Hello and welcome to Blue Royalty a London's blue podcast dedicated to the Chelsea women's team

I'm your host Jesper Compre is joined today by Abdullah Abdullah and the lesser spotted Nick Vellani guys boys. How's it going all good all good?

It's been a minute. Yeah, he's here. I'm back. I think we love to see back baby. We're ready to go

I needed something positive to talk about so when I got the bat signal up in the air

Abdullah is wearing the bad shirt, but any sort of positive news. Yes, sounds great

Yeah, we are on the seven day countdown until we maybe get to watch some good football at Stanford Bridge

I don't want to drink anything because it is our first game of the season which historically is not the best football

But honestly at this point the girls I think could just turn up and stand around and it's still look better than most of what we're watching

At the moment, so Nick Abdullah and I are going to use this episode

And another one we're sort of going to split this into two parts to do our big

23-24 season preview because we're finally getting around to actually

Watching some women's football which would be nice to see so

Aaron Kasper and Kat McCarrie were paraded around the pitch just to show over on what they're missing

Half-time today. So that was nice too

We've already done a predictions episode

And as part of that we put a little form out so you could get some of your predictions in

And I just thought we'd kick off today by by flagging some of the things we've discovered

About what the Chelsea women's fan base are looking forward to the season

Um, it's it's a landslide for Shurkanuskan in terms of being the player everyone is most excited about

I think that Roma performance has done a lot of favors

A two-way battle going on for who will play the most minutes this season between

Millie and

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