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The vast majority are on full time contracts. But pay wise you’d get more working in macdonalds. Even at rangers etc the money isn’t great. So any girl wanting to make a living from it really needs to be getting down south if they are good enough. The other post making comparisons to boys football just isn’t worth going in to again. It’s women’s football not men’s / boys whatever. Zero point making a comparison. It’s does have to start living within its own means though. The team needs to bring in the sponsorship to afford to pay them more. Without that it’s just not going to improve. There are no more people watching the games at Meadowbank, that used to watch when they played out in Broxburn. Move the games to Easter rd whenever possible. Create a package for current STs. Free kids entry up to 18.

Needs a lot of change if it’s not going to drift back to amateur level imo.
Our women teams pay must surely be minimum wage, so why would they get paid less than people working in MacDonalds?

Pretty Boy asked the question around why some men scoff at women's football. I made the point that the standards of the other sports he mentioned have huge gulfs between elite female competitors and club level male competitors, hence why I said that doesn't apply to the women's game (making the well known comparison about how it compares in terms of quality to youth age male football) and why this might be a factor around men might find the idea of so much commercial investment in the women's game quite risible?

I wouldn't want to see our pitch being used more than necessary, why should the women's team play on it and not every other age group team etc.