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Swindon Addick
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Jun 20, 2010, 11:42 PM

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Everything's gone very quiet on the subject of the Super League recently. It's been months since the FA last said anything about it, and there's been deathly silence as to what the remaining premier league clubs would be doing once super league was formed. Now finally we have some clarity. Not an actual announcement on the FA website or anything dramatic like that, but the magazine formerly known as Fair Game has got hold of the set-up as agreed at a meeting on 13 June.

It seems that the 8 super league clubs will have to sit quietly until March when their competition starts. Their reserve teams will still be in the premier league reserve devisions, which could make for some rather unbalanced fixtures but was probably the only realistic solution available.

Meanwhile the 28 remaining premier league clubs will stay in 3 divisions. Long term they will all have 10 clubs, with 8 in the national division for one season, followed by 2 extra promotions at each level of the pyramid in 2011. There's a complex play-off system, which you can find in the 17 June news item at She Kicks.

With the usual title contenders off to join the super league, this could be a really interesting title race.

National Division:
Barnet
Blackburn Rovers
Leeds
Millwall Lionesses
Nottingham Forest
Reading
Sunderland
Watford

Northern Division:
Aston Villa
Coventry City
Curzon Ashton
Derby County
Leeds City Vixens
Leicester City
Manchester City
Newcastle United
Preston North End
Rochdale

Southern Division:
Brighton & Hove Albion
Cardiff City
Charlton Athletic
Colchester United
Gillingham
Keynsham Town
Portsmouth
Queens Park Rangers
West Ham United
Yeovil Town

Round 1: Cambridge City 0-0 MK Dons
Round 4: QPR 2-4 MK Dons

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Cheers for the update Addick. I wonder how those clubs will fair in a national division. In effect this means we have 16 teams playing on a national basis. Barnet are my local club and I hope I'm not doing them a disservice to say that I've never seen them as a club who could manage playing nationally. I hope I'm wrong though.

Do we know about the FA Cup yet? I assume the Super League teams will enter, probably starting in the new year?

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Jun 22, 2010, 6:55 PM

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Re Barnet...they have grown in stature year by year since coming up from the Combination in 2006-7. IMO they are a super club who would have coped even if the League had stayed as before. Best evidence from 2009-10 was their FA Cup run which saw them deservedly beat Notts Forest and lose only 2-0 at Everton in the semi final.

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I wasn't thinking so much in terms of ability, which is transient, but in terms of setup. I didn't think the club put that much into them.

Still, I am pleased to be proven wrong and happy that my local team is in the top flight!

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With the usual title contenders off to join the super league, this could be a really interesting title race.

Are you sure there should be an 's' on the end of 'contender' there... I'm a gooner so like to see them win but I hope the new league is a bit more of a test!

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I think Barnet FC Ladies must have some good support from the mens club. Both first team and reserves have used the training ground for matches when Hanwell was unfit, they made a Superleague application, they provide free entry and a good free programme at Hanwell . No other club does this so I guess the funding to support this must come from the mens club...

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I guess so. This is a positive. As a gooner I am less proud of them winning things than the fact that they support their women's team the way they do. Everyone wants to have the best players and win stuff, but not everyone is interested in spreading the game that way.

On another note, the Super League will mean I have competetive football to watch all year round!

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