Last year was pretty poor, but that was down to injuries. I thought we played OK today, and it's worth remembering (despite their result last week), they are the Champions, and showed why in the second half today for me.Seriously, is this not our poorest start for several years (taking account also of the elimination from the CL)?
You say "top players leaving", 3 retired from football all together having either won a major trophy, or hadn't played for the club in a while. The only 3 I'd say were still "top" were Walsh (world record fee for a woman), Stanway, and arguably Weir. Bronze was poor last year for me, and didn't seem particularly interested in some games.something isn’t right when you’ve top players leaving for other clubs why isn’t that happening at say Chelsea or arsenal
Do you know last year i got on here and complained about the sideways city style of play...With the players we had out injured he had an excuse..But then we got few back from injury and it appeared they were playing THEIR way and was (were) more direct and hence we finished superbly and into the top three...Ive watch all the games and its back to last year (early days) slow,sideways etc..Maybe we have lost players but we have a great front 3.Question..I think Houghton brings a lot to this sideway stuff..She seems frightened to make a mistake . We need to be more direct
You say "top players leaving", 3 retired from football all together having either won a major trophy, or hadn't played for the club in a while. The only 3 I'd say were still "top" were Walsh (world record fee for a woman), Stanway, and arguably Weir. Bronze was poor last year for me, and didn't seem particularly interested in some games.
I think we've also brought in some good players in return, but it will take a little while for them to establish themselves. From watching today's game, I think we have signed several very good players, in what is a squad "refresh", and those coming in have an average age of 23, compared to those leaving of 29.
As for Taylor, I don't think he's good enough either, but I'm happy to give him some time with this new squad. We've lost 3 games in a row, but we were always likely to lose to RM on their home pitch, and the champions on theirs, the bad result was villa obviously, but I think the players were pretty culpable in that one with some dreadful mistakes.
You say "top players leaving", 3 retired from football all together having either won a major trophy, or hadn't played for the club in a while. The only 3 I'd say were still "top" were Walsh (world record fee for a woman), Stanway, and arguably Weir. Bronze was poor last year for me, and didn't seem particularly interested in some games.
I think we've also brought in some good players in return, but it will take a little while for them to establish themselves. From watching today's game, I think we have signed several very good players, in what is a squad "refresh", and those coming in have an average age of 23, compared to those leaving of 29.
As for Taylor, I don't think he's good enough either, but I'm happy to give him some time with this new squad. We've lost 3 games in a row, but we were always likely to lose to RM on their home pitch, and the champions on theirs, the bad result was villa obviously, but I think the players were pretty culpable in that one with some dreadful mistakes.