soccerdonna.co.uk on Instagram: “Matt Hughes of @guardian_sport has reported about future plans the WSL and Championship owner Women’s Professional Leagues Ltd has for the two divisions 👀”
soccerdonna.co.uk on Instagram: “Matt Hughes of @guardian_sport has reported about future plans the WSL and Championship owner Women’s Professional Leagues Ltd has for the two divisions 👀”
I’m all for expanding the league, but scrapping relegation and promotion is a stupid idea.
conceited212 on
Honestly the cons are way more than the pros and in any thing you do in life when something looks to have more negative impact than positive abolish it immediately.. our league is growing organically with the tradition of how English football pyramid has been since the shape up in the 1992.. as English people we love tradition and pro/rel is our tradition in whatever elite level of football be it women or men so hell nah to a closed league what the league needs is for your lazy ass Nikki to get more of this owners to invest in their clubs and find ways to give them ultimatum to do more and let’s have a plan of 5 years where we want to see the wsl and how many teams we should have coming in, how you plan to capture new audiences and what you are investing in with interest free loans the premier league are giving you cos I see no improvement in the referees they are worse than ever and the linos are shocking I see at least five offside wrongly given anytime I watch Arsenal, speak on how you are trying to get every club in the wsl playing in stadiums that can house technology for the game like var and goal line tech cos we all know some of those stadiums can’t have them atm… no one wants to hear about closed league bullshit every owner of a club in this country esp in the prem and championship are all bloody billionaires.. you have been here for two years now and you have done f all
Gasfacesg on
This was posted in the WSL sub and the responses when I looked last were negative. The first couple appear to be likewise here.
Focusing purely on the headlines and I’m happy to be corrected if I’m wrong, but from what I’ve interpreted I’m going to go against the grain here and seeing positives.
From what I read, the discussion is a pause on relegation, not promotion. Whilst this isn’t ideal for the WSL, if we want to expand the league having the best of the Championship promote one or two teams a season organically be better than just taking 4 or 6 teams in one go?
Like I say, happy to be corrected if someone has seen promotion is being scrapped too!
lethalinvader on
The actual article that the Guardian published stated that the proposal was to have no relegation to the Championship and only promotion to the WSL for some years until they grew the size of the WSL.
It was stated that relegation would be stopped ‘initially’.
It wasn’t to abolish it completely and make it a closed league.
It would help if Soccerdonna didn’t paraphrase the parts they wanted to highlight for clickbait.
“Another idea set to be discussed is maintaining promotion from the Championship without relegation from the top flight, so that the WSL would gradually expand by one club every season.”
“One of the proposals to be discussed today is understood to involve an expansion of both the WSL and Championship, with the proviso that there would be no relegation between the two divisions initially.”
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I’m all for expanding the league, but scrapping relegation and promotion is a stupid idea.
Honestly the cons are way more than the pros and in any thing you do in life when something looks to have more negative impact than positive abolish it immediately.. our league is growing organically with the tradition of how English football pyramid has been since the shape up in the 1992.. as English people we love tradition and pro/rel is our tradition in whatever elite level of football be it women or men so hell nah to a closed league what the league needs is for your lazy ass Nikki to get more of this owners to invest in their clubs and find ways to give them ultimatum to do more and let’s have a plan of 5 years where we want to see the wsl and how many teams we should have coming in, how you plan to capture new audiences and what you are investing in with interest free loans the premier league are giving you cos I see no improvement in the referees they are worse than ever and the linos are shocking I see at least five offside wrongly given anytime I watch Arsenal, speak on how you are trying to get every club in the wsl playing in stadiums that can house technology for the game like var and goal line tech cos we all know some of those stadiums can’t have them atm… no one wants to hear about closed league bullshit every owner of a club in this country esp in the prem and championship are all bloody billionaires.. you have been here for two years now and you have done f all
This was posted in the WSL sub and the responses when I looked last were negative. The first couple appear to be likewise here.
Focusing purely on the headlines and I’m happy to be corrected if I’m wrong, but from what I’ve interpreted I’m going to go against the grain here and seeing positives.
From what I read, the discussion is a pause on relegation, not promotion. Whilst this isn’t ideal for the WSL, if we want to expand the league having the best of the Championship promote one or two teams a season organically be better than just taking 4 or 6 teams in one go?
Like I say, happy to be corrected if someone has seen promotion is being scrapped too!
The actual article that the Guardian published stated that the proposal was to have no relegation to the Championship and only promotion to the WSL for some years until they grew the size of the WSL.
It was stated that relegation would be stopped ‘initially’.
It wasn’t to abolish it completely and make it a closed league.
It would help if Soccerdonna didn’t paraphrase the parts they wanted to highlight for clickbait.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/feb/27/womens-super-league-to-consider-scrapping-relegation-in-major-revamp
“Another idea set to be discussed is maintaining promotion from the Championship without relegation from the top flight, so that the WSL would gradually expand by one club every season.”
“One of the proposals to be discussed today is understood to involve an expansion of both the WSL and Championship, with the proviso that there would be no relegation between the two divisions initially.”