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A good piece from Anita Asante.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/aug/29/luis-rubiales-sad-symbol-systemic-problem-for-womens-football

This paragraph should be a source of pride for the club as well:

I’m lucky enough to have experienced working as first-team coach at Bristol City where Lauren Smith’s side share a fabulous open‑plan training facility with the men’s setup and the men’s team manager, Nigel Pearson, and his staff are fantastically welcoming. It’s a friendly, harmonious arrangement, provoking plenty of exchanges of ideas; it feels entirely normal for male and female footballers to work alongside each other.

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Conti Cup group games confirmed

Wed 11/10
Bristol City v Southampton (7pm, location TBC (Robins High Performance Centre?))

Wed 22/11
Tottenham v Bristol City (7:30pm)

Wed 24/01
Reading v Bristol City (7pm)

Should Arsenal not qualify for Champions League group stages, they will be drawn & enter Group C, D (City's group) or E

https://www.bcfc.co.uk/news/conti-cup-fixtures-confirmed/

 

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EXCLUSIVE: Bristol City star Abi Harrison sends return warning to WSL after "best day of her life"

The Bristol City and Scotland striker sits down with the Mirror to discuss her return to the Women's Super League with the Vixens ahead of the 2023-24 season

But let’s be clear: Abi Harrison has not returned to the Women’s Super League to redeem anything. The 25-year-old Bristol City striker isn’t concerning herself with lost time and its recoupment. Neither is this about validation for a team bidding to confound football's status quo as one of two top-flight women's side without respective Premier League backing (Leicester City is the other).

Harrison has returned to the WSL with Bristol City Women after two seasons grafting outside the top-flight for nothing more than simple enjoyment.

“If that’s your cliché answer, then it is," the Scotland international tells the Mirror. “We need to know our place, know our worth. We’re not there to make up numbers. But if people think we need to redeem ourselves, if people think we’re a write off from the start, that’s on them. I’ve experienced the highs and lows of Bristol City in four and a half years. So first and foremost, I want to enjoy this.”

You can be forgiven for feeling that Harrison not wanting to tie anything grander to her hard-fought return to the top-flight can risk feeling underwhelming, or maybe even a tactical ruse.

City are the league's fresh underdogs. The squad -- a plucky medley of academy talent, hungry loanees and various experience -- is significantly less extravagant and well-known than those of rivals.

But speaking after another “enjoyably hard” pre-season training session under manager Lauren Smith, Harrison is in a particularly philosophical mood. The word legacy crops up more than once, prompting an ever-important reminder that Harrison, at 25 years old, is still technically young, a fact belied by her CV and the responsibility that has long sat upon her shoulders.

In Harrison’s four and a half years in BS3, she has “seen it all.” The short of it reads like a post-Covid women's football Bingo card: A move to the WSL. An ACL injury. A global pandemic. Relegation. Promotion.

The long of it is more complex. Harrison is one of only a few players to survive from the 2020-21 relegation season. It was a demotion that not only left the team and its history in the upper echelon of women’s football in a precarious balance but also Harrison's WSL account blighted by what ifs.

Since relegation, Harrison has become the club's all-time top goalscorer and a centurion. She has seen the transition from “not great facilities and home stadium” to the sharing of the Robins High Performance Centre with the men's senior team and home matches at Ashton Gate.

Harrison's ambitions for this season, then, are necessarily heady, including a return to the Scotland national team ahead of the Nations League clash against England. She is more than conscious of the need to score goals, particularly more than her last WSL return of two during that onerous relegation season.

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28 minutes ago, shahanshahan said:

Great find @phantom! You tuned into SSN at the right time ?

I haven't been able to find the interview from above, but did find this clip. Found it interesting that Liv Clark was present, as I thought she was on loan at Watford!

 

I've sent it to you on twitter ?

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2 hours ago, Super said:

We got any chance of staying up mate?

Kind of my question. The top league to championship in women’s football seems to cover the same spread of quality that maybe Premier to League 2 does in the men’s game. No disrespect to our side last year, but any team coming up without strengthening hugely is likely to get smashed.

I have no real sense where on the scale our new talent now leaves us. Clearly still nowhere near the top teams, but does it leave us competitive against the teams likely to be around us?

 

 

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13 hours ago, Super said:

We got any chance of staying up mate?

Pre-season results are impressive but as we know these games are about fitness and not a lot else

Much of the season hangs on the opening game against Leicester, they will be one of the sides we are competing against for survival

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49 minutes ago, phantom said:

Pre-season results are impressive but as we know these games are about fitness and not a lot else

Much of the season hangs on the opening game against Leicester, they will be one of the sides we are competing against for survival

At least there is hope seeing as we beat them 3-2 yesterday.

It looks like we have strengthens quite a bit, but it will be all about the “6-pointers” this season,

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6 hours ago, Davefevs said:

At least there is hope seeing as we beat them 3-2 yesterday.

It looks like we have strengthens quite a bit, but it will be all about the “6-pointers” this season,

Find it odd that we should play a pre-season friendly against the team we open the season with in 3 weeks time and are likely to be our biggest rivals for avoiding the drop...

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21 minutes ago, old_eastender said:

Find it odd that we should play a pre-season friendly against the team we open the season with in 3 weeks time and are likely to be our biggest rivals for avoiding the drop...

Well, they'll probably more concerned about that after the result.

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6 hours ago, old_eastender said:

Find it odd that we should play a pre-season friendly against the team we open the season with in 3 weeks time and are likely to be our biggest rivals for avoiding the drop...

The Championship started week and a half back. Owing to the delayed start of the WSL, we have a limited pool from which to arrange from.

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1 hour ago, Bristol Rob said:

What sort of attendances do the women's team get these days?

Appreciate that pre-promotion the games were rarely in BS3, bit have the club provided any info around season ticket sales or expected crowds?

1680 season tickets sold for the ladies, sales don't look that great for the Leicester game, which explains why the club are chucking numerous codes out at every opportunity to increase sales (just like the rugby last night, and that crowd was low)

The club are aiming to sell 10k against Arsenal and Man Utd and tickets are already on sale in the Dolman Centre blocks for both these games due to the high sales already -of course both of these sides have high profile England internationals in their line ups and like the Liverpool game the other year at AG8 many will be attracted to the fixture by the name of the opposition

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I'd expect fluctuations. At the HPC, crowds varied between 400 and 900 depending on the importance of the fixture and also the weather. It's a family affair and they don't tend to come rain or shine. Previously in the WSL at the SGC, crowds varied from 2000 for the likes of Arsenal and Chelsea and down the hundreds for lesser names. We are a long way from having a hardcore women's support.

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5 hours ago, phantom said:

1680 season tickets sold for the ladies, sales don't look that great for the Leicester game, which explains why the club are chucking numerous codes out at every opportunity to increase sales (just like the rugby last night, and that crowd was low)

The club are aiming to sell 10k against Arsenal and Man Utd and tickets are already on sale in the Dolman Centre blocks for both these games due to the high sales already -of course both of these sides have high profile England internationals in their line ups and like the Liverpool game the other year at AG8 many will be attracted to the fixture by the name of the opposition

I went to the rugby last night and was amazed at how few seemed to be there.

That said, my Lansdown ticket was forty quid. So the price likely was a factor for many (granted, I have no idea what the cost was elsewhere), I assumed that the opposition would have been a fair draw and sensible pricing might have seen more returns for Bears games.

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8 hours ago, phantom said:

The club are aiming to sell 10k against Arsenal and Man Utd

 

I like the club's ambition. Will they be amenable to more cut-price offers for these games if the sales aren't as high too? But 1680 season tickets already sold? That's miles above anything the women's side has ever seen. The club needs to make sure they stay.

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9 hours ago, phantom said:

The club are aiming to sell 10k against Arsenal and Man Utd and tickets are already on sale in the Dolman Centre blocks for both these games due to the high sales already -of course both of these sides have high profile England internationals in their line ups and like the Liverpool game the other year at AG8 many will be attracted to the fixture by the name of the opposition

Would genuinely be amazing if the women get a bigger gate than Rovers for one game this season. 3rd biggest football club in Bristol etc...

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5 hours ago, Sarumred said:

Jamie-Lee Napier and Amy Rodgers are both in the Scotland squad.

For the Nations League games against England & Belgium. No Abi Harrison in the Scotland squad which could be an advantage for City.

Satara Murray & Shania Hayles weren't called up for Jamaica's squad in their game against Canada - again, a possible advantage for City.

Ffion Morgan, Ella Powell, Carrie Jones (as well as loaned-out Liv Clark) WERE called up for Wales in their games against Iceland & Denmark

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3 hours ago, phantom said:

I noticed Sophia Baggley signed for Reading yesterday 

Hopefully Baggers will get (more) game time at Brighton. Wasn't ever really going to play at United with Earps there (or still there, for now). Plus, United have signed a new goalkeeper so I'm guessing she was surplus to requirements

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Don't know if this is already made public but are games at Ashton Gate POTD? With the increased attendances from visiting fans will there be any significant control over seating? Perhaps a little early for all that.

As women's football grows it appears to follow the path of the men's game in so many respects.

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On 16/09/2023 at 06:24, phantom said:

Not City related but pointless setting up a new thread 

How bizarre is this.... 

 

Reminiscent of Pickford for that Merseyside Derby goal where Origi tapped in the winner.

Downs level stuff that! 

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On 15/09/2023 at 12:35, Erithacus said:

Don't know if this is already made public but are games at Ashton Gate POTD? With the increased attendances from visiting fans will there be any significant control over seating? Perhaps a little early for all that.

As women's football grows it appears to follow the path of the men's game in so many respects.

They always have been, but prices will go up on the day

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On 08/09/2023 at 10:54, elhombrecito said:

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On 08/09/2023 at 11:05, shahanshahan said:

There's been several codes flying about, usually offering the same discount. Hoping this does indeed help with increasing crowd attendances throughout the season

and now this... 

I wonder which codes work? 

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