The women's team has a bunch of international players. They'd love to play in front of a good atmosphere more than anything.
Youth team is different as you're showing them a path of what may come.
I can see that might be a problem if they were routinely playing to a crowd of 2000 in a 75000 seater stadium. I don't think that's what we're looking at though. The idea would be to show the women's team to United fans in their natural habitat - and at a ground that people can get to by tram.
There won't be any real gain if we just play to the 2000 who already go, that's why it would need to be publicised, cheap/free tickets, things to get a crowd through the door who have probably never been to a women's game before, or indeed who've never been able to take the kids to Old Trafford. If you get ten thousand there and five thousand of them automatically jump up and cheer when United score - then next time a big game at Leigh comes up, a chunk of that crowd will know that going to watch the women play won't feel weird, it'll feel like watching a United team.
It's a marketing thing. I went to my first women's match not knowing how I'd react, but quickly discovered that not only did it not seem strange, I reacted to the team the same way I react to United. Once they go back to Leigh (or wherever) the fans start enjoying some of the advantages of the women's game - the easier parking, the cheaper prices, the fact it's easier for family groups or friends to sit together. The way that the little kids can get down to the front to meet Fred the Red, and the older ones can get autographs at the end. But for people to discover that, you've got to get past the first barrier.