I know I've mentioned this before, but I have reached out to the club on numerous occasions including to Jemma White when she took over. I'm responsible for the girls football setup at my local club. We have 5 teams (growing to 7/8 next season) and a 3-6 year olds kickers program. I reached out to how we might build the clubs profile in Medway, and other things we could potentially do to collaborate. I have had zero response in the last 2 years. In fact the only person who ever replied was Sandgaard who referred me to someone else who promised a link up in pushing players down to run some training sessions, then went quiet when I tried to organise it.
Meanwhile LCL are pushing in our area and their profile continues to build. Plus we have Chatham Town who whilst lower divisions still do a much better job of promotion round here (appreciate it's more local).
Charlton seem to have a scouting network, which is probably a little easier given there is only one girls league in Kent, and it's quite easy to track the girls teams who play in boys leagues. One of my girls has since signed academy terms with the club. But they seem to have no interest in exploring ways to grow their support out here, even when I've given them myself as a good contact in the area to help with this.
No surprise they're still getting such poor attendances.
Made heavy weather of that in the end didn't we! Only two games left for us now and with Not Millwall winning today we need Birmingham and them to lose their next two and then either draw on the last day or have Birmingham win, all while we overtake them both on goal difference along the way. That miserable Autumn of ours really did kill us, we haven't actually lost since November.
Made heavy weather of that in the end didn't we! Only two games left for us now and with Not Millwall winning today we need Birmingham and them to lose their next two and then either draw on the last day or have Birmingham win, all while we overtake them both on goal difference along the way. That miserable Autumn of ours really did kill us, we haven't actually lost since November.
Not conceding late to LCL would really have helped too
6 Apr: international week. England play Belgium at Ashton Gate on 4/4 and away on 8/4. Both sold out for England fans. 13 Apr: week off 20 Apr: Newcastle United, home, 2pm. At the Valley. £10 adult, £7 over-65, £6 under-25, £5 under-18. 27 Apr: week off (would have been our turn to play Reading) 4 May: Southampton away, 2pm. At St Mary's. Not on sale yet; usually £10 adult, £4 under-18.
Most we can get is 39. With London City Lionesses* playing Birmingham on the Final day I would call it and say it is mathematical now.
*- Please don't call them Millwall. They play at Hayes Lane so closer to being Bromley Women than Millwall. Millwall have their own team that play at the den (that is thankfully much worse).
Somehow missed that the club posted this injury update on the website a week ago, mainly because they only shared it on social media today. Comms around the women's team have generally been poor this season. Post match interviews with Karen Hills going up weirdly late, no pre match interviews, no interviews with any of the team, randomly announcing signings with no fanfare, inconsistent style, someones using #cafc and sometimes not (I get why they sometimes don't but at least be consistent), match previews going up really late and now waiting 8 days to share something posted on the website. The injury update also mentions "the last two games of the season" but was apparently posted before the weekends game?
Some of this might seem trivial but it makes it really hard to grow the profile of the women's team and make them look like the professional operation they are
News from the tier 3 leagues - barring a ridiculous number of goals being scored in the final week, Ipswich Town have guaranteed that they will be one of the two promoted teams joining out division next season. The other is almost certain to be Nottingham Forest, but Wolves could still catch them.
20 Apr: Newcastle United, home, 2pm. At the Valley. £10 adult, £7 over-65, £6 under-25, £5 under-18. 27 Apr: week off (would have been our turn to play Reading) 4 May: Southampton away, 2pm. At St Mary's. £10 adult, £4 under-18 (but must be accompanied by an adult). Tickets from here.
Just the two games left, Newcastle at home on Easter Sunday and then Southampton away on 4 May. The teams around us in the table get to play their game in hand on 27 April.
The Southampton website has a reminder that they're part of the experiment of allowing fans to bring alcoholic drinks to their seats for women's games at selected Football League grounds this season. So everyone on best behaviour please as some of us really, really want that experiment to be judged a success and brought in as standard.
At the top, Lionesses have a two point lead over Birmingham, who would have been behind only on goals scored if they'd beaten us at the Valley last time they played. At the bottom, Sheffield Utd are heavy favourites to go down but they and Pompey both have home games against Blackburn to come and if Sheffield win but Pompey lose that would change things. Blackburn look safe unless Sheffield suddenly start beating mid-table teams.
We still have a mathematical chance of promotion but it would entail both LCL and Birmingham losing both their games, then drawing against eachother whilst we win both our games and pad our goal difference by 2 or 3 goals whilst doing so, we'd then finish top on GD. We could also still get promoted with LCL somehow losing all 3, but we'd need Birmingham to lose the other 2 and beat LCL by a single goal whilst we again pad our GD.
Lionesses won at Southampton today which has ended our theoretical chance of winning the league.
Dates for next season were announced in the programme for the Northampton game today: first games are the weekend of 7 September, last games 3 May 2026.
Lionesses won at Southampton today which has ended our theoretical chance of winning the league.
Dates for next season were announced in the programme for the Northampton game today: first games are the weekend of 7 September, last games 3 May 2026.
Hopefully much needed reforms will happen for the Women's game.
Play-Offs have been suggested for the WSL but not the Championship (seems disappointing). Our club would benefit from a play off system.
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13 Apr: week off
20 Apr: Newcastle United, home, 2pm. At the Valley. £10 adult, £7 over-65, £6 under-25, £5 under-18.
27 Apr: week off (would have been our turn to play Reading)
4 May: Southampton away, 2pm. At St Mary's. Not on sale yet; usually £10 adult, £4 under-18.
Most we can get is 39. With London City Lionesses* playing Birmingham on the Final day I would call it and say it is mathematical now.
*- Please don't call them Millwall. They play at Hayes Lane so closer to being Bromley Women than Millwall. Millwall have their own team that play at the den (that is thankfully much worse).
I can live with LCL going up not ML.
Some of this might seem trivial but it makes it really hard to grow the profile of the women's team and make them look like the professional operation they are
https://www.charltonafc.com/news/charlton-athletic-women-injury-update
27 Apr: week off (would have been our turn to play Reading)
4 May: Southampton away, 2pm. At St Mary's. £10 adult, £4 under-18 (but must be accompanied by an adult). Tickets from here.
Just the two games left, Newcastle at home on Easter Sunday and then Southampton away on 4 May. The teams around us in the table get to play their game in hand on 27 April.
The Southampton website has a reminder that they're part of the experiment of allowing fans to bring alcoholic drinks to their seats for women's games at selected Football League grounds this season. So everyone on best behaviour please as some of us really, really want that experiment to be judged a success and brought in as standard.
At the top, Lionesses have a two point lead over Birmingham, who would have been behind only on goals scored if they'd beaten us at the Valley last time they played. At the bottom, Sheffield Utd are heavy favourites to go down but they and Pompey both have home games against Blackburn to come and if Sheffield win but Pompey lose that would change things. Blackburn look safe unless Sheffield suddenly start beating mid-table teams.
https://www.surveyhero.com/c/deihyu9f
Jodie Hutton has my vote.
Women's Championship - women's football braces itself for big changes.
Dates for next season were announced in the programme for the Northampton game today: first games are the weekend of 7 September, last games 3 May 2026.
https://x.com/barclayswc/status/1913918040359477483?s=46&t=MojDVxh_AjG5taAWPQn6Tw
Had to soak up a lot of pressure, but Ellie Brazil had a chance to make it 2-0 before the break and we could have won it at the end as well.
Some fantastic saves from Sophie Whitehouse as well, including two long-range efforts she tipped over the bar.
Play-Offs have been suggested for the WSL but not the Championship (seems disappointing). Our club would benefit from a play off system.