Whilst we all wait for the men's first team to sign someone more exciting than a third choice goalkeeper, there's been a number of incomings and outgoings for the women's first team.
It's been mentioned on here elsewhere, but we've signed attacker Olivia Fergusson from Celtic; but we've had a number of departures, some understandable, some frustrating.
* Laura Cooper - Coops has been brilliant for us in the last couple of years, in the "Phil Neville role" of playing literally everywhere. I'll be really sorry to see her go, but she's leaving due to work commitments, which is understandable.
* Ali MIller - Another really good player, often case in the supersub role; and a fantastic human being too. She's taking a break from football to complete her PhD, which again you really can't blame her for at all.
* Ria Elsmore - Ria didn't play that much which was a bit disappointing, as she didn't seem to put a foot wrong when she did.
* Naomi Bedeau - this is the really frustrating one, although you absolutely can't blame the player for this. She's moving to Newcastle, who have just been promoted to our division, to take up the opportunity to become a full-time footballer and do it as a career. She's not been with us long, but how can you be irritated at someone for following their dreams? The real problem is that Wolves have decided to stay amateur when so many of the teams around us have turned fully pro or semi-pro; we've managed to attract good players by opening all the facilities to the women's team, but unfortunately unless Jeff fixes it, we'll get more and more good young players doing this - I'm amazed no-one has come in for Tammi George yet for example.
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