[What if they shut down the season?]

12 minutes ago, gianlucatoni said:

You've asked a question so here's the response:

I have paid to see women's football (club and international) but it rarely costs twenty quid. Regular visitor to Glasgow City and their CL games in, shock horror, winter when the wind is howling and the sleet is horizontal. Would I pay to watch PTFC ladies team in any weather - absolutely. 

I also go watch juniors & amateurs, have played amateurs for the last 34 years (even turned out for Matts Third Lanark) and referee make and female schools football.

Good to see you championing a selected area  of women's rights in your workplace ... I'd be reassured to know that no woman I know works at your place. 

 

 

Thanks for your reply.  The point I was trying to make was that womens football (and rugby and cricket} is vastly inferior to the mens versions. The £20 was based on the cost of going to Firhill to see the Thistle first team. Would you pay £20 to watch the womens team? I also go to amateur and junior games. The only womens football I have watched has been on T.V. and it is really poor quality. As for your last comment I really do not understand it.  I have a good working and social relationship with the women in my workplace and they also know my views on female athletes. I do not think that in certain sports that the female version is as entertaining as the male versions. As an aside you don,t get the mens Thistle team in the Viking after a game unlike the Ladies but it might be fun if we did 

[What if they shut down the season?]

1 hour ago, West of Scotland said:

You've long championed women's rights in the workplace.

Medal's in the post, mate.

Equal pay for equal work. no medal required.

[What if they shut down the season?]

3 hours ago, gianlucatoni said:

can we send Gus 57 back to the sixties 

Can I just ask? would you pay £20 to watch the Thistle womens team at Firhill(even for some reason they don't play there}. Would you go to a midweek winter away fixture  and pay £20 to  get in. If your answer is no, then why? Is it because the product is as I said. By the way I have long championed womens rights in the workplace and if womens football was as good as mens I would go to watch it. But from what I have seen it is more like primary school kids playing on a full size pitch. Apologies if I offend any PC  at all times persons

[What if they shut down the season?]

10 hours ago, topcat said:

If we don,t get any football behind closed doors to cheer on next season because League 1 is a no go, there is actually another Jags team at Firhill.  The Ladies have been playing in SWPL2 for a few seasons and maybe we could try and channel our support there and if half way thru their season they allow some socially distanced  attendance at the ladies games then it would be easy to move there matches from Petershill and spread a 1000 people across Firhill stadium.  I think we have to think of everyway we can to get through this period financially and stay afloat.

 

10 hours ago, topcat said:

If we don,t get any football behind closed doors to cheer on next season because League 1 is a no go, there is actually another Jags team at Firhill.  The Ladies have been playing in SWPL2 for a few seasons and maybe we could try and channel our support there and if half way thru their season they allow some socially distanced  attendance at the ladies games then it would be easy to move there matches from Petershill and spread a 1000 people across Firhill stadium.  I think we have to think of everyway we can to get through this period financially and stay afloat.

Sorry  but women trying to play football is pure sh.te.

[Thistle v Man City - Ibrox]

I was there. Sitting opposite the main stand on railway sleepers like Clydebank and Morton had/have. Mick Channon scored against us. That's all I remember.

[Summer Football .]

I think if the Juniors played summer football for a couple of seasons then we could look at their attendances and see if there is any significant increase then we could to look move to Summer football{ Obviously someone would have to underwrite this.}  I understand some of the reasoning against this, i.e. Players going on holiday, Pitches not recovering in winter months. But I feel certain most Junior clubs would see a large increase in attendances. Towards the end of the Junior season I find myself at Lochburn on Summer evenings as Maryhill always have a backlog of fixtures.

[What if they shut down the season?]

Don't think the Forfar guy said he wanted us and Falkirk in their league. He  said he wanted clarity on who would be in their league as that would set his Budget. Maybe he didn't put it across as well as he could have.

[What’s Happened]

I received my cheque yesterday from the draw. Guess it's just the results were posted late.

[Apple Tree Behind the Terracing?]

There was a tree but I don't know for sure it was an apple tree. To get to the shed you could walk along the front of the terracing or walk round the back of it. There was a grass bank between the pathway and the back of the terracing and the tree was in there.