WPW 2026/27 Squad Speculation, Confirmation and Mutual Termination

Elbo wrote:
“Yallop is an awesome signing as long as she is over her recent injuries. It hampered her participation in Brisbanes finals campaign. Is another great signing for our young girls to learn off.”

Shame they have to sack the local young talent in order to find room for aging, injury prone players at the end of their careers

Elbo wrote:
“Yallop is an awesome signing as long as she is over her recent injuries. It hampered her participation in Brisbanes finals campaign. Is another great signing for our young girls to learn off.”

Shame they have to sack the local young talent in order to find room for aging, injury prone players at the end of their careers

ballane wrote:

 Elbo wrote:
“Yallop is an awesome signing as long as she is over her recent injuries. It hampered her participation in Brisbanes finals campaign. Is another great signing for our young girls to learn off.”

Shame they have to sack the local young talent in order to find room for aging, injury prone players at the end of their careers

Go away, you cant see the benefits of the signings they have made you may as well go and watch someone else. So you would prefer we dont take part in finals and our young players dont get the benefit of the senior players because we arnt winning anything without some of those experienced players.

Nelfoos wrote:
Going to need some elaboration on the "loading up a team with broken down has-beens".

Yallop has had injury issues recently, but Erceg is coming off being one of the best players in a league stronger than the A-League. One player isn't "loading up".

There also doesn't appear to be many of the "talent you've developed for years" being released, other than Brazendale who hasn't shown the ability to play consistently at this level. 

Seems like hyperbole and being negative for the sake of it rather than any basis in reality.

Elbo wrote:

 Nelfoos wrote:
Going to need some elaboration on the "loading up a team with broken down has-beens".

Yallop has had injury issues recently, but Erceg is coming off being one of the best players in a league stronger than the A-League. One player isn't "loading up".

There also doesn't appear to be many of the "talent you've developed for years" being released, other than Brazendale who hasn't shown the ability to play consistently at this level. 

Seems like hyperbole and being negative for the sake of it rather than any basis in reality.

Just an opinion, let’s revisit mid season when the Nix are obviously going to be out of reach and injury free 😉

Elbo wrote:

 ballane wrote:

 Elbo wrote:
“Yallop is an awesome signing as long as she is over her recent injuries. It hampered her participation in Brisbanes finals campaign. Is another great signing for our young girls to learn off.”

Shame they have to sack the local young talent in order to find room for aging, injury prone players at the end of their careers

Go away, you cant see the benefits of the signings they have made you may as well go and watch someone else. So you would prefer we dont take part in finals and our young players dont get the benefit of the senior players because we arnt winning anything without some of those experienced players.

Only positive comments allowed?
Keep drinking the cool- aid champ
I don’t think loading up a team with broken down has-beens at the expense of talent you’ve developed for years is the way forward for a club.
If the plan is to spend up large to buy a title in a given year that’s great but if it fails it’s back to the drawing board 

Elbo wrote:

 ballane wrote:

 Elbo wrote:
“Yallop is an awesome signing as long as she is over her recent injuries. It hampered her participation in Brisbanes finals campaign. Is another great signing for our young girls to learn off.”

Shame they have to sack the local young talent in order to find room for aging, injury prone players at the end of their careers

Go away, you cant see the benefits of the signings they have made you may as well go and watch someone else. So you would prefer we dont take part in finals and our young players dont get the benefit of the senior players because we arnt winning anything without some of those experienced players.

Only positive comments allowed?
Keep drinking the cool- aid champ
I don’t think loading up a team with broken down has-beens at the expense of talent you’ve developed for years is the way forward for a club.
If the plan is to spend up large to buy a title in a given year that’s great but if it fails it’s back to the drawing board 

Ranix wrote:

 Elbo wrote:

 ballane wrote:

 Elbo wrote:
“Yallop is an awesome signing as long as she is over her recent injuries. It hampered her participation in Brisbanes finals campaign. Is another great signing for our young girls to learn off.”

Shame they have to sack the local young talent in order to find room for aging, injury prone players at the end of their careers

Go away, you cant see the benefits of the signings they have made you may as well go and watch someone else. So you would prefer we dont take part in finals and our young players dont get the benefit of the senior players because we arnt winning anything without some of those experienced players.

Only positive comments allowed?
Keep drinking the cool- aid champ
I don’t think loading up a team with broken down has-beens at the expense of talent you’ve developed for years is the way forward for a club.
If the plan is to spend up large to buy a title in a given year that’s great but if it fails it’s back to the drawing board 


 

Don't respond to Elbo, He's just a stirrer, that same person that always posited negative stuff previous under a different user name.
Don't give him fuel.

Ranix wrote:

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Half a Pint wrote:

 Ranix wrote:

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But it does look like she and the club have agreed to a mutual termination according to Phillip Rollo

Edit: And heavily alluded to by Bev in her press conference about signing Yallop.

SamCoughlan wrote:
Of all the places for something like this to be confirmed, a fashion segment of a Christchurch newspaper is an odd place - but Macey Fraser is gone. 

Doloras wrote:

 Half a Pint wrote:

 Ranix wrote:

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But it does look like she and the club have agreed to a mutual termination according to Phillip Rollo

Edit: And heavily alluded to by Bev in her press conference about signing Yallop.

I am reluctant to do "diagnosis via Instagram posts", but this kind of looks like bipolar behavior (burn your bridges one day and say 'just jokes' the next)

RR wrote:
2026/27
CJ Bott
Emma Main
Sabitra Bhandari (V)
Mackenzie Barry
Ellie Walker  (V)
Grace Jale
Makala Woods (V)
Brooke Nunn (V)
Marisa van der Meer
Victoria Esson
Aimee Danieli
Manaia Elliott
Kam Pickett (V)
Abby Erceg
Tameka Yallop
 
2027/28
Pia Vlok (Scholarship in 26/27)
Macey Fraser *

2028/29
Zoe Benson (Scholarship in 26/27 & 27/28)

* Awaiting confirmation of her departure

SamCoughlan wrote:
Of all the places for something like this to be confirmed, a fashion segment of a Christchurch newspaper is an odd place - but Macey Fraser is gone.

Macey Fraser, 24, lives in Rangiora and is between jobs.
She was a professional athlete before giving it up last week.
During her soccer sporting career, she played for the Football Ferns, New Zealand’s national team, and for the Wellington Phoenix for two years. She also played professionally in Utah, America, but has been back for almost a year now.
She has played soccer (football) since she was 4 years old because her family is “soccer crazy”. Her Kiwi parents follow Liverpool FC, she says.
Being a professional soccer player seems like a “dream job”, she says, and while she liked it, “it’s really hard financially”. She was paid only nine months of the year, and not nearly as much as her male counterparts.
“It’s harder than people think to be a professional athlete.” 

LG wrote:
The one contract I hope the club are seriously looking at and upgrading, is the coach's - Bev Priestman. Extension please. Not only has she completely transformed the squad, but the way things get done. It's a whole new positive attitude built around "winners". It appears so much more professional.

AllWhites82 wrote:

 SamCoughlan wrote:
Of all the places for something like this to be confirmed, a fashion segment of a Christchurch newspaper is an odd place - but Macey Fraser is gone.

Macey Fraser, 24, lives in Rangiora and is between jobs.
She was a professional athlete before giving it up last week.
During her soccer sporting career, she played for the Football Ferns, New Zealand’s national team, and for the Wellington Phoenix for two years. She also played professionally in Utah, America, but has been back for almost a year now.
She has played soccer (football) since she was 4 years old because her family is “soccer crazy”. Her Kiwi parents follow Liverpool FC, she says.
Being a professional soccer player seems like a “dream job”, she says, and while she liked it, “it’s really hard financially”. She was paid only nine months of the year, and not nearly as much as her male counterparts.
“It’s harder than people think to be a professional athlete.” 

The Press have run the following in their Corrections sections this morning:

A Katoitoi story in yesterday's Press stated that footballer Macey Fraser has given up professional sport. That is not the case; she remains a professional footballer.

wilbaker wrote:

 AllWhites82 wrote:

 SamCoughlan wrote:
Of all the places for something like this to be confirmed, a fashion segment of a Christchurch newspaper is an odd place - but Macey Fraser is gone.

Macey Fraser, 24, lives in Rangiora and is between jobs.
She was a professional athlete before giving it up last week.
During her soccer sporting career, she played for the Football Ferns, New Zealand’s national team, and for the Wellington Phoenix for two years. She also played professionally in Utah, America, but has been back for almost a year now.
She has played soccer (football) since she was 4 years old because her family is “soccer crazy”. Her Kiwi parents follow Liverpool FC, she says.
Being a professional soccer player seems like a “dream job”, she says, and while she liked it, “it’s really hard financially”. She was paid only nine months of the year, and not nearly as much as her male counterparts.
“It’s harder than people think to be a professional athlete.” 

The Press have run the following in their Corrections sections this morning:

A Katoitoi story in yesterday's Press stated that footballer Macey Fraser has given up professional sport. That is not the case; she remains a professional footballer. 

So she is staying this season?

wilbaker wrote:
It’s a shame how it’s ended but still time to find her love for the game again and come back later. Seems like something happened with her Utah move that made her lost that drive for playing football.

brookem wrote:

 wilbaker wrote:
It’s a shame how it’s ended but still time to find her love for the game again and come back later. Seems like something happened with her Utah move that made her lost that drive for playing football.

This is me asking because I didn't follow her time at Utah. Was she playing much there? 

brookem wrote:
(Sorry can't link instagram post I saw. Don't want my account to also be linked or whatever. So link to the Phoenix website instead)

brookem wrote:
Macey Fraser gone. Mutual termination (Sorry can't link instagram post I saw. Don't want my account to also be linked or whatever. So link to the Phoenix website instead)
https://wellingtonphoenix.com/news/fraser-farewells-the-nix/ 

Ranix wrote:
We just signed one high profile Aussie. Why not Melina Ayres who just left Newcastle. That would be another statement signing. Better striker than Speckmeir I reckon.

RR wrote:

 Ranix wrote:
We just signed one high profile Aussie. Why not Melina Ayres who just left Newcastle. That would be another statement signing. Better striker than Speckmeir I reckon.

Announced by City today. Really becoming an arms race between City and the Nix atm.