[Albion] Todays women’s game

[Hamilton]

Indeed.

The normal situation in a PL club is that one single men's first team player has higher wages than the entire women's squad. This is very likely the case in Brighton as well. The players in the biggest teams in the WSL earn some £60k per year on average and we're probably around £40k on average.

We paid 80% of Ansu Fatis £160k-per-week wages last season, meaning that every week we paid him the same money we give to four or five of our female players over a year.

People who support a team in the men's Premier League and talks about the cost of the women's team are among the most moronic and deluded people in society. Complete lack of connection to the real world.

It’s sad that all the teams in the top flight of women’s football are Premier League teams.

The teams that fought for women’s football - Clapham, Durham, London City, Doncaster, Liverpool Feds, Lewes - they are nowhere to be seen.

Instead, the FA have allowed a model to emerge that means that PL owners can just buy up the game.

 

[Brovion]

If I lived in Brighton or closer to it I would definitely watch some of the women’s games. Going to a match for me is not a couple of hours out of my day, it is a whole day event. So I don’t have the capacity to follow any other team. Saying that I have watched them play live at Wycombe, the game they got promote, a couple seasons ago when they played Reading, also watch a couple of the games at the Amex when my mum was still alive as I could combined visits and one game I took her to a match and she really enjoyed it.

If the women’s games are on YouTube or TV I will watch. They are representing The Albion, so I want them to do well.

I can’t imagine why any Albion fan would not want them to do well, unless they have something against women doing sport, and any person saying they are not interested and don’t want it forced them, don’t watch it then or do you feel the need to give your opinion on every televised sport that men play that you don’t have interest in? Probably not.

Oh they do. Read any England thread, full of posts from people saying how much they "don't care".

But yes, your point is valid. I want all the Albion teams to win all their games.

 

[Han Solo]

It’s sad that all the teams in the top flight of women’s football are Premier League teams.

The teams that fought for women’s football - Clapham, Durham, London City, Doncaster, Liverpool Feds, Lewes - they are nowhere to be seen.

Instead, the FA have allowed a model to emerge that means that PL owners can just buy up the game.

Yup, thats the general development of women's football, for good and bad.

20 years ago, women's football was dominated by clubs doing only or mainly women's football, like Umeå IK, Turbine Potsdam and so forth. Unfortunately the sport didn't grow as quickly as expected so a lot of these clubs eventually had financial problems and thats when the big clubs took over.

London City should be going up this season though. One could argue that they have the most ambitious project in women's football.

 

[JBizzle]

Oh they do. Read any England thread, full of posts from people saying how much they "don't care".

But yes, your point is valid. I want all the Albion teams to win all their games.

It reminds me of the point I made a year or so ago when people complain about women's football being reported about on SSN. I don't start a thread complaining that they have darts or boxing coverage on SSN because, for those segments, I'm not their audience but somebody will be.

It's all part of a seemingly modern phenomenon wherein people simply have to make it known how little they care about something by commenting about how little they care loudly and vociferously whenever the opportunity arises.

Anyway, I've been very impressed with the women's team this season. Dario Vidošić comes across very well indeed and finally seems to be the right appointment after a series of missteps post-Powell. It helps that we've given him a squad capable of meeting lofty expectations, unlike previous seasons

 

[ozzygull]

I don't think any Albion fan wants any Albion team to do badly and I can't immediately recall any comment on NSC against women doing sport.

In fairness, NSC is a football forum (as well as many other things), so commenting on football - whether male or female - and everything around it is to be expected over other sports, televised or otherwise. No one should get kid gloves treatment, everything is up for robust but civil debate. That's where the equality comes in. Now I'm typing this in the early hours with one eye on The Women's Football Show. It's great that it's being shown, but with a finish at almost 1am, far too late on a Sunday night / Monday morning to encourage kids watching unless its on the iPlayer. So that's one bit of feedback that's clearly meant as a positive. Breakfast of champions and all that.

As for anyone who isn't interested, well they're probably not reading this thread let alone commenting on it. But that's not good.
In the words of Wilde, "there is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about".
Media column inches (e.g. Suzy Wrack in The Guardian) promote from the top, but the organic growth desired really needs to come at club forum level.

So let's keep talking on NSC about Women's Football and all concerning it. We may not always agree, but interest and engagement is better than the alternative.

To be fair it wasn't aimed at NSC particularly, apart from the useless attendance comparisons and the #justsaying remark.

I have stopped doing it, but I used to read the comments on the BBC after the England's Lionesses won the European cup and it was just depressing. Comments about how a "12 year boys team or pub team could beat these " it's not relevant, as it is women's team competing against each other. Then the "BBC has gone woke", and "stop forcing something I am not interesting in" comments. it was insane.

 

[dazzer6666]

To be fair it wasn't aimed at NSC particularly, apart from the useless attendance comparisons and the #justsaying remark.

I have stopped doing it, but I used to read the comments on the BBC after the England's Lionesses won the European cup and it was just depressing. Comments about how a "12 year boys team or pub team could beat these " it's not relevant, as it is women's team competing against each other. Then the "BBC has gone woke", and "stop forcing something I am not interesting in" comments. it was insane.

This - the constant comparisons with the men's game are daft - the same gaps are evident in pretty much any sport where physical attributes are a factor, and from a finance/following perspective the women's game has years of catch-up ahead. The thinly-veiled sniping (often dressed up as 'I'm just asking the question........' etc) is tiresome.