It's you and me Marinos.

Love this- the girls make finals for the first time ever and....crickets.

Ga Pala wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 12:47 pm Very Poor team. Can see them being cellar dwellers unfortunately.

BIG win. One more girls!!

The ref definitely did not have a good game. On to Brisbane on Sunday.

BIG game Thursday v. Perth.

No McNamara for City- she's in Dubai with the Matildas. No Winnie Heatley either... could be an opportunity. I'm backing Adelaide 2-1

+1. A bit uneven but many encouraging signs.

Sorry- I meant players. If that’s a player, do t know who that is.

Has Vista secured anyone yet?

No. There’s nothing nuanced about abuse. But we’ll have to agree to disagree here. I say the situation is complicated, you say it isn't. You seem to have more information than I do. Don't know who you are- maybe you were there. I wasn't. And I don't seem to have as much information as you do (regard...

Not sure I'm defending or supporting anyone here- just pointing out that it's an incredibly complicated and nuanced situation. Nothing about this is black and white.

In this whole discourse, I'm not sure gender or sexuality matters, or at least they shouldn't. The whole "predatory lesbian" line is totally misogynistic. Predation is predation, and there's no room for it in the game, or society, anywhere. Listen to Tracey Holmes' podcast "The Ticket...

My one concern with moving the WNPL games back to club venues is that men's clubs often short change their women's teams when it comes to putting on the matches. I've seen it several times and notified FSA...I was at one game where the women played second...change rooms were a mile away in what look...

Not happening.

I think that the increase in professionalisation of the game has also helped with the pathway. So many more opportunities now to play at a high level professionally than when SASI was around- there really wasn't anywhere to go...

I have read as well that FIFA has negotiated, or is in the process of negotiating, with the Olympics to make the standby players fully rostered...So Charlie may be a full member of the squad in the end.

I also thought the NTC Westies game was good.

Saturday is the beginning of round two- don't think it's a replay...

I don't think any other member federation has a restriction on the movement of W-League players.

And I don't think it's particularly good for elite player development for girls to stay in the NTC team past 17-

According to FSA, "home grown" means having played for a club for one season prior to being signed by United- "home grown" does not mean the club where they started playing as a 10yo (or whatever). I am interested to know how the term is being defined here... what exactly is mean...

I agree- I think we are the only league with such a limit.

Anyone know how West Adelaide has been allowed 4 Wleague players?

Emily Hodgson is on the team sheet for West Adelaide this weekend- don't think she's left. And Sian is moving to Sydney for personal reasons I believe- has nothing to do with football. So really, only 3 players (Matilda, Izzy and Mel) left to play interstate- The other point that might be worth maki...

Charlotte Grant is in Sweden, playing for FC Rosengard in Malmo. Not interstate. Well, kind of I guess. The gap between WNPL in South Australia and WLeague is just too big. Sportsbird, you can’t have your cake and eat it too. You want Adelaide United to be more competitive in the WLeague, to make fi...

From the results on the weekend, fair enough- will be interested to see what Flinders, Cove and Panthers have to offer...

My initial post was to correct Sad Gal’s assertion that Dylan hadn’t been in the state program. She did start at 12- how much influence that year had, who knows. I was merely stating the fact of her participation. I think we digress...