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[DonnyBazR0ver]

Read the latest article on BBC relating to the league structure and size of WSL1 being anywhere between 8 and 16 teams with the main qualification being financial for the licencing rather than on the pitch performance.

They have no chance of generating a better following on that basis. It seems destined to implode.

[The Red Baron]

Strikes me that the FA have totally lost sight of what they are trying to achieve.

I can see the need to have more women in this country playing as full time professional footballers if they want to improve the standard of the national team. However to create an overblown and ultimately unsustainable professional league doesn't seem to be the way to do that.

They should do what England Cricket has done. Put the top 15-20 female players on central contracts and allocate them to the top clubs. The club game should be a League system with promotion and relegation on merit, and players who emerge through that should be offered central contracts.

Ironic really that the England and Wales Cricket Board, which has won plaudits for what it has done with the women's game, is making such a total mess of the men's!