Middlesbrough FC Women

BoroMart said:
His logic is bollox anyway.

The amount of money we can invest is based on two things what Steve gibson chooses to spend and what ffp allows the club to spend.

Neither of these are going to be impacted by having a women’s team
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FFP is impacted. The women's team can be used to offset losses.
 
Corcaigh_the_Cat said:
How many of you have been to watch them play regularly in the last few years?

They've been around a long time but has interest really increased when it comes to Boro women?

Their crowds at Bedford Terrace weren't particularly great, I'm not sure about last season with their move to Stockton?

Will you watch them now that they're under the MFC umbrella despite not being particularly bothered previously?
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The attedances haven't been bad when you consider the level they're at. They're essentially in the equivalent of women's non league (everything below the Championship is mainly amateur and some semi pro teams, they're currently in the same league as Norton and Stockton Ancients) and they've been struggling as other teams got more funding, more visibility through the men's club and better facilities.

Boro are going to get that now as well! You've got to understand that Newcastle have usually been in a lower league than Middlesbrough, have never really had good attendences to their games and last season packed out St James' Park. That's the power of this kind of partnership.

And that's a really good thing! I've been to games since they were at Thornaby and I'd love to see them regularly selling out Stockton's ground and occasionally getting 20-30 thousand at the Riverside. That would be great for the club (both the men's and the women's clubs) and for the town.
 
IR35 said:
A few clubs dropped womens teams, it’s a sideshow to the main event.⚽️
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We’re gonna get into stuff that other clubs have done or things that are outside of the 90 minutes mens football?

There are many things that make up a proper club and the womens team is one of many.
 
Cress said:
Is it an FFP benefit?
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The regulations certainly enable you to make deductions for women’s football expenditure.

And the cynic in me was certainly initially uneasy when the Premier League big boys started buying up women’s clubs a few years ago. Their track record meant you knew they weren’t doing it for altruistic reasons. Chasing a financial benefit from the next big thing, a tax or FFP fiddle, the PR, a desire to control all football, or all of the above, but not a concern for the good of the women’s game. However, it does appear to have been significantly to the good of the women’s game as it happens, so while I’ll never entirely shake off my cynicism as to some of the motivation it’s clearly been a good thing and it’s about time we were on board.
 
newyddion said:
We’re gonna get into stuff that other clubs have done or things that are outside of the 90 minutes mens football?

There are many things that make up a proper club and the womens team is one of many.
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Not having a womens team doesn’t deride from a clubs status in the community or in society. We have one or we don’t, the club is still what it is. Good luck to them but it not important.
 
uncle_rico said:
Load of money in the women's game these days, and it's only going to grow. Defninitely the right decision by the club, they never should have parted ways really, although I don't know the reasons of why that happened. To give local girls the same opportunities as local boys is huge for the area, I really don't see how it is anything other than a positive move.
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Lots of money in the women's game you're right. But its been investment. It doesn't make a profit. Quite the opposite. Clubs just feel duty bound to take the hit now to show that they are all for equal opportunities etc... which I can understand. But to suggest that its a money spinner is way off the mark. It haemorrrages money from top to bottom
 
Wow, what should have have been a post welcoming and celebrating Middlesbrough Womens Football team back into the Boro family, has turned into majority of us having to explain to at least one so called fan of Football, why his views are antiquated.

If we just pass by his negative comments we can actually celebrate this great announcement and take great joy in the fact mens, boys, womens and girls Football are going to be played under the badge of our beloved Boro.

Being a season ticket holder of both men's and women's Boro team, think it is a great achievement for all involved and chuffed to bits, and really excited for both teams going forward.
 
BoroLioness said:
Wow, what should have have been a post welcoming and celebrating Middlesbrough Womens Football team back into the Boro family, has turned into majority of us having to explain to at least one so called fan of Football, why his views are antiquated.

If we just pass by his negative comments we can actually celebrate this great announcement and take great joy in the fact mens, boys, womens and girls Football are going to be played under the badge of our beloved Boro.

Being a season ticket holder of both men's and women's Boro team, think it is a great achievement for all involved and chuffed to bits, and really excited for both teams going forward.
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Agreed. As a long standing fan of both clubs I was really excited with this announcement. I didn't think everyone would be as excited as I was, but I also didn't think anyone would actively oppose the move. That's just bizarre.

Let's hope that this time next year we'll all have been celebrating two Boro teams getting promoted.
 
Well it hasn’t
newyddion said:
Yeah it does.
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In what way?, boro have been community based for years, this is another addition to that which is nice but not essential to the image of the club.I not opposed to it and as I’ve said on the thread several times I hope they do well.
 
IR35 said:
Well it hasn’t

In what way?, boro have been community based for years, this is another addition to that which is nice but not essential to the image of the club.I not opposed to it and as I’ve said on the thread several times I hope they do well.
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it is essential.
 
I can't believe that some still see the women's game as such a threat. You do realise women's football had huge crowds until men dictated they couldn't play anymore and those men caused the huge divide between the men's and womens game that exists today.
Do you argue that the under 21s, youth teams etc distract due to finances etc...no you don't because they are played by males.
Do you tell your daughters, granddaughters etc they aren't relevant because they are female??
We don't live in the dark ages anymore.
 
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