""There's been a lot talk for many, many years, obviously the girls academy came which was really good, but I think this is quite pivotal now,""
""It bridges the gap when girls choose, 'do I want to do football or netball?' We've got that opportunity to give them off-island games and that is massive to keep them in the game.""
""It's going into the unknown a little bit," manager Chad Morris said. "I've spoken to some of the managers, for instance the side who we're playing on Sunday got relegated from the league above last year, we've spoken to the managers who played against them so we've got a bit of a rundown on them. "But in this league we're in players turn around quite a bit, so they've already signed 10 new players, so we'll prepare as best we can with another plan that it could be a completely different set of players to what we're expecting come Sunday.""
Jersey Bulls Women will host Old Tiffinians to begin their debut campaign in the South East Counties Women's Football League Surrey Division One on Sunday. This marks the first time a women's football team from Jersey has competed in an English league, six years after the men's team made their debut. The side start in the seventh tier, with many players having represented Jersey at the Island Games where the team finished sixth after an opening-day loss to Bermuda. The move provides off-island fixtures to help retain players and faces uncertainty due to high player turnover among opponents.
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