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And if there’s one thing we can all say with absolute certainty about soccer, it’s that its fans always approach any issue with gravity, prudence and circumspection.😆

I guess all of us are operating on gut feeling, heavily influenced by what we read on our own SM feeds. And I should explain that my interface with SM is very much sports-free. But I for one can hardly believe how many friends - mostly female - on SM have been posting comments like "Wow. I...

And I for one see that problem as pretty much intractable for both the men's and the women's game in Aus.

So now the Matildas frenzy is mostly over, how much flow-on effect do people think the success and OTT media coverage will have, firstly on women’s soccer, secondly on women’s sport in general, and thirdly on soccer in general? My prediction is a big effect on women’s sport, quite a lot...

Seven got an absolute bargain.

Yep. Weird claim. Although the skills in soccer at the elite level are pretty amazing (though, IMO, somewhat overhyped because there’s not much else to talk about!), the fundamental actions of the sport, namely, kicking a round ball along the ground, are about as basic as they come and I would...

Well given the train mayhem is being attributed to a vandalised switchbox I think the espionage theories are only a couple of synapses away,

….aaaand that’s it for the Matildas, and normality can now resume.

I do. Soccer bores me to tears, but I don’t put schitte on it or the people that play it.

Yep. Although I personally don't give two hoots about international success, I can understand how soccer fans make a big deal of it. Where I draw the line is when it turns to bagging this incredible, uniquely Australian code which we have here.

Yeah I respect him a lot in most areas, but he does seem to have a blind spot towards the Australian game.

One of the interesting tasks post-WWC will be separating out the effects of it on the sport’s position in the Oz landscape per se, Vs other factors eg feminism. Craig Foster has quite the shopping list...

Girl Power!

I think the surge will continue until the Matildas stop winning again. And the flow-on to the W and A Leagues will be minimal in the long run, because that is Australian soccer's intractable problem - huge international drain on the one hand, and two absolutely entrenched domestic footy codes...

It's quite phenomenal. Will be interesting to see how much change in the sporting landscape results from it. Apart from everything else, I'll be very interested in how it affects mens soccer, because the soccer gals have gone and done what the soccer guys have been trying to do for 30 years but...

Yep, that was a pretty tawdry episode.

Yeah, nah. Happy for the Matildas, they've been incredible, but I just think Aussie Rules is a far superior game. And so when you see little to excite you out on the paddock, getting excited over other people getting excited is all a bit second-hand. And I personally really don't care about...

Exactly what we've all been saying all along.

Just in passing, not being an Optus subscriber and therefore only being able to watch a dozen or so WWC matches on FTA if I wanted to, I find it very strange to see SO MUCH media talk about something that I can't or don't really see much of. Every single news outlet is going flat chat on it...

Exactly. With soccer by no means the dominant code in Australia, and yet a behemoth globally, I can’t see how the A and W-Leagues are ever going to really prosper. But the fact remains, no sport can truly embed itself in the nation’s psyche without a thriving domestic comp.

You’re probably right.

Yes, I guess my point is whether this time it really is different. Two decades ago the women’s WC would have been a mere blip on the sporting radar, now with the growth in professional women’s sport it’s a pretty bloody big event and it was possibly quite prescient of Oz/NZ to bid and secure...

There’s certainly an inordinate amount of buzz around the WCC. How much of it is media driven and how much is genuine grassroots awakening will be interesting. For every testimonial saying that it’s all that everyone at work is talking about, there another one saying you wouldn’t even know it...

I know. But Australia doing well in a huge international sport is a much bigger story than Australia doing well in a comparatively obscure international sport.

Rare though it is for me to go in to bat for soccer, it is a slightly bigger game globally than netball.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/it-s-not-really-men-s-or-women-s-football-i-think-it-s-just-good-football-20230802-p5dtbs.html

It never fails to tickle me. In a world where there is so much cachet attached to uniqueness and local variation and colour, the argument those people are making is basically an argument for everyone having to eat McDonalds.

LOL “tiny and meaningless”. Anyway we shouldn’t contribute further to pathetic “my dad would whup your dad” arguments.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/aug/04/womens-world-cup-free-to-air-where-to-watch-7-optus-sport

OK so we’ve been on the same page all along. Might explain the misunderstanding. Play on.