You'd want your head examined or have daughters like Hopper McGrath, to manage a Ladies team thread

Its 10 times worse thsn women’s gaelic football.

Actually it’s pretty good tbh.

Ladies football is fairly good by women’s sports standards

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I think it’s pretty good by sports standards in general

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A few trans goal keepers and it’d be as good as the mens.

I have made that point a few times. It is a far greater spectacle than camogie and it is mainly due to the fact that it the ladies play a fairly simplistic style of football compared to the mens game. They get the ball and go forward/attack with it and play at tempo rather than hand passing it back and sideways.

There is no packed defences or sweepers either. Camogie even when played by the better I/C sides is still a rather headless game tactically and in terms of use of the ball.

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The father used to call it proper football, they way football should be played.

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As an auld stock used to remind me when I used to run and gun “Football is a simple game”

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I think this is starting to change sadly, definitely at intercounty level. Charlatan cunts introducing negative tactics. Disappointing to see.

That’s a super goal.

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Did she not foul the ball twice there?

There is no joy in your heart :neutral_face:

Don’t think so?
A fine goal, but calling it a muggsy is patronising

A quick Google and I see moving the ball between hands is legal in women’s football

A fine goal so.

There’s a few differences between the ladies and the man in the rules. Sometimes you blur the two sets of rules or there’d be a free every twenty seconds. The tackling in particular has a completely different set of rules, not that any of the players or management seem to realise.

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What’s the tackle rule

You aren’t supposed to have one. But like all codes of the gaa, there’s a grey area around the tackle now too

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Can’t play at the ball unless the player in possession is actually playing it herself, i.e soloing, handpassing or kicking, so as long as the ball is held in the hands or into the body, the defender can’t play at it (I presume it’s a slightly outdated fairer sex thing, or, without being rude, because of boobs. It doesn’t stop any of them anyway, so it’s hard to referee. No two person tackles (again hard to referee), and no shoulder allowed.
If you blew for the first two there would be no game at all.
I think a lot of the teams are coached either with the men, or by men, or by women who have played with the mens game as the example. The speed fitness and skill levels are no different really at the level I referee, nor is the controlled aggression. You end up just trying to be fair, but refereeing in grey. It’s all a bit stressful, as you think all the time “well that’s a free, but I let the other one go, but this was worse etc etc” whilst your getting shouted at :slightly_smiling_face:

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