[Albion] First two Womens Super League Home games will be at the Amex!

[Icy Gull]

It has been suggested that she might be the reason our best 5 players have left.

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If that's true then TB has gone a bit Nero with the women's team

 

[Official Old Man]

Only season tickets available for the WSL, no single game tickets. Priced at £49 for 11 games or £19 for U18 or over 65's I have to say I'm tempted (I'm in the £19 cat and granddaughter the same). But the Amex is easy for me to get to unlike Crawley. Is there a deal with Seagull Travel to Crawley from the Amex?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Same mum?

 

[TugWilson]

We are forever being reminded that football is all about money,so why are we having games at The Amex that will lose money?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

We are forever being reminded that football is all about money,so why are we having games at The Amex that will lose money?

Women's football at our level is currently two-bob anyways. Why make things infinitely worse by consigning our ladies team to bloody Crawley?

 

[amexer]

Guess the attendance for first game 1800

 

[Gwylan]

It's disappointing that the home games all kick off at 2.00 on a Sunday afternoon - that's a time when many sporty young girls are, er, playing sport. It does seem a weird thing to cut off a good chunk of your target audience from attending a game.

 

[amexer]

Only season tickets available for the WSL, no single game tickets. Priced at £49 for 11 games or £19 for U18 or over 65's I have to say I'm tempted (I'm in the £19 cat and granddaughter the same). But the Amex is easy for me to get to unlike Crawley. Is there a deal with Seagull Travel to Crawley from the Amex?

have spoken to the office and tickets for Amex games will be available shortly

 

[South west gull]

It's disappointing that the home games all kick off at 2.00 on a Sunday afternoon - that's a time when many sporty young girls are, er, playing sport. It does seem a weird thing to cut off a good chunk of your target audience from attending a game.

What time should kick off be ?

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[TugWilson]

Women's football at our level is currently two-bob anyways. Why make things infinitely worse by consigning our ladies team to bloody Crawley?

A heck of a lot better than Gillingham!

 

[Gwylan]

What time should kick off be ?

Personally, I'd like some double headers like the rugby women do. But an evening game would be nice: I see we're playing Arsenal away on Friday evening; why can't we do that at the Amex?

 

[TugWilson]

Personally, I'd like some double headers like the rugby women do. But an evening game would be nice: I see we're playing Arsenal away on Friday evening; why can't we do that at the Amex?

Because of the cost of the floodlights?

 

[keaton]

It's disappointing that the home games all kick off at 2.00 on a Sunday afternoon - that's a time when many sporty young girls are, er, playing sport. It does seem a weird thing to cut off a good chunk of your target audience from attending a game.

Yes that's something that needs to be taken into account when talking about low attendances. It's a poor time to go to football generally, but if have kids and you or they play sport it makes it pretty hard to get to

 

[sully]

It's disappointing that the home games all kick off at 2.00 on a Sunday afternoon - that's a time when many sporty young girls are, er, playing sport. It does seem a weird thing to cut off a good chunk of your target audience from attending a game.

When I was young and participating in sport myself, I wasn’t able to get to the Goldstone for games for a few years. It’s frustrating, but unfortunately, it’s life. If they are playing themselves at the same time, perhaps it’s just because that’s when the sport gets played.

 

[Jack Straw]

Guess the attendance for first game 1800

I'm going for about 4,000.

 

[amexer]

Hope Powell has said in an interview with BBC that sales of STs at Albion are up 200%

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Hope Powell has said in an interview with BBC that sales of STs at Albion are up 200%

That is positive and can only be a good thing, hopefully as alluded to in a tv interview yesterday they can build a purpose built ground for the ladies somewhere within the city or at least in the conurbation of Brighton & Hove.

Crawley is a real bind to get too, as someone has already said, my daughter plays Sunday league football and sometimes finishes around 1pm and to travel up to Crawley after a game is so tight or just a non starter, and to play at the Amex in front of just the lower east is not really the answer, we need something for the women that can be called home and they can fill, giving it a compact feel and that can create an atmosphere the team can feed off.

 

[drew]

That is positive and can only be a good thing, hopefully as alluded to in a tv interview yesterday they can build a purpose built ground for the ladies somewhere within the city or at least in the conurbation of Brighton & Hove.

Crawley is a real bind to get too, as someone has already said, my daughter plays Sunday league football and sometimes finishes around 1pm and to travel up to Crawley after a game is so tight or just a non starter, and to play at the Amex in front of just the lower east is not really the answer, we need something for the women that can be called home and they can fill, giving it a compact feel and that can create an atmosphere the team can feed off.

But what about the fact there may be plenty of girls and women that live in the Crawley area that go?

 

[drew]

Only season tickets available for the WSL, no single game tickets. Priced at £49 for 11 games or £19 for U18 or over 65's I have to say I'm tempted (I'm in the £19 cat and granddaughter the same). But the Amex is easy for me to get to unlike Crawley. Is there a deal with Seagull Travel to Crawley from the Amex?

Why not contact them direct to find out? I suspect there would be if there is demand for it.

 

[drew]

It's disappointing that the home games all kick off at 2.00 on a Sunday afternoon - that's a time when many sporty young girls are, er, playing sport. It does seem a weird thing to cut off a good chunk of your target audience from attending a game.

Agree, but there's not much you can do about it.

When I ran a girls team, the Sussex FA standard kick off times were 10:00, 12:00 or 14:00. A lot of it due to availability of pitches which get used several times a day. Under funded councils cannot suddenly magic up new pitches.

If it had been switched to Saturdays, then I wouldn't have run the team because I would have been watching the Albion.

There are no easy answers.

The obvious one is to expand a local ground in Btn to a capacity of about 6k and see how the game develops.