Saints women team

[MB]

Club website is full of Saints women content these, don’t mean to be rude but is it actually necessary? Just think it’s PC gone mad these days. Sky sports is the same with WSL coverage, was mad it took precedence over Pompey/Saints game.

 

Doubt most people could even name  you one player. Do people even go matches? Assumed it was just friends/family

 

 

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

[East Kent Saint]

Oh dear ! They were actually banned from playing at all by the football authorities despite having an England team at the time . So get real now they have an actual opportunity to play football.  You don't have to watch it if you don't want to.

We don't live ruled by some religious maniacs , thank somebody 😄 .

 

 

[Ted Bates Statue]

Not another thread about the women's team FFS

[suewhistle]

2 hours ago, MB said:

 Just think it’s PC gone mad these days. 

Is he actually saying that with a straight face and no sense of irony?! It's up there with 'do you know who I am?' in revealing all about the writer/speaker.

 

2 hours ago, MB said:

Doubt most people could even name  you one player. Do people even go matches? Assumed it was just friends/family

He assumes rather a lot, doesn't he?!

[Dr Who?]

Me I follow the Saints women’s team, and enjoy the women’s game. Again like the men’s game, I have very little interest in the top flight, unless Saints are in it, then you have too. I have no interest in the champions league. 

I have got more enjoyment out of watching the women’s England team than the mens over the last decade for sure, and there is something refreshing about the way they play and respectfully play. They also seem to want to win for each other, and that shows with results. They were nowhere near their best during the last euros but that togetherness saw them through, that sheer desire to win. 

Southampton women I have been championing for years now and have followed them online mainly because of my location, but go to the games up north, and went to the playoff final against Wolves at Stockport when they go promoted into the Championship, now the WSL2. 

The women’s game has come on so much in the last 10 years and there is something women’s international team winning 2 euros is pretty outstanding. I understand it is not for everyone, and I always watch the women’s game with that in mind, it is not the men’s game that has had millions ploughed into it over many decades. I think the women’s game will continue to improve, but we already have the same issue where the bigger teams are taking all the talent pool, which makes it very hard to retain your good players in the WSL2. Unless you are Newcastle, who have the money. 

At the end of the day it is a personal choice and you do not have have to watch it, but I will say it is a Saints team and I will support any of their teams that come under that umbrella. 

I do find it funny in the fixtures on the BBC as they never seem to know where to place the woman’s games in the list. 😂 

[Fabrice29]

3 hours ago, MB said:

Club website is full of Saints women content these, don’t mean to be rude but is it actually necessary? Just think it’s PC gone mad these days. Sky sports is the same with WSL coverage, was mad it took precedence over Pompey/Saints game.

 

Doubt most people could even name  you one player. Do people even go matches? Assumed it was just friends/family

 

 

How’s JWP and GON getting on?

[BarberSaint]

1 hour ago, suewhistle said:

Is he actually saying that with a straight face and no sense of irony?! It's up there with 'do you know who I am?' in revealing all about the writer/speaker.

 

He assumes rather a lot, doesn't he?!

Yep, I've been. Seen them on the telly, too. 

 

I think judging by the noises I heard and comments made, so too does MLG. Decided I didn't want to introduce myself.

Looking at the crowd was interesting, some fans who would go and support the main men's team but otherwise it was more a day out with a sort of spectacle that a number of the kids weren't interested in. Not your usual footy crowd or people who in the main looked like season ticket holders. I can't quite see that the project will achieve what it intends, whatever that is and in a way it is exclusionary cause only a few seem to play. Talking of which, how's the grass roots game going on? That'll be interesting.

It's an interesting and involved topic but in principle it makes no odds if 'they' have a team. I seem to recollect one called "Southampton Red Star" or the like. They had at least one good player cause I played footy with her. I believe they were quite successful, too.

Are there elements here of 'social engineering'? Yep. Are there elements here of 'bashing someone who has a different opinion to you?' Yep. 

Is the standard particularly good? No. Genuinely not. A bit like the good doctor above, however, I am not particularly interested in any other football these days. That's even gone down the U21s cause it was always interesting to see if you could spot talent, probably something introduced with a once-popular computer game.  I would disagree that they 'play respectfully'. They go in damn hard and not always fair and it can get pretty feisty. I've even seen a couple of dives, but on the whole I agree there's a distinct lack of gamesmanship.

So on the whole, I simply don't care apart from the societal elements but if SFC want to pay them to have a team to compete because they have to or everyone else is doing it, or then so be it (although allowing a choice would be better).

I think it's good to keep the debate ongoing though.