VulcanRam

Thank you. A decent post on among some of the knuckle dragging comments. 
DCFC Women have made great strides in the last three years and are close to getting into the Championship, which is part of the professional game. They have professionalised the setup with a proper Board of Directors, their youth setup is proving an excellent opportunity for girls to play and across the club are doing their best to build, grow and improve. 
The top end of the club (Mel Morris and Stephen Pearce) have helped enormously with funding and access to facilities, bringing the Women's Club closer into alignment with the men's. 
Who knows, in a couple of years we might have a Championship team at DCFC. And it might not be the men. 
 
 

Thank you. A decent post on among some of the knuckle dragging comments. 
DCFC Women have made great strides in the last three years and are close to getting into the Championship, which is part of the professional game. They have professionalised the setup with a proper Board of Directors, their youth setup is proving an excellent opportunity for girls to play and across the club are doing their best to build, grow and improve. 
The top end of the club (Mel Morris and Stephen Pearce) have helped enormously with funding and access to facilities, bringing the Women's Club closer into alignment with the men's. 
Who knows, in a couple of years we might have a Championship team at DCFC. And it might not be the men. 
 
 

Thank you. A decent post on among some of the knuckle dragging comments. 
DCFC Women have made great strides in the last three years and are close to getting into the Championship, which is part of the professional game. They have professionalised the setup with a proper Board of Directors, their youth setup is proving an excellent opportunity for girls to play and across the club are doing their best to build, grow and improve. 
The top end of the club (Mel Morris and Stephen Pearce) have helped enormously with funding and access to facilities, bringing the Women's Club closer into alignment with the men's. 
Who knows, in a couple of years we might have a Championship team at DCFC. And it might not be the men. 
 
 

Some of the comments in here are the exact reasons why Women's sport needs to be pushed more into the public eye and celebrated.
The women who take part in these sports (not just football) are athletes who train just as hard as the men (probably harder) just to get noticed. And the real kicker is, they won't earn anywhere near as much money, attention or respect as male counterparts who might not be as skilful or work as hard due to the way that sport is historically seen as a male pursuit.
Those that are saying they don't like to see the women's results near the top of the BBC page, why? Can't you scroll down to the content you want easily enough? The BBC has been investing more in the WSL and of course will put stories concerning that league near the top so it can create an engaged audience and improve it's coverage and programming around it.
Those that are saying that women shouldn't play "men's" sports, why? We're all humans that may or may not enjoy being physically active or being engaged in a team of peers with a love for a certain sport. Your gender shouldn't be a reason you can't do something. Why can't women play sports? Do you see them as inferior to men in other aspects of life? It beggars belief that people can hold this point of view in this day and age.
 
I'm sure I can go on and pick out more awful things already written in this thread - sexism, discussing women footballers based on their attractiveness, women encroaching on the men's game... but I haven't got the time or patience to debunk it all.
Let me sign off my thoughts on this with a recent example in MMA. Dana White famously said years ago that women would never fight in the UFC, he thought that MMA was a male only sport and no place for women. Then some other organisations opened up allowing women to fight, and then Ronda Rousey happened. She came to the UFC and became one of the most popular (male or female) fighters around. She was the box office main eventer. Dana White changed his views on Women's MMA after that and they have equal billing in UFC now and there are various women's headliners throughout the year at no detriment to the sport. In fact the sport is better for their inclusion. Last year, the best fight was between 2 women (Joanna Jedrzejczyk vs Weili Zhang). The women train hard, hone their craft and want to win as much as the men do and have created more equality with their hard work, but also with the organisation of their sport respecting them and providing the platform. Football can learn a lot from this. Dana was wrong, he's admitted it and now the sport has benefitted from inclusion.

pre season games....one for the older people here Littleover Dazzlers, ADASC, Allestree Juniors, Sherwin

Yep. Sadly you're probably right. Also question marks about his application - I expect him to drift down the leagues on that basis alone.
Strongly disagree on Bird & hope you're wrong about Bielik. I believe Jozwiak & Lawrence's main issues are a lack of space/alternative threats & a pacey striker (probably not Marriott I accept) would keep defenders both honest & a lot deeper so opening up space for them both to start doing their thing. Tempo of attacks will also blunt their effectiveness - we have either been very slow moving the ball around or the other extreme, launching long hoofs to no-one in particular. Creative players will struggle with either service.

I put this in another thread but I was told recently by someone in the tickets office that they are waiting until the FA directs them as to how many are allowed in before deciding their policy. They had sold around 11k for the season just ended and I guess have to work out whether to honour those this season and therefore not sell any more if only one third capacity is allowed, or refund and start from scratch if more are etc etc 
But until they know what they are dealing with they are holding out. It makes sense to be fair.

Even by the Mail's standards, that's a truly pathetic attempt at a "story" and simply clickbait because it has the word Rooney in the headline. One intro, with nothing whatsoever to substantiate the allegation, not even a source, then rehash from cuts. Pathetic.

Even by the Mail's standards, that's a truly pathetic attempt at a "story" and simply clickbait because it has the word Rooney in the headline. One intro, with nothing whatsoever to substantiate the allegation, not even a source, then rehash from cuts. Pathetic.

I put this in another thread but I was told recently by someone in the tickets office that they are waiting until the FA directs them as to how many are allowed in before deciding their policy. They had sold around 11k for the season just ended and I guess have to work out whether to honour those this season and therefore not sell any more if only one third capacity is allowed, or refund and start from scratch if more are etc etc 
But until they know what they are dealing with they are holding out. It makes sense to be fair.

I put this in another thread but I was told recently by someone in the tickets office that they are waiting until the FA directs them as to how many are allowed in before deciding their policy. They had sold around 11k for the season just ended and I guess have to work out whether to honour those this season and therefore not sell any more if only one third capacity is allowed, or refund and start from scratch if more are etc etc 
But until they know what they are dealing with they are holding out. It makes sense to be fair.

I put this in another thread but I was told recently by someone in the tickets office that they are waiting until the FA directs them as to how many are allowed in before deciding their policy. They had sold around 11k for the season just ended and I guess have to work out whether to honour those this season and therefore not sell any more if only one third capacity is allowed, or refund and start from scratch if more are etc etc 
But until they know what they are dealing with they are holding out. It makes sense to be fair.

Sorry mate, I meant the third, that's what the reference is when I said the second. Apologies.

Even by the Mail's standards, that's a truly pathetic attempt at a "story" and simply clickbait because it has the word Rooney in the headline. One intro, with nothing whatsoever to substantiate the allegation, not even a source, then rehash from cuts. Pathetic.

I put this in another thread but I was told recently by someone in the tickets office that they are waiting until the FA directs them as to how many are allowed in before deciding their policy. They had sold around 11k for the season just ended and I guess have to work out whether to honour those this season and therefore not sell any more if only one third capacity is allowed, or refund and start from scratch if more are etc etc 
But until they know what they are dealing with they are holding out. It makes sense to be fair.

Even by the Mail's standards, that's a truly pathetic attempt at a "story" and simply clickbait because it has the word Rooney in the headline. One intro, with nothing whatsoever to substantiate the allegation, not even a source, then rehash from cuts. Pathetic.

Even by the Mail's standards, that's a truly pathetic attempt at a "story" and simply clickbait because it has the word Rooney in the headline. One intro, with nothing whatsoever to substantiate the allegation, not even a source, then rehash from cuts. Pathetic.

Even by the Mail's standards, that's a truly pathetic attempt at a "story" and simply clickbait because it has the word Rooney in the headline. One intro, with nothing whatsoever to substantiate the allegation, not even a source, then rehash from cuts. Pathetic.

Even if Morris did make such a “promise” you would have to be a pretty bitter or entitled fan to be angry that he has failed to do so. 

I'm probably in the minority but I'm not a fan of these open letters demanding this or that, I often think it's more for the egos of those involved than much else. That said, fan power has been thrown into the spotlight in recent times and I guess this has emboldened everyone a bit. 
Some of the questions asked are reasonable particularly for people wanting clarity over ST refunds etc. But sweeping questions like is the future of the club secure and asking for details of what quite clearly would be covered by commercial confidentiality/NDA (financials etc) just make it all look like a bit of grandstanding. As for this fan on the Board nonsense, don't even get me started. We are a privately owned business and unless we own shares have no right to demand to be part of any decision making process and as people have said on here, how can one person or one group represent the views of all supporters? Do people also think they have the right to ask to see the in-depth details of all of Mel's other businesses? Presumably so. 
I love going to the cinema, or the cricket, I have to go to the supermarket, but do I have the right to demand to see their accounts or have a say on how those businesses are run? Of course not. 
Btw I can tell anyone who wants to know why no details of ST have been released for next season, and that's because the club is waiting until the FA confirms how many supporters will be allowed in the stadium before announcing anything. Once we know that, the ball will start rolling. 
 

I'm probably in the minority but I'm not a fan of these open letters demanding this or that, I often think it's more for the egos of those involved than much else. That said, fan power has been thrown into the spotlight in recent times and I guess this has emboldened everyone a bit. 
Some of the questions asked are reasonable particularly for people wanting clarity over ST refunds etc. But sweeping questions like is the future of the club secure and asking for details of what quite clearly would be covered by commercial confidentiality/NDA (financials etc) just make it all look like a bit of grandstanding. As for this fan on the Board nonsense, don't even get me started. We are a privately owned business and unless we own shares have no right to demand to be part of any decision making process and as people have said on here, how can one person or one group represent the views of all supporters? Do people also think they have the right to ask to see the in-depth details of all of Mel's other businesses? Presumably so. 
I love going to the cinema, or the cricket, I have to go to the supermarket, but do I have the right to demand to see their accounts or have a say on how those businesses are run? Of course not. 
Btw I can tell anyone who wants to know why no details of ST have been released for next season, and that's because the club is waiting until the FA confirms how many supporters will be allowed in the stadium before announcing anything. Once we know that, the ball will start rolling. 
 

I'm probably in the minority but I'm not a fan of these open letters demanding this or that, I often think it's more for the egos of those involved than much else. That said, fan power has been thrown into the spotlight in recent times and I guess this has emboldened everyone a bit. 
Some of the questions asked are reasonable particularly for people wanting clarity over ST refunds etc. But sweeping questions like is the future of the club secure and asking for details of what quite clearly would be covered by commercial confidentiality/NDA (financials etc) just make it all look like a bit of grandstanding. As for this fan on the Board nonsense, don't even get me started. We are a privately owned business and unless we own shares have no right to demand to be part of any decision making process and as people have said on here, how can one person or one group represent the views of all supporters? Do people also think they have the right to ask to see the in-depth details of all of Mel's other businesses? Presumably so. 
I love going to the cinema, or the cricket, I have to go to the supermarket, but do I have the right to demand to see their accounts or have a say on how those businesses are run? Of course not. 
Btw I can tell anyone who wants to know why no details of ST have been released for next season, and that's because the club is waiting until the FA confirms how many supporters will be allowed in the stadium before announcing anything. Once we know that, the ball will start rolling. 
 

I'm probably in the minority but I'm not a fan of these open letters demanding this or that, I often think it's more for the egos of those involved than much else. That said, fan power has been thrown into the spotlight in recent times and I guess this has emboldened everyone a bit. 
Some of the questions asked are reasonable particularly for people wanting clarity over ST refunds etc. But sweeping questions like is the future of the club secure and asking for details of what quite clearly would be covered by commercial confidentiality/NDA (financials etc) just make it all look like a bit of grandstanding. As for this fan on the Board nonsense, don't even get me started. We are a privately owned business and unless we own shares have no right to demand to be part of any decision making process and as people have said on here, how can one person or one group represent the views of all supporters? Do people also think they have the right to ask to see the in-depth details of all of Mel's other businesses? Presumably so. 
I love going to the cinema, or the cricket, I have to go to the supermarket, but do I have the right to demand to see their accounts or have a say on how those businesses are run? Of course not. 
Btw I can tell anyone who wants to know why no details of ST have been released for next season, and that's because the club is waiting until the FA confirms how many supporters will be allowed in the stadium before announcing anything. Once we know that, the ball will start rolling. 
 

I'm probably in the minority but I'm not a fan of these open letters demanding this or that, I often think it's more for the egos of those involved than much else. That said, fan power has been thrown into the spotlight in recent times and I guess this has emboldened everyone a bit. 
Some of the questions asked are reasonable particularly for people wanting clarity over ST refunds etc. But sweeping questions like is the future of the club secure and asking for details of what quite clearly would be covered by commercial confidentiality/NDA (financials etc) just make it all look like a bit of grandstanding. As for this fan on the Board nonsense, don't even get me started. We are a privately owned business and unless we own shares have no right to demand to be part of any decision making process and as people have said on here, how can one person or one group represent the views of all supporters? Do people also think they have the right to ask to see the in-depth details of all of Mel's other businesses? Presumably so. 
I love going to the cinema, or the cricket, I have to go to the supermarket, but do I have the right to demand to see their accounts or have a say on how those businesses are run? Of course not. 
Btw I can tell anyone who wants to know why no details of ST have been released for next season, and that's because the club is waiting until the FA confirms how many supporters will be allowed in the stadium before announcing anything. Once we know that, the ball will start rolling. 
 

I'm probably in the minority but I'm not a fan of these open letters demanding this or that, I often think it's more for the egos of those involved than much else. That said, fan power has been thrown into the spotlight in recent times and I guess this has emboldened everyone a bit. 
Some of the questions asked are reasonable particularly for people wanting clarity over ST refunds etc. But sweeping questions like is the future of the club secure and asking for details of what quite clearly would be covered by commercial confidentiality/NDA (financials etc) just make it all look like a bit of grandstanding. As for this fan on the Board nonsense, don't even get me started. We are a privately owned business and unless we own shares have no right to demand to be part of any decision making process and as people have said on here, how can one person or one group represent the views of all supporters? Do people also think they have the right to ask to see the in-depth details of all of Mel's other businesses? Presumably so. 
I love going to the cinema, or the cricket, I have to go to the supermarket, but do I have the right to demand to see their accounts or have a say on how those businesses are run? Of course not. 
Btw I can tell anyone who wants to know why no details of ST have been released for next season, and that's because the club is waiting until the FA confirms how many supporters will be allowed in the stadium before announcing anything. Once we know that, the ball will start rolling.