Here is the NFFC news

It doesn't appear to be cycling based, fortunately.

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They are still offering season tickets to selected people, a couple of mates got emails last night inviting them to buy one, which they did.

Really? Odd. Wonder why now.

What's their attendance / status like? Feels like I can't be that far away from getting one.

Yes it was a bit odd, they were invited to buy one just after 9 last night.

They were both gold members during the promotion season, fairly average attendance in the PL. probably around half the games. Think it’s the gold membership that has done it.

Forest Ladies won 9-0

Are they basically now a fully professional team playing in a semi-pro league?

How did our netball team do this weekend too?

Yep. A third division side full of players with top and second tier experience.

Apparently they were playing Stourbridge. That doesn't sound like a very serious opponent.

Edit: they're top of the league with 4 wins from 4, 25 GF and 1 GA. This sounds rather like when Rangers were put in the Third Division for being dodgy fuckers and had to go through the charade of playing their way back to the top. I presume we're paying these ladies well, as they can't be getting much sporting satisfaction from it.

The structure of the women’s game isn’t great, there is disparity in most of the leagues which are hard to get out of as often only one gets promoted. So you can have 3-4 ambitious teams in a low league like forest, who are investing in the women’s game and to get promoted yet when some inevitably miss out on promotion it just makes things daft the following season.

Needs an overhaul really.

I would have thought there is scope to expand the top two leagues by a couple of spots each. Not sure there is enough depth to justify a third tier but there are teams that are too well supported financially now to be in a non-league environment. Unfortunately it very quickly became liken the men's game where it's all about money and the disparity creates a cliff edge that kills the wider game.

Yes and what you have now are pro/semi pro clubs stuck down the pyramid struggling to get through the system due to lack of promotions. And then you have teams in the super league who struggle each year but are never in any real danger of relegation due to their always being a proper shit team taking up the sole relegation place. (Leicester have won 13 games out of 66 in the past three years, but have never really been at risk of relegation).

Then our target should be to relegate Leicester and take their place as a pretty shit team who are are not at risk of relegation from the top league.

This also has the advantage of aligning our strategy for the women's team with the exact same strategy as the men's team.

It's certainly a business strategy. Not so much a sporting one.