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Ian Shaw's avatar

I was pondering the line up too.

I broadly agree. Carter may hold her place at right back.

JRK may start at the expense of Fleming, with James pushed infield. Lauren has been given the number 10 shirt, after all.

Ingle is looking very much a back up this year.

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Dean Mears's avatar

If Buchanan is still injured then we could see Perisset at left back and Carter still in at right back as we saw vs, Spurs.

Plus Cankovic is a bit unknown right now as well as she hasn't been involved in our pre-season but should be pretty fit.

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Ian Shaw's avatar

I didn't know Buchanan was injured already 😢

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Tronna Blue's avatar

For me, Buchanan and Perisset have been the most impressive of the new arrivals - no huge surprise there.

Kerr and Fleming are playing not one but two friendlies Down Under (Buchanan has passed due to injury) - so I wouldn't be surprised to see both start on the bench for the first WSL match. But I would also imagine that the club is making sure they're not flying back from Oz in steerage!

BTW, I'm intrigued by the Sunday morning "ghost game" at Cobham. It's common for US college women's teams to practice against men - is this something that's done by WSL teams?

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Dean Mears's avatar

I think the ghost games are becoming more and more common in the UK. However there's still a lot of negativity around the results such as the Arsenal U15 beating the women 5-0.

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Tronna Blue's avatar

The Arsenal result is what you would expect - male puberty is one hell of a performance enhancing drug and the Arsenal U15s are not your average group of teenagers!

But unfortunately, it seems to be common for males to think that they could rock up to Kingsmeadow with their mates and give the Chelsea Women a good game, which is about as reasonable as thinking that they could give Laura Muir a good race over 1500m.

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