WPW R19 vs Newcastle Jets | Sat 25th Mar | 5:00pm | SS5

Win and we are not last anymore. Massive game.

Happy with this selection, hopefully Alyssa recovers well soon. We have the firepower to score goals. Hopefully they watched a replay of the goals they scored against Canberra prior to this game to remind themselves that they can score buckets of goals. Fingers crossed we have some luck go our way today. 

Get in!! 0-1

Van der meer has always looked the only one likely to get on the end of a corner.

The delivery from Robertson and Satchell is nothing short of atrocious. 

How good is Fosters delivery!! The only other in the clubs history who is as accurate that I can think of is Uli. 

Ugh, 1-1 

Rolston looks like she's got a mad fudgeing attitude, doesn't seam like a great person to be in a team with.

Monto

Rolston looks like she's got a mad fudgeing attitude, doesn't seam like a great person to be in a team with.

Yipe gives off bad body language. Too much arms gesticulating. Then when she does get a touch, or shot away it's invariably awful. 

I know the plan is to bang it up the flanks to Roberston & Satchell, but Rolston is just a complete passenger. Offers absolutely nothing. I'd be disappointed if she got a 2nd season at the club.

Monto

Rolston looks like she's got a mad fudgeing attitude, doesn't seam like a great person to be in a team with.

 She's not having a great game. Her teammates don't seem to want to use her and her touch has been poor.

We are going very long and very direct. Would like to see more build up in the centre of the pitch.

Unused sub

Happy with this selection, hopefully Alyssa recovers well soon. We have the firepower to score goals. Hopefully they watched a replay of the goals they scored against Canberra prior to this game to remind themselves that they can score buckets of goals. Fingers crossed we have some luck go our way today. 

I'm loving your optimism,but to me we have no firepower at all.
Robertson and Satchell have created nothing, Hassett has barely got into the game,and the few times Rolston has touched it have been woeful. To be fair,if I was Rolston, I think id be a bit peeved at a complete lack of service.

maynardf

We are going very long and very direct. Would like to see more build up in the centre of the pitch.

  Lawrence appears to have abandoned the previous possession-based approach. I think she's accepted that the team's strength is pace on the flanks, and relying on her players to work the ball towards the goal through the attacking third isn't realistic.

Yesssss

Lovely goal!

Paige!! 1-2

Great goal, proper good finish there, well done!

Rolston shushing the crowd was just cringe though, you didn't bloody score it.

Cool. Mistake from NU, and we converted well,thank goodness. We'll done, knott hassett and satchell ultimately 

Ffs. 2-2 

Monto

Great goal, proper good finish there, well done!

Rolston shushing the crowd was just cringe though, you didn't bloody score it.

Not as bad as Rufers being 3-1 down though lol

RR

Ffs. 2-2 

They're doing what the men do... put in the hard work to get the lead, then immediately under pressure and concede the equaliser. 

Really don’t know how Knott plays every week…

That’s been the difference all season. Having a bit more quality up front and taking chances.

Oh ffs. 3-2.

10 mins to try and save this. 

Monto

Great goal, proper good finish there, well done!

Rolston shushing the crowd was just cringe though, you didn't bloody score it.

It was cringe at the time.  It's even worse in hindsight now that we are behind.

I know it has been stated before, but what is missing is few imports to be the difference makers. We are at the quality of most other sides for 70-80% of matches. But we are missing something in the last 20%, something that other clubs get around by having a few extras brought in. 

nufc_nz

Really don’t know how Knott plays every week…

Agree, Knott is not up to it

What a joke. Blew two leads and lost against the other worst team, displaying appalling game management. Missed an absolute litany of good chances throughout the game, and now heading straight towards back-to-back wooden spoons. 

Been really positive over the last month or so, where they have played some good footy but not quite had the results desired (apart from a couple). But that was just shameful... shows that we are still where we deserve to be on the table. 

kwlap

I know it has been stated before, but what is missing is few imports to be the difference makers. We are at the quality of most other sides for 70-80% of matches. But we are missing something in the last 10%, something that other clubs get around by having a few extras brought in. 

Agree. There are 12 players in the ALW with 5 goals or more. 7 of them are imports. Must a good international striker out there, happy to try a Wgtn summer. Someone for likes of Clegg to learn off. Van der Meer a defender is the Nix's top scorer with 3 goals (27th equal for the league)

EC is the future, but at 17 she still has a long way too go. Often just muscled off the ball today, which I guess ain't that surprising. Big moment was Hassett through on goal and shooting wide.

Adelaide away on Tuesday & Victory at home on Saturday. Going to be rather hard to pick up enough points to try and avoid the spoon now. A draw would have left the door open. 

kwlap

I know it has been stated before, but what is missing is few imports to be the difference makers. We are at the quality of most other sides for 70-80% of matches. But we are missing something in the last 20%, something that other clubs get around by having a few extras brought in. 

Laawrence has said as much, mentioned a week or so ago that next season we would need to look for an import striker - a female Zawada. Unfortunltely that would come at the expense of an NZ spot as the ckub needs to have a certain number of Aussies on the books each season.

theprof

kwlap

I know it has been stated before, but what is missing is few imports to be the difference makers. We are at the quality of most other sides for 70-80% of matches. But we are missing something in the last 20%, something that other clubs get around by having a few extras brought in. 

Laawrence has said as much, mentioned a week or so ago that next season we would need to look for an import striker - a female Zawada. Unfortunltely that would come at the expense of an NZ spot as the ckub needs to have a certain number of Aussies on the books each season.

 

theprof

kwlap

I know it has been stated before, but what is missing is few imports to be the difference makers. We are at the quality of most other sides for 70-80% of matches. But we are missing something in the last 20%, something that other clubs get around by having a few extras brought in. 

Laawrence has said as much, mentioned a week or so ago that next season we would need to look for an import striker - a female Zawada. Unfortunltely that would come at the expense of an NZ spot as the ckub needs to have a certain number of Aussies on the books each season.

There are less Aussies in the ALW squad, than there are in the ALM squad. Plus the ALM team has 5 visa spots.

1-2 visa players in the ALW squad will hardly hinder NZ female player development. Plus there will now be a Nix 2nd team in the Women's National League, so strengthening the pro women's pathway. 

Also for the players in the squad, learning from a decent import isn't a bad thing either.

As somebody else posted we bypassed our midfield all game long. Straight from Taylor to Robertson or Satchell 70% of the game. Ours mids did so much running up and down the pitch trying to keep up with the play. Hassett is our best player why don’t we give her the fricking ball!!! Then we might see what Rolston can do with some decent service! I think Rolstons aggression is what we need. If she had played as many minutes as Pritchard has this season she would have scored more goals. She was off side frustratingly, but still a great finish to put that ball past the keeper in the second half. Hassett should have done better with that chance in the second half, and before their 2nd goal we had 2-3 chances to clear but didn’t and then fairly sure Barry was fouled by their player in the build up to their goal. A few games Lawrence and Callum assistant coach have been on the edge of the field encouraging the team and pushing them on which seemed to have a positive effect, was notice how much their coach was so vocal with their team especially the last 20-30minutes. Clegg has great quality in her shooting. Must be close to 80% of her shots or crosses are on target so the keeper has to at least save it. Our crossing and shooting from outside the box wasn’t good enough today. A disappointing result from a game that was winnable. Still,  two more games to go where we can get points. You do have to wonder if that referee and the 4th official were from Newcastle, that was bloody biased reffing today. 

We lost it when Foster was subbed off. I understand why... on a yellow, nearly got another one, but Cicco stood way off her attacker, Van der Meer got skinned down the left wing and Jets scored the winner.
I agree with the above. Not playing to Hassett's feet enough was such a waste of our best player. Knott did well in the midfield. Pleased for Satchell to finally score. Robertson wasn't in best form today. Rolston spent most of her energy complaining to the ref it seemed, though she did do one superb pass through to someone. 

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interesting video interview on the KeepUp app from Rolston prior to today’s game, gives an insight into her back injury and nerve pain she’s been experiencing,- (maybe why she is offside often trying to compensate for injury and lower sprinting ability than she possibly had previously) and her attitude to winning. Hinted she feels comfortable as a 10 or 9 too. Also seemed like she was saying that most of the season the team had focused their training on defending, possibly with neglect to attack and possession in the attacking third? Even a team that Is bottom of the table should spend a decent amount of time training on shooting and creating chances. Otherwise what are the attackers doing? Working on pressing the defence so they can practice playing out of pressure??? On reflection another side-affect of playing long all the time today was that our full backs hardly joined in the attack by getting forward or doing overlapping runs. And the onus was on the wingers crossing, when a better option would have been combining with our fullbacks and getting to the byline and cutting the ball back to Rolston, Hassett, and Wisnewski in the box. If Wisnewski had of scored in the first half that could have changed the game too. 
Maybe a surprise in the next game with this lineup? 
               Clegg
Robertson Rolston Satchell
        Hassett Taylor 
Foster VanDeMeer Barry Cicco
     Edwards 

Would be good to see Candy get a half or 20mins in goal too like Edwards did last season. And maybe McMeeken and Walker too so we can see how they have developed in the last year.