Hope you are all healthy and happy in these interesting times!! Now seems like an opportune time to reflect on the past six months for our Aussies Abroad.  Happy reading.
Domestic club football:
United Kingdom - Mat Ryan found himself out of favour at Brighton (surprisingly), so quickly found a loan deal to Arsenal for the remainder of the season.  He is yet to debut but has made the bench immediately.  Exciting news with Caleb Watts celebrating his 19th birthday with a premier league debut for Southampton.  Around 10 of our females are playing in the Women’s Super League in England.  Sam Kerr (Chelsea) has now scored nine league goals for the campaign, with Caitlin Foord (Arsenal) on six.  Most minutes for an Aussie outfielder, Emily van Egmond (West Ham), surpassed however by keeper Mackenzie Arnold (West Ham) who has played every minute of the league campaign.  The likes of Raso (Everton) and Kennedy (Tottenham) start each game.  In the Championship, the highlight has been the emergence of Harry Souttar.  The towering centre-back has now amassed 21 starts, only missing a few games due to a COVID related issue.  League One has been a happier hunting ground for the Aussies.  Players such as Bailey Wright (Sunderland), Callum Elder (Hull City) and Cameron Burgess (Accrington Stanley) have been racking up the minutes in defence, whilst Ryan Edwards (Burton Albion) and Ryan Williams (Portsmouth) feature most weeks.  A few injury concerns have meant interrupted seasons for Jordan Lyden (Swindon Town) and Massimo Luongo (Sheffield Wednesday).  Despite constant transfer rumours, Tom Rogic remains at Celtic.  He has made 14 appearances (6 starts), been an unused sub. 13 times, and yet to score in the league.  On the flip side, we now have Socceroos Martin Boyle and Jackson Irvine starting at Hibs.  Boyle started the season well but has been a little cold recently, enter Irvine, who fed him a beautiful through ball last weekend resulting in a goal.
Continental Europe - The females are in most of the bigger leagues in Europe with Ellie Carpenter leading the way.  She is having a standout season at Lyon (France) and was recently crowned the best female player in Asia.  Seventeen year old Mary Fowler is having an impact at Montpellier having now made 13 appearances, including 7 starts. Veteran midfielder Aivi Luik has appeared in 17 of 18 league games for Sevilla. After transferring from the US college system, Beattie Goad has played every minute of the Bundesliga campaign for Meppen. Ajdin Rustic has not yet taken the Bundesliga by storm, but feels like that is only a matter of time after starting to see more minutes in recent weeks.  Matt Leckie continues to toil away at Hertha Berlin. He has made 10 league appearances but only 1 start.  James Holland continues to have a second-coming at LASK, now having more impact on the scoreboard.  Danny Vukovic (Genk) has come back strongly from his injury layoff and Trent Sainsbury (Kortrijk) is finally playing good minutes at club level again.  A bright note in Belgium has been the emergence of Panos Armenakas at Zulte Waragem.  Still early days, but minutes, starts and goals are certainly a promising start.  Speaking of promising, Deni Juric is making the most of his opportunities in the Croatian top flight, having now scored six league goals for Sibenik. James Jeggo made an interesting decision to move to Aris, Greece.  That is now looking to be a good decision with his impact having been significant.  Although not Serie A, we have a couple of Aussies doing well in Italy. Nick Pennington has been very solid at Olbia, whilst Gabriel Cleur is getting minutes for Virtus Entella.  Worth watching right back Fran Karacic, who has recently moved to Brescia (Serie B). Anthony Carter (Academico Viseu) continues to progress in the 2nd tier of Portugal football, having made 15 appearances this season.  Aziz Behich is also getting regular game time after transferring to Kayserispor in Turkey.  Joey Gibbs had an amazing season in Iceland, winning the golden boot and helping Keflavik gain promotion to the top flight.  
Asia and the Middle East - Nikita Rukavytsya (Maccabi Haifa) has picked up where he left off last season.  He won the golden boot with 22 goals last season, and currently sits on 16 goals, in only 17 appearances, this season.  Many of the Asian club competitions are between seasons, but worth mentioning the outstanding season of Mitch Langerak in goals at Nagoya Grampus, managing to set the record for the most clean sheets in a J.League season. The Indian Super League is still early in the season, but around 10 Aussies playing regularly there now. At the risk of offending, we have several “veterans” featuring prominently in Saudi Arabia (Brad Jones, Rhys Williams, Craig Goodwin and Dimi Petratos) and the same in Qatar (Shane Lowry and Isaias)
Americas and Africa - Brad Smith returned to the Seattle Sounders, who came close, but could not win the league in successive seasons.  Brad made 9 appearances, but only one start, so probably a little disappointed with that output. Andy Rose made 10 starts for Vancouver Whitecaps.
Youth football - plenty going on in England with the standouts probably being Cam Peupion (Brighton), Con Ouzounidis (Everton), Alex Robertson (Manchester City) and Zak Gilsenan (Blackburn). Liga Revelacao (U23) is still going in Portugal with Ryan Teague and Dylan Collard playing each game. Unfortunately youth football in Spain, Portugal, Netherlands and Italy is almost non-existent, which impacts a lot of young Aussie footballers.
National:Nothing going on for our national teams, but huge anticipation around the Olympics and the World Cup qualifiers.  Been along time between games and many new names have put themselves into the frame, selection will be intriguing.  Fingers crossed these games are played. 
Coaches:Ange Postecoglou would have been disappointed with title defence of his Yokohama F-Marinos, finishing ninth.  Unfortunately Peter Cklamovski did not see out the season at Shimizu S-Pulse.  Similar story for Kevin Muscat, being removed from duties at Sint-Truiden. Tanya Oxtoby (Bristol City) is on extended maternity leave, which means Joe Movntemurro is left flying the Aussie flag in the WSL.  His Arsenal team are currently fourth, with a mountain to climb. Recent losses have seen Roberto Venturato’s Cittadella slip out of the automate promotion places in Serie B.
Transfers:Changes/additions to the Aussies Abroad database:
ARZANI, Daniel (4 Jan 1999) - loan to AGF, Denmark
CAHILL, Matt (6 Aug 2000) - loan to Southern District, Hong Kong
CALDERBANK-PARK, Kai (16 Jan 2001) - transferred to Connah’s Quay, Wales
CHOI, Danny (6 Dec 1994) - loan to Real SC, Portugal
CREEVEY, Maxx (28 Apr 1995) - loan return to Buriram United, Thailand
CUELHO, Corey (27 Apr 2000) - transferred to ENAD, Cyprus
CUMMINGS, Jason (1 Aug 1995) - transferred to Dundee, Scotland
DEL GROSSO, Alberto (5 Apr 2001) - loan to USD Lavello, Italy
DELBRIDGE, Harrison (15 Mar 1992) - transferred to Incheon United, Korea
DUKE, Mitch (18 Jan 1991) - loan to Western Sydney Wanderers
GROMMEN, Josh (10 Jul 1996) - transferred to Sukhothai, Thailand
HERD, Chris (4 Apr 1989) - transferred to Terengganu, Malaysia
INMAN, Brad (10 Dec 1991) - loan to Odisha, India
IRVINE, Jackson (7 Mar 1993) - transferred to Hibernian, Scotland
KARACIC, Fran (5 Dec 1996) - transferred to Brescia, Italy
LOGARZO, Chloe (22 Dec 1994) - transferred to Kansas City, USA
MARVEGGIO, Andrew (22 Apr 1992) - transferred to OFK Petrovac, Montenegro
OGLE, Reagan (29 Mar 1999) - loan return to Accrington Stanley, England
PRSO, Luka (22 Jan 2001) - loan to Newcastle Jets
RIZZO, Ricardo (29 Aug 2000) - transferred to Cerro, Uruguay
ROWLEY, David (6 Feb 1990) - transferred to Penang FA, Malaysia
RYAN, Mat (8 Apr 1992) - loan to Arsenal, England
SHALAMANOV-TRENOV, Iliya (7 Aug 2002) - loan return to CSKA Sofia, Bulgaria
SMITH, Bradie (2 Jan 1998) - transferred to Armagh, Bangladesh
WONG, Daniel (17 Nov 1997) - loan return to Beijing Renhe, China
Removals from the Aussies Abroad database:
HUGHES, Laura (Throtter Reykjavik) - transferred to Canberra United
MAHAZI, Rashid (Incheon United) - retired
MILLAR, Matthew (Shrewsbury) - loan return to Newcastle Jets
PETERSON, Ryan (FC Motown) - whereabouts unknown
STOLLERY, Curtis (Erie Commodores) - returned to Australia
TUCKER, Hayden (Little Rock Rangers SC) - returned to Australia
Free agents:
Zac Anderson Ante Bakmaz, Apo Giannou, Peter Makrillos, Aryn Williams

Anderson signed for Olympic FC in the Queensland NPL today as did Isaka Cernak.

Solid effort mate, but forgot to mention Riley McGree going to Birmingham in the Championship & spelt our current best player's name wrong - Hrustic mate, Hrustic. Just jokes, interesting to have the year in review & good to see the Matilda's stats & info, as they get forgotten about usually

Arzani not in squad (possibly due to quarantine?) on AGF website. Gersbach in squad. Duncan out for season on fotmob

Irvine and Boyle starting against St. Mirren.

Lyden starting against Wigan.

Red card Leno but Ryan not on bench. 

Boyle with an assist for the opening goal and scoring from the penalty spot, currently 1-2 at 83 minutes. St. Mirren's keeper sent off in the first half.

Runnarson holding the fort for Arsenal who are down to nine men. Let's see how this plays out.

Ends a 1-2 win for Hibs, full games for Irvine and Boyle, MOTM for the latter.

Can hope Ryan is fit from the knock for next game. 

No Watts. Many other young names on bench tonight. 

Gets a full game and a 1-0 win.

Rogic, McGree, Burgess and Gersbach all on the bench.

Watts is on the bench unless its a different watts 

Yep he's on the bench: https://twitter.com/SouthamptonFC/status/1356682681157902338?s=19

Not a good day for Southampton, a red card after two minutes, down 3-0 after 34 minutes.

Luongo on in the 79th minute in a 1-2 win at Bournemouth.

Burgess on at HT when Accrington Stanley were winning 4-1 against Bristol Rovers, currently 6-1 in the 75th minute.

McGree and Gersbach unused, Rogic still on the bench at the 70 minute mark.

Stupid kicker app

Really not Southampton's night at all, after their 2nd minute red card for a 19 year old defender on debut and going into HT down 4-0, they just thought they got a consolation goal only for VAR to take a fucking age to take it off them for offside. Really didn't look like it was, either. Hopefully Watts gets a run, there's only one fully senior outfield player on their bench.

Rogic unused.

Watts probably lucky not be involved, it ends with a second red card for Southampton and Man Utd equalling their EPL record with a 9-0 win!

Kenny Dougall back from injury and starting for Blackpool in a 2-0 win against Northampton Town

Acrington Stanley looking good this season.  in 7th with 3 games in hand on first.  If they win them all it would put them a point ahead of first.  Would be good if they can get promoted.  Burgess always seemed a handy player in his youth.  

those games can crush young players thank god Watts wasn't involved.

Great effort, I always look forward to finding out the latest player movements etcetera from you

Jackson Irvine made SPFL team of the week. Very impressive after his long time without a club.

Behich starting
O'Neill started for Buriram