It's a bit sad that people feel the need to dismiss the issue of the future of the Ladies team as insignificant. Whether you choose to watch it, or even have an interest in it is one thing, but the importance of women's football is growing the whole time, and the top teams are now attracting a great deal of interest across the world.
There is an oddity about Swindon Town's excellent Ladies team not having any association with the club, and that is what is being addressed. I am as critical as anyone of how the Board members have behaved pover the past three months, and extremely concerned about the level of their professionalism, but in this case they have gone out of their way to respond to a perceived wish on the part of those who organise and those who play for the team. You have to assume that there is another agenda on the part of Mr Evans, and he might want to be a bit more upfront about that....
Having said that, the speed and ferocity of Mt Murrall's response - given the length of time taken to give virtually no response to a very large section of the supporters of the club about important issues - is quite extraordinary.
I had taken Jed's stated commitment to women's football as a positive, despite some of the thoughts of the more antediluvian posters on here, women's football is growing in popularity, and getting young girls involved in sport is a good thing.
I don't know enough of the politics here to pass judgement, but Swindon Spitfires have been around for years, and if there is to be an amalgamation of sides, then I'd hope, the Spitfires name can be taken on.
