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Wow, what a fantastic response from the Women to draw 2-2 and almost find a winner.

We got back into it when an innocuous ball forward by Rhemar Lord-Mears was deflected by their defender past the keeper for an OG. Shocking defending.

Lewes should have made it 3-1, but a cutback in the middle of the box was blazed over from 12 yards out.

With about 20 mins to go we equalised. Great work down the left by Lord-Mears who floated a lovely, teasing cross to the back stick and Charlotte Newsham was steaming in and got in front of the Lewes defenders to steer it home.

We almost won it. More good work down the left resulted in a zippy cross into the box which Newsham side-footed home but the flag went up. Shame because it was an excellent finish, however she did look a yard offside.

Then good play by Bex Raynor in the middle of the park saw her long ball put Mia Enderby through on goal but still 25 yards out. She won the foot race with the defender and lobbed the keeper but it went just wide.

There were over 8 mins of added time played due to various injuries. Lewes finished strong with a couple of corners but we held firm for a deserved point.

Observations:

- Think we play 3 at the back and our keeper Bethan Davies is decent on the ball

- Our centre half Naomi Hartley is a proper shithouse and squared up to a Lewes player late on which led to players from both sides being pulled apart. Great fun!

- Charlotte Newsham looks a decent striker but wears the number 3 shirt. That needs sorting.

- Courtney Sweetman-Kirk appears to be our most high profile player but she wasn’t effective today

- Lewes and the Blades finished sixth and seventh in the Championship last season. I believe only the champions of the division get promoted to the WSL?

Stirring fightback from the Blades and I enjoyed the Sunday afternoon entertainment. I’ll be watching them again.
 
Charlieblade said:
A neutral you say? 😂
I have no problem with womens football at all. Maybe it does get a disproportionate push by Sky and the BBC, but that is only mildly amusing, compared to the British Broadcasting Corporation, and their obsession with force feeding the UK population with American sport. Basketball! The erroneously entitled American football! Not forgetting Rounders for men?
These idiots even have the nerve to call Assoiation football, Soccer ffs. Hold my fuckin coat!

Where forrin ‘sports’ are concerned, I am definitely not neutral!
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The term "soccer" originated in this country to distinguish between Association Football and Rugby Football, hence the terms soccer and rugger. So, the idiots that had the nerve to call the game soccer were us! The Americans used the term soccer because they already had their own version football.
 
Bert said:
Bert has often wondered, who finances them?

Gate money must be next to nothing.
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They're funded by the same company/companies that fund the other SUFC teams with next to no gate money...the mens U23s, mens U18s etc
 
Panini said:
They're funded by the same company/companies that fund the other SUFC teams with next to no gate money...the mens U23s, mens U18s etc
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At least those sides in theory can provide players to either help the first team or be sold for decent cash like Lankshear. The money generated by the academy pays for itself or improves the quality in the first team. The only thing the women's game can do for the club right now is get new fans in who for whatever reason only want to try out the women's before moving to the men's but how many of these people exist?
 
Panini said:
They're funded by the same company/companies that fund the other SUFC teams with next to no gate money...the mens U23s, mens U18s etc
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Well hopefully the investment will pay off.
 
Berkshire Blade said:
At least those sides in theory can provide players to either help the first team or be sold for decent cash like Lankshear. The money generated by the academy pays for itself or improves the quality in the first team. The only thing the women's game can do for the club right now is get new fans in who for whatever reason only want to try out the women's before moving to the men's but how many of these people exist?
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Nothing to stop us selling players to the WSL and generating funds.
 
biggiesablade said:
The women's transfer fee was broken not long ago at £400,000
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Complete outlier when you look at the totals in the women's game now. Would be like comparing neymar to psg to league Two transfer market it's that different to the usual fees
 

Snowflake said:
Nothing to stop us selling players to the WSL and generating funds.
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We did, just sold our bright prospect and England youth player Lucy Watson to Chelsea. They stuck her out on loan to Charlton where she promptly got injured.
 
Berkshire Blade said:
At least those sides in theory can provide players to either help the first team or be sold for decent cash like Lankshear. The money generated by the academy pays for itself or improves the quality in the first team. The only thing the women's game can do for the club right now is get new fans in who for whatever reason only want to try out the women's before moving to the men's but how many of these people exist?
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Why do you suppose these fans will be interested in the men's team?
 
Berkshire Blade said:
I doubt it's big money they are on but I suspect isn't not going to be in profit. If we don't go up this will become a issue.
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Apparently the average wage in the WSL is £47k a year, but Leah Williamson earned £200k. Lucy Bronze is supposedly also on £200k a year, although that may have changed now she's gone to Barcelona. They get paid £2,000 for playing for England (same as the men).

Our Bladies of course won't be on anything like that, will it reference it in the clubs accounts?
 
Keith S said:
The term "soccer" originated in this country to distinguish between Association Football and Rugby Football, hence the terms soccer and rugger. So, the idiots that had the nerve to call the game soccer were us! The Americans used the term soccer because they already had their own version football.
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Keith S said:
The term "soccer" originated in this country to distinguish between Association Football and Rugby Football, hence the terms soccer and rugger. So, the idiots that had the nerve to call the game soccer were us! The Americans used the term soccer because they already had their own version football.
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My apologies. Your version of the word ‘soccer’ is correct.
It still annoys me, and I will continue to blame the Americans for bastardising the word by association. :)
 
WhiteHawk said:
Apparently the average wage in the WSL is £47k a year, but Leah Williamson earned £200k. Lucy Bronze is supposedly also on £200k a year, although that may have changed now she's gone to Barcelona. They get paid £2,000 for playing for England (same as the men).

Our Bladies of course won't be on anything like that, will it reference it in the clubs accounts?
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I'm not sure whether the official details are out there somewhere, but the circumstantial evidence suggests at least some of our team are part-time: there's been a few "player retires" news stories on the women's team social media accounts over the years suggesting they're now going to "focus on their other work commitments", for example, and I believe Maddy Cusack works in a communications/marketing role for the club as a whole -- she's often lingering somewhere pitchside at men's games doing that kind of stuff.

On a separate point: yes, they were derby games featuring several of the Euro winning England team, but record crowds in the WSL this weekend of 47,000 for Arsenal-Tottenham and 27,500 for Liverpool-Everton once again show interest in the women's game is probably at an all-time high, and as I've mentioned previously, we're in absolute prime position in this city to ride that wave, so you can't blame the club for trying to make the most of that!
 
Lightsoot said:
Wow, what a fantastic response from the Women to draw 2-2 and almost find a winner.

We got back into it when an innocuous ball forward by Rhemar Lord-Mears was deflected by their defender past the keeper for an OG. Shocking defending.

Lewes should have made it 3-1, but a cutback in the middle of the box was blazed over from 12 yards out.

With about 20 mins to go we equalised. Great work down the left by Lord-Mears who floated a lovely, teasing cross to the back stick and Charlotte Newsham was steaming in and got in front of the Lewes defenders to steer it home.

We almost won it. More good work down the left resulted in a zippy cross into the box which Newsham side-footed home but the flag went up. Shame because it was an excellent finish, however she did look a yard offside.

Then good play by Bex Raynor in the middle of the park saw her long ball put Mia Enderby through on goal but still 25 yards out. She won the foot race with the defender and lobbed the keeper but it went just wide.

There were over 8 mins of added time played due to various injuries. Lewes finished strong with a couple of corners but we held firm for a deserved point.

Observations:

- Think we play 3 at the back and our keeper Bethan Davies is decent on the ball

- Our centre half Naomi Hartley is a proper shithouse and squared up to a Lewes player late on which led to players from both sides being pulled apart. Great fun!

- Charlotte Newsham looks a decent striker but wears the number 3 shirt. That needs sorting.

- Courtney Sweetman-Kirk appears to be our most high profile player but she wasn’t effective today

- Lewes and the Blades finished sixth and seventh in the Championship last season. I believe only the champions of the division get promoted to the WSL?

Stirring fightback from the Blades and I enjoyed the Sunday afternoon entertainment. I’ll be watching them again.
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Thanks for the writeup. Was a really enjoyable game, both sides will think they could have won. I switched straight from this to the Chelsea Man City game in the WSL and the difference from Championship to that level is huge (admittedly both those sides are the elite of the WSL) - it must make such a difference being professional, physically as well as technically. Pretty obvious statement I guess but it does look massive.

Anyway, well done United women, good comeback. Enderby sounds like one to watch, only 17 and she's in the England youth setup already. Pretty sure Newsham is a wingback by the way (hence the number 3), she just happened to get forward a lot in the second half!

Having these games free to watch on the FA website is great (although annoyingly last week's 8-0 was not streamed!).
 
Well arsenal and spurs women drew 46000 on a day with no prem or championship admittedly

however the self-confessed Yorkshires biggest club the wendies got 5000 less 22000 than their previous home game with ipswich 27000
so womens football is a bigger draw than Wednesday
 
Keith S said:
The term "soccer" originated in this country to distinguish between Association Football and Rugby Football, hence the terms soccer and rugger. So, the idiots that had the nerve to call the game soccer were us! The Americans used the term soccer because they already had their own version football.
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Correct, although when the sports moved away from the elite schools and out to the masses, it quickly became football and rugby.
 
Beans said:
Thanks for the writeup. Was a really enjoyable game, both sides will think they could have won. I switched straight from this to the Chelsea Man City game in the WSL and the difference from Championship to that level is huge (admittedly both those sides are the elite of the WSL) - it must make such a difference being professional, physically as well as technically. Pretty obvious statement I guess but it does look massive.

Anyway, well done United women, good comeback. Enderby sounds like one to watch, only 17 and she's in the England youth setup already. Pretty sure Newsham is a wingback by the way (hence the number 3), she just happened to get forward a lot in the second half!

Having these games free to watch on the FA website is great (although annoyingly last week's 8-0 was not streamed!).
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Thanks for the further context, Beans. I’ve not watched a WSL game yet so wasn’t sure how big the step up is. I thought the Championship standard was decent but have nothing to compare it to.

Looks like you’re right about Charlotte Newsham. We signed her from Blackburn in the summer and she’s predominantly a left back. She certainly likes getting forward on Sunday’s evidence! I need to pay more attention :-).

https://www.sufc.co.uk/news/2021/july/Charlotte-Newsham-Announcement/
 

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