Rodgers’ views had been echoed by team-mate Jesse Woolley, who spent final season on mortgage at Studying and mentioned she was stunned by the dearth of funding in girls’s soccer on the Royals.
“Going from Bristol to Studying, I realised it was such a shock and a tradition change,” she mentioned. “However it simply proves that girls’s soccer nonetheless wants to return a great distance. And half of the groups aren’t as fortunate because the others and it might change inside an instantaneous.
“I believe simply because we’re girls in soccer it doesn’t suggest we get handled any otherwise and we should not get handled any otherwise. It is our jobs on the finish of the day, it is folks’s lives, folks’s cash, and you already know, some have to depart and work regular jobs simply to pay the payments.”
Bristol Metropolis will share Ashton Gate with the boys’s senior workforce, despite being relegated from the WSL with six factors.
Rodgers mentioned the marketing campaign was troublesome as they misplaced each residence league sport, with the hardest interval coming as they picked up only one level after the 2023-24 winter break – however says the dressing room was and stays sturdy.
“There have been by no means any moments we turned on one another,” she mentioned. “The hardest second, we received some good outcomes earlier than Christmas and we weren’t backside.
“Then there was a interval after Christmas when there have been video games we wished to get outcomes from within the decrease half of the desk, and we didn’t get any leads to that point.
“That was a tricky interval, you possibly can’t suppose like that however you need to be lifelike. We nonetheless gave our greatest, it wasn’t sufficient however we did stick collectively as a bunch.”