- May 22, 2005
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No, good point, you suggesting in the other thread that we replace the Women's World Cup with an Animal World Cup was a really considered point. Then in here you compared them to being worse at football than children (boy children obviously, not silly girls who run funny) and suggested that they should just shut up and be appreciative, not sure what of, being allowed to vote and wear long trousers presumably. It doesn't take a qualified psychologist to see you have some things to work out here.
They are going to court because they feel undervalued by their federation, much liek many federations across the world who treat the womens teams like a joke. You want them to make their game more watchable? In terms of profile the women's team is probably bigger than the mens in the US and the last world cup was leaps and bounds bigger and better than the last, what exactly do you want them to do? Aside from shut up and be quiet. They are the players, its their job to play the game not do the marketing.
Full disclosure i dont know the ins and outs, to be honest i only saw this thread because i saw you lposted in the sidebar and wanted to see what well thought out contribution you had to offer.
They lost to some random u15 team 5-2 so yeah they are worse than a children's team, probably lots of them.
Bigger than the men's team. How do you know this? Maybe for 3 months every 4 years. Women's football is a hard sell, the quality ain't there. It's worse than u15 football, and on the whole uncompetitive.
Like rugby, and cricket, etc there are some sports where the woman's game is so much worse than the men's game that they should do it for 30k - 40k a year and be happy with that. That's a fair wage. Thats far more than a non League footballer would earn for far less quality.
I bet these women still get paid in comparison to an average person and if they're so popular they should have nice sponsorship deals etc.
Bottom line is if these women brought in so much money, and were superstars the federation would pay them more, I'm sure. I think the federation looks at them as easily changeable commodities, and looking at the state of the women's game, i can't disagree.
Let's see how strongly they feel if this goes against them.
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