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Weird Women's Super League fixture list

killerandflash
killerandflash Posts: 69,835
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35876556

This season they've increased the number of teams to 9, an ODD number, so every week one team won't be playing! Manchester City are the team that misses out in the final week... imagine the PL or Championship with one team finishing a week early...

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  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    edited March 2016
    Not much different from the championship. I can think of one team that doesn't always turn up every week.
  • LoOkOuT
    LoOkOuT Posts: 10,853
    ODD as in weird, or ODD as in unique?
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,835
    LoOkOuT said:

    ODD as in weird, or ODD as in unique?

    Both!

    I can't think of any other football league with an odd number of teams
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,288
    edited March 2016
    Used to happen in the Rugby when it was the Five Nations prior to Italy joining.

    I guess it'll just reignite the old question... Would you prefer the game in hand (Which this technically is) or the points on board
  • rina
    rina Posts: 2,334
    Didn't the old first division used to have teams finishing on different days or am I remembering that wrong? I may just be thinking of the Liverpool arsenal decider which was played late because of hillsborough
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,835
    rina said:

    Didn't the old first division used to have teams finishing on different days or am I remembering that wrong? I may just be thinking of the Liverpool arsenal decider which was played late because of hillsborough

    It did, I think when games got rearranged (due to cup ties or weather) they could be played after the normal last game of the season

    Of course it CAN be done, but it really takes away the excitement of the last day, at both ends of the table

  • MountsfieldPark
    MountsfieldPark Posts: 2,074
    edited March 2016
    killerandflash said:

    LoOkOuT said:

    ODD as in weird, or ODD as in unique?

    Both!

    I can't think of any other football league with an odd number of teams
    Belgian tier 2 this year has 17.

    Mind you, next year it will only have 8 (unless they change the plans again).
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,212
    1987/1988 The Old First Division. 21 Teams including Charlton.
  • JustFloydRoad
    JustFloydRoad Posts: 1,607
    https://www.goal.com/en/lists/celtic-rangers-talks-shock-move-english-scottish-border-wsl/blt0d71eb5acf431292

    This isn't really a Charlton's Women news story (though it does seem fair our ladies might be in the wsl after celtic and rangers)
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,238
    Would be worse than when they asked about joining the mens English League IMO, they've only been going for 3 seasons up there and there's more worthy teams in the Championship. Also a closed league would suck, as it would vastly limit the amount of players that can turn professional, the natural growth of the women's game means most of the championship and even some of the northern and southern division can and will be professional players. If you "close the shop", no team outside of the WSL will bother being fully professional as there's no upside to doing so
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  • JustFloydRoad
    JustFloydRoad Posts: 1,607
    Does anyone know why only one up one down, and no play offs (they seem to work in the Men's game- kinda odd they don't have them in the Women's game)?
  • Swindon_Addick
    Swindon_Addick Posts: 1,620
    JustFloydRoad said:
    Does anyone know why only one up one down, and no play offs (they seem to work in the Men's game- kinda odd they don't have them in the Women's game)?
    The normal arrangement in the women's game is divisions of 12 with 1 up, 2 down, because each division has two feeding into it. The link between the WSL and the Championship is the only one above county league level where there aren't two divisions at the level below. Playoffs don't really work if you're feeding two divisions into one - you'd end up with 4 going down in a division of 12 which would be too much.

    They could have gone for a half-way arrangement for the top two tiers where the first goes up and second plays off against the eleventh team in the WSL, which is more or less what Scotland does, but they didn't. I think it goes back to when the WSL was the only division with full-time pro clubs, so relegation was a much bigger deal and promotion could be financially disastrous if a club wasn't ready for it. But I think the reason they keep the arrangement now is that WSL clubs aren't going to vote for additional relegation places.
  • JustFloydRoad
    JustFloydRoad Posts: 1,607
    Swindon_Addick said:
    JustFloydRoad said:
    Does anyone know why only one up one down, and no play offs (they seem to work in the Men's game- kinda odd they don't have them in the Women's game)?
    The normal arrangement in the women's game is divisions of 12 with 1 up, 2 down, because each division has two feeding into it. The link between the WSL and the Championship is the only one above county league level where there aren't two divisions at the level below. Playoffs don't really work if you're feeding two divisions into one - you'd end up with 4 going down in a division of 12 which would be too much.

    They could have gone for a half-way arrangement for the top two tiers where the first goes up and second plays off against the eleventh team in the WSL, which is more or less what Scotland does, but they didn't. I think it goes back to when the WSL was the only division with full-time pro clubs, so relegation was a much bigger deal and promotion could be financially disastrous if a club wasn't ready for it. But I think the reason they keep the arrangement now is that WSL clubs aren't going to vote for additional relegation places.
    Might do if Celtic and Rangers join.

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