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aye i used to use Haymarket when I was there but also a good shout, the walkway still goes all the way down to Ellison Place if you're brave enough to walk through the stinky underpass bit

Manors handy for the courts and Quayside I reckon, probably gets a bit of business

I thought it had been closed for years

Just watched the game again. Was 100% a penalty on Bailey Gayle at the end I reckon, but the way we were playing we would 100% have missed it anyway, so at least we were spared that little bit of drama and heartbreak

It's hardly iconic like - most folk wouldn't even know it existed if it wasn't next to SJP. And it's almost certainly no more beautiful than plenty of other streets in town that have already been bulldozed

was handbuilt by Jesus himself, I heard. Completely untouchable, unlike the Royal Arcade which appeared to look just as good as Leazes Terrace but was hauled off all the same

It's a strange one and I know what you mean from the equality perspective. If you're playing for your local pub on a Sunday morning then you're opening yourself up for criticism and I'm sure they wouldn't be doing this unless they had a bit of steel about them. At the same time, a lot of the grief aimed at Donnelly in particular was absurdly personal, and even more absurd to those of us who have watched her making plenty of great diving stops and sweeping up like an absolute pro these past few months.

bang on I'm pretty sure the Kingston Park support will be as good as ever, but it is a concern that the game after we lost to Manchester United was a real blip in the league, albeit against one of the tougher sides. Has been sad to see the club having to remove dozens of comments about Grace Donnelly from insta over the last couple of days - there were plenty of supportive rebuffs to some of the rubbish that was posted but it's all gone now, thankfully.

Sad but entirely expected that the women's game is falling into all the same shit patterns that the men's is (hoarding players to sell, one of my least favourite aspects of the men's game)

Aye. They didn't play anywhere near what they're capable of and while # deserve plenty of credit for containing them I think nerves played a part, just like they did at SJP. Big step up for them I guess, that sort of environment and atmosphere. Kingston Park gets noisy enough but not like that.

Aye, that's the risk of doing it - if the opposition can use it as motivation then it's powerful. I feel the same about booing referees. I do feel it's more pantomime than unpleasantness though. Most folk around me stayed to applaud but I saw plenty departing as well. Just back north of the Tyne now, been a long couple of days but I'm still pleased I went.

We got it back plenty at the end from the few of them who were there, tbf might teach some a bit of humility. I'm not a fan myself but it's not that unusual a feature of a football crowd in my experience

Grace Donnelly has been putting in some heroic performances that you wouldn't expect of her recently, really commanding, but she was very hesitant and uncharacteristically glued to her line yesterday - not sure if they were drilled to expect a particular threat so not to play sweeper as she usually does - but you could see the whole back line was operating differently to usual, right from the opening exchanges. Ultimately there's no room for sentiment if you want to progress, I guess - I have no problem with Langley showing faith in GD though. I wasn't close enough to judge how she did with the second yesterday but it looked like it all started from an absolute hospital ball from someone in midfield, Boddy I think? It looked like none of them dealt with the situation particularly well after that was given away. I can't really recall it but I feel like the first came from us cheaply surrendering possession over on the right wing as well.

Aye, I think this needs to happen sooner rather than later. 12 team leagues with single promotion places are more than a little bit restrictive.

Yeah, that's where it is that was my first view of the stadium so I made my way to it and that alley was photographic heaven. Wish I'd taken my full kit, there were plenty of people there with full bags of camera gear but I only took my phone

Yeah, nothing but good things to say about the Kenilworth Road experience but nothing but bad things to say about Luton as a venue. Being stood outside the stadium in the rain for want of anything at all to do anywhere nearby will live long in the memory for me truly a dismal town and a terrible choice of final venue. And aye, I felt the same about Cataldo. She was great. Amber Stobbs played really well as well, right to the end. Had no idea what we were playing by the end mind, Emma Kelly looked to be back at centre half.

we never win fuck all except leagues (and then only lower ones), today's result was never really in doubt I suppose

Aye, Barker plays LW and is always direct and positive, literally always looking to get forward. Great little player. Part of the problem with bringing Bridget Galloway back in is that Galloway literally can't keep up with her

We just couldn't get a shot off - again testament to how well they defended - but I think Katie Barker was the only one really prepared to have a dig. They played that through ball to Barker on the wing plenty of times, Georgia Gibson from the centre and Lia Cataldo from behind her, but Hashtag had obviously prepared for it and dealt with it comfortably Grace Donnelly getting a lot of grief on the ft Instagram post

She's really come on. I wasn't convinced by her at first, but she's fitting in really well now and seems to have a good understanding developing with Katie Barker in front of her. I think she's my pick of the winter arrivals

Rowland was a real handful they weren't a lovely footballing team to watch (read: they were a bunch of dirty fucking cheats ) but you have to play to your strengths. They did, and they ran us off the park - always had two or three on us and didn't let us play which was testament to their fitness and how well they executed their plan. Can't help but think if we had PBG on from the start or at least from half time it might have been a different game. Also not sure about taking McQuade off, she was a constant outlet and skipped past them plenty of times.

Was worth going just to experience Kenilworth Road, honestly win would have been nice but it's mostly been just about supporting the lasses and even though they weren't great today, I've enjoyed it all the same. Pleased I'm not driving home tonight like

Yeah, they were fitter and stronger and took their chances by playing their game. No complaints, we weren't at it, but great day all the same and now I'm going to experience Luton's finest kebab pizza offering before lashing in eight or ten pints Questionable choice of team and some unusual subs for me, but meh their day will come. Undone by a suicide ball. I didn't see the incident at the end, people standing up - what happened? When it cleared Bailey Gayle was lying in front of the goal slapping the grass like she'd just missed