Palace Women v Durham

Crystal Palace √ durham women sunday, february 12 2023 | 12:00

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Good afternoon all and welcome back to Bromley Football Club for today’s Championship game against Durham. I’d like to welcome Lee and his players and staff and hope the have a safe journey home.

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his will be the third time this season we have met and again we’re expecting a tough but exciting game . At present the games stand on one win each and if we are expected to get anything out of today we have to improve on the score line of two weeks ago in the FA cup.

Its always difficult when you want to play a certain way and your not getting the results you strive for but sticking with the process and the philosophy will no doubt help us find that next win

After Sunday’s loss to Southampton I did see massive improvements of late, some of our football was really positive and good to watch , this assures me that the confidence within the group is growing again after a rough period and that a result is not far away. Its always difficult when you want to play a certain way and your not getting the results you strive for but sticking with the process and the philosophy will no doubt help us find that next win. I know its also difficult for the fans who have followed

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us home and away but we feel we are building something and need as always the support to achieve this. To date the fans have been incredibly patient and supportive and its now time to start delivering some positive results and performances.

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Enjoy the game!

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cpfc women Crystal Palace Women broke club records in 2021/22, and are looking to do the same this season. In each edition, we hear directly from one of the squad, with Ellie Noble reflecting on a journey to Palace and a tough new challenge ahead…

ellie noble Age

23

Joined

Summer 2022

Position

Midfielder

Apps

8

Goals

0

Career highlights

Scoring at the Madejski against Reading in front of her father – a lifelong Reading fan.

Take note of

A box-to-box midfielder, Noble has an eye for the spectacular and likes to try her luck from range.

ellie noble

I began my football career at Oxford United, coming through the Centre of Excellence from the age of eight and making my senior debut at just 16-years-old. I played there for three years before heading to Sussex University, where I played for Lewes until I joined Palace.

I was also a keen cricketer when I was younger. If you speak to my Dad – he loves football, but he loves cricket even more – he would rather I chose cricket over football!

He wanted me to play for England.

I played up to regional level, and went to a couple of camps, kind of like the England reserves.

I bowled seam and batted left-handed. I remember scoring a century against the Netherlands – 136 in fact, my highest score – playing for Oxfordshire. I don’t know what would have happened if I had kept playing, but I chose football.

My Dad was a Reading fan when I grew up, and so I spent a lot of time at the Madjeski with my family. When I was older, I had the chance to play there. I was at Lewes, and we played Reading in the Conti Cup. We went one goal down, and I scored the second as we came back to 2-1.

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Last week I tore my ACL and now my objectives have to change.

Even while I am out I want to help the team

In the second-half, Fara Williams – who was England’s most capped player – scored a hattrick and we went out. Despite the score, it was a great day out. That is probably my favourite football memory, because I had been there as a child and my Dad got to see me score there. That was special.

I play in central midfield for Palace. I’m a box-to-box player, playing in the No. 8 role but I can fill in anywhere in the centre really. I enjoy getting on the ball to begin the build-up, but I enjoy finishing it off as well. Most of the goals I score tend to be from outside the box.

Surprisingly, given how many new players we have got – we had 15 new signings at the start of the season – we have settled in quite quickly. On the pitch it has taken some time to gel. Socially we get on so well, but of course it takes time to have that same bond on the pitch.

We are disappointed with some results at the moment, but you can see glimpses of what we can produce.

We really think we can push on in the league. We are working on something that can be really special, but it takes time to work that out on the pitch, especially in training. Things are heading in the right direction, even if results don’t reflect that.

For me personally this season, I was keen to get minutes and cement my place in the team, but last week I tore my ACL and now my objectives have to change. Even while I am out I want to help the team.

Everything we are doing is quite new and there are so many new personnel, so actually helping ellie noble

the team with the analysis side is a target for me now. It means helping to improve the team off the pitch, even if, unfortunately, I can’t help them on the pitch for now.

The girls have been great – they are such a good bunch. They love a laugh and a joke. When you are training, if you are having a bad day, someone will be there to make you laugh.

Setting those goals, be they psychological or physical, or on the pitch like technical and tactical, they are things I can work on now Here at Palace we are incredibly lucky in the women’s game: there lots of people that will fix me and the facilities we have got here mean I have no worries whatsoever about returning from injury. The goal is to make a silver lining: there are lots of things I want to be better at in 12 months’ time.

Setting those goals, be they psychological or physical, or on the pitch like technical and tactical, they are things I can work on now. There are lots of people here, coaches and psychologists, who can put things in place. Even though it is still really hard, there are things I can do that can give me a sense of purpose, so I can come back better and stronger

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Seasonal Stats Name

Apps

Goals

Player stats

league table

Name

Apps

Chloe Arthur

14

Paige Bailey-Gayle

13

Kirsty Barton

8

Goals

pos CLUB P W D

1

Annabel Blanchard

16

Charley Clifford

1

lon

12

8

3

fixtures & results L

1

F

28

A GD Pts

8 +20 27

1 2

2

16

Aimee Everett

9

Anna Filbey

14

1

Fliss Gibbons

11

1

Shauna Guyatt

12

Coral-Jade Haines

14

1

Elise Hughes

17

5

W 1-0

Coventry United

W 3-0

bri

11

7

3

1

17

6 +11 24

Sun 18

Southampton

L

Sun 25

Blackburn Rovers

W 3-1

Sun 2

Bristol City

L

0-4

Sun 16

Sunderland

L

0-2

Sun 23

Bristol City

L

0-3

Sun 30

Durham

W 1-0

Sun 20

Charlton Athletic

L

1-2

Sun 27

Lewes

L

1-4

Lewes

W 1-0

Sun 8

Watford

W 5-1

Wed 11

Charlton Athletic

L

0-2

Sun 15

London City Lionesses

L

0-5

Sun 22

Coventry United

L

2-3

Sun 29

Durham

L

0-3

Sun 5

Southampton

L

0-2

Sun 12

Durham

Sun 26

Sheffield United

1-2

4

5

sou

bir

cha

13

12

11

6

7

7

5

1

1

2

4

3

15

9

+6 23

20 13 +7 22

20 14 +6 22

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER Sun 4 JANUARY

Annabel Johnson

15

Fran Kitching (GK)

13

Natalia Negri (GK)

4

6

7

8

lew

dur

cry

11

12

12

4

4

5

4

3

0

3

5

7

10 12 -2 16

16 16

0

15

13 20 -7 15

Leigh Nicol 8

Hollie Olding

9

Chloe Peplow

8

9

bla

12

3

5

4

11

16 -5 14

FEBRUARY

MARCH

10

sun

13

4

1

8

17 20 -3 13

13

Molly-Mae Sharpe

15

2

Isabella Sibley

7

1

11

she

12

2

2

8

15 15

0

8

Hope Smith (GK) 12 Lizzie Waldie

London City Lionesses

Sat 27

OCTOBER

3

Polly Doran

Kirsten Reilly

Sun 21

SEPTEMBER

Rianna Dean

Ellie Noble

AUGUST

cov

13

1

0

12 10 43 -33 3

14

seasonal stats

Sun 5

Bristol City

Sun 12

Sheffield United

Sun 19

Birmingham City

Sun 26

Blackburn Rovers

APRIL Sun 2

Sunderland

Sun 16

Birmingham City

Sun 23

Lewes

Sun 30

Charlton Athletic

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durham women

Fran KITCHING (GK) 1

1 Naoisha McALOON

Annabel JOHNSON 2

2 Georgia ROBERT

Fliss GIBBONS 3

3 Lauren BRIGGS

Chloe ARTHUR 4 Anna FILBEY 5 Aimee EVERETT 6 Molly SHARPE 8 Rianna DEAN 9 Annabel BLANCHARD 10

4 Mollie LAMBERT 5 Sarah WILSON 6 Sarah ROBSON 7 Beth HEPPLE 8 Maria FARRUGIA

Kirsten REILLY 11

10 Rio HARDY

Lizzie WALDIE 12

11 Bridget GALLOWAY

Natalia NEGRI (GK) 13

12 Lily CROSTHWAITE

Hollie OLDING 14 Ellie NOBEL 16 Issy SIBLEY 17 Elise HUGHES 19 Polly DORAN 20 Shauna GUYATT 21 Hope SMITH (GK) 22

14 Becky SALICKI 15 Dee BRADLEY 16 Ellie CHRISTON 17 Hannah GREENWOOD 18 Grace AYRE 20 Saoirse NOONAN

Coral HAINES 23

23 Jess CLARKE

Leigh NICOL 24

30 Tatiana SAUNDERS

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