Women’s Games

[Mase]

Top of the league at the moment and a big game on Saturday against the rags at the Etihad

[Bluemoon4610]

Top of the league at the moment and a big game on Saturday against the rags at the Etihad

Nice to see us dicking them again, 3-0 with less than 5 mins left.

[Mase]

We were in Tunnel Club Premier today and then went up to the corporate boxes after the game and my daughter pretty much met every player. Made her day and obviously always good dicking those rags

[Mase]

We were in Tunnel Club Premier today and then went up to the corporate boxes after the game and my daughter pretty much met every player. Made her day and obviously always good dicking those rags

Also met Nedum and my daughter had a pic with him - top top guy

[Im_Spartacus]

Never watched a women's game of any description on TV - though I don't watch football much any more full stop so it's less a sexism thing, I just don't know who the players are, who the decent teams and rivalries are, and I don't feel there's a huge amount of marketing being done to really push the game to people like me (albeit being overseas I guess I'm not the target for sky adverts etc).

My sister takes her 4 kids to watch City at CFA and they really enjoy it, while she says its the best she can realistically afford for them - it will be interesting as the game grows if that changes, as it seems the big market for the ladies game is going to be those who disconnect with the men's game because of price......so all this talk of equal pay etc, I fear they need to be careful what they wish for if the biggest opportunity to grow is coming from the very thing they aspire to be - they need to get the economics of the game balanced so they are playing in front of decent crowds every week - longer term that will translate into big tv audiences.

[Mase]

Never watched a women's game of any description on TV - though I don't watch football much any more full stop so it's less a sexism thing, I just don't know who the players are, who the decent teams and rivalries are, and I don't feel there's a huge amount of marketing being done to really push the game to people like me (albeit being overseas I guess I'm not the target for sky adverts etc).

My sister takes her 4 kids to watch City at CFA and they really enjoy it, while she says its the best she can realistically afford for them - it will be interesting as the game grows if that changes, as it seems the big market for the ladies game is going to be those who disconnect with the men's game because of price......so all this talk of equal pay etc, I fear they need to be careful what they wish for if the biggest opportunity to grow is coming from the very thing they aspire to be - they need to get the economics of the game balanced so they are playing in front of decent crowds every week - longer term that will translate into big tv audiences.

£130 total for mine and my daughter's season tickets. It's nothing really - and she loves it.

6 months ago if you'd told me I'd be celebrating goals for the women's team as if they were the men's team I'd have laughed. Only started going because of my daughter and now I love it.

One thing I will say, there's definitely a lot of... can't really think of any other way of putting it, but there's a lot of weirdos that go to the womens games. At the moment it's followed by a lot of "rejects" of society - ultimately that's what is going to hold the women's game back imo. People will be put off going.

[Im_Spartacus]

Never watched a women's game of any description on TV - though I don't watch football much any more full stop so it's less a sexism thing, I just don't know who the players are, who the decent teams and rivalries are, and I don't feel there's a huge amount of marketing being done to really push the game to people like me (albeit being overseas I guess I'm not the target for sky adverts etc).

My sister takes her 4 kids to watch City at CFA and they really enjoy it, while she says its the best she can realistically afford for them - it will be interesting as the game grows if that changes, as it seems the big market for the ladies game is going to be those who disconnect with the men's game because of price......so all this talk of equal pay etc, I fear they need to be careful what they wish for if the biggest opportunity to grow is coming from the very thing they aspire to be - they need to get the economics of the game balanced so they are playing in front of decent crowds every week - longer term that will translate into big tv audiences.

£130 total for mine and my daughter's season tickets. It's nothing really - and she loves it.

6 months ago if you'd told me I'd be celebrating goals for the women's team as if they were the men's team I'd have laughed. Only started going because of my daughter and now I love it.

One thing I will say, there's definitely a lot of... can't really think of any other way of putting it, but there's a lot of weirdos that go to the womens games. At the moment it's followed by a lot of "rejects" of society - ultimately that's what is going to hold the women's game back imo. People will be put off going.

Thats mint mate, didn't realise it was so cheap.....like anything its about forming a habit isn't it - if the pricing attracts people to form that habit of going to the game every other week, that will stick for most people longer term....I just hope they don't try to run before they can walk and try to kick the arse out of it before the fans are ready.

I started off watching Bury that way back in around when it was a 7 quid for a season ticket for kids - funnily enough I remember the day my grandad took me to my first game in 1985, he asked me if I wanted to go and watch a football match, and my answer I remember clear as day was 'it's raining, I don't want to get wet' - I had no concept of going to a stadium (well, Gigg at least had a roof on the seated sections of the stands) to watch a game - and when I did I was hooked and hardly missed a game in the next 20 years, it didn't matter to me who the team was, it just became 'something we did' and gave us the best times together, which ultimately is what counts.

I sense that's where the womens game fills a gap, as even lower league mens games these days aren't cheap

[Mase]

Never watched a women's game of any description on TV - though I don't watch football much any more full stop so it's less a sexism thing, I just don't know who the players are, who the decent teams and rivalries are, and I don't feel there's a huge amount of marketing being done to really push the game to people like me (albeit being overseas I guess I'm not the target for sky adverts etc).

My sister takes her 4 kids to watch City at CFA and they really enjoy it, while she says its the best she can realistically afford for them - it will be interesting as the game grows if that changes, as it seems the big market for the ladies game is going to be those who disconnect with the men's game because of price......so all this talk of equal pay etc, I fear they need to be careful what they wish for if the biggest opportunity to grow is coming from the very thing they aspire to be - they need to get the economics of the game balanced so they are playing in front of decent crowds every week - longer term that will translate into big tv audiences.

£130 total for mine and my daughter's season tickets. It's nothing really - and she loves it.

6 months ago if you'd told me I'd be celebrating goals for the women's team as if they were the men's team I'd have laughed. Only started going because of my daughter and now I love it.

One thing I will say, there's definitely a lot of... can't really think of any other way of putting it, but there's a lot of weirdos that go to the womens games. At the moment it's followed by a lot of "rejects" of society - ultimately that's what is going to hold the women's game back imo. People will be put off going.

Thats mint mate, didn't realise it was so cheap.....like anything its about forming a habit isn't it - if the pricing attracts people to form that habit of going to the game every other week, that will stick for most people longer term....I just hope they don't try to run before they can walk and try to kick the arse out of it before the fans are ready.

I started off watching Bury that way back in around when it was a 7 quid for a season ticket for kids - funnily enough I remember the day my grandad took me to my first game in 1985, he asked me if I wanted to go and watch a football match, and my answer I remember clear as day was 'it's raining, I don't want to get wet' - I had no concept of going to a stadium (well, Gigg at least had a roof on the seated sections of the stands) to watch a game - and when I did I was hooked and hardly missed a game in the next 20 years, it didn't matter to me who the team was, it just became 'something we did' and gave us the best times together, which ultimately is what counts.

I sense that's where the womens game fills a gap, as even lower league mens games these days aren't cheap

I was similar with Bury in the late 90s early 2000s when it was 'quid a kid'. When City were away I'd go to watch Bury with mates from around that area. When they stopped doing quid a kid we'd wait until half time and go to the office and ask if they'd let us in for a quid I think I was 15 at the time so asking my mum for a quid wasn't bad.

On the women's game - I find it so much more accessible than the men's. Over the last 6 months my daughter has been a mascot for their first home game this season, she's watched them train behind closed doors and then last weekend she met them all and got pictures/her shirt signed when we managed to get her up into Corporate. Like you say, I hope stuff like that doesn't change

[stupot]

My daughter got a season ticket with a few friends after England won the Euros a few years ago- I think it was about £40 at the time- as Mase says it's still dirt cheap.
City seem to be doing everything they can- one of the very few teams to have their own stadium etc but the crowds are still poor. There was 50000 plus for Arsenal v Chelsea Women the other week yet on Saturday it was at The Etihad ,only the bottom tier was open and it still wasn't full.

[Mase]

My daughter got a season ticket with a few friends after England won the Euros a few years ago- I think it was about £40 at the time- as Mase says it's still dirt cheap.
City seem to be doing everything they can- one of the very few teams to have their own stadium etc but the crowds are still poor. There was 50000 plus for Arsenal v Chelsea Women the other week yet on Saturday it was at The Etihad ,only the bottom tier was open and it still wasn't full.

17000 on Saturday and that was with them basically giving the tickets away and a huge push on advertising, even getting the men's players involved.

Highest attendance this season at the Joie was 4000 against Arsenal.

It's really shame, as it's so cheap and good for kids to go and see. Like you say, the club are doing everything they possibly can for the women's team - when we went to watch them train the other week they pointed over to a massive unit that's being built specifically for the women's players at the academy grounds.

[Wonderwall]

This fella follows the stadium expansion with his drone and often goes over to where the new womens construction is taking place.

https://youtu.be/3GtvQR3O6SU?si=yGKjJXwql5Tu4M4K

[Mase]

This fella follows the stadium expansion with his drone and often goes over to where the new womens construction is taking place.

https://youtu.be/3GtvQR3O6SU?si=yGKjJXwql5Tu4M4K

Nice one! I'll have a look at that