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Charlton women news - PROMOTED TO THE WSL ON PENALTIES! (p194)
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Well that was well deserved after the season Karen her staff & especially these girls have had,each n everyone has played a part in the uprising of the mighty Addicks…from looking like missing out on the prize so very cruelly after being around the very top for pretty much most of season…we ran out of steam against big teams with big money & big players,but they found that last big push…that game was never going to pretty in that heat & what was at stake,but our girls & the management got us there…Sophie Whitehouse has now made herself a legend between them posts,but the squad over the season all dug in…it’s gonna be tough to see who stays or who goes,but who ever they are Cafc Women need us to get behind them,along with the owners,I’m well up for that ride,I get & got to as many games as I could but this time round…season ticket purchased..
Well done Girls…❤️🤍
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A huge thank you must go to Stephen King for his backing for well over a decade before we went fully professional. Without him, we wouldn't have had today.13
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Very much THIS!Desmond Oulu said:A huge thank you must go to Stephen King for his backing for well over a decade before we went fully professional. Without him, we wouldn't have had today.3 -
Pleased for the lot of them but a bit of a roll call:
Muya and Macateer were excellent first half
Newsham cheering them on from the sidelines
Gutted for N’Dow missing out today but Skeels and Lobata stood firm.
Hutton ran herself into the ground.
Fab to have Carla back on the pitch.
All of them put in a real shift and somehow came back stronger in extra time when I feared tanks were empty. But then as Karen said, pain is temporary.
And Sophie has that touch of goalkeeping madness and resilience to add to her immense talent.
So very pleased for Karen, all the coaching staff and back room team. A remarkable achievement on one of the smallest budgets in the league.
Think I’ve received more messages from friends and family taking notice than I did for the men last year. And one friend told me The Greyhound pub in Woolwich went crazy when we won.Roll on Lessi Russo back at The Valley next season.We’ve got to aim for target 5K average imho.5 -
We weren't going to do it any other way, were we?
If I'm being blunt, that was a horrible watch, as neither we nor Leicester produced much attacking threat. We went into this game having had three weeks to stew over the Birmingham result, and were forced into multiple changes through injury and suspension. We had to do without our classy centre-back N'Dow, our midfield enforcer Flannery and our hard-tackling right-back Newsham, and we had several players in unfamiliar positions, but they can all be proud of how they played. Hutton was a willing runner up front, Fitzgerald filled in (wo)manfully at right-back, and (after a slightly shaky start) Lobato stepped up impressively in N'Dow's absence. I was a bit worried when Kenney moved over to the right, especially as Leicester had brought on Neville on the left, who was given a lot of space and looked like one of the few players on the pitch who might offer a bit of quality. But it allowed Ross to play in central midfield when she came on, and she did a good job to help us stay compact and keep Leicester's opportunities to a minimum.
When Lockwood's shot came back off the bar and the rebound was ruled out for offside, I feared it might not be our day, particularly as Leicester then put a bit more pressure on during the second half of extra time and that was when we'd conceded against Liverpool. But I'd reckoned without Sophie Whitehouse, whose achievements in this game (not forgetting the save in the first half) are instantly as iconic for our women's team as Sasa Ilic's were in 1998 for our men's team. Getting her to sign a new contract might already be one of the best bits of business we do this summer, though of course we'll need a LOT more.
You could see why Leicester finished bottom of the WSL, and I think Birmingham and Palace were better than them. But we still had to fight very hard, in energy-sapping heat, to hold them off - and no one has known how to fight better than us in the WSL2 this season. It's appropriate that Nathan Jones was there to watch, because the women's and the men's teams really are cut from the same cloth, and this season this club has shown that being financial underdogs doesn't mean you can't be successful.
To Karen Hills and the players: what you have achieved is absolutely phenomenal. THANK YOU!
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Depends how much they have available. Spending on the women's team doesn't count for EFL or Premier League financial fair play rules so if they have enough available to spend whatever they're allowed to then spending on the women doesn't affect that. If the limit on their spending comes from their own cashflow rather than from league rules, there's a potential for the two budgets to conflict.se9addick said:
Any risk that the owners “injecting equity” into the women’s team will detract from how much can be spent on the men’s team this summer?CAFC_boi said:
TV income is about £10-£15m split between the clubs which is the main one.se9addick said:Brilliant stuff!
Is there a big difference in tv money/sponsorship in WSL? Will the owners need to put their hands deeper into their pockets to make the team competitive at the level above?I think the hope would be to increase attendances significantly.Average WSL club gets £5-7m revenue per season but that’s massively skewed by the big clubs.We will have the smallest budget in the league by quite some way due to the similar financial restrictions in relation to only being able to spend a percentage of revenue on the squad and our revenue will be tiny.I think owners can eject some equity outside the rules, so realistically they will need to do that if there is any hope.0 -
He also writes a brilliant horror novel.Desmond Oulu said:A huge thank you must go to Stephen King for his backing for well over a decade before we went fully professional. Without him, we wouldn't have had today.
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A Charlton goalkeeper saving multiple penalties - whatever next ! A tremendous performance from Sophie Whitehouse and a gutsy and determined display from the entire team in such energy-sapping conditions. Huge congratulations to Karen, her staff and all the girls.
A great end to the season for the club, following the Under 18s win and the Women’s promotion to the Super League.As an aside, how great did The Valley look in this sunshine ?2 -
Hope he was scouting Sophie WhitehouseCrusty54 said:
Jemma White the Head of Women's Football is to the left of Nathan. If you were Reebok wouldn't you expect her to wearing their kit.fenaddick said:
NJ sat next to Simon Lenegan there
Earlier in the season she thought she could do the job working from home........in Sheffield.
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Congratulations great penalty saves. Game was very tight and I think Leicester looked a bit stronger second half but that effort that hit the bar deserved to win the game for me. Look forward to seeing them up against the best.1
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Good, but not as good as the image of the Oslo stadium with the city and sea in the background, in the Champions League Final.Blucher said:A Charlton goalkeeper saving multiple penalties - whatever next ! A tremendous performance from Sophie Whitehouse and a gutsy and determined display from the entire team in such energy-sapping conditions. Huge congratulations to Karen, her staff and all the girls.
A great end to the season for the club, following the Under 18s win and the Women’s promotion to the Super League.As an aside, how great did The Valley look in this sunshine ?0
