Livingston Women's full-back credits new team bus for helping Lionesses find an extra gear on the park

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Livingston full-back Sharon Hughes-Lee believes a new team bus for away days has helped the Lionesses find another gear on the park.The SWF Championship side will make the long trip north to face Inverness Caledonian Thistle on Sunday in a Scottish Cup third round clash.They’ll being making the journey together on a bus provided by Stephen Glover, managing director of the club’s main sponsor Phoenix Drilling Limited, and Harry Ferguson Traveline.And Hughes-Lee believes the time spent together as a squad before matches has played its part in recent results.Speaking to the Courier, she said: “Stephen Glover has been tremendous for the club.

The team spirit was always there but now he’s helped put a bus on for away days, it’s gone up a level.“Being able to travel to games all together has been brilliant because it gives you that time as a team that you didn’t have before when we were all travelling to games by ourselves.“It all helps with the team spirit.

Maybe some of the younger players have nerves before games it helps ease that and obviously travelling home together after we’ve won is brilliant.“We went up to Dundee last week to play Dryburgh and we were all buzzing on the way back.”She's under no illusions, of course, that they will need to prove their worth on the park on Sunday however - but she’s confident they’ll prevail if they keep playing the way they have of late.She commented: “We know it’s going to be a really challenging game because both games against them have been tough.

They’ll come at us but if we keep playing football the way we have in recent weeks and do what’s got us results then we can be confident.“But it’s cup football and anything can happen.