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Ladies Lounge / Re: Womens Footy - Will It Really Last ??
Local arguments for or against women's football are the very same that were floated around in the UK on the start-up of the Women's FA. Now WFA is live on Free-to-Air most weekends as an afternoon option for the lead up to a FA broadcast. They have it on in pubs a clubs, under pay-per-view regimes so they are actually handing over cash to watch it!
I was in the UK recently and the WFA was attracting crowds of 15000 for typical games and it was OK to watch. In fact the lack of staging for frees, or badgering and begging to referees, made it a game that seemed to flow better than the men's game!
With the WFA the same obvious differences appear, the power in kicks and brute force, but I wouldn't say speed was a big difference, and the girls I watched were very agile and well coordinated, perhaps even better than the men at the finer subtle skills.
The men could learn a thing or two from the girls about team-work and structures, I suppose it's the old multi-tasking argument!
Its an awful brand. They cannot kick. Will be extinct in 5.