Highfield Grange Hoops

For everyone who has followed the Hoops journey.

This is our platform for the 24/25 season, continuing following the Hoops Girls 🍀⚽️

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FC Britannia Hoops Welcome to FC Britannia Hoops U12 (Girls)

Rosegrove (a)

Pre season game number 2 for the girls today and we took the travel across to Burnley to face a well organised Rosegrove squad.

The girls started the game strong and nearly took an early lead.

We then took our foots off the gas and allowed Rosegrove to capitalise on silly errors / mistakes which cost us to go 2-0 down after 12 minutes of play.

Isla had a great battle on the LW and proved her part to play in the team today with some great footwork and despite being one of the small and youngest on the pitch, battled hard against her opposite number.

Emma & Kat showed positives across the game, and not shying away from challenges & being a key to the defence side of our game.

Kat come away from the game as POTM, this was down to playing in more than one position on the pitch, no complaints and a 100% work rate when on the pitch💪🏽👏🏽

Great to see new girls Emmie and Emily starting to showcase their talent but we are still waiting for the click, which after 2 games in the new team, we are sure it will soon come altogether!

Jaz, contributing to the defence and being the rock at the back, we are very proud of how well Jaz has performed in the highfield shirt in these last 3 games and is certainly a versatile player who always gives 100% work rate. A lesson learnt from our 1st friendly, did not have an easy game as Rosegrove had a brilliant striker but Jaz did what she needed to in areas of the game to keep the player quiet. Coming up against good level strikers is only going to progress Jaz’ defensive play.

Millie, Emilia & Imogen, took to the field and worked well in parts of the match. Millie got some great opportunities on goal which was great to see the go forward and willingness to attack.
Emilia the missing shin pads, aggressive in defence and continues to play with her head down👀😂
Imogen, a tired version today but our Rottweiler and engine in the middle of the park.

Hollie C carried on with her positive threat in attack, with a strong corner played in which got her first assist of the U12s campaign💪🏽👏🏽

Jessica in goals, loud and vocal as what we expect from our captain & a huge personality at the back for us, great vision of the game & retrieving the ball well with good footwork and agility to get out from her line.

We wish Athena the best and hope that her injury is not anything serious!🙏🏽

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If you have made it this far, today was the last day the girls are playing under the Highfield Grange AFC banner. We would like to say a big thank you to the club for giving the girls a club for playing football in their first full season but we now look forward to our new club at FC Britannia where we will be based down at William Fosters ahead of the Wigan Girls League.

A big thank you to Rembuild Ltd sponsoring the girls this season and we hope to continue working with you in the future!

We take a week off from football as we rest up before the Wigan Cup 🏆

Well done today girls and onto the next one!

Training tonight:

25 minutes for fitness training. A key to our game this season is being one of the fittest teams in the league, big engines to get through the full match!

We looked at our first touch and pass in which does need a lot of work putting into place from the girls to make sure we are comfortable and confident on the ball when playing out on the attack.

Isla was awarded player of training from Pep🏆

We look forward to travel out to Burnley this weekend for a friendly against Rosegrove Girls set up⚽️

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Well, Jess HAS ONLY GONE AND DONE IT!

Successful in the first stage or her trial and invited back down for the next stage at Burnley FC!

Keep up the hard work Jess👏🏽💪🏽⚽️

After some positive news last week of our #1 smashing her extra GK Training..

Jess has now taken it to the next level and is going for trials at Burnley FC🤩

No matter the outcome, we are all proud of you at the Hoops. Go and enjoy yourself, be confident and do what Jess does best🧤

After some positive news last week of our #1 smashing her extra GK Training..

Jess has now taken it to the next level and is going for trials at Burnley FC🤩

No matter the outcome, we are all proud of you at the Hoops. Go and enjoy yourself, be confident and do what Jess does best🧤

Sunday Shoutouts!!

Skyla - Netball

Emilia & Millie - Sunday Football

Great to see the Hoops girls excelling in not only the Hoops but in other sports & teams

Well done 👏🏽

Pre season training strikes again!

Very proud with how professional these girls are starting their U12s campaign. Lots of focus being shown & listening to the finest detail with drills and messages being coached.

10 minutes of HIT training to start the girls off then we split with outfield players working on their strength & general ball play & Jess working 121 with JH Community Football Coaching

In the game at the end, we continued with the stop, listen & play method then allowed the girls to play a 10 minute match implementing the key pointers.

The girls listened well to Stephen in the drills and showed some positive results in the game!

Highlighted players:
Emma - work rate
Emily - aggression
Athena - confidence and quick turnaround from defence to attack - 🏆

Weekend off for the Hoops before our next friendly on the 13th July

Our number 1 and Captain 🏆

Great to see Jess putting in the hard work outside of Hoops training 💪🏽

Hoops v Sankey - Friendly

Following on from last week’s tournament the Hoops faced Sankey away in a friendly. Sankey took an early lead but the Hoops fought back brilliantly with Hollie C scoring a penalty and firing home a brilliant free kick to go in level at HT. The Hoops battled hard in the second half but just fell short by the final whistle.

Two amazing performances from Emilia and Imogen who battled hard all morning giving 100% for thier team saw them pick up coaches and opponents player of the match 🥇 👏🏻

Proud sponsor Rembuild Ltd