Important win for Galway at home v Shamrock R. Athlone (the campions we shouldn't forget) are off to a good start as well. That is a good crowd in Limerick as it is really difficult to build a fan base for women's sports, camogie and LGA the same.
Important win for Galway at home v Shamrock R. Athlone (the campions we shouldn't forget) are off to a good start as well. That is a good crowd in Limerick as it is really difficult to build a fan base for women's sports, camogie and LGA the same.
City close to it again definitely think if they made a few changes that they could be a top 4 team 1 or 2 players costing them
Athlone hosting their own Chapions League games is a welcome development.
and didn't they play well! 4-0 hammering against Cardiff City, and followed up with a 3-0 win over the Croatian champs, ŽNK Agram.
Only caught bits of yesterday's win as I was at a good Bohs performance in the UCD Bowl, but they blew Cardiff away completely.
Thanks to @Chippie1974 on Twitter for pointing out that the league is 19th in the Women's UEFA Coefficient, with Croatia one step above.
Time to cut the men's game and focus on the women!
Domestically meanwhile:
- Shels have snuck back in to top place, although as there are two clashes with Athlone left it is all to play for.
- Shamrock Rovers have replaced Collie O'Neill with Stephanie Zambra (neé Roche)
- Bohs have hit a run of form, as have Wexford. A good All Island Cup final awaits.
- Sligo Rovers are off the bottom and improving
- Cork City are now bottom of the league and their best players are leaving.
I thought this thread was about the women's premier divisionOriginally Posted by cl�irseach
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Great atmosphere at the Athlone game on Saturday. They really dominated the first half and could even have scored more than 3. They had to sit back a lot in the second half as their energy levels (not surprisingly) dropped, but their keeper and defense did a great job to keep a clean sheet. Another full-stand of a 1916 crowd.
On my way into the ground I noticed a fan wearing a Fiat Trucks Athlone jersey which was great to see. It is up on the clubs insta account now, it was from the 1980/81 season they say. Hopefully these results will give a boast to the league in general. I was in Lissywollen 2 weeks back for the league game v Galway and it was a small enough home crowd at it.
Athlone womens team manager has departed with immediate effect?? The wrong manager has left the club…
Have the Americans got a badgeless Italian academy manager in mind to come in??
Seems vey odd unless off to a higher job. Top of the league, good results in Europe, bit unlucky againt Breidablik Semi final of the cup. Harsh if thats not enough.
Collie O’Neill. ex-Shamrock Rovers women’s first team manager to Athlone perhaps? Would join ex-Shamrock Rovers man and new Athlone Town CEO Steven Gray (and his former assistant coach with UCD men’s 1st team and current Athlone men’s first team manager Ian Ryan)!!!!
Has Collie left Rovers?
A few weeks ago at this stage…
Welcome to the new Athlone, just like the old Athlone: https://www.westmeathindependent.ie/...ne-town-women/
The new CEO would be better off popping into the men’s dressing room and helping out his buddy?
Cracking Dublin derby out in tallaght today, end to end, great stuff. Bohs hugely improved, finishing the season well, and one cup final lost on pens, one more to come.
Hopefully the fans cop on to the fact these women are actually worth a visit , awful attendance today but I hear cup final will have a very decent turnout, nbb display incoming!!
Let’s face it, it’s as good as watching the lads bottle it!!!
I'd love more fans from Fridays to make the Saturdays*, but Bohs are the last club I'd use to highlight it. The game was in Tallaght and yet the crowd was evenly split. There were over a thousand in Dalymount last week again, including NBB youth with a display, and even if you remove the semi finals Bohs have, again, the highest week-to-week / mean attendance in the league again, and it is still growing.
On the flipside, Tallaght is such a grim venue for the women's match, the restrictions in seats, bottles etc. remain in place but, with the early enthusiasm dead, Rovers don't even make the effort to have ball girls or half-time games anymore. It's all very half arsed now.
On the football side of things Bohs were the better team and deserved a win from it really. Rovers have lost a lot of very talented players and filled the squad with signings from the EWFL, NIFL and players who weren't getting a kick for their rivals. Having said that they still have some serious quality from the last generation of young players. Ella Kelly was the pick of the performers today again, and Katie O'Reilly was excellent too. Maria Reynolds was on the bench but is also well able.
*on this, will the FAI ever cop on and play Women's finals on Saturdays. There are numerous reasons why this is better, but here are three:
- Audience built used to attending on Saturdays
- DDSL Girls fixtures are on Sundays
- Amateur & Semi Professional players working the following day / burning a holiday.
Quite the fudge by the FAI to create the new 'senior' divisions.
Seems driven by UEFA's carrot (development league funding) and stick (licensing requirements).
We'll see the clubs that haven't taken women's football on yet be entered into this new development league, which is basically a direct replacement for the u19 league with the age limit removed for some, and adjusted for others.
https://extratime.com/articles/36574...gue-from-2026/
Watch for the Womans National Leagues to become fully amateur if Eileen Gleeson wins her case against the FAI.
When PAts have to pay their womans team manager the same as Stephen Kenny (insert your club here) they will have to make the jobs very different (as would Rovers or anyone else) .
There were 105 people at Galway Utd v Cork City in the Women's Premier on Saturday. I would guess that most of them entered using their men's season ticket, probably around 10 paid in. Not even the FAI would force clubs to pay both managers the same.
I'm not having a go at the women, but the LOI is lightyears ahead of them. Before the beginning of last season, our MU15's beat our women's team quite easily, think it was around 7-1. Our women were All-Island Cup champions at the time too.
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