| women's football. 20:12 - Sep 29 with 881 views | MattinLondon |
Just wondering if any posters on here follow women’s football quite closely? If so, is there a massive gulf between the second tier and the third tier where Ipswich Women currently are? Ipswich Women seem to be destroying a lot of teams - if they were to play championship teams would they be able to hold their own? |  | | |  |
| women's football. on 20:15 - Sep 29 with 854 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
Seems to be a two horse race with Southampton.
I guess Town are largely a professional team playing in an amateur league. They are too good for the league, but the promotion process seems very difficult to get through.
They need to be up a tier by the looks of things. |  |
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| women's football. on 20:57 - Sep 29 with 799 views | hadleighboyblue |
The ITFC ladies are well worth watching , but have a lot of young players which might find it hard at a higher level .
Having said that there is a lot of very good players at ITFC which will get stronger , really enjoy watching them . |  | | |
| women's football. on 22:09 - Sep 29 with 755 views | SomethingBlue |
Yep, they’d hold their own. They have some of the country’s best young talent and have added a few experienced heads. It’s a brilliant team. Very difficult to get promoted though, thanks to an antiquated system that makes it very hard for bright new sides to break through. | |
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| women's football. on 09:16 - Sep 30 with 620 views | Guthrum |
| women's football. on 22:09 - Sep 29 by SomethingBlue |
Yep, they’d hold their own. They have some of the country’s best young talent and have added a few experienced heads. It’s a brilliant team. Very difficult to get promoted though, thanks to an antiquated system that makes it very hard for bright new sides to break through. |
I do find it odd that the women's pyramid is so restrictive on promotion compared with the men's. Any idea of the history and background to that, or why it hasn't been changed in the modern era? |  |
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| women's football. on 09:18 - Sep 30 with 617 views | tractorboy1978 |
| women's football. on 22:09 - Sep 29 by SomethingBlue |
Yep, they’d hold their own. They have some of the country’s best young talent and have added a few experienced heads. It’s a brilliant team. Very difficult to get promoted though, thanks to an antiquated system that makes it very hard for bright new sides to break through. |
Barmy that even if we manage to finish above Southampton we would still have to play a play-off against the winners of the Northern division for 1 promotion spot. | | | |
| women's football. on 11:05 - Sep 30 with 570 views | Durovigutum |
I am an FA appointed AR for the division they were in and did the Cambridge United Ladies v Hashtag United game on Sunday. Hashtag were second in the league to Town in both abandonments and beat Cambs 6-0. I was down to do both Cambs v ITFC games, but both were covid binned.
Ladies football is still in a shake out period with newer teams (including Town) taking it seriously after years of ignoring it. I watched the ladies FA cup final at selhurst park late 90s when Doncaster Belles were THE team (ejected in favour of Man City a few years back, money and influence eh?).
ITFC are too good for the league they are in and should be able to stay up if promoted, but the pyramid goes higher in ladies football than in men's - only WSL and Championship are "linear" up down where men it stops at the national League and becomes linear (as in two up two down, not two play from South, plays winner of North, one from four go up). This means that taking the next step on is harder and if they don't make it they will lose players to the league's above until they do make it (even with some players becoming semi-pro). |  | | |
| women's football. on 11:58 - Sep 30 with 527 views | MattinLondon |
Thanks for the answers. Ipswich are obviously too good for the division in which they are in but Southampton feel the same about their side as do the winners of the Northern league equivalent. | | | |
| women's football. on 12:35 - Sep 30 with 479 views | Freddies_Ears |
| women's football. on 11:58 - Sep 30 by MattinLondon |
Thanks for the answers. Ipswich are obviously too good for the division in which they are in but Southampton feel the same about their side as do the winners of the Northern league equivalent. |
It's one step at a time. We were only promoted into this league this season (overdue, but Covid got in the way the previous year). Although we have won every game, there have been some narrow wins, and we have considerably strengthened the squad and team this year, whilst keeping the best two-thirds of last year's squad. The quality in this league is generally much higher than the league below.
Although we now have some players on pro contracts, these are a mile away from being full-time pro terms. It's a good first step and statement of intent though.
If we were promoted, then the current team would likely stay up, but would need considerable investment to go higher. | | | |
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