Grimsby Town Football Club is an organisation established in 1878. The primary revenue-making arm of the organisation is the men's football team. If women can't represent this 146 year old organisation, then surely disabled people and promising young players who currently play for the academy can't either?
The more groups that represent the organisation with pride, the more interest there will be the primary revenue-making arm of the organisation. In other words, a successful women's team will ultimately benefit the men's team.
Grimsby Town Football Club is an organisation established in 1878. The primary revenue-making arm of the organisation is the men's football team. If women can't represent this 146 year old organisation, then surely disabled people and promising young players who currently play for the academy can't either?
The more groups that represent the organisation with pride, the more interest there will be the primary revenue-making arm of the organisation. In other words, a successful women's team will ultimately benefit the men's team.
This. I was trying to think of something similar without it looking like a crowbar! My daughter has just got into Nottingham Forest Netball. Their owne is looking at the multisport set up like in his homeland of Greece but there’s a definite reason he is looking at that and that is to widen the reach of the club. I mean, Forest don’t need as much help as Town do yet there they are running a netball club in the Superleague and the age groups they need to run too. All of a sudden there are about 120 extra young people wearing the Garibaldi with pride, associated families many of whom have no affiliation at all and all the extra outreach they do. They’re running netball hubs at Havelock, a good few miles from Nottingham!
It's pleasing to know that both my daughters, who play football locally, should be able to look forward to misogynistic folk telling them their interests are not merited because they're girls.
"Hey girls, it's amazing that you enjoy football like I do, and the enjoyment you get from it fills me with pride, I love that we have this shared interest in a sport that I get to both watch and coach you in. Sadly, some geezer from the Fishy thinks that girl's playing football is an abomination and this is the world you're up against so be prepared for overweight middle-age blokes telling you that it's not worth you playing because you'll not be as good as the men"
Such an antiquated way of thinking. I wish people would get over the fact womens football is a growing industry. Not a growing sport, the sport is the same one that has been played for over 140 years. There will always be a very clear differences between the men and womens game owing to physical differences that are not the fault of anyone, in no way does that mean it isn't as valid a game, if that's the mantra you're pushing then we'll shut down grassroots football too and just allow the elite clubs have trials and take the best and wait for them to emerge into the elite game,
It amazes me that so many men feel threatened by the womens game, as if they're going to take over and the mens game plays second fiddle. What is so difficult about making the simple decision whether to attend a game, watch a game on telly or just give it a wide berth? Why the womens game needs sh1tt1ng on is beyond me.
I’m assuming Heisenberg’s original statement was either a joke or trolling looking for a reaction. Fair play to everyone pointing out that, when given the resources (i.e. Arsenal), women’s teams can attract large crowds. It’s not even a new thing – before the ban, women’s teams often attracted tens of thousands (see male private, Kerr Ladies, one of the more famous examples).
Anyway, how has nobody pointed out the massive, hilarious snub of Scunny where the article states that we are “40 miles from nearest rivals Lincoln or Hull City”!
Hand on heart I struggle to enjoy women's football and I do feel it is at the point of being forced on people rather than allowed to solely grow organically. I believe the interest is there for it grow on its own merits but there's a need for it to be done at pace (which I do get, capitalising on the success of the Lionesses etc.). The sad thing is that I fear the push helps fuel the outdated agendas of many.
It's not for me. But that's fine. Many things aren't for me and I just let them be. I walked past a local tennis club here the other week and a few games were going on, the standard actually looked quite decent but tennis bores me. I glanced, then looked away and got back to my day. It didn't really impact me and that's surely how life works, especially in a democracy - many things exist but you don't have to enjoy them all.
To suggest that over half of our population having the option of playing sport, seemingly any sport, is an 'abomination' is flipping weird. Thankfully the vast majority of our population has moved on from the concept of Man Hunt, Woman Make Tea.
I've quite enjoyed some of the England womens' team games and will watch those if I'm not otherwise occupied but wouldn't have an interest in the club matches. It's a bit like the England RFU team or the England cricket team. Will watch if not busy doing something else, but I'd never watch a club/county game on TV.
There is no doubt that the standard has improved enormously since the advent of professionalism, so good for them. I don't imagine I'll be watching too much women's football unless my daughter takes up the game when she's older.
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