Jersey Bulls Women win league title in style

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Jersey Bulls Women win league title in style

Jersey Bulls Women complete a perfect season after thrashing Milford and Witley 12-3 to win their league title.

Jersey Bulls Women win league title in style

Jersey Bulls Women complete a perfect season after thrashing Milford and Witley 12-3 to win their league title.

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Jersey Bulls Women completed a perfect season as they thrashed Milford and Witley 12-3 to win their league title.

The islanders - in their first-ever season in English league football - won every game they played in South East Counties Women's Football League Surrey Division One.

The Bulls scored 144 goals across their 18-game campaign - including an incredible 30-0 win against Guildford Saints in January that was later removed from their records after their opponents pulled out of the league.

Their final win of the season ensured Bulls finished top of the promotion group of their division with the club hoping they can be promoted by more than one level next season.

"The idea of the Jersey Bulls Women was set up for the better players on the island to get opportunities to go off, but it was also for them to then become role models, which they've taken on and for younger players to look up to them," manager Chad Morris told BBC Radio Jersey.

"All the credit's got to go the players. They could have switched off today and I'd have moaned at them, but really you couldn't moan at them because they'd done the job; it's been a hard season.

"We sat here in June and wanted dedication and for them all to buy into it, but that's easy to do in June when it's sunny and you're sitting here in your shorts.

"It's a different matter at 04:30 in January when you're travelling away and it's freezing cold, so I've got nothing but praise for them, they're a great bunch of players and the effort and the dedication they put in is just unreal."

A 30-0 win & nearly 100 goals in 11 games - meet the bulldozing Bulls

Top scorer Anita Tavares gave Bulls an eighth-minute lead before Milford pulled a goal back a minute later.

Roisin Flynn scored the first of five goals soon after before Sam Silva Pinto made it 3-1 after 15 minutes.

Flynn got her second before the visitors scored again to make it 4-2 at half time.

The hosts ran riot in the second half as they scored five goals in the first 20 minutes to take it to 9-2 - Holly Sundby scoring a hat-trick and Flynn and Tavares each getting another.

Flynn hit two more while Leah Morris also got on the scoresheet in between a third Milford goal.

"It was absolutely amazing," said Tavares, who took her tally to 41 goals for the season.

"It was such a nice feeling to win it with these girls. We've obviously played the whole season and won every single game, gone unbeaten, so it's just an amazing feeling to be crowned champions."

Tavares will be leaving the side to head off to university, as will Morris, meaning there will be some changes for the 2026-27 campaign.

"There'll be players coming back from uni plus academy players coming in, so that's like the evolution of a football team and this happens," manager Morris explained.

"We might have to tweak a bit how we play and we're going up a league so we need to have a look at them.

"It keeps changing year after year with younger players coming in, players coming back from uni, some players leaving, so it's a case of a season by season but the strength to your team is to build a way of playing around that."

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