What's going on with the women's team?

[Reepekg]

Women are 2-6 times more likely to get an ACL injury. There is a three year study looking into the reasons that started in April.

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The pitches and facilities used by women and girls teams are usually lower quality than the men's. Again this is something that's obvious even down at u8s grassroots football in my area.

For once, lower quality facilities can't be singled out for this one. The ACL issue is also present at the NCAA level, where a similar number of players of both genders share the same high quality natural and/or artificial pitch at a university. Anecdotally, in my 7 year playing career I had 2 teammates do ACLs and 7-8 women. Just recalling and typing that is shocking how close it is to the stats, unfortunately.

The point is the science needs more work, but there are a lot of top organizations (US National Institute of Health, the PFA, Nike, Puma, etc.) investing in finding out. Hopefully the answer ends up being "buy these new boots" and not "you'll have to roll the dice with your daughter's knee if she wants to play."

 

[Wrexham Can]

The reason there aren’t many threads and with the greatest respect…. this isn’t a Wrexham AFC Women’s Team message board.

I get why you'd say that, but it doesn't have to be. The main forum is for all things related to Wrexham AFC and according to the club website that includes the women.
@Rob, maybe it's time to create a sub forum for the women's team to encourage more discussion.

 

[LWR]

I get why you'd say that, but it doesn't have to be. The main forum is for all things related to Wrexham AFC and according to the club website that includes the women.
@Rob, maybe it's time to create a sub forum for the women's team to encourage more discussion.

I agree a sub forum would be great and i’d certainly contribute. Because I’m actually interested.

But like I said in my other post. I’m not sure you can create a team out of nothing slap the badge and Wrexham name on and expect people to support it.

Much in the same way you can’t just create a Sunday league team or team playing in the Welsh leagues. It may fall under the Wrexham umbrella but that’s not why we started following the team 20+ years ago.

 

[Wrexham Can]

I agree a sub forum would be great and i’d certainly contribute. Because I’m actually interested.

But like I said in my other post. I’m not sure you can create a team out of nothing slap the badge and Wrexham name on and expect people to support it.

Much in the same way you can’t just create a Sunday league team or team playing in the Welsh leagues. It may fall under the Wrexham umbrella but that’s not why we started following the team 20+ years ago.

On that point I agree

 

[t1954]

I agree a sub forum would be great and i’d certainly contribute. Because I’m actually interested.

But like I said in my other post. I’m not sure you can create a team out of nothing slap the badge and Wrexham name on and expect people to support it.

Much in the same way you can’t just create a Sunday league team or team playing in the Welsh leagues. It may fall under the Wrexham umbrella but that’s not why we started following the team 20+ years ago.

They did at MKD.

 

[yannick]

At the same time I’m not sure you can just create a football team from nothing and bolt it onto an existing team that has been around for 150 years. Slap the same badge on the kit and expect the existing fan base to simply start supporting them.

I don't necessarily disagree with this, but there's been a Wrexham women's team on and off for 30-odd years.

 

[podders]

With the ongoing secret friendlies Wrexham Women beat Mancuinion Unity Reserves 4-0 behind close doors at the Rock. Mancunion Unity Women Reserves play at tier 7 in the Greater Manchester Women's Football League premier division.

Wrexham Women 4 - 0 Mancunion Unity Women Reserves | Sunday, September 1st, 2024 | Match Details (Wrexham AFC Archive)

www.wrexhamafcarchive.co.uk

 

[Wonderboy]

With the ongoing secret friendlies Wrexham Women beat Mancuinion Unity Reserves 4-0 behind close doors at the Rock. Mancunion Unity Women Reserves play at tier 7 in the Greater Manchester Women's Football League premier division.

Wrexham Women 4 - 0 Mancunion Unity Women Reserves | Sunday, September 1st, 2024 | Match Details (Wrexham AFC Archive)

www.wrexhamafcarchive.co.uk

Lost 6-3 to Man Utd under 21’s as well

 

[sdfan]

This isn't related to the WAFC women's team but I was surprised at just how big women's football is in the US. My friend's daughter's U11 team got selected to give high fives to the players as they came out and she was so excited to be able to meet Alex Morgan (friend's daughter is a forward, leading scorer for her team, Alex is her idol who scored 123 goals for the USA team). Wife and I went to the game to support them and I was shocked to see 23,541 people there even though it wasn't a big game for the team. We sat in the upper level ($20 seats) but the lower levels with the expensive seats were sold out.

 

[yannick]

Cardiff in action in the UWCL tonight. Losing 6 - 0 to Dutch champions Twente which is about as hard a first round draw as they could have. They've got a third place play-off on Saturday against Northern Macedonian champions Ljuboten which is as good an opportunity as any to get some coefficient points on the board as Macedonia are one of five other associations not to have won a UWCL tie in the last five years.