Full credit to southern altho pride missing a large number of key players due to International Selection/College Football and injury whereas Southern pretty much same plus or minus a few. Really can’t compare apples to apples in this new Southern series compared to a NWL competition. Great for all teams to have a kick around of sorts. Will be a diff story next season hopefully when players return and hopefully covid restrictions lifted.
Last season's championship winning Pride squad:
1 Una FOYLE (GK), 2 Emma CLARKE, 3 Rebecca LAKE, 4 Lara WALL, 5 Mikaela HUNT, 6 Kate TAYLOR, 7 Gabrielle (Gabi) RENNIE, 8 Tahlia HERMAN-WATT, 11 Britney-lee NICHOLSON, 12 Amelia ABBOTT, 13 Whitney HEPBURN, 15 Margarida DIAS, 18 Alyssa WHINHAM, 19 Ellena FIRTH, 21 Nicola DOMINIKOVICH, 23 Lily BRAY; Zoe McMeeken
Players who have left in bold.
Nine players have left from last season.
Taylor, Whinham and McMeeken to the Phoenix Women.
Rennie, Herman-Watt, Abbott to US universities
Margarida Dias, a Cantabrian with a Portuguese dad, to Southern where she is studying at Otago.
First choice keeper Una Foyle was out injured and replaced by the inexperienced Annie Foote.
There were four Pride players on debut vs. Southern: Kate Guildford, Kate Loye, Lottie Mortlock and Kiara Bercelli
It's a bonus having Football Fern Annalie Longo back, having decided to give the A-League Women a miss this season to spend time with her two daughters.
This season's squad:
