Attacking-wise we struggled to create much, with our main chances aside from the penalty (which looked to me like a dive from Kayleigh Barton) being a long-range effort from Charlotte Newsham tipped over the bar and a late air-kick from Barton. Defensively we were excellent though, with some good recovery tackles and a number of last-ditch blocks when required as London City inevitably created chances, plus one good save at her near post from Sophie Whitehouse. It looked like we would hold out, but then an unnecessary foul on the edge of the box gave them one last chance, and to be fair the free kick was unstoppable.
Promotion has probably gone now (as GarryManilow says, our poor run in the autumn has killed us), but I think we can still hold our heads high that we went toe-to-toe with a much more expensively assembled squad. Here's to more than one promotion spot in future seasons.
As an aside, I'd like to see the pigeons' heat map today – they really covered some ground up and down the pitch!
Was v disappointing to concede so late when it looked like we could be on for a double victory weekend. It did remind me of last season’s match v LCL when we went 1-0 up quite late on yet managed to concede two in injury time to lose. So I had seen it before Orient yesterday - only it was CAFCW on the receiving end.
According to the above relegation could be reinstated in 30/31. The initial objective is to increase the size of the WSL. Dissapointingly there does not seem to be any proposal to make two promotion spots available, which I think the Championship needs, even if the big clubs are not coming down. One automatic and 1 play off.
The new company runn8ng the women's game has done well to get real money into the game, but it still pales into insignificance compared to the men's game and leaves clubs reliant up on the fortunes of the men's teams and benevolence of the owners.
Wonder if a solution is to create a Bundesliga style promotion/relegation play off. While the WSL grows 1st place in the Championship goes up and then 2nd place does a two legged tie against the team who come bottom of the WSL?
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Attacking-wise we struggled to create much, with our main chances aside from the penalty (which looked to me like a dive from Kayleigh Barton) being a long-range effort from Charlotte Newsham tipped over the bar and a late air-kick from Barton. Defensively we were excellent though, with some good recovery tackles and a number of last-ditch blocks when required as London City inevitably created chances, plus one good save at her near post from Sophie Whitehouse. It looked like we would hold out, but then an unnecessary foul on the edge of the box gave them one last chance, and to be fair the free kick was unstoppable.
Promotion has probably gone now (as GarryManilow says, our poor run in the autumn has killed us), but I think we can still hold our heads high that we went toe-to-toe with a much more expensively assembled squad. Here's to more than one promotion spot in future seasons.
As an aside, I'd like to see the pigeons' heat map today – they really covered some ground up and down the pitch!
Average manager = Mid table team. It’s not rocket science.
The referee clearly had absolutely no idea what idea what to do.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/mar/02/womens-super-league-clubs-will-hold-vote-on-radical-plan-to-scrap-relegation?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
The new company runn8ng the women's game has done well to get real money into the game, but it still pales into insignificance compared to the men's game and leaves clubs reliant up on the fortunes of the men's teams and benevolence of the owners.
Demise of Reading being a case in point.