Women's World Cup

[Mac76]

https://streamin.me/v/8de37eff

Someone was saying something about women's goalkeeping...

that's a real howler

[Letters]

A mate has opined that the goals should be smaller in the women's game. Not entirely sure I agree but while there are tall women, the average is clearly different.
That woman looks tiny in that goal, compare and contrast with people like Seaman who always looked massive and like it would be damn near impossible to score past.

[Mac76]

A mate has opined that the goals should be smaller in the women's game. Not entirely sure I agree but while there are tall women, the average is clearly different.
That woman looks tiny in that goal, compare and contrast with people like Seaman who always looked massive and like it would be damn near impossible to score past.

interesting point, hadn't thought of that - though i guess you could argue the current siuation means you're likely to get more goals

[WMUG]

A mate has opined that the goals should be smaller in the women's game. Not entirely sure I agree but while there are tall women, the average is clearly different.
That woman looks tiny in that goal, compare and contrast with people like Seaman who always looked massive and like it would be damn near impossible to score past.

That's something that gets bandied around every now and then and the arguments that always come up against it are:

a) Accessibility - at grassroots level you'd need two sets of goals or pitches with goals of different sizes which would take shitloads of time and money to implement, and at pro-level you'd need to keep switching the goals out which, for teams that share their grounds with lower-level clubs (us with Borehamwood, Spurs with Orient etc) that's an expense they could do without.

b) Men are much, much taller now on average than they were when the current goal size was standardised, and it obviously wasn't considered it a problem then or they'd have made them smaller. Sure, there's a difference between the men's game and the women's game in how big the keeper is compared to the goal, but does that really matter? The women's game is its own thing, it doesn't have to be defined in comparison to anything else.

[Letters]

You know, those are two very good arguments.
I think we probably should just accept that the women’s game is different to the men’s.
Which is pretty much what I’ve been saying all along anyway.

[The Wengerbabies]

You know, those are two very good arguments.
I think we probably should just accept that the women’s game is different to the men’s.
Which is pretty much what I’ve been saying all along anyway.

That's a pretty sexist thing to say.

[Mac76]

That's something that gets bandied around every now and then and the arguments that always come up against it are:

a) Accessibility - at grassroots level you'd need two sets of goals or pitches with goals of different sizes which would take shitloads of time and money to implement, and at pro-level you'd need to keep switching the goals out which, for teams that share their grounds with lower-level clubs (us with Borehamwood, Spurs with Orient etc) that's an expense they could do without.

b) Men are much, much taller now on average than they were when the current goal size was standardised, and it obviously wasn't considered it a problem then or they'd have made them smaller. Sure, there's a difference between the men's game and the women's game in how big the keeper is compared to the goal, but does that really matter? The women's game is its own thing, it doesn't have to be defined in comparison to anything else.

yeah i thought about the practical issues of switching goalposts too and as you say they don't have to be exactly comparable

[HCZ_Reborn]

Saw a clip of Nigerian equaliser against Australia. Jesus people aren’t kidding when they say the goalkeepers are rubbish are they

[HCZ_Reborn]

Literally….anyone who says women should be on equivalent wages to men should be shown the “highlights” of the Aussie keeper

[Letters]

Literally….anyone who says women should be on equivalent wages to men should be shown the “highlights” of the Aussie keeper

Yes. Embarrassing.

But you know what. I don't care how shit they are. The players in the men's game get the big bucks because of the insane amount of money which goes into the game, not because they're so much better than previous generations - mostly they're not.

When the women's game is getting multi-billion pound TV deals, huge sponsorship deals and getting 60,000 people paying £50-100 to watch, plus all the corporate stuff, then I don't care how crap they are, the women can get paid the big bucks too. But none of that is happening.