Could a woman play for a professional team?
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This reminds me of the whole women in the Paras thing, a colonel of some description said something along the lines of 'are you saying Jess Ennis couldn't do it'. Maube 1 per cent of women have the genetic ability to become a para, jess would be one of them, but I would bet at least half of all men with enough training could meet the grade. Its just too expensive to allow women to go for selection when the vast majority will fail!
anyhow. I digress...
anyhow. I digress...
This reminds me of the whole women in the Paras thing, a colonel of some description said something along the lines of 'are you saying Jess Ennis couldn't do it'. Maube 1 per cent of women have the genetic ability to become a para, jess would be one of them, but I would bet at least half of all men with enough training could meet the grade. Its just too expensive to allow women to go for selection when the vast majority will fail!
anyhow. I digress...
anyhow. I digress...
No chance.
In terms of skill, there is no reason why the women can't match the men, but the gulf in speed and strength is just too big.
There are plenty of other sports in which women could compete directly with men (they do so already in equestrian sport). Cricket, for example. A female batter could definitely play first class cricket. Bowling is a different matter, of course.
In terms of skill, there is no reason why the women can't match the men, but the gulf in speed and strength is just too big.
There are plenty of other sports in which women could compete directly with men (they do so already in equestrian sport). Cricket, for example. A female batter could definitely play first class cricket. Bowling is a different matter, of course.
The standard of international women's football on the whole, is abysmal. The England team would struggle against my sunday league team, in all honesty, and that is with most of them having gone out on the piss the night before. The goalkeepers her beaten by shots that I would have been emabarrassed about if I conceded them when I was 11.
Amirhussain said:
Could she hack 90+ mph bouncers and yorkers?
There is no physiological reason whatsoever why a woman's eyesight and reflexes should be any slower, or faster than a man's.As for the physical confrontation and intimidation of facing serious fast bowling, no-one much likes it as we have seen so vividly in the Ashes down under this winter.
Amirhussain said:
Bradgate said:
Cricket, for example. A female batter could definitely play first class cricket. Bowling is a different matter, of course.
Could she hack 90+ mph bouncers and yorkers?Dan_1981 said:
U17 women beat U17 men.
Although from reading the report it appears they needed 27 players to do so.....
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/6/52/89539...
Meh, it says "squad" not team, or played.Although from reading the report it appears they needed 27 players to do so.....
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/6/52/89539...
And at 17 I think they'd be physically a lot closer so the playing field is levelled.
Add to that it's Egypt where the overall standard is lower and it's levelled even further.
It's interesting but not conclusive.
I'd like to see Spain Women play England Men, that could be....humbling.
Hugo a Gogo said:
seriously, there are no women in the world with stronger legs than Messi or Neymar?
never mind some dude in Doncaster
The top players have genetics and training on their side. Women are simply not built in a way to enable them to compete unless as stated earlier they are freakishly like a man ie influenced by the male hormone. Re the tennis example though it seems even then they are at a disadvantage vs an almost Top 200 man.never mind some dude in Doncaster
TX.
RobDickinson said:
I know its tennis but I think women's tennis is perhaps more competitive than women's football..
"During the 1998 Australian Open, sisters Serena and Venus Williams boasted that they could beat any man ranked outside the world's top 200. The challenge was accepted by Karsten Braasch, a German player ranked No 203 (his highest ranking was No 38). Before the matches, Braasch played a round of golf in the morning, drank a couple of beers, smoked a few cigarettes, and then played the Williams sisters for a set each, one after the other. He defeated Serena, 6-1, and Venus, 6-2. Serena said afterwards "I didn't know it would be that hard. I hit shots that would have been winners on the women's tour and he got to them easily.""
From what I have seen of top end womans football they have some ball skills but are hugely off the pace on the rest of the game.
Serena was 16 at the time. Now, I'm not saying she could hold her own against a top seeded man but I think when at her peak she would've given men ranked at 200 a good game, perhaps even won. "During the 1998 Australian Open, sisters Serena and Venus Williams boasted that they could beat any man ranked outside the world's top 200. The challenge was accepted by Karsten Braasch, a German player ranked No 203 (his highest ranking was No 38). Before the matches, Braasch played a round of golf in the morning, drank a couple of beers, smoked a few cigarettes, and then played the Williams sisters for a set each, one after the other. He defeated Serena, 6-1, and Venus, 6-2. Serena said afterwards "I didn't know it would be that hard. I hit shots that would have been winners on the women's tour and he got to them easily.""
From what I have seen of top end womans football they have some ball skills but are hugely off the pace on the rest of the game.
Juanco20 said:
I don't think you appreciate just how poor the standard of women's football is if you compare it directly with the men's game
If England ladies played a side from the Conference North, they would get absolutely pummeled. Or another example, if you took a league 2 player and stuck him in the England side at the next women's world cup, he'd probably single handedly win them the tournament
Have you seen the women in Moss SideIf England ladies played a side from the Conference North, they would get absolutely pummeled. Or another example, if you took a league 2 player and stuck him in the England side at the next women's world cup, he'd probably single handedly win them the tournament
Dan_1981 said:
Serena May have only been 16 but Venus was 18 and was already ranked in the top ten, had reached several finals and would be winning opens within a year.
In your, and others opinion. Would Serena Willams, at her peak have got through the first round against an unseeded lowly ranked (200 + ) man at Wimbleon?Bradgate said:
There is no physiological reason whatsoever why a woman's eyesight and reflexes should be any slower, or faster than a man's.
As for the physical confrontation and intimidation of facing serious fast bowling, no-one much likes it as we have seen so vividly in the Ashes down under this winter.
Agreed. However would she have the strength to move a bat heavy enough to actually do anything but block the ball? As for the physical confrontation and intimidation of facing serious fast bowling, no-one much likes it as we have seen so vividly in the Ashes down under this winter.
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