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Thread: Can women play in the Eircom League?

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    although this thread has descended to farce, one thing it possibly raises is Getting more females to games is one area that has often been overlooked in marketing football in this country

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    If any team had a female player they would automatically have the **** taken, but it would create a media circus, with the ultimate outcome being that the league would be seen as being more mickey mouse than the FAI could ever hope to achieve on their own.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cabs88 View Post
    although this thread has descended to farce, one thing it possibly raises is Getting more females to games is one area that has often been overlooked in marketing football in this country
    Descended???!!!
    more bass

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    Plus, I'd imagine any of the decent women's players (Aresenal, Swedish teams, US teams) are being paid more than EL players anyway.

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    Of course they can - if they leave their sports bras in the dressing room!
    Manager: Fergal, have you your boots with ya?
    Fergal: Ya, I have them here.
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    Quote Originally Posted by redobit View Post
    Of course they can - if they leave their sports bras in the dressing room!
    and there kits....
    sorry that was uncalled for i know. i love women

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    Perugia tried to sign a woman a couple of years ago. (They also signed Gaddafi's son!)

    Quote Originally Posted by Cabs88 View Post
    although this thread has descended to farce, one thing it possibly raises is Getting more females to games is one area that has often been overlooked in marketing football in this country
    That's true. I was at a Bundesliga match over the weekend and there a much higher percentage of the crowd were female than we get in the EL.
    Last edited by Mr Maroon; 18/08/2008 at 11:15 AM.

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    god i cant believe there are so many immature morans on here. when are yous back to school lads?two weeks is it? cant wait.





    back to topic - are you telling me that mia hamm couldnt play for drogheda united? you're havin a laugh. although why would she when she is the third biggest earner after tiger woods and coby in the us now

    you're the same ****s that watch the olympics 100m women and reckon you lazy fat *******s could beat them all

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    Well no, no she couldn't really, if you think about it. Firstly she's now too old, and has retired. Secondly as a woman, and not a particularly bulky one, she wouldn't be too well able to stand up to the physical abuse a player, particularly a forward, gets in this league from big burly blokes. Sorry, but that's basic physics. And thirdly, even the free-spending Drogs wouldn't even approach being able to afford her.
    This takes nothing away from the fact that she is one of the best footballers who ever played.
    But that second point is why I reckon the thread to be fairly farcical from the beginning, and again, sorry to have to pour cold science on some laudable sexual politics. Some of the players, and particularly some centre halves, are absolute animals when you play against them.
    As to the immature posts, you have a point there, but I would recommend that when you call someone a moron you spell it right - looks bad is all.
    Who's Coby? We're not all on first name terms with him/her.
    Last edited by stann; 19/08/2008 at 2:18 PM. Reason: to make me look even more enlightened :D
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    Quote Originally Posted by stann View Post
    Well no, no she couldn't really, if you think about it. Firstly she's now too old, and has retired. Secondly as a woman, and not a particularly bulky one, she wouldn't be too well able to stand up to the physical abuse a player, particularly a forward, gets in this league from big burly blokes. Sorry, but that's basic physics. And thirdly, even the free-spending Drogs wouldn't even approach being able to afford her.
    This takes nothing away from the fact that she is one of the best footballers who ever played.
    But that second point is why I reckon the thread to be fairly farcical from the beginning, and again, sorry to have to pour cold science on some laudable sexual politics. Some of the players, and particularly some centre halves, are absolute animals when you play against them.
    As to the immature posts, you have a point there, but I would recommend that when you call someone a moron you spell it right - looks bad is all.
    Who's Coby? We're not all on first name terms with him/her.
    i can only assume he means koby bryant - superstar basketball player.

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    Quote Originally Posted by diamond View Post
    god i cant believe there are so many immature morans on here.
    Quote Originally Posted by stann View Post
    I would recommend that when you call someone a moron you spell it right - looks bad is all.
    Sorry Stan, I think he's talking to a few posters on this thread here (who happen to be cousins, coincidentally enough) by the family name...
    That question was less stupid, though you asked it in a profoundly stupid way.

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