{"id":585720,"date":"2021-03-05T10:39:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T15:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=585720"},"modified":"2021-03-05T10:39:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T15:39:53","slug":"lauren-smith-excited-with-tottenham-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/03\/05\/lauren-smith-excited-with-tottenham-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren Smith ‘Excited’ About Partnership With Rehanne Skinner at Tottenham Hotspur"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lauren Smith praised the vision and professionalism of Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> head coach Rehanne Skinner and says the club is targeting a top-half finish in the Women\u2019s Super League<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lauren Smith ‘Excited’ to Work With Rehanne Skinner<\/h2>\n

Lauren Smith Enjoying Her Time at Spurs<\/h3>\n

Smith arrived as Skinner\u2019s assistant coach in January<\/a> after holding the same position with the Wales national women\u2019s team.<\/p>\n

In a virtual press conference organised by Next Gen Sports Solutions<\/a> earlier this week, she said: \u201cIt\u2019s been really enjoyable and interesting for me because she was the assistant manager at Wales before I took the job there.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe left and I almost replaced her. People think we know each other, but we\u2019ve actually never met before until we started talking about Spurs. She was one of the main reasons that made me decide to make the move there because of her vision and professionalism.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe likes to work collaboratively and wanted somebody to support the vision she was trying to achieve at Tottenham. That\u2019s what was really exciting for me.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a long-term project to achieve with Rehanne and I\u2019m excited to be a part of it and work with her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Top-Four a Long-Term Target<\/h3>\n

The Spurs assistant coach says that the long-term target is to break into the top four of the Women\u2019s Super League, but says the aim for this season is to secure a top-half finish.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this moment the focus for us is maintaining a high-performance environment, and eventually build a squad that\u2019s striving to be in the top four and to be the best. We don\u2019t want to settle.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut a top-half finish would be a successful season for us this year. There\u2019s been a lot of change from players coming in, along with myself, Rehanne and some of the staff too. Because of all the change, a top-half finish would be a good achievement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spurs are in the midst of their second season in the Women\u2019s Super League after winning promotion in 2019, and Smith feels that the gap between the current top four and the rest will slowly decrease in the coming years.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt present, you could say it is closing one week and then the next you\u2019d be seeing the top sides winning by seven goals.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a very big difference in quality if the best teams are on top form. But if they don\u2019t produce their finest performances, then there are definitely points to be had.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve got to be at your best when you play them, and do everything you can to take advantage of any sort of drop in the performance levels of the top teams.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut over the next few years, I\u2019m sure there will be changes in that top four.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Lauren Smith praised the vision and professionalism of Tottenham Hotspur head coach Rehanne Skinner and says the club is targeting a top-half finish in the Women\u2019s Super League. Lauren Smith ‘Excited’ to Work With Rehanne Skinner Lauren Smith Enjoying Her Time at Spurs Smith arrived as Skinner\u2019s assistant coach in January after holding the same […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3766,"featured_media":585729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7008,24,7007],"tags":[8399,4178],"class_list":["post-585720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-womens-super-league","category-tottenham","category-womens-football","tag-lauren-smith","tag-tottenham-hotspur-women"],"modified_by":"Tom Cunningham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3766"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}