Magpie wrote:
It may be true that not every player is available every game but that true of any non pro sports team. The notion that on any given week up to 30 players dont get called up to play just seems so unlikely to be not credible.
The more I think about it, the more I am coming to the conclusion that the club are able to distance themselves from this as its the responsibility of the SET. Kind of 'Its not me guvnor honest' approach whilst also mandating the budget cut.
Id still love to know what it was cut from as a budget of £2000 may as well be £0 but if it was only ever £4/5K then its more a case of slimming the whole section down a bit.
EDIT TO ADD: The team used 28 players in total for this season so much more reasonable, there are 52 players registered with the FA to the team therefore 24 ish players never featured for the first team so either there is another team or they are able to go an play for other teams as well as being affiliated to MK Dons Women
As far as I understand it, the arrangement is only marginally more formal than my 50-strong Whatsapp group we use to organise 7 a side games. A third of them basically never play, or play elsewhere. I really do think that 30 odd players are either unavailable or don't get the nod every week. There's no U21s or anything with the women. A lot of them are students or work full time jobs.
The club has no ambition for the women's team which is sad because they run on a total shoestring and they all seem to have overachieved. But I am a realist too and think the club has decided there's no money or future in it with the way the club is right now.
See my edit. they actually used 28 players out of 52 signed on. The others must play elsewhere as they never featured for the team.
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