 Well girls, thank you so much for joining us. We're down here at a Reaver on Bournemouth Beach. We're going to be chatting with a tea and coffee about all things women's football. We're going to talk to you about your season so far, the game at stadium, life outside of work, we're going to get it all. Am maesie, I'm going to kick off with you. You're the captain of the side. Just sum it up for us this year so far. Yeah, it's been a great season, I mean. We were unbeat in far for quite a while obviously until Sunday. Street Bar Repeat, Ac mae'n gweinidol wedi ei gweinidol cysyllt i'r amser, allan o'r llwyffaint o'r amser, ond i'n gweithio'r amser yn Lai Llywodraethol, yn telefonau hynny. Felly ychynig am ei gweithio ym ten arall, i chi'n rhan o'i rydw i ymd Lywodraeth, nid o gweithio, oherwydd ydym yn y lle yn gyweithio arifedwyr ac yn amddai gyda'r gweith. Sam, nad ydych chi'n flwyddyn. Ni'n cymdeithas arlawni ysgol ym Ysgolriaeth Sryliau Pwyllydd, Wyddech chi'n sylwedd dweud i'r 4 sefydliad – am gyfrindio'r 4 sefydliad y cwyl dechrau ar EFC Bournemouth? Mae'n dweud yn iawn. Dwi'n meddwl y tîm agor i ysgliadu i'r ddechrau ddechrau. Ac yn dysgu pan yn fawr a amddai am gael bod pobl yn gweithio'r reddi fel yr oem sy'n gallu gwyfrindydd sy'n gallu cynhargyl Coeulio'r game yn gyny smoothly. Am ffiniad, dyma'n ddwy i'n ei gwybr. Roedd ni'n gallu yn gallu bod i'r Bournemouth, rwy'n gysyllt hwn. I literally never know. This girl was a girl that literally would never leave full town. When I messaged her and she was like, yeah, I'm thinking about leaving, I was like, oh my god! I couldn't believe it! So we're putting it down to you that Sam's come this season. Yeah, I'm still asking Steve for my money for that, but... And we've had quite a few new players come this season, like some Becky Barth, Katie James, Jade Bradley. How much have they settled in with the group? Obviously, I know we're quite far into the season now, but they all came, they're all fresh faces. They all had the experience of tier four football. How nice was that for you? Yeah, amazing. You know, I think they've made a massive impact on us this season, having experience in the leagues above. Obviously, we've had some youngsters come up, so them girls have really helped out the youngsters as well. So yeah, it's great to have them girls. How impressed have you been with those younger ones? We've had Lucy Keeper, Ellie Elkins, Hannah Francis. They've done so well, haven't they? Absolutely amazing. I don't think if you were to line them up with everyone else, you wouldn't be able to pull them out that they had any less experience or were any younger than anyone. They've stepped straight in and fit straight in really well. Well, we need to talk about Lucy Keeper because she's just won March's goal of the month board. Oh my God, she's insane. Honestly, I think before she scored that goal, somebody had just got injured and we were standing round. I said to Lucy, I said, Lucy, just be confident and take someone on and shoot. Two seconds later, she did that and I was like, oh my God! I was like, I'm going to say that to you every week now. It was amazing going, oh, imagine at that age to win, win goal of the month. She must have been buzzing. So you're taking the credit for that one as well? I'm taking credit for everyone. I'm taking credit for Sam, Lucy, everything. In all seriousness, it's been great this year, hasn't it? Because we've had Lucy have that recognition. We've had Becky win that award earlier in the season. We had Becky on our club podcast and the integration between the men's team and the women's team this year seems to be the best of it ever. It's amazing. I've been at Bournemouth four or five seasons now and it's just amazing to see how far it's come and the tops the other day. It's just things like that that are just so nice. Let's talk about that. I mean, I don't think either of you are at the game, but when you found out that Mark Travers was warming up in a shirt that said, Crips 12 on the back and you saw Lloyd Kelly with Smith and your number on the back. That must have been quite a surreal moment for you guys. It's brilliant. When KJ sent me a picture, I was like, oh, shout out. I didn't believe her. And then when I saw it on Twitter, I was like, oh my God, I couldn't believe it. But yes, it's so nice. It's quality. I love it. Now, for you, you've obviously been here five years. What sort of are the changes that you've seen? Even small things like, for example, now you're all in the same kit. You've got a bus that takes you to away games before it would all have to be very much self-funded, right? Yeah, very. Like I remember when I first joined and we were like putting the goals out and now we would never do that. Like, yeah, we would like dragging the goals out and everything and like the little mini bus. It's just so much has changed and we go up on the coach as a team and things like that. Just it's just brilliant. Yeah. Now for you girls, we've got a really, really exciting end of the season because we're talking about another first here. The first league game for our women's team at Vitality Stadium. Just talk to us about how you found out that was going to be happening in a new thought process. I think I've played at the Vitality twice now and both times I got cramp. So that's not so exciting, but yeah, it's lovely playing there. We haven't played a league game there, so every time we've played there it's been a friendly, which is good as well, but playing a league game there will be really interesting, really good. You've never played there, have you, Sam? We've had some friendlies there before, but you've never, you weren't here. No, nothing. I did the open session that was there before Christmas with the younger ones that were there and that was really good in itself, just playing in front of them and afterwards signing all the bits and pieces for them and pictures and that, but no, a game would be a completely different ball game, I think. It would be really good, really nice experience. You girls, you're not even part-time, you know, you don't get paid to play, but you get so much from it. So when you have little girls coming up to you asking you for autographs at the side of the pitch and things like that, is that a bit of a surreal moment? It's mad. I think they got a picture of me, one of the girls asked for a picture and there's a picture of me having my picture taken. I think I was more buzzing to be asked to have it done than what she was getting it taken. That's how I feel. I'm like a fan of my fan. Yeah, I'm like, do you want a picture with me? Can I have one with you? You talking to me? Yeah. Now, I'm sure you're probably going to get a lot more of that, you know, as you get the exposure of playing at the stadium and you get that exposure of playing in front of a bigger crowd. How nice is it for you when you look up at that crowd and you see all those little girls there because they were there for the open training session and you guys are an inspiration to them because you were that little girl one day. Yeah, it's amazing, you know. Like I say, when I joined Bournemouth four or five years ago, you didn't get that then and now when I see things like that, it just goes to show how far we've come. It's amazing and I've got a girl that plays for the under-10s who's a massive fan now and her dad sent me a picture the other day she's had a photo framed with me and her. It's just crazy. I'm like, oh my God. To me, I'm just a normal person that gets up in the morning and goes to work so it seems strange but it's amazing. Well, I do also want to talk to you both about work because as we've just said, you're not full-time professional footballers. You do have lives, you do have a job to go to, you're nine to five. Now, you both work for the NHS. Madee, I'll start with you. Just explain for those people who don't know what you do every day. So I work in a rehab ward. I work with patients over the age of 65 that have had either an operation or an illness or someone trying to get them back to their mobility and that before they had the illness or something. But yeah, I've worked in the NHS for about five or six years now and on top of that, play football. So yeah, I work full-time and then go to football training after. I used to work 12 hours yesterday and then go straight to training. So it is hard, but when you love football, it's what you do. Sam, you're a student nurse. Just tell us a little bit more about that. That must be very rewarding as well. It is very rewarding. I only started in September though, so I'm still pretty new. But before, like, Madee, I work at Paul Hospital so doing a similar sort of stuff to Madee as a HCI. But I've done that for five years and I love it, absolutely love it. Now, we normally play in front of 150, 200 people down at Verwood. It's fantastic. I mean, the support we get is brilliant considering we're, you know, 20 minutes away from Bournemouth as it is in Verwood. To have this game at the stadium, I think we've sold about 800 tickets so far. How amazing would it be to see as many people in that stadium as possible, as many Bournemouth fans as can get there? Yeah, it would be amazing. Really, really good. For them to see it as well, I think for some of them, it might be the first time that they would have watched a women's game, maybe. In a stadium, definitely. But, yeah, it would be really good. Really nice to get a win for them as well. What would your message be to anyone that's watching this and is thinking of coming down to that game on the 10th of April against Chesham? My message would be, don't think about it, just come. Just come. It will be worth it, honestly. It absolutely will. It will be very much worth it. Well, girls, thank you so much for joining us. It's been lovely to catch up, sit down, and yeah, we're looking forward to that one on the 10th of April against Chesham United. Be there.