#the other time jump that bothers me is the 4 weeks between 3x08-3x09

[kvetchinglyneurotic]

The Zava plotline would probably have to be reworked pretty thoroughly for me to actively like it, but I do think they could have wrapped it up in a much more coherent way just by setting 3x05 a week or two after 3x04 instead of seven. In canon, the Richmond players attack the West Ham players, lose the match, and get (I think) three red cards — and then we skip past them losing seven matches in a row because… the vibes are off, I guess? And then Zava quits the team, which you can maybe interpret as being related to that losing streak, but that isn’t really implied in the show. But if they’d played Man City the week after West Ham, or maybe lost one match in between, then you get the tension of trying to figure out how to beat a team that crushed them the last time they played while they’re also multiple players down and dealing with the media fallout of their players attacking another team (which would also give them the chance to show Keeley being good at her job) and give a more direct payoff to the set up of Zava being a flighty player who doesn’t want to stick around on a team when things get tough