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Wycombe Wanderes 2 -v- 2 Aldershot Town Ladies Southern Region Premier League 30th March 2008 The Shots were missing several players at Wycombe Wanderers, including top scorer Laura Wallman, Tasha Meredith and midfielder Emily Wall. On 21minutes, the Shots midfield broke away, which saw Hart, North and Ireland combine, resulting in a corner. Smith swung the ball into the 6-yard box, a Wycombe defender could only clear to the edge of the penalty box, where defender Coles, with her back to goal, flicked the ball over her head and the ball looped over the goalkeeper. From this, the Shots confidence stood out, and a number of moves were created, but the Wycombe defence managed to clear. On 24 minutes, the Shots doubled their lead. The ball was worked out to Hann near the left corner flag; she skipped around the defender and her cross found Ireland racing into the area to head home for her first-ever league goal, and her first since the 6-0 win over Abbey Rangers in the FA Cup in September. After half time, Wycombe pressed the Shots defence. A number of high balls had to be cleared by the Shots defence. They were finally caught out on 55 minutes, when a long ball hit over the top, wasn't cleared and the Wycombe player fired past the advancing player. Just after this Caz Shepherd and a Wycombe player went for a high 50-50 ball. Shepherd came off the worst as she hit her shoulder on the ground. With Shepherd out of the game, Hart moved from right back to centre-midfield, and Giberson entered the fray at right back. With 10 minutes to go, Andy made his final substitution replacing Funnell for Danni Shepherd. As the game went on, the Shots lost Giberson to injury, and finished with game with Final Score Wycombe Wanderers 2 Aldershot Town 2 Player of the Match: Stacey Ireland 'We produced an excellent first-half display, but failed to produce the goods in the second half. It was good to see our passing game back, and caused the opposition a lot of problems. The injuries are a worry - I think Giberson will not play again this season and Caz is definitely out for the remainder of the season.'
Launton Ladies 2 -v- 0 Aldershot Town Ladies Southern Region Premier League 23rd March 2008 With last week's fixture against Slough called off due to the poor weather, the Shots Ladies made the long trip north up the M40 motorway to Oxfordshire to take on Launton in a Southern Premier Women's league fixture. The pitch had survived the snow and blizzards in the morning, but the game nearly didn't go ahead when news came through of the allocated referee falling ill. With efforts to find a last-minute referee on a bitterly-cold Easter Sunday reaping no rewards, the duty fell to Aldershot Town's assistant referee Matthew Leary to take charge of the game. Both sides started at a fast pace and Launton soon started to press the Shots area, but a number of high balls were cleared. The Shots' first chance came when the ball was played out to the left. Hann managed to drag the ball back and chip the ball into the near post where the goalkeeper managed to claw away. Launton pressed and Grover was caught bringing the ball out of the back - the Launton player sprinted towards goal, but was caught by the two covering players, which resulted in free kick on the edge of the box. With the wall set, Calder could only watch as the ball was dispatched into the left hand top corner. The Shots found it hard to break a hard-working Launton down, who always seemed to have the extra player. After half time, the Shots started to get game going and managed to place a number of shots on target, which the goalkeeper dealt with.
'Again we didn't perform in the first half and got punished for it. The first half we where playing as individuals and two silly mistakes cost us. Aldershot Town Ladies 12 vs. 0 Reading Ladies Southern Region Premier League 2nd December 2007 The Shots ladies played the Reading Ladies for the second time season in the Southern Regions Premier league at Farnborough gate on Sunday 2nd December 2007, on there last meeting the Shots had run out winners by 18 nil in the league cup. Weather conditions were not great but the pitch had held up well after the youth team had played on Saturday Morning. The Shots kick off and with a flowing move sent McDonald clear off the Reading defence ,she out sprinted her marker and fired low into the right hand corner,The where one nil up after 31 seconds.1-0 Again the Shots started to create a number off chances, with Hann North and Wallman all coming close. Reading tried to use the long over the shots defence , but Smith Grover and Coles were to cover. The Shots growing in confidence went further a head on 18 minutes; the ball was played out of defence into the midfield in a delightful one touch move. D shepherd received the ball wide sent a cross into the box, with Hann timing her run just right headed into the net.2-0 Again the Shots took the game to Reading and on 20 minutes went 3-nil up when the ball found Wallman in the box, she managed to side step her marker and fired into the corner off the net.3-0 from the kick off the Shots went straight back down and scored again, D shepherd again had space to cross and Wallman headed in.4-0 The game became a midfield battle for the next ten minutes, but the shots came out on top and went 5-nil up when again d shepherd crossed and McDonald controlled well moved away from her marker and fired in.5-0 On 39 minutes the Shots made it 6-nil before half time. North found Hann outside the box Hann controlled the ball and with the Reading defence not closing her down fired from 20 yards into the Corner off the net. In the Second half the Shots took longer to settle, but after a few stiff words from the sidelines settled down. The shots were having the freedom to play the ball through the middle and out wide, After the Shots won another corner the ball went into the box and hit a couple of players before D Shepherd found the back off the net.7-0 By now this was one way traffic and Shots really starting to drive on, Meredith had come on for D Shepherd. The ball found Meredith who cut the Ball back to find Hann and make it 8-0. The ninth and tenth goal came in quick time and both fell for Wallman to make it 9 and 10 nil. Ireland on for Giberson took a quick corner, which found Hann free and fired a half volley into the net. As the game came to a close, the Shots made it 12- nil when Hann shot ,the keeper saved but Wallman was there to fire.12-0
Player of the Match goes to Danni shepherd
The Gaffer’s View The main thing was to get three points so we could start pressing towards the top half off the league, the weather conditions didn’t make it easy, but this didn’t seem to affect our approach play which was outstanding at times. The girls moved the ball well and caused Reading a lot off problems. Everyone played there part and it was another great squad performance
Calder, Smith , Giberson ( Ireland) , Coles, Grover, McDonald (Funnel) , North, Wallman, c Shepherd , D Shepherd ( Meredith) Hann Goals: Wallman x5 hann x4 McDonald x2 D Shepherd x1
Hants Cup 25th November 2007 Riverside Strikers 3 (0) -v- (0) 0 Aldershot Town Ladies (AET) With
The
Shots kept pressing and managed to get the ball wide on a number of
occasions. One chance saw Shepherd receive the ball out wide on the left
and crossed the ball behind the back four. McDonald broke free from her
marker, tried to control the ball, but couldn't get her shot in before
the In
the second half The
game was becoming stretched as each team was looking to finish off the
tie. Indeed at the death, At
90 minutes, the score was 0-0. The referee decided to play extra time. But
the light was fading fast. The pitch was lit up a couple of times by the
aircraft taking off from The
Shots tried to put some more pressure on Gaffer's
View
"I
thought the players gave a great account of themselves over the 90 minutes
and if it had been a league game I would have taken that. We seem to be
caught cold in extra time and I
was very disappointed with the Hampshire FA aptitude over kick off times,
at the end off the day we should have kicked off earlier as we all have
make sure we play in a safe environment, and Sunday's game in extra time
wasn't, due to the light. Captain's
Corner "Having
been narrowly beaten by It
was, as expected a very physical match with the Aldershot players holding
their own, with every player battling hard all over the pitch and we made
it very difficult for Riverside to create themselves any clear cut
chances. We
managed to create a couple of half-chances ourselves, but just couldn't
get that final touch and we had to clear the ball off the line at one
stage but went into the half-time break full of confidence that we could
go on and get a result. The
second half was pretty much a mirror of the first with some strong tackles
being made by both teams. The two teams were so evenly matched
throughout the game it inevitably went into extra time, although we were
rapidly losing light! Squad: UPCOMING
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Aldershot Town Ladies 6 -v- 2 Oxford Utd With
Oxford United promoted to the Premier League last season, the two sides
knew little about each other. The Shots, kicking into the wind in the
first half, started slowly. The
Shots pressed for the second, but were undone by Again
the game was going from end to end; the Shots went further ahead when
again the Shots won another corner on 29 minutes. Again, Smith swung the
ball deep for Coles to out-jump the Yet
again from the restart, the Shots were caught cold. A long ball out to the
right found the With
a few hash words from the management team, the Shots raised their game in
the second half, playing at a higher tempo and started to cause the The
Shots where dominating all over the pitch and the Shots passing game was
opening up the As
the game come to a close, North won the ball in the midfield on 83
minutes. The As
the game come to a close Simone Hart, came on for Nikki McDonald to shore
up the midfield. Player
of the Match goes to Tara Coles Gaffer's
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Captain's
Corner Squad: UPCOMING
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Southern Region Premier League 4th November 2007 Aldershot Town Ladies 0 -v- 1 Wycombe Wanderers The
Shots Ladies entertained Wycombe Wanderers at Farnborough gate on Sunday 4th
November 2007. The
ball was being strung around the midfield area and chances at both ends
became scarce. North was driving hard from midfield but seemed to always
end up facing a blue wall. When the Shots were getting the ball wide, it
was crossed into the box, but always seem to evade the Shots strikers,
McDonald started to get the better of her marker and was working the ball
well with Hann ,who came close to opening the scoring with the Shots first
real effort. On
32 minutes, The Shots again came close when the ball was whipped into the
box, it eluded Wallman and McDonald couldn't get a foot on it to put the
Shots one up. In
the second half it was more of the same, with the Shots system again
giving them time and space on the ball to push on and attack the Wanderers
goal, again as much as the Shots tried the ball never broke for them in
the final third of the pitch. Player
of the Match goes to Caz Shepherd. Gaffer's
View
Captain's
Corner Squad: Cautions:
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Shanklin
2 v 2 Aldershot Town Ladies The
Shots Ladies had their annual trip to Shanklin on the The
weather conditions were not great and the driving wind and rain was
causing a concern. Shanklin kicked off and the Shots were on the back foot
from the start, with the Shots trying to get out of their half the ball
just kept getting pumped back in. On 11 minutes, the ball again broke free
and a Shanklin player was the quickest to react when Calder came off her
line to smother the shot. Again the Shots found it hard to get their
football together and on 23 minutes from nothing the ball came to the
right side off the Shots penalty box, the Shanklin player controlled and
then hit a lofted shot into the net, which Calder could only watch. 1-0. This
spurred the Shots on and for the first time started to get their passing
game going, with Danni Shepherd and Nikki McDonald starting to get freedom
on the wings. Once
again the midfield battle kept getting bogged down and Shanklin tried to
catch the Shots defence out with the long ball, but Calder and Grover saw
away the danger each time. As the Shots tried to hold out until half time,
a Shanklin striker hit a shot from 25 yards it caught the wind and moved
in the air and all Calder could do is flap at the ball as it passed her
into the net 2-1. At
half time, the Shots re-grouped and came out fighting, and from the kick
off you could see the Shots had upped their game. This time Shanklin found
it hard to get out of their own half. Hann was coming more into the game
and North had a few half-chances. When Shanklin did break out, the back
four of Coles, Smith, Grover and Giberson held firm and cleared the
danger. The
game wore on and either side could have taken all 3 points, and at the
final whistle, the game ended in a 2-2 draw. Player
of the Match goes to Hanna Grover. The
Gaffer's View The
Captain's View Squad Subs:
Tasha Meredith, Jo Donoghue Goals:
Wallman (pen) 27", Hann 53" Cautioned:
Smith
Aldershot Town Ladies 5 v 0 Southampton Ladies The
Shots Ladies entertained After
the break it was similar to the first half with the midfield battle taking
place, The Gaffer's View
Calder,
Smith (D Shepherd 69"), Giberson, Coles, Grover, McDonald (Meredith
89"), North, Goals:
Qualifying Round - League Cup 14th October 2007 Aldershot Town Ladies 18 v 0 Reading Ladies
After a disappointing
display in the F.A. Cup, the Ladies were looking to get back on winning
ways and they certainly done that. From the start, it was one-way traffic
and the Shots came close on a number of occasions in the opening five
minutes. After just 9 minutes, the deadlock was broken, when the ball was
played out to Laura Wallman,
who crossed into the box for Crystal Kagbo
to fire home 1-0. On 25 minutes, the Shots
were awarded a penalty after Wallman was pulled down inside the area. Wallman
calmly dispatched the penalty past the keeper to make it 3-0. The Shots
again used the width on 28 minutes, stretching the The Shots were causing
headache after headache for the
Player of the Match goes to Laura Hann Managers View"After
the disappointment of going out of the FA Cup, we were looking to get a
good performance under our belts. We worked on a number of things in
training and tried some different things today. At
times the passing game was outstanding and the finishing was excellent,
and it's also great to have a nearly fit squad who are all battling for
starting places. We are taking every game as it comes, and hopefully we
will start to push on in the league campaign against Calder, Giberson, Coles,
Grover (Donoghue) McDonald, C Shepherd, North (Meredith), Subs not used: Hargreaves, Smith Goal timings: Crystal Kagbo 9", 55" Laura Wallman 16", 25", 42", 58", 78" Laura Hann 28", 49", 56", 67", 70", 72" Emma North ©, 47", 64" Hanna Grover 61" Tara Coles 85" Nikki McDonald 89"
Aldershot
Town Ladies 1 v 6
The
Shots Ladies hosted Horley town in the second qualifying round of the
Women's FA cup at the Recreation Ground. Horley from the South Eastern
Premier would give the Shots a good test, and from the kick off Horley
settled the better and were using the open spaces of The Recreation
Ground. The
Shots defence were caught out early on with a long ball over the top for
their forward to run on to and easily fire past Calder in the Shots
goal.0-1 The
Shots started to press and on a number off occasions should have levelled
the score. Finally McDonald won the ball in midfield, moved it onto Hann
who out-paced her marker to get a cross into the box. The Horley keeper
and defender went for the ball, which dropped to McDonald who sided footed
in at the back post for her first goal of the season.1-1 The
game became more open and both teams started to test both 'keepers.
Toward half-time, and the Shots failed to clear the ball, and the Horley
forward fired the ball, which took a wicked deflection in off an Half
time score Aldershot 1 Horley 2. After
half-time, the game seemed to be evenly balanced, with the Shots having
the greater amount of possession. Again, the long ball was catching the
Shots out as the Horley forward found the back off the net 1-3. At this
point the Shots heads were down and Horley pressed on for the kill. The
Referee gave yellow cards out to two of the Shots players, much to the
bewilderment of the management team. Horley
scored the fourth goal mid-way through the second half, when again the
ball wasn't cleared and the Shots were yet again punished. Horley's
5th goal came in the final minute of normal time, when the
Shots keeper and Horley forward went for the ball. With both players lying
on the floor, a Horley player reacted quickest and side footed home to
make it 1-5. However that was the least of the Shots' concern, as Hayley
Calder had to be stretchered off with a serious injury. With
the Shots losing their goalkeeper and down to 10 players, having used up
all three substitutes and Meredith moving between the sticks, again Horley
broke and scored another goal before the final whistle sounded. Final
score: Congratulations
to Nikki Hargreaves who received the Player of the Match award. Managers'
views The
players let themselves down on the big stage, Horley were hungrier for the
game and it showed. I thought the referee spoiled a good game and after
watching the video ,still don't know what the yellow cards were for, I
wish referees would just treat ladies football as they do when they
referee men's football. Again
it doesn't take away the fact that we didn't perform in most areas of
the pitch. The
Squad: Calder,
Hargreaves, Giberson, Coles,
Grover, North, C Shepherd, Next game:
The
Shots next game is at Farnborough Gate in the Southern Region League Cup
against Reading Ladies on the 14th October 2007
Southern Region Premier League 23rd September 2007 Oxford
City 1 v 1
The Shots started with the same team that had gone down so well against Abbey Rangers in the FA Cup the week before. From the start both teams started to try and get their passing game going. This was becoming hard as the weather conditions became worse throughout the afternoon. Oxford pressed forward
and were kept to trying their luck from long range, which didn't cause
the Shots keeper any problems. The Shots seemed to up their game, the
midfield battle was starting to be won by the Shots and As the half time whistle was approaching, the ball was again won in the midfield. It was switched along the back line to Smith, and she decided to venture forward for the first time. She cut in onto her right front, struck a shot from 35 yards out, the Oxford keeper couldn't get near the ball as it hit the back of the net, giving the Shots a 1-0 lead with minutes of the first half remaining. Half time The second half was much
the same as both teams pressed, Wallman who had played alone most of her time up front gave way for Kagbo, and on a number of occasions the former Portsmouth University strike partnership of Hann and Kagbo linked well to cause the Oxford goalkeeper some problems. Caz Shepherd was making some great interceptions in the midfield which was allowing the Shots to counter attack, which nearly saw the Shots through on goal only to see the Oxford linesman this time have the offside flag raised. The Shots lost goal
scorer Smith to injury in the last 10 minutes, providing some heated
exchanges during the delay between the Aldershot players and the Player of the Match goes to Di Smith (Well Done) Managers View"It
took us a while to get into the game and to get to grips with their
formation, but once we settled down and soaked up their pressure, we were
able to counter attack and cause them a few problems. It was a great goal
to get and it was against the run of play, but that's football. I was a
little disappointed to concede so early in the second half, but the girls
never gave in and worked really hard for each other. I was happy to take a
point off them." Calder, Giberson, Coles,
Grover, Smith (D Shepherd), McDonald, C Shepherd, North (Capt), Next
fixture: F.A. Women's Cup 2nd Qualifying Round sponsored by e.on Sunday 30 September, 2pm The Recreation Ground, The Women's F.A Cup 16th September 2007 Abbey
Rangers 0 v 6 The Shots started their FA Cup campaign away to Abbey Rangers after having a bye in the last round. From the kick off the shots were on top of their game, closing down the opposing players and counter attacking well. On three minutes the ball was worked through the Shots Midfield, which found Hann busting through the Abbey defence to fire in from 14 yards 0-1 to the Shots. Straight from the kick off the ball broke to the shots midfield, a inter change between North and Shepherd found Hann again who out sprinted the defence fire pass the Goalkeeper from 18 yards 0-2. Abbey started to use the
long ball and with the wind it did cause a few problems for the defence,
but with the pace of Grover and the aerial strength of Coles this was cut
out. In the second half again the Shots pressed with Abbey offering nothing, Ireland was replaced by Hargreaves after 55 minutes and this allowed Grover to move on to the right of midfield, the shots fullbacks where having more freedom and were pushing on in support of the wide midfielders. On a number of occasions Hann and McDonald came close to increasing the score. North was getting the freedom to run from deep and fired a shot from 25 yards which hit the cross bar and came out in the box for Wallman to fire home.0-5 Abbey came close in the last 15 minutes when the striker fired a shot from 18 yards which saw Calder who had been a spectator for most off the match tip over the Bar. As the game was coming to a close Wallman fired in after some good work from the midfield to complete her Hat trick and the Shots Ladies finished off 0-6 winners. Player of the Match goes to Emma North (Well Done) Managers ViewWe didn't really know a lot about Abbey Rangers and the FA Cup always produces the odd shock result, and we didn't want to be that team. However the players took onboard what we told them and looked solid, composed and showed great character on every part of the pitch. More importantly we kept a clean sheet and looked capable of scoring a lot more. Calder, Giberson , Coles, Grover, Smith ( Meredith) McDonald, C Shepherd, North, Ireland ( Hargreaves), Wallman, Hann ( Kagbo) The Shots next game is
away to Southern Region Premier League 9th September 2007 Slough
1 v 0 The Shots Ladies
travelled to Slough Ladies for there first Southern League game of the
season. The Shots gave debuts to On 38 minutes the game
went Sloughs way, with a long ball down the left, which evaded the Shots
defence, the slough striker was one on one with the shots keeper, Calder
made a point-blank save and the threat was cleared by Grover. On 42
minutes, Smith and a Slough attacker both went for the ball on the far
touchline, with the ball ricocheting into the path of the unsuspecting With the ball always
being hit long, the Shots midfield started to lose the grip on the game.
On 45 minutes the referee gave a decision against Shepherd for holding.
The Concentration dropped for the first time and allowed one off the After half-time the Shots
took control. Pushing on the Shots started to put the Wallman replaced Kagbo
and gave the As the Shots pressed for the equalizer, a number of shots went close and eventually the ladies ran out of time. Well done to Caroline Shepherd who was voted Player of the Match for the Shots. Managers'
views The
Squad: Next
game:
Crawley
Wasps 1 v 2 The Shots
again started to press and came close on a number of occasions with Smith
and Kagbo going close, as the first half came to a close Club captain
North was introduced, within a couple off minutes she drove forward and
fired a shot from 20 yards which the keeper managed to tip onto the bar. In the
second half the shots change to a 3-5-2 formation and this caused Crawley
a lot of problems, with the Shots getting the ball wide and using the
wingbacks to stretch With extra
players in the midfield the shots passing game was starting to come
together. On 55 minute North feed the ball to Hann who played in Kagbo to
fire home on her debut 1-1. In all a good work for the Shots, it's great to see that the younger members being able to cope at this level. The Shots next game is on 19th away to Swindon Town Kick off 15.00 Team
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