Great result!!! We got ourselves a team in the World Cup! Kukis!!!!The Cook Islands have qualified! After winning today's qualifiers against Tonga, Samoa and Fiji
The Cook Islands have qualified! After winning today's qualifiers against Tonga, Samoa and Fiji
The sport isn't and never has been a joke. The Muppets running it is a different matter.So who is going to take responsibility for this?
The VFL is starting a pro women's national league and we can't get a few teams together for the World Cup.
This sport is a joke.
There was a Harmony Cup tournament just the week before this World Cup Qualifier. All P.Is Nations participated in that tournament but they were mainly Sydney based players. The Harmony Cup tournament was a similar structure to the WC tournament where they played multiple games in one day. The Cook Islands finished the highest placed P.Is team when they came runners up to a team from Melbourne. WC organisers billed the Harmony Cup as the precursor to the WC Qualifiers, implying the same teams will compete in both tournaments which was going to be the case given the lack of time all teams had to prepare. Only the Cook Islands bothered with the demands of the short notice, the rest pulled out.
It's something like the fifth World Cup. And there's been more teams in it in the past, so it hasn't grown in that sense.You guys are being way too harsh, they need to start somewhere, it's the first ever World Cup, let the f**king thing grow, the woman's game is the best shape its ever been in lol.
My apologies mate, I had no idea the female World Cup has been held in the past , yeah shows how well they have advertised it in the past. I think female sport in general is growing around the world , maybe the time is right for us to invest more time and money into it.It's something like the fifth World Cup. And there's been more teams in it in the past, so it hasn't grown in that sense.
The organisers have treated it like an afterthought, have put f**k all thought, effort or money into it and when it's all been "organised" they've suddenly found far more interest in it ($500,000 from the govt, TV coverage etc) than they would have expected. It's a pretty clear example of selling the game short and doing things half arsed and then wondering what might have been.