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Will be my first visit to Hillsborough this weekend. For games in Yorkshire, I usually go up the day/night before & stay with a City exile who now lives in Leeds & would come along.

Unfortunately he's busy this weekend & so I'm doing the coach travel!

Amalie Thestrup up for Player of the Month!

For those still following along, the semi-finals & first legs of the promotion/relegation play-offs are happening today.

Think the semi finals are on BBC iPlayer. Not as much media attention as England got knocked out already 

Naomi Layzell started in the friendly between England U23s & Spain U23s this morning. Unfortunately, it was a 3-1 loss, but at some point this week did give this interview Sky Sports
 

11 minutes ago, Natchfever said:

Villa seem ok with the Bescot I think and I believe many other clubs avoid using the main stadium.

Probably a good financial and possibly surface resting reason for that.

I don't know if clubs choose to "avoid" or not. With the exception of West Ham, all WSL clubs have had at least one game in the main stadium. Arsenal have made an effort to have more games at the Emirates, same for Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. Of course, clubs have to consider costs, staffing etc when playing at stadiums

Quite a few clubs in the Championship also play in their main stadium too (Birmingham, Southampton, Sheffield United) & others have had some games in their main stadium (Blackburn, Crystal Palace, Watford, to name a few).

England senior squad & U23 squad are both out in Spain right now. Naomi Layzell joined with the senior squad in training. Don't know if she'll get a senior call up with the friendlies that England have in the next few days...

City Women defender Brooke Aspin had holes in her socks a few weeks ago. And was caught on video...

May be an injury replacement, but the top goalscorer for the team this season finally gets a call up to the Denmark squad

The players wore black armbands today as this was the first game since Villa. I expect there to be a proper tribute at the next home game against Brighton in two weeks time

5 hours ago, ChippenhamRed said:

Any idea why we had two keepers (Bentley and Clark) on the bench?!

Bentley is coming back from a long injury, and hasn't played a game since the season opener. I think Clark is fit but Yanez seems to be preferred to start at the moment

It was fun when it became 2-2

The Leicester goalkeeper may have helped...

Aspin & Struck return to starting XI. Evans & Syme dropped to bench

Bentley returns to matchday squad but only makes the bench. Harrison out with injury & Stratigakis out with illness

KO 3pm, live on FA Player 

1 hour ago, MattWSM said:

When will the tickets go on sale for Ipswich away ?

Went on sale for season ticket holders on Wednesday. Members from Thursday am. General sale from Thursday pm.

https://www.bcfc.co.uk/city-men-news/ipswich-away-set-for-priority-sale/

Not sure why we're gonna be in the third kit when it was fine for the men's team to wear the red kit at the King Power earlier this season.

However, the women's team have got most of their points wearing the third kit. So maybe it's lucky...

4 hours ago, Davefevs said:

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And then you recruit your arse off to try and get a team capable of staying up.

Me last season when supporting City Women...

(To answer the original question, I want the men's team to finish as high as possible)

On 13/02/2024 at 16:53, Eco said:

Abi played against England, thought she did OK when she was on the pitch. Good to see three City players though.

https://www.bcfc.co.uk/news/smiths-leicester-city-press-conference/

Lauren Smith's press conference has just come out, which mentions that Abi didn't get a call-up due to picking up an ankle injury last week (therefore won't be available this weekend).
She also confirmed that there was an in-house game played last week, which included some academy players.
Also, Sarah Stratigakis is out for this week due to illness, and everyone else still injured (Fran Bentley, Satara Murray, Rachel Furness etc) are still injured

City Women Fans Forum finally announced. Lauren Smith & Gavin Marshall will be taking questions from supporters.
Monday 4th March, 6:30pm, in the Supporters Club & Trust Bar.
Free tickets available to book

https://www.bcfc.co.uk/city-women-news/book-your-seat-at-our-womens-fans-forum/

Jamie-Lee Napier, Amy Rodgers & Lisa Evans called up for the latest Scotland squad. Abi Harrison misses out again

@Alan Dicks I somehow think you are not the real one 

All this talk of Furney, and Northern Ireland manager Tanya Oxtoby (former City manager, of course) has revealed that she'll link up with the U19s coaching staff during the international break...

Tracey Crouch, the MP who wrote the fan led review, has announced she will not be running in the next General Election

I think we can agree for those that are interested in this topic to express her thanks for getting the fan led review set up in the first place - leading to the subsequent developments

Good interview from @thatcham red about the Heritage & Archive on tonight's Sound of the City. Starts at 40:24
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0h78r3v

1 hour ago, phantom said:

What is her injury? 

I believe it was a hamstring at first, but surely she would have been back by now. Maybe there has been a development or setback which the public are not aware of...

Match tickets for both of these games go on sale from Tuesday 2pm.

What the tweet preview doesn't mention (but the website articles do) is that the corresponding coaches have a 24 hour priority window for ST holders to book their seats