BWFC women

[W.cramp]

We have a wimmins team!    

[jmjhb]

43 minutes ago, Rival Son said:

I don’t, which the club have confirmed.

i think it’s to do with environment. Hence, the player references to “values”; not in a financial sense.

Two players left a couple of weeks ago, to join a rival. Then two more players resign this week, without going to another club. Then the manager and his assistant are sacked!

Hopefully, our captain and star player, who are the latest two, can be persuaded to return.

I think there's elements of truth in both your statement and mine.

[Dr. Feelgood]

1 hour ago, W.cramp said:

We have a wimmins team!    

So I see !

Why ?

[boltonboris]

£35k a year ain't a lot is it to be fair. If we're that hard up then it's a real concern and staff cuts and budget changes are ringing some alarm bells with me, as it won't just be for the Womens team

When clubs start diverting every available penny in the club towards player wages and fees, then things fall apart behind the scenes and it ends up falling apart on the pitch too. 

The club needs investment off the pitch. The facilities at the training ground are shit. We're light on the coaching & scouting department and without that off-pitch infrastructure being right, it catches up with you.

[boltonboris]

I think the latest player posts put to bed any rumours of improper conduct by the manager. Which is a relief. Bad that's even been speculated about

[Tonge moor green jacket]

7 hours ago, thebells said:

Anybody 'speculating' without evidence that there has been inappropriate behaviour simply because it's a man running a woman's football team has the emotional intelligence of a worm.  I have no idea who Craig off twitter is, but he must know that saying inappropriate behaviour plants a seed. To then say 'not sexual' is irrelevant because he's already planted the seed. I wonder how he'd feel to be outed like that without any evidence. God i hate social media.

I do know (a friend of mine has a daughter that was in the team last season) that Smith was unpopular for a while over the summer, but mainly because the team moved up a level and new players came in and loyal players were moved out. That's football.

There's likely more to this story, but until it comes out, idiots like Craig would do well to keep their gob shut. 

I know you didn't intend it as such, but I couldn't help chuckling at the inadvertent double entendre!

 

[Lt. Aldo Raine]

6 hours ago, Rival Son said:

I don’t, which the club have confirmed.

i think it’s to do with environment. Hence, the player references to “values”; not in a financial sense.

Two players left a couple of weeks ago, to join a rival. Then two more players resign this week, without going to another club. Then the manager and his assistant are sacked!

Hopefully, our captain and star player, who are the latest two, can be persuaded to return.

I think the captain's also gone

[thebells]

1 hour ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

I know you didn't intend it as such, but I couldn't help chuckling at the inadvertent double entendre!

 

I’d like to say I’m clever enough to have done it on purpose. But I’m not 🤣. 

[bwfc2003]

4 hours ago, boltonboris said:

£35k a year ain't a lot is it to be fair. If we're that hard up then it's a real concern and staff cuts and budget changes are ringing some alarm bells with me, as it won't just be for the Womens team

When clubs start diverting every available penny in the club towards player wages and fees, then things fall apart behind the scenes and it ends up falling apart on the pitch too. 

The club needs investment off the pitch. The facilities at the training ground are shit. We're light on the coaching & scouting department and without that off-pitch infrastructure being right, it catches up with you.

ITS NOT FINANCIAL !!!!!

[boltonboris]

6 minutes ago, bwfc2003 said:

ITS NOT FINANCIAL !!!!!

Not sure if this is a serious reply or not, but somebody who works at the bean counting side of the club actually confirmed it on here, in person 

 

But if you’re joking and it’s meant in an ironic way, then apologies! 

[Tonge moor green jacket]

8 minutes ago, boltonboris said:

Not sure if this is a serious reply or not, but somebody who works at the bean counting side of the club actually confirmed it on here, in person 

 

But if you’re joking and it’s meant in an ironic way, then apologies! 

The club have said it isn't.

[boltonboris]

1 minute ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

The club have said it isn't.

That’s that then 😂

As was said, there have been spending/job cuts off the pitch within the whole club

[Big E]

5 hours ago, boltonboris said:

I think the latest player posts put to bed any rumours of improper conduct by the manager. Which is a relief. Bad that's even been speculated about

it was speculated by a guy who is openly racist but people still hang on his word. embarassing really

[Tonge moor green jacket]

12 minutes ago, boltonboris said:

That’s that then 😂

As was said, there have been spending/job cuts off the pitch within the whole club

Well, I've read back several times, and can't see any post today that says there have been cuts.

[Rival Son]

40 minutes ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

I think the captain's also gone

The captain - Eleanor Seals - is one of the two who left on Monday/yesterday. As I understand it, she isn’t an import and hasn’t gone to another club. She’s from Bolton and is a Wanderers fan.

If this is correct, it highlights the seriousness of what’s happened; whatever it is.

[Tonge moor green jacket]

1 minute ago, Rival Son said:

The captain - Eleanor Seals - is one of the two who left on Monday/yesterday. As I understand it, she isn’t an import and hasn’t gone to another club. She’s from Bolton and is a Wanderers fan.

If this is correct, it highlights the seriousness of what’s happened; whatever it is.

Aye, it is a great shame. After what has been achieved.

Hopefully, it all gets sorted for the better, quickly.

[Tonge moor green jacket]

https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/25510319.gone-wrong-bolton-wanderers-womens-team/

More info.

[Tombwfc]

Iles has a write up of the situation on the BN. No idea what to make of it really - suggests that last years team all got shoved in the reserves, but then it's the newer players who've left?

We'll be paying Cissoko more in a season than it'd cost to run the womens team for years. We should be flying through the leagues. It's probably the easiest PR win the club could have so it needs sorting.

[boltonboris]

8 hours ago, jmjhb said:

I suspect this is due to wider budget/staffing cuts

@Tonge moor green jacket

[Lt. Aldo Raine]

Iles' article does state that the BN has been assured that there are "no immediate plans to reduce what FV and the ownership group are currently spending on the women's arm of the club"

That seems pretty unequivocal and must surely have come from a reliable source

So who knows

[jmjhb]

Tbf, what Marc Iles reported may well have happened. It's just very convenient timing.

[Rival Son]

50 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/25510319.gone-wrong-bolton-wanderers-womens-team/

More info.

Thanks for the link. It appears that Katie Holt is the local player and fan, who’s walked out.

is there a way back? Two have signed for other clubs, but nothing to say the latest three have.

[Ani]

2 hours ago, boltonboris said:

Not sure if this is a serious reply or not, but somebody who works at the bean counting side of the club actually confirmed it on here, in person 

 

But if you’re joking and it’s meant in an ironic way, then apologies! 

Who that works at the club has confirmed this on here ? 

[Casino]

I dont think it needs any more pointing out, pal

 

If you read the thread back, its all there