Where's Terry when you need him?
WPW 2021/22 Squad Speculation, Confirmation and Mutual Termination
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Where's Terry when you need him?
Every team needs a Talitha. Especially this young one.
"Talitha is derived from the Arabic for "young girl". The traditional star name Talitha refers to two stars in the Ursa Major constellation."
Where's Terry when you need him?
Well done Stuff producing huge amount of NZ Women's football content lately.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/women-in-sport/127144745/leadership-role-takes-young-wellington-phoenix-defender-kate-taylor-by-surprise
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/women-in-sport/127126229/who-might-star-for-the-wellington-phoenix-in-their-first-aleague-women-campaign
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/women-in-sport/127144745/leadership-role-takes-young-wellington-phoenix-defender-kate-taylor-by-surprise
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/women-in-sport/127126229/who-might-star-for-the-wellington-phoenix-in-their-first-aleague-women-campaign
Yesssss, nice work.
Every team needs a Talitha. Especially this young one.
"Talitha is derived from the Arabic for "young girl". The traditional star name Talitha refers to two stars in the Ursa Major constellation."
Sounds like useful experience to have!
What I really do like about the squad, is how the Kiwi players come from all over NZ. Players from Canty, Wai Bop, Northern Lights. Means young girls growing up in the Tron, ChCh have a new local hero to follow & be inspired by.
Hopefully the team can come back for some double headers with Nix Men over the summer, in front of big crowds at ROF and Eden Park. Dream scenario. Lets hope.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/women-in-sport/127152608/as-one-long-journey-ends-for-the-wellington-phoenix-another-is-only-just-beginning
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/women-in-sport/127160177/wellington-phoenix-ready-to-rise-to-the-occasion-in-first-aleague-women-game
https://theniche-cache.com/football/2021/12/2/what-can-we-expect-from-the-welly-nix-women-this-first-season
Because... don’t say this too loudly but the A-League W is not as strong as it once was. A large chunk of the top Matildas players have left to play overseas, most of them heading to the English WSL (Rebekah Stott was among that wave until she returned to Melbourne for her cancer treatments). The Matildas squad that played against the USA last week had only six players aligned with A-League clubs and five of them were teenagers (and the other 22yo). The A-League cannot compete with the financial and footballing opportunities that teams in Europe or America have to offer and in a sport that is drastically becoming more lucrative... well, obviously a competition that only runs for four months of the year is going to have difficulties retaining its top talent.
Hopefully the team can come back for some double headers with Nix Men over the summer, in front of big crowds at ROF and Eden Park. Dream scenario. Lets hope.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/women-in-sport/127152608/as-one-long-journey-ends-for-the-wellington-phoenix-another-is-only-just-beginning
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/women-in-sport/127160177/wellington-phoenix-ready-to-rise-to-the-occasion-in-first-aleague-women-game
https://theniche-cache.com/football/2021/12/2/what-can-we-expect-from-the-welly-nix-women-this-first-season
Because... don’t say this too loudly but the A-League W is not as strong as it once was. A large chunk of the top Matildas players have left to play overseas, most of them heading to the English WSL (Rebekah Stott was among that wave until she returned to Melbourne for her cancer treatments). The Matildas squad that played against the USA last week had only six players aligned with A-League clubs and five of them were teenagers (and the other 22yo). The A-League cannot compete with the financial and footballing opportunities that teams in Europe or America have to offer and in a sport that is drastically becoming more lucrative... well, obviously a competition that only runs for four months of the year is going to have difficulties retaining its top talent.
And that’s not a bad thing at all. In fact it’s a great thing, it means that the A-League is operating as a stepping stone to the best leagues on the planet. There are Aussie players at Arsenal, at Chelsea, at West Ham, at Rosengård, at Manchester City, at Lyon. They pretty much all got their start in the A-League. As such the comp does trend a little younger which means that the Wellington Phoenix’s youth approach isn’t as out of sync with the rest of the competition as it may be represented as. Yes, they’re on the extreme end of the sliding scale, but it’s still the same scale.
A good assessment as usual from TNC…
https://theniche-cache.com/football/2021/12/9/what-did-we-learn-about-the-welly-nix-women-from-their-first-ever-game
https://theniche-cache.com/football/2021/12/9/what-did-we-learn-about-the-welly-nix-women-from-their-first-ever-game
A good critique of the girls so far…
https://theniche-cache.com/football/2022/1/2/gotta-keep-this-first-welly-nix-womens-season-in-context
But maybe if you are singling out defenders by name for letting goals in maybe talk about the ones up front who are not looking at all likely to affect the deficit ?
https://theniche-cache.com/football/2022/1/2/gotta-keep-this-first-welly-nix-womens-season-in-context
But maybe if you are singling out defenders by name for letting goals in maybe talk about the ones up front who are not looking at all likely to affect the deficit ?