AND THAT'S WRAP... 🥲
— Thornaby FC Women (@ThornabyFCWomen) June 9, 2024
Yesterday we found out that a majority on the Thornaby FC committee, led by Trevor Wing, voted to remove the entire female section from the club.
Under 7
Under 8
Under 10
Under 11
Under 15
Women's
An English football club has come under fire after its committee voted to remove its entire female section – from the under sevens to the first team – leaving more than 100 players without a club.
News of the decision made by Thornaby FC's committee was revealed on Facebook by a page for the women's section, who expressed their disappointment at the remarkable decision.
“Yesterday we found out that a majority on the Thornaby FC committee voted to remove the entire female section from the club,” Thornaby FC Women wrote.
The announcement:
Randomly selected r-slurs:
All the moids who voted for the logical financial decision have resigned:
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
That does seem like a ton of teams. How competitive are they that they needed separate Under 7 and Under 8 teams, and separate Under 10 and Under 11 teams?
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
When you see things like that they were probably all conditions of government grants for running youth clubs and then when the gibs dry up they axe them all because they're only sustainable when central government gives you a pile of cash so local kids aren't knifing each other or throwing acid at people.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Yeah I guess. Still weird though. Like why would a grant specify so many individual teams? Or maybe some grant required a U7 team and another required a U8 team so they had both to farm grant money or something?
Obviously they axed more than this but they 100% could eliminate the U7 team and merge it into the U8 team with no consequences. At that age it shouldn't even be particularly competitive, just let the kids play and have fun, it's more about getting them outside and moving than any kind of prestige.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
It'll probably just be a number of kids thing. Either through thresholds of getting more for more kids or they needed a certain amount of kids for the grant. Doing loads of age brackets is an easy way to get there.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context