Even our women's team is useless

[Former Labour leader]

Getting beaten at moment by the Jacks
😠

[surge]

The Swansea RB looks like they could make it to the next level.

Overall, I would say there has been something for everyone in the first half: if you want to say women's football is rubbish then there have been moments to support your argument, if you want to say women's football is a slightly different game but still highly skilled and enjoyable then there is evidence here to support that, if you want to watch a south Wales derby with lots of tackles (some very tasty) and passion then there have been moments for you too.

[Former Labour leader]

2-0 now. Swansea showing decent flashes of skill. Our team is so so poor. Bad as the men.

[Cyncoed Slumdog]

I've given it a good go but given up on it. Good luck to them but the quality of play is akin to parks football and is live on TV simply because it's a ladies game. A men's game of this standard wouldn't get anywhere near live TV.

[kendoddsdadsdogsdead]

women's football is utter shit

[NYCBlue]

0-3. Hang your heads in shame ladies.

[jeepster]

0-3. Hang your heads in shame ladies.

the men would not do much better

[surge]

Birmingham v. Everton last night was a good quality as was Norway Wales a week or so back. Think what we saw was primarily the consequence of first game back from lockdown - don't forget how rusty both Wales and England's senior men's sides were against Finland and Iceland respectively - and not being fully professional with the smaller budgets/competing priorities that arise from that.

Despite this, I still think there were moments of quality, the Swansea RB for example, and hope it's the first game of many on TV so game can continue to grow here.

Podcast on the game here: https://twitter.com/Colemans_Dream/s...84756560261120

[joecity]

Women’s football would be better if they made the goals smaller. Usually any thing struck over 6ft but below 8ft is a goal. Women keepers just don’t have the physical stature for regulation sized goals. It’s not a slight. Like the play 3 sets in tennis they should makes the goals smaller. They’ll have a better game.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Birmingham v. Everton last night was a good quality as was Norway Wales a week or so back. Think what we saw was primarily the consequence of first game back from lockdown - don't forget how rusty both Wales and England's senior men's sides were against Finland and Iceland respectively - and not being fully professional with the smaller budgets/competing priorities that arise from that.

Despite this, I still think there were moments of quality, the Swansea RB for example, and hope it's the first game of many on TV so game can continue to grow here.

Podcast on the game here: https://twitter.com/Colemans_Dream/s...84756560261120

I only saw a couple of minutes of the Norway women v Wales women game - and it included the pathetic goalkeeping error that let the Norwegians score. It can be seen at 1 min 15 secs on this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr9K...esportsChannel

[Rjk]

Women’s football would be better if they made the goals smaller. Usually any thing struck over 6ft but below 8ft is a goal. Women keepers just don’t have the physical stature for regulation sized goals. It’s not a slight. Like the play 3 sets in tennis they should makes the goals smaller. They’ll have a better game.

The average height of a goalkeeper in the women's game is the same as the average height was in the mens game when the size of the goals were determined.

[Rjk]

I've given it a good go but given up on it. Good luck to them but the quality of play is akin to parks football and is live on TV simply because it's a ladies game. A men's game of this standard wouldn't get anywhere near live TV.

they show the women's 100 metres in the olympics even though the winner of the womens race would be last in every round of the mens competition.
It doesn't matter.

Once you stop trying to compare it to men's football and get used to the flow of the women's game then it can be enjoyable too.

[Rjk]

I only saw a couple of minutes of the Norway women v Wales women game - and it included the pathetic goalkeeping error that let the Norwegians score. It can be seen at 1 min 15 secs on this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr9K...esportsChannel

Yeah not good, she loses the flight of the ball distracted by the oncoming players I think

[surge]

I only saw a couple of minutes of the Norway women v Wales women game - and it included the pathetic goalkeeping error that let the Norwegians score. It can be seen at 1 min 15 secs on this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr9K...esportsChannel

But I could show you the clip of David Seaman against Ronaldinho in return and if that was your three minute experience of him as a keeper then you would have a very different impression of how good he was/how good men's football is. For a poster who is usually quite sensible, you do seem fixated on that one moment of bad play.

[joecity]

The average height of a goalkeeper in the women's game is the same as the average height was in the mens game when the size of the goals were determined.

Interesting. Back in them days you could change goalies into the net as well. Goalies are the weak part of women’s football. They should look into it.

[Rjk]

Interesting. Back in them days you could change goalies into the net as well. Goalies are the weak part of women’s football. They should look into it.

They'll definitely improve rapidly over the next few years I think as increased funding and coverage increases participation and coaching.

There was an interview with an england international women's goalkeeper who aid she hadn't even had any specialist goalkeeping coaching until she was in her 20s, just expected to get on with it.

[Trigger]

The goalkeeping is a bit weird, do get lobbed a lot but also the handling in general is very poor. Probably something in the spacial awareness and reaction times between sexes.

[A Quiet Monkfish]

The goalkeeping is a bit weird, do get lobbed a lot but also the handling in general is very poor. Probably something in the spacial awareness and reaction times between sexes.

but they're good at hanging clothes on the washing line. !

[the other bob wilson]

So far, the jacks have played us in competitive football three times this season, they've won on each occasion while scoring a total of eleven goals and conceding two (one of which was a penalty). While our Under 23s, Under 18s and ladies sides losing to their Swansea counterparts isn't what you'd call devastating, it does tend to confirm the theory that everything at Cardiff is geared to the mens senior team - while this is broadly true at every club, it applies much, much more here than at most other clubs in my opinion.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

But I could show you the clip of David Seaman against Ronaldinho in return and if that was your three minute experience of him as a keeper then you would have a very different impression of how good he was/how good men's football is. For a poster who is usually quite sensible, you do seem fixated on that one moment of bad play.

I didn't suggest that the error summed up women's football, old fruit.
Best re-read what I actually wrote and not imagine that it was a fixation of any description.

[Rjk]

The goalkeeping is a bit weird, do get lobbed a lot but also the handling in general is very poor. Probably something in the spacial awareness and reaction times between sexes.

Probably more to do with standards of coaching and the number of players in the game.

Watch table tennis or badminton at the olympic and there's absolutely nothing wrong with their spacial awareness or reaction times.

Men are stronger and faster obviously

[Monster munch]

I was reading up a bit on the womens US team, got me interested after i saw in the news that Alex Morgan lass just signed for Spurs ladies (she's a proper sort by the way!!). Some of those ladies for the USA have got international caps in the 200-300 mark!! i think there were some who've actually got over 300 caps over 20 years or something. Thats mental. The physical demand on the body maybe different on the ladies game, perhaps not so many injuries i don't know but the goalscoring record was like 180 international goals for 1 player aswell.
Might give the ladies game a watch at some point see what sort of standard its like as i've been totally oblivious to it until now.

[Rjk]

I was reading up a bit on the womens US team, got me interested after i saw in the news that Alex Morgan lass just signed for Spurs ladies (she's a proper sort by the way!!). Some of those ladies for the USA have got international caps in the 200-300 mark!! i think there were some who've actually got over 300 caps over 20 years or something. Thats mental. The physical demand on the body maybe different on the ladies game, perhaps not so many injuries i don't know but the goalscoring record was like 180 international goals for 1 player aswell.
Might give the ladies game a watch at some point see what sort of standard its like as i've been totally oblivious to it until now.

In my experience it takes a while to "get your eye in", and get used to the pace and ebb and flow of the games.
Just like mens and womens tennis typically have a quite different structure to the points

[surge]

I didn't suggest that the error summed up women's football, old fruit.
Best re-read what I actually wrote and not imagine that it was a fixation of any description.

You watched a women's football game for a "couple of minutes", watched so closely you didn't realise which colour Wales were playing in so you first thought it was a Norwegian error and now have brought up that moment in two separate threads, though admittedly the first time was just commenting on the game. This time however was in response to me talking about the quality, and sometimes lack of it, in the women's game.

How would you like me to read it?

[joecity]

but they're good at hanging clothes on the washing line. !

Aye. But the average bird is taller now than when the washing line was invented tbf. Some advantage.