Ladies 4th Team Season Report
Posted by Jamie Cooper on 22 June 2020
After promotion from Division 3 in the 18/19 season, the Ladies 4s made a strong start to the season, despite not having the luxury of a consistent squad week on week. Tactical squad selections meant that we had plenty of goals and plenty of points prior to the Christmas break coming away with wins from 6 out of 9 games.
Sitting comfortably in 3rd in the league post-Christmas, we could have been accused of an element of complacency, and post-Christmas this showed in our results taking a turn for the worse. a combination of league enforced 're Registrations and poor availability across the board meant that we struggled to get a full, comprehensive squad out into a pitch for a number of weeks and this naturally had an impact on our gameplay.
The break saw us lose some of our more experienced U16s to higher squads, a great opportunity in their development, but also saw us welcome some new regulars (and adults!) into the squad.
Although the second half of the season had us in trying circumstances, and taking into account this year's squad looked very different to the the squad that achieved promotion last year we finished 7th overall. All credit is due to the girls who stepped out every weekend and put in 100% into their game and took on board all of the constructive feedback from on field players, sideline coaches and half-time team talks.
It has been a pleasure as a goalkeeper and a captain to watch every individual in the squad develop throughout the season, from our young forwards to the (slightly) older and more experienced defensive back line who have helped me to do my job in keeping the ball out of the net!
We are all looking forward to getting back out onto the actor as soon as we can to start our next campaign!
