Wolves Women Thread

[C.L.D]

Super League club at home is nice, hope they get a good crowd.

 

[C.L.D]

First leg of the BCD this weekend in the Challenge Cup...be great if the main socials promoted them both, fill Telford.

 

[C.L.D]

Game postponed because Reading poisoned everyone!

Women's Black Country derby postponed

Wolves Women’s Birmingham Challenge Cup semi-final with West Bromwich Albion on Sunday has been postponed due to illness within the Old Gold camp.

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Hope everyone recovers soon!

 

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[Tony Towner]

Lost 4-1, but it was 1-1 on 88 minutes so assuming the fitness of the pro players did for them

 

[Alan]

Lost 4-1, but it was 1-1 on 88 minutes so assuming the fitness of the pro players did for them

Forgive my ignorance; are we considered semi-pro at this point or amateur?

 

[Tony Towner]

Forgive my ignorance; are we considered semi-pro at this point or amateur?

Law's Bus will be able to correct me, but I think we only pay expenses so amateur

 

[Alan]

Fair play to those ladies.

 

[BillyDee]

It was a great effort, started really strongly but couldn't put it on the scoreboard.

 

[big mean bunny]

How are they doing overall this season? Checked the league the other day and noticed they have dipped off pretty significantly since the last few seasons.

 

[Tony Towner]

How are they doing overall this season? Checked the league the other day and noticed they have dipped off pretty significantly since the last few seasons.

We don't invest properly other sides do. Newcastle have gone professional, you can't compete with that. All that said they would appear to be under performing

 

[Law's Bus]

Forgive my ignorance; are we considered semi-pro at this point or amateur?

Just amateur. As TT says, we pay expenses only, but the women's team is a full part of the club and have full use of the facilities.

It's worked for us as we have some of the best players who would rather stick with their careers who we'd lose unless we went to some kind of hybrid model - for example, Beth Merrick is a teacher for her "day job".

Are we under performing this season? Mmm, maybe a little, but not much. Tier 3 is becoming professional (or semi-pro) over these last couple of seasons - the clues were there when we lost the promotion playoff to Southampton (semi-pro) a couple of years ago. Newcastle are just throwing money at it, Forest and Burnley are semi-professional now, then there's the gap to everyone else. Wolves are sixth currently, but have a couple of games in hand over the teams above. I'd argue that fourth place is basically winning the "amateur" division, and honestly about the best that can be achieved with the current model.

 

[C.L.D]

Theyre not underperforming, Fosun don't invest in the club and clearly don't want to or they'd be semi-pro already. I think the figure I heard was £2M was needed, which is a pittance in scheme of things, so club is getting left behind as others get real in their support and funding, all this despite good results and frankly once the manager leaves I think players will leave too, because they're choosing to play for him over a better contract elsewhere.

But people see they're 6th and not 1st or 2nd and go "Oh they're shit now" with no context.

 

[Tony Towner]

Imo there should be a condition within the PL to invest a certain percentage of revenue into the youth and women areas of the club. It's also already outside of PSR

 

[Law's Bus]

Theyre not underperforming, Fosun don't invest in the club and clearly don't want to or they'd be semi-pro already. I think the figure I heard was £2M was needed, which is a pittance in scheme of things, so club is getting left behind as others get real in their support and funding, all this despite good results and frankly once the manager leaves I think players will leave too, because they're choosing to play for him over a better contract elsewhere.

But people see they're 6th and not 1st or 2nd and go "Oh they're shit now" with no context.

I think that's a tad unfair on Fosun - though don't get me wrong, my opinion is that they could and should be doing more.

Up until a couple of years ago, the women's team still had to pay subs to play, had no facilities, had to beg for hand-me-down kits etc etc. Now they have access to all the facilities, medical, performance, hotels etc, and you even see things like Tammi George or Beth Merrick shirts in the club shop next to those of Neto, Lemina etc etc. They played at Castlecroft, which whilst I really liked going there, the facilities at Telford are night and day different. I've ended up sat next to Jeff on more than one occasion when he's just turned up on spec and sat in the stands. They (and he) clearly do give a damn.

Going from where we were to where we are has required Fosun to be interested in investing in this part of the club too. It's just that the next step isn't one that they've chosen to make yet.

 

[Loki]

Good to see the Club doing stuff like this,

 

[Kenny]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1759183105305330058

 

[Kenny]

Very late leveller from us sees the game end 2-2.

We won the penalty shoot out.

 

[darlowolf64]

Did the Albion massive invade the pitch again…

 

[Law's Bus]

Very late leveller from us sees the game end 2-2.

We won the penalty shoot out.

Bec Thomas saving the first two Albion penalties as well!

Not at our best, 2-0 down early on, but a great fightback.