ), then it can be watchable.

Have to turn sound off. No way can I cope with that cacophony 

[Casino]

Millie bright played some passes first half that were santos like

Bronze can play

Commentators are dog shit

Its so forced

[royal white]

I’ve tried but the standard is awful. People comparing this to the mens game are deluded. Any half decent mens semi pro team hammer these. 

[Max Cherry]

Just now, royal white said:

I’ve tried but the standard is awful. People comparing this to the mens game are deluded. Any half decent mens semi pro team hammer these. 

Not just the 'quality' it's a completely different game and I'm out. 

[waffer cup 07]

At present rate of progress, another 5 years and they might be able to pass to a team mate.

[Tonge moor green jacket]

13 minutes ago, Max Cherry said:

Not just the 'quality' it's a completely different game and I'm out. 

Completely different game? I don't get that.

Lesser quality, slower etc yes, but the coaching, technique and professionalism now more closely resembles the men's game than it has before. 

The patterns of play, building from the back are all familiar. 

[wiggy]

I can only assume some of the posters on here haven’t watched too many Bolton matches over the past few seasons!

[Burndens Bogs]

The build up patterns are there, the final 3rd stuff is shite though.

[Casino]

I dont get the need to compare it with mens football

Unless

The bullshit about equal money, var, coverage etc rears its head

[Johnnyrotten]

The standard could be like Man City and Liverpool combined, but I don't watch it because it doesn't matter enough (and as said above, the cacophany of noise and high pitched/forced commentary).  I can't explain why, but its just not important to enough people.  I've never heard anyone discuss women's football results in work, in the pub, in the shops, but I hear discussions of countless other sports not just men's football.   Each to their own and I hope everyone enjoys it, but its just not for me, and I hope its not given overblown saturation press coverage out of proportion to how much people care.

 

 

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[Alf Hartigan]

57 minutes ago, Max Cherry said:

Not just the 'quality' it's a completely different game and I'm out. 

Hello sailor

[Underpants]

Yes the quality is poor and it's frustrating to watch. But ladies tennis was poor when the WTA formed in the 70s, but it's a pretty decent level now. Women's football will take years to up it's game, but I'm not going to slag it off. It is what it is.

[Traf]

Keepers tend to be worse than Scottish non-league

[Dr Faustus]

2 hours ago, Traf said:

Keepers tend to be worse than Scottish non-league

this, and given the average goalkeeper is a tad shorter than their male counterpart makes for some shite in full size nets

 

anyone seen the clip of Zaha tearing through the Palace ladies team? Not in a Greenwood kind of way either

[Zico]

The best thing about women's football is when they get their phones hacked and their selfies distributed on WhatsApp

[freds dad]

I watched it for 6 minutes and put a film on.

The low quality football and crowd noise were equally awful. I’m glad I turned down the tickets I was offered for a match next week.

[London Wanderer]

23 hours ago, Casino said:

Id been conned into believing it was goona be a major event

Then i saw they were playing in leigh ffs

Ill watch england if im near the telly

Nowt else, i suspect

And where's the World Cup being played this winter?

[DazBob]

11 hours ago, Johnnyrotten said:

The standard could be like Man City and Liverpool combined, but I don't watch it because it doesn't matter enough (and as said above, the cacophany of noise and high pitched/forced commentary).  I can't explain why, but its just not important to enough people.  I've never heard anyone discuss women's football results in work, in the pub, in the shops, but I hear discussions of countless other sports not just men's football.   Each to their own and I hope everyone enjoys it, but its just not for me, and I hope its not given overblown saturation press coverage out of proportion to how much people care.

 

 

This is spot on.

 

On Granada Reports last night they were showing footage of pubs and fan parks from the real Euros when we got to the final.  They were saying how it gave the country a feel good factor and how everyone was massively invested.  All true.

... but then they ruined it all by saying how if England's birds did the same we could be on for a repeat.

No!  Because nobody really gives a shit.  It'd be like if England u-18s win a tournament.  Generally most folk want them to do well and are happy for them to win, but ultimately it's just a passing interest.

Much was being made of Old Trafford being full last night.  I'd suggest it was only full because tickets were either peanuts or they were handed out for free at schools.  Going off the pitch of the crowd noise during the 5 mins I watched last night I'm inclined to go with the latter.

I've spent far too much time typing this out.

[JimmyRiddle]

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-is-the-bbc-s-coverage-of-women-s-football-so-patronising-

[bolty58]

It's shit.