Ladies first team update

Our Ladies ladies started their first ever season in the womens southern regional league with a great 5-3 win over Surrey based Abbey Rangers on an extremely hot summers day. Goalscorers were Alisha Buckingham(2), Jess Treweek, Madi Payne and Kayden Wood . The girls made a great come back having been 2-0 down early on.

With Buckingham on England duty the girls then travelled to Bursledon in the FA Cup (Sept 12) and came away with a convincing 6-0 win with goals from new signing Mia Inglis(2), captain Abbie Awdas, Madi Payne, Jess Treweek and Chloe Stokes. The girls will now travel to Merley Cobham in the next round.

Manager Tom Forbes said, “We have worked very hard during pre-season and having lost two of our young girls to Southampton FC, coupled with our promotion to a level we have never played at previously, we have had to recruit well and are delighted with our new players. In addition the ethos and culture of the club will always be to promote young players from within having built a very strong player progression pathway from girls youth football to womens senior football meaning our team will always have a youthfulness about it.

We made a slow start to the first league game finding ourselves 2-0 down however I was delighted with the comeback which will stand us in good stead for other battles later on in the season . Our FA Cup win was also really pleasing as Alisha was away with England meaning other girls had to step forward which they did with aplomb along with our experienced leaders such as Abbie, Katie, Chloe, Rachel ,Marie and Sian. All in all a very good start however extremely early days to be making any wild predictions! “