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New management team for Swindon Town Ladies
           
           


  SWINDON Town Ladies have announced the appointment of Steve Robertson as the new first-team manager

           

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Who gives a shit about this? Can't wait for the day the media realise Women's football is a minority sport with a severe lack of ability. Deserves the same amount of coverage as the Wilts Premier League and that's being kind.

Fucking hell we have a Ladies development squad as well?!?!

This stuff better not cost too much

They arent even in a decent league are they? Its Wiltshire level isnt it?

I don't have a problem with women's footy, but I just can't get interested in it.

I swear there was a quote from an Australian official/minister in the 90's that was something like "As a sport I view women's soccer just below going to a zoo and poking animals with a stick". Buggered if I can find it now.

I have a problem with it when it's reported on like the majority are interested in it. Same as women's cricket, 5 live read out the women's squad one day, there must have been under 100 people listening nationwide who'd have been the slightest bit interested.

Maybe don't read it then, if it upsets you so much?

I didn't read the article Paul.

Not reading it doesn't make it go away though Paul does it?

Womens' football is pathetic but we're supposed to actually give a shit about it because that's how we're supposed to think.

Bollocks to that.

I don't watch it but I've got no problems with Women's Football being reported et al. I've noticed that BBC Football online have been really pushing it recently (compared to what they used to).

No, of course not. But does it actually bother you that much?

Probably a good job if the overreaction to a mere headline is anything to go by.

I don't especially like cricket. So I tend not to read articles about it. I find that gets me through, by and large, while still allowing those who do like cricket to indulge their interest. I'm quite happy for them to do so. Everyone's a winner!

That's because it's one of the few live packages the BBC can still afford :)

They also have a sponsor (Intel) I noticed. Could they be our new sponsor?

Lordy, not even Sky are interested?

 :eek:

Think that's more because the ladies team have come under the wing of Football in the Community who Intel have been sponsoring for some time. Arranged by separate teams I believe

Not in the slightest (well obviously a little bit otherwise I wouldn't have posted it), but do we have to care passionately about every subject we post about?

I just find it slightly irkesome that I feel that I'm supposed to care about something that's about as consequential as a kid's game of hopscotch.

To reiterate my earlier point -

Bollocks to that.

I don't think you are supposed to care about it, really, not if you don't want to. But some people do, so the paper reports on it, for those people to read about. If you're not one of them, I think you're supposed to ignore it and kind of get on with your life. I may have this wrong of course, in which case I should perhaps also start slavering with rage and scorn at all the things that are in papers that I don't care about. But I hope I don't as that strikes me as being quite a tiresome waste of decent ire.

Who are these people though Paul? I can honestly say I don't know anyone who gives a toss about woman's football (apart from fatbury and we won't go there). I took the original point to be a complaint as to the imbalance between the amount of real interest in the sport and the media coverage it generates.

The way it is so seriously reported on and covered in all forms of the media suggests to me that I am most definitely supposed to care. The fact of the matter is though, it's just a truly pathetic sport.*

*I'm not going to lose any sleep over it or start frothing at the mouth with 'great rage and furious anger'...it's just my opinion, which I'm perfectly at ease with.

I know a few people who have an interest because their daughters play in various youth setups, if not in STFC ladies. But I don't know anyone who gives a shit about parish councils and the papers report on them plenty. And just because I don't know anyone that doesn't care about it, doesn't mean there aren't any.

And actually there seem to be loads of people that care about women's football, albeit in a negative sense - it generates a quite disproportionate amount of hate on here, for one thing. Which I find quite baffling to be honest.

Really? So is, to take another random example, snooker. I've never assumed that means I'm supposed to care about it. Do you get this wound up by other things you're not interested in that are reported in the news? The coverage of fishing quotas must drive you potty.

How many more times do I have to say it? I'm not 'wound up' by it. Just stating my perception of what I see as the reality of a particular situation. You don't have to actually care about something to have an opinion, do you?

Fishing quotas...now that's something I care deeply - some would say fanatically - about...just don't get me started.... :rocket:

Great use of a grossly under-used emoticon OST - fair play to you.. :clap:

Ha ha, a two line comment is an over reaction these days is it? Blimey. I thought it was a 10 second bit of typing, but there you go.

If anyone is over reacting to anything on this thread it's you I'd say.

The FA have been targetting the rise in womens participation in football for years and currently have it high on their agenda so its no wonder this rubs off on the media, who lets face it have pandered to the FA for years. That being said cant see a problem with it myself, if you're not interested don't bother with it, I apply this behaviour to  'strictly', 'x factor' , 'big brother' and many other things I think are overblown.

Women's football, women's cricket. Hockey. Netball. Women's golf.

I agree it's all very dull and not particularly interesting to us blokes. Do I care that it gets reported on or bigged up? Nope, as I never look/watch/read/listen to the media.

I'm happy  :)

You lot really need a summer hobby.

If you ever take up an interest in snooker, then don't buy a cue off Stephen Lee.

http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/archive/2014/06/09/11265064.Stephen_Lee_fined___1_800_for_fraud_over_snooker_cue_sale/

Cheers for the tip Reg. I might start watching women's snooker and write a regular column about it in the Adver.

 I have a certain sympathy with OST here.  Now I'm all in favour of women's football, and don't mind watching the odd game on the box, Olympics etc, but get annoyed by the Beeb putting the women's latest scores on the website videprinter with the men's. So you look and see Bristol City are 2 down at home and think  :) and then see its to Everton rather than Tranmere  >:(

By all means have the scores and reports etc, but keep them as separated as a Birmingham or Bradford school educational activity.

Is it the off season by any chance?  The World Cup starts tomorrow, yay!

 :banana:

I'd love to think pushing women's football is because they want to inspire young girls to take up the sport, be more active, and put their minds to something other than the traditional avenues girls get pushed down like hockey or netball or gymnastics.

However, what it probably is is the manufacturers of football paraphenalia have realised they've only been targeting 50% of the population for years.