Get rid of your negative energy!
"Is she still asleep?"
"Let me just add in a little goal."
That would be unfortunate, wouldn't it?
Welcome to Kickin' Back,
presented by Standard Chartered.
It's a brisk February morning here in the heart of Liverpool
and I'm about to go and meet two of the biggest personalities
in the Liverpool Women dressing room.
But first, I've got to get the coffees in.
Yes, girls. Hello, how are you?
- Taylor, there you go. - Thank you.
- Shall we 'cheers'? - Did you remember the caramel?
Lovely.
Come on then, let's go to the front.
Oh, it's a bit cold, isn't it, girls?
Freezing.
You've done well putting your hair up, I didn't get the memo.
So talk to me, yous live together,
do yous do this often, come down here with a coffee, have a stroll?
I mean, not at this time of the morning, no!
We're probably both in bed at this time of the morning.
No, we'd just about be leaving for training.
But on days off it is nice,
when the weather's nice,
just to come for a little stroll down the docks, definitely.
What else do you do on a day off? If you've got no training,
it's rest day, what happens in yours?
BOTH: Erm...
I feel like sometimes we go out shopping,
see family, friends...
Yeah, pretty much.
I feel like we're always busy.
I don't like being in, I just get a bit too bored by myself.
Is there any rituals you have in the morning - do you put a sock on before,
do you have a special cup of coffee?
I always like to have my food first, and then I'll get ready.
I'll either put the radio on or put music on for both of us.
So that's your morning? We love the tunes, it's going off. Leighanne?
I'm quite big on all the spiritual, meditation stuff.
Before a gameday especially I have my incense sticks on,
much to Taylor's delight!
Although I think you said you quite like the smell now.
Yeah, I actually don't mind the smell.
Some of the other girls when they come down to the apartment,
Ashley Hodson hates it, she walks in: "Oh, it smells of burning in here!"
All the time, I'm like, "It's my sticks,
"get rid of your negative energy, knew you were coming in!"
"Shoo!"
But my morning routine, so Taylor's got music on,
cold showers, I've got onto that in the mornings.
Nearly every day, but I can't say days off
where I don't necessarily need to wake up like that, I'm not doing it.
But definitely before training and before a game.
Once I've got ready, breakfast and that, I'll try and do a little 10-minute meditation.
More so visualisation, how the game's gonna go...
Did you visualise your hat-trick?
I can't lie, I thought, "Let me just add in a little goal", but...
Meditating like, "One of them, yeah, and one of them..."
I didn't visualise three.
To be fair, the meditation Robey mentioned, it has helped me,
I sleep with sleeping music, meditation music.
What, like, water or something?
Yeah, things like that, it actually helps me sleep.
Sometimes I just lay there for five minutes and have a little think.
Well, Taylor, you've just signed a new contract as well,
so you must be enjoying it.
That would be unfortunate, wouldn't it?
But you came from Everton, talk to me about that,
just joining Liverpool, how have you found it on a personal level?
I think at first I was a bit nervous, joining Liverpool from Everton,
knowing the rivalry, but I love Liverpool as a city.
Do you feel like you're at home when you're here now?
Definitely, it's just normal to me now,
it's literally just a new home for me.
Well, Leighanne, you're practically part of the furniture at Liverpool now,
how have you found this season?
I'm in my fourth season at Liverpool
and this season has definitely been the most enjoyable.
All the group of girls, the coaching staff, the atmosphere,
this year everyone's so close.
Of course you're happy for anything that's going on for each other.
There's still a lot to do before we can get excited.
If yous win it, can yous promise that I can come to yours for dinner?
Honey, we're not gonna be in, we're gonna be out somewhere!
Wherever we're celebrating, you can come.
Alright then, deal.
OK, girls, the fans have been in touch so you've got a few questions here.
You've got to pick the best question
and they're gonna win this Standard Chartered shirt,
signed by you guys, OK?
So, first question.
And, please, be honest.
Right, you can answer this one.
I'm a one-time snooze, to get me up in the morning.
"One-time snooze"!
I can hear her snooze button go off like every five minutes.
It's like eight minutes, isn't it, so eight minutes later...
No, what happens is I get up but forget to press 'stop', and I keep pressing 'snooze',
it does annoy me as well.
I'll be in the kitchen and I'm like... "That's my alarm again!"
I just forget to press 'stop'.
Sometimes if I haven't heard her come out of her room, I'm like, "Is she still asleep?"
"We're leaving in 15 minutes, is she up?!"
What about you, Taylor?
No, I don't hit 'snooze', literally when my alarm goes it just proper wakes me up,
so then I'm just awake.
- You're up and out? - Yeah.
I know it's a cliche but mine is literally the game at the weekend.
Especially when you're on a good run, want to stay top of the league.
It is just literally working towards what we're gonna do at the weekend.
I agree, I'm the same, because we're doing so well at the minute
I just want to train well to then play the game at the weekend.
I just want the week to go quick so it gets to the game.
And was it hard?
I actually didn't turn pro until I was 24,
which on average, men's and women's football, is quite late.
So for me that was a proper test of perseverance,
staying committed and not giving up, to get to where you want to be.
Lots of dedication, hard work, obviously the sacrifices you've got to make,
that sort of stuff, all normal but it all counts.
It does indeed, look at you now. What about you, Taylor?
I think obviously when you want to be professional at any job
there's a lot of challenges and ups and downs.
Even leading into it there's a lot of commitments that you have to make,
but I turned pro at 18 and that's all I wanted to do,
and doing that at a young age just shows how much I love it
and that's how much I wanted to play football.
Amazing.
We've got two questions in from people you might know.
I think that's for you, Taylor.
Do you ever leave her?
No, I actually don't, unless...
She won't leave me, but she will be standing at the door, and I'm like, "Oh..."
It just hurries her up a bit, but I would never leave her.
If we're gonna be late then we'll just be late together.
Has Kirsty left you before?
No, it's because Kirsty knows that I'm always racing against the clock
and it's a mad rush every day, but she's the same so that's cheeky coming from her!
And your teammate Katie has wrote in, referring to the social media message...
Know what, in the changing room,
we've got the changing room then the little corners next to the door,
and me and Taylor kept having to go round the corner saying, "Guys, shush..."
They were like, "Are you still doing it?!"
To be fair, Robey's the fussy one.
We had to take a selfie for it as well and we did about 20.
Erm, no...
Yeah, you were like, "Oh, no, Taylor, I can't do that."
I'm the fussy one?! I'm like this, Taylor is like, "No, I don't like that lighting."
- And then we're switching sides. - So how many takes?
But then I was like, "I like that one", and then...
How many takes, it was probably about 10.
No, I'd say 20, there was 10 on my phone and then...
We also used Hev's phone as well, one of our staff.
We actually did take that many, we said to Hev,
"Don't worry, you go, we'll take it on our phone and send it to you in a bit."
A lot of takes then!
Well, girls, that's all the questions,
so obviously not the two final questions, but do you have a favourite question?
- I think the snooze one. - Yeah.
Yous have got to sign this then, and then this is coming over to you.
Perfect. Nice one, girls.
Girls, it's almost time for you to get to training, so who's the designated driver?
We actually take it in turns.
Who's the better driver?
Me.
It depends if we're running late or not, if we're in a rush.
If we're in a rush, go to Robey!
That was my next question: if yous are late, who's getting the blame?
- Robey. - I have to take that, yeah.
What is training like now, are yous just buzzing to get into it,
after such a run you've been on?
Yeah, it is such a good atmosphere, everyone's in chatting,
having a laugh in the morning, music on in the gym.
Yeah, we have a little dance in the gym.
Little dance before training, but, yeah, it's good.
I think training itself has got a lot better as well, the standards,
it's got a lot more competitive as well,
everyone wants to train well all the time
and doing well really helps us to be in a good environment.
Well, listen, I'll let yous get off to training,
thank you so much for the chat.
BOTH: Thank you.
- Hopefully you enjoyed the coffees. - Yeah!
Alright then, girls, good luck with the rest of the season.
BOTH: Thank you.
And thank you, guys, for watching, we will see you next time on Kickin' Back.