desprateseagull
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Any rules against wimmin playing in the Championship..?
- Thread starter desprateseagull
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Yes there are. There's a maximum age at which mixed teams are allowed. About nine or ten, I think, but don't count on that.
Yes, football is segregated after the age of 12 (school year 8). From that time, no girls/women can play in a boys/men's team. The same rule applies in rugby too (much to my daughter's dismay as she's had to leave her team).
Interestingly, there is no such rule in cricket. There's nothing stopping a woman playing for a county team. Indeed, I believe Sussex registered Sarah Taylor as a player last year when they thought they had a keeper problem
Interestingly, there is no such rule in cricket. There's nothing stopping a woman playing for a county team. Indeed, I believe Sussex registered Sarah Taylor as a player last year when they thought they had a keeper problem
Tricky Dicky
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The keepers also seem to be rather small, there was one at 5' 4". Now, as a shortarse myself, she'd be taller than me, but one thing I've never considered doing is going in goal.
It's not just you, the 'keepers are all poor in comparison to the outfield players but I'm not convinced that there are any players that I have seen that would be able to hold their place in a Championship team, if they were allowed.
turienzo's lovechild
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- Oct 25, 2003
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oddly, the championship is actually the ONLY league where 'wimmin' are allowed to play....which makes this a really valid and important thread...thank you for starting it
Are the goals the same size as in the men's game? They look like they are, surely they could be made a bit smaller to reflect the average height of women compared to men.
You're right. It was raised to U16 last year - something my daughter's school seem completely unaware of. It changes to u18 next season
daveinprague
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If they pull their shirts off after scoring a goal, im all for it
beorhthelm
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- Jul 21, 2003
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the quality of football looks decent enough, but i think most would struggle in the English leagues for 90 minutes.
So do we
Megazone
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Goalkeeping in the women's games looks a bit suspect.
Pondicherry
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They are around county league standard at best (IMO) based on available evedence.
nwgull
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They'd get outmuscled and significantly out paced and out jumped.
Gritt23
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I don't think wimmin would settle very well in the mens game, as there are certain aspects that were completely missing from what I saw of the Womens World Cup. They really have a long way to go in terms of simulation, before they can even begin to compete. I didn't see anyone rolling around screaming when they had jumped over a possible challenge, holding their face when the ball had struck them on the shin, or being stretchered off in agony, only to jog back on a few seconds later.
There was a German player who went down in the match against England, holding her face. She'd had the briefest of pushes ... and nowhere near her face. She was the only player I saw do it and I watched quite a few of the games