WPW R18 vs Perth Glory | Sat 18th Mar | 5:00pm | RoF

Women back at the RoF. 

Hopefully we can catch them jet lagged & get above the Jets this weekend.

Can we make it 3 in a row without defeat? 

Two kiwi girls in the Perth lineup. In Anton and Blake, should be interesting.

Kia ora, 

IMPORTANT UPDATE: AISLES 18-25 ONLY ARE ONLY FOR THIS MATCH  

Your ticket and members card will still be valid for entry, but your chosen aisle for this weekend's match against Perth Glory will not be available.  Please feel free to sit anywhere else within the open aisles.  Thank you for your understanding.

COYN!

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^^ Info for anyone attending.

Unchanged lineup for us which I like.
Interested to see how Hannah Blake goes for Perth today. She already has 2 goals for Perth and only joined them a month or so ago.

RR

Kia ora, 

IMPORTANT UPDATE: AISLES 18-25 ONLY ARE ONLY FOR THIS MATCH  

Your ticket and members card will still be valid for entry, but your chosen aisle for this weekend's match against Perth Glory will not be available.  Please feel free to sit anywhere else within the open aisles.  Thank you for your understanding.

COYN!

If you have any questions or queries please contact: Members@wellingtonphoenix.com


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So you have to suffer in the blazing sun? Only at the Stadium could they pull that stunt. That's why Aisle 12 area is great on a sunny day - the Shade. 

PS: Looks like there's only about 400 people there. Perfect day and no one shows. Damn I hate being stuck at work on a game day.

Playing well,but not positive enough considering we are losing.
Satchell running them ragged.
But we seem to have a complete inability to find rolston or anyone else in the box.

Given the fudge all people down here I don't blame them for restricting the aisles.  I imagine the more they have open the more it costs.

Bananas

Given the fudge all people down here I don't blame them for restricting the aisles.  I imagine the more they have open the more it costs.

Should be in the shade side.

LG

Bananas

Given the fudge all people down here I don't blame them for restricting the aisles.  I imagine the more they have open the more it costs.

Should be in the shade side.

so close the yellow fever bay?  Or do you mean from the yellow fever bay around so all the available bays are behind the goal?

Honestly I struggle to see a win here.

The last 10 minutes have been wave after wave of attack, how the hell they haven't scored, is unbelievable.

How the hell that's a yellow given some of their fouls on us is mind boggling.

Incredibly frustrating. Great fun watching our all out attacking style but quality of final ball and finish are sadly deficient.

They might have lost but that last 30 minutes was a better watch than last night.

How the hell wasn't that a pen?  Nix player pushed out of the path of the ball!

The team looked so good.  That shot that almost went in the corner was a fantastic save from the keeper.

Really felt like we should have drawn or won.

LG

They might have lost but that last 30 minutes was a better watch than last night.

As well as most of the men's games this season just quietly. But at the end of the day it's all about taking your chances and that is something of an issue for this team unfortunately.

Sorry but that was ours for the taking after Perth were very ordinary for 70 minutes and we failed to capitalise.
Poor finishing, poor game management, poor coaching.

Our defence was very good. I've been critical of Taylor,but she looked strong today. Barry made some great tackles,van der meer was fine and Foster was impressive defending and going forwards. Not sure what happened on the goal,but it looked well worked from Perth.

I'm not sure we can buy a goal. We should have had more numbers forward more often and a lot earlier. .  But then we could have been out there all day and not scored. Foster puts good balls in,but noone gets anywhere near them, van der meer looks the only one who might get on the end of one.

I thought Knott and Whisneski were very poor with basic skills in comparison to Lawerence and Mastrantonio. 

How they didnt score I don'  know. They were all over Perth in the second half and actually probably for 3/4 of the game really. It must be so hard for them really, so many games with close scoreline  losses or draws. They showed against the top team Sydney that they were capable of beating anyone. 

I posted this comment on STUFF and thought I'd share it here:
I applaud Lawrence for getting the Nix to play good possession-based football. It's a decent foundation for scoring goals, but only if the team has a striker capable of beating opposition defenders and getting shots on target. That player is missing from the Nix – no Nix player has scored more than 2 goals this season and the team's shot accuracy is woeful. Lawrence has had 15 games to address this by developing (or obtaining?) someone to do the job, to no avail. There is also some odd decision-making in the game planning e.g. why is Robertson (the shortest player in the Nix squad) always in the goal area at attacking corners? It makes no sense. At this stage of the season, and with nothing to lose, I'd try something left-field and give Cicco a go at centre forward – she has shown with the Australian U20s that she knows where the goal is.

i would be starting Cicco but not as a centre forward. Cicco needs to be playing give us solidarity.

Looking like back to back spoons for us. Some will say we are playing better football but I'm over being cellar dwellers. 

Would like a better coach in there that fans can trust. Some astute football brains. Sam Wilkinson or maybe Leon Birnie? or if NZ Sport say it has to be a female then Alana Gunn. 

ps. What's happened to Clegg? even now Rolston is starting over her....that's borderline offensive

From the 20 minute mark onwards we pretty much dominated this game. Not being able to score makes for a tough loss.

its about getting 3 points.

I find the "fill the goalmouth with plenty of bodies" approach at corners pretty pathetic.

No imagination  no variation, no movement. The balls coming in are great. Too often the ball fell behind our players,with back to goal,or going the wrong way.

Crowd size?

Feverish

Crowd size?

850 and I even think that may be a bit generous.

Yakcall

Feverish

Crowd size?

850 and I even think that may be a bit generous.

Jesus 

Feverish

Yakcall

Feverish

Crowd size?

850 and I even think that may be a bit generous.

Jesus 

No, I'm Matt

My 2 cents. Satchell is really fast , she created so much havoc. Hasset the best player on the pitch, she is  technically above everyone and had a massive work rate. Taylor was solid in the back. Robertson was also lively in the left side. Rolston as a target woman had not much service, which is a shame as she always ran into good spaces.
The whole team was tactical very good and controlled most of the game. Technically there is room for improvement, some passes, crosses and decision making where horrible. The energy on the field and try to win the game was impressive, sadly no one in team could finish, they definitely need to work on that.

U037

I posted this comment on STUFF and thought I'd share it here:
I applaud Lawrence for getting the Nix to play good possession-based football. It's a decent foundation for scoring goals, but only if the team has a striker capable of beating opposition defenders and getting shots on target. That player is missing from the Nix – no Nix player has scored more than 2 goals this season and the team's shot accuracy is woeful. Lawrence has had 15 games to address this by developing (or obtaining?) someone to do the job, to no avail. There is also some odd decision-making in the game planning e.g. why is Robertson (the shortest player in the Nix squad) always in the goal area at attacking corners? It makes no sense. At this stage of the season, and with nothing to lose, I'd try something left-field and give Cicco a go at centre forward – she has shown with the Australian U20s that she knows where the goal is.

Well a goal scoring CF is the recruitment target for next season. The JV with NZF is finish at the end of this season. Just in place for the 2 seasons heading into the WWC.

Be interesting if the recruitment changes now that is just solely a Nix enterprise. Less about player development, with some older domestic players like Tayla O'Brien & Deven Jackson getting a look in maybe?? Plus yes 1-2 foreign (non Kiwi/Aus) signings

Some some sympathy for Lawrence and Nix ALW setup that they were likely partly hamstrung on the players they could sign (mostly young Kiwis), as a condition of NZF tipping in funds to start the team up. As Talay always says getting the recruitment right, is a huge part of a coach's job description.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/women-in-sport/131540180/wellington-phoenix-women-plan-to-solve-big-issue-by-finding-their-own-oskar-zawada

Because any import signing would have to take the spot of a New Zealander, and they have a limit on how many Kiwis they can sign, the Phoenix have focussed their recruitment on developing promising local players.

But there is now acknowledgement that one or two imports, especially a clinical striker, are needed to take the team to another level.

Imagine if they had an Oskar Zawada up front like the men do.

Of the 11 players who have scored five or more goals in the A-League Women this season, six of them are imports.

No Phoenix player has scored more than two goals, with forwards Ava Pritchard and Milly Clegg, midfielder Betsy Hassett and defender Marisa van der Meer their joint top-scorers with two each.

Football Ferns Emma Rolston and Paige Satchell – two of their top recruits – are both yet to score.


https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/world-cup/131536824/nz-football-chief-100-excited-as-game-enters-busy-stretch-around-womens-world-cup

Away from NZ Football’s direct influence, there is a potential coaching vacancy looming for the Wellington Phoenix men, if Ufuk Talay leaves, while women’s coach Natalie Lawrence is also off contract, and that programme will soon fall entirely under the Phoenix’s control after the governing body played a significant role in its first two seasons.