“It gives every young girl in this country who’s playing football something to aim for. It shows you that it can be done and that it can be done through our league. You don’t need to go away at 13 or 14, you can play your football here, come through our youth internationals and play at our level.
“Our level is good enough to get you to where you want to go. That’s why it’s so important that we go down every avenue to get this league up and running, of course when it is safe to do so.”
With the women’s season traditionally taking place in the summer months, a season later in the year would inevitably mean that women’s teams would be vying for access to facilities at the same time as when the men’s leagues are potentially back in action.
“I can only speak for ourselves at Sion. We play at a council owned sports complex which is currently closed, and we don’t know when that may open again. But if we sit down with dates, we can look at venues and maybe speak to other clubs in terms of ground sharing and figure out what that might look like.
“If there are certain protocols that we need to put in place also, then we can ensure that the venues will be able to support that. In addition to that, we also need to think about our training schedule and getting ourselves ready for games. I would think that we would need about four or five weeks to get ourselves ready for competitive fixtures.”