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Forest Green Rovers Women stormed to a 6-2 victory over Ilminster Town Ladies on Sunday afternoon to continue their pursuit for promotion out of the South West Premier Division. Goals from captain Hattie Jones, Nynka Rucker, Holly Hughes and Louise Fensome ensured a fifth league win of the season for Neil Moore’s side to keep […]
Forest Green Rovers Women skipper Hattie Jones hailed the importance of goal difference this season as Rovers ran out 6-2 winners over Ilminster Town Ladies on Sunday afternoon. It was Jones who opened the scoring inside the opening five minutes powering home a header before top scorer Nynka Rucker pounced on a defensive error to […]
Forest Green Rovers head coach Ian Burchnall was happy to avoid a potential banana skin after seeing his side safely through to the second round of the FA Cup by beating South Shields on Saturday. Connor Wickham scored in the first half before closing the game out with a strike from the halfway line in […]
Forest Green Rovers Women made it four league wins in a row as they stormed to a 6-2 victory over Ilminster Town Ladies at Hartpury College on Sunday afternoon. First half goals from captain Hattie Jones, Nynka Rucker and early substitute Holly Hughes set Neil Moore’s side on their way as FGR held a commanding […]
Forest Green Rovers travel north to Fleetwood Town tomorrow night with hopes of ending their three game winless run after a 1-0 defeat to Portsmouth on the weekend. Rovers currently sit 22nd in the table and two points behind local rivals Cheltenham Town, but manager Ian Burchnall says there were huge positives to take from […]
The Women’s FA Cup First Round was drawn today at 1pm with two local sides involved. The 56 games will be played on Sunday, 13th November, with many teams yet to have finished their final qualifying round with wide-spread thunderstorms last weekend. Cheltenham Town Ladies were the last side to be drawn, as they face […]
Also this weekend, Cheltenham Town Ladies keep their first clean sheet of the season on the road in a hard-fought 1-0 win against Crawley Wasps. Crawley Wasps 0-1 Cheltenham Town The Robinesses came to the Big World Community Stadium having taken four points from their last two games in the FAWNL Southern Premier Division. Izzy […]
Park Life Sport journalist’s Ben Ware and Laurence Stanley discuss Gloucestershire clubs’ involvement in the men’s and women’s FA Cup so far this season.
The first and second qualifying rounds of the Vitality Women’s FA Cup have taken place this weekend with the increase in prize money a huge benefit to many clubs who still have their players on pay to play. Gloucestershire saw plenty of involvement with the University of Gloucestershire seeing players involved in the Second Qualifying […]
On May 11th 2022, Forest Green Rovers announced that their manager, Rob Edwards was to join Watford after negotiations between Edwards and Watford sparked controversy for its apparent unprofessionalism. There were question marks over how long Edwards would last at Watford, who in recent times have been known to be ruthless in terms of manager […]