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Well done Newcastle, phew what a tense last 10 minutes and I'm not even a Newcastle fan, betcha @EggFacewas a bag of nerves!

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That's true, so in effect the SL is on par with the Women's Super League, and the Challenge Cup on par with the women's FA Cup, which says it all really. I wonder how much more money the beeb pay for the two RL comps over the two women's footy comps? I assume it's more !

Harry, I think the point Hopie was making is that our premium cup competition with all the history has just one match of the last 16 on FTA BBC and that's on iplayer, the rest generated so little media interest that the poor TV deal the RFL got is the best available. That is a sad state of affairs.

Absolutely crucial the stadium designs incorporate the use for RL. Maybe part of the Manchester regeneration can include a station at Leigh and a new line for direct access to the stadium. By 2030 the GF and maybe the Challenge Cup final will be the only top tier sport played there as Manchester United will probably be in League 1 at best.

Very enjoyable FA Cup weekend , didn't notice empty seats either, the Cup lives on. QF Draw; Bournemouth v Man City Fulham v C. Palace Brighton v Nottm F or Ipswich Preston N E v Aston Villa

I don't have to, you have already, but so what, they're cheap, people are going, tv figures are up. Your claim that no one really watches women's sport is false. My Sister in Law runs a girl's team and I showed her your post. She says she hears this all the time, running down women's sport, disbelieving the upwards trajectory of women's sport and putting the upswing to other factors creating a false narrative for political correctness and expediency when apparently no one watches it. Perhaps you are right though! Perhaps the 46,550 crowd for the England v Spain international was created by cheap ticketing and brainwashing.

Average home attendances of WSL Clubs. https://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/womens-super-league/attendances Why should you not include matches at Stamford Bridge? May as well not include matches at the Emirates, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Old Trafford, then you'll get your low figures. All these other sports have put effort into the women's versions of their games, RL hasn't, as the saying goes, you reap what you sow. The bottom line is the lack of money prevents serious investment, and that's a shame and has to change before real improvements can be made.

Really ? https://www.sportspro.com/news/womens-sports-uk-tv-audience-viewership-record-2024-wsl-six-nations-fa-cup/ Figures for first 4 months of 2024 supplied by WST,Women's Sports Trust. Confirmed: WST report, with data from Futures Sport & Entertainment, shows that 20.9 million people watched three minutes or more of women’s sport coverage from 1stJanuary to 30th April A third of viewers (6.8 million) were new, having not watched any women’s sport in 2023 Majority of new viewers came from increased free-to-air (FTA) coverage of women’s soccer and rugby union Live viewing hours for the Women’s Super League (WSL) were up ten per cent to 31.6 million Viewership of the biggest games is growing, with the number of people watching Manchester City versus Manchester United up seven per cent on last year’s biggest game (Tottenham Hotspur versus Arsenal), with an average of 813,000 tuning in Viewers of WSL matches on BBC One have risen by 22 per cent year-over-year (YoY), from 637,000 to 775,000 so far this season Sky simulcasting WSL games on Sky Showcase and Sky Max has seen the average number of viewers rise five per cent since November The average audience of the rounds leading up to the Women’s FA Cup final climbed ten per cent to 537,000 Initial viewing figures from the final show a three per cent YoY rise in live match time viewing with 1.194 million tuning in The Women’s Six Nations on the BBC was the most viewed on record with 8.1 million tuning in for at least three minutes – 33 per cent more than in 2023 Games featuring England were especially popular, with a 42 per cent rise in viewership

Australia have literally no peers to play against who even come close, so to say they're the best women's team in the world of any sport is premature. It's like putting Wigan in League 1 seeing them destroy the opposition and concluding they're brilliant. Australia don't have to be brilliant to win those games. A ladies team that dominates and is called brilliant probably needs to be so against regular tough competition. The only one I can think of is the United States soccer team who dominate against a lot of reasonably tough opponents.

If we're picking a country that everyone probably knows it's a country, but know s*d all about and never hear a peep about it; Kyrgyzstan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrgyzstan

Profession means Professionals meaning payment. So cavemen hunters didn't get money but paid in kind by women. The women gave themselves to men and got paid with protection and food. So I'd say the "oldest profession" is the oldest profession if you know what I mean. Besides all that, Kings, Emperors and rulers getting taxes, presumably employed tax collectors, so perhaps them.

Don't worry mate I'm sure Norwich will come again. Actually they're doing alright this season, 12th place but only 4pts off play offs. BTW- It's now the Carabao Cup

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Basketball gets very little if any BBC coverage but is popular. It's nowhere near attendance figures of RL obviously, nor tv viewing figures as its rarely on, except NBA on I think TNT. But engagement with young fans particularly from ethnic backgrounds is high. In London where ever I go I see kids in parks playing way more than soccer. People of varying ages in basketball tops , that's how I know a number of team names without ever watching the silly sport. RL I always thought does very well on the BBC and Sky considering the small general public awareness.

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Knowing your location and football feelings, is it cringe time coming up on March 16th ?

1907- Wanting to expand the game after an all European World Cup one year previously the RFU employ an new media company thingy that sounds very exciting on a 12 year deal. A joint English Italian firm run by Peter Grabbe, Giuseppe DeMoni and Jeffrey Runne, better known as Grabbe, DeMoni and Runne.

1886- Certain soccer clubs fearing defection of clubs to pro Rugby resign from FA. They call themselves The Southern Soccer Union and pay players, and with just 9 players a side and no offside hope to capture the nation's imagination. Unfortunately they are located in places like Bracknell, Reading Maidenhead straddling what will later be a boring road called the M4.

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Watching Aston Villa v Liverpool tonight, the fans of both teams seem so passionate. They holler and cry with jubilation as the goals go in, in a very Important match. It seems so important to them and they're having a great time, or are they? Are you saying the poor dolts have been tricked by hype? IF you could talk to them would you say, " look at the stuff on the pitch it's rubbish, wake up idiots, you shouldn't be enjoying it because it's phoney?"

Unfortunately you can't rewatch previous games on SS+, unless it was on SS+ but not on red button but on main feed. No discrimination against League, it's the same with EFL football.

Well I was invested in the Spurs/Man Utd game because I'm a Spurs fan even though it wasn't exactly thrilling. But it WAS THRILLING because of my emotional investment. That's why football being so ingrained in many people's lives doesn't even need to be overly entertaining. It's a wonderful position to be in. So to get new fans into RL you need them invested in it. Internationals will help but not likely to translate into emotional investment in club League mainly due to the small geographical spread. When England won the Union WC that was slightly different because the larger spread of clubs, but 20 years later its all fallen apart.

Are you suggesting it's actually a sh...ite game but advertising and marketing dupes suckers into liking it ,and not much else.