LCFC Women To Go Professional

[FoyleFox]

29 minutes ago, LC/FC said:

Supposedly the women's team will be using one of the Showpitches at Seagrave.

 

https://www.lcfc.com/news/1950709/leicester-citys-spectacular-new-training-ground-the-numbers

What level of attendance figures were they getting previously? Would 499 capacity be enough following promotion? A bit restrictive if they are trying to attract fans.

 

Hinckley isn't a bad idea, although not for Vlad Is that used by anyone these days?

[LC/FC]

1 minute ago, FoyleFox said:

What level of attendance figures were they getting previously? Would 499 capacity be enough following promotion? A bit restrictive if they are trying to attract fans.

 

Hinckley isn't a bad idea, although not for Vlad Is that used by anyone these days?

499 isn't enough for the attendance but I think the talk was the Women's allowing standing around the pitch so the the 499 is just the number of seats.

[LCFC1996]

2 minutes ago, FoyleFox said:

What level of attendance figures were they getting previously? Would 499 capacity be enough following promotion? A bit restrictive if they are trying to attract fans.

 

Hinckley isn't a bad idea, although not for Vlad Is that used by anyone these days?

Around 300-500 from memory last season, the cancelled FA Cup game with Man City was expected to smash that.
 

Pre covid the FA set out that they wanted the average WSL attendance to rise from 1,000 to 2,000 as one of their 2020 targets so yeah Seagrave won’t work (Sorry Vlad)

[Vlad the Fox]

6 minutes ago, LCFC1996 said:

Around 300-500 from memory last season, the cancelled FA Cup game with Man City was expected to smash that.
 

Pre covid the FA set out that they wanted the average WSL attendance to rise from 1,000 to 2,000 as one of their 2020 targets so yeah Seagrave won’t work (Sorry Vlad)

What does Farley way hold, I’m sure I saw someone put on here around 1900 once, is that right?

 

It was a shame about the man city match, we’d got tickets, gutted when it got postponed.

[LCFC1996]

1 minute ago, Vlad the Fox said:

What does Farley way hold, I’m sure I saw someone put on here around 1900 once, is that right?

 

It was a shame about the man city match, we’d got tickets, gutted when it got postponed.

Think Farley is around there if they do something with the open end of the ground, it’s listed as 1400 on wiki but that seems pretty low

[LCFC1996]

 

[Vlad the Fox]

6 minutes ago, LCFC1996 said:

Think Farley is around there if they do something with the open end of the ground, it’s listed as 1400 on wiki but that seems pretty low

They should build a 6/7000 seater stand along the side they’ve just built the houses  

[Mint23]

2 hours ago, Vlad the Fox said:

That's a terrible idea, too far away

 

It’s a belting idea - 10 minutes from my house!

[Vlad the Fox]

2 minutes ago, Mint23 said:

It’s a belting idea - 10 minutes from my house!

You’re  just being selfish  

[Izzy]

1 hour ago, LCFC1996 said:

 

Have they won the league/been promoted yet? 

[Vlad the Fox]

3 minutes ago, Izzy said:

Have they won the league/been promoted yet? 

I think 1 more point means durham need to score an absolute stack of goals to catch us. Another win and we’re there. 

[murphy]

1 hour ago, LCFC1996 said:

 

The goalkeeper seems very 'hands on'.

[UpTheLeagueFox]

1 hour ago, LCFC1996 said:

 

It's Eleven... It's Heaven...

[LC/FC]

2 minutes ago, UpTheLeagueFox said:

It's Eleven... It's Heaven...

You stole that from Jason Bourne off Twitter 

[FoyleFox]

16 minutes ago, Izzy said:

Have they won the league/been promoted yet? 

Need 2 points from the remaining 3 games.

[Izzy]

15 minutes ago, FoyleFox said:

Need 2 points from the remaining 3 games.

Nice one.

 

Did I read that Sky now have the rights to the WSL and will be showing regular games?

 

I assume that starts next season so it will be great for Leicester Women to be part of that.

[FoyleFox]

Yes. BBC and sky have the tv rights next season. Perfect time to get promoted and be included in the raised profile. Excellent from a king power commercial perspective too. 

[Vlad the Fox]

3 minutes ago, Izzy said:

Nice one.

 

Did I read that Sky now have the rights to the WSL and will be showing regular games?

 

I assume that starts next season so it will be great for Leicester Women to be part of that.

Yes sky and bbc, I’m sure I heard on the football ramble that sky have 40 odd and bbc about 35. I think it’s good that there is a good number of free to air games at such an important time for the game considering how much it’s grown over recent years and needing to make sure it remains accessible to as many people as possible.

[FoyleFox]

22 on BBC and 44 on Sky according to this announcement 

 

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.com/sport/football/56459754.amp

[Vlad the Fox]

7 minutes ago, FoyleFox said:

22 on BBC and 44 on Sky according to this announcement 

 

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.com/sport/football/56459754.amp

Shame it’s not more on the bbc.

[LCFC1996]

Turns out the 11 league wins in a row is also an FA Women’s Championship record

[tylesta]

4 hours ago, Vlad the Fox said:

What does Farley way hold, I’m sure I saw someone put on here around 1900 once, is that right?

 

It was a shame about the man city match, we’d got tickets, gutted when it got postponed.

We had 1800 there fpr a pre season game few yeqr back

[isaidno]

21 hours ago, tylesta said:

We had 1800 there fpr a pre season game few yeqr back

Felt like a lot more. It was the start of 2008/2009. Ricky Sappleton scored a hat-trick and people on here where saying he's the next Heskey. 

[CosbehFox]

On 28/03/2021 at 14:11, Mint23 said:

 Could they make use of Hinckley’s stadium? It’s a crying shame they built such a lovely non league venue and folded a few years later. 

Big upgrade would be an understatement - it's a minefield of ownership issues. The existing club have to run things off a generator, they don't have access to the bar. 

 

On 28/03/2021 at 14:17, Vlad the Fox said:

So what is the spec for a wsl team ground? where does Farley way fall short? 

With the new TV deal, it will having a multi-range of cameras set up and the ability to host the broadcasting vans etc. Most of the WSL play at Conference or League 2 grounds. Typically we don't have a ground of that nature in the county of Leicestershire - I'm assuming they have ruled out Holmes Park and outside of Hinckley/Leicester Road, the grounds aren't the best. I only one I can think of is Loughborough University but I didn't realise they hosted a women club already 

[LCFC1996]

3 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

Big upgrade would be an understatement - it's a minefield of ownership issues. The existing club have to run things off a generator, they don't have access to the bar. 

 

With the new TV deal, it will having a multi-range of cameras set up and the ability to host the broadcasting vans etc. Most of the WSL play at Conference or League 2 grounds. Typically we don't have a ground of that nature in the county of Leicestershire - I'm assuming they have ruled out Holmes Park and outside of Hinckley/Leicester Road, the grounds aren't the best. I only one I can think of is Loughborough University but I didn't realise they hosted a women club already 

 

Loughborough’s is a good setup but like you say it’s scheduling, they’ve got the men’s & women’s Uni teams, Loughborough Foxes and Derby U23s are there this season too.
 

There’s always the council’s less than popular plan of having Saffron Lane host football I guess . Only other option, Hinckley aside, is the same route Reading have gone down moving into the Madjeski and move our women’s team into the KP.