Sunday is the day of destiny for our women’s team. Indeed, we’ll be playing two finals on Sunday: first the Under-19s will face their counterparts from Cardiff City for the national title, and then the senior side play their promotion play-off for a place in the top division.

It’s an exciting double-header, but I can’t deny that the attraction of seeing both sides go for glory in back-to-back matches at Newton’s Latham Park is tinged with frustration.

Obviously all possible resources must be put behind the senior side’s bid to make history, and take a massive step forwards towards the owners’ aim to establish us as the premier team in Welsh women’s football. There is, sadly, a price to be paid though.

11 of the Under-19s have played for the first team this season, and 7 of them were on the pitch for the final game of the season at The Racecourse. Clearly, we need to achieve promotion, so we’ll have to select the strongest side possible, but that will naturally weaken the youth team.

When you consider how Lili Jones took a grip of that clash with Connah’s Quay Nomads when she stepped up into midfield, you can’t help but contemplate the influence she’d have in an Under-19 match.

This is the responsibility of the FAW, of course. Organising the day as a double-header was always going to make such a scenario a possibility. You might look to defend them, and ask how they could possibly foresee this scenario. Well, they shouldn’t have been surprised: last year’s final was contested by the same two teams! In many ways the FAW has done an excellent job over the last decade, but asking questions about how it is developing women’s football is, to my mind, perfectly legitimate.

It’s a shame, but there’s no question that the priority is promotion. Let’s hope that by Sunday night we’re reflecting on another remarkable weekend for the club.