Pre-season thought

comment by goadocwatson (U1016)
posted 5 minutes ago

But in a 50-50 situation wouldn't the blokes have to hold back and say "After you, Miss" ?
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Its an absolute no-win situation for the blokes. Crunch a woman and they are in the wrong for going in too hard. Go easy on them and they get criticised for being patronising.

At full time the guys can hand the women their kit to get washed. Makes perfect sense on every level.

How would we do that? 11 dived. Y two equally will we play with 1 extra/ less player on each team or would each team play one half with 6/5 split?

comment by 4everanarsenalfan (U20629)
posted 0 seconds ago
How would we do that? 11 dived. Y two equally will we play with 1 extra/ less player on each team or would each team play one half with 6/5 split?
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11 divided by two is 5.5

Honestly it's not that bad an idea if the men are straight back from hols and nowhere near the fitness levels that makes them better than the women.

What nonsense. First we let women have a break from all the kitchen work, then we let em step out the house for a breath of fresh air, and here they are attempting to play football? We've let women get away with far too much.

comment by Lexington 125.2 (U8879)
posted 6 hours, 26 minutes ago
Disagree tbh. I'm sure loads of women, and supporters of the women's game, would be more than up for a mixed match.

Not like the OP is asking for a shirts vs. skins knockabout.
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I would hate the idea, if the sport started out as mixed then fine but to do it now it would water down the mens sport. There is such a big gulf between the two, the women wouldn't even keep up with 16-18 year olds.

But I love how much support the women's game is getting these days, it's slowly improving

on another note, can you believe that Real Madrid and Dortmund do not have a women's team. It's not about equal rights but about having one in the community, but saying that I don't think Real have a youth program either

I didn't intend to be patronising but I can see why it might be interpreted that way. I think I'm just curious to see what such a game would look like. If each team had a 7/4 split of men/women I think it'd be a good exhibition match.

There is a mixed team who play in our 6 a side league. Two blokes and 6 lassess (2 subs) all on scholarships from America.

Technically they're very good. We started off giving them a yard and to be fair, they made us look like mugs at times.

It all changed though as soon as one of our lads chopped one in half. Easy sailing from there. Not because they cowered away, but because we realised it was fair to use our physiques as we would against men and we were far to strong for them.

Their keeper was unreal though.

comment by Elvis (U7425)
posted 20 hours, 38 minutes ago
Crunch a woman and they are in the wrong for going in too hard.
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I bet they'd get up straight away though and not roll around on the floor.