Fixtures
Saturday 21st September: Manchester United Women 12:00 West Ham United Women
Sunday 29th September: West Ham United Women 15:00 Liverpool Women
Wednesday 2nd October: West Ham United Women 19:00 Portsmouth Ladies
Sunday 6th October: Manchester City Women 13:00 West Ham United Women
Sunday 13th October: Everton Women 14:00 West Ham United Women
Sunday 20th October West Ham United Women 15:00 Arsenal Women
Sunday 3rd November: Tottenham Hotspur Women 14:00 West Ham United Women
Sunday 10th November: West Ham United Women 15:00 Leicester City Women
Saturday 16th November: Brighton and Hove Albion Women 12:30 West Ham United Women
Sunday 8th December: West Ham United Women 15:00 Crystal Palace Women
Sunday 15th December: Aston Villa Women 14:00 West Ham United Women
Sunday 19th January: West Ham United Women 15:00 Chelsea Women
Sunday 26th January: West Ham United Women 15:00 Everton Women
Sunday 2nd February: Liverpool Women 14:00 West Ham United Women
Sunday 16th February: West Ham United Women 15:00 Brighton and Hove Albion Women
Sunday 2nd March: Arsenal Women 14:00 West Ham United Women
Sunday 16th March: West Ham United Women 15:00 Manchester City Women
Sunday 23rd March: West Ham United Women 15:00 Tottenham Hotspur Women
Sunday 30th March: Chelsea Women 14:00 West Ham United Women
Sunday 20th April: West Ham United Women 15:00 Manchester United Women
Sunday 27th April: Crystal Palace Women 14:00 West Ham United Women
Sunday 4th May: West Ham United Women 15:00 Aston Villa Women
Sunday 11th May: Leicester City Women 14:00 West Ham United WomenWest Ham United Womens
Womens football will never be a spectacle the way men's is, the gap in quality is too far. What is fantastic is the actual taking part, the grass roots - young women participating in a team sport. The benefits to society far outweigh the couple of million spent on the WPL. There has to be an elite level of every sport or its pointless. It shouldnt be promoted as equal to the mens game, its not - its nonsense. But it does derserve tv coverage and investment imo.
I would agree that women participating in a team sport is a good thing. But women always participated in teams sports. The girl's playing football were likely to have played netball or hockey if football wasn't an opportunity. But there is another question here, if we all agree women's football is nowhere near as good as the mens', why would you want to watch it? Yes we like to watch lower league football which isn't elite, but that's already available. What does Women's football offer the average football fan that isn't already available?
The point is underlined by the fact that the women's game is entirely reliant on the men's for its existence. Websites invested in its promotion deliberately don't let you filter the content so you can ignore women's game. The interest in the game is entirely manufactured by two groups: businesses that think there is market to be created and culture warriors on the left who see it as feminist and overrepresented by dykes (they see it as an antidote to the heterosexual men's game).
I have no problem women wanting to play football. I have daughter and I am happy for her play in a team. But the promotion of the women's professional game is at best cynical if not outright sinister.
Fauxstralian wrote: ↑04 Mar 2025, 10:55
How much money do we spend on women’s football?
Probably a sunk cost of a couple of million
Which premier league team will grow the balls to say that the women’s team has to be self sustaining on its gates & sponsorship or bin the whole thing
Personally I’d like to see the money diverted to our under age men’s teams as there is a dividend at the end in players of value for our first team or to sell
Womens football will never be a spectacle the way men's is, the gap in quality is too far. What is fantastic is the actual taking part, the grass roots - young women participating in a team sport. The benefits to society far outweigh the couple of million spent on the WPL. There has to be an elite level of every sport or its pointless. It shouldnt be promoted as equal to the mens game, its not - its nonsense. But it does derserve tv coverage and investment imo.
honky cat" wrote: ↑05 Mar 2025, 19:17
Fauxstralian
How much money do we spend on women’s football?
Probably a sunk cost of a couple of million
Which premier league team will grow the balls to say that the women’s team has to be self sustaining on its gates & sponsorship or bin the whole thing
Personally I’d like to see the money diverted to our under age men’s teams as there is a dividend at the end in players of value for our first team or to sell
Nice post Honky Cat. I read up a bit for Fauxstralian, hope he appreciates it! Deloitte do a report on football including the WSL. Women's football is going in that self sustaining direction Faux. Incomes are inceasing now 5,7M average per club in the WSL, but looks like costs are increasing as well. They say clubs are trying to separate men and women finances. Chelsea is in the lead and are apparently close to making Chelsea Women independent from the men and will sell shares in the seperate Women's club to make it fully independent. The group finances make it hard to calculate exactly whats going. For example in many clubs shirt sponsors pay a single fee to sponsor both men and women shirts and no one knows how to divide the deal between the two. They call this group income as they do not know what to do with it. When the calculations are done like this, yes, all but 1 WSL club made loses in 23/24 season, total loses for the league were 21M an average of 1.7M per club. One interesting thing they say is 80% of support for WSL is people new to football, so it is also building it's own base that is seperate from mens football. Conclusion is Faux, they are going in the direction you want so, don't worry too much, just have to see if it can be accelerated.
Hate to say it, but we are the poorest club in the WSL. Put like that our women are punching above their financial position. They do not go into our finances, but I think the West Ham finacial report does. Someone should have a look? Maybe I will.
Re: West Ham United Women
Posted: 05 Mar 2025, 21:25
by Mex Martillo
West Ham United Women 1:1 Manchester City
Really good result. I won't say it loadly, but I think Skinner might be getting somewhere.
Re: West Ham United Women
Posted: 05 Mar 2025, 19:17
by honky cat
Fauxstralian wrote: ↑04 Mar 2025, 10:55
How much money do we spend on women’s football?
Probably a sunk cost of a couple of million
Which premier league team will grow the balls to say that the women’s team has to be self sustaining on its gates & sponsorship or bin the whole thing
Personally I’d like to see the money diverted to our under age men’s teams as there is a dividend at the end in players of value for our first team or to sell
Womens football will never be a spectacle the way men's is, the gap in quality is too far. What is fantastic is the actual taking part, the grass roots - young women participating in a team sport. The benefits to society far outweigh the couple of million spent on the WPL. There has to be an elite level of every sport or its pointless. It shouldnt be promoted as equal to the mens game, its not - its nonsense. But it does derserve tv coverage and investment imo.
Re: West Ham United Women
Posted: 05 Mar 2025, 18:58
by Mex Martillo
Wednesday 5th March:
West Ham United Women 19:00 Manchester City Women
Chigwell Construction Stadium
ON NOW
Re: West Ham United Women
Posted: 04 Mar 2025, 10:55
by Fauxstralian
How much money do we spend on women’s football?
Probably a sunk cost of a couple of million
Which premier league team will grow the balls to say that the women’s team has to be self sustaining on its gates & sponsorship or bin the whole thing
Personally I’d like to see the money diverted to our under age men’s teams as there is a dividend at the end in players of value for our first team or to sell
Re: West Ham United Women
Posted: 04 Mar 2025, 09:45
by Swiss.
Bring back Alisha Lehman
Re: West Ham United Women
Posted: 03 Mar 2025, 05:45
by Mex Martillo
Arsenal Women 4:3 West Ham United Women
Good effort. I thought we might win as twice we led by 2 goals.
Re: West Ham United Women
Posted: 02 Mar 2025, 17:46
by Keep dreaming
Amber Tysiak X 2
COYI
Re: West Ham United Women
Posted: 02 Mar 2025, 07:05
by Mex Martillo
Sunday 2nd March:
Arsenal Women 17: 30 West Ham United Women
Mangata Pay UK Stadium
Re: West Ham United Women
Posted: 26 Feb 2025, 18:56
by Mex Martillo
England Women v Spain Women
Wembley 20:00, ITV 4
Kisses after the game?
Re: West Ham United Women
Posted: 17 Feb 2025, 13:17
by wils
Mex Martillo" wrote: ↑17 Feb 2025, 10:38
West Ham attendances going up
Wils is it generally the same for the men?
Yes, West Ham women's going against the general trend of falling attendances. On average there are 110 more individuals going this year. Must be deafening.
Is the same for the men? Nah.
Re: West Ham United Women
Posted: 17 Feb 2025, 10:38
by Mex Martillo
West Ham attendances going up
Wils is it generally the same for the men?
Re: West Ham United Women
Posted: 17 Feb 2025, 08:08
by wils
I see the average attendance at women's football has declined this year.
I wonder how long before this gets binned with the rest of the diversity stuff that's going down the pan.
Re: West Ham United Women
Posted: 16 Feb 2025, 20:11
by goose
Mad Ferret" wrote: ↑16 Feb 2025, 19:04
Good to see the ladies doing so well. They put the men’s team to shame.
Jack Sullivan really did a great job in raising the profile of the WHU ladies.
14 points from 14 games.
They’re making the men look half decent.
Re: West Ham United Women
Posted: 16 Feb 2025, 19:04
by Mad Ferret
Good to see the ladies doing so well. They put the men’s team to shame.
Jack Sullivan really did a great job in raising the profile of the WHU ladies.
Re: West Ham United Women
Posted: 16 Feb 2025, 19:00
by Mex Martillo
Well done to the ladies. Brighton are 5th so good result. We stay in 8th.
Maybe Goose, I agree it shouldn't be subsided. I support the Women though, 100%. The likes of City, Arsenal and Chelsea as usual pushing the spending to the limit making it hard for the rest to compete without subsidising. The costs of being in the WSL and meeting the ground requirements do not help either!
Re: West Ham United Women
Posted: 16 Feb 2025, 18:12
by goose
Mex Martillo" wrote: ↑16 Feb 2025, 08:00
Sunday 16th February:
West Ham United Women 15:00 Brighton and Hove Albion Women
Chigwell Construction Stadium
Mex - maybe to save some money for all the lawyers, the PL should stop bank rolling this pile of shit?
Re: West Ham United Women
Posted: 16 Feb 2025, 18:05
by twoleftfeet
That certainly makes up for the men losing yesterday.
Who's up next? Doncaster Belles?
Re: West Ham United Women
Posted: 16 Feb 2025, 17:57
by Eerie Decent
Yeah, we can all breathe a sigh of relief.
Re: West Ham United Women
Posted: 16 Feb 2025, 17:35
by Keep dreaming
3 -1, our girls restored som pride to the club this weekend.
Well done you Irons
Re: West Ham United Women
Posted: 16 Feb 2025, 08:00
by Mex Martillo
Sunday 16th February:
West Ham United Women 15:00 Brighton and Hove Albion Women
Chigwell Construction Stadium
Re: West Ham United Women
Posted: 26 Jan 2025, 19:13
by El Scorchio
Mex Martillo" wrote: ↑26 Jan 2025, 18:45
West Ham United Women 2 - 0 Everton Women
Up to 8th in the table.
Good day for the Hammers!
Fuck me. Well done them. Wins are rare. Get the feeling we are just circling the drain really, though. Waiting to get relegated sooner or later. Shame really. If they ran it as more than just a PR exercise they could probably have some moderate success.
Re: West Ham United Women
Posted: 26 Jan 2025, 19:08
by wils
Re: West Ham United Women
Posted: 26 Jan 2025, 18:45
by Mex Martillo
West Ham United Women 2 - 0 Everton Women
Up to 8th in the table.
Good day for the Hammers!
