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lovewins:
You're talking gibberish and that's putting it lightly. Planned to ignore your initial comments since your quoted me I might as well respond.

First, players have 24 hours in a day, part of which they spend a few hours training. Where their 100% focus is needed is when they are training or when they are watching films during their strategy sessions. That's maximum 8 hours of their day (nobody trains for 8 hours by the way). This leaves them with another 16 hours to do whatever with.

If they decide to spend some of that time on social media, how is that a problem? Don't you personally have a job you do? Aren't you on nairaland spending some of your time, and I assume also on other social media platforms? Does that suggest to anyone your aren't focused or aren't serious with your job? Yes the Super Falcons have issues that needs to be worked on, it however doesn't give very anyone the right to police their life or how they choose to live their life during their free time particularly if they aren't breaking camp rule.

Same applies to your comments here. How is Rinsola posting about a transfer to her new club indicative of loosing focus? Aren't you aware this is common in football?

dodobytes:
This coach is virtually barking orders

Dey go, dey go!
Play to the whistle!!
Continue for her, put it, put it!!

Local coach!!

QueenJazz:
Madugu might be in for a rude awakening this Friday. I just pity the fans.

BankyGee:
Again, them say Randy Waldrum no good 😂

I miss that man d!e, baba go don tell them wetin to do, just go sit down dey watch from bench, and they'll do it, we had a 15 game UNBEATEN run under this man, playing Haiti, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, England, Ireland and other African countries (we won New Zealand and Australia, the two World Cup hosts as at that time o).

Where I respect Randy was in that RO16 match against England wey England coach dey pace upandan, the man just still sat down chilled.

Na who no know wetin he dey do, or who no get plan na him dey shout like Madugu for touchline.

QueenJazz:
Madugu might be in for a rude awakening this Friday. I just pity the fans.

mostob:
15 games unbeaten run but he couldn't win sh***

Under him, we had our poorest finish in WAFCON.

Madugu may be a poor coach but Waldrum is not it either. Na recency bias dey make us forget Randy's flaws. Let's stop bringing up Randy's name abeg. We don't get to criticize him much probably due to his colour or the fact that the fan are fascinated by anything and everything foreign.

mostob:
15 games unbeaten run but he couldn't win sh***

Under him, we had our poorest finish in WAFCON.

Madugu may be a poor coach but Waldrum is not it either. Na recency bias dey make us forget Randy's flaws. Let's stop bringing up Randy's name abeg. We don't get to criticize him much probably due to his colour or the fact that the fan are fascinated by anything and everything foreign.

GeneralDae:
One thing I can say is that Madugu has slowly brought back the Nigerian style of football to the falcons (lacking since 2016) which is always big on possession and moving the ball forward but requiring some fine tuning here and there and some clinicality.

With Dennerby and Waldrum, we played defensive, tactical football.

BankyGee:
Again, them say Randy Waldrum no good 😂

I miss that man d!e, baba go don tell them wetin to do, just go sit down dey watch from bench, and they'll do it, we had a 15 game UNBEATEN run under this man, playing Haiti, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, England, Ireland and other African countries (we won New Zealand and Australia, the two World Cup hosts as at that time o).

Where I respect Randy was in that RO16 match against England wey England coach dey pace upandan, the man just still sat down chilled.

Na who no know wetin he dey do, or who no get plan na him dey shout like Madugu for touchline.

BankyGee:
Okay.

semid4lyfe:
Banky my gee. So you dey enter here too. Anyways, you don talk am before say Naija teams na your only football club

On Randy, I beg to disagree. South Africa outplayed and completely dominated us in the Aisha Buhari cup on their way to a 4 - 2 victory. Months later, the same SA still knack us 2 - 0 in our WAFCON opening game. Pray tell, did he not learn anything from the previous match against SA?

In that same WAFCON, we lost to Morocco in the semi-finals and to Zambia in the third place match to finish 4th. Throughout the tournament, Randy started deadweights like Rita Chikweku and Onome Ebi even when it was glaringly obvious that they were off-pace and were past their best.

At the world cup, we drew Canada, won Australia, drew New Zealand and lost to England.

Even when we met SA again in the Olympics qualifier, despite the Super Falcons winning 1 - 0 over the two legs, I felt SA was the better ball playing team.

This is what I remember about Waldrum, and it's an average record in my books

Madugu has not being a bad coach and the Falcons are not playing badly under him. It's just that we've lost our headstart advantage in female football. Other countries have levelled up by investing in their female football programmes. Some like Morocco & SA even have better structure, funding, planning and organization.

Also, exposure to better leagues abroad, better coaching, more competitive matches and the availability of foreign-based professionals and dual nationals to to these other teams has made them better and closed the gap on us.

So right now, the difference between the top tier african teams boils down to the quality of players, team selection and quality of coaching input, and Madugu has not being bad in this regard though I'll afmit his team selection and deployment of tactics could be better

Also, the tactics teams are deploying against us in this WAFCON is not easy to play against. Our opponents set up ultra-defensively with the intention not to play to win but to not concede against us so they pack the bus.

With Madugu, we are dominating possession and only need to work on transitioning the ball faster, and improve on our finishing. In addition, we have been defensively solid. I see promise and believe if we overcome Zambia in the Q/F, there's no stopping us and Mission X will be accomplished.

Believe!

semid4lyfe:
Banky my gee. So you dey enter here too. Anyways, you don talk am before say Naija teams na your only football club

On Randy, I beg to disagree. South Africa outplayed and completely dominated us in the Aisha Buhari cup on their way to a 4 - 2 victory. Months later, the same SA still knack us 2 - 0 in our WAFCON opening game. Pray tell, did he not learn anything from the previous match against SA?

In that same WAFCON, we lost to Morocco in the semi-finals and to Zambia in the third place match to finish 4th. Throughout the tournament, Randy started deadweights like Rita Chikweku and Onome Ebi even when it was glaringly obvious that they were off-pace and were past their best.

At the world cup, we drew Canada, won Australia, drew New Zealand and lost to England.

Even when we met SA again in the Olympics qualifier, despite the Super Falcons winning 1 - 0 over the two legs, I felt SA was the better ball playing team.

This is what I remember about Waldrum, and it's an average record in my books

Madugu has not being a bad coach and the Falcons are not playing badly under him. It's just that we've lost our headstart advantage in female football. Other countries have levelled up by investing in their female football programmes. Some like Morocco & SA even have better structure, funding, planning and organization.

Also, exposure to better leagues abroad, better coaching, more competitive matches and the availability of foreign-based professionals and dual nationals to to these other teams has made them better and closed the gap on us.

So right now, the difference between the top tier african teams boils down to the quality of players, team selection and quality of coaching input, and Madugu has not being bad in this regard though I'll afmit his team selection and deployment of tactics could be better

Also, the tactics teams are deploying against us in this WAFCON is not easy to play against. Our opponents set up ultra-defensively with the intention not to play to win but to not concede against us so they pack the bus.

With Madugu, we are dominating possession and only need to work on transitioning the ball faster, and improve on our finishing. In addition, we have been defensively solid. I see promise and believe if we overcome Zambia in the Q/F, there's no stopping us and Mission X will be accomplished.

Believe!

GeneralDae:
One thing I can say is that Madugu has slowly brought back the Nigerian style of football to the falcons (lacking since 2016) which is always big on possession and moving the ball forward but requiring some fine tuning here and there and some clinicality.

With Dennerby and Waldrum, we played defensive, tactical football.

GeneralDae:
Yeah. Ordega and Oshoala both being the oldest attackers in the team who have played together since their U20 days (2012) as attackers would also definitely understand each other better as well.

BankyGee:
Again, them say Randy Waldrum no good 😂

I miss that man d!e, baba go don tell them wetin to do, just go sit down dey watch from bench, and they'll do it, we had a 15 game UNBEATEN run under this man, playing Haiti, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, England, Ireland and other African countries (we won New Zealand and Australia, the two World Cup hosts as at that time o).

Where I respect Randy was in that RO16 match against England wey England coach dey pace upandan, the man just still sat down chilled.

Na who no know wetin he dey do, or who no get plan na him dey shout like Madugu for touchline.

zoboizee:
I still think this is our best 11.
    Nnadozie
      Ohale       Demehin
Oladipo                   Plumptre
     Ayinde Uchiebe      
Echiegini
Ajibade                  Ordega 
              Oshoala

mostob:
I agree... Anybody can get frustrated. Everybody is human but not letting all these get to you is a distinct leadership characteristic.

mostob:
We have not conceded any goal so far. Our issue is at the final third. That wouldn't have pose much problem if only the girls were clinical.

The issue is bringing up Randy at every opportunity like he was some sort of Pep.

BascoVanVeli:
Honestly the more I think about this the more I feel it is an absolute non issue. In fact i don't know if i can say she was wrong.

Her offense was heading straight to the tunnel after getting subbed. That had everything to do with frustration and nothing to do with discipline. There is no rule that a player has to stay on the bench after getting subbed. For all we know she could have been in the back crying her eyes out.

Danielnino00:
Let's not forget that Randy also had his issues in his first few years in charge...
Playing players out of position, playing without a specific pattern...many of us complained.. it wasn't much later that he got the team to gel...

Madugu isn't really convincing, but Randy's tenure wasn't all rosy either..

BascoVanVeli:
Honestly the more I think about this the more I feel it is an absolute non issue. In fact i don't know if i can say she was wrong.
Her offense was heading straight to the tunnel after getting subbed. That had everything to do with frustration and nothing to do with discipline. There is no rule that a player has to stay on the bench after getting subbed. For all we know she could have been in the back crying her eyes out.

semid4lyfe:
Osasu and Asisat have beef history so I don't entirely believe that Osasu asked that question with a clear conscience.

Remember some years back Osasu Obayiuwuna was selected by CAF to vote on behalf of Nigerian football media for the CAF women footballer of the year, and when CAF released the vote breakdown, it emerged that he voted for Tabitha Chawinga of Malawi instead of Asisat Oshaola.

Asisat eventually won the award that year but many Nigerians dragged him on social media for not voting Asisat, labelling his action unpatriotism, sabotage and a betrayal. Osasu doubled down that he was there not to protect nigerian interest but express his professional judgement, and his assessment was Tabitha Chawinga was more deserving of the award.

As a result of that issue, Asisat blocked him on Twitter. I may be wrong but it's not impossible that Osasu asked that question of the coach with an ulterior motive.

semid4lyfe:
Osasu and Asisat have beef history so I don't entirely believe that Osasu asked that question with a clear conscience.

Remember some years back Osasu Obayiuwuna was selected by CAF to vote on behalf of Nigerian football media for the CAF women footballer of the year, and when CAF released the vote breakdown, it emerged that he voted for Tabitha Chawinga of Malawi instead of Asisat Oshaola.

Asisat eventually won the award that year but many Nigerians dragged him on social media for not voting Asisat, labelling his action unpatriotism, sabotage and a betrayal. Osasu doubled down that he was there not to protect nigerian interest but express his professional judgement, and his assessment was Tabitha Chawinga was more deserving of the award.

As a result of that issue, Asisat blocked him on Twitter. I may be wrong but it's not impossible that Osasu asked that question of the coach with an ulterior motive.

lovewins:
No na. It's one thing to cut her some slack, it's another to say it's a non issue. Asisat was wrong even though we've extended grace, we shouldn't call what is wrong right.

Players are expected to remain on the bench after being subbed off. Only players red carded are mandated to leave the pitch. Remember C Ronaldo did something similar his last stint at Manchester and there was outrage (and rightly so). Nwakali was even on the bench but was playing with his phone, he got disciplined by his team. I can list several examples of players who did this and got I to trouble.

AkinDS:
Edna Imade signed by Bayern Munchen.

Congratulations to her - really proud of her accomplishments.
If not for that buffoon Magudu, who refused to invite her when he should have, she could’ve been a Super Falcon running the frontline at this WAFCON. What a complete dullard!