Women’s team

Still nothing official coming out from the club for this yet. Strange!

Takes them long enough to update the Gtfc website with results or fixture changes so might be waiting a bit longer before any statement

Apparently unlike the mens game, they fight week after week about wanting to wash the kit.

Really not sure what has happened to the Ladies team recently. The club website isn't putting hardly any reports on games etc. anymore and although they still haven't lost a game, results seem to be quite underwhelming recently and they've slipped to second place.

There hasn't been a home game in ages, so not really sure what is happening with them. Is there anyone here that knows what is going on?

Quoted from Heisenberg

I think saturation is a good description of it. Sky and BBC are absolutely hell bent on us liking women’s football, and I just do not think it has earned the right to warrant wall-to-wall coverage. The BBC would never stoop as low as even League One on their evening news shows, yet a women’s game with 1,000 ‘fans’ (aka family members) present will often be the first sports story.

I could go on and on about this but it will be misconstrued by some as sexism. I think that anybody, any age or sex, can play whatever sport they want, and good on them, but to put it bluntly, nobody cares about women’s football, and that will never change.

12 million viewing the the UK watched England v USA in the Semi-Final of the 2019 Women’s World Cup.

Suggests that bitter, old, sexist men like you who dismiss Women’s football as rubbish are in the minority.

Quoted from GollyGTFC

12 million viewing the the UK watched England v USA in the Semi-Final of the 2019 Women’s World Cup.

Suggests that bitter, old, sexist men like you who dismiss Women’s football as rubbish are in the minority.

Amen to that.

Quoted from GollyGTFC

12 million viewing the the UK watched England v USA in the Semi-Final of the 2019 Women’s World Cup.

Suggests that bitter, old, sexist men like you who dismiss Women’s football as rubbish are in the minority.

I would watch plenty of sports if it involved England possibly winning something but would never go watch it live or even on TV the vast majority of the time as generally don't have that much interest.

Considering the top teams in the UK play their games at some numpty non league grounds suggests that there isn't that much interest in the womens game and at a lower level just have family & some friends plus their dog watching week in week out, bitter old men or not.

Quoted from GollyGTFC

12 million viewing the the UK watched England v USA in the Semi-Final of the 2019 Women’s World Cup.

Suggests that bitter, old, sexist men like you who dismiss Women’s football as rubbish are in the minority.

Or maybe the majority of the 12m were people like me who tuned in through curiosity, but ultimately drew the same sort of conclusions watching Toni Duggan hit corners directly out for a goal kick? They certainly didn’t do it to be entertained.

Anyway, I’ll not resort to calling you names or (incorrectly) guessing whether you’re old or not x.

Quoted from Heisenberg

Or maybe the majority of the 12m were people like me who tuned in through curiosity, but ultimately drew the same sort of conclusions watching Toni Duggan hit corners directly out for a goal kick? They certainly didn’t do it to be entertained.

Anyway, I’ll not resort to calling you names or (incorrectly) guessing whether you’re old or not x.

To be fair, this was my view. It’s all well and good saying 12m tuned in but how stuck it out? How many watched the other games? I’ve no issue with womens football other than I just don’t find it interesting, much like darts, can happily watch PDC but not BDO.

With the 100 Aries in the summer I found the woman’s games more exciting, not liking women a football isn’t always a sexist issue.

I caught an advert for the womens game the other day, a player toe poked a shot and the commentary described it as a ‘top finish’, surely the sound doesn’t match the action for the advert? Or is that regarded  as a top finish in the WSL?

The saturation will naturally divide opinion, as will the womens game. In truth, if we’re being entirely honest, aside from the premier league, and in turn the champions league, the rest of football is cast aside. You get the odd patronising recognition which I’m sure chesterfield will receive when they play Chelsea and this peddled hyperbole about the magic of the cup and small teams coming good etc but we know deep down they don’t care. They don’t even really care about the bottom half of the premier league…

Quoted from GollyGTFC

12 million viewing the the UK watched England v USA in the Semi-Final of the 2019 Women’s World Cup.

Suggests that bitter, old, sexist men like you who dismiss Women’s football as rubbish are in the minority.

I don't want to get drawn into the discussion about women's football but I will jump on the misuse of statistics, especially when they are flagrant nonsense.

12m viewers of the 2019 semi final shows nothing of the sort. The current population of England is around 56m, the UK is around 68m. Therefore a television audience of 12m is a clear minority of the English or UK population.

I have no idea what proportion of the UK population is 'bitter, old, sexist men' and neither do you. Any suggestion you make will be your opinion and have no basis in statistical fact.

Your stat could actually undermine your assertion. If we assume (as you have done) that 12m viewers were not bitter, old or sexist then it is equally feasible that the remaining population were bitter, old and sexist. That would mean that 44m English people were bitter, old and sexist. A very clear majority.

All that 12m viewers tells us is that 12m people were prepared to watch a football match and that happens to be the largest TV audience for a women's match in the UK so far.