Who are our 3rd and 4th cb options for the WC?

Amazing result, England played all over Australia. The English had an offside goal ruled out, not even close to offside. A clear penalty shout dismissed, another possible penalty shout also dismissed. 
England were by far the better team.

Waz, You just said USA and Brazil. Brazil haven't been a top side in some time...
USA, France, England, Netherlands, Spain are the top sides currently with a whole bunch of euro sides coming up strong.

Score should be 3 or 4 to our 1 today. The ref was absolutely terrible.
.

Scoreline flatters us big time.

We need to improve a lot between now and the world cup to be in contention.

Average performance at best.

Thought Fowler was good coming on late.  Pacey lass with skills.

@ chondro

Fair enough and I agree although I think you misunderstood the point I was making which was results in the Tournament of Nations (against Brazil and the USA) have bred a sense of complacency - not just in the footballing public but also in the Matilda’s set up.

The quality in Europe (in sides as you say like France, England, Netherlands, Spain) are where a real test lies and it’s a reminder to everyone in Australian football that we can’t rest or become complacent. Women’s gootball is advancing at a remarkable rate.

Most would agree that this is the best 11?

Williams
Carpenter/Polkinghorne/Kennedy/Catley
Butt/VanEgmond/Kellond-Knight
Raso/Kerr/Devanna


Subs?
GK-Next best 2? (Arnold, Campbell, Dumont, Whyman +? are options)
CB-Next best 2? (Crummer, Alleway, Cooper +? are options)
RB-likely Raso as secondary position
LB-likely Kellond-Knight as a secondary position
DM/CM-Harrison, Luik, Sayer
CM/AM-Gorry, Chidiac, Simon
RW-Foord (Gielnik and Ibini as other options)
LW-Logarzo
S-Next best? (Fowler, Siemsen, Heyman, Yeoman-dale, Vine, Ayres, Flannery, Lloyd are options)


Looks asthough the Goalkeeping, centreback and second or third striking options need to be sorted out a.s.a.p.
Attacking midfielders aren't in great form either.

Anyone got contact details at FFA as TD at one club wants to make contact withFFA but FFA website not helpful,
by the way scored from 40 yards in open play at the weekend.

been sorted

AFC u19 qualifying tournament team announced

GK
T.Morrissey 00
A.Grove 01
M.Aquino 01

DF
K.Torpey 00
E.Hodgson 00
T.Tumeth 01
W.Heatley 01
C.Grant 01
S.Morgan 01

MF
M.Barbieri 00
T.Ray 01
A.Sayer 01
K.Roestbakken 01
S.Phonsongkham 01
L.Mckenna 02
C.Nevin 02
S.Sakalis 02

FW
R.Lowe 00
P.Ibini 00
A.Colvill 00
J.Galabadaarachchi 01
I.Paige-Riley 01
K.Cooney-Cross 02

What a great name.

Great player too. Just needs to improve her fitness and physicality. She'll get a lot of minutes at the glory.

Joe Montemurro: Arsenal Women manager signs new long-term contract

Arsenal Women manager Joe Montemurro has signed a new long-term contract with the Women's Super League leaders.The 49-year-old Australian has helped his side win 21 of their 27 games since he took charge in November 2017.Arsenal's 5-0 win on Sunday at Chelsea Women, the WSL champions' first home defeat since July 2016, took their current run to six straight victories.Four have been in the WSL, which Arsenal Women lead on goal difference from Birmingham City Women.The length of Montemurro's new deal with the Londoners is undisclosed.https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45895216

Poor performances in the qualification for u20s.
Very sloppy.

18-0 vs Mongolia
2-0 vs Lebanon
3-0 vs Hong Kong

Nz u17 WC team through to the semi final. Beat Japan on penalties.... a team that destroyed us in qualifying.
Credit to the kiwis. Not sure they can beat Spain but I'm rooting for them.

Nz lose 2-0 to Spain in the semi.
Amazing effort.

Saw a bit on Eurosport. Great to get so far. 

The Matildas have arranged a friendly with the US ahead of the World Cup: https://matildas.footballaustralia.com.au/news/westfield-matildas-face-united-states-international-friendly

Matildas in pot 1 for draw Sunday 4am Aussie time.

Pot 2 is tough, however.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
France(3) (hosts)  United States(1)  Germany(2)  England(4)  Canada(5)  Australia(6)	Netherlands(7)  Japan(8)  Sweden(9)  Brazil(10)  Spain(12)  Norway(13)	South Korea(14)  China PR (15)  Italy(16)  New Zealand(19)  Scotland(20)  Thailand(29)	Argentina(36)  Chile(38)  Nigeria(39)  Cameroon(46)  South Africa (48)  Jamaica(53)

Give me Spain Scotland and Cameroon. 

Interesting, Dirk.

Very impressive.

Spain are bettter than there ranking. We don't want them.

We want Brazil, Thailand and Jamaica.

https://youtu.be/8MJjx-xCnew

Draw about to start. Of course they'll have 45min of talking and dancing first.... 

Group A
1 France
2 South Korea
3 Norway
4 Nigeria 
Group B
1 Germany
2 China
3 Spain
4 South Africa
Group C
1 Australia
2 Italy
3 Brazil
4 Jamaica
Group D
1 England
2 Scotland
3 Argentina
4 Japan
Group E
1 Canada
2 Cameroon
3 New Zealand
4 Netherlands
Group F
1 USA
2 Thailand
3 Chile
4 Sweden

We'll be playing Italy Brazil Jamaica in that order in Valenciennes, Montpellier and Grenoble respectively.

Looks like I'll be in the air during the Italy game.

Winning the group will get a 3rd placed opponent then a likely clash with Netherlands England or Japan I reckon. Hate these 24 team tournaments. 

How do France get to host the men’s and women World Cup?

Credit to Muz for creating this thread on Women's Football.

It is a shame we don't have more female participants on this forum.

Oxford player selected for England schools 

Mini matildas squad for next phase of qualifying.

https://matildas.footballaustralia.com.au/news/30-players-set-sights-laos-canberra-camp


something like...

GK
M.Bailey
K.Pritchard
R.Jones
B.Edwards

DF
I.Wallhead
T.Douglas
K.Fenton
G.Taranto
C.Mihovic
J.Nash
J.Rankin
O.De La Harpe
E.Illijoski
J.Dubbert

MF
D.Malone
M.Malone
A.Parkinson
P.Zois
C.Farmer
C.Rule
T.Mckenna
N.Stamatopoulos

FW
J.Morley
K.Johnson
A.Jancevski
J.Jasnos
P.Tay
H.Lowry
A.Hunt
G.Beaumont

Coaching change for Matildas imminent. WTF?

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/matildas-facing-coaching-change-months-out-from-world-cup-20190118-p50sby.html

Just heard about this on ABC news.