@ paladiscious

Agreed. Not to turn this in to an FFA knocking thread (but) we all know they're only concentrating on one thing right now. Leveraging the Matildas, growing the W League, expanding the A League, a national second division, could all be work in progress right now ... instead all the energy goes in to reducing the number of votes in congress to the smallest possible number. sigh ..

I'm pretty sure they are engaged in many aspects of getting the HAL season started, plus running national teams like the Matildas and the Socceroos with recent games just past and coming up taking up time. But why is it a surprise anyway? All over the world organizations and governments (including ours) divert more of their time just before the elections.

I think if the W-League season was a full home and away fixture season, i think more people will watch the w-league and even more the standard of football will rise even further.

Make it happen FFA! 

@ paulc

It's not really a surprise as that is the FFAs track record, they only seem able to do one thing at a time.

The mechanics of putting a season on is just routine right - they have an army if administration to do that. It's the bigger picture things they seem to stuff up all the time and there's always an excuse - everyone knew the AFLW was coming and yet it seemed to catch the FFA by surprise and the new pay deal, while welcome, is a year late.

For me it just underpins the importance of lightening their load - the HAL, WL and Div2 can be run by independent bodies under their supervision leaving them to do all the other stuff

Agree, that their work load needs to be lightened and handing the management over to an independent HAL run committee is certainly the way to do that but there's more at stake here.

Bigger crowd than the AFL final. Top effort.

To be fair I can definitely say I have a hit a better volley than that before. The problem is I also missed about 15,000 of them. Half of them fresh airies, the other half didn't even get close to the corner post.

While I love a good AFL fail disproportionately more than the next bloke, it was apparently their worst finals crowd since WW1. Really it just shows how pathetic GWS are (and again something I disproportionately rejoice in)

lol Suffer in ya jocks AFL.

You are really a special kind of idiot aren't you!! 

Bigger crowd than the Wallaby game in Canberra too.

Exactly what I came here to post.
I'm guessing Crusader was just trying to wind people up (?) but yeah, I watch Socceroos games too and think how many times i have put in a better corner/cross/ shot etc etc I just ignore all the times I never did.

Anyone can hit a volley, it's doing it when it counts with your one chance that makes it a good goal.

Though bad crosses and especially corners do give me the shits when watching professionals. There really is no excuse.

Video here.  https://www.foxsports.com.au/football/matildas/matildas-v-brazil-live-stream-coverage-follow-all-the-action-in-game-two-of-the-series/news-story/1d25eebceb9a219892d68bb29743fab6

Can't watch the damn thing outside the country.

Get onto Twitter and search up Matildas.  There's highlights there and I don't think they're geoblocked.

https://twitter.com/FOXFOOTBALL/status/910109550518267906?s=09

Checking to see if this links

https://twitter.com/TheMatildas/status/910112817994280961

Thanks mate

Poor form by the Brazilian defender refusing t shake hands with Kennedy and Kerr. It's a friendly ffs and you were schooled.

Both games have been very entertaining to watch. It's exciting to see the stature of the Matilda's players is growing day by day.

Are there photos of the Kerr Jersey hand over? What a great story!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mooy and Kerr have to be so far above in terms of quality Aussie players going around at the moment. 

But Kerr is the only one dominating at international level. 

I hope I'm still alive to one day see an Aussie male dominating at international level.

Well done Sam Kerr.