The reason was a sound one, in that we weren't doing very well in the CL, because it was out of season for the teams, it was also out of season for most of the international qualifiying games too, and the whole season needed messing with every 2 years for summer tournaments, so the FA wanted it in sync.A very stupid move by somebody at the FA, you have to wonder at the reason?
The reason was a sound one, in that we weren't doing very well in the CL, because it was out of season for the teams, it was also out of season for most of the international qualifiying games too, and the whole season needed messing with every 2 years for summer tournaments, so the FA wanted it in sync.
I don't think its made a huge amount of difference personally.
They've fallen hugely, what I was saying I don't think we've improved either in the CL, or in international football that much.Do you not think the crowds have fallen?
They've fallen hugely, what I was saying I don't think we've improved either in the CL, or in international football that much.
A very stupid move by somebody at the FA, you have to wonder at the reason? ~Possibly underhand to keep them in their place with falling attendances?
They've fallen hugely, what I was saying I don't think we've improved either in the CL, or in international football that much.
The crowds were never that good before.
No but they were better and growing. Now in reverse. Another example of the FA damaging the game they are supposed to promote.
What is the average crowd roughly in the league?
The last game of the season v Notts County (whatever happened to County?) when we took the title, the Academy Stadium was full. And I think there has been but two instances where I have had a ticket in the West Stand, which ordinarily is empty of paying fans. The game against MANUre at The Etihad broke the attendance record but the next home game at The Academy shrank to about 5% of that record. Don't know why people would come to one game and not the other. I think we have to see the women's game for what it is - women's football, and no matter how much smoke up arses the BBC and other broadcasting outlets can attempt to insert it will be just that - women's football. I have an ST for MCWFC and I can enjoy the spectacle but I know that it is just that - women's football.
The thing is people don't think of women's tennis like that and of course athletes are treat with real respect but women's football is still scorned by neanderthal man types.
I thought it funny when the woman beat the man at darts, it is certainly about time as imo it is a sport that the sexes should be equal at, snooker the same really, having played in various darts leagues there was always a mixed league on a Thursday night and there were some good woman darters then or I was a shit dart player myself maybe lol
The Stadium, it's a nice looking stadium but it's a horrible stadium, cold (even in summer !) with not much to it , run by control freaks, do we really need that amount of stewards at a women's game ? Standing open one match then not open the next ! The matches should run on the same ways a none league game is. Get the ends closed off , open all the stadium up and get a proper bar built in it ! The club needs telling they is more to our fan base then corporates and kids ! We've had biggish crowds there that always seem to cause problems for the stewards with getting people in on time ! I'm sure people have been put off coming back because of the "match day experience" more then the football !I suspect over the whole FAWSL it'll be several hundreds. I'd be surprised if it crossed the 1k mark. City usually get the other side of a thousand but we probably have the best women's stadium in the league, and it's handy to get to!
The Stadium, it's a nice looking stadium but it's a horrible stadium, cold (even in summer !) with not much to it , run by control freaks, do we really need that amount of stewards at a women's game ? Standing open one match then not open the next ! The matches should run on the same ways a none league game is. Get the ends closed off , open all the stadium up and get a proper bar built in it ! The club needs telling they is more to our fan base then corporates and kids ! We've had biggish crowds there that always seem to cause problems for the stewards with getting people in on time ! I'm sure people have been put off coming back because of the "match day experience" more then the football !
They really need too stop trying to be clever and look back how the youth and reserve games where managed at Hyde Utd then we played there ! Pay on the gate , stand were you want , pies and burgers and also a club if you fancied a pint !This is rapidly becoming the worst aspect of supporting a football team. It's necessary but I'd sooner sit in the stadium for an hour than queue for five minutes. Yer right about the stadium - it's temperate in Summer and fuckin' freezin' in Winter. If yer stand in that space as yer get in at the NE corner there can be a blast off the Asda carpark and there a freezing cold blower at the bottom of the stand. Mind, I suppose that's what the Bovril folk had in mind when they put the stuff in cups. And at the FAYC on Thursday no fuckin' pies again, and when I said I'd have a sausage roll, I'm sure it had fuckin' raisins in it, and some chips, I was told that there weren't any chips but they had wedges - chips if yer in Wilmslow, I said, chips if yer in 'Apper'ay!
The crowds where no better in the Summer season then they now in the Winter seasons, let it grow organically. I don't think the crowds would double with a move back to the summer, there's a hardcore of fans that will watch the team which ever season the game is played in . Also football a winter sport so leave the summer for the cricket !
Sort the problems of people not turning up out first, ie a stadium built for South Spain more then North West England ! Get it more enclosed to keep the cold out and maybe get a bar built in the waste of space behind the West Stand (Academy Stadium) !