WPW R4 vs Melbourne Victory | Sun 23rd Nov | 4:00pm | Porirua Park / SS5

Seem strange to say this so early in the season but its an absolutely must win. After this game, we are not at Home again until the 20th Dec.

Thats a shark of an injury list for so early in the season. Dam it

Chiefytheman

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Also - Ella Mccann wasn't listed as being injured in earlier weeks right. I hope this isn't a new injury - she was coming back from an ACL that she did last September I believe.

ballane

Thats a shark of an injury list for so early in the season. Dam it

Jaber,Fraser and Leon yet to be seen.

Middag hardly seen.

I'm afraid I'm not bullish about our team yet,based on what I've seen so far.

Middag and Whinham out for season. Puts a question mark over their strength and conditioning regime 

F..k that's just crap. Including Fraser our midfield has been gutted. Do we have any other creative midfielders in the team ?
This club just doesn't get a break. Tough.

Feverish

Middag and Whinham out for season. Puts a question mark over their strength and conditioning regime 

Middaag has history with that injury, ACL injuries seem to be pretty common in womans football so its not just us having problems. Whinhams on Sunday looked pretty innocuous when it happened look like she got her studs caught in the surface.

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Wrong thread sorry

Wait I'm completely out of the loop, what happened with Fraiser?

Monto

Wait I'm completely out of the loop, what happened with Fraiser?

She's on mental health leave

Gutted for the team, and the two players especially. Alyssa is a massive loss with Fraser on leave. She leaves only Mac Barry as a remainder of our 2021 side who've been Nix constants I think.

Yes with these injuries it suddenly seems what was looking like being a very promising season now doesn't seem quite so likely - which is a bummer as they looked good a couple of games in. If the team overall can push through this then they'll be legends. So tragic for those injured - Middag had been OK for about 5 years - so that's got to be especially gutting for her. Hopefully Marisa Van Der Meer's recovery will be some encouragement to Alyssa Whinham to hang in there. But some injury signings would look to be essential from here. Hopefully some good pick-ups and/or opportunities for up-and-comers to make their mark. 

ballane

Feverish

Middag and Whinham out for season. Puts a question mark over their strength and conditioning regime 

Middaag has history with that injury, ACL injuries seem to be pretty common in womans football so its not just us having problems. Whinhams on Sunday looked pretty innocuous when it happened look like she got her studs caught in the surface.

Well,I'm only an ex player and now spectator , but I was amazed on sunday when Whinham went back on the field after her injury.

Fenix

ballane

Feverish

Middag and Whinham out for season. Puts a question mark over their strength and conditioning regime 

Middaag has history with that injury, ACL injuries seem to be pretty common in womans football so its not just us having problems. Whinhams on Sunday looked pretty innocuous when it happened look like she got her studs caught in the surface.

Well,I'm only an ex player and now spectator , but I was amazed on sunday when Whinham went back on the field after her injury.

I too am an ex-player with an ACL rupture in my past.  ACL tears can be tricky to detect, to feel, within one's own body.  Ligaments have fewer nerve endings compared to muscles.  Ligaments perform a passive role.  If you tear or pull a muscle, simply flexing the muscle, will allow you to feel the injury.  Pull a hammie, you'll know you've done it.  Tear an ACL and you might think "Fc*k, that was excruciating", then you'll move your leg (not under load) and it might feel completely alright, you'll stand on it and it's fine ('cause at that point the ACL is not doing anything, it's not under load), so you'll go for a bit of a jog in a straight line and everything is fine (your muscles are largely providing the stability at that point and they haven't been damaged), so you go back on the field, and then it's only at the point where the ACL needs to provide stability to the knee joint under exertion, at the end of the range of movement, that it isn't there to do its job and you'll know you've done something not very nice inside your knee.

Thats even more reason surely for the medical staff to be ultra careful in allowing a player to play on especially given the history of ACLs in the Womans game.

Game day, fire up!!

Rock bottom of the table so we need a win.

And it’s a good day to be there. COYN!

Cmon, let's feed the Samba

The squad. pic.twitter.com/ppTnsBz7Av

— Wellington Phoenix 🔥 (@WgtnPhoenixFC) November 23, 2025

Today's lineup 

No Samba again

Main,Elliott and Nunn are going to have to step up here...

Zoe, will she haunt the Nix? Quite possibly I reckon.

We don't need no Samba when its a Vlok party! 

Playing well. 

They had more players in Melbourne's box in general play for that goal than the men managed all game yesterday.

Elliott's been a real threat,and had a great half,but should have scored there.

We have done better than I expected.
Jale and Bott doing well to find the wide players.

Should be 2-0.

Best half of football so far this season. Hope we can maintain this.

Agh, Main should have finished that excellent move.

Not holding possession. 
Need Brazendale 

Shirts off!! COYN!!

Rough card for Bott. I thought the victory player kicked her!

YoungHeartHM

We don't need no Samba when its a Vlok party! 

This is some fairly average play for the last 10mins. Need to make our passes stick and find out own players

Hope Elliott is alright, she's been great today, particularly in the 1st half

Well done

Great 1st half, really made to work for it in the 2nd - good to get the 3 points today and get the season properly up and running 

Crowd?

Fenix

Not holding possession. 
Need Brazendale 

 Not meaning to be too critical, but I've never seen Brazendale do anything to suggest she offers more than a bit of energy towards the end of games. Am I missing something, or is that the whole point?

Proud of the ladies, finishing the weekend off positively, first ever victory over Victory as well I think.

Thank you Wāhinix, that’s just what I needed after Saturday!

And yep, first time we’ve ever beaten them.