Doncaster Belles - Please Consider Signing

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Doncaster Belles - Please Consider Signing

Hi Bees

After being ever-present in the top-flight of English Football, Doncaster Rovers Belles FC have been effectively relegated after playing just one match of the Women's Super League season. The reason for this decision is that like all WSL teams, DRBFC were asked to re-apply for membership of the WSL just 19 months after being successfully admitted.

Of the 8 teams currently in the Super League, only one has been excluded from the top flight after the re-application process. Their place will be taken by Manchester City Ladies.

The assessment criteria for admission are:

- Financial and Business Management
- Commercial Sustainability and Marketing
- Facilities
- Players, Support Staff and Youth Development

As the Belles share facilities with Doncaster Rovers (both training and match day) this is not a problem.

The team contains England Internationals and is coached by ex-Doncaster Rovers winger John Buckley. Kids and youth teams are supported so this isn't a problem.

That leaves the financial and business aspects.

I'm sure you guys as sports fans believe sport should be decided on the playing field rather than by committees assessing non-sporting criteria.

This is an occasion where the decision could simply be made by forming a second division and operating promotion/relegation between the two divisions. The FA have decided that a committee can make the decision in a better way. They are not prepared to comment on the decision or discuss it in any way.

If, like me you think this is not correct, please sign this petition.

http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/doncasterbelles

Good luck with the play-off final

Fuzzy
 

Doncaster Belles - Please Consider Signing

Could you post some pics of both ladies teams to help inform my decision wether to sign?
 

Doncaster Belles - Please Consider Signing

Yep, I love Donny me :confused:
 

Doncaster Belles - Please Consider Signing

Woman's football rather watch paint dry
 

Doncaster Belles - Please Consider Signing

I do have sympathy Fuzzy Duck but just wondering how much sympathy you had for Sunderland, when at the end of the 2009/10 season they finished one place above Donny Belles in the FAWPL National League yet did not get their application for the Womens Super League approved whilst watching Doncaster, Birmingham and Bristol who finished below them and Liverpool (who were in a division below them) all get elected. Did you campaign vigorously on their behalf?

When in 2010/11 the FA decided it would set up what effectively are franchises with no promotion and relegation and decisions taken for involvement not based on performance on the field but on hypothetical marketing plans, it was a sad day for womens football and for competitive sport in general. Doncaster Belles were more than happy to be part of it. Now they cry foul of the very system they jumped into to.

Having said that the whole current bid process was incredibly flawed. Doncaster were not the only clubs shafted. Leeds United and Charlton have in my opinion both been very badly treated and clubs that failed with their bids have been given wildly different and conflicting reasons (e.g. some told their links with the professional mens parent club were not strong enough yet Durham - yes who? - were given a place with no association to a professional club. Whether the "facts" clubs put in their bids are true also remains very debatable. Oxford United were given a place (despite playing two divisions below Charlton and Leeds) stating they would play games at the Kassam Stadium. I am led to believe this may now be in doubt.

In my opinion the FA are simply not fit to govern any level of football.
 

Doncaster Belles - Please Consider Signing

Doncaster bells ? Sounds like the divs outside the oak before the game hiding behind the police !
 

Doncaster Belles - Please Consider Signing

Doncaster belles...............

Folks I know things haven't gone to plan for you this season (especially against us) but please could you read the attached ref. my local Ladies team who have been relegated after only 1 game in the Women's Premiership this season in favour of those moneybags at Manchester City.
We have a petition going to attempt to force the FA to reconsider their decision based it appears on purely financial reasons.
The precedent that this sets should worry everyone in both the Men's and Women's game as it now appears positions in the top League can now be bought rather that earnt.

The report and petition can be found on the following link :-

http://popularstand.wordpress.com/20...nts-of-action/

Doncaster Belles are probably the best known Women's team in the world and have supplied many players to the England team both now and in the past. Thank you.
 

Doncaster Belles - Please Consider Signing

Mr Tree said:
good luck, but your link didn't work, and we already had one "call to arms" (disputed by an informed bystander!) - https://griffinpark.org/forums/showthread.php?t=105511
Click to expand...

Sorry about the link, incidentally your 'informed bystander' was incorrect on many accounts. Do you suggest we just let this slide completely into the Men's game as well........it's almost there and will be to the detriment of smaller clubs like ours.
Hide your head in the sand, pretend that it's only the Women's game etc. and bit by bit we will edge into the FA trap of who has the money then eats at the top table to the detriment of the smaller clubs. Forget Relegation and Promotion on merit it will soon be 'flash the cash' and you're in!

Please read the latest and you should be appalled.........Probably doesn't help to screw over the host town club a few weeks before the final.

Those asking about the minute's protest yesterday; it was somewhat muted as the Belles fans had their bells, banner, flyers and petition confiscated by stewards from outside the ground about 50 minutes before kick-off.

The FSF are speaking with the fans concerned.

There's a write-up with details here; http://popularstand.wordpress.com/2013/05/27/bells-banners-belligerence-on-trying-to-speak-out/
 
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i said good luck :shrug:

i'm afraid Doncaster have indirectly put me off football anyway, so you've only yourselves to blame :nono:
 

Doncaster Belles - Please Consider Signing

Women's football is for girls....
 

Doncaster Belles - Please Consider Signing

BELLS, BANNERS & BELLIGERENCE; ON TRYING TO SPEAK OUT

Misread the title from the link, bells, BANGERS & belligerence. Caught my eye for a couple of minutes.
 

Doncaster Belles - Please Consider Signing

shame it's all gone tits up for them
 

Doncaster Belles - Please Consider Signing

Welington said:
Sorry about the link, incidentally your 'informed bystander' was incorrect on many accounts.
Click to expand...

Which facts were incorrect then Wellington? As I helped put the bid together for one club (a bid we knew was likely to fail and did but on entirely different reason to the ones we expected which did not appear to cause concern!) I would be interested to know.

Not sure it was only about money either as Brighton's bid (who are managed by ex bee Jay Lovett) was reportedly backed by a £250,000 budget and they did not get in. Every failed club has been given a different reason for not getting in and the FA appear to be making it up as they go along.
 

Doncaster Belles - Please Consider Signing

I work for burygirls&ladiesfc ...we are working to get in the big league's man city are being reported to be paying 1000 quid a week for some players ..shocking but I really can't sign any thing I'm still getting the piss taken outta me for that Pen miss
 
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