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2 hours ago, Dick Dastardly said:

Not a follower of womens football, but what is the point of this current set up ? The top 5 will thrash the bottom 5 pretty much every time. It does nothing for either side when there is such a mismatch in ability. 

It had been a 12 team top league which made for some rather big scorelines when the top 5 played the teams in 11th & 12th. Unless teams like ourselves, Motherwell & Aberdeen "push the boat out" nothing will really change. The only other option is that the smaller 5 sides get some additional funding from the governing body to create a more even playing field but I can't see that happening.

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Let's take a moment to think about our men's team: We've failed to be a consistent top league club for 40 or so years, and have never managed a single victory over either auld firm cheek arse in 30 years. Qualify for Europe? Not even remotely near it, never have been. Are "they" going to have to do something about the "pointless" continuation of these kinds of statistics? 

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I wasn’t talking about Thistle, more the SWPL in general. In the men’s game, teams at least have a chance, and there are usually some upsets against the old firm. In the SWPL, a bottom 5 victory, or even a draw, against a top 5 is as rare as hen’s teeth. What do either side get out of playing these games ?

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2 hours ago, Jaggernaut said:

Let's take a moment to think about our men's team: We've failed to be a consistent top league club for 40 or so years, and have never managed a single victory over either auld firm cheek arse in 30 years. Qualify for Europe? Not even remotely near it, never have been. Are "they" going to have to do something about the "pointless" continuation of these kinds of statistics? 

I might be missing the point here so apologies if that is the case but in the men's game there are teams who have beaten the "big two" on a decent number of attempts and achieved top 6 finishes, etc but in the women's game it is has happened far less (shorter period granted) and the top 5 in size will be the top 5 in places (only the order to be sorted).

 

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One good thing about the women’s game is that there does seem to be a genuine top 5, any one of which has the possibility of coming out on top. The resources appear to be more evenly spread among that top 5.

i accept the main point that the almost unbridgeable gap in resources between teams 5 and 6 is a major problem for which there is no obvious solution.

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My post last night was largely wine-fuelled, and mainly a lament of our clearly dismal results against the erse-cheeks in the past several decades. As others pointed out, there is at least a greater chance of "upsets" in the men's game (and even trophies).

But not, it seems, for us!

Cup matches against top-flight teams, for example, can get us all excited in the build-up, but defeat seems-- sadly-- inevitable.  As pointed out just the other day by TTA (I think): we've won only one of our last 21 matches against higher-ranked opponents in the League Cup. Jeez. For a team/club aspiring to be an established part the top flight....... well.......

Monra Jags!

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