Only 14-1 for 8-0! Miserable bookies.
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Another great achievement by the ladies.
Congratulations to all the squad and back-room staff.
Another memorable piece of silverware for Hibs Ladies.
Well done to all the girls and coaches.
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Well done to all involved, and the fans that gave them some great support!
Congratulations to all involved,fantastic achievement
Was out this afternoon, so recorded the game to watch when I got in and I'm glad I did as I've just seen a strong performance by Hibs, albeit in a mismatch.
Reading the other comments in this thread, I'm pleased to hear that there are good numbers of girls coming through because the ladies game needs several strong clubs to be taken seriously and not simply the current duopoly. I have mixed feelings on Celtc putting money into their team as this may create a monopoly.
As regards the standard of the ladies game, I take the view that I'm watching amateurs playing and adjust my expectations accordingly. All of us on here do that when it comes to the quality of football we watch, which is why we were at Easter Road yesterday and not at the Etihad this afternoon.
Well done to the ladies, great result & quite frankly if the neanderthals don't like it, get a life.
These women are doing aa fantastic job for HIBS....
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A healthy crowd of near 2,000 to boot.
Changing the size of the goalposts is terrible chat.
That’s like saying adults who play Lowland league or Sunday leave should have smaller goals as they are miles away from Man City etc.
Kids level yes - goals smaller but adult football?
What about the tennis net also in tennis ?
Or hockey goals ? Basketball hoop height?
Nonsense chat for me.
I also never understand why so many people that clearly have no interest in womens football continue to tune in and comment on it. You dont like it and thats fine....so why on earth are you watching it? Also someone slating their touch etc earlier... Rachael McLaughlin would turn every single guy inside out on this board. :aok:
And Jamie-Lee would give Martin Boyle a run for his money bolting down the wing.
We’ve got a very talented group of players in our women’s team, and I wish people would stop talking them down - they’re playing a key role in developing the women’s game in Scotland, and we should be proud that they represent Hibs, and be proud that our club takes the women’s game seriously.
My 8 month old daughter was up at her gran and grandad's yesterday.
She has an absolute fixation with remote controls, so they gave her their one to play with.
She had a wee press at the buttons, turned the TV on, changed it straight to the Hibs ladies game then put the remote down next to her with a big grin on her face. Daddy's allegiances are well-known so this was of great amusement to everyone present.
A good sign, I think.
I think it's an obvious fact that the size of the goal relative to the size of the goalkeeper makes a difference to the likelihood of scoring a goal. It's no surprise that goalkeepers tend to be tall. In the men's game nowadays, a keeper under 6ft would probably be considered too small.
Over the years, increasing the size of the goals has frequently been floated as a way to improve the game as it almost certainly would lead to more goals being scored.
If the women's game was played with 7 a-side size goals, the scorelines would be a lot tighter. That wouldn't necessarily make it a better game though and some would argue that the relative sizes in the women's game between goalkeeper and goalposts is the better option.
Considering the ladies' game seems to be going from strength to strength right now, I don't think they need to be working on wacky features to rope in a few more punters.
Goram was an exception in recent times and was considered small. The Hibernian keeper didn’t let in any goals. The Motherwell keeper was at a considerable height disadvantage - although, ironically, it was bad defending and limited agility that shipped most of the eight yesterday.
I am not knocking the women’s game.
If Hibs signed a 5’8” keeper to replace Bogdan and Marciano, we’d be up in arms.
I coached youth football for years. It was a nightmare for the keepers when they were small. Low scoring games was down to poor finishing more often than good goalkeeping.
Your point that there are plenty of tall keepers in the women's game only supports the idea that goalkeeping is a tall person's job.
Anyway, I'm not advocating smaller goals, I'm just pointing out that it's an unassailable fact that smaller goalkeepers will find it more difficult to defend a standard sized 11 a-side goal than a tall keeper. Unless the tall guy/girl has very short arms, of course.
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Or the smaller goalie has great, anticipation reflexes and agility.
The idea that adult women should play on differently configured pitches to adult men is an insult to them.
All we are really seeing is one team with significantly better players hammering another, its like watching the Tornadoes all over again.
As the number of participants grow the playing field will level again, sadly.
One of the things I really like about watching Hibs Ladies is that you get the chance to see them use all of their skills as they are so much better than most of their peers that they appear to seldom need to win the war before they get to play their football.
Some of their passing, crossing and finishing is exemplary, but that could be a by product of the fact that all look physically very fit, often more so than their opponents. Again like the Tornadoes
They have great situational awareness and are really well coached as well.
The player with the ball always has a number of options available to them.
I get the fact that its not for everyone, but quite why anyone would want to criticise them for playing a sport they love and bringing great credit to the club just mystifies me.
I thought the movement of the Hibs players yesterday and the passing was sublime. They totally outclassed their opponents and looked well ahead of them in terms of fitness and ability.
As I have mentioned, I am not suggesting that they should play on differently configured pitches. All I am saying is that it will have an impact on the way their game is played - particularly for the (usually) smaller goalies. And, of course, in the professional men's game, a smaller keeper would have to make up for his lack of height by being much more able in other areas.
Incidentally, there's nothing wrong with the women's game being different and, like you, I tend to celebrate its differences like the almost complete lack of fouling in yesterday's final.
i think he means because ladies are generally shorter than men so it kinda makes sense.
Hockey and tennis are bad examples as even the shortest of players could reach the cross bar or see over the net!
Womens basketball? They do have lower hoop heights don’t they?
Good point
To answer you in order
Yes why not this would then help remove the ludicrous discrepancy in their prize money
There shouldn't be women and men's tees in golf, there should, as there is in the US, be tees for appropriate handicaps and I say this a single figure handicap golfer of well over 40 years.
There is nothing worse than watching some duffer trying to hit a 200 yard carry when their best shot goes 120 yards.
I played Celebration in Florida a couple of years back and watched 2 guys trying to hit the forced carries I could (which weren't that troubling for a decent player) and lose comfortably 20 balls in 18 holes between them, a truly soul destroying experience.
If they had played from the tees their handicaps merited instead of getting all macho it would have been a better experience for everyone.
I have played enough golf to know there are many many women out there who would comfortably skelp some males of their vanity handicaps.
My home course is lucky enough to have some very good women players and I have played in the past with a Scottish Internationalist I used to work with who could comfortably hold her own distance wise and had the touch of a genius around the greens.
Why not, wouldn't the distances just go down for those involved and it would even out?