Southampton FC Women

[SouSaint]

Not even 6k there. Is there really any point in having these games at St. Mary's? 

Edited Saturday at 21:33 by SouSaint

[ant]

Not sure that's entirely fair. It's pretty much twice what they can fit into, say, Snows Stadium. And if you constrain matches to smaller grounds it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

With the League Cup being priced increasingly less competitively, these matches are a good, inexpensive route to give young fans a taste of the big stadium experience.

It's also 1.5x more than attended for the youth cup match when we beat the skates 7-0. Should that not have been played at St. Mary's?

[Tommy Mulgrew]

38,502 attended Newcastle v Sunderland earlier today in the women’s championship, a new record figure.  Now, that’s a proper derby and puts our attendance figure on Saturday into perspective.  The previous record was 15,387 in the reverse fixture in October in Sunderland.

[Ted Bates Statue]

2 hours ago, Tommy Mulgrew said:

38,502 attended Newcastle v Sunderland earlier today in the women’s championship, a new record figure.  Now, that’s a proper derby and puts our attendance figure on Saturday into perspective.  The previous record was 15,387 in the reverse fixture in October in Sunderland.

Not only that but like our derby, their match also had nothing at stake as all our sides are marooned in mid-table. Saints need to pay attention as they are doing something right up North that we clearly aren't. Can't fault us on ticket prices, but think we're severely lacking in terms of promoting the women's side and this season definitely feels like they've become an afterthought in the club's thinking.

[Football Special]

8 hours ago, Ted Bates Statue said:

Not only that but like our derby, their match also had nothing at stake as all our sides are marooned in mid-table. Saints need to pay attention as they are doing something right up North that we clearly aren't. Can't fault us on ticket prices, but think we're severely lacking in terms of promoting the women's side and this season definitely feels like they've become an afterthought in the club's thinking.

Agree. I would say one significant difference is the other clubs have a feelgood factor about them, Newcastle won at Wembley last week and this event almost became an extension of the party. Clubs like Newcastle and Arsenal where tickets are hard to come by for the men's teams have used the womens game to attract fans who might not be able to afford or get tickets to the men's. 

I think if St Mary's was harder to get to for the men's more might go to alternatives like this. It is a good cheap way to get youngsters used to going to live sport. 

[Turkish]

Did Sue Whistle and the Saints birds firm meet up with the Skate chicks?

[tdmickey3]

3 hours ago, Turkish said:

Did Sue Whistle and the Saints birds firm meet up with the Skate chicks?

Chicks ???

[Badger]

13 hours ago, Ted Bates Statue said:

Not only that but like our derby, their match also had nothing at stake as all our sides are marooned in mid-table. Saints need to pay attention as they are doing something right up North that we clearly aren't. Can't fault us on ticket prices, but think we're severely lacking in terms of promoting the women's side and this season definitely feels like they've become an afterthought in the club's thinking.

The entire playing side is a bit of an afterthought and possibly irrelevance to SR judging their conduct. 

[Whitey Grandad]

3 hours ago, tdmickey3 said:

Chicks ???

Since when did chicks have teeth?

 

of course they might not be her own..

[Holmes_and_Watson]

On 23/03/2025 at 22:58, Ted Bates Statue said:

Can't fault us on ticket prices, but think we're severely lacking in terms of promoting the women's side and this season definitely feels like they've become an afterthought in the club's thinking.

Not having that SR focus probably saves them from relegation. 🙂

On 24/03/2025 at 07:07, Football Special said:

I think if St Mary's was harder to get to for the men's more might go to alternatives like this. It is a good cheap way to get youngsters used to going to live sport. 

SR have certainly made it harder to sit through. Maybe they do have a master plan to drive fans towards the women's team. 🙂