Oldham Womens Team

[Bedford Roughyed]

 

[Cw25]

Good luck to them

[Steve the Roughyed]

Excellent.  Well done ORLFC

[The Art of Hand and Foot]

Excellent step forward. Hopefully, eventually, we can have a reserve team. 

[moorside roughyed]

Great stuff. Women's rugby league is really taking off.

[roughyed1064]

bloody hell should this club pay more attention to the mens team before setting up another team, sport today seems to be more and more about the womens teams.

[tandle]

9 minutes ago, roughyed1064 said:

bloody hell should this club pay more attention to the mens team before setting up another team, sport today seems to be more and more about the womens teams.

well said 1064 but i thought we had already got a womans team ?

[The Art of Hand and Foot]

1 hour ago, roughyed1064 said:

bloody hell should this club pay more attention to the mens team before setting up another team, sport today seems to be more and more about the womens teams.

I can't see how a women's team is anything other than beneficial. It won't distract from the men's game and certainly won't divert funds.  According to rugby_league.com there are funding opportunities to grow the game both in community and with the women's game. It will also allow full use of the hollinwood site. 

[OL14.yeds]

More good work from the club off the field. Hopefully is a success.

How it can be seen as a negative is beyond me.

[Bedford Roughyed]

3 hours ago, The Art of Hand and Foot said:

I can't see how a women's team is anything other than beneficial. It won't distract from the men's game and certainly won't divert funds.  According to rugby_league.com there are funding opportunities to grow the game both in community and with the women's game. It will also allow full use of the hollinwood site. 

The money available for a pro team to be able, say for example, renovate a newly acquired training ground = zero.

The money available for women's and community to do the same?  A lot more.

It's a win win!

[tandle]

the allotted funding from the rfl is i for community clubs only and is 1.4 million.there are  300 community clubs that can apply for a funding grant not a fortune for the clubs.

[Curlywurly2]

Asked Tony Barrow, over 30 years ago, for help in setting up a Women's RL team. He immediately said no 

[sheddingswasus]

For any one who has our book Watersheddings Memories, we included two photos of the previous womewns team early 80's. I will dig them out later and try and upload them. Some familiar faces on there!

[Tangle]

6 hours ago, The Art of Hand and Foot said:

I can't see how a women's team is anything other than beneficial. It won't distract from the men's game and certainly won't divert funds.  According to rugby_league.com there are funding opportunities to grow the game both in community and with the women's game. It will also allow full use of the hollinwood site. 

Hopefully tangle will coach the ladies he must know everything about rugby 

[Bedford Roughyed]

3 hours ago, Curlywurly2 said:

Asked Tony Barrow, over 30 years ago, for help in setting up a Women's RL team. He immediately said no 

Sadly for a while RL was one of the leading sports for women, then it was ignored for a few decades, watched other sports take massive leads, but is now slowly clawing its way back.  

[WellWisher]

12 hours ago, The Art of Hand and Foot said:

I can't see how a women's team is anything other than beneficial. It won't distract from the men's game and certainly won't divert funds.  According to rugby_league.com there are funding opportunities to grow the game both in community and with the women's game. It will also allow full use of the hollinwood site. 

Agreed. Surely anything that raises the profile of rugby league in the town can only be a good thing.

[Dave Naylor]

7 hours ago, Tangle said:

Hopefully tangle will coach the ladies he must know everything about rugby 

Ain't that like, you?