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Post by steveb on Dec 8, 2023 20:28:39 GMT
Playing devil's advocate, is there much interest in woman's football amongst the majority of Sutton fans? I think the answer to that is no, but I wonder if there is much interest in women’s football within the club!
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Post by andycapp on Dec 9, 2023 8:09:44 GMT
I think money is obviously the driving factor as if the women’s team were playing tomorrow it already would have been postponed.
The Palace Women have a match tomorrow let’s see if it’s postponed considering today there is heavy rain on a pitch showing signs of overuse.
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Post by brian on Dec 9, 2023 9:16:42 GMT
Any possibility today's game in doubt? Barrows match already postponed.
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Post by boomboom on Dec 9, 2023 11:48:58 GMT
Playing devil's advocate, is there much interest in woman's football amongst the majority of Sutton fans? I'd say rather little but guess that's the norm for most clubs. Personally, I've watched the team once live and usually watch the highlights and interviews so do follow the team to a limited extent. Will has always come across as thoughtful and intelligent manager so from that point of view I'm disappointed that he's resigned. However, it appears that there have been issues behind the scenes so fingers crossed the team will progress with a fresh start under a new manager.
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Post by sallycat on Dec 10, 2023 14:49:54 GMT
Playing devil's advocate, is there much interest in woman's football amongst the majority of Sutton fans? It's football, Stewart, not "woman's football." It's the same game. We're football fans. I'd go to all the women's games if I had time to follow more than one team in person.
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Post by markf on Dec 10, 2023 15:44:40 GMT
If that's the case how is he meant to differentiate when asking such a question?
Also why is the Women's Super League not just called the Super League?
Why do the Olympics differentiate between men and women's sports when the sport is the same?
Why do Wimbledon call men's tennis so and women's tennis so?
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Post by sallycat on Dec 11, 2023 13:58:06 GMT
If that's the case how is he meant to differentiate when asking such a question? Also why is the Women's Super League not just called the Super League? Why do the Olympics differentiate between men and women's sports when the sport is the same? Why do Wimbledon call men's tennis so and women's tennis so? I suppose by saying "our women's team" rather than implying they're different sports. Because for a very long time people have assumed you're talking about men if you mention footballers or football teams. For the same reasons we don't have mixed football teams. It's the same sport but the players are physically different so it's not always safe or fair to put them together. Because men's and women's tennis have separate governing bodies for reasons that aren't relevant to the point I wanted to make. I don't want an argument, Mark, it's just that women's football has been held back for a really long time and part of this is to do with a widespread "I'm not interested in women's football" attitude that seems to be more about not wanting women to play football than actually trying to watch it. I am not saying to or Stewart hold this attitude at all (and yeah, it is a bit different to watch but not THAT different) but I don't think it's helpful (inadvertently or otherwise) to encourage it. I get why you may not have agreed with my challenge of the wording but in my role it would be remiss of me not to say something.
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Post by brian54 on Dec 14, 2023 16:00:28 GMT
No supporters coach to the last 2 men's away matches, now no mention of the suggested coach for supporters to this weeks women's match in the latest news letter I guess that equality.
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Post by davef on Dec 14, 2023 16:12:37 GMT
Someone is on the case trying to book a coach for Sunday’s game, I know that his first approaches met with a lack of availability
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