Jo Potter's Rangers Women side defeated Queen's Park 14-0 [Credit: Rangers TV]
Jo Potter's Rangers Women side defeated Queen's Park 14-0 [Credit: Rangers TV]

Rangers Women leading the way after nine-goal victory over Queen's Park

Jonathan Burnett

Jonny is a University of Leeds journalism graduate who became part of the FootballInsider team in Spring 2024, and recently worked as Head of Media for Widnes Vikings Rugby League club. Writing as a freelance reporter and commentator for The Sporting News and StatsPerform, he has covered matches in competitions including the FIFA Men's and Women's World Cups, as well as the Champions League, Women's Euro 2022, Six Nations and the Rugby Union World Cup.

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Rangers Women made it three wins and three clean sheets in a row with a 9-0 win over Queen's Park in the Scottish Women's Premier League on 21 August.

Seven different scorers netted for the Gers as they stormed to the top of the SWPL table at Broadwood Stadium, being 5-0 up at half-time and keeping a third consecutive clean sheet in the process.

Kirsty Howat (two), Chelsea Cornet, Brogan Hay, Rio Hardy, Kathy Hill, Laura Berry and SWPL top scorer Katie Wilkinson were all on the scoresheet [Club Website, 21 August], as the Gers made it 24 goals in just three matches so far.

An own goal rounded off the scoring for the Light Blues, who overtook Hearts at the summit and now have a goal difference of +24, suggesting they are the team to beat this season.

Rangers become early pace-setters with Queen's Park victory

Scoring 24 goals without reply in three games of a new campaign is perhaps the best possible start any club has made to a league season – and certainly one the Gers men's side would kill for this season.

Jo Potter's team are not only spearheaded by the SWPL's top scorer in Wilkinson – who already has eight goals to her name – they also have a number one in Jenna Fife who is yet to concede a goal.

That sets up the foundations of a strong campaign as Potter's side look to re-gain the title they lost at the final hurdle last season, losing out to arch-rivals Celtic on goal difference.

Celtic overturning a four-point gap in the Championship Round and recording a goal difference of +108 to the Gers' +95 suggests that this column of the final table looks set to be crucial once again.

With the Light Blues having already built a goal difference which is 10 better than Celtic's +14, it's clear that Potter is not willing to lose out on another league title in such agonising circumstances.

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