WPW 2021/22 Squad Speculation, Confirmation and Mutual Termination

coochiee

Not one to fear monger but didn’t an Australian women’s NBL side based out of ChCh fold in a season?

See Nix have a min 2 yr partnership deal with NZF, and surely as 2023 WWC draws near commercial opportunities will pop up. But for the now, opportunity for some company to be a hero.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/women-in-sport/127144791/renewed-interest-as-wellington-phoenixs-search-for-a-sponsorship-hero-continues

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

Domey's tweets/pleas work.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/women-in-sport/127162676/phoenix-women-secure-shirt-sponsor-in-the-nick-of-time

Yesssss, nice work.

and we have 20
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/women-in-sport/127165326/late-addition-to-provide-muchneeded-experience-to-wellington-phoenix-women

theprof

and we have 20
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/women-in-sport/127165326/late-addition-to-provide-muchneeded-experience-to-wellington-phoenix-women

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."

theprof

and we have 20
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/women-in-sport/127165326/late-addition-to-provide-muchneeded-experience-to-wellington-phoenix-women

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.

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

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 ?