Saint_clark

I reckon he easily cost us 10 points last season with the mistakes he made. We finished 11 points behind.

Not the point at all.

I haven't seen us win in person in years at this point.

But he didn't, he was our first choice keeper signing costing more than Nick Pope did for Newcastle.

I agree, feels like it's an unpopular thing to say because nobody likes to pin it on one person, team game etc etc but I honestly believe we'd have stayed up with Leno, Navas, Henderson etc.

Listen, you're not wrong. But the point is that the one position in the team that should always be as dependable as possible is goalkeeper, because you can't afford to take risks. Everyone else in the team has someone else to fall back on - except the keeper. It's why going for youthful promise coupled with inexperience was suicidal when so many experienced heads were available, and in my opinion is the single greatest contributor to our relegation, to the extent that just changing that one signing I believe would have kept us up.

To be honest, the description i've heard from people of patient passing between centrebacks and midfield doesn't sound all that different to me.

So far this pre-season, yes.

If you're costing your team a minimum of one goal a game then it really doesn't matter how many saves you make in between.

I agree, not really a fan of it, but the idea isn't for the fullbacks to be an attacking threat it's to allow the midfielders to bomb forward more often. I think it's a tactic that can only work if you outclass your opponent as it leaves the flanks exposed on the counter attack, but we'll see.

A true legend, gentleman, stand up guy...haven't got enough good words to say about him.

Quality of the tournament as a whole so far is pretty poor, the Euros was much better. Probably a consequence of the expanded teams. Reckon it'll pick up as we move into the knockouts.

Not a clear and obvious handball? Are you mental? She tried to bat it away like she was playing volleyball, you could see it bend her fingers.

Think it was a fan that blew a whistle the first time but not sure why she restarted just to blow her own whistle immediately.

Not seeing enough going forward from Stanway, Hemp or Toone and Russo's finishing is inconsistent at best. Should drop one of the first three for Daly and have Russo holding the ball up with Daly getting on the end of passes/crosses as she's the much better finisher. Wiegman relying too much on the reliable players from her tenure and putting too much faith in Toone and Russo's partnership from United whilst leaving the WSLs top scorer on the bench.

God you lot are so boring. If you aren't interested then just don't post.

That would be huge. Can't see it.

It's pretty big in Australia. New Zealand struggled with ticket sales, they recently gave away 20,000 extra.

I'm struggling this pre-season with these transfers, not because of the wages paid but because it's such an obviously corrupt way for clubs to get around FFP.

Good goal by NZ as well, result that should improve interest in the tournament. Ireland have a good chance of another upset here.

Think that's more of an insult to women than a woman never having a job in the mens game, personally. "There you go love, aren't we amazing, off you pop now the men are here to work".

What an absolute joke that whole saga was. Wish they were getting called out on it properly rather than it being swept under the rug.

And Navas went to forest in January when we should have really looked at upgrading him once we realised how he was struggling.

Yep, his stats show that any shot on target has a 40-50% chance of going in.

22 goals and 21 assists in 201 appearances. If by regularly you mean a goal and assist for every 10 games he played then sure. I'd also disagree that he's miles better than Edozie. Edozies minutes last season add up to the equivalent of 6 full matches and he looked very dangerous, admittedly it didn't translate to goal involvements but that's a very small sample size.