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I should have also mentioned the athletico Madrid u16 boys beating their senior womens team 6-0,,and an underage Australian boys team beating the Australian senior womens team 7.
Galway9801 (Galway) - Posts: 1942 - 09/07/2023 10:08:29 2493274 Link 1 |
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God but you seep arrogance. Since when was your personal taste the arbiter of what is "superior" and "inferior". This is the international team representing the country at the highest level in the game on the international stage. Of course RTÉ are right to broadcast it. If your knuckle dragging "logic" was to be implemented there would be very little sport broadcast. Club Gaelic games wouldn't be broadcast because it is "inferior" to inter county Gaelic games. Men's LOI soccer wouldn't be broadcast because it is "inferior" to the Premier League. Bournemouth's games wouldn't be broadcast because they are "inferior" to Manchester City. The Champions League is the pinnacle of club soccer. Everything else is "inferior". If you don't like what you see go out and cut the grass.
Greengrass (Louth) - Posts: 6178 - 09/07/2023 10:58:55 2493286 Link 4 |
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Check out their website.
Greengrass (Louth) - Posts: 6178 - 09/07/2023 10:59:44 2493287 Link 0 |
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Yes. And it has nothing to do with "chauvinism." Women and girls compete physically with men on level playing field. Which is why there is so much controversy around biological males who have decided for whatever reasons to claim that they are female and have made nonsense of several womens and girls sports around the world. We even had an example in Dublin LGFA last year. It has nothing to do either with the courage or skill of women. Rachael Blackmore competes successfully in arguably the dangerous and courage requiring sport of them all, but she wouldn't beat Brian Hughes in a foot race! BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 3516 - 09/07/2023 11:04:52 2493289 Link 1 |
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Somethings are obviously inferior to others. If people want to listen to rap rather than Motown. or watch operas in preference to Frank Capra movies then that is their choice. No one will be listening to or watching rap or soap operas in 60/70 years time. That is how you determine what is inferior. However, women's soccer fails on both fronts. It is an inferior product and no one watches it. Apologies if this goes over your head :-) BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 3516 - 09/07/2023 11:16:24 2493291 Link 1 |
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Seeping arrogance.
Greengrass (Louth) - Posts: 6178 - 09/07/2023 11:42:50 2493302 Link 3 |
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I don't watch rugby or soccer, it seems to be a growing trend in my area to watch the Ireland rugby team. I won't be watching. PattyONeill (Derry) - Posts: 263 - 09/07/2023 16:12:38 2493345 Link 1 |
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The sport is much less physical than men's football, there are many reasons to not like woman's football but of course people always jump on the misogyny accusations. I don't like hurling either, are you going to accuse me of misandry?
PattyONeill (Derry) - Posts: 263 - 09/07/2023 16:19:07 2493347 Link 1 |
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And just because something is popular doesn't mean it is superior. I always use the restaurant example, McDonalds is popular world wide, it doesn't mean it has the best food on the market.
PattyONeill (Derry) - Posts: 263 - 09/07/2023 16:21:30 2493348 Link 0 |
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Two different things. If you are saying that women's soccer is no good because you are comparing it to men's you are being a chauvinist. If you claim women shouldn't be playing football as its only a man's game you are a misogynist. So decide which one you are. Comparing your dislike for hurling and like of football is not the same.
zinny (Wexford) - Posts: 1964 - 09/07/2023 21:02:25 2493437 Link 0 |
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You missed the entire point. Popular stuff is often inferior. BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 3516 - 09/07/2023 23:15:01 2493468 Link 0 |
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These fixtures will suit RTE and their clientele and all their wannabe followers around the country..30 or 40 years ago when these elete didnt need mainstream public support some of the people now apparently who 'love' rugby wouldnt be let inside the gate of a rugby game..these fixtures wont cost me any time or energy..over complicated and boring game in the main..mic'ed up referees are the only good thing about it..each to their own of course..
Fairplayalways (Offaly) - Posts: 1037 - 10/07/2023 22:56:24 2493700 Link 0 |
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hahahaha over complicated how exactly? wannabe followers?? what people ever were stopped from attending rugby games or let inside gate of a rugby club?? KillingFields (Limerick) - Posts: 3758 - 12/07/2023 14:14:39 2493980 Link 0 |
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wannabe followers? what peoople wouldnt have been let in gate at a rugby game? how is rugby over complicated or boring? KillingFields (Limerick) - Posts: 3758 - 12/07/2023 15:42:56 2493989 Link 1 |
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Too stop start of a game. Every second decision by a referee has to go to the TMO it seems. Maybe referees don't have confidence in their decision making. At local club games referees have to make decisions on the spot as there are no TMOs or cameras. KnockaineyAbú (Limerick) - Posts: 96 - 12/07/2023 16:01:19 2493990 Link 0 |
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There is nothing at all like that in the pro game They've reduced tmo role as well and I'd rather that than the set up in gaa with umpires who have little to no powers and don't step in near enough even when they can To suggest Refs don't have confidence in their decisions is laughable KillingFields (Limerick) - Posts: 3758 - 12/07/2023 16:17:02 2493994 Link 1 |
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Never mind talking more BS (I'll come back to that). Give us more details on the: "but that doesn't change the fact that the us womens team recently lost 12-0 (the game was abandoned at 40 minutes) to a bunch of Wrexham retirees." Did you see the game? Name the players from the "us womens team" who played? Cockney_Cat (UK) - Posts: 2767 - 12/07/2023 21:28:34 2494036 Link 0 |
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The same demand exists in the GAA, people believe the higher the level of compensation the greater the stakes so more money should be spent on getting everything right. Hawkeye? All the linesmen are mic'edto the ref. Even within club, what games only have a ref as opposed to a ref independent umpires and linesmen? I wish people would stop trying to put down one sport to try and prove the GAA is the best, it's really a bit sad. zinny (Wexford) - Posts: 1964 - 12/07/2023 21:56:32 2494039 Link 0 |