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Post by Boogaloo on Aug 1, 2012 8:48:22 GMT
I'm surprised no-one has started a thread on this, but excellent performance by the women's team last night against Brazil. They finished top of the group with 3 wins out of 3.
Not too hopeful about the mens team, but they may surprise me.
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Post by SteMerritt on Aug 1, 2012 8:49:43 GMT
Women have Canada next in the QF, then if they get through that a SF against USA/New Zealand.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2012 9:04:54 GMT
The women looked pretty good from the highlights of last nights game, in many ways they looked better than the mens England team
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Post by jammydodger on Aug 1, 2012 9:06:29 GMT
If we win we will most likely get USA as they are the favourites. Hopefully NZ do us a favour though.
The men's have Uruguay tonight who lost 2-0 to Senegal although Uraguay were expected to finish top. Senegal didn't look that good just a very physical and dirty team(Stevenage). UAE looked better I thought.
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Post by foghornleghorn on Aug 1, 2012 9:25:34 GMT
The women looked pretty good from the highlights of last nights game, in many ways they looked better than the mens England team Presumably because the women's team have been playing together for years? (No innuendo intended)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2012 9:28:47 GMT
so have the mens England team - I was talking about England not GB!
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Post by foghornleghorn on Aug 1, 2012 9:32:20 GMT
so have the mens England team - I was talking about England not GB! ah OK. That because England players are crap and cant pass a ball between themselves. When Blatter took away the contact element of football, he took away all we had.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2012 9:42:31 GMT
ah OK. That because England players are crap and cant pass a ball between themselves. When Blatter took away the contact element of football, he took away all we had. yep and thats not Blatters fault For one of the worlds leading nations and the one with the richest league to so spectacularly fail to coach players properly is shameful.
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Post by foghornleghorn on Aug 1, 2012 10:01:22 GMT
True, its not Blatters fault we didn't adapt. Its not blatters fault that kids up and down the country play football everyday of their life from the age of about 5 and still cant pass the thing when they get to their twenties.
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Post by foghornleghorn on Aug 1, 2012 10:02:02 GMT
(rant alert)
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Post by andystroud on Aug 1, 2012 10:46:42 GMT
What time is kick off for the Team GB men's game this evening?
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Post by jammydodger on Aug 1, 2012 17:09:53 GMT
What time is kick off for the Team GB men's game this evening? 19.45 start on BBC1 or BBC3.
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Post by hairy on Aug 1, 2012 17:21:21 GMT
The women looked pretty good from the highlights of last nights game, in many ways they looked better than the mens England team The standard of womens footballl is shite though, so looking good is a bit relative to the opposition you are faced with. How many female GB players would get near a conference team? I will go with none (and I will be right).
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2012 18:43:01 GMT
The standard of womens footballl is shite though, so looking good is a bit relative to the opposition you are faced with. How many female GB players would get near a conference team? I will go with none (and I will be right). Yes I meant relative of course, you can't go comparing them directly to the men But considering how minor a sport it is I'd argue that the women are far less shite than the men considering mens football is a huge sport in the UK with vast amounts of money in the game. That was my point.
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Post by hairy on Aug 1, 2012 18:52:41 GMT
Fair enough, but (going off topic) do we actually spend that much on producing male footballers? Seems to me we throw a pittance at it in comparison to other countries then stick a very exspensive band aid over it in the form of importing foreign players.
Perhaps the women have more of a level playing field in that they have to only compete against countries that take it as seriously as ourselves (with a slight exception perhaps in the US?).
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2012 19:18:55 GMT
fair point and thats the problem. Huge amounts of money in the game but it doesn't filter through to the grass roots.
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Post by behindthegoal on Aug 1, 2012 20:15:20 GMT
Just turned GB game on, it says 72min/ 2nd, good job it has 2nd otherwise I wouldn't have known which half it was...
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Post by cheekoh on Aug 1, 2012 20:29:21 GMT
quarters beckon
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Post by Boogaloo on Aug 1, 2012 21:10:31 GMT
I'm surprised no-one has started a thread on this, but excellent performance by the women's team last night against Brazil. They finished top of the group with 3 wins out of 3. Not too hopeful about the mens team, but they may surprise me.I take it all back. Great performance. Bring on the quarter finals.
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Post by moobs on Aug 1, 2012 22:32:56 GMT
OO we got?
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Post by jammydodger on Aug 1, 2012 22:47:16 GMT
Mehico!
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Post by tonto on Aug 1, 2012 23:14:22 GMT
South korea I heard
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Post by jammydodger on Aug 1, 2012 23:38:36 GMT
Oh yeah forgot we finished first. Senegal have got Mexico.
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Post by oxfordboy on Aug 2, 2012 2:56:06 GMT
If we beat Korea are we guaranteed a medal?
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Post by leysboy on Aug 2, 2012 4:08:40 GMT
Wow we might actually win something i can hardly believe it. Our national team is pants, i say team because the players are quality individuals, but they can't play as a team. Good luck to Stuart Pearce and his troops, but Brazil are too good.
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Post by Boogaloo on Aug 2, 2012 7:08:06 GMT
If we beat Korea are we guaranteed a medal? No. If we lose the semi, we face a bronze medal playoff.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2012 8:43:58 GMT
Our national team is pants, i say team because the players are quality individuals, but they can't play as a team. . surely if they can't play as a team then that suggests they aren't as good as we think they are. The majority of the England team are average individually as well as as a team.
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Post by SteMerritt on Aug 2, 2012 8:55:02 GMT
Just turned GB game on, it says 72min/ 2nd, good job it has 2nd otherwise I wouldn't have known which half it was... Could have been a lot of stoppage time at the end of the first half...
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Post by foghornleghorn on Aug 2, 2012 10:00:39 GMT
Fair enough, but (going off topic) do we actually spend that much on producing male footballers? Seems to me we throw a pittance at it in comparison to other countries then stick a very exspensive band aid over it in the form of importing foreign players. Perhaps the women have more of a level playing field in that they have to only compete against countries that take it as seriously as ourselves (with a slight exception perhaps in the US?). Certainly a lot of effort is thrown in. Driving along the road most evenings, and weekend mornings, you see fields of kids playing organised, coached, football. I'm a football fan and even I think too much football is played. Personally I wouldn't play it in schools as well, there's just an over-saturation of mediocre coaching.
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Post by jammydodger on Aug 3, 2012 18:43:05 GMT
Women's team are losing 1-0 vs Canada.
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