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Title: Olympics football
Post by: the vicar on July 21, 2021, 09:05:24 am
GB Lady’s 1 Chile 0 Gb had a first half goal cancelled out for off side
Title: Re: Olympics football
Post by: EasyforDennis on July 21, 2021, 09:52:15 am
Somebody please explain the offside laws to Ellen White.
Title: Re: Olympics football
Post by: the vicar on July 21, 2021, 10:00:29 am
GB 2-0 up
Title: Re: Olympics football
Post by: the vicar on July 21, 2021, 10:06:07 am
Somebody please explain the offside laws to Ellen White.
someone needs to lol
Title: Re: Olympics football
Post by: drfchound on July 21, 2021, 10:15:27 am
I’m not watching the game but when I have seen White play before she does play right on the edge of offside but clearly it works for her.
2-0 and two goals for her.
Title: Re: Olympics football
Post by: EasyforDennis on July 21, 2021, 10:24:54 am
It's not a criticism but just an observation. She would score a lot more if she stayed onside.
Title: Re: Olympics football
Post by: drfchound on July 21, 2021, 10:28:18 am
Maybe but she might not score as many if she didn’t run the risk of being offside either.
Title: Re: Olympics football
Post by: RoversAlias on July 21, 2021, 11:15:50 am
Ellen White has consistently scored goals for her entire career - and she's 32 now - so I'd say the way that she plays is working for her.
Title: Re: Olympics football
Post by: Chris Black come back on July 21, 2021, 12:12:54 pm
In 1997/98, the worst season in not only our history but any league club, ever, Prince Moncrieff scored eight league goals. He literally did not know the offside rule and it took Weaver to try and educate him as to how it worked. Straying offside is no bar to goalscoring, as the Prince demonstrated.

I should add for the record that in 2007/08 when we got promoted to the Championship, our highest league goal scorers were Hayter, Heffernan and Price on 7 goals each. The Prince outgunned them all, playing in the worst side in history.
Title: Re: Olympics football
Post by: PDX_Rover on July 21, 2021, 12:24:39 pm
Prince Goodgrief
Title: Re: Olympics football
Post by: DonnyBazR0ver on July 21, 2021, 12:54:02 pm
Ellen White has consistently scored goals for her entire career - and she's 32 now - so I'd say the way that she plays is working for her.

Would deffo agree with that. She's not the quickest but makes up for it by being on the edge.
Title: Re: Olympics football
Post by: the vicar on July 21, 2021, 03:45:41 pm
Dunt matter off side or no off side a win is a win.  On to the next game
Title: Re: Olympics football
Post by: Campsall rover on July 21, 2021, 04:07:14 pm
Weaver to educate him.

No wonder we were a mess. Please don’t mention that “man”  it brings back too many bad memories.

 :facepalm:
Title: Re: Olympics football
Post by: Monkcaster_Rover on July 21, 2021, 04:47:45 pm
Lovely finish for the 2nd goal as well.
Title: Re: Olympics football
Post by: the vicar on July 21, 2021, 07:43:22 pm
Yes it was a fantastic finish
Title: Re: Olympics football
Post by: rich1471 on July 21, 2021, 11:10:07 pm
It was a great finish ,they play again on Saturday , the ref was poor and the VAR when used was being done in Qatar ,know wonder it took so long
Title: Re: Olympics football
Post by: the vicar on July 22, 2021, 10:00:25 am
One thing that is sad, is that the GB men are not there as well
Title: Re: Olympics football
Post by: number19 on July 22, 2021, 12:29:11 pm
I didn't realise why either Vicar so had a quick google: https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/team-gb-mens-football-team-tokyo-olympics-2020-squad-who-explained-1104045

In 2015, Trefor Lloyd Hughes, the then president of FAW, criticised the FA for trying to “bully” other home nations into accepting a Team GB squad at Rio 2016.

“England seem to want to run everything and take over the whole game,” he said. “But we will not let that happen – the dragon on Wales has still got flame coming out of his mouth. We are not going to be bullied.”