It’s a shame they can’t ask to move it to the Saturday, might get a few more down to watch it.
I remember a game being moved ‘cos of a rugby league final a few years ago so it would seem like a reasonable request.
Nottingham Forest Women FC
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I remember a game being moved ‘cos of a rugby league final a few years ago so it would seem like a reasonable request.
Bing Crosby's Head
Viv Anderson
I think they have the usual rule that final league games all have to kick off at same time.
Tricky Tourist
Geoff Thomas
The women are winning 2-1 at half time, 45 minutes away from becoming league champions!
weejockmcplop
Jack Burkitt
They done it!
Forest are massive
Forest are massive
I'm Red Till Dead
Stuart Pearce
Congratulations to the ladies team double winners this year.
Let's hope that they can settle in the Championship next year.
Let's hope that they can settle in the Championship next year.
Souvik
First Team Squad
Our owner doesn't do settling, he will probably demand immediate promotion to the WSL!
Forest are magic on and off the pitch!
Rzar
Bob McKinlay
Yeah, they will be going for promotion again. Unbeaten this season with a trophy.
The Championship is difficult though as there is only one promotion slot (no playoffs either) and a few others like Birmingham & Newcastle who are putting money in like us.
They are trying to get the WSL to become a closed shop MLS style, so we will be trying to get there as soon as possible. Especially now woman's teams are worth £300m... according to Chelsea anyway.
The Championship is difficult though as there is only one promotion slot (no playoffs either) and a few others like Birmingham & Newcastle who are putting money in like us.
They are trying to get the WSL to become a closed shop MLS style, so we will be trying to get there as soon as possible. Especially now woman's teams are worth £300m... according to Chelsea anyway.
Ian Moore Gone Little
Viv Anderson
I thought I’d read (probably here) that they were only temporarily suspending relegation in order to increase the number of teams, after which relegation would still apply?
Wow. Not sure if others have seen this story that broke tonight. After a brilliant season pushing Forest all the way for the title it turned out the Wolves hierarchy had been lying to the players all season and they had no intention of being promoted even if they had won the league. Absolutely shocking stuff. Potentially the end of Wolves Women I'd say. How can any of their players trust the club again and why would anyone else sign for them? Unbelievable.
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Wolves Women players 'devastated' club did not apply for promotion to Championship
Wolves Women players say their unsuccessful battle for promotion was "all for nothing" as the club failed to submit a bid to compete in the Women's Championship.
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MansfieldRed
Jack Armstrong
Wow. Not sure if others have seen this story that broke tonight. After a brilliant season pushing Forest all the way for the title it turned out the Wolves hierarchy had been lying to the players all season and they had no intention of being promoted even if they had won the league. Absolutely shocking stuff. Potentially the end of Wolves Women I'd say. How can any of their players trust the club again and why would anyone else sign for them? Unbelievable.
Wolves Women players 'devastated' club did not apply for promotion to Championship
Wolves Women players say their unsuccessful battle for promotion was "all for nothing" as the club failed to submit a bid to compete in the Women's Championship.
It also raises the ire of the rest of the clubs in the league. I can imagine the big man would be really pissed off if they snuck ahead somehow and we got denied promtion.
Professor Wolfgang Schnell BSc. PhD.
Fulchester United
Ouch!
I went to the Forest v Wolves game in Feb, the excitement for all their players and staff when they scored their equaliser (and gave them a bit of a chance of the league title) was obvious.
I went to the Forest v Wolves game in Feb, the excitement for all their players and staff when they scored their equaliser (and gave them a bit of a chance of the league title) was obvious.
Yep, that's correct.
There's no (public) suggestion of it becoming a closed shop - indeed the league chief has publicly said it'll "never" happen.
I'm Red Till Dead
Stuart Pearce
How could any of the players trust the club ever again?
Quntib Hollox
Jack Burkitt
I don’t understand why you wouldn’t at least try to go for promotion. Why bother playing otherwise.
Loughborough_red
Jack Armstrong
That's a disgrace. You have to feel for their players who have been used as nothing more than a PR exercise by Wolves. To have no intention of actually competing is unacceptable.
Notcher
Ian Bowyer
So Forest could have finished second and still would have been promoted.
Putting the fact that Wolves didn't make the application for promotion, what bemuses me is, what the hell did they expect to achieve by telling the players at this point? They had missed out on promotion so surely they would've been better off keeping schtum.
Absolute PR disaster and one the team will probably struggle to recover from. That's probably going to be the end of them.
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Putting the fact that Wolves didn't make the application for promotion, what bemuses me is, what the hell did they expect to achieve by telling the players at this point? They had missed out on promotion so surely they would've been better off keeping schtum.
Absolute PR disaster and one the team will probably struggle to recover from. That's probably going to be the end of them.
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valspoodle
Ian Bowyer
Whilst we were celebrating promotion of the women from League North, my local club Ipswich Women were celebrating promotion from League South.
Much noise about it on the local TV trying to offset the relegation of the men, I suppose.
Much noise about it on the local TV trying to offset the relegation of the men, I suppose.
Notcher
Ian Bowyer
The one common denominator in women's football is that the goalkeeping is horrific at every level. Womens/gitls bodies just aren't shaped or have the physiology to do it.
I speak from a place of having two daughters that play at pro clubs albeit one is 15 and the other is 7.
The goals in the women's game need to be made smaller. The funny thing is that the 14 and 15 year old boys don't play on full size goals yet those lads are in the most case the same size as women but most are already bigger, yet they put the women in full size nets. I firmly believe that the only reason the FA won't reduce the goal size is because it's almost an admittion that the women's game is inferior to the men.
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I speak from a place of having two daughters that play at pro clubs albeit one is 15 and the other is 7.
The goals in the women's game need to be made smaller. The funny thing is that the 14 and 15 year old boys don't play on full size goals yet those lads are in the most case the same size as women but most are already bigger, yet they put the women in full size nets. I firmly believe that the only reason the FA won't reduce the goal size is because it's almost an admittion that the women's game is inferior to the men.
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Bing Crosby's Head
Viv Anderson
Their best forward came from Forest!
Having struggled against Championship opposition in the Cup, I'm sure Forest will be targeting a higher level of player if they are to compete.
weejockmcplop
Jack Burkitt
I''ll tell you what the goals at Wembley definitely need to be a few iches bigger.
My wife was talking in her sleep last night and kept saying "I wish it was a few inches bigger"
She must have been talking about the goals at Wembley as well, make sense now.
Yes, I couldn’t believe what I read about Wolves yesterday: either utter incompetence or malice.
Poor Wolves women’s team - shocking. They worked so hard to achieve promotion when their own club had stabbed them in the back.
weejockmcplop
Jack Burkitt
I just watched these highlights and by gosh you are right lol.
Some of the goalkeeping was just bizarre. The West Brom keeper seemed to want to run to where the ball was going instead of diving.
Captain Sinister
Senior doom Monger
I watched the highlights reel... when I was a kid, i thought there was nothing funnier than Keystone Cops.
We develop wisdom as we get older.
We develop wisdom as we get older.