England.

[Welsh_red 4,996]

My daughter has been obsessed with football since she could walk . Always at my matches when I played and started in boys teams when she was about 5 and still at it now at 13 . All her profile pictures on stuff are her playing football.  She follows me everywhere on a saturday now I coach a reserve team in the town and plays every sunday for her club 

Its one of God's greatest gifts to me that both my kids love football as much as me but especially with my daughter . While I'm coaching she can be seen on the touchline stood with older players I know chatting about who should be playing where , whose good at this and shit at that etc 

She has absolutly zero interest in watching the women's game. None , she watched extra time and penalties of the final because I was downstairs watching it and called her down to watch the end . 

If its PSG Vs Real Madrid game she will come and watch all of it . For her she will watch the men's games because their so good 

Ive got a fireatick here that she can watch the women's super league on during the seaosn but no interest 

I think the problem with the women's game (at least in Wales) is that the academy's here for girls are pretty shit . Kids with rich parents get in ,  coaches daughters , coaches daughters friends get in . Theirs not a massive push for quality . My daughters been in west wales academy's before and got accepted into a different academy for this season but has turned it down in favour of staying playing with her friends in here grass roots team .

Over the last couple of seasons there has been the opportunity for girls involved in academies to be selected for the Welsh Regional team based on the acdemy coaches recommendation . One girl who played with my daughter was a exceptional player still playing with boys grass roots.  She was the Steven Gerrard type of player . Utter class and everybody could see it . She wasn't put forward for the Welsh regional team by academy coaches for God knows what reason it was bizarre.  Coaches daughter was and other random choices were . The girl has since given up academy and just plays with the boys grassroots now . 

How is Welsh women's football future going to progress if the cream isnt allowed to float to the top ive got no idea 

My only conclusion is because theirs not much money to be made at the top of the game with women's football its treated like a token thing they have to do any nobody is held accountable for weird choices 

Looking at the boys academy my son plays for and its cutthroat all the way through , coaches sons not making the grade and getting dropped . Its all based on the quality of the player and that way better players get further 

Both my kids are in low level academies but at least if my boy wasn't picked up to play the following season him and myself could say " well that new keeper is better " and make piece with it that way . When a girl isnt picked up and u find out the girl whose dad owns multiple car dealerships and cant control a football has been put forward for better teams the mind boggles 

[jukel123 9,278]

6 minutes ago, Welsh_red said:

My daughter has been obsessed with football since she could walk . Always at my matches when I played and started in boys teams when she was about 5 and still at it now at 13 . All her profile pictures on stuff are her playing football.  She follows me everywhere on a saturday now I coach a reserve team in the town and plays every sunday for her club 

Its one of God's greatest gifts to me that both my kids love football as much as me but especially with my daughter . While I'm coaching she can be seen on the touchline stood with older players I know chatting about who should be playing where , whose good at this and shit at that etc 

She has absolutly zero interest in watching the women's game. None , she watched extra time and penalties of the final because I was downstairs watching it and called her down to watch the end . 

If its PSG Vs Real Madrid game she will come and watch all of it . For her she will watch the men's games because their so good 

Ive got a fireatick here that she can watch the women's super league on during the seaosn but no interest 

I think the problem with the women's game (at least in Wales) is that the academy's here for girls are pretty shit . Kids with rich parents get in ,  coaches daughters , coaches daughters friends get in . Theirs not a massive push for quality . My daughters been in west wales academy's before and got accepted into a different academy for this season but has turned it down in favour of staying playing with her friends in here grass roots team .

Over the last couple of seasons there has been the opportunity for girls involved in academies to be selected for the Welsh Regional team based on the acdemy coaches recommendation . One girl who played with my daughter was a exceptional player still playing with boys grass roots.  She was the Steven Gerrard type of player . Utter class and everybody could see it . She wasn't put forward for the Welsh regional team by academy coaches for God knows what reason it was bizarre.  Coaches daughter was and other random choices were . The girl has since given up academy and just plays with the boys grassroots now . 

How is Welsh women's football future going to progress if the cream isnt allowed to float to the top ive got no idea 

My only conclusion is because theirs not much money to be made at the top of the game with women's football its treated like a token thing they have to do any nobody is held accountable for weird choices 

Looking at the boys academy my son plays for and its cutthroat all the way through , coaches sons not making the grade and getting dropped . Its all based on the quality of the player and that way better players get further 

Both my kids are in low level academies but at least if my boy wasn't picked up to play the following season him and myself could say " well that new keeper is better " and make piece with it that way . When a girl isnt picked up and u find out the girl whose dad owns multiple car dealerships and cant control a football has been put forward for better teams the mind boggles 

Interesting read mate.

[eastcoast 4,501]

12 minutes ago, chartpolski said:

I’ve been talking to a few lads both inside and outside the club and it looks like Isak is burning his bridges.

I don’t know how true it is but he’s supposed to have invented the thigh injury to get out of the Asia tour and has now walked out of Darsley Park training ground.

The overwhelming opinion I’m hearing is that even if he is not sold, the supporters will turn on him.

Shame, a brilliant player and will be extremely difficult to replace.

Knowing the mindset of the Saudis, there will be a faction saying keep him , make him see out his contract in the reserves but that would be silly if someone is willing to pay £150 million for a mercenary !

Cheers.

With all due respect it's the usual summer pantomime season. Probably, but, no smoke without fire. What has Iask said, who did he say it to, and when did he say it? Many "journalists" are paying their utility bills this summer by repeating hearsay but if anyone had any actual proof then they would have cashed it in and and covered their winter bills. But no one has.

Missing Glasgow, and the current pre-season? I believe that this is the club, driven by Eddie Howe, protecting the kid from all this nonsense and letting him get his head together for the new season wearing the black and white number 9 shirt.

Having said all that, I lost £200 to a Mackem "mate" when we sold Andy Carroll to Liverpool.

[chartpolski 27,472]

3 minutes ago, eastcoast said:

With all due respect it's the usual summer pantomime season. Probably, but, no smoke without fire. What has Iask said, who did he say it to, and when did he say it? Many "journalists" are paying their utility bills this summer by repeating hearsay but if anyone had any actual proof then they would have cashed it in and and covered their winter bills. But no one has.

Missing Glasgow, and the current pre-season? I believe that this is the club, driven by Eddie Howe, protecting the kid from all this nonsense and letting him get his head together for the new season wearing the black and white number 9 shirt.

Having said all that, I lost £200 to a Mackem "mate" when we sold Andy Carroll to Liverpool.

As I said, I don’t know, but somethings going on, Chinese whispers don’t help or journalists after “click bait”, but the truth is supporters, at least the ones I’m talking to, aren’t happy with Isak.

He could end all the speculation with a simple statement.

Cheers.

[Welsh_red 4,996]

9 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

Interesting read mate.

Thats my take on it at least from my experience 

Equal pay is bullshit , I think the vast majority of people know this.  It gets my back up when I see the women's players demanding more money and various news articles picking it up simply so they can get get rage clicks

Im the same as other people when I see it . Im not going to lie tho when I see comments and the stupid shit people say " women should stay in the kitchen " and stuff like that i get pretty pissed off even tho its just words on the Internet i cant help it  

So long as a girl proper loves the sport then crack on.  They get the same joy that boys do 

Im happy women's football is on tv for girls who do follow the game to watch . But that's as far as I go with it . Glad its on tv , but unless the ratings are there and the sponsorship is there then they should grow within their means 

Ive been to watch 3 or 4 wales women's games in cardiff and only one side of the stadium is filled . And tickets are probably 5 quid . Cheap as hell.  And hardly anyone turns up . 

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