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Sorry for not keeping up... has Macey Fraser played any games lately?

Oi Oi Edgecumbe... lets have a clean sheet

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Oi Oi Edgecumbe
Sorry for not keeping up... has Macey Fraser played any games lately?
Don't quote me but I think. Played 5 of the first 6 games. Two starts three second half sub and one game unused sub. Most recent game was unused sub.
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Niche Cache. Yes hopefully just a minor injury for Clegg keeping her out of this first round game.

Meikayla Moore: “I’m absolutely chuffed to get on the board, especially our first goal for the club, it’s really special. Scoring goals is not my mainstay as a defender, but whenever we get an attacking free kick, especially in that area, it’s certainly my job to try to put my head on it and today I was able to.”

Great to see Moore and Green both immediately starting games and, especially in Moore’s case, having a really positive impact on the team. This was the kind of win that should give the Tide heaps of confidence. But there was one stink aspect to this game: it should have also been a debut for Milly Clegg with Halifax Tides... except she wasn’t in the matchday squad.

There’s been no explanation why so we’ll simply have to assume she had an injury. The Tides picked an all-Canadian front three and with a brand new league that’s played up the patriotic aspect as much as the NSL has, that could be a hurdle for Clegg minutes. But it’s irrelevant in this case because she wasn’t even on the bench. Clegg moved on loan to Halifax specifically to get minutes after barely featuring for Racing Louisville last year. You’d imagine Halifax offered some assurances for that move to come to fruition. Clegg does have a kiwi comrade on the coaching staff in Katie Barrott (formerly the Wellington Phoenix U20s coach). No dramas. In the meantime, it’s Moore and Green in the spotlight.
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She scored again 10 min later. Another header off a corner.
Vic win 3-1.
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Claudia scores against Claudia
coochiee
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Niche Cache. Summary of Kiwis in this season's English 2nd tier.

London City (Neville) finished first. Durham ended up in fourth (Blake & Foster). Sunderland were seventh (Kitching), and Sheffield United were last with relegation (Hand & Page). In terms of individual stats, it went like this...
  • Katie Kitching – 19 games (19 starts) | 1527 minutes | 5 goals | 5 assists  

  • Jacqui Hand – 16 games (14 starts) | 1275 minutes | 2 goals | 1 assist

  • Mickey Foster – 17 games (13 starts) | 1165 minutes | 2 goals | 1 assist

  • Hannah Blake – 18 games (12 starts) | 1053 minutes | 3 goals | 0 assists

  • Grace Neville – 16 games (7 starts) | 811 minutes | 1 goal | 1 assist

  • Olivia Page – 7 games (5 starts) | 459 minutes | 0 goals | 0 assists

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Niche Cache.



Here’s one from off the beaten track. Palmerston North’s own Rebekah Trewhitt, fresh from a couple years with the Wellington Phoenix Academy (she was one of their best during the 2024 National League) has made the switch to the United States of America where she’s signed with Union 10 FC. Her new club also operate with an academy style set-up that offers local development programmes throughout the ages. But, like the Wellington Phoenix, they also have competitive senior teams. The men play in the Gulf Coast Premier League, same as their women’s team used to... until an announcement in January that they’d been accepted as an expansion team for the WPSL.

The American soccer scene gets very confusing below the NWSL. For example, Grace Wisnewski’s team plays in the USL Super League which was designed as a second tier league but didn’t get the right accreditation and thus ended up becoming a separate/rival entity. There’s also the United Women’s Soccer competition which is an entirely different competition with second tier status. Then there’s the whole amateur college system (and it’s even more chaotic on the men’s side).

The WPSL also has second tier status, whatever that’s supposed to mean, and is comprised of 150 clubs spread out across four regional splits with four conferences within each region (so sixteen separate league tables). Union 10 are one of 31 new/returning clubs for 2025. Dunno what that means as far as competitive balance goes but it definitely doesn’t help with any logical balance. Being based in South Alabama, U10FC will be playing in the Third Coast Division of the Gulf Coast Division – predominantly up against clubs from Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Good luck to Rebekah Trewhitt though, hopefully she’ll boss it over there.
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Milly Clegg finally makes an appearance in the NSL. Get 45min off the bench in a 0-0 draw. 
Also Michela Moore and Ally Green both start in there NSL game today. Also a 0-0 draw.
Elsewhere  Macey Fraser not in match day squad for Utah. Listed as having a knee injury. Utah lose again. Utah haven't scored in there last 3 games.
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Melb City lose the inaugural AFC Champions League final on pens (4-5) to Chinese side Wuhan Jiangda 

Unfortunately Rebekah Scott fluffed her lines in the shootout.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msQm1i1cq28

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-25/asian-championship-league-final-melbournecity-wuhan-jiangda/105333694

With scores locked at 1-1 after a chaotic 90 minutes and extra time, City skipper Rebekah Stott had the chance to seal victory at 4-4 in the penalty shootout in front of a hostile crowd in Wuhan.

But Stott fired a shot tamely straight at Wuhan goalkeeper Chen Chen.

Zhao Yuxin put Wuhan in front and Chen saved Bryleeh Henry's penalty to seal a remarkable shootout victory 5-4.

The defeat cost City $2 million in prize money and players had been in line to receive around $47,000 each.

Instead, the players each claim about $23,000 as runners-up, with the club's prize money approximately $1.25 million.

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https://theniche-cache.com/football/2025/6/6/football-ferns-vs-venezuela-the-mayne-reign-properly-begins

Quick last point from the club sphere... there’s been news from what’s now known as the WSL 2 (after a recent rebranding) that Blackburn Rovers have withdrawn from the English second tier for financial reasons. The same thing happened to Reading before last season. London City Lionesses have been promoted as champions and hopefully Grace Neville will remain with them in the top flight, while previous WSL 2 champs Crystal Palace were relegated with Indi Riley on the books.

Nottingham Forest and Ipswich have been promoted from the third tier. Because of the two withdrawals, that means Sheffield United will no longer be relegated as they thought they were going to be... which is great news for Olivia Page and Jacqui Hand. Page might have stayed anyway but Hand surely would have departed if the team was dropping down. She can do better than that at this stage of her career. However, she might now choose to hang around in those familiar surroundings where she was getting plenty of playing time. Interesting development... particularly as she might have been one (might still be one tbf) for whom a rejuvenating season in the A-League made a bit of sense.
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Swedish 2nd tier.
Though as Niche Cache has highlighted bit strange likes of Rennie and Maggie Jenkins who's scoring goas in Turkey are continuing to be overlooked for Ruby Nathan.

Nathan I think has 1 ALW goal in 30+ games, but was slected for Ferns squads both against Costa Rica and Venezuela without taking the field in either window. Think I have that correct. It's almost like Nathan is a 'project player.

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Yeh I think Nathan is a project player. Still only 19.
Good to see some competition in the forward department for the ferns. Jenkins, Rennie and Blake all playing overseas. Means the likes of Brown, Hand, Jale and Nathan will have to keep performing at club level if they want to keep there places. 
Rennie always had great potential. Probably called up to FF to early.
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Had a really good 2023 WWC Hand, but hasn't really kicked on as she promised then she might.

https://www.friendsoffootballnz.com/2025/06/24/forward-jacqui-hand-becomes-third-fern-to-join-top-tier-norwegian-club/ 

New Zealand international striker Jacqui Hand has joined two Football Ferns teammates at Norwegian club Kolbotn.

Defender Liz Anton and midfielder Olivia Chance are in their first season with Kolbotn, who play in the top-tier Toppserieen and are three-time league winners.

Hand (26) joins after leaving English FA Women’s Championship club Sheffield United.

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https://www.friendsoffootballnz.com/2025/06/28/ferns-playmaker-katie-kitching-signs-new-deal-with-english-club-sunderland/

New Zealand international Katie Kitching is one of five players to agree new contracts with English club Sunderland.

Midfielder Kitching (26) was the Player of the 2024-25 Season for the club that plays in England’s second-tier Women’s Championship.

The club has been given a boost with news that the promotion pathway to England’s top-tier Women’s Super League has been improved with its planned expansion to 14 clubs from 2026-27.

That means three teams can win promotion from the 12-club Women’s Championship next season, two through automatic promotion and a third if they win a play-off with the second-bottom WSL side.

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Thought Helena was a stand out at national youth level. Surprised that the Nix didn't renew her contract after her short cameo after returning from europe a few seasons back.
Good to see she has another pro deal.
Though USA leagues are proving tough to crack for kiwi's.
Wish her all the best.
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Niche Cache. Helena Errington.

Sporting JAX: “Helena Errington, a native of New Zealand, made her professional debut for the Wellington Phoenix FC. She was the top scorer at the Oceania U-20 World Cup qualifiers. She was an all-star in the National Premier League Women in Australia and played in Portugal with Sporting CP before signing with Wellington Phoenix. Her attacking creativity and international flair will be a strength for Sporting JAX’s midfield.”

Helena Errington’s had an atypical career to date. She excelled as a youngster playing in the NZ National League a few years ago and has been one of the standouts at every NZ age grade level she’s played at, including both U17 and U20 World Cups. However, it’s taken time to get the club stuff settled. She went over to Sporting Lisbon in Portugal a couple of years ago and trained with them for an extended time but wasn’t able to sign permanently. Then she came back as a scholarship player for the Wellington Phoenix before spending last winter as a key player for Bentleigh Greens in the Aussie state league. Now here she is signing with USL Super League expansion team Sporting Club Jacksonville.

This the same competition that Grace Wisnewski left the Wellington Phoenix for (as well as Nix imports Isabel Cox, Hope Breslin, and Hailey Davidson) – it was designed as a rival to the NWSL, though effectively operates as the competition which scoops up the excess players that don’t make it in that ruthless and much more established main competition. It’s also healthily backed financially with player salaries way in excess of what the A-League can offer based on what A-League folks have been saying.

The USL Super League recently finished its inaugural season with the Tampa Bay Sun lifting the championship. 

SC Jacksonville are an expansion team for the 2025-26 season that’ll bring it up to nine teams with several more in the process of joining in the future. Errington was part of a wave of signings which also included Englishwoman Jade Pennock who was part of the Central Coast Mariners team that won the previous A-League. 
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Niche Cache. Ali Riley back training with Angel City

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLDnYraTw0z/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=df69cf99-c385-4845-a3c9-7782b6d3f60e

What a happy sight. Ali Riley has been on the season-ending injury list since last August due to a chronic leg injury. She tried to make a comeback for the Olympic Games just prior but it didn’t happen. It’s been a bummer... yet she’s been battling away behind the scenes to try and keep her career going and getting back into limited training again is a massive milestone in that quest. It’s probably unlikely she gets back onto the pitch this year but who knows. Her contract with Angel City expires at the end of this season meaning she’s at least got to prove to them that she’s worthy of another deal. Even if she doesn’t play, these could be a crucial few months in her career.

The NWSL is in the middle of its midseason break while international fixtures take place around the world... although not for New Zealand, of course. The next round of fixtures aren’t until the start of August so you’d hope that Macey Fraser will be ready to go for Utah Royals by then having not played since late-April due to a knee injury. Utah had a big injury crisis around that time so Fraser’s issue didn’t get covered very specifically. All we know is that it’s a “knee injury”... at least it’s not a recurrence of the ankle issues she struggled with last year. She’s back juggling in her latest TikTok and her coach implied a few weeks ago that all the injured players were close to a comeback so they probably just didn’t want to rush her back when there was a five-week break coming up.
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