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Will you watch the Women's World Cup?
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
I don't understand why people having standards is suddenly a problem.
my local team play their games literally in the middle of the forest and while I can't imagine more beautiful place to watch the game and relax, I still don't go to their games because the level is comical. I also don't watch low level tennis or low level handball.
it was never a problem before this thread. I simply can't enjoy bad football. I also can't enjoy bad music or bad movies. is that suddenly not allowed or?
my local team play their games literally in the middle of the forest and while I can't imagine more beautiful place to watch the game and relax, I still don't go to their games because the level is comical. I also don't watch low level tennis or low level handball.
it was never a problem before this thread. I simply can't enjoy bad football. I also can't enjoy bad music or bad movies. is that suddenly not allowed or?
Im going to the first game tonight, Norway v NZ. Should be an easy win for Norway, unfortunately the weather forecast isnt great, might rain during the game. Middle of winter here. Should be a decent crowd at the game.
Yeesh you’re condescending.
NO!
I don’t know about the forum per say but I mean In comparison to the viewership of the men’s game.
I’ve not read what you said about it either.
I wasn’t… how else am I supposed to say that?
Sadly these threads relating to womens football always go the same way.
I heard the ticket sales haven't been great in NZ but are they at least a sell out for the NZ games ?
Nice, hope we take it. Do you have any info on the incident close to the hotels?
The big games have decent crowds but the lesser games have been poor. One problem is here in NZ we are so used to walk up ticket sales that we arent that used to only being able to buy tickets online. I think there are going to be some games with pretty poor crowds, this winter has been pretty miserable weather wise here and with the games being live on free to air tv here I think we will find lots of Kiwis will simply watch from the comfort of their living room. Another problem is Football is about 4th on the ranking list of NZ interest both with respect to mens and womens sports, add in the fact we have a pretty weak team and its an uphill battle getting people to go
As a League Of Ireland fan, you get used to this quality of debate. People saying that the quality level just isn't for them I can respect, the highest level draws the most eyes, it's the ones chomping at the bit to tell you how they wouldn't be caught dead watching that shite and that they're brave bastions of truth for saying so that do your head in. That seems to go double for the women's game.
Incident close to the hotels is still going on. There were reports of two gunmen on a multi story building site. Apparently one is dead and the other is pinned down in one area of the building site by police. No idea what they were trying to do so its still on going. Its completely unexpected here, hopefully all sorted out soon.
This sounds exactly like the Dutch men's team post-1998. O hope you dislike them equally.
You have seen Maradona getting the ahit kicked out of him in meaningless training matches just before a WC? Well then.
You wot mate. You could just have led with 'women are lesser humans', it helps contextualize the rest of your posts.
Thanks. Hope its nothing that interferes with the match/players and you have a great time at the stadium.
Wierd to read about things like that happening in NZ. I dont know if its because its close to the Norwegian team that i see it in Norwegian newspapers or that it seldom happens there.
I think one thing that some who hate the quality forget is the whole beauty of sport during these special events. There are a whole pile of teams and players you wont usually get to watch, the games all end up with their own drama and excitement and if you get into it you can get caught up in all the mini stories within games and teams. The Olympics come around every 4 years and I find myself watching sports I never ever watch and know nothing about and love all the competition and drama. Even sports that normally bore me stupid grab my attention. Last Olympics I watched kayak racing. I have no idea what the quality level was like but it was great watching all the competition and drama.
Sport doesnt have to be the very best quality to be entertaining and compelling.
I totally expect some lesser games will not be well attended but I would expect it to be a sell out for the NZ team hosting a tournament, real shame if it isn't
Im really looking forward to seeing your team play. Some seriously brilliant players in the team.
I think the NZ games are all close to sell outs as well as the USA games.
It's interesting to see so many outright noes in here given the fact that viewing figures for women's football have grown steadily in recent years in the UK and indeed across must of Europe. The Euro 22 Final was an anomaly because it featured England - but still, it attracted around 20m viewers (the men got around 30m the year before). That's up from WWC 2019 when the top viewing figures were for the England SF loss to USA with about 11m.
Is it the same as the men's game? No, they're women. Is it entertaining? It can be - it's football, there's no guarantee that a particular match will be entertaining and even less guarantee that you personally will enjoy it. But that's not primarily about the tactical and technical quality of the top players and teams - that's high and improving.
I'll be watching a lot of games - not as many as I watched during WWC19, because of the timings. Still, I bet I watch enough to enjoy some, get bored by others and I'll probably even switch off the odd one or two completely. Not that different to how I watch men's tournaments really.
Is it the same as the men's game? No, they're women. Is it entertaining? It can be - it's football, there's no guarantee that a particular match will be entertaining and even less guarantee that you personally will enjoy it. But that's not primarily about the tactical and technical quality of the top players and teams - that's high and improving.
I'll be watching a lot of games - not as many as I watched during WWC19, because of the timings. Still, I bet I watch enough to enjoy some, get bored by others and I'll probably even switch off the odd one or two completely. Not that different to how I watch men's tournaments really.
Heck yeah. Finland didn't qualify but still heck yeah. Love me some football tournaments during summer holidays.
When did kick off times become woke?
Hahahahaa
Yeah normal kick off time here in NZ for an evening game. 7:30pm on a Thursday night.
I actually enjoy having some holidays from football and struggle to even keep up to date with United these days, so I guess I keep it light that until the start of the season
Very confused by some of these random kick off times.
3:30am, 2am, 1am, 3am, but also 12pm and 1pm.
Has there ever been a tournament with a 12 hour difference between kick off times?
3:30am, 2am, 1am, 3am, but also 12pm and 1pm.
Has there ever been a tournament with a 12 hour difference between kick off times?
Some people just moan because it's not in their time zone, some of the comments in this thread are pathetic, given the status of football in NZ it does seem a little surprising it's being hosted there though, is/was there a reason?
Maybe some sort of typo in the times published where you are? 1pm your time is probably 1am here so we wouldnt have a game at 1am. Im presuming you are in the UK?
Well said
I think initially Australia wanted to host it alone but were short a couple of venues so we got added in to the bid to sell the bid to FIFA.
Also there is that thing where FIFA tries to grow the game. Even in Australia Football would be the 3rd or 4th most popular game with respect to domestic crowds.
Why do some people care so much that some people don’t watch women’s football? There’s loads of football I don’t watch.
I would if the Ireland games weren't on at 6am 
TBH it would be 5th at best, Union, League, Aussie Rules and Cricket would come ahead
You are probably right. The good thing with the Aussies is they love big sporting events and turn up in big numbers for them.
hahaha, those of us in this part of the world get up at all times in the middle of the night for Utd games and other tournaments in the northern hemisphere, welcome to our hellI would if the Ireland games weren't on at 6am
Desperate attempt to give the US and Europe TV audiences something to watch. They've tried to schedule so the big teams (with the biggest TV rights deals) can air at a time when most people in their country are awake. Not always possible of course, but they've tried.
Yeah and they talk a lot of shite as well, I came across many Aussies in my long ago cricketing days!
It's because there are various time zones involved - 4 hrs between the most Western and Eastern host cities I think
Hey we have been living next door to the bastards forever!
There are just matches scheduled at ridiculous times. Pattern seems to be American or European countries involved.
This seems mental, and something that's going to have to be abandoned after the group stages anyway, surely?