Women's Team - 2019/2020

[mike1923]

The rags manager slipped out the back door doing no interviews apparently?! Typical rag.

She was interviewed on the pitch and came across pretty well for a rag.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

She was interviewed on the pitch and came across pretty well for a rag.

Casey Stoner has been positive about us when commentating on England games. Most of the other pundits don’t give us a positive mention.

 

[mat]

Just managed to watch the full match after work.

I applaud BT Sport television production of it. The camera angles etc treated it as good as a PL match. Only issue was the pro raggie punditry.

The raggettes will get bigger crowds than their men's team if they keep playing like that. Be nice if they reciprocate by using the swamp for the away match. Woowar would probably charge us £65 for it mind.

:)

 

[Bridgejunky]

Great goal and win but I thought it was poor standard.
Sorry but that is it for women's football for me.
Just cannot get into it at all.

At least you've given it a try, and that's fair enough. With yesterday's attendance, and the one expected at Stamford Bridge later today, the WSL will feel good about the way the weekend has gone but they also need to hear honest, straightforward opinions like yours.

I'm a fan of the women's game, but I recognise that the quality is not as high as men's football. How could it be? Hundreds of millions of lads play football around the world and that's been the case for generations. Most of us XYs learn to address the ball, to control it and pass it before we're even old enough to read a book with more than a few sentences per page. As we grow there's football all around us at every standard so we can find our level, and perhaps rise to the top if we have the talent. It's not the same for young girls. Those who want to play football struggle to find matches and more than half of all of them who manage to, live in just one country; the United States.

As a result of all of this, people need to be much better footballers to make it to the professional ranks of the men's game, than they need to be to make it to the top of the women's. For now women's football needs people like me who will stick with it as it develops. People who buy in to the competitiveness and excitement of the game for what it is. In the long run however it needs to keep stepping up so that it can eventually draw in people like you. Otherwise it will be seen as something of a novelty, and get stuck with nothing more than minority appeal.

 

[Indaparkside]

Just managed to watch the full match after work.

I applaud BT Sport television production of it. The camera angles etc treated it as good as a PL match. Only issue was the pro raggie punditry.

The raggettes will get bigger crowds than their men's team if they keep playing like that. Be nice if they reciprocate by using the swamp for the away match. Woowar would probably charge us £65 for it mind.

:)

The mibs will be out looking for women and children,they will be in their element

 

[Gray]

At least you've given it a try, and that's fair enough. With yesterday's attendance, and the one expected at Stamford Bridge later today, the WSL will feel good about the way the weekend has gone but they also need to hear honest, straightforward opinions like yours.

I'm a fan of the women's game, but I recognise that the quality is not as high as men's football. How could it be? Hundreds of millions of lads play football around the world and that's been the case for generations. Most of us XYs learn to address the ball, to control it and pass it before we're even old enough to read a book with more than a few sentences per page. As we grow there's football all around us at every standard so we can find our level, and perhaps rise to the top if we have the talent. It's not the same for young girls. Those who want to play football struggle to find matches and more than half of all of them who manage to, live in just one country; the United States.

As a result of all of this, people need to be much better footballers to make it to the professional ranks of the men's game, than they need to be to make it to the top of the women's. For now women's football needs people like me who will stick with it as it develops. People who buy in to the competitiveness and excitement of the game for what it is. In the long run however it needs to keep stepping up so that it can eventually draw in people like you. Otherwise it will be seen as something of a novelty, and get stuck with nothing more than minority appeal.

I like the women’s game but switching it from the Summer to the Winter meant that I stopped going. The academy stadium is absolutely freezing and there is very little shelter from the wind which cuts through you like a knife. I personally think crowds would increase if they reverted back to the Summer months, the followers of the men’s game would be tempted to attend as their weekly fix was unavailable.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

The mibs will be out looking for women and children,they will be in their element

My mate Salford Tony broke the feel-good factor by offering Tony’s Tours to any rag he saw. That was a get to know Manchester Tour for our Southern rag “friends”. It was harsh but fair IMHO.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

At least you've given it a try, and that's fair enough. With yesterday's attendance, and the one expected at Stamford Bridge later today, the WSL will feel good about the way the weekend has gone but they also need to hear honest, straightforward opinions like yours.

I'm a fan of the women's game, but I recognise that the quality is not as high as men's football. How could it be? Hundreds of millions of lads play football around the world and that's been the case for generations. Most of us XYs learn to address the ball, to control it and pass it before we're even old enough to read a book with more than a few sentences per page. As we grow there's football all around us at every standard so we can find our level, and perhaps rise to the top if we have the talent. It's not the same for young girls. Those who want to play football struggle to find matches and more than half of all of them who manage to, live in just one country; the United States.

As a result of all of this, people need to be much better footballers to make it to the professional ranks of the men's game, than they need to be to make it to the top of the women's. For now women's football needs people like me who will stick with it as it develops. People who buy in to the competitiveness and excitement of the game for what it is. In the long run however it needs to keep stepping up so that it can eventually draw in people like you. Otherwise it will be seen as something of a novelty, and get stuck with nothing more than minority appeal.

Good post Bridgejunky. I just want to empathise that we normally play better than yesterday. We aplayed far below our usual standard in the first half. Georgia and Kiera were well below their best and the Utd’s packed defence meant balls bobbling off Stanway’s shins were easy to intercept. It was a big game for a young player who had just had a lot of the limelight after her pile-driver for England in midweek. People going to their first Women’s game may not know that Georgia is the closest thing to a young Wayne Rooney (in the Women’s game) and she will bounce back. We got the win and I’m very happy for that.

The lack of intensity in midfield in parts of the first half have meant the rags too much time to find their left winger with their outlet ball. She gave Mannion a tough time throughout the first half. Mannion played much better in the second half helped by us dominating possession and - led by Jill Scott - not giving the rags any breathing space to find their passes.

 

[Bridgejunky]

I like the women’s game but switching it from the Summer to the Winter meant that I stopped going. The academy stadium is absolutely freezing and there is very little shelter from the wind which cuts through you like a knife. I personally think crowds would increase if they reverted back to the Summer months, the followers of the men’s game would be tempted to attend as their weekly fix was unavailable.

I also used to enjoy the watching women's football during the summer, but I respect the reason for the switch and I doubt there will be any going back.

Most people know I'm sure that the league moved from winter to summer in the first place for all the good reasons you give, but they moved back again because of the Champions League. Like the men's version, the Women's CL is staged from winter through to spring. This meant that our sides were competing during their off season. They'd have to get back into training, play a tie without any other competitive matches then face a break of a month or more before the next round of rinse and repeat. This put them at a tremendous disadvantage compared to opponents who were in the middle of their seasons. Our CL clubs, including City, lobbied to go back to the winter and the rest of the league agreed.

Whether there was any coercion involved in that I don't know but at the time City, Arsenal and Chelsea were the clubs putting real money into their female teams and driving the league forward. Who knows if the league could have survived without those clubs but I'm damn sure that they would not have wanted to have to try.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

At least you've given it a try, and that's fair enough. With yesterday's attendance, and the one expected at Stamford Bridge later today, the WSL will feel good about the way the weekend has gone but they also need to hear honest, straightforward opinions like yours.

I'm a fan of the women's game, but I recognise that the quality is not as high as men's football. How could it be? Hundreds of millions of lads play football around the world and that's been the case for generations. Most of us XYs learn to address the ball, to control it and pass it before we're even old enough to read a book with more than a few sentences per page. As we grow there's football all around us at every standard so we can find our level, and perhaps rise to the top if we have the talent. It's not the same for young girls. Those who want to play football struggle to find matches and more than half of all of them who manage to, live in just one country; the United States.

As a result of all of this, people need to be much better footballers to make it to the professional ranks of the men's game, than they need to be to make it to the top of the women's. For now women's football needs people like me who will stick with it as it develops. People who buy in to the competitiveness and excitement of the game for what it is. In the long run however it needs to keep stepping up so that it can eventually draw in people like you. Otherwise it will be seen as something of a novelty, and get stuck with nothing more than minority appeal.

That wasn't the best game of footy I've seen from MCWFC and it shouldn't be the one, and only one, upon which a judgement is made. We said at HT that we couldn't play as badly as that in the second half but on occasions last season we did, but we also played some exhilarating football - the game against the Arse was a corker, and, despite being pegged back by CFC we put together a much better performance than yesterday. The unfortunate thing with City women at the moment is that you never seen to get a great deal of consistency in a performance as we used to a couple of seasons back, and the propensity to play sideways and AAAAAAARGH backwards from promising positions is mind-numbing. Possession might be a key but when we have a throw in level with the oppo's area, and two passes later our goalie has it, is something that will not pack a stadium!