Crystal Palace √ coventry united saturday, august 27 2022 | 19:00
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Secondly congratulationsmany to Coventry United for staying up and looking forward to another season in the Barclays Women’s Championship. Good luck to Lee Burch and his new team this season. We come into our first home game off the back of a great win against a strong London City Lionesses side last Sunday. It was our first big test against another full time team and I believe the players stepped up to the mark. I was really pleased at how well the new team has gelled and shows how hard they have worked during pre-season. With 15 new signings we have bought strength in depth to many positions, and I am really excited at the prospect of seeing the team evolve throughout the year.So, sit back enjoy a Saturday night under the floodlights and hopefully a great night of football. COYP!
Dean . We come into our first home game off the back of a great win against a strong London City Lionesses side last Sunday. It was our first big test against another full time team and I believe the players stepped up to themanagermark.
Welcome to the first home game of the 22/23 season here at Hayes Lane it’s great to see so many of our loyal supporters back.
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I was very comfortable in Melbourne but I’ve always felt being comfortable isn’t what’s best for me. To get the most out of myself I need to be in a situation where I’m uncomfortable and challenging myself a bit, so when I heard Palacepolly42doran
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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 new signing Polly Doran detailing her journey from Melbourne to Beckenham.
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Growing up with three older brothers in Australia I was the only member of an Aussie rules family to play football. At the age of five or six I tried every sport my brothers did, and then settled on the one they didn’t. All the additional driving didn’t please my parents much, but I ended up joining Essendon Royals, my local club, and spending my first 10 years in football with them. From there I moved up a step to Calder United and then progressed to the A-League Women with Melbourne Victory. I was lucky enough to win two Grand Finals, where the league’s top four compete in a play-off style competition to win the league title.
I’m not sure why football appealed to me when my family wouldn’t watch a match, let alone kick a ball, but it always stuck out. Today, football is pretty popular in Melbourne and a lot of young girls play it.
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Career highlights Winning back-to-back A-League Grand Finals with Melbourne Victoria. Take note of Doran is an experienced full-back despite being just 20 and was a mainstay for Melbourne in 21/22.
were interested I thought I’d go for it. I've got a few years left on my contract with Victory and will complete those when my time ends at Palace, but I'm looking forward to what this season holds.
Former Palace player Jeff Hopkins is manager at Melbourne Victory Women, and him being coach made the move much easier. He and I get along really well and he’s the main reason I’ve been able to progress so quickly. He talks about Palace and if he had to send me anywhere, it’s easier that it’s to a club he has a lot of love for. He can’t speak highly enough of Palace and has told me how much he enjoyed it here, so he sent me away wishing me well.
Palace are trying to push the women’s game forward and are a massive club – even though not everyone in Australia follows football, they do know Crystal Palace. So it’s a big thing for me to join a club with that reputation and with ambitions to match. Our challenge this season is to win the league, and to do that we have to take every game as it comes. That’s how we won in Melbourne. That step after winning – promotion to a new league – adds to the motivation. The club have been instilling that already this season: as soon as I joined they drilled it into me that to win the league we need to hit certain targets. We start our season tomorrow (Sunday 21st), so now we’re trying to put the development of smaller details over summer into competitive games. We’re still implementing the style, coaches’ plan, and gelling as a squad, but if we can get those things right the end goal becomes all the more attainable. I’m quite competitive and if there’s an opportunity to fight for something I want to take it. Speaking to people at Palace there’s definitely a fight onpolly43doran
On that note I should say that all the higher-ups at Victory made this possible because they agreed it would be best for me. I was really lucky that they let this come to fruition.OnPalace’s side, I spoke with club staff and they ran me through the values and long-term aims before I moved.
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There are 4.36 million of us and we are tomorrow’s female future. We’re part of every community and come from all social backgrounds, cultures and religions with different skills and abilities. We’re an unstoppable force for good if we’re given the chance. The chance to play football. We want to play in the school curriculum, at breaktime, after school, at local clubs wherever, whenever we want. LET US PLAY. NO barriers, NO stereotypes Find out more at: www.EnglandFootball.com/LetGirlsPlay
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