Nickname: Robin Banks
Playing position: Right Back Extraordinaire. Most valuable player of the season two years running
A comet since: 2009
Abode: Sadly now not the UK
Other hobbies: Travelling
Claim to fame: Elder sister maried to Paul Daniels
Favourite player: David Beckham
Team supported: Whoever is playing
Suggestion to improve football: Less cheating at a professional level. They should be ashamed to have to resort to such tactics.
Coach's comment: .

Nickname: Braggers
Playing position: left wing
A comet since: 2005
Abode: Clapham
Other hobbies: "watching or playing pretty much any sport and any random course I can take ... recent madness includes ballroom dancing, indian head massage and footie coaching"
Claim to fame: Appeared on Song for Christmas presented by Alan Titchmarsh
Favourite player: Ryan Giggs
Team supported: Man United
Suggestion to improve football: introduce 10 minute sin bins for yellow cards
Coach's comment: She's our Carlos. Assistant coach, master tactician, and a beautiful example of the Cruyff turn. Without her it would all fall apart.

Nickname: Hinchie
Playing position: Shit kicker at the back - sorry I mean defender!!
A comet since: 2007
Abode: Fulham
Other hobbies: Travelling
Claim to fame: not knowing who Ross Kemp was and going and talking to him with Sal.
Favourite player: Steven Gerrard and sorry David Beckham
Team supported: Liverpool
Suggestion to improve football: Bring in Goal cam
Coach's comment: Shy, retiring, demure, quiet, underconfident but legendary Australian centre back

Nickname: Barn Door
Playing position: withdrawn striker :)
A comet since: 2008
Abode: Mark's joint
Other hobbies: Eating, drinking, football and winding people up
Claim to fame: "Friends" with Cheryl Cole...I wish!
Favourite player: Wayne Rooney
Team supported: Burnley of course
Suggestion to improve football: introduce cameras to improve refereeing and reduce dull post-match discussions that will make no impact on decisions/games that have already been made/played
Coach's comment: The all new all singing all dancing Barn Door. Really couldn't hit one. No matter how close.

Nickname:
Playing position: defender
A comet since: 2002
Abode: Surbiton
Other hobbies: food, wine,reading, travelling, walking, fitness
Claim to fame: Nothing as of yet!
Favourite player: Henrik Larsson
Team supported: None
Suggestion to improve football: introduce tv screen like in rugby
Coach's comment: If I say she shall be my future wife will I be accused of favouritism? Or harassment? And do I care as long as it works?

Nickname:
Playing position: Goalkeeper
A comet since: 2007
Abode: Clapham South
Other hobbies: films, travelling, snowboarding, drinking
Claim to fame: Don't you already know?
Favourite player: Christiano Ronaldo
Team supported: Manchester United
Suggestion to improve football: Pay the English women's team more the £40 per day at the world cup
Coach's comment: We all dream of a team of Nikki Ts, a team of Nikki Ts, a team of Nikki Ts. WEEEE ALL DREAM OF A TEAM OF NIKKI Ts.

Nickname: Gee up
Playing position: Utility
A comet since: 2008
Abode: Citizen of the world
Other hobbies: Renaissance architecture
Claim to fame: Streetleague football is her life....
Favourite player: got to be Celine
Team supported: Norwegians are more into competitive whale watching.....
Suggestion to improve football:
Coach's comment: Still haven't decided her best position because she's brilliant at everything.

Nickname: Banana
Playing position: Central Defender
A comet since: 2008
Abode: Good old Brixton
Other hobbies: reading and art and stuff
Claim to fame: World famous in New Zealand
Favourite player: Richie McCaw
Team supported: West Ham
Suggestion to improve football: Less running, in fact no running at all would be ideal
Coach's comment: Apart from a love of power stations, she's really very normal. Amazing defender.

Nickname: bike
Playing position: Midfield, preferably centre alongside the famous Sally Dixon
A comet since: 2008
Abode: EAST London
Other hobbies: Does the pub count?
Claim to fame: this is SO incredibly dull, but I cannot for the life of me think of anything.. I went to high school where they filmed 10 Things I Hate About You. Lame, huh???
Favourite player: none of those poncy strikers, I prefer real men like Rio or Giggs. Ooh or John Terry, I like the way he plays. Ooh and Guadiola is the most gorgeous man(ager) alive.
Team supported: I think I'm supposed to say West Ham. Or York City. Can't remember.
Suggestion to improve football: Stop cancelling matches on account of the weather. We live in the UK. Deal with it.
Coach's comment: Winner of the Comets Team Bike Award 2009 for repeaetedly turning up to games in last night's little black dress. What did the boys think when she turned up to the date with a carrier bag full of footie kit???

Nickname: Carly Simon
Playing position: Right Wing
A comet since: 2008
Abode: Depends on the night before....
Other hobbies: Ornithology
Claim to fame: Depends on the night before.....
Favourite player: John Terry, Captain of Chelsea, Captain of England
Team supported: Chelsea
Suggestion to improve football: Not to play it in the rain.
Coach's comment: Like a young Cristiano. Too flash, too pretty, too little end product ;-)

Nickname: Suze
Playing position: Defensive Midfield
A comet since: 2007
Abode: New Cross
Other hobbies: drinking
Claim to fame: Was once asked out by Paul Dalgliesh (Kenny's son.I said no)
Favourite player: tbc
Team supported: Liverpool
Suggestion to improve football: ???...give oranges at half time to all the supporters and players ;-)
Coach's comment: Might actually be as demonic as Natalie Pine. And that's a VERY big compliment.

Nickname: Mel
Playing position: Think Tony Adams (defence)
A comet since: 1999
Abode: Epping
Other hobbies: Voracious reader, terrible guitar player
Claim to fame: My Mum had a date with Henry Kelly once, several years before I was born (does that count?)
Favourite player: Steven Gerrard
Team supported: Liverpool
Suggestion to improve football: Make the ball twice as big
Coach's comment: See comments for Lisa O'Neill. X2.

Nickname: Sargeant
Playing position: Withdrawn striker
A comet since: 2000
Abode: Clapham South
Other hobbies: skiing, tennis,horse riding, rowing ,any sport pretty much
Claim to fame: "Met the Queen and was not too hot on protocol so just kept curtseying as I was unsure what I was meant to do..rather embarassing in retrospect"
Favourite player: Right now..Henry...just to annoy Mark ;)
Team supported: Spain and Barcelona FC
Suggestion to improve football: our oppositon every week only to be allowed to play with five players?
Coach's comment: Military precision, spanish flair, dead ball prowess to put theirry to shame.

Nickname: Alms
Playing position: striker
A comet since: 2006
Abode: Islington
Other hobbies: reading, partying, eating out
Claim to fame: Too modest for that!
Favourite player: Messi
Team supported: Arsenal
Suggestion to improve football: Scrap the pass forward rule on kick-off
Coach's comment: Golden boot last season, like a female modern day Dennis Bergkamp. With better hair. Famed for kissing inappropriate boys in Swedish nightclubs

Nickname: Pinestar
Playing position: central defender
A comet since: 2004
Abode: Texas!
Other hobbies: "Who needs other hobbies when you can play football everyday?"
Claim to fame:
Favourite player: Steven Gerrard
Team supported: Houston Dynamo
Suggestion to improve football: allow use of video to review controversial decisions, with only a certain number of challenges allowed per team
Coach's comment: She may be in Texas but she's forever remembered. Yellow rose my ar$e. She snorts she spits and she slide tackles like a steam train.

Nickname: Kirst
Playing position: Midfielder
A comet since: 2005
Abode: "Don't Know Yet"
Other hobbies: cricket, snowboarding, nerdy Excel spreadsheets
Claim to fame: Was on Japanese TV representing Britain with Branston Pickle in the Pickle World Cup
Favourite player: Ryan Giggs/Steven Gerrard
Team supported: None
Suggestion to improve football: There are too many to all fit here
Coach's comment: Bend it like Beckham in more ways than one. From the blond Keira Knightly floppy hair to the unbelievable free kicks.

Nickname: TMi
Playing position: Central Defence
A comet since: 2008
Abode: Clapham...soon to be Ealing
Other hobbies: dogs, bball, not working
Claim to fame: Still waiting for a proper claim...
Favourite player: do I have to name just one?
Team supported: Halifax Hotspurs (hometown proud)
Suggestion to improve football: Time outs
Coach's comment: I once nearly married a Canadian girl called Trish. She didn't play football this well though.

Nickname: Charl
Playing position: Midfield/Striker
A comet since: 2004
Abode: Waterloo, London
Other hobbies: Tennis, Skiing, Snowboarding
Claim to fame: Was on the Weakest Link, drank champagne with Mark Wahlberg in LA
Favourite player: Alan Shearer
Team supported: Brighton & Hove Albion FC
Suggestion to improve football: Make the goals bigger
Coach's comment: Tall, blond, swedish and bonkers.

Nickname: Daggers
Playing position: goalkeeper
A comet since: 1999
Abode: Forest Hill
Other hobbies: tennis, go-karting, reading, skiing
Claim to fame: have worn Motty's sheepskin coat
Favourite player: Ronaldinho
Team supported: Manchester United
Suggestion to improve football: introduce a sin bin for players who dive
Coach's comment: We had a tall pole, in our goal we had a tall pole, in our goal.... And then we broke her so she retired.

Nickname: Zippy
Playing position: winger
A comet since: 2006
Abode: Finsbury Park
Other hobbies: snowboarding
Claim to fame: Gave Lee Dixon a lift back to Highbury in my mum's old, beat up vauxhall cavalier (learner plates and all) after he presented awards at a football tournament
Favourite player: Tony Adams/Cesc Fabregas
Team supported: Arsenal
Suggestion to improve football: smaller pitches, bigger goals
Coach's comment: Why has no-one ever christened her Zippy? Cos she is. Will be challenging the established order this year and making the flanks her own.

Nickname:
Playing position: central defender
A comet since: 2002
Abode: Depends...
Other hobbies: travelling
Claim to fame: Currently travelling round the world...will let you know when I get back
Favourite player:
Team supported: Liverpool
Suggestion to improve football:
Coach's comment: Gobbiest, loveliest, gorgeousest, purplest centre back in the business. Come back soon we miss you.