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The Barrow AFC Performance Centre are excited to announce the trial dates for the start of our Girls Performance Centre.

Any girl who is in Year 6-9 at school is welcome to come along and have fun.

Trials are to be held at Crooklands Casuals FC on Wednesday 2nd September. Times are provided in the poster below.

If you are interested in attending our trials and wish to register, or would simply like more information then please phone our office on 01229 870458.

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Clever

This poster is exactly the type thing that happens when you get women involved in football

All for representative sides and the Performance Centre but I would like to question the timing of the trials.

Unless there has been a drastic improvement in girls' football in the last 4 years not every single girl is with a local club, some decent players just play for their schools. It might have been more sensible to give the schools a chance as well as the clubs to send players, therefore leaving it a week or two.

Barrow schools' F.A affiliation is slightly different to the local clubs' so I hope this doesn't mean they are getting left out. Not least because with a bit of joined up thinking you could use any Barrow Schools' representative fixtures(including lads) as the performance centre, rather than them simply playing local clubs- it means the children aren't being tugged this way and that to play. The whole aim of Docs (as I understood it) system used to be to get the local kids playing at a better level than local as much as possible, while not going to an academy system as this was a) too expensive b) resisted by the local junior clubs who lose so many away as it is.

Anyway, good luck with it.

The Real Slim a former member of this forum wrote:This poster is exactly the type thing that happens when you get women involved in football

But it's a Nike shirt...

Hadrian wrote:

The Real Slim a former member of this forum wrote:This poster is exactly the type thing that happens when you get women involved in football

But it's a Nike shirt...

Its also an England shirt

Great to see this happening and long overdue.

The girl in the poster has just signed for Manchester City, playing in the womens super league and also represents England. Great to see a local getting the opportunity to progress and I'm sure the setting up of a girls performance centre will encourage more girls to become involved and hopefully support the club as well as represent it on the pitch.

Great point from barrowaberdeen about the timing.

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