RIGHT.
The Ladies side was asked to go into the Southern Regions, and we said yes BUT,
Because of not knowing what the future of both Ladies teams was nearly all the Ladies (first team) side left.
Some because of moving home, some because other clubs were offering free signing on fees, some because of having to change training nights.
So we were left with only 4 or 5 Ladies (first team) left, The Rebels ( reserve team) also was depleted for the same reasons, but we had 7 or 8 that stayed.
We declined the change to Southern, but excepted promotion to Div 1 Thames Valley. The The Rebels side was disbanded. So we only have 1 team (Ladies) now.
It's going to be hard as most of the team will be jumping up 2 divisions, but with a few new additions we could hold our own.
ON A SIDE NOTE..
Other teams have gone down to 1 team but did it the other way. Disbanding the first team and kept the reserve team with a lot of first team player dropping down 3 or 4 divisions.
Our first league game is against our friends from Banbury (not) away on Sunday 4th September, our FA Cup adventure starts the following Sunday v Milton United home on the 11th September, who play in the Southern Regions League 1 North.
We had 2 trial games to try new player out with the minimum first or reserve player as possible.
We had our first friendly with most of the new side (2 form last years first team,7 from the reserves and 5 new players.
We still had a couple of last years player away.
The game was against a div 3 side Guildford Saints.
We came away from there with a 7-0 win, but they were depleted, only 12 players.
GOALS FROM,
Tia (newby)×2, Alice, Marena, Daisy (newby), Laura (newby), and finally Aimee.