Women's Team - 2021/22

[Protein Junkie]

Congratulations Ladies.
Fab win v a very good Chelsea team. Light years away from the start of the season.

 

[r.soleofsalford]

I haven't seen a full back this season who could honestly say they had her in their pocket. Once she puts on the afterburners there's no one who has that pace in any defence I've seen. I'm giving GT a stay of execution after that game yesterday. It's becoming clearer after whipping the Rags twice, beating Tottenham like we should have done at the start of the season, and now wiping the grin off Emma Hayes' face at last, that it was the injuries that did for us at the beginning of the season.

I`ve never seen a team start the season with so many injuries. Roebuck and Bardesley being out especially.

 

[citizen_maine]

City’s fortunes haven’t just coincided with players returning from injury but also playing Stanway in positions where she can help to dominate the game.

To be fair, they're pretty much the same thing. Stanway wasn't playing in her best position because we needed her to play everywhere else due to the injury crisis

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

To be fair he did score a very important goal in City’s history, that is largely forgotten about. Stoke at home 98/99. Think they’d have gone 10 clear if they’d have beaten us.

Not sure that justifies him being one of our managers. If we replicated that, then we’d have Dickov as our mens’ team manager.

Theres a club, somewhere, that has tested that model. It didn’t go particularly well, from what I can remember ;-)

 

[Tim of the Oak]

To be fair, they're pretty much the same thing. Stanway wasn't playing in her best position because we needed her to play everywhere else due to the injury crisis

Maybe so mate. I think we could have accepted playing another Blue at fullback to get Stanway into the action. Beckie and Raso could do that job IMHO, or possibly somebody in the reserves / youth team, although the Australian has been a revelation at right wing in recent games.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

I haven't seen a full back this season who could honestly say they had her in their pocket. Once she puts on the afterburners there's no one who has that pace in any defence I've seen. I'm giving GT a stay of execution after that game yesterday. It's becoming clearer after whipping the Rags twice, beating Tottenham like we should have done at the start of the season, and now wiping the grin off Emma Hayes' face at last, that it was the injuries that did for us at the beginning of the season.

In fairness Dave , Emma Hayes did say that the best team won on the day.

Whilst some don't like her, she knows her stuff and has established a good set up at Chelsea, even if they do spend big to get the better players like Harder and Kerr.

 

[citizen_maine]

Maybe so mate. I think we could have accepted playing another Blue at fullback to get Stanway into the action. Beckie and Raso could do that job IMHO, or possibly somebody in the reserves / youth team, although the Australian has been a revelation at right wing in recent games.

Yeah, you might be right mate, but as we'd played Stanway at fullback before, it may just have been a case of someone we knew we could rely on. Thankfully we're almost back to full strength again

 

[Tim of the Oak]

In fairness Dave , Emma Hayes did say that the best team won on the day.

Whilst some don't like her, she knows her stuff and has established a good set up at Chelsea.

I’m not Emma Hayes’ biggest fan either but she can take a defeat better than the BBC commentary team and is a real asset to the women’s game.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

To those who are more knowledgeable about WSL , is there any kind of spending cap or FFP ?

Players seem to move around without much mention of transfer fees etc .

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

I’m not Emma Hayes’ biggest fan either but she can take a defeat better than the BBC commentary team and is a real asset to the women’s game.

The BBC can't deal with anything to do with City in a positive manner imo. Fucking disgrace .