Tbh, there's just never ever going be the consensus from all of the different parties involved across the two sports that will avoid clashes like this. Even if the tv companies were willing to set their interests aside for the sake of fans, im not sure we'd get a much improved outcome. So much around scheduling in the men's is dictated by fitting around the european games, policing and sky tv. And then the women's game is further impacted by stadium availability depending on where they groundshare. Scheduling is awful for match going fans within each form of the game already, let alone for those of us who watch both.How is WSL supposed to grow with clashes like this taking place?
This is my issue with Sky being the main broadcaster. They don't want to kill their golden goose.
They will eventually lose mens PL rights to a streamer. Maybe then we'll see an improvement in their attitude towards the game.
Most WSL clubs have deprioritised trying to win over the existing men's fanbase. Obvs the game wants as many people as possible to watch and they want fans of the men's teams to come if they want to and they can, but there's been a degree of acceptance that in the long term that they need to attract fans who have a more specific interest in the women's game and will build their own history over time.
When the noon kick off times are inevitably cut down next season, we might see even more clashes with men's football.
They definitely need to get rid of the 3pm saturday blackout in women's football though, as i dont think televising women's football in that slot is a serious threat to lower league men's. With so much PL football played outside of the saturday 3pm slot these days it's a slot that would be useful for the women to have an option on.