Matildas squad to face USA

Williams, Arnold, Micah
Polkinghorne, Kennedy, Alleway, Ralston, Catley, Simon, Carpenter, Allen
Butt, Kellond-Knight, Luik, VanEgmond, Logarzo, Gorry
Kerr, Foord, Raso, Devanna, Gielnik, Fowler

Campbell, Harrison, Polias, Chidiac, Ibini out.
Micah, Ralston, Gorry, Logarzo, Fowler in.

It looks very close to our WC squad. Good to see Fowler coming back in.

For those who missed our like Ibini Chidiac & Harrison they are young and will have another chance.

Ralston and Allen are too slow imo. Raso is a better backup RB to Carpenter if needed.
Harrison should be there because of her versatility.
Mcormick playing afl finals probably didn't help her cause and I'm not sold on Gorry, hasn't been any good for sometime.
Also not sure why Campbell has been dropped for Micah.
rest of the squad pretty much a certainty for the WC. 

No way Harrison should be there she was woeful in the last 3 games.
Campbell is not up to International football.

and Micah is?
Micah is playing against college kids of which 3/4s of the teams are less quality than npl level.
shes better with her feet than Campbell but there's a big difference playing w league and PAC 12.

No young matildas squad announcement yet?

Grove, Aquino, Riddel
Nevin, Roestbakken, Hristodolou, Davidson, Blissett, Tamplin, Grant, Hodgson
Sayer, Phonsongkham, Barbieri, Lowe, C.Fowler, Palmer
M.Fowler, Ibini, Cooney-Cross, Galea, Riley, Evans

odd team chosen, missing a lot of quality players here, especially at the back.

when is the world cup squad getting announced? 

Provisional on Tuesday.

If Fowler plays in a world cup is she then tied to Australia or because she's still young free to play for Ireland at a later date?

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/teen-sensation-named-alongside-matildas-stars-in-world-cup-squad-20190514-p51n0c.html

Matildas' squad for the Women's World Cup 2019

Name	Club	A-International Caps (Goals)	Previous FIFA Women’s World Cup™ Selections
Lydia WILLIAMS (Gk)	Seattle Reign, USA	77 (0)	2007, 2011, 2015
Gema SIMON	Newcastle Jets FC, Australia	11 (0)
Aivi LUIK	Levante UD, Spain	21 (0)
Clare POLKINGHORNE	Houston Dash, USA	116 (9)	2007, 2011, 2015
Laura ALLEWAY	Melbourne Victory, Australia	60 (2)	2011, 2015
Chloe LOGARZO	Washington Spirit, USA	37 (6)
Steph CATLEY (VC)	Seattle Reign, USA	71 (2)	2015
Elise KELLOND-KNIGHT	Seattle Reign, USA	106 (1)	2011, 2015
Caitlin FOORD	Portland Thorns, USA	71 (16)	2011, 2015
Emily VAN EGMOND	Orlando Pride, USA	85 (18)	2011, 2015
Lisa DE VANNA	Sydney FC, Australia	147 (47)	2007, 2011, 2015
Teagan MICAH (Gk)	UCLA, USA	0 (0)
Tameka YALLOP	Klepp IL, USA	78 (10)	2011, 2015
Alanna KENNEDY	Orlando Pride, USA	77 (7)	2015
Emily GIELNIK	Melbourne Victory, Australia	28 (7)
Hayley RASO	Portland Thorns, USA	34 (4)	2015
Mary FOWLER	Bankstown City Lions, Australia	4 (0)
Mackenzie ARNOLD (Gk)	Brisbane Roar FC, Australia	23 (0)	2015
Katrina GORRY	Brisbane Roar FC, Australia	73 (14)	2015
Sam KERR (C)	Chicago Red Stars, USA	76 (31)	2011, 2015
Ellie CARPENTER	Portland Thorns, USA	31 (1)
Amy HARRISON	Washington Spirit, USA	10 (0)
Teigen ALLEN	Melbourne Victory, Australia	40 (0)	2011

Fowler, She can't play for anyone but us if she gets gametime.

the two backup full backs are not up to scratch for me, everyone else on the squad is the right call imo.

Hey Chondro how come Chidiac didn't make the cut?

No gametime.

Anyone know a website that does tipping for the World Cup?

Matildas will likely setup like this...

----------------------Williams-----------------------
-----------Polkinghorne----Kennedy------------
Carpenter------------------------------------Catley
--------VanEgmond-------Kellond-Knight--------
Yallop--------------Foord----------------Devanna
------------------------Kerr---------------------------

Subs
------------------Arnold/Micah------------------
-----------Alleway--------------------------------
Allen--------------------------------------Simon
----------Harrison------------Luik--------------
Raso---------Logarzo/Gorry---------Gielnik
---------------------Fowler-----------------------

Big game vs Netherlands. Should be an interesting hit out. Has anyone used the world game app to watch football before? 

Nz were getting dominated by England but ended up winning 1-0.
france won yesterday but were pretty bad against china. 2-1.
looking forward to aus vs Netherlands'in 1/2 hr.

Does sbs vice land have a live stream online? Seems they more have a portal for stuff on delay. Game is on fox or sbs vice land. I'll be out for the CL anyway. I've not had any luck with Dutch channels. 

https://mobile.twitter.com/TheMatildas?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

0:0 after 20.

1-0 to Netherlands at the half.

transition from the back to midfield is pretty poor, like all milicic teams previously.

painful to watch

we had some frightening flaws in our game. Hopefully a second team as they look a step back from the team we had 4 years ago

Milicic already got the Tokyo job even though we haven't played the WC.
the way he has us setup is very different to staj. Night and day.

Just think ffa might have costed the Matildas the World Cup with its own stupidity here. 

Crowd record for a women's match in the Netherlands, apparently.

Not for the reasons I suspect you think (Stajecs sacking?)

Women’s football in Europe has boomed these last couple of years (investment, crowds, professionalism etc) while we have remained fairly stagnant. The signs were already there in the last year or so of Stajec’s reign - you can see it in the “Sam Kerr is the best player in the world movement” ... she’s not even close to some of the European girls who have benefitted from some of the worlds best coaching academies yet many over here are optimistically in denial. 

We have pretty much stood still at the same time, we’ve got ladies playing for part-time wages in Australia for a pitifully short domestic season of about 3 months and a lucky few that supplement that with stints in the USA.

The surplus from the men’s game in Europe is starting to spill over in to the women’s game. Meanwhile our administrators fight over tv money like seagulls after the same chip. 

As women’s football booms globally can you point to one piece on investment in women’s domestic football, W League or Matilda’s, that will seriously impact our game? I cant. 

We should get out of our WWC group, but we might not. 

We are going to fall behind quite a ways...
Most nations overall will be alot better in 4 years time.

Comparing 2019 to possible 2023.

2019 / 2023

GK (2/3)
Williams / Out due to age
Arnold / Remain
Micah / Remain

DF (3/7)
Polkinghorne / Out due to age
Alleway / Out due to age
Kennedy / Remain
Catley / Remain
Allen / Likely won't be chosen
Simon / Likely won't be chosen
Carpenter / Remain

MF (4/7)
Yallop / Remain
Luik / Out due to age.
Harrison / Remain
Kellond-Knight / Out due to age
Van Egmond / Remain
Gorry / Likely won't be chosen
Logarzo / Remain

FW (4/6)
Devanna / Out due to age
Raso / Remain
Gielnik / Likely won't be chosen
Foord / Remain
Fowler / Remain
Kerr / Remain

We will need to find 10-15 quality new players within the next cycle. we don't have much depth currently and there are no real standouts outside of the current crop you could guarantee a spot too.

We need to find
1-2 new GKs
2-3 new CBs
1-2 backup RBs
1-2 backup LBs 
2-3 or so DMs 
2-3 or so CMs 
2 or so AMs
1-2 Wingers 
At least 1 more striker

Such a big mistake that we keep playing Brazil,  usa and Japan over and over and not playing these European teams,  they appear to have moved way further ahead of Australia,  Brazil end Japan. 

I knew someone had to blame the FFA. 

That's a worry. Surely we didn't field a second team in this match, at least based on the names mentioned.

Just saw the highlights now. We made some chances but weren't good enough. Defensively rather lousy. Not sure why I couldn't watch a replay of the whole thing on SBS on Demand.

Oh and that Jackie Groenen. Quite a looker, to say nothing of being a very smart footballer.