#GTFCWomen

Eden Pedersen, proper player. Player of the match last night and deservedly so.

Town must keep hold of her and 5 other core players next season. And they must recruit a lot more capable players too, to not only get promotion back to the league they’ve just been relegated to, but also to then compete to get promotion after that too, to The FA Women’s National League. That is a level that the club is very capable of reaching. If Nettleham Ladies can achieve it (before they changed their name to Lincoln City Ladies), and now a small club like Lincoln United have done it, then a much bigger club like Grimsby Town FC should be more than capable than getting there, if the club backs those core players and gives them what they need.

A women’s team at a club like ours, must not be allowed to lose any more pace on the momentum that women’s football is travelling at. It needs the desire and the tools to be moving upwards not downwards. There’s 5-6 very good players in that team, but they need support from the club, and they need good recruitment and coaching to help them out. Because by the sounds of it, if they don’t get that support from the club, then the club could be losing some of them. That would be disastrous and very sad for women’s football at the club.

GTFC please take women’s football seriously. Having a women’s team must not be just tokenism or a participation project. It’s a competitive sport.

I thought that the club did take it seriously?? How don’t they do that?