Also switching from Summer to Winter means that I hardly ever go to watch them now, the minihad is like the Arctic during the season as it is now.How the hell are they expecting the women's game to prosper in England with the salary cap, all the best players are going abroad where they can earn more money. Some clowns would have the mens game go the same way, with the same fate.
i'd rather have my piles treated as a way of taking my mind off watching the mens teamGo back to a Summer game and the fans suffering withdrawl symptons because the mens team was not playing, might turn up to watch the ladies like I used to do.
any future sponsers watching todays game on tv will think fuck that!
The marketing, when it rears it's head, is generally over-hyped with the notion that there is but a wafer thin gap between the men's game and the women's game. The increased attendances are a by-product of the England success but I can't see them being maintained. The World Cup next year will no doubt see an upturn in interest but you'll never get the spectacle of sport at the highest level compared to what we saw when the Rags got the battering!
I'll continue watching MCWFC for as long as I can get to The Academy. I've long held that the women's game can hold its own as a spectacle, and I was enticed to watching them in the first place for a couple of reasons. They play in the City kits, and I was interested in how they would deliver the game on the pitch. I've not been too disappointed!As someone who is a fan of the women's game, this is an awkward truth that always creates a split between "football fans who follow women's football" and "people on Twitter who argue the toss but don't watch or support it"
The whole "so empowering, hear women roar" bit just makes it feel like homework. Im not watching the WSL to feel like its history being made, im watching a game of football. And it caters to people that aren't putting their money in anyway.
You have quality, entertaining players in the sport who have got marketable traits, but there's this incessant need to compare to the men. They're never going to play each other. You cant complain that the trolls bring up stuff like the USA team and the FC Dallas U15 boys and then in the same breath claim that the Women's World Cup and the Men's World Cup are remotely comparable in overall quality.
Even with FIFA 23 this year, you know what attention you're bringing by making Alexia Putellas the highest rated player on the game. You're provoking an audience that is already pretty shitty about women's football by ranking her higher than Benzema, KDB, Lewandowski etc. This isn't a shot at Putellas either.
Just let them be their own thing. Stop trying to adjust the curve you're grading them on to compare to men's football and actually promote it on its own merit rather than pandering with the "empowerment" schtick.
I'll continue watching MCWFC for as long as I can get to The Academy. I've long held that the women's game can hold its own as a spectacle, and I was enticed to watching them in the first place for a couple of reasons. They play in the City kits, and I was interested in how they would deliver the game on the pitch. I've not been too disappointed!
Thankfully, we're all over in the East Stand so he's just a smudgy figure on the other touchline. I only think of GT when an hour has passed and we're only a goal up, And then ten mins later I'm thinking WTF is he doing with no subs yet!Agree. I think the games are great and the quality is good. I'm not sure what some people expect sometimes - I think the comparisons happen with just about every league - ie. see a goal in Ligue 1, Bundesliga, Scots Prem, League 2... wherever, people say it would have been stopped in the Prem, or something similar.
Makes no odds what could/should have happened, I don't know why there is the constant need for comparison and to belittle. Just watch the football, cheer them on, and enjoy it as much as you can with Taylor in charge... :)
I'll continue watching MCWFC for as long as I can get to The Academy. I've long held that the women's game can hold its own as a spectacle, and I was enticed to watching them in the first place for a couple of reasons. They play in the City kits, and I was interested in how they would deliver the game on the pitch. I've not been too disappointed!