They might as well cancel the aflw. Every young girl in aus wants to play football low. 

*now not low

They have just become Australia’s sporting team. I have never seen anything like this. 

I hope you’re right but the AFL will try anything to downplay this.

The AFL are nothing more than a multi million dollar company, imagine going against a national team like the Matildas and even the Socceroos that have the ability to unite the whole nation.
It shows they dont value sport but only money and clout to gain from big business and govt whilst hurting the rest.

They are the reason why there is code wars when people actually like multiple sports, I despise them and shows whats wrong with modern sport.

Fowler is everything I wanted Tom Rogic to be, and more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlbkaJWOItM

Winning pen from multiple angles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox8T5qfwfVo

Triple M box following game


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-IpWVfUhPw

We have just had the Ashes, now we have the Gashes !

That's not right m8

Don't stop or anything

Just not right

for as long as there's Happy Meals, there will be junior participation numbers for AFL

Fowler is the best, most composed, skillful player we've ever had for Australia in literally decades.

That was a wild night in the stadium. Off to Sydney to do the poms next. Fuck them, they're going down 

Fuckin hell I can picture it

The egg ball bogans huddled around the coach at the break. Crowd erupts when they hear the Matildas won. "DO YOU HEAR THAT BOYS. THEYRE HERE FOR YOU. THIS IS YOUR MOMENT. ITS SUBURB AGAINST SUBURB. ITS WHAT YOU TRAINED YOUR WHOLE LIFE FOR. AM I RIGHT BOYS. GO FUCKIN GET EM"

man I'm knackered haha

Fowler is going to be greater and hopefully she'll take the chances next game. Tonight was alright but the blocked point blank shot, the pull out where she would've just been able to lob it over, there were a few other moments where the end product didn't come.

Min 50: The  French turn over. Had to pass to Foord wide open.
Min 60: The half volley from the penalty spot was good to get through the gap. Can't really fault her for not putting it to a side.
Min 83: An overrun by Gorry yet good close range pass would've seen a breakthrough. It went to a few French who were able to race away.
Min 87: It's those turns and medium to long left foot passes that are so great. More of that.

All in all she's a great player and Wednesday is going to be massive. Top top penalty under all that pressure.

How many cigarettes are left in that pack you opened today?

https://sport.optus.com.au/news/womens-world-cup-2023/os61448/matildas-hero-cortnee-vine-winning-penalty-quarterfinal-france-womens-world-cup-brisbane?fbclid=IwAR1pLDKUDSQqsd6Mo4PhlHda6nIEtsHpU4UZGas3T0kmabKgW_u5RYu1-54

Couldn't agree more. We were on the 18 at the penalty end and I watched her go early multiple times. Needs to make them choose a side.

You’re not as funny as you think you are.

Well how good is this winning a pen shootout at home !
Bravo girls nothing like the beautiful game bringing us together.
Agree Fowler is a joy to watch - the Mooy of the womens game if I can describe it this way.
Yes johszas agree she could have made a couple of better choices a few times but overall for her age she’s damn good !
Arnold agree needs to improve her pen awareness and her attempt pushed the boundary but kudos her mental aspect after the miss was for all to see.
Rapt we’re in the semi and bring on you Poms !!!!

Full half an hour of Matildas coverage on ABC Offsiders this morning.

Dill.

I have no time for the AFL but one day hopefully they'll realise that AFL people can like football too.

Can't believe Arnold took a pen when she did. We were watching thinking she's waiting for the next player to arrive and then she put it down and lined up to take it.

Incredible mental strength to miss that and then blot it out to go back to GK duties.

Well deserved player of the match 

That’s a very ugly comment to make.

Haha…comment of the year !!!

Never seen a player that cares so little for personal injury as Raso.

She is nuts. She just flies into tackles with no regards for what might happen to her.

What a player.

The truth is we should’ve had a red at the start. I can’t believe it wasn’t even a yellow given 

the French player goes down and she’s straight off 

There was a tweet somewhere showing the state of the MCG last night from a guy there.

Maybe I can link it:

https://twitter.com/CorbinMiddlemas/status/1690258349336780800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1690285568440320001%7Ctwgr%5E4d5537c502719a270f2bc9b639c4ef0ad1eb588f%7Ctwcon%5Es3_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abc.net.au%2Fnews%2F2023-08-12%2Fhow-the-internet-reacted-to-matildas-penalty-shoot-out-france%2F102722882

Maybe I am too jaded, but having been around Australian football for a few decades, I feel all of this will come crashing down or fade away into nothing yet again.

I hope I'm wrong.

Look for me it's been a success. Last night EVERYONE was thinking about the Matildas it's a core memory now. The next time I tell people at work I'm going to a soccer match they will get it. People know who vine is 

GK
Arnold - West Ham United
Micah - Liverpool
Williams - Brighton & Hove Albion
DF
Kennedy - Manchester City
Hunt - euro move, reports Everton
Polkinghorne - Vittsjo
Catley - Arsenal
Nevin - Leicester City
Carpenter - Lyon
Grant - Vittsjo
MF
Luik - Hacken
Gorry - Vittsjo
Wheeler - Everton
Yallop - Brann
Cooney-Cross - euro switch likely, not sure whom
VanEgmond - San Diego Wave
Chidiac - Racing Louisville
FW
Raso - Real Madrid
Vine - euro move likely, not sure whom
Foord - Arsenal
Fowler - Manchester City
Simon - euro switch likely, not sure whom
Kerr - Chelsea