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The PCR Sports Show - Friday 30th June 2023 - The Women's Football Special with Bobby Copping, General Manager of Peterborough United Ladies (and Gary Reed, Head of Women’s Administration) · The PCR Sports Show

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  Welcome to CDC on school. Good evening and welcome to PCR
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  Sports here. On pc r FM for the start of your
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  sporting weekend. I'm Neil Ashton in the studio
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  this week. We've got Bobby copying from
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  Peterborough United, women's, he's the general manager at the
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  club there and we'll be discussing the remarkable
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  progress, the women have made in recent seasons and a look ahead
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  to the upcoming season and also In the studio.
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  As always is dip am. He's got the headlines this week
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  for. You dip am thanking in a Share
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  House things. You're all good, thank you.
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  Yeah, yeah, looking forward to chatting to Bobby tonight and
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  finding all up. All about the women's section of
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  Peterborough United in the, the massive development and growth.
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  That's happened there, recently, absolutely brilliant.
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  Yes, right. Let's get you through the
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  headlines. First of all, and these are your
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  headlines for this week, ptera starting with Cricket Peter, a
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  town, got off to a good start in the T20 Championship as they
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  beat both Williston and over sin.
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  Last Saturday, the next round of matches will take place this
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  weekend when Town play finding and Desborough town in the same
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  competition and also beat Williston over stun.
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  And then play brief break stock and getting to this Saturday in
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  the length, links Premier Division, Champions born who did
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  not play last weekend travel to nettle and tomorrow.
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  For their next match Market, duping beat Spalding by 9
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  wickets last weekend. And I without a match this
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  weekend, Spalding host Grimsby town in their league match this
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  week in the Stanford T20 Shield, Peterboro town and Market deep
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  in will go head to head in the final on July, the 17th after
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  town, beat nubra in the semi-final, and deeping be
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  offered in their semi-final, former guest and friend of the
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  show. Nick Andrews has received
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  another call-up to the England over 70s for the ashes Series.
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  This summer, the matches take place at Colchester on the 6th
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  of August Telford on the 13th of August and maidenhead.
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  On the 20th of August in Speedway.
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  Peter Panthers fell to a 49-41 defeat at home to Bellevue in
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  the Premiership on Monday as poor as their poor season
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  continued. The next Premiership fixture is
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  at Sheffield on Monday evening. And in the pair's last night in
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  Leicester, the Panthers finished runners-up as Bellevue won the
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  final seven to this Sunday's the city Side, Hoster the Ulrich
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  ostergard fellow meeting as the Panthers, Glasgow Tigers, red
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  car, red car bears and orick stars make up a 14 tournament to
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  pay tribute to the Peta to the Peta, Panthers Legend gates,
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  open at 2 p.m. and the event starts at 4 p.m. at the east of
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  England Arena. In boxing, top yards Adam
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  Javits, who won the Midlands box cup title in Southampton.
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  The 14 year old, who's been a guest on the show?
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  Alongside his father and coach Bill and Jared as part of the
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  Aamir, Khan Academy in the city, and trains.
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  Six days per week towards his sport in athletics, Peterborough
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  and Neen Valley Athletic, the runners dominated the 2023,
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  Peter, a Grand Prix. I with a 19 year old guy,
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  chilvers winning his first senior road race.
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  The event also included athletes from the teams in and around
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  Peterborough and the next Meeting is taking place on the
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  12th of July at fairy. Meadows in England,
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  championships city, a city, shot-putter Donovan capes one
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  bronze after throwing a distance of 15 meters and forty, nine
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  centimeters. And in the Cayman shit, open
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  event at st. Ives veteran pan, vac throwers,
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  Ken Bates, one, the shot, put event by throwing 10.14 M, and
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  Tim Needham won. Bronze in the discussed with a
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  distance of twenty. Six point four, five meters in
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  hockey. The a club record three members
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  of the city of Peterborough Hockey Club have been Call UPS
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  to the England squad. This summer Club Captain Joe
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  finding will feature in the over 35 squad player, coach garage,
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  Gareth Andrew in the over 40 Squad and Adam Drake will
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  represent the over 50s. They're also call up to the
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  whale squad for John short, and Sue.
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  McNaughton both of whom will play in the in Spain.
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  In over in the overs competitions BMX freestyling
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  deck and Declan Brooks the former bronze medalist who has
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  been a previous guest on the show, has won the bronze medal
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  at the European games. In Krakow Poland as part of Team
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  GB in fencing, Isabella Hauser the 13 year old from Yael one.
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  The under-15s title at the England Championship held in
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  Hatfield despite feeling unwell Hauser made it through to the
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  group stages and Into The Knockout stages as seventh seed
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  and won. Her final by just one point.
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  The title adds to the under 14th title Howser has already won and
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  she will commence next season as the 7th.
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  Ranked British under-17s fencer in rowing Peter City, rowers one
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  form of gold medals at the junior, Regatta thought Meadows,
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  And Emma Davis took two of these in the junior under 15 singles,
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  and the doubles after she partnered up with a notch bosma
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  and Hannah fish on one of the other gold in the junior 13
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  single race. And in football, the transfer
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  revolving door at P3 night, it has been well and truly.
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  Turning this week as Peterborough, announced five
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  permanent new signings midfielder.
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  Archie Collins has joined the club from Exeter City alongside
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  centre-back, Romney critchlow from Huddersfield midfielder,
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  Ryan de Havilland from Barnett and young Ford Davy.
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  Kawa from AFC Wimbledon with the latter joining, the under-21s
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  initially, meanwhile forward Kabongo, she mingi has made his
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  loan move permanent from Chesterfield the players who
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  have Departed the club this week are Jack.
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  Taylor tips, which town hall in Auburn to Blackpool and Ben
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  Thompson to stevenage down and Fergus and made some changes to
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  his management team in radians for the new season goalkeeping
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  coach, Mark tile has left his post and we've replaced by a lie
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  from the under-21s. And we'll be joined by Karen
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  scarf who leaves his role as Academy director to become
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  first. Assistant manager wild out Ang
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  becomes head. Coach Peter responds continued.
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  Their summer Squad development with the spring site as with the
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  signing of Matt till this weekend, this week, sorry, 32
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  year old joins, bring, let me start again, 3002 brings with
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  him a host of football league experience.
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  Having played many times for crew, Alexander and for Notts
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  County. This follows, on from many,
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  existing players are choosing to re-sign for the forthcoming
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  season. And the turbines would also be
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  playing in their new club, Colours that orange, for the
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  home kit and yellow for the away.
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  Kit. The club Crest color has also
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  been changed to orient to complement the new color.
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  And those are your headlines this week Peter and hand you
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  back to and Nilesh which is deep and plenty going on in the city.
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  Then here, that's for sure. Yes, great newsletter for
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  Peterboro Town last weekend in the cricket and positive,
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  starting their a T20 competition as well actually.
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  And the final of the Stamford T20 against your Club deeping.
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  Yes, indeed. Yeah, a tasty one.
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  I think we're just waiting for the venue to be confirmed on
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  that one as well. So hopefully hear that over the
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  weekend. It was What's going on with a
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  couple of clubs to host it as well.
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  So yeah, that would be a good battle on the pitch to say the
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  least. I think so.
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  Yeah, exactly, definitely, right.
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  Welcome to PCR sports. That was dipped on with our
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  It's It's at PCR Sports. And if you do miss any of the
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  website on pc, r FM, .co.uk. But let's have a quick chat with
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  Bobby who's joined us. He's the women's general manager
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  at Peterborough United. Welcome back to the show Bobby.
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  Thanks for having me, it's good to be back.
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  Yeah, and plenties be plenty has been going on in the last few
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  weeks to say the least looking at the developments on and off
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  the pitch at the club. Yeah.
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  Very very busy. You know, we'll Positive and big
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  because he's big big season hat. Yeah, indeed us that your feet
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  of verse touch the ground recently even since the season
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  finished. Yeah, I know.
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  It's been a busy offseason. Try to get a little bit of time
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  away but you know, if you want to be successful, we've got to,
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  you know. But the working put the hours in
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  as well. That goes with it, Bridget
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  stuff, right. It's going to take a short break
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  and we'll be back with Bobby and discussing the great
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  developments that have been taking place at the
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  We're here every Friday 6:54 and really appreciate your company
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  to Evening sir, thank you for joining us.
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  We've got to Bobby coping with us this evening, women's general
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  manager at Peterborough United. And we're gonna have a chat with
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  him over the next 40 minutes or so about the great developments
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  that have been taking place over the last few weeks and the
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  progress that the women's section of the club, has been
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  making in recent Seasons, but also shout out.
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  We've also got Gary Reed sitting on the sofa behind, as well.
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  He's laughing away. He's trying to avoid the mic but
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  so I will give him a shout out because I'm sure he's an
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  integral part of the club. Well, and the structure of the
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  women's section of the club and the he's head of the women's
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  Administration there. So yeah, Gary.
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  Thanks for bringing Bobby along this evening.
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  Very much appreciated right now, we've got that out the way with
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  Bobby. Where should we start last
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  season? What a great successful one.
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  It was and County cup success. Great run in the FA Cup positive
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  in the league as well. I couldn't find a - when I was
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  doing the research to be honest. It's always gonna be bumps in
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  the road but overall, it was a fantastic season.
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  Yeah. Now, first off, I can't believe
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  you've give a shout-out to guarantee.
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  That's not great. Well, it's always behind the
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  scenes that, you know, make up the structure.
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  Don't know how vital part of the success story 100%.
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  Yeah, last season was massive for us.
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  It was the first real season where you know success was shown
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  from the work that's been put in the FA Cup.
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  Run was fantastic. You know we got beat by a
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  championship Club in the in the third round.
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  Again another historic moment for the club, you know, off the
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  pitch, in terms of the business development of the club was
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  fantastic. You know, developing everything
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  off the pitch as well as on the pitch.
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  The players are staff been fantastic.
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  And you know I joke about Gary but Gary's involvement is you
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  know, is tremendous and we wouldn't be able to do what we
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  do without people like guys. So you know.
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  It's yeah. Last season was huge but you
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  know I can go into next season will be even bigger.
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  Yeah, indeed. Yeah, we've met Legendary there,
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  but there's many behind-the-scenes no doubt that
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  play a huge part in the success that the clubs had already.
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  And no doubt will be an integral part of the Season that starts
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  in mid August for you as well. But let's cover up on the pitch,
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  first of all. So the women's FA Cup run the
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  farthest, the club's Bean bang out to Durham women, one-nil, no
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  shame in that. There are Women's Championship
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  side. What do you think the players
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  learn from that? And what The club potentially
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  learn from that as well, after the performances on and off the
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  pitch. Yeah, I think the biggest thing
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  for me was was confidence, you know, give the players and all
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  the staff confidence that we can compete really.
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  Well, at that level, we got be off of yard Wonder strike which,
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  you know, you can't help. But also the fact that one we
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  got there from, you know, I think we came in the third round
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  qualifying. So we have to win three or four
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  games to get there but then you know putting him in a
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  performance like that. That a record crowd at the Abbey
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  Lon, you know, massive confidence for us to season is
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  no coincidence. We finish where we did in the
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  league. Yeah, but in Mansfield yeah,
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  beginning their first, round in the third, qualifying round, you
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  Breeze past Mansfield 31, before being The League champion style
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  Bridge, women and 120th minute of extra time.
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  I think I remember that goal on social media as well.
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  I think it was Bedlam on them on the sidelines as well as the
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  picture that moment in time and then beating spot one kalsa I've
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  always been a bit of Nemesis for the club haven't met, I think,
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  just in terms of the battles that you had against them.
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  So, in terms of the performances, you must be very
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  proud as a general manager and no doubt Dan and the rest of the
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  coaching staff were at the time as well.
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  Yeah, it's just another, you know, Accolade for the players
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  and staff, which shows, you know, the work we put in week in
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  week out. You get opportunities to play
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  against the championship Club in in the third round.
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  The FA Cup, you know, it's massive for everyone involved,
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  so hopefully next season will have even more opportunities
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  like that. Yeah, indeed it just shows that
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  that Confidence within the group shows what could be achieved if
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  that can be sustained over the seas of a football season
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  itself, from a leak perspective? Yeah, absolutely.
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  I'm very big on professionalism, you know, anyone that you speak
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  to will tell you that? So it's nice to see that, you
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  know, we're starting to see things like this where, you
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  know, we're competing really when the league FA Cup County
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  cup, everything we're doing is being put in place so the
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  players and staff ultimately can you know enjoy and have a real
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  successful season and then the county cup that you Just
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  mentioned there as well. Always nice to be a team from
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  Northampton. Absolutely.
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  Both in the semi-final beating Northampton town and then
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  beating their time to development Squad in the final
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  itself as well. So yeah.
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  Double success server a cobbler side.
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  Yeah, absolutely. And again, not only because it
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  was Northampton but, you know, to get a bit of silverware for
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  the season. And again, another thing to say
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  to the blaze, look, well done, massive achievement.
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  Let's go and build on it again next season.
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  Yeah. And looking to retain the title,
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  No Doubt. 104 coming season as well, there's no pressure there
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  whatsoever. We talked about the great
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  support the clubs had as well, very briefly there.
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  I mentioned for the staff at born town and a bee lawn itself
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  been to make feel very welcome. No doubt.
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  Yeah, I think when I made the decision to move a star, got a
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  little bit stick because it's a little way out of Peterborough.
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  But tree Trend looking at, you know, how it's worked out.
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  No one can say that, it was the wrong decision, you know, I
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  average attendance 502 this season, which is an 800%
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  increase and it was the 7th Gary mock.
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  Correct me if I'm wrong, the seventh highest in tear for him
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  for last season which again, you know, proofs in the pudding and
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  it shows you that that was the correct decision.
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  Yeah, 675 the record attendance for the FA Cup game, which is,
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  you know, a testament to the marketing.
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  But also the success, the clubs had on the pitch as well to
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  bring those people back week in week out the absolutely not.
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  Then for me, it comes down to the strategy, you know,
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  everything that we achieve this season was in The Five-Year
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  strategy and the the staff at born, you know, they're
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  absolutely fantastic. We couldn't have asked to be
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  hosted, by better Club, to be honest.
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  You know, the extra work they do for us.
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  Getting the games on in the winter.
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  You know, everything. They've been fantastic and
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  really happy to be the next season again.
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  Yeah. And I'll guess that was
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  challenging in itself. Isn't it being a club that's
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  perhaps not used to having two games.
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  A weekend played on their pitch as well.
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  In the infrastructure there. And being that communicative and
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  that relationship is pivotal to success on a Sunday afternoon
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  for your home games and rezoning for us.
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  You know, the movie was really important because previously, we
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  play the training ground, which, you know, we can hold what
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  50-100 people. Max and the girls are playing in
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  a cage 3G. We wanted to give a real
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  professional again, professional environment where we can get a
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  believe up to about two and a half thousand and then went, you
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  know, within the next couple of years.
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  Hopefully, we're filling that out and then we'll be looking to
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  move on to the West name Stadium.
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  So if there is listening tonight, you heard it.
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  There puppy. He wants to be wants the women's
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  side playing there. On a more regular basis.
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  No doubt. But we just there, but they did
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  have a taste of that last season as well.
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  Didn't the start the season against Lincoln?
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  Yeah, exactly. And we got a record attendance
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  again. Another historic moment, you
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  know, two and a half hours. Yeah, 2,300.
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  Yeah, which is fantastic. And the chairman Darrell is very
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  much on board with look, if we can make it work in terms of
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  financially and and everything else and it's feasible, you
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  know, we're going to do it. Hmm, indeed, a no doubt you'll
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  be looking A friendly fixture or two in terms of the dates and
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  the availability of the western home stadium when the woman's
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  fixed just come out next month now in China.
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  Absolutely. And that's it for us, you know,
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  at the moment whilst, you know, financially Etc, it's not quite
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  feasible to play there every week.
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  We want to make sure that we can put on a game every now and
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  again to say look, you know, we are here and we're growing and
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  eventually, we'll be here all the time.
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  Yeah. Indeed him.
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  Perhaps entice. A few funds once they've seen
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  it, the women at the Western home, stadium up to up to The
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  Abbey lawns in born as well. Well, absolutely.
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  Absolutely, you know, that's the plan for us as long as we keep
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  growing season upon sees and then you know, we know we'll get
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  there eventually. Yeah, Matt catchment I guess of
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  South Lincoln. Sure there's opportunities there
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  as well. No doubt as well to bring
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  women's football to South Lincolnshire.
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  Absolutely, that's what, you know, the schools initiative so
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  important as well. We spent a lot of time on that
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  last evening trying to drive numbers and drive, attendances
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  and also give opportunities to, you know, young fans in the
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  community. So that again has been a massive
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  part of the attendance increase as well.
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  Yeah, and the mascot packages as well that you've had during the
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  course of that. See As well makes a difference,
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  doesn't it? Because it just gives an
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  opportunity for for young girls to be able to walk alongside
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  proceed there to be their Heroes.
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  Absolutely. And I think you know that as
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  well as the new girls Academy which I'm sure will come on to.
• 18:43
  Yeah, a big thing for us was look previously, there wasn't
• 18:46
  really a real pathway for young girls in Peterborough, but now,
• 18:50
  you know, young girls in Peterborough can aspire to be
• 18:52
  professional footballers and they've got real role models in
• 18:54
  front of them to do that. Whether that's really Academy
• 18:56
  whether that's through coming to watch the first team, whether
• 18:59
  that's through, you know, the community.
• 19:01
  Programs that will be in a mascot a game.
• 19:03
  You know there's loads of avenues now for them to have a
• 19:05
  real you know real desire to want to be a footballer.
• 19:08
  Yeah and just digress. Looks like you got the England's
• 19:10
  England. Women's team to stop to the
• 19:12
  World Cup as well. Very shortly.
• 19:14
  I guess having those games on mainstream TV as well.
• 19:18
  Make a huge difference and potentially bring more young
• 19:22
  girls and women women into the game as well to either play it
• 19:26
  or be part of the coaching set up here in years to come.
• 19:29
  Absolutely, I think that the Euros was huge.
• 19:31
  You know, that was fantastic in terms of, you know, the benefits
• 19:35
  that we fell off of that. So hopefully they can do it
• 19:37
  again at the World Cup and I will only be really positive for
• 19:40
  everyone involved. Yeah.
• 19:41
  Fingers crossed, they returned successful with the, with the
• 19:44
  world cup under their arms. Is it New Zealand Australia
• 19:47
  Australia? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 19:49
  So tough challenge there, no doubt.
• 19:51
  But the opportunity to watch those games on mainstream TV
• 19:54
  will hopefully have that knock on effect and bring young girls
• 19:58
  and women to not just a be Lawns but watching football in their
• 20:03
  own communities as well and observant.
• 20:05
  Yeah, indeed, let's just touch on the management structure very
• 20:10
  briefly before we go to our next ad break.
• 20:13
  In terms of you've got done, Lolly, they're in charge.
• 20:16
  He's made a few changes to his sort of management structure.
• 20:19
  Again, just bringing in some experience there with a couple
• 20:21
  of coaches from Lester. Yeah, you know, I mean dance at
• 20:24
  down the end of the season and we wanted to make sure in line
• 20:27
  with you know the players we brought in and everything we're
• 20:29
  doing off the pitch that the coaching set Match that and we
• 20:33
  were giving you know, for me if we want to get the best players
• 20:35
  in, we need to have the best facilities.
• 20:37
  We need to have the best coaching.
• 20:39
  We need to have the best match day experience, you know,
• 20:41
  everything needs to be the best, it can be.
• 20:43
  So the coaches we wanted to bring in a couple of new
• 20:46
  coaches, that can give, you know, real good expertise, you
• 20:50
  know, for training sessions. We've also brought in a new
• 20:53
  goalkeeper coach as well. It's got plating experience as
• 20:55
  well. Yeah, so you know with as well
• 20:58
  as strengthening the squad, we've also strengthening, you
• 21:00
  know, the coaching set up. Yeah.
• 21:01
  As well, that's vitally important.
• 21:02
  It's a native of those new players coming in to know that
• 21:04
  there is that structure behind the management.
• 21:08
  And that experience, I mean, Harry McLean, and Adam Thompson
• 21:10
  have come straight from Leicester again and their first
• 21:14
  team coaches at Peterborough United.
• 21:16
  Women, you've got a marketer who stepped up to be assistant.
• 21:19
  Now to Dan and it's stevecori who's coming as goalkeeping
• 21:22
  coach. Yeah, absolutely.
• 21:24
  You know, again being professionals.
• 21:25
  We can we've now got full coaching setup including an
• 21:29
  analyst Target me words out. You know, free coaches?
• 21:33
  Yeah, Dan goalkeeping coach, we've got, you know, for media
• 21:36
  team Etc. So what we run, as a
• 21:38
  professional football club because, you know, I'm a strong
• 21:40
  believer in, you're never going to be able to get to becoming a
• 21:43
  proper professional football club if you don't try and act
• 21:45
  like one so, you know, we're yeah, we're doing everything
• 21:48
  right with building and hopefully this isn't be really
• 21:50
  good. Yeah, you're giving the women,
• 21:51
  the tools, the tools, and not just the first team effectively,
• 21:55
  but also all the way through the gills Academy structure that
• 21:57
  opportunity to tap into those resources.
• 22:01
  These and apply themselves with the tools that they've been
• 22:04
  given. Yeah, absolutely.
• 22:05
  We've obviously got, you know, the full girls Academy now.
• 22:07
  So we every year my kind of manager Chloe Brown will, you
• 22:11
  know, need to be bringing players through into the first
• 22:13
  team and she's done that she's been fantastic.
• 22:15
  So, you know, it's only right that once I do get to the first
• 22:18
  team, they've got the best coaches possible.
• 22:20
  Yeah, and I suppose it's that close working relationship that
• 22:23
  you have within that structure that you've got for the way from
• 22:25
  yourself down, you mentioned, Chloe, there and the other
• 22:28
  coaches through the academy structure that allows people.
• 22:31
  Used to be a perhaps identified or just kept an eye on as to if
• 22:34
  you feel. They've got the ability to step
• 22:36
  up a couple of age groups, especially when they're a little
• 22:38
  bit younger. Yeah, 100%, everyone's very
• 22:40
  close-knit and you know, all the other girls in the academy, they
• 22:42
  have idps. They have you know, training
• 22:44
  plans of where we might see them in however many years.
• 22:47
  So, you know, there's a number of girls coming through.
• 22:49
  So it's really, really exciting moment.
• 22:52
  Really, really exciting. You know, we've obviously had
• 22:53
  the new signings which are huge for us, but we've got a few gems
• 22:57
  coming through. I know the German likes to use
• 22:59
  that one. I've been around him a lot.
• 23:04
  Yeah, we've got a few coming through that will be really
• 23:05
  exciting this season. Yeah, it's great to have those
• 23:07
  homegrown players as well. Isn't it talent coming through
• 23:09
  your own production line, effectively and then local fans
• 23:15
  can relate to them as well. Can't they haven't grown up with
• 23:17
  them? Perhaps, and perhaps even been
• 23:19
  at school with them, or being in and around and watching them all
• 23:22
  the way from the 16th to the 23s, and all the way to the
• 23:24
  first team as well. Absolutely.
• 23:26
  Again, like we said earlier, for the young girls that are coming
• 23:28
  through Peterborough, we hope that, you know, we get Ago in
• 23:32
  under seven under, right? In the pre Academy and in 10
• 23:35
  years, time the plane in the first team, that's the real aim.
• 23:37
  But for me, it's not just about that, not all of them are going
• 23:40
  to make it very few of them will make it but you know, if we can
• 23:43
  develop them as people as well, then, yeah, fantastic cracker
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  You're listening to PCR Sports. Good evening, welcome back to
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  apcr sports here, on pc r FM. This evening were chatting to
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  Bobby copping, woman's general manager at Peterborough United,
• 25:59
  and he's got Gary Reed sitting in the background here as well.
• 26:04
  Just giving him a few verbals as well.
• 26:05
  Just making sure he gets all the relevant messages cross.
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  So Gary's the head of women's administration at Peterborough
• 26:13
  United, but we were just talking there about on the pitch, the
• 26:17
  management structure, the success of last year with the
• 26:20
  The Fantastic run in the in the women's FA Cup and the county
• 26:25
  cup success. They league position, which was
• 26:29
  absolutely fantastic to win last over season and finish fourth,
• 26:32
  was it for ya? Finish top five in the league.
• 26:37
  Let's have a little chat about the five-year strategy.
• 26:40
  You're very much focused on that, and when we've had
• 26:44
  conversations leading up to the show tonight, you've really
• 26:47
  emphasize that point that, you know, this doesn't happen by
• 26:49
  chance. There is a strategy.
• 26:51
  Place and everything is geared around that your motivations
• 26:56
  where you getting that from in terms of the way it's developed
• 26:58
  so far and that strategy itself the influence from other clubs,
• 27:02
  perhaps that you've had on it as well and the Professionals in
• 27:05
  the game. Yeah, so I'm obviously quite
• 27:06
  lucky that with the network that I've got managed to develop the
• 27:11
  strategy with a guy called Jeff Wilson, who has developed, you
• 27:14
  won't believe this 96 federation's strategies.
• 27:18
  Wow, in all sports. So on my mark, Has degree in
• 27:21
  Sports Direct ship. He actually came on and
• 27:23
  delivered, you know, a strategy Master Class, basically and then
• 27:26
  I've kept in touch with him. So yeah, the strategy for me,
• 27:28
  was probably the biggest part of work that I've done at the club
• 27:32
  today without a strategy. I just believe, you know, you'll
• 27:36
  probably end up going around in circles, you know, there's no
• 27:39
  Direction. The strategy for me is so
• 27:41
  important in aligning everyone, you know, will the staff having
• 27:44
  something to work towards and making sure that, you know, this
• 27:47
  is the goal set out and if we reach it fantastic, if we don't
• 27:50
  reach it up, Why haven't we, you know, why haven't we in?
• 27:53
  And let's change that. So the strategy consists of our
• 27:56
  vision, our mission, our values offer that with, then got five
• 28:00
  strategic pillars, which are sustainability, professionalism,
• 28:04
  community staff development and Player Development.
• 28:06
  So they're 25 real things we believe in and, you know,
• 28:10
  everything all the targets and all the resources are put into
• 28:13
  them five, things offer that we've got five year targets to
• 28:18
  your targets and one your targets, then one year KP Guys
• 28:21
  are broken down into action plans, so, you know, it's a real
• 28:24
  robust structure. It doesn't happen by chance.
• 28:26
  And like I said to you before, there's no coincidence that
• 28:29
  everything we achieve this season was in the strategy.
• 28:32
  So, yeah, like I said, for me, it's issue and it is the reason
• 28:37
  and it's it must be very reassuring to have the backing
• 28:39
  of the chairman and the, the ownership group as well, because
• 28:43
  we know thoughts. Jason nearly is very much, an
• 28:45
  advocate of the women's game as well with his daughters plane.
• 28:49
  So again, that must give you great confidence.
• 28:51
  Vincent, give the women's side of the football club, The
• 28:53
  Confidence. It needs to go in and develop
• 28:55
  the way is developing at the moment.
• 28:57
  Yeah, absolutely. I think the key for us as well
• 28:59
  when a big, you know, thing that we celebrate the club and going
• 29:02
  linking back to the Strategic pillars, we run completely
• 29:05
  sustainably the gout, the whole of the girls Academy, the whole
• 29:08
  of the woman setup is all sustainable and the fact that,
• 29:11
  you know, we've got an ownership like we have and the chairman
• 29:14
  which, you know, they're all they're all fantastic in helping
• 29:17
  us achieve what we want to achieve and in terms of the
• 29:19
  investment and and, you know, Making it possible to deliver
• 29:22
  the strategy we want. We want to deliver.
• 29:24
  Yeah, one of the pillars. You mentioned, those Community
• 29:28
  you briefly touched on it? Just before the break about,
• 29:31
  sadly. Not every player can make it in
• 29:33
  the game as they come through the structure that you've got
• 29:36
  there as well. And it's making them.
• 29:38
  I suppose educating them not just on the football pitch, but
• 29:41
  giving them the opportunity with life skills as they get older
• 29:44
  and the opportunity perhaps to coach or taking those skills
• 29:47
  into other walks of life as well.
• 29:49
  Absolutely, I think communities, probably Biggest Pillar To be
• 29:51
  honest because you know you will know yourself without fans and
• 29:55
  without the community, you don't have a football club.
• 29:56
  Yeah. And you know, we're very
• 29:58
  grateful to the fans and the support that we've we've had in
• 30:01
  the growth we've seen in that. So and on the other side of
• 30:04
  things one, you know we want to offer loads of opportunities for
• 30:07
  families and young fans. And you know, the old older fans
• 30:11
  that come and watch us, give them loads of opportunities, to
• 30:13
  have a really good experience on a match day, but also on the
• 30:16
  other side of things, we want to give an elite professional
• 30:18
  environment to our young players and give I'm the best chance to
• 30:21
  develop as a person. Firstly, and also as a player,
• 30:24
  secondly, the pub, you're obviously mention the five year
• 30:28
  strategy there, Bobby. How far are you into that
• 30:30
  strategy? And if you can reveal any of it,
• 30:32
  what else is left to achieve? Yes, we're done the first year,
• 30:36
  basically. So, the first year was
• 30:39
  effectively, the first UK p is building towards the second
• 30:43
  objectives. So, the second, the second year,
• 30:45
  sort of objectives are to develop the commercial Revenue
• 30:49
  to a certain point. There's obviously a specific
• 30:51
  number on there that we're going to get promoted to tear free.
• 30:56
  So, you know, for the players and staff this season, that will
• 30:58
  be the main objective here tonight.
• 31:02
  Any other place, that is things that challenge like this.
• 31:06
  There's Dallas challenge to the men's first team and there's
• 31:08
  your challenge to the, the women's team.
• 31:11
  Absolutely nothing. That will be, that will be very
• 31:13
  clear for the players and staff in our preseason training, my
• 31:15
  meeting with them all. But yeah.
• 31:17
  So there's there's many, many objectives, and the key.
• 31:20
  With a strategy as well, is that it's broken down into every
• 31:23
  Department, every Department, you know, the head of that
• 31:25
  department has got, its got them, kpi's and Target.
• 31:28
  So again, like I said, no one could not be bought into the
• 31:32
  strategy if I make sense and it helps us, you know, developing a
• 31:35
  real good culture that, you know, if you have a right
• 31:39
  culture and you have the right people in place, then you'd like
• 31:42
  to think that you're going to deliver on your strategy.
• 31:44
  And I guess when you got that accountability for everyone at
• 31:46
  every level of the club, then everyone's as brought into that
• 31:50
  strategy. And everyone knows exactly what
• 31:51
  they need to do and what their job is part of that strategy and
• 31:54
  and therefore everyone's accountable and like, 100%.
• 31:56
  You know, everyone was everyone was a part of making the
• 31:59
  strategies, not just like, I've put someone in front of everyone
• 32:01
  going, you've got to follow that, you know, I'm a big
• 32:03
  believer in being personable and and bringing people together.
• 32:06
  Yeah, exactly. So, you know, the strategy was
• 32:09
  formed by everyone, which means everyone's bought into it and
• 32:12
  everyone's running the same direction which means, you know,
• 32:14
  we're going to achieve success, much faster and much easier.
• 32:16
  Yeah. And they may be bumps along the
• 32:17
  way, you know? But it's about how you were
• 32:20
  reacting. It to them and adapt the
• 32:22
  strategy that goes with it as well.
• 32:23
  There'll be many bumps. And you know, there has been
• 32:25
  many bumps and and that's, you know, you're never going to have
• 32:28
  a strategy where you put it out and you're going to do
• 32:30
  everything on it straight away. You know, there's going to be
• 32:33
  bumps and that's why we've got to have, you know, succession
• 32:37
  plan in place. And make sure that when these
• 32:38
  things do happen, we've then got a plan.
• 32:40
  Mmm, he took over mention Community a lot and I think it's
• 32:44
  a vital part of any sporting club whether you be amateur or
• 32:47
  professional and it's no different from the men.
• 32:50
  I'd bet let's make sure we focus on the woman's to Gary mentioned
• 32:54
  just off their about the mascots and the initiative to bring
• 32:59
  girls teams to watch games as well.
• 33:01
  Do you can elaborate a little bit more on that as well?
• 33:03
  Yeah, absolutely. Again it I think it comes back
• 33:05
  to the strategy again within the strategy and specifically
• 33:08
  carries part and the media's part, there was stuff about
• 33:12
  giveaways, there was stuff about the mascot Peterborough and also
• 33:16
  our women's mascot Larry the penguin being at match days you
• 33:20
  know, half Tom entertainment in terms of, you know, everything
• 33:23
  that we can offer for that match day experience.
• 33:24
  So when these young fans do come and they see Peterborough they
• 33:28
  see Lori the penguin or they get the chance to be mascot because
• 33:31
  Gary's you know, done that from which is fantastic.
• 33:34
  All of these experiences are going to, hopefully make them
• 33:37
  come back each week and you know if we continue to build that
• 33:41
  everything's going to grow from there.
• 33:42
  So you know it's fantastic fans for life are potentially as well
• 33:47
  as also getting him involved in the game as well.
• 33:50
  Whether it be on a social Your level 0 going through the
• 33:52
  academy structure itself and representing, you know, it's
• 33:54
  really nice to see now, we've got a number of our young
• 33:57
  players in the garlic, add me whether they be under 9, under
• 33:59
  10, whatever, they come to the first team game.
• 34:01
  So, you know, again, it's over the past two years is been a lot
• 34:05
  of hard work, you know, a lot of Blood, Sweat and Tears.
• 34:08
  But the point we're at now is was really starting to see the
• 34:11
  benefits from all that hard work.
• 34:12
  And, you know, we hope is only going to get better.
• 34:14
  Yeah. And having the lights of Gary, I
• 34:16
  will mention in this, he is sitting there bit shy to, come
• 34:19
  on now himself, but In terms of that structure behind the scenes
• 34:23
  are so to speak, that's vitally important.
• 34:25
  As part of the strategy that you've put in place.
• 34:28
  But also making sure that there's that reassurance that if
• 34:32
  you need that support that it's there for you as well.
• 34:34
  I can't believe you've got two mentions.
• 34:38
  Yeah, no, absolutely. I think the thing with it is
• 34:40
  that you got the five-year strategy, we've got an
• 34:42
  organizational structure or for that, and we've got the budget
• 34:45
  in the resources off of that and a financial forecast, you know,
• 34:47
  to match the strategy and without people like Sorry.
• 34:51
  And I will big him up because what he does, for the club is
• 34:53
  unbelievable. And there's others as well.
• 34:55
  And I challenge was here tonight, but so many people,
• 34:58
  make sure some people, but Gary and particular work, he does is
• 35:01
  unbelievable. Yeah, you know, without them we
• 35:03
  wouldn't we wouldn't have got to where we are now and now we're
• 35:06
  starting to professionalize thing and grow, you know, it's
• 35:09
  even better. And really, really excited for
• 35:11
  everyone involved. Yep.
• 35:12
  Let's have a quick chat about the academy structure, then
• 35:15
  starting all the way from under seven under 8, all the way
• 35:18
  through to the first team, effectively.
• 35:22
  How do you see that developing you've got the emerging Talent
• 35:24
  Center as well, which is obviously came into place last
• 35:26
  season. If I'm right here saying that
• 35:30
  and a positive outlook on the way that players can be
• 35:34
  developed through that structure and towards the first team.
• 35:37
  Yeah, absolutely. Again comes under to the
• 35:39
  professionalism, two years ago, we had a first team and a
• 35:42
  reserve team and that was it. Now we've got the academy, which
• 35:46
  under that comes the seven & eight, which is a pre Academy,
• 35:49
  the emerging Talent Center, which is under 9 On the 16s and
• 35:52
  then you're under 23 S. So you know we're giving players
• 35:54
  a real long amount of time to get into our first team and
• 36:00
  again like I said developing them as people developing them
• 36:02
  as players and hopefully by the time they got to the first team
• 36:05
  you know we've got an all-rounded person that yes
• 36:07
  they're going to be fantastic for our first team but also
• 36:10
  they're going to do you know really good things outside of
• 36:12
  football team. Those ambassador's for you as
• 36:13
  well. And you've said, you know, with
• 36:15
  certainty, see on the socials, for example, and there's many,
• 36:17
  many a women's player from last season as well.
• 36:19
  That was so engaged. Aging and it's great to see
• 36:22
  after the games that born, for example, they want photographs
• 36:26
  the fans, the photographs taken autographs signed, for example.
• 36:30
  And that makes a huge difference to that integration of bringing
• 36:32
  the fans along on the journey. Absolutely.
• 36:34
  Again, it's about being immersive.
• 36:36
  Giving them an immersive experience and making that match
• 36:39
  date as fantastic for these young fans as we can.
• 36:42
  And that was another of Gary's ideas, which I hate to say, is
• 36:47
  that But you know, yeah. Anything that we can do again.
• 36:54
  It's all in the strategy. Yeah.
• 36:57
  You know to make the experience better is only going to drive
• 36:59
  our fan base and help us grow. I think that's probably one
• 37:02
  different one major difference. I do see between the men's game
• 37:04
  of the women's game post-match, especially where is he?
• 37:08
  See ya. All men's matches they'll go
• 37:11
  back down the changing of down the tunnel after the match.
• 37:14
  After applauding, the the fans, whereas some of the women's
• 37:17
  football. I've certainly seen in, we're
• 37:18
  not just talking at Peterborough United to level it.
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  Tear for, you know, the higher up, you go.
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  You do see those England players engaging with those fans a
• 37:28
  post-match and not want to just get down the tunnel and get
• 37:31
  changed and and be at the club, for example?
• 37:34
  Yeah, no. Actually it's really important
• 37:35
  for us and you know, has been time to season where we've lost
• 37:37
  games. But we've made it clear to the
• 37:39
  players and Gary's almost block the tunnel turn turn around.
• 37:42
  You ain't going down until they sign autographs and and take
• 37:46
  photos with these young fans because you know to a player
• 37:48
  it's just an autograph for a photo but to these young fans
• 37:50
  You know that makes a year makes their life so again and shows
• 37:55
  that they are role models to these young players coming
• 37:57
  through. Yeah.
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  And you know, they'll go into school on a Monday morning for
• 38:00
  example, you know. And if it's been a positive
• 38:02
  result, great if not. Hopefully they're still had a
• 38:04
  positive experience off the pitch with the engagement,
• 38:07
  they've had with the players. Exactly.
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  And, you know, we're not going to grow fan base if we're not
• 38:11
  offering positive experiences and and the best experience
• 38:14
  possible. So like I said earlier, on the
• 38:16
  pitch off the pitch, we make sure that we do everything, you
• 38:18
  know correctly. Yep.
• 38:19
  And just a quick shout out. Out as well to the urban penguin
• 38:22
  sponsors credible, massive part of the development that have
• 38:25
  been shown by the women's side in in recent years as well.
• 38:28
  Just a quick shout-out for the importance of sponsorship and
• 38:32
  the opportunity to get involved as well with the club.
• 38:36
  Unbelievable. You know, in terms of I think
• 38:38
  about parkrun as well, for example, dressed up initially,
• 38:40
  you know, not just for me personally, more charity, but
• 38:43
  especially for the woman and the football club, what Andrew
• 38:47
  Mallet in the oven penguin does for, you know, the Setup is
• 38:51
  fantastic. And it, you know, it's not just
• 38:53
  financially, it's everything that he offers, you know, he's
• 38:57
  coming on the pre-season training camp with us which
• 38:59
  again, without him, we wouldn't be able to do that.
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  So yeah, you know, I can't say enough positive things about,
• 39:05
  you know, him and the oven penguin cracking stuff, right?
• 39:07
  It's gonna have to go to another outbreak.
• 39:09
  Now, we're rapidly running it at a time on the show this evening.
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  Join me between seven and nine and PCR. 103.2 FM, you're
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  listening to PCR store. Good evening and welcome back to
• 41:41
  you PC our Sports here on pc r FM.
• 41:44
  We've been chatting to Bobby copping, woman's general manager
• 41:47
  at Peterborough United, and if you have missed the first 150
• 41:50
  minutes of the show will. So this evening, you can listen
• 41:52
  back to us on the PCR affirm website, which is PCR FM, .co.uk
• 41:57
  and just make your way to the listen.
• 41:59
  Again, section Bobby's, just Talking about the five-year
• 42:03
  strategy, the success of last year.
• 42:05
  And we're just going to finish the show.
• 42:06
  Now this evening by having a chat about the forthcoming
• 42:09
  season and hopes and aspirations for the women's team from a
• 42:14
  first-team level and also the weight all the way through the
• 42:16
  emerging talent, talent Center, and the under-16s, all the way
• 42:20
  through to the 23s as well. Bobby season started in Earnest.
• 42:25
  I know the first game's not till what the 20th of August first
• 42:29
  League game in anger, but a lot of the players As have already
• 42:32
  been out on that training field, being in the gym and working
• 42:36
  away to ensure that a good stand of a fitness before they get to,
• 42:42
  let's say, beasted this week in a couple of weeks time at the
• 42:46
  pre-season training camp. Yeah, absolutely.
• 42:48
  It's really good to see, especially for me and the
• 42:51
  manager and all the staff. You know, seeing the players go
• 42:54
  out their waiter, make sure when they come back.
• 42:56
  They're ready. And I think that's a product of
• 42:58
  the professionalism that we've increased.
• 43:00
  And and the new sign is, we've brought Then you know there's no
• 43:03
  hiding from every you know, every season we've improved the
• 43:06
  squad. So the players have got to be
• 43:09
  better and better each year if that you know they're going to
• 43:10
  get minutes and play games for this football club.
• 43:12
  So yeah. The the training camp will be
• 43:16
  huge for us again. Another thing that we offer that
• 43:19
  I don't think any of it therefore to free potentially
• 43:21
  Club to, you know, we're again, it's something professional.
• 43:26
  It gets everyone together. It's a team bonding and think.
• 43:28
  Yeah. And it also, you know, no hiding
• 43:31
  from, it gets Fitness up, but for the, especially the analyst
• 43:34
  you've got there as well, with, they can take all the
• 43:35
  measurements, can't they? Absolutely.
• 43:37
  We've got we've invested in data.
• 43:39
  So we've got GPS and all these sorts of data system.
• 43:42
  So, you know, for Dan and he spoke to me about his plans for
• 43:46
  the camp and apologies to the players already.
• 43:51
  You know, it'll only benefit them come the first game of the
• 43:53
  season. Yeah.
• 43:54
  And that's what the 7th 8th and 9th July, isn't it?
• 43:56
  So not this weekend, next weekend, coming up a workshop,
• 43:59
  private college and then you're into a Two friendlies when they
• 44:02
  returned 367 of them before the seasonal opener on the 20th of
• 44:06
  August. Yeah, absolutely.
• 44:08
  And I think this again was a, you know, real strategical in
• 44:11
  the pre-season friendly. So, we wanted to start with tier
• 44:15
  three teams really that, you know, we're not going to have
• 44:17
  the ball very much. So again, it's going to build
• 44:19
  Fitness and and give players time off the ball, so we can
• 44:23
  work on tactical shame for the ball, you know, and then coming
• 44:27
  into probably within six to, eight weeks time.
• 44:29
  We're playing against teams more round in the round.
• 44:31
  Level, you know, to try and be on the ball a little bit more
• 44:36
  and, you know, work on them side of things before the first home
• 44:39
  game on the 20th. Yeah.
• 44:41
  And one of the friendlies is Cambridge United women at home
• 44:44
  on the 6th of August, and that's open to the public.
• 44:48
  Yep. Yeah.
• 44:48
  So that's a be Lawns to a clock. You can mark that date down in
• 44:51
  your diary, if you are free. I local Derby in pre-season
• 44:55
  against Cambridge United, women Sunday, the 6th of, August,
• 44:57
  that, Abby, lawns in a to p.m. kickoff.
• 45:00
  But, yeah, you've got some From a man's perspective, certainly
• 45:03
  household names in there, you know, and they've got their own
• 45:05
  women's section. Now, the likes of wolves, it's,
• 45:08
  which Norwich less the city as well.
• 45:11
  So, you know, they're not going to be, it's not gonna be an easy
• 45:14
  preseason. Shall we send it?
• 45:16
  Perhaps shouldn't be an easy preseason?
• 45:17
  No, no that's been done on purpose.
• 45:19
  Yes. And yeah, we, we wanted to again
• 45:23
  Community. We wanted to give the fans some
• 45:25
  really good games in pre-season, you know, we're playing wolves.
• 45:27
  We've got Leicester city MKX Rich, know, whoever it is.
• 45:31
  Is they're all really good clubs that people can come down, enjoy
• 45:35
  and get a taste for what, you know, what they're going to see.
• 45:36
  This isn't had, yeah, and you got Norwich at home as well.
• 45:39
  I belong as well. So, you know, plenty of
• 45:41
  opportunities in pre-season during the school holidays, in
• 45:45
  opportunity for families to come down as well.
• 45:47
  You know, and see what Peterborough United women are.
• 45:51
  All about fixtures. Aren't out yet though out soon
• 45:56
  16th of July, 16th of July. Okay?
• 45:58
  And the first matches, the 20th of August, and And no doubt
• 46:02
  you'll be looking for the FA Cup drawer as well.
• 46:05
  Don't wait for that one. Yeah, yeah.
• 46:06
  That's a big one. This is.
• 46:08
  Yeah. And will that be the
• 46:09
  pre-qualifying again? I believe.
• 46:10
  So. Yeah.
• 46:11
  We come in the third round, qualifying.
• 46:13
  Yeah. And then it goes to the first
• 46:14
  round. Proper.
• 46:15
  Yeah. After that as well.
• 46:16
  So looking to emulate that success and then looking ahead
• 46:19
  to the club's that you'll be facing this season, you've got
• 46:22
  four new ones in the fa Women's National League Division 1,
• 46:27
  Midlands division that the Peterborough United women are
• 46:30
  in. You've got Sutton, coldfield,
• 46:31
  Knox County, women Boulder, Miss at Michaels and look, bro,
• 46:34
  lightning who no doubt, bring their own challenges.
• 46:37
  Yeah, absolutely. It will be another tough season,
• 46:39
  you know, there's some really good teams in this league.
• 46:41
  So for us, we've gotta make sure, you know, every training
• 46:44
  session, every game, the players and the staff do everything
• 46:46
  properly, they're professional. And hopefully we'd like to think
• 46:49
  from the players we brought in, you know, the recruitment we've
• 46:52
  done and what was put in place for this season.
• 46:54
  You know, off, I've made the Target Clear, already?
• 46:58
  It should have a really good season.
• 47:00
  Yeah. And when you look at, Sutton
• 47:02
  coldfield have been promoted, Notts County, both promoted.
• 47:06
  So they'll be on a high note out.
• 47:07
  I wanted to prove themselves at this level and that poses, its
• 47:10
  own challenges hundred percent. And the good thing with the
• 47:12
  league is that every clubs really different, and some
• 47:15
  gloves will play certain brand of football.
• 47:17
  For example, solihull Moors are very good passing the ball on
• 47:19
  the floor and you'll get other clubs that, you know, might play
• 47:22
  a bit longer. And again, it's time to their
• 47:25
  strength 100%. And that's why, you know, that's
• 47:27
  football and that's why, you know, the manager and the staff
• 47:30
  and the team have got to be prepared.
• 47:31
  Yeah, no not forgetting a couple of local derbies in there as
• 47:34
  well. For Posh fans, just to mark your
• 47:36
  card within the fix to come out and often town and Lincoln City
• 47:40
  as well. So, look out for those two
• 47:41
  fixtures. When the women's fixtures are
• 47:44
  released in middle of July depan this sort of level women say
• 47:49
  this, with all due respect that they saw level, when you compare
• 47:51
  it to say, you know, maybe the men's side for example, but how
• 47:55
  do you kind of do your homework on your opponent's?
• 47:57
  I mean, is that you send scouts out or is there is there data
• 48:00
  readily available? Had you kind of Dr. To analyze.
• 48:02
  What? Who you're going to be facing?
• 48:04
  Yeah, so previously, it was obviously very difficult but
• 48:06
  we've got, you know, it's called vo vo analysis, where it's like
• 48:11
  an amazing camera that tracks every sort of movement within a
• 48:14
  game. So we've got them where our head
• 48:18
  of analysis, you know, will any footage we can get from
• 48:21
  opposition teams, he'll analyze that and give it to the manager,
• 48:24
  whatever the manager needs. But also, we've got a little
• 48:27
  scouting group that, you know, they had of that scouting group.
• 48:31
  We'll send people out to different games.
• 48:34
  So for example, if we've got, I don't know.
• 48:36
  Solihull Moore's next weekend for this weekend's game.
• 48:39
  They'll go out and see them. They'll put a report together
• 48:41
  and I'll give it to the manager. So it just gives us another
• 48:44
  again, professionalism and gives us another sort of angle for the
• 48:47
  manager to really prep for that game.
• 48:49
  And it's kind of fine margin advantages over other clubs in
• 48:51
  it to doing that. Extra bit of work though,
• 48:53
  perhaps others are doing 100% And I've always been, you know,
• 48:55
  a big a big believer in 1% as a novice the same when I was a
• 48:58
  player and on the same now and every one percent that we Can
• 49:02
  gain, you know, that adds up and hopefully it means free points
• 49:06
  on a Sunday. Yeah, right.
• 49:07
  We're rapidly coming to the end of the show this evening and
• 49:09
  Bobby, it's been great catching up with you and hearing about
• 49:12
  the fabric that obviously went on last season.
• 49:14
  The developments that have taken place over the last few weeks
• 49:17
  and hopes and aspirations looking ahead to the 2324 season
• 49:22
  down at Abbey Lawns, which is where you play your home games
• 49:25
  as well. Fixtures throughout middle of
• 49:27
  July 1st game will be the 20th of August.
• 49:31
  Well, hopefully, that will be at home, Abby, Lawns, but will
• 49:34
  await those fixtures, and perhaps just a final word from
• 49:38
  you in terms of fans listening this evening and also hopes and
• 49:43
  aspirations for the forthcoming season.
• 49:45
  Yeah. I think if you, if you haven't
• 49:47
  been watching and you know, have a watch next season because you
• 49:50
  know what we're building and what we're delivering between
• 49:53
  our woman is issued and it's exciting and the football that
• 49:57
  we play is a real good brand of football.
• 49:59
  It's a real family experience. And No, real immersive
• 50:02
  experience that people can enjoy and in terms of hopes and
• 50:06
  aspirations, you know, it will be very clear to the players and
• 50:09
  staff in the and it's in the strategy.
• 50:11
  It will be to get promoted. It will be to get to the third
• 50:13
  round. FA Cup again will be to win the
• 50:14
  county cup, you know, there's no hiding from that and if we do
• 50:18
  everything that you know, we do we need to do, I've no doubt
• 50:20
  will achieve them things, brilliant stuff, Bobby thank you
• 50:23
  very much for your time this evening.
• 50:24
  It's great to have you back on the show as well and great to
• 50:27
  hear the fabulous work, that you may be the general manager of
• 50:31
  but But, you know, we mentioned Gary here, but everybody behind
• 50:33
  the scenes there as well. No, not everybody behind the
• 50:38
  scenes on and off the pitch, everybody for PCR Sports.
• 50:41
  Wishes, you all the best for the forthcoming season and we'll
• 50:45
  certainly keep a close eye on those fixtures and hopefully one
• 50:48
  or two of those games. If fixtures do for, kindly will
• 50:51
  be at the Western home, stadium as well, to give you that little
• 50:54
  bit more exposure, as well as the women's game now.
• 50:56
  Thank you for having me really appreciate, and not a problem,
• 50:58
  Gary. Thanks for coming, mate.
• 51:00
  Thanks for sitting in the background there.
• 51:01
  And we're going to finish the show this evening.
• 51:03
  We've got a bit of Ed Sheeran shape of you and we've got less
• 51:07
  wheeler coming up at seven but just leaves me to say.
• 51:10
  Thank you for listening very much.
• 51:12
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• 51:15
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• 51:18
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• 51:21
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