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The Orient express rolls into south-west London on Sunday for our match against Comets at Barn Elms sports ground next to the Thames. Comets have existed since 1999, which is a great achievement and are an entertaining and welcoming bunch of all singing, all dancing rabble rousers.
Comets have been operating at this level since 2021, generally in the upper half of the division and being contenders for promotion in a good year. This year, they are: won two, lost two, having beaten AFC Leyton and Luton Town Development and lost close matches to Tooting Bec and London Academicals. Last season’s top scorer, Marissa Wilkins, has moved onto pastures new and, in her absence, the goals have been spread around with Elsa Wu as the current top scorer. They have, however, put together a good bunch of players.

Orient come into this match after an impressive 13-0 win in the FA Cup over Needham Market accomplished largely without Sammy Rowland, although she couldn’t be kept off the score sheet with a second half hat-trick. Poppy Binding and Wiktoria Kiszkis both bagged hat-tricks and Lucy Porter returned to action. Nice to see Emily Dilliway make her debut. Jade Keogh, who hit a brace in last season's corresponding fixture, is still out injured and we hope she gets well soon. Although we have had some close matches against Comets in the last two seasons, Orient are heavy favourites going into this match and will want to continue the excellent form.

Last results:-
Comets 3 Leyton Orient 4 (2 Feb 2025)
Leyton Orient 2 Comets 1 (24 Nov 2024)
Leyton Orient 5 Comets 4 (14 Apr 2024)
Comets 3 Leyton Orient 4 (17 Dec 2023)

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Our thanks to the club for shooting more and more video clips for the club's official Instagram and X channels. If you don't use Instagram or X, we've put the clips together so anyone can view the ladies efforts on YouTube by clicking the image above.

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One of the side-effects of being a Tier Seven club yet, despite the expectations of the league, we still haven't been eliminated. This means that previously arranged league matches have to be postponed to ensure the FA Cup competition stays on schedule. We've now had two league games delayed, one against AFC Croydon, the other against London Academicals, both due to our continued FA Cup successes.
Following our wins in the three qualifying rounds (with winning scores of 13:0, 5:1 and another 13:0) we find ourselves in the First Round "Proper", this is where the prize money grows rapidly and where the top FAWNL clubs enter the fray, the WSL professional teams join a little later. We have been drawn against Farnham Town WFC who play in the South-East Regional League Division One - that's at Tier Six. They have an impressive 100% record this season - so far! So do we. Somebody is going to be disappointed!
The game will be played at Farnham on 26th October. The reaction from our ladies is "we are really excited about the FA cup draw. Farnham town have had awesome results and have a great squad. We know its a huge test but we are ready for it".
We had no match scheduled for 19th October so the postponed game against AFC Croydon Athletic has been arranged for that date. Croydon represent a sharp increase in ability for us, they've played 3 league games, won 2 and drawn 1 (a scintillating 4:4 with pre-season title favourites South London WFC) so it will be a key league match.
This Sunday's fixtures are as follows:

Lge	AFC Croydon	:	Sporting Duet
Lge	Comets WFC	:	Orient
Lge	London Accies	:	AFC Leyton
Lge	South London	:	Luton Town
Lge	Tooting Bec	:	Islington Boro

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If you can make it to Barn Elms sports ground, located just across the Thames from Fulham's Craven Cottage, there's a lovely riverside walk along the Thames where all the local rowing clubs are located. Our correspondent Larry Peterson will be there and will be messaging into our live "studio" (something of a stretch is describing it thus) where his words and photos will be broadcast every couple of minutes (ish) onto our LIVE-TEXT Streaming service. There's no need to refresh or swipe the live text page, it automatically updates itself every 60 seconds, you won't miss a thing. There are no Ads, no cookies and there's no need to log-in to anything. The page is already posted, you can find it at: LIVE-TEXT Page We invite you to join us and follow along as the match progresses.

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