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Post by drivethebody on Sept 5, 2020 7:06:35 GMT
BBC are to show live games from the Netball Superleague (as well as Sky) .
Now we all know netball is one of the fastest growing sports and participation levels are way better than basketball can possibly expect but surely BBL have missed a right chance here to get some airtime.
There’s no money going to Netball as such but what an opportunity for them.
BBC have axed sports and were looking for new ideas - even athletics has been axed or demoted to the graveyard of the red button from next year and that’s the biggest viewing figures they have -for the major champs at least.
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Post by hersey427 on Sept 5, 2020 11:56:23 GMT
How have the BBL missed a trick? The BBC is covering netball because it's a female sport - it's a political decision. The reality is that BBC's coverage of both netball and the WSL - whether it's showing games or ramming it down a disinterested public's throat on their website - isn't about viewing figures, it's claiming to do the right thing. If the billionaire football clubs want to subside the WSL, that's up to then, but the real debate should be why a sport that doesn't want anything to do with 48percent of population gets so much public funding. |
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Post by Solly on Sept 5, 2020 12:39:45 GMT
Have just watched the BBC News (while waiting for the Tour De France to get interesting), and was appalled to see a major report on womens football 
IMO womens football is jonny ollocks. And never mind that the mens game can still slosh millions on new signings despite cutting the nerar-mimimum-wage jobs of backroom people, I was further appalled to hear one moo just being purchased for £250,000. Unbelievable. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2020 15:37:04 GMT
2 posts disrespectful towards women.
My only question is, why it has taken women so long to be highlighted, why not do it 20 years ago? I mean it's like the same attitude around swearing, the most offensive word in the English language was once used in medical textbooks when referring to a woman's privates and was also used in street names too.
I guess my point is, why are some of you still stuck in that misogynist BS, why do you seem frightened that women's sport is finally getting a look in?
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Post by hersey427 on Sept 6, 2020 12:52:10 GMT
Really? Me and Solly are misogynists? He's clearly taking the piss and I've raised a point that netball gets a lot of government funding despite it's determination to exclude 48% of the population. Perhaps you can defend that. I've mentioned several times, both on here and my blog, that I preferred covering GB women to the men, I funded my own trip to Poland in 2011 so they could get decent coverage rather than writing it up from livestats and trying to get quotes by text/phone. Women's sport isn't above criticism just because snowflakes get their nickers about it.
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Post by connors on Sept 9, 2020 7:17:18 GMT
GBRocksFan - I don't know about Solly's post but you are barking up wrong tree with Hersey.
I agree with him that the coverage BBC give netball is disproportionate to its popularity and is totally driven by other factors.
Netball's GB certainly deserve credit for making the most of this opportunity. It appears to me to be a very well run and well organised sport, although friends who play have the usual moans and groans we hear all the time as well.
Given the relatively poor attendance numbers at WSL (unless they give tickets away via promos) then I don't believe that sport deserves coverage on the national sports news reports. Just in the same way the BBL doesn't (sadly).
Personally I think womens sport should be given more time to grow organically and not be forced. Otherwise clubs will be left high and dry by over stretching in potentially unsustainable conditions. Sports like tennis and athletics have shown that women's sport can be at least an equally big draw for fans - bigger at times - than their male equivalents.
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Post by confused on Sept 9, 2020 8:12:17 GMT
Can't see why TV, BBC etc would be in the slight bit interested in a badly run American sport to be honest. The fact that UK Sport and Sport England has always been reluctant to fund it is telling. Basketball had its chance at the 2012 games and shortly after and it failed to capitalise. Even Alton Byrd said it was a lost opportunity and I have to say that I agree with him with the most part. Not to discredit netball one bit, but they put on a decent game and even managed to get Nike as a sponsor. They seem lightyears ahead of basketball
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Post by hersey427 on Sept 10, 2020 6:37:26 GMT
Hi drunkster , congrats on managing to post as a guest, shame it's the same sad, bitter crap
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