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Actually Donnelly played brilliant as well. Really commanding performance from her, some great stops and confident takes.

Suppose I'd best find out the best way to get to Kenilworth Road

Yeah, lasses Pizza Cup

Great that, properly enjoyed it. They were more nervous than usual but all good in the end. Potts and Barker the standouts for me

Can you usually hear the speakers in the Strawberry Corner? Terrible sound here

Twenty minutes to get yourselves down

Horns have been confiscated Kingston Park massive will be disappointed

Can hear the fans and the horns already, seems plenty busy like

20,000 would be a canny effort all the same like, ten times what goes to Kingston Park, and it's not like Kingston Park is anywhere near selling out. Rosie's is much more civil than usual

2 :/

I think they do for Kingston Park games but not sure (assuming this is the free public transport thing). Would be strange if they didn't. While I'm here, cash turnstiles confirmed as well, £8/£2 on the door, for anybody at a loose end tomorrow afternoon

Just don't watch it, I reckon

I'm not sure if their relatively recent move from Druid Park to Kingston Park was part of the takeover or if their numbers were going up anyway so they had to find somewhere else but I'm not sure Kingston Park has ever been anything other than a temporary measure. I'm not sure what the long term solution is. The big stand at Kingston Park usually looks 40-60% occupied but there are only a couple of dozen behind the goals where I prefer to watch from. They routinely announce the attendances as into the mid 2,000s already and given that the stadium is apparently 10,000ish rated I would say that's probably right. I haven't really got a feel for how many more people would go if they were playing in the Championship and the WSL but the attendances have definitely been on an upward trend since I started going I guess it's inevitable that more people will go if/when they progress up the leagues but the options in the town centre are pretty much nonexistent, unless there's an area of Shieldfield or Manors or Walker I haven't thought about. Maybe that gigantic scrapyard at Ouseburn have heard plenty of people at the game saying that they should just move the men out of SJP and build them the 100k megabowl they think they deserve, and leave SJP for the women

Are they selling enough tickets to justify segregation on the grounds of making sure everybody gets a seat they've paid for? It's one of the best things about going to Kingston Park, just being able to watch from wherever takes your fancy. Will be a bit sad when segregation and defined seats come into it although I guess that's the price of success. Shame that the usual old firm rubbish is impacting on the women as well though, interesting read

Why did they do it? The usual safety reasons? Can't imagine crowd trouble at a women's game here

Could do with keeping some defenders around like - we're starting to feel a bit light in that department. I'm not sure what happened to Olivia Watt yesterday but she's potentially another one down. Looked to be feeling the hamstring, I hope she wasn't like

Looked like she got a hand to the penalty but I couldn't tell from where I was, definitely looked like it hadn't gone in cleanly though

Looked like an epic diving stop from the much criticised Grace Donnelly today btw, not sure if anyone spotted it or can confirm. I was behind the other goal but it appeared quite the save.

No doubt, so I'm delighted to be one of the people who can rattle on in the future about how it didn't used to be this way you can sense the women's game taking off at the minute, imo. I hope Newcastle make it before FFP starts protecting another big four or six

literally the only thing that bothers me is the stadium announcer insisting on giving the team again over the end of Local Hero

No, I go because it's fucking class and there's a refreshingly small amount of bullshit surrounding the women's game