Fran Kirby

[WoodleyRoyal]

would you though

[RoyalBlue]

SPARTA as ITK as ever.

Before you take the p, I think you will find that the twitter account the link refers to is an account that is run on behalf of the women's team and that SPARTA is still correct, the main club account also tweets about the women's teams and players.

Like it or not, the women's team(s) is an integral part of the club, supported (not just financially) by the club and something that Reading Football Club is rightly proud of. Also, nowhere on HNA does it say 'Reading Football Club, men's teams only'.

[WAZZOCK]

SPARTA as ITK as ever.

Before you take the p, I think you will find that the twitter account the link refers to is an account that is run on behalf of the women's team and that SPARTA is still correct, the main club account also tweets about the women's teams and players.

Like it or not, the women's team(s) is an integral part of the club, supported (not just financially) by the club and something that Reading Football Club is rightly proud of. Also, nowhere on HNA does it say 'Reading Football Club, men's teams only'.

Debatable

[Kitsondinho]

Saw her play for England v US in Feb. Considering she was sharing the pitch with some of the best players in the world and was the outstanding player, I really hope we hang on to her.

[RoyalBlue]

SPARTA as ITK as ever.

Before you take the p, I think you will find that the twitter account the link refers to is an account that is run on behalf of the women's team and that SPARTA is still correct, the main club account also tweets about the women's teams and players.

Like it or not, the women's team(s) is an integral part of the club, supported (not just financially) by the club and something that Reading Football Club is rightly proud of. Also, nowhere on HNA does it say 'Reading Football Club, men's teams only'.

Debatable

Care to debate why?

[Froomes]

Debatable

Care to debate why?

Well for a start if the women's team folded the club would continue to operate still, meaning the women's team are not integral to the club at all.

They may well be an important part of the club these days in terms of generating a wider fan base and encouraging greater participation in the female game but that isn't the same as being integral to the club I'm afraid...

[WAZZOCK]

^

What he said.

Plus, playing their home games in a different County 45 minutes away, in front of barely 100 supporters. I think we'd manage if they weren't around.

[Nameless]

The ladies team is certainly an integrated part of the club, not sure it's really integral yet. It's good to be developing a decent ladies team and there is no real negative to doing so.

[tidus_mi2]

^

What he said.

Plus, playing their home games in a different County 45 minutes away, in front of barely 100 supporters. I think we'd manage if they weren't around.

Attendance of 347 against Yeovil ladies, a small amount yes, barely 100, no.

[sandman]

^

What he said.

Plus, playing their home games in a different County 45 minutes away, in front of barely 100 supporters. I think we'd manage if they weren't around.

Attendance of 347 against Yeovil ladies, a small amount yes, barely 100, no.

First game of the season was it not? May be a couple of weeks before you can get a more accurate idea of the amount of people who attend their games.

[WAZZOCK]

First game of the season and it was away.

[RoyalBlue]

Debatable

Care to debate why?

Well for a start if the women's team folded the club would continue to operate still, meaning the women's team are not integral to the club at all.

They may well be an important part of the club these days in terms of generating a wider fan base and encouraging greater participation in the female game but that isn't the same as being integral to the club I'm afraid...

Only it depends on which definition of integral you use doesn't it!

definition: of, relating to, or belonging as a part of the whole; constituent or component:

Nowhere did I say that the men's club wouid cease to exist if the women's team folded.

My arm is an integral part of my body. It doesn't mean that I will die if I lose my arm!

And actually, I suspect the men's side is the more likely to fold in terms of financial risk. If that happened, I suspect the women's team would continue as, although it uses some club facilities and has access to some club staff, I believe it's main funding is independent of the men's set up.

Your second point i.e. important part of the club for the reasons you say, is the point I was making anyway.

And Wazzock, I'm no great fan of the Farnborough 'home' ground either (particularly when the tossers at the Highways Agency have completed f*cked up the M3 for the next year or so), although I do understand why the team have opted to play there.

First game of the season and it was away.

And they had a surprising number of Reading fans attend, I believe. I also suspect they will attract more fans at home than Yeovil.

[Nameless]

To be honest that definition is a bit of a nonsense.
It defines 'integral' as meaning a part of something. So the ladies aren't an integral part, they are a part.
Currently there are fairly minor part, maybe one day they will become bigger and actually be integral but currently using a very weak definition of integral is the only way to make it so....

[RoyalBlue]

To be honest that definition is a bit of a nonsense.
It defines 'integral' as meaning a part of something. So the ladies aren't an integral part, they are a part.
Currently there are fairly minor part, maybe one day they will become bigger and actually be integral but currently using a very weak definition of integral is the only way to make it so....

In what way is using a dictionary definition (to support the way that I intended the word to be used/interpreted) 'using a very weak definition of integral'? !

Anyway to return to the original topic of the post: Just 30 minutes into the team's second game (away at Barnet/London Bees) Fran has already scored another 4 goals. That makes 8 goals for her in just two hours play at the start of the new season!!

Edit: Took her foot off the gas - now only 9 goals in 3 hours play!

[sandman]

To be honest that definition is a bit of a nonsense.
It defines 'integral' as meaning a part of something. So the ladies aren't an integral part, they are a part.
Currently there are fairly minor part, maybe one day they will become bigger and actually be integral but currently using a very weak definition of integral is the only way to make it so....

In what way is using a dictionary definition (to support the way that I intended the word to be used/interpreted) 'using a very weak definition of integral'? !

Anyway to return to the original topic of the post: Just 30 minutes into the team's second game (away at Barnet/London Bees) Fran has already scored another 4 goals. That makes 8 goals for her in just two hours play at the start of the new season!!

Well done to her but come on RB that's not the way you originally meant it and now you're pretending it is because people have challenged you.

[SCIAG]

To be honest that definition is a bit of a nonsense.
It defines 'integral' as meaning a part of something. So the ladies aren't an integral part, they are a part.
Currently there are fairly minor part, maybe one day they will become bigger and actually be integral but currently using a very weak definition of integral is the only way to make it so....

In what way is using a dictionary definition (to support the way that I intended the word to be used/interpreted) 'using a very weak definition of integral'? !

Because if you used "an integral part" to mean "a part", then the word "integral" is redundant.

[Royal Rother]

Jeez, it's just a bloody word. Who cares what a dictionary definition tells us?

Integral part or part... Splitting hairs. RB has told us what he meant.

Accept it and move on.

[AthleticoSpizz]

Barnet 0 Reading 7 earlier today

No details but, no doubt, Fran scored (despite some of your unkind comments)

[MouldyRoyal]

As indicated above, she scored 5.

[AthleticoSpizz]

Yip, respect, thank you

Sorry I never trawled back that far