| Chelsea’s woman team manager Emma Hayes 23:28 - Jan 24 with 12398 views | loftboy |
Complaining that kingsmeadow doesn’t have undersoil heating and the women should have the same facilities as the men due to the WSL being on the same level as the PL.
Controversial but unless it generates the same amount of interest and cash then it isn’t.
The crowds although greatly improving the ticket prices are a lot less and I’m sure many are subsidised from the parent club there is no way is it even comparable to the national league at this moment in time. |  |
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| Chelsea’s woman team manager Emma Hayes on 23:32 - Jan 24 with 4731 views | Northernr |
Super excited for where this one is going too  |  | | |
| Chelsea’s woman team manager Emma Hayes on 23:34 - Jan 24 with 4726 views | loftboy |
| Chelsea’s woman team manager Emma Hayes on 23:32 - Jan 24 by Northernr |
Super excited for where this one is going too |
I’m just genuinely interested as to the height of her delusions. | |
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| Chelsea’s woman team manager Emma Hayes on 06:09 - Jan 25 with 4463 views | CamberleyR |
Maybe she can ask her multi billionaire owner to install it at Kingsmeadow. |  |
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| Chelsea’s woman team manager Emma Hayes on 06:47 - Jan 25 with 4407 views | MedwayR |
If the WSL was on the same level as the PL they wouldn’t be playing at Kingsmeadow. The abandonment of their game the other day was a farce though. |  |
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| Chelsea’s woman team manager Emma Hayes on 07:34 - Jan 25 with 4324 views | PlanetHonneywood |
| Chelsea’s woman team manager Emma Hayes on 23:32 - Jan 24 by Northernr |
Super excited for where this one is going too |
Do you think it would help if women players wore tighter fitting kit like Alisha Lehmann at the Villa?
Asking for a friend. |  |
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| Chelsea’s woman team manager Emma Hayes on 07:41 - Jan 25 with 4300 views | swisscottage |
At the end of the day would the cost of undersoil heating provide a cost benefit.
The reason most clubs in the Premiership, Championship and bigger clubs down the leagues have undersoil heating is that the cost of postponing the match with likely lower gates on a rearranged date, outweighs the cost of installing and turning on undersoil heating.
I would hazard a guess that lost income from postponements in WSL doesn't come close to the cost of installing and running undersoil heating.
Even with the increased attendances after the Euros, the average WSL club will have a turnover of less than £1million. Which effectively puts them at the same financial level as League Two
It is unrealistic to expect things like undersoil heating until club revenues are at least five times their current level. |  | | |
| Chelsea’s woman team manager Emma Hayes on 07:52 - Jan 25 with 4267 views | Hayesender |
Emma Hayes seems to have a rather over inflated ego of herself! |  |
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| Chelsea’s woman team manager Emma Hayes on 08:12 - Jan 25 with 4232 views | Landshark |
I've not seen what you are referring to but I did see her rightful complaint about the game being called off after 10 minutes because of a frozen pitch. Can you see that happening in the mens game? The game kicks off, live on BBC and after 10 minutes the referee decides it is actually too icy to play and calls it off. | | | |
| Chelsea’s woman team manager Emma Hayes on 08:53 - Jan 25 with 4119 views | slmrstid |
The postponement was a farce.
Actually I don't think its an unreasonable complaint, if you have governing bodies/clubs making a big fuss of it being top level football for the womens game, then give them the facilities that make it so, otherwise its just lip service.
And whilst I'm at it, another favourite soap box of mine - if clubs want to treat their womens teams properly then let them play all their home games at the same home stadium.
If Chelsea Women are Chelsea, then let them play every game at Stamford Bridge as that is the home of Chelsea, not just Chelsea men. They don't have to open the whole ground if the ticket demand isn't there, but its much better than farming them out to crappy non-league grounds where they are Chelsea in as far as wearing a Chelsea kit, but not much more.
(I would absolutely apply the same logic to QPR Women, its nothing but lip service to give them some QPR kit but then make them play all their games god knows where).
And in this day and age I would take no nonsense about people complaining about extra games tearing up pitches either. |  | | |
| Chelsea’s woman team manager Emma Hayes on 08:56 - Jan 25 with 4112 views | toboboly |
Maybe she should give it back to Kingstonian FC if she doesn't like it |  |
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| Chelsea’s woman team manager Emma Hayes on 09:10 - Jan 25 with 4069 views | ozexile |
Don't see why on a match day women's game can't kick off at 12.30pm and men kick off at 3pm. It will encourage families and triple the takings at the refreshment stalls. | | | |
| Chelsea’s woman team manager Emma Hayes on 09:11 - Jan 25 with 4064 views | robith |
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| Chelsea’s woman team manager Emma Hayes on 09:20 - Jan 25 with 4027 views | Toast_R |
| Chelsea’s woman team manager Emma Hayes on 09:10 - Jan 25 by ozexile |
Don't see why on a match day women's game can't kick off at 12.30pm and men kick off at 3pm. It will encourage families and triple the takings at the refreshment stalls. |
Be a bit congested in the dressing room... |  | | |
| Chelsea’s woman team manager Emma Hayes on 09:23 - Jan 25 with 4016 views | PinnerPaul |
Agree its not comparable to PL, but the top teams are getting 10 - 30,000 when they play in the main stadiums - that's a bit better than the NL, who also, don't have their matches live on the BBC.
Its a difficult one, doesn't have to be comparable to the PL to be entitled to decent pitches!
Liverpool were nearly chucked out of the league and the manager was going to resign because a few seasons back they were getting match after match postponed.
It IS elite womens sport after all, as Clive has intimated we've been here before! - but women golfers, tennis players, athletes etc etc don't perform using sub standard facilities!
As for the actual abandonment - utter farce - how can a pitch be "playable" at KO and "unsafe" 6 minutes later! | | | |
| Chelsea’s woman team manager Emma Hayes on 09:50 - Jan 25 with 3964 views | terryb |
Surely she is just having a rant at her employers for not installing the undersoil heating? I don't know, but would expect that they have it at their training complex.
I have no problem with it being a regulation for membership of the WPFL providing Arsenal had to pay for it at Boreham Wood etc. | | | |
| Chelsea’s woman team manager Emma Hayes on 10:23 - Jan 25 with 3854 views | Esox_Lucius |
| Chelsea’s woman team manager Emma Hayes on 09:10 - Jan 25 by ozexile |
Don't see why on a match day women's game can't kick off at 12.30pm and men kick off at 3pm. It will encourage families and triple the takings at the refreshment stalls. |
In the days of the plastic pitch there were womens games played before the main match and yes, even then, the ground filled up a lot earlier because people wanted to watch it. IIRC the matches were 7 a side and two pitches set up, one in each half. |  |
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| Chelsea’s woman team manager Emma Hayes on 10:38 - Jan 25 with 3791 views | PlanetHonneywood |
| Chelsea’s woman team manager Emma Hayes on 09:20 - Jan 25 by Toast_R |
Be a bit congested in the dressing room... |
Back o'the net! | |
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| Chelsea’s woman team manager Emma Hayes on 11:06 - Jan 25 with 3702 views | Boston |
| Chelsea’s woman team manager Emma Hayes on 09:10 - Jan 25 by ozexile |
Don't see why on a match day women's game can't kick off at 12.30pm and men kick off at 3pm. It will encourage families and triple the takings at the refreshment stalls. |
I've attended double headers over here, by the time the second match is half way through, you just want to go home. | |
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| Chelsea’s woman team manager Emma Hayes on 11:10 - Jan 25 with 3711 views | thame_hoops |
I'd love to see her manage a championship team, i think out of all the 'Women' pundits, she's quite informative |  | | |
| Chelsea’s woman team manager Emma Hayes on 11:11 - Jan 25 with 3709 views | TGRRRSSS |
The cock up really waqs allowing it to start due to being on BBC I guess.
This made things worse I assume it would have been called off earlier otherwise.
Poor call from the ref.
IN terms of Hayes complaints, I get it but there is a cost to undersoil heating I imagine and it isnt at that ground. |  | | |
| Chelsea’s woman team manager Emma Hayes on 12:01 - Jan 25 with 3577 views | NewBee |
She's not asking eg that they sign a player for £88m on £150k(?) a week over an 8 year contract. Which is what CFC have just done eg with Mudyruk,
Undersoil heating would cost a tiny fraction of that and stand to the team for years to come, which is why I think her complaint is reasonable enough.
As for the Referee, I suspect he was under enormous pressure to let the game proceed, effectively because of the cameras being there. But it took a few minutes of play to demonstrate to everyone that the pitch was simply unfit. | | | |
| Chelsea’s woman team manager Emma Hayes on 12:28 - Jan 25 with 3484 views | ParkRoyalR |
| Chelsea’s woman team manager Emma Hayes on 11:10 - Jan 25 by thame_hoops |
I'd love to see her manage a championship team, i think out of all the 'Women' pundits, she's quite informative |
No thanks,
Another Mick Beale, absolutely full of it,
Just like he can't control his mouth and ego currently at Glasgow Rangers, she massively talked herself + her team up pre-Champions League Final a few years back and was 3 or 4 nil down in 20 minutes,
Sarina Wiegman, Hope Powell etc yes, but Emma Hayes is a no having had to listen to Mick Beale for however briefly. | | | |
| Chelsea’s woman team manager Emma Hayes on 12:31 - Jan 25 with 3494 views | Benny_the_Ball |
Whilst I understand Emma's complaint regarding undersoil heating, her reasoning lets her business case down. The WSL is not on the same level as the PL, not even close. |  | | |
| Chelsea’s woman team manager Emma Hayes on 12:43 - Jan 25 with 3446 views | NewBee |
| Chelsea’s woman team manager Emma Hayes on 12:31 - Jan 25 by Benny_the_Ball |
Whilst I understand Emma's complaint regarding undersoil heating, her reasoning lets her business case down. The WSL is not on the same level as the PL, not even close. |
I don't think she was saying that the WSL is the same (playing) standard as the PL. Rather it was that it is at the same level i.e. top of its respective pyramid. | | | |
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