She believes cup match threads

[libelous]

its beggears belief whats going on at the womens grass roots - Rep to APLW that hardly any newbies have been blooded in the last 2yrs at least.
Seriously the participation has been booming for quite sometime now as we all know.
One of my local NPL ovals Sundays are full of womens rep games, some pretty damn good ones I have seen being the mens NPL's are playing on the opposite pitch.
1yr out of the Asian Cup no way can newbies be ready to take on experienced and well run other NT's.

They are waiting for the new coach

 

[banzai]

its beggears belief whats going on at the womens grass roots - Rep to APLW that hardly any newbies have been blooded in the last 2yrs at least.
Seriously the participation has been booming for quite sometime now as we all know.
One of my local NPL ovals Sundays are full of womens rep games, some pretty damn good ones I have seen being the mens NPL's are playing on the opposite pitch.
1yr out of the Asian Cup no way can newbies be ready to take on experienced and well run other NT's.

Apart from Japan, the other women's teams in Asia aren't well run either, China seem to have fallen away. I couldn't see anyone other than Japan beating us at home and Japan is probably a 50/50 game here. Going forward after that though, we are steadily falling behind the rest of the world.

 

[HappyGuus]

EVE hasn't been going strong for at least the last 4 years.

Never seen anyone gifted so many matches... not even Ikonomidis. She must have photos or something.

 

[LFC]

true banzai regarding Asian C, yer the opponents maybe not to be as feared/polished as the euro/yanks.
Japan we know are pretty good and I expect we will struggle to beat them without a fit Kerr to score regularly throughout the tournament as well.
Ranking on 1 site
Japan 8
Korea DPR 9
Tildas 15
China 17
Korea Republic 20
Viet 37

I think its just 12 spots in this cup ? so whoever else qualies are way down the rankings I assume.

 

[libelous]

Apart from Japan, the other women's teams in Asia aren't well run either, China seem to have fallen away. I couldn't see anyone other than Japan beating us at home and Japan is probably a 50/50 game here. Going forward after that though, we are steadily falling behind the rest of the world.

Agree with this, we will do well with what we have especially as the Asian Cup is on home soil but we need to seriously look at blooding new players before the next World Cup.

 

[Kitwally]

And just to underline the dearth of quality young players coming through, van Egmond comes on as a substitute.

Most uninspiring subsitution in forever. How would you feel as a player watching her trudge on to the field at 3-0 down FFS?!

 

[Barca4life]

Japan giving Australia a football lesson once again, it’s not for the first time either but I’ve got a feeling the women’s game is slowly going to what the men started to experience after 2006.

Surely they get a new coach in especially if they want to win the Asian Cup on home soil.

 

[libelous]

Japan giving Australia a football lesson once again, it’s not for the first time either but I’ve got a feeling the women’s game is slowly going to what the men started to experience after 2006.

Surely they get a new coach in especially if they want to win the Asian Cup on home soil.

Just waiting for Joe Montemurro to finish the season at Lyon. I know he’s on a two year contract but these things can be changed.

 

[SocceroosFan]

If the Socceroos lost like that, they would be torched by fans & media alike

 

[grazorblade]

If the Socceroos lost like that, they would be torched by fans & media alike

For the men our floggings have only come at the end of big teams - germany france and brazil - for as long as I can remember?
This is a truly remarkable result
This has to be the coach given the gap between the teams isn't close to the gap between the mens teams

 

[zimbos05]

Anyone who has been following the Matildas knows that a result like that was not a surprise. It's been building for a long time. The Matildas don't get Media scrutiny because they have been the darlings of sport in this country for some time. They earned some form of leeway and backing, but unfortunately, we went too far with it that it is hard to now go the other way.

The media turns on the Matildas and suddenly a whole generation of young girls are put off the sport. That can't happen so the FA won't really allow it.

We've been taking our time on a new coach. We've been picking a lot of the same players. But most importantly, we are expecting to progress on vibes. It does not work. I've said the FA is broken and now they are going to affect the one team that had the potential to actually be something.

 

[dr. bellows]

Japan giving Australia a football lesson once again, it’s not for the first time either but I’ve got a feeling the women’s game is slowly going to what the men started to experience after 2006.

Surely they get a new coach in especially if they want to win the Asian Cup on home soil.

It really does have that look, doesn't it. Brazil and France thrashings spring to mind. A GG on the wane and a fairly clueless coach in charge. Sermani looking like the Holger of women's football.

 

[RIMB]

Until we get a coach who can look at the team from scratch and ask who the best people will be for each position in a year's time and puts them in to mesh and build we are stuffed.

Coaches who keep the players they know and who know their system create stagnant and increasingly ineffective teams and the Matildas have been heading that way for years.

Just look at the starting 11 and you can see the failure of Australian women's football and our complete lack of progress.

Players are in demand at the domestic level largely because of their experience - but that does not correspond to success at the national level because national teams these days do not have the 3 or 4 (or more) 'weaker' players that our domestic teams have. Stronger opponents all around the pitch will show up experience combined with a lack of pace, or experience with strength/athleticism by pace and skill.

Names, and as zimbos05 says 'vibes', do not win games but both our national teams have fallen into the 'easy to do' familiarity trap. Funny thing to me is that the old adage 'familiarity breeds contempt' can be perfectly abused to fit our national teams. You choose all the familiar faces and you get my contempt.

 

[Sharkman84]

Never seen anyone gifted so many matches... not even Ikonomidis. She must have photos or something.

Isn't her dad the assistant coach?

 

[Barca4life]

It really does have that look, doesn't it. Brazil and France thrashings spring to mind. A GG on the wane and a fairly clueless coach in charge. Sermani looking like the Holger of women's football.

It sure does, not sure what the landscape is like in terms of women’s youth development unlike the men so it can only be rectified by that because we know how serious Japan takes
youth development seriously men’s or women’s it’s incredible.

 

[Barca4life]

I watched the suited and booted podcast where they talked about Japan and whether we should copy their approach in terms of developing players, in a way I kind of agree with their sentiment that culturally we are so different to them and copying them won’t make any sense.

However regardless of what players we have I feel every time an Australian side plays a Japanese side we don’t seem to figure out what can work against them and outcompeting technically against them when it’s their main strength seems unrealistic so maybe we need an different approach?

 

[erogenouszone]

The media turns on the Matildas and suddenly a whole generation of young girls are put off the sport. That can't happen so the FA won't really allow it.

This is why they'll never win anything.

 

[Muz]

If the Socceroos lost like that, they would be torched by fans & media alike

They are being torched. Can't you read, it's everywhere.

 

[Muz]

I watched the suited and booted podcast where they talked about Japan and whether we should copy their approach in terms of developing players, in a way I kind of agree with their sentiment that culturally we are so different to them and copying them won’t make any sense.

However regardless of what players we have I feel every time an Australian side plays a Japanese side we don’t seem to figure out what can work against them and outcompeting technically against them when it’s their main strength seems unrealistic so maybe we need an different approach?

Have to laugh at everyone now saying we should look at playing like Japan and at the same time decrying the national curriculum because all it does 'is produce robots'.

 

[Muz]

Anyone who has been following the Matildas knows that a result like that was not a surprise. It's been building for a long time. The Matildas don't get Media scrutiny because they have been the darlings of sport in this country for some time. They earned some form of leeway and backing, but unfortunately, we went too far with it that it is hard to now go the other way.

The media turns on the Matildas and suddenly a whole generation of young girls are put off the sport. That can't happen so the FA won't really allow it.

We've been taking our time on a new coach. We've been picking a lot of the same players. But most importantly, we are expecting to progress on vibes. It does not work. I've said the FA is broken and now they are going to affect the one team that had the potential to actually be something.

To Sermani's credit he's brought in a whole bunch of debutants. Far more than Gustavsson.