Yeovil Town Ladies FC

In one sense it is an ordinary matchday for Yeovil Town Ladies FC, when Sunderland the visitors to Huish Park this Sunday for a 2pm kick-off in FA WSL1.

Advance admission is priced at £5 for Adults (£7 on the day) and £2.50 (£3) for Concessions, with Family Tickets £12 (£16) and a host of activities going on before the action begins.

But the club are taking the next step in what become a fight to preserve their hard-won status in the top-tier of the Women’s game being lost, to yet another off-field reorganisation of the WSL, and are hoping to 'Pack the Park' for the game but also for a Forum event immediately afterwards.

I've been writing this blog for a little over four years and have probably been through as many WSL reshuffles during that time.

Most recently came the move to a winter schedule, a positive move I felt, but barely had Yeovil finished their pre-season preparations then came the news that the FA wanted to move to a full-time, fully professional WSL1 for the 2018-19 season with anything from 8 to 14 clubs included.

All clubs currently in the division will have to re-apply for entry and the criteria that will need to be met will cost Yeovil in the region of £350,000 according to a recent BBC article, with Yeovil Town FC unable to provide anything other than their support, with matches played at Huish Park for example.

It is not the principle of a fully professional league that Yeovil object to, rather the speed of the proposed changes and the short time-frame given to meet them.

As the author Carrie Dunn argues on the She Kicks website, constant changing of the league set-up is not helping to establish it in the minds of the football public and from my perspective that is a shame when so much hard is done at each club to try and attract supporters through the turnstiles.