Topic: Re: Liverpool Women FC (away vs Bristol - 20/04 - 12:30 ko) (*)

[kellan]

Do the LFC Women do rehab at Kirkby?

They've got their own medical team but I couldn't tell you where it's based. I would presume with the rest of the set-up, at Tranmere. The team does go to Kirkby when there's a reason to, it's not like they never ever use the facility. If it's thought that rehab would be benefited by the resources at Kirkby, I'm sure they'd be turned to.

[kellan]

The Reading match that the queen selfishly cancelled has been rescheduled for Thur 24th Nov, 7pm KO. Not the best for fans, but it slots into the fixture list as good as we could probably have hoped for. Few days after Brighton away, but then there's an international window after.

LeoT - your ticket is still valid, and you've got until 24hrs before KO to get a refund if you can't make it.

[LeoT]

Thanks or the info Kellan.

I'm hoping to go to the Brighton match, and I think I can probably drive to the Reading one after work.

The Reading match that the queen selfishly cancelled has been rescheduled for Thur 24th Nov, 7pm KO. Not the best for fans, but it slots into the fixture list as good as we could probably have hoped for. Few days after Brighton away, but then there's an international window after.

LeoT - your ticket is still valid, and you've got until 24hrs before KO to get a refund if you can't make it.

[kellan]

van de Sanden not fit for Everton. Wardlaw is available, however. And Kiernan isn't expected back until the new year, which I was expecting anyway but it's still disappointing to see it confirmed.

Tickets/parking for the derby are on sale until 4pm today if anyone is still interested.

[LeoT]

Is Ashley Hodson back from her loan?
I'm sure I could see her near the start of the Inside Training video.

van de Sanden not fit for Everton. Wardlaw is available, however. And Kiernan isn't expected back until the new year, which I was expecting anyway but it's still disappointing to see it confirmed.

Tickets/parking for the derby are on sale until 4pm today if anyone is still interested.

[kellan]

Is Ashley Hodson back from her loan?
I'm sure I could see her near the start of the Inside Training video.

Nice spot.

I just checked Birmingham's matches. They've played three in the league so far. She started one and was subbed off. Came on as a sub in another and scored. She wasn't in their match squad last weekend, so I wonder if we might have called her back even before Kiernan's injury? Bit strange that neither club has acknowledged it that I can see.

[Elzar]

Excuse my ignorance, but who funds the womens teams? If its the same owners as the mens teams, what will be the affects of the growth of womens football over the next few years on the clubs as a whole?

[Samie]

John Henry and FSG own the entire club, so a Women's team with LFC on their shirts is also owned by them.

I'm not sure they've invested much though, but I 'm hoping I'm wrong on that count. They are putting in money for the Women's training centre though.

[kellan]

The team is part-funding itself, with the club making up the necessary difference. 'Necessary difference' being the amount it prefers to put in, most likely.

The last info I can find re: investment amounts was a 27% increase for 18/19, a further 21% increase for 19/20, and 24% for 20/21

The last details of a budget that isn't covid-impacted: loss narrowed from £313k to £5k in 2020, with revenue up 55%/£595k from £1.1m to £1.7m. Expenses up 20%/£284k to £1.7m. Commercial at £1.4m accounts for 83% of revenue. Wage bill up 21% to just under £1m.

Your guess is as good as mine for what the numbers are today.

[Elzar]

The team is part-funding itself, with the club making up the necessary difference. 'Necessary difference' being the amount it prefers to put in, most likely.

The last info I can find re: investment amounts was a 27% increase for 18/19, a further 21% increase for 19/20, and 24% for 20/21

The last details of a budget that isn't covid-impacted: loss narrowed from £313k to £5k in 2020, with revenue up 55%/£595k from £1.1m to £1.7m. Expenses up 20%/£284k to £1.7m. Commercial at £1.4m accounts for 83% of revenue. Wage bill up 21% to just under £1m.

Your guess is as good as mine for what the numbers are today.

Interesting, just wondering how it will go with the womens game progressing and growing, you’d expect numbers to bump up of cost and income. Hopefully the sportwashing type clubs don’t bump up the wages etc so much that it makes it difficult for other clubs to progress

[kellan]

Interesting, just wondering how it will go with the womens game progressing and growing, you’d expect numbers to bump up of cost and income. Hopefully the sportwashing type clubs don’t bump up the wages etc so much that it makes it difficult for other clubs to progress

The WSL does have its own version of FFP, so to speak. I haven't seen the regulations for the current season, so can't give specifics. But the FA has long tried to set spending rules. I suppose those rules are more for the sake of making sure clubs are living within their means, given how easy it is for smaller ones to find themselves completely unable to function should something as relatively minor as a single sponsor walking away happen. I wouldn't say reining clubs in has ever been the FA's intent. The rules have always allowed those who want to invest to be able to do that. Which makes sense, since the sport is hardly finished in its development.

The cost of operating a top women's team is a drop in the ocean for the have-lots, so you're right that clubs who are already big spenders could easily make themselves a force in the women's game if they wished to, really blowing out of the water any club who prefers to run themselves with even a semblance of self-sufficiency. There still needs to be that wish, however. I would say things as they stand are just about still sensible enough for there to be the kind of on-pitch parity that every league needs. Hopefully that remains, because I don't for a second expect FSG will adopt a drastically different business model for the women's team than the one that currently runs the men's.

[Snail]

Going the derby later, can't wait.

[afc tukrish]

Going the derby later, can't wait.

Post-match report, in some detail, please... 

[WhereAngelsPlay]

Post-match report, in some detail, please... 

It's on BT

[afc tukrish]

It's on BT

Not readily available stateside, though...

[oojason]

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Liverpool vs Everton is live on Sky in the UK: Sky Sports Main Event, Sky Sports Football, Sky Sports Premier League, Sky Showcase - www.live-footballontv.com

The match should be live on Paramount+ in the USA - www.livesoccertv.com/match/4384178/liverpool-vs-everton (also has listings for many other countries)


and there's always the streams - http://mz.freestreams-live1.com/sky-sp-mainevent & http://mz.freestreams-live1.com/skysmain


60+ Stream sites for the 2022/23 season : www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=345769.0

^ aka the pinned 'Some useful info for following the football + TV, Streams, & Highlights etc' thread in the 'General Football and Sport' section of RAWK.


Decent stream sites for womens footy: https://js.freestreams-live1.com : www.4stream.gg/b/football.html : www.daddylive.pro : www.hesgoal.com : https://anonima.to/b/football : www.goatd.me : https://elixx.xyz : https://totalsportek.pro : www.vipboxtv.sk : https://ovopremium.com : https://ww1.pawastreams.live : http://weakstreams.com/soccer-streams : https://mamahd.best/watch-football-live : https://nizarstream.com : https://footybite.to : www.hockeyweb.live/schedule : www.redditsoccerstreams.app : www.redditsoccerstreams.tv

[Elzar]

It's on BT

Sky Sports isn’t it?

[Solomon Grundy]

It's on Sky showcase.

[Samie]

[Samie]

 

[4pool]

Not readily available stateside, though...

Paramount Plus.. live now

[afc tukrish]

Sky Sports isn’t it?

What?!!!

WAP gave out fraudulent, mistaken info?

I say, I say...

[afc tukrish]

How cool is that piccy?

 

[TheShanklyGates]

Been coming that.

[WhereAngelsPlay]

How cool is that piccy?

 

I pity the fool up against her at CM in a decade or so

[WhereAngelsPlay]

She's a special little player isn't she.

[Boston always unofficial]

Not much to cheer about in that first half.

[Fitzy.]

Game over. Liverpool totally blunt.

[smicer07]

Why run on the pitch? Absolute weirdos.

[jaygraham]

Awful.

A huge opportunity for the women’s team wasted.

[Solomon Grundy]

Why run on the pitch? Absolute weirdos.

Everton fans?

[Fitzy.]

Everton look good. Liverpool look newly promoted. Still haven’t scored in open play.

[4pool]

Matt Beard needs to buy Jess Park. Good player.

I think our lasses let the occasion get to them. They need more matches at Anfield to get used to the atmosphere and pressure.

[kellan]

I really don't know what to say about that except even the stewarding was a shit the bed performance. Three separate pitch incursions and three Everton goals. Embarrassing all round.

[Snail]

Everton fans?

It seemed to be happening every time we had a set piece so yeah, probably. Don’t mind the kids doing it so much but I’m pretty sure it was a full grown man who got tackled at the end there.

Disappointing, that. Second half was better but the game was already gone by then, enjoyed the atmosphere in 305. Everton are miles ahead of us, sadly.

[RainbowFlick]

that Jess Park is a baller. Everton also play pretty good football.

We needed way more creativity really. Our few chances mainly were from set pieces (how huge is that thrown-in by the way?!?). no real standout performances other than the couple subs later who gave us a bit of something.

Wonder what the club were hoping/expecting for in terms of turnout to this match?

[LeoT]

We were overwhelmed by the occasion, so well & truly beaten.
I think it was a mistake to play Taylor Hinds in the font 3, maybe Yana should have started.

Can't help but thinking it could have been a whole different game if Keirnan or Van Der Sanden played, without their pace we offered no threat going forward all game long.
Ceri Holland was good again, but Missy Bo played poorly.
I think the issue was they had 5 in midfield and we only have 4 (2 central mids and 2 wing backs) so could not get hold of the ball.

Today was a bad day at the office, I'm sure better days will come soon.

[paisley1977]

Their team looked like they had a game plan. Our team looked like they had never met before.

[LeoT]

I can't get my head around why people feel the need to run onto the pitch.
Very sad that these attention seeking idiots have now started doing it in the womens game too.

I get worried for the players and refs every time one of these incidents take place, even more worried when there are so many kids in the crowd.

I really don't know what to say about that except even the stewarding was a shit the bed performance. Three separate pitch incursions and three Everton goals. Embarrassing all round.

[kellan]

I can't get my head around why people feel the need to run onto the pitch.
Very sad that these attention seeking idiots have now started doing it in the womens game too.

I get worried for the players and refs every time one of these incidents take place, even more worried when there are so many kids in the crowd.

At least the law has been changed now. Before July of this year, women's matches weren't counted on the list of those where pitch encroachment can be dealt with as a criminal offence. I have no idea what will happen to the kids who ran on because they were only kids (though hardly young enough to not have known better). No idea what will happen to the grown man either, because there's no precedent here - but it is now possible that he will get those criminal charges if it's thought fitting.

Fortunately, with the exception of one of the boys who interacted with Laws a little, nobody who ran on paid the least bit of attention to the players and officials and clearly just wanted to torment the stewards. That wasn't the case with Sam Kerr last December though, when she ended up being the one to put the young lad who invaded Chelsea's pitch on his arse because the stewarding was nowhere near as robust as seen as Anfield on Sunday. That's the concern really. The average WSL match won't have a small army of hi vis vests and that one particular Anfield steward in the yellow jacket who was prepared to sprint all night and rugby tackle when it became necessary. But the WSL is now visible enough for incidents of pitch invasion to be seen and inspire, and especially if people are still under the impression that consequences won't be as heavy just because it's not a PL pitch they're running around on.