THE CONCRETE ROUNDABOUT (TCR)

12-0 now

All done, 13-0

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They say don't kick a man when he's down. Show me a better time.

I think I wouldn't bother turning. up if I was getting pumped like that every week.

Maybe they're getting paid. Maybe they enjoy a kick about even if they're getting humbled.

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"They'll be dancing on the streets of MK Dons tonight!!!!"

- Abraham Lincoln, 1993

I have no idea if the team was full strength or severely depleted but a result like that is terrible for womens game. It damages credibility, humilates and demeans the players and to a degree embarrasses the opposition.

A season or two ago my son played for a good level side in a good league that had pretty much competitive games each week. At the start of new season a team had by a quirk of unlikely circumstances gained promotion into a league they werent equipped for.

My sons team were about 5-0 up after 10 minutes and around 15-0 up by half time. The coach told them at half time that they still had to play to their maximum to respect the opposition but that it had become a passing game where the intent was not to try and score any more goals. it made things 10 times worse where the passing an movement ripped the others to pieces. It was horrific for the players and parents of the losing side, awful for the players on my sons team and quite frankly embarrasing as a parent to watch. It served no purpose to anyone there that day and I suspect the same is true of the poor women in the Dons side that had to endure that.

This season definitely seems like it's just about getting to the end of it and resetting. If the new owners are serious about including the women's team in their plans then I'd imagine wholesale changes will come.

It just seems to be one of those seasons with them stuck in limbo, perhaps the takeover and PW struggling to even push us as much as he had before has had some impact, though given it's run by the SET I don't know how linked they were to PW in the first place.

Either way, relegation is inevitable for them, unfortunately.

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Had this in my kids youth games too

One solution that works is once it gets to say 6 or so goals difference the allow uneven teams numbers...... E.g allow 7 against 5.....seen it work well and stopped the ridiculous scoreline

Needs both sets of coaches to not be a ****......which surprisingly for kids football is not always a given ....there are many deeply unhappy/unfulfilled men who care way too much about the results of their under 10s football team

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Its difficult as taking players off can look like the piss is being taken. In the example I gave I think my sons lot would have had to play with 7 or 8 just to even the game up and thats difficult for the opposing team and deeply unfair to the now 6 or 7 lads sitting on the side watching instead of playing.

If you can score goals and demolish a side, do it.

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"They'll be dancing on the streets of MK Dons tonight!!!!"

- Abraham Lincoln, 1993

When my lad played I saw some right batterings. My son's team were pretty good, and handed out some right old shellackings and were duly promoted, where in the league above it was them that were on the receiving end. These poor girls are obviously not good enough, but they're amateur, and probably having a right old laugh.

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They say don't kick a man when he's down. Show me a better time.