Ladies 2014/2015 fixtures

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All games kick off at 2pm.

August 2014

Sun 31 Bristol Ladies Union 3 v 4 Torquay United LFC - 3rd

September 2014

Sun 14 Brislington 3 v 3 Torquay United LFC - 2nd
Sun 21 Torquay United LFC 3 v 3 Gloucester City - 3rd
Sun 28 Torquay United LFC 5 v 1 Illminster United (FA Cup qualifying round)
TBC Stoke Lane Athletic v Torquay United LFC

October 2014

Sun 5 Torquay United LFC 4 v 1 Frome Town - 3rd
Sun 12 Torquay United LFC v Truro City
Sun 19 Torquay United LFC 4 v 2 Downend Flyers - 2nd
Sun 26 Bridgwater Town v Torquay United LFC

November 2014

Sun 2 Torquay United LFC v Swindon Spitfires
Sun 9 Swindon Spitfires v Torquay United LFC
Sun 23 Torquay United LFC v Bristol Ladies Union
Sun 30 Downend Flyers v Torquay United LFC

December 2014

Sun 7 Torquay United LFC 3 v 2 Brislington - 2nd
Sun 14 Gloucester City 2 v 0 Torquay United LFC

January 2015

Sun 4 Torquay United LFC v Stoke Lane Athletic
Sun 11 Frome Town v Torquay United LFC
Sun 18 Truro City v Torquay United LFC
Sun 25 Torquay United LFC v Bridgwater Town

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Torquay United Ladies beat Bristol Ladies Union 4-3 away from home on their opening game of the season. Two goals from Laura Gough, one from Louisa Crook and one from Vicki Fannon (to clinch the three points). According to the Torquay United Ladies twitter account (@TULFC), it wasn't a pretty game but United worked incredibly hard and deserved the win. The player of the match was Louisa Crook after a solid performance. The Ladies are in 3rd position after one game (nine in the league in total).

Here are the other South West Women's football league premier division results for today:

Frome Town 1 - 1 Downend Flyers

Gloucester City 4 - 2 Truro City

Swindon Spitfires 5 - 1 Bridgwater Town

The next game for the Gulls is on Sunday 7th August at home to Downend Flyers, kick off at 2pm.

(To add; the Ladies will play Wootton Bassett Town or Ilminster Town in the first round FA CUP qualifying round at home, winner receives £150. This match will take place on Sunday 28th September).

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Torquay United Ladies drew 3-3 away Brislington, who were a tough opponent. Two goals from Laura Gough and one by Hayley Chamberlain (no relation). The Ladies are now joint second on 4 points, Gloucester City lead the way with a maximum 6 points from the two games.

The others results were the following:

Bridgwater Town 2 - 3 Downend Flyers

Gloucester City 3 - 2 Frome Town

It's first v second next Sunday, United play Gloucester at home. Kick off at 2pm, come down and support the Ladies.

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Torquay United Ladies drew 3-3 with Gloucester City at home this afternoon, with goals from striker's Gabi Trays and Laura Gough. United are still unbeaten, drawing two and winning one, but slide down from 2nd-3rd due to Swindon Spitfires beating Downend Flyers 2-0 and therefore winning all of their games so far this season.

Here are the other results:

Bridgwater Town 2 - 3 Brislington

Truro City 2 - 2 Bristol Ladies Union

The Ladies next game is against Illminster Town next Sunday at home.

Well done Ladies.

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Thanks to Matt for this match report.

Torquay United LFC 4-1 Frome Town.

Beat Frome Town 4-1 today. 1-1 at HT was nothing like a fair reflection of a half which we dominated. Another goal for Sian as she finished a really neat move on the edge of a crowded penalty area. Goughy, Chambo and Sian all conspired to create a little bit of space for the latter to burst into, open her body and slot sidefooted into the far corner.

Chances came from wide areas for us, but crosses endlessly found empty space rather than a yellow head.

As has happened a couple of times recently, it was a long, straight ball which exposed our technically excellent, but not overly quick back line. It was an excellent advantage played by the referee (young lad, did well) and Frome took full advantage by releasing the striker with a ball over the top. Beth, whose starting position was ideal all game, raced out but was beaten in the foot race by the striker who poked the ball home.

Second half was a different affair. Frome improved and, for the first 15 minutes, they did well and had a sustained period of pressure. Having weathered that, Torquay got a real foothold in the game and turned the screw ever tighter the longer they played. When the breakthrough came, it was real nice. Goughy, evidently frustrated at half chances not finding their way in, took the game by the scruff of the neck and produced dancing feet just inside the box to nick past three or four opponents before lashing the ball into the roof of the net. The overwhelming emotion was relief. It had been coming.

From then on, aside from the odd breakaway keeping the home defence honest, it was all Torquay. Smudger was too quick and too good for the visiting RB and could go past her at will. However, it was the introduction of Emily for Adele (she'd played well, and was nothing more than a sacrificial lamb) that had the third goal possible. Picking up the ball midway into the Frome half, she rejected the simple line ball and chose instead to whack a 40-yard cross fielder to Natalie who took a touch, looked up, saw the keeper ever so slightly off her line and launched an absolutely perfect lob into the net. A peach and no mistake.
All Torquay now and the fourth goal, when it came with the final kick of the match, was another that was a pleasure to see.
The ball came to late sub Niamh who took one touch to control and a second to to a perfectly weighted through ball for the onrushing Goughy who did precisely as you'd expect and hammered it into the top corner.

A scoreline which did justice to our dominance for large periods.

There will be tougher tests, but if we play like we did for most of today, there's no one to fear.

Matt.

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Thanks to Matt for this match report.

Torquay United 4-2 Downend Flyers.

Well, there was only one star of the show today, and, try as he might, it wasn't the referee.

We all remember Gazza's goal for England against Scotland. Well today I saw something visually similar. Unusually for us, it was a long, straight ball up to Goughy who was with a deep sitting CB. With her first touch, she flicked the ball over the head of the defender and got goal side. Two touches to stride forward and one to fire the ball into the corner of the net. An absolutely brilliant goal.

Two nil followed in penalty fashion when who else but Goughy was tripped innocuously in the box. The decision to give the penalty was clearly correct. The decision to book the defender for her part in the whole sorry affair wasn't and it signalled the start of a VERY uncharacteristically poor game for the referee I have previously described as my personal favourite. Regardless, Chambo stepped up (because Crookie was on the bench) and slotted the ball past the keeper from 12 yards for 2-0.

3-0 came less than a minute later. Another collectors item, a headed goal. That girl again was on the end of it, but it was all down to the cross from the right wing (I THINK it was a Warman, but I could be wrong). The cross was magnificent. Head high the whole way, powerful, curling and perfectly aimed straight for Goughy's forehead. All (sorry, """"All"""") that was left to do was steer the ball into the corner of the net form 6 yards. A delightful goal.

HT came without too much further incident. It was 35 minutes before Beth made her first save, but that did signal the beginning of a much improved spell for the Flyers, in which they posed little threat, but were at least able to get out of their own half.

The second half was a little disappointing in terms of quality. We seemed to lose our ability to retain the ball. Perhaps because the Downenders had upped their work-rate, but we certainly had enough at our best to deal with anything they had to offer. As it was, it was more even in the second half, but it was Torquay who scored the first goal. Finally, after not fewer than 4 braces, Goughy finally got her hat-trick when she beat the offside trap and streaked through to roll the ball calmly past the advancing keeper and into the far corner. That really should have been that, but the referee had other ideas.

It was shortly thereafter that one of theirs went in really hard in the middle of the park. It was a needlessly and unexpectedly aggressive dive from the visitor who got nowhere near the ball. On the viewing I had, it was a crap challenge which could well have been worthy of a red card. A yellow was all that was forthcoming. Fair enough on its own, but combined with the dozen or so other really curious decisions (both for and against us) and it ended up being a bad day of the office for one of the better officials down our way.

It was 5 minutes later that the game really turned and sadly, it turned against us.

There was no danger, not really, until the ball found its way to a visiting striker in our box. Beth, horribly exposed, came out to narrow the angle. The striker, to her credit, kept her composure and also kept the ball, choosing to round the Torquay stopper rather than shoot. Sadly, Beth dived in and felled the striker. Since it was just the two of them back there, the referee was left with absolutely no option but to dismiss Beth and award the penalty. Because of the way it works in this division, Beth will be available in the league next Saturday but will be banned for the FA Cup game the week after. A crying shame, she deserves her chance after the improvement she's made over recent weeks.

Charlie Maling took the gloves and immediately had to pick the ball out of the back of her net. 4-1 and 15 minutes to survive with a very second choice keeper in net. Torquay attempted to slow the game and play for time, which really isn't in their nature. I did my bit by retrieving the ball as slowly as any man has ever managed, but even my efforts weren't enough to prevent the Flyers picking up a second goal. In fairness to them, it was a thing of beauty. A ball played down the right wing, which the winger allowed to run across her body, deftly getting in behind her marker. From there, it was a battle of pace and power which the tall and athletic striker was always likely to win. She did, but what followed was as special as anything TULFC had produced. A finish from the corner of the 18-yard area which flew at supersonic speed right into the top corner was quite incredible and belied the relative lack of ability demonstrated by the visitors over the course of the afternoon.

Fortunately, with the help (sometimes) of the referee giving a series of increasingly odd decisions, as well as rightly turning down wholly unmerited penalty appeal for handball, when our defender was clearly struck by the ball, but on her back as she dived to block a cross, we managed to see out the match without too much trouble.

So, a 4-2 win which didn't really do justice to our dominance in the first half but was probably a fair reflection on our lack of cutting edge in the second. Still, a win is a win and that's what we got. On to next Sunday, away to Bridgewater. It's not far and will probably be a pretty good game. If you've got nothing to do...

Matt.

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Torquay United 0-2 Gloucester City.

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