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It seemed a big task to integrate the new, but exciting squad. But, the players and
management made it look like a breeze and this is best shown by their league record of just one
loss and being unbeaten at home all season long.
The playing squad has been fully utilised and a flurry of goals has been supplied from
across the team, without forgetting the formidable back line and Jess Carberry in goal with
them being branded as ‘absolutely fantastic.’
“They’re all good people”, the 38-year-old said. “The types of girls we’ve got here, they all
get on, it doesn’t mean we don’t have our ups and downs and that we don’t have our own
disagreements but we’re all good people.
“The performances of people like Georgia Wood and Charlotte Cloy and Ceri and little
Charlotte [Tyers], Chelcee [Grimes] they’ve made a massive difference to this club because we
were adding to quality players that were already at Merseyrail.”
After the ecstasy, there is still work to do. The Toxteth-based side have made it to the semi
finals of the Liverpool Women’s Senior Cup against Mossley Hill, who they beat just weeks ago
to seal promotion.
Austin and the coaching staff have been keen to get the players to avoid complacency and
emphasising there is always something to play for in every game.
More importantly, from the club’s perspective, this is only the beginning. There are still
plenty of short and long term goals to accomplish and writes a new era for this exciting club:
“Everyone’s made up and happy that we’ve got that league and what it means, for me it’s about
progression.
This is just the start so it’s about building the infrastructure and the club up.”
One thing is for certain. All the time Lee Austin and his coaching set up is at the club,
they’re in safe hands to start a legacy.

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