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<\/p>\nDale Vince sets the record straight on FGR’s women\u2019s team.<\/p>\n
Chairman of Forest Green Rovers, Dale Vince OBE, said:\u00a0\u201cThis will be our third season in the National League and as a result we face the full \u00a31.5million loss of income, it having been mitigated until now by reducing parachute payments. <\/p>\n
Seeing this coming for some weeks, we\u2019ve reviewed all spending and our focus has had to be on regaining our place in the EFL – it\u2019s the logical thing to do. \u00a0<\/p>\n
As a result, we already had to cut the boys’ football program – but faced no criticism for that, worth noting. \u00a0<\/p>\n
We believed we had found a way to continue with the women\u2019s team and the girls\u2019 system, by partnering with Hartpury – but they changed their position very late in the day, leaving us facing the six-figure cost of running the women\u2019s team alone – and so we\u2019ve needed to make this decision.<\/p>\n
FGR have been supporting women\u2019s football for over a decade; the criticism we\u2019ve faced in the last few days for this is entirely misplaced – it\u2019s unfair, in fact. <\/p>\n
Economic realities have forced us to cut spending in many areas; we already cut funding to the system for boys as part of that. <\/p>\n
The women\u2019s team cuts have come at the very end and only due to a last-minute let-down – that\u2019s hardly indicative of a club that does not care about women\u2019s football.<\/p>\n
Our focus on getting back to the EFL is the most logical thing for us to do, once we have achieved that we can restore all of the programs we\u2019ve not been able to afford this year – the boys, girls and the women\u2019s team.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s our plan, to get back to where we were in all respects, in the EFL and with the wherewithal to fund the things we believe in, which – yes, does include football for women and girls. \u00a0And boys.\u201d<\/p>\n
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