Admittedly I don't and I imagine many on here don't, but their start to the season has attracted my attention and is worth jumping on the bandwagon for. 6 wins out of 6, a GD of +28, averaging over 5 goals a game. Our top scorer on 11, Vivianne Miedema, is averaging a goal every 49 mins, a rate to make Auba blush.

It's pretty sensational stuff, sort of thing you dream about the men's team replicating. Will be interesting to see if they can keep it up.

It's not all that sensational if you consider there are teams like that in most European leagues. Wolfsburg had recently a season where they conceded 4 goals all season (22 games), Frankfurt won a title before that with more than a hundred goals scored. Lyon in France are even worse, they've won back to back to back trebles and went several seasons winning every single league game with GDs of +150, it obviously doesnt mean nearly as much as in men's football when all the talent is concentrated in just a couple of teams across Europe

I've been listening and reading, and been impressed. Have not had a chance to watch yet. It's great that we are finally recovering our place as the queens of English football. It would be good to see United keep investing to give us a real rivalry there as well.
It does sound, however, that the women's game is increasingly suffering from even greater inequality than the men's game. And that we are part of the elite there, as we've always been. Hope they solve it for the sake of the whole league before it alienates everyone else

jones wrote:

It's not all that sensational if you consider there are teams like that in most European leagues. Wolfsburg had recently a season where they conceded 4 goals all season (22 games), Frankfurt won a title before that with more than a hundred goals scored. Lyon in France are even worse, they've won back to back to back trebles and went several seasons winning every single league game with GDs of +150, it obviously doesnt mean nearly as much as in men's football when all the talent is concentrated in just a couple of teams across Europe

I see. I guess the issue is the big discrepancy in how clubs fund their womens sides, if at all.

i watch whenever it's on tv and i check their results. at ucla i would go watch the women's team.

i wouldn't say we've always been killing it. ever since the wsl started we won the first 2 ('11 & '12) which was sort of a carry over from our previous dominance and then other big premier league teams started backing their women's team and we haven't won a title or finished in the champions league places (top 2) since. last year injuries derailed them, but so far they're healthy and dominating. one big difference between now and our previous dominance is that those teams were british and this one is predominantly foreign, a big dutch influence.

goon wrote:
jones wrote:

It's not all that sensational if you consider there are teams like that in most European leagues. Wolfsburg had recently a season where they conceded 4 goals all season (22 games), Frankfurt won a title before that with more than a hundred goals scored. Lyon in France are even worse, they've won back to back to back trebles and went several seasons winning every single league game with GDs of +150, it obviously doesnt mean nearly as much as in men's football when all the talent is concentrated in just a couple of teams across Europe

I see. I guess the issue is the big discrepancy in how clubs fund their womens sides, if at all.

that's exactly what it is. lyon backs their team to the extent that they've signed away moneybags city's best players the past 2 years. arsenal dominated the women's game prior to the fa wsl because they were basically the only one backing their women's team, along with chelsea. there were some competitive seasons from short lived teams like charlton athletic, but when the men got relegated they folded up the women's team.

We haven't been dominant for a while now, nice to see Arsenal back on top. Miedema is a poacher, but it's all been a bit too easy. We definitely need more competition in the women's game, but to write it off as being about money doesn't really do justice to the fact that some clubs have committed their resources to raise the bar, regardless of profit and loss. A lot of that is to do with the good work done by good people, like Vic Akers. I don't think it makes sense to dismiss it due to cash injections, because a football club should be a community organization, and what Arsenal and some other clubs in Europe do in that regard is much more in that vein than what's happening to the men's game (and yes, I get that the money in the men's game is what makes that investment possible).

Honestly, in many ways, the women's game feels more like a real sport to me, even though goalkeeping standards remain unbelievably low. It's got more heart.

I feel pride in their results but don't go out of my way (dodgy streams) to watch the matches.
Funny thing is, when i first heard of Vic Akers, towards the end of GG's reign when the mens team was average and the women's team started winning doubles, i assumed he was a Victoria.

They've only recently started to reassert themselves after some seasons where Chelsea have also spent big.

7 days later

Jordan Nobbs is an amazing player btw. Could probably teach some of the gents how to strike a ball proper.

13 days later

Nobbs did her ACL and will probably miss the rest of the season. 

In the same match, Van De Donk ended the seasons of two others:

the first meg was a kwality meg

5 months later

They have more balls than the men’s team.

They've just won their title with a game to spare = kudos.

Further to my last Vivianne Miedema has won Women's POTY - congrats.