In the Ferns verus Solomons final this week, every time Jale scored there was lots of high pitching screaming, oiut of shot on the sideline. She made the love heart guesture in that direction one time. The commentator said it was the Fijian womens team watching on. Closest they get I guess to watching one of their own, who gets to play at the big world events.
Kiwi Women Overseas
In the Ferns verus Solomons final this week, every time Jale scored there was lots of high pitching screaming, oiut of shot on the sideline. She made the love heart guesture in that direction one time. The commentator said it was the Fijian womens team watching on. Closest they get I guess to watching one of their own, who gets to play at the big world events.
Quite a few fringe NWSL players (particularly goalkeepers) that don't get many playing minutes end up on loan spells to ALW clubs. That might be a serious option for Milly next ALW season. So hope the Nix are keeping the communication channels open with her.
Louisville would be the worst possible overseas club for a young Football Ferns player from that point of view.
Erceg was on TV One 6pm news a month ago having a good old moan about how terrible women's football is in NZ and how irredeemably terrible the Football Ferns are.
To me that kind of extreme negativity and continuing to run down the team and the players from outside mostly just has a detrimental effect on the women's game and the public's perception and interest.
Saw a pre WWC US football show last year, that had Erceg on. She named Erin Nayler as one of the Ferns to watch!! The others she named were all age 30+ that she played with. Surprised she didn't name Rosie White.
I think that says enough, that she is out of touch with the current environment, and the pretty good, if yes not perfect support they now get from NZF. So yeah hopefully you are right and Clegg doesn't get her ear chewed off, with negative shark from 5-10 years ago.
Still I wonder if Erceg could see herself as a marquee/first captain for the Auckland ALW team when it launches in season 2025/26. She may not be NWSL standard in 18 months, and Foley's ALW team may pay more than most in the ALW.
Hannah Blake at Adelaide (10th, 2nd last) has 3 goals, Jale at Perth (8th) 3 goals & Wilkinson at Melb City (2nd) 6 goals. Speckmaier the best at the Nix with 7.
Talk about starting the half with a bang 😲🎯 What a hit from @NZ_Football Fern Deven Jackson!@CanberraUnited pull one back in style 👏
— Liberty A-League (@aleaguewomen) March 1, 2024
📰: https://t.co/29Cf9xEeLP
Tune in on 10 Play and Paramount+ 📺#WUNvCBR #ALW pic.twitter.com/L18vx9r6Qr
https://theniche-cache.com/football/2024/1/30/a-mid-season-check-up-on-the-kiwis-at-aussie-a-league-clubs
REBECCA BURROWS - NEWCASTLE JETS
Indiah-Paige Riley just carrying on merrily from where she left off with the Football Ferns by scoring again for PSV in their 3-0 win vs Fortuna 🤙#FlyingKiwis pic.twitter.com/7VS35gOJlE
— The Niche Cache (@thenichecache) March 3, 2024
Meikayla Moore’s excellent season with Glasgow City just keeps on keeping on
— The Niche Cache (@thenichecache) March 4, 2024
She scored twice in an 8-1 win vs Aberdeen in her latest effort#FlyingKiwis ✌️ pic.twitter.com/YWA8qs8toc
London City Lionesses were 1-0 down at the half against Reading, in a tricky spot
— The Niche Cache (@thenichecache) March 4, 2024
Then Paige Satchell scored one and assisted another in the space of three second half minutes to flip it for a 2-1 win#FlyingKiwis 🤙 pic.twitter.com/S2pL9Xy6wA
Nobody had a faster rate of goal contributions than Jacqui Hand did during the Oceania Olympic Qualifiers
— The Niche Cache (@thenichecache) March 4, 2024
So obviously she picked up an assist first game back for Lewes, threading the needle for Maltese international Maria Farugia to score#FlyingKiwis pic.twitter.com/1mOldJoYCO
Katie Kitching's always pulling strings for Sunderlandhttps://t.co/lIC7sg5TEO
— The Niche Cache (@thenichecache) March 4, 2024
Our latest arrival is here from New Zealand! 🇳🇿🤩
— Racing Louisville FC (@RacingLouFC) March 8, 2024
Welcome to Louisville, Milly Clegg! pic.twitter.com/DvTWOUWlaq
One player. Six minutes. 𝐓𝐖𝐎 goals ⚽️🔥 @NZ_Football Ferns star Hannah Wilkinson is on fire!
— Liberty A-League (@aleaguewomen) March 10, 2024
A quickfire brace for the City star, with both goals set up by Bryleeh Henry 👏
Tune in on 10 Play and Paramount+ 📺#MCYvNEW #ALW pic.twitter.com/rslMTESSzc
Ava Pritchard is back at Sydney Uni.
Charlotte Lancaster & Mona Walker at APAI Leichardt
plus
Amy Hislop is playing for Northern Tigers. Already with a goal this season so far.
There could be others I don't know about.
Ava Pritchard is back at Sydney Uni.
Charlotte Lancaster & Mona Walker at APAI Leichardt
plus
Amy Hislop is playing for Northern Tigers. Already with a goal this season so far.
There could be others I don't know about.
Northern Tigers have a bit of history signing NZers who then go onto bigger things. Having had Bunge, Steinmetz and Lake on there books previously.
NPL NSW.
Charlotte Lancaster with a goal and an assist for APIA Liechhardt. Olympico direct from the corner. Then sets up fellow kiwi Mona Walker 5 min later with a cross into the box from the sideline.
Amy Hisplop with a brace for Northern Tigers. Including a chip over the keeper from well outside the box.
Ava Pritchard also with a brace for Sydney Uni.
Charlotte Wilford Carroll is playing for Blacktown Spartans and scored a goal on the weekend.
There is usually an influx of A league players once ALW season is finished, so likely to see more kiwi's in that competition over the next month or so.
Kiwi Mens Footballers Overseas
Kiwi Womens Footballers Overseas
Ria Percival with her first goal for Crystal Palace and it was a left-footed ripper from the edge of the area, no dramas#FlyingKiwis pic.twitter.com/vtcjVsJP3f
— The Niche Cache (@thenichecache) March 25, 2024
Another Katie Kitching assist, doing what she does 🤝
— The Niche Cache (@thenichecache) March 25, 2024
Kitch’s Sunderland and Ria Percival’s Crystal Palace are locked in a feisty duel for the Championship title and lone promotion spot#FlyingKiwis pic.twitter.com/m5t6ClCEIr
Leat likely to be Aston Villa's starting keeper for rest of WSL season. Their Dutch no 1 keeper injured.
https://theniche-cache.com/football/2024/3/26/flying-kiwis-march-26
Anna Leat: "The girls really put a shift in and left it all out there." pic.twitter.com/8q2bI6YCbC
— Aston Villa Women (@AVWFCOfficial) March 25, 2024
Get that Framed 🖼️ | #SkySportsCup pic.twitter.com/AxaoQYJ8aS
— Rangers Women (@RangersWFC) March 24, 2024
Here’s Anna Leat making save after save after save after save for Aston Villa against Arsenal in the WSL
— The Niche Cache (@thenichecache) March 27, 2024
An elite performance from Anna Leat 🥁#FlyingKiwis pic.twitter.com/oIAacboAup
Perhaps post the Olympics if a few of the older brigade retire. Plus Hassett is now pregnant.
Feyenoord are 8th in the Eredivisie Women.
https://us.soccerway.com/matches/2024/03/30/netherlands/vrouwen-eredivisie/feyenoord-rotterdam/telstar/4172611/
Is a U20 WC later this year in Colombia, so be interesting to see how she goes in that. She was a squaddie in the last one (2022)
What an incredible month for Emma Pijnenburg 🙌
— The Niche Cache (@thenichecache) March 30, 2024
After only making her Feyenoord first team debut off the bench in a cup game last month, she started every game in March as the team went undefeated
Now she’s added her first goal as well #FlyingKiwis https://t.co/O0146iEDij
Yep, that’s how ya do it ⚽️ https://t.co/PsbtL10iRN
— The Niche Cache (@thenichecache) March 30, 2024
A couple more goals for Indiah-Paige Riley to ensure she hits the international break in sharp form 🌿
— The Niche Cache (@thenichecache) April 1, 2024
Her second should’ve been a late winner for PSV but annoyingly they conceded an even later equaliser for a 3-3 draw#FlyingKiwis pic.twitter.com/kVQJ8BPelq
Things you 💜 to see
— Racing Louisville FC (@RacingLouFC) April 2, 2024
After sustaining an injury prior to joining #RacingLou, Milly Clegg is in training with the team! pic.twitter.com/qpksElkcCr
SQUAD UPDATE 🚨
— New Zealand Football 🇳🇿 (@NZ_Football) April 3, 2024
Feyenoord and NZ U20 midfielder Emma Pijnenburg has been called up to the Ford Football Ferns squad for the first time.
She replaces Kate Taylor who will withdraw from the squad following an injury she received in the Wellington Phoenix’s last match. pic.twitter.com/3AOI1jPxii
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/350238013/most-capped-football-fern-ria-percival-retires-international-duty
Yeah nah that’s just CJ Bott getting an FA Cup semi-final assist 🫡🇳🇿 #FlyingKiwis https://t.co/RGSCzlAnRE
— The Niche Cache (@thenichecache) April 14, 2024
So sadly no big day out at Wembley for Bott.
Healthy 18,000 crowd at Spurs home ground for this womens semi final.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/350249389/football-fern-anna-leat-sent-four-minutes-womens-super-league-game
Still a long time between now and the Olympics. Not sure how someone like Jacqui will stay sharp without a club. I guess NZF will have some kind of program back her in NZ with other off contract A league player etc.
Football Fern Katie Kitching's Sunderland fell away late in the season to finish
third, four points behind second place Charlton Athletic.
Pos Team Pld WDL GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Crystal Palace (C, P) | 22 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 55 | 20 | +35 | 46 | Promotion to the WSL[a]
2 Charlton Athletic | 22 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 32 | 17 | +15 | 45 |
3 Sunderland | 22 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 31 | 18 | +13 | 41
4 Southampton | 22 | 13 | 0 | 9 | 39 | 25 | +14 | 39
5 Birmingham City | 22 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 33 | 19 | +14 | 36
6 Blackburn Rovers | 22 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 25 | 28 | −3 | 36
7 Sheffield United | 22 | 9 | 2 | 11 | 32 | 31 | +1 | 29
8 London City Lionesses | 22 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 26 | 36 | −10 | 25
9 Durham | 22 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 24 | 44 | −20 | 23
10 Reading | 22 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 20 | 40 | −20 | 22
11 Lewes (R) | 22 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 22 | 39 | −17 | 16 | Relegation to the National League
12 Watford (R) | 22 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 22 | 44 | −22 | 15
Kiwi stats:
Ria Percival (Palace): 11 apps, 1 goal (for Spurs: 6 apps)
Katie Kitching (Sunderland): 21 apps, 3 goals
Paige Satchell (Lionesses): 15 apps, 2 goals
Grace Neville (Lionesses): 17 apps, 1 goal
Jacqui Hand (Lewes): 10 apps, 1 goal
Olivia Page (Shefield United) - the 19 year-old appeared on the bench 11 times.
Gabi Rennie with an assist, Gabi Rennie with a goal… both from right wing crosses
— The Niche Cache (@thenichecache) May 4, 2024
Not sure how the goal snuck in but they all count the same and that’s her first in professional football 🤙#FlyingKiwis pic.twitter.com/f81CuOQimR
Banger of a direct free kick goal from Jana Radosavljević against her old club 💫#FlyingKiwis pic.twitter.com/FSOvox6WY9
— The Niche Cache (@thenichecache) May 6, 2024
𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭: 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝! 🔐
— Feyenoord V1 (@FeyenoordV1) May 9, 2024
Emma Pijnenburg ➙ 2026 ✍️
First bench appearance in the NWSL for Milly Clegg. https://t.co/s9E6fDmJEg
— Phillip Rollo (@ByPhillipRollo) May 11, 2024
Daisy Cleverley made her first start since the winter break in an absolute must-win game for HB Køge… and scored in a 2-0 victory 🤙 #FlyingKiwis pic.twitter.com/EtlTRjCGeO
— The Niche Cache (@thenichecache) May 12, 2024
And Dominikovich with another goal for Northern Tigers. She's been banging them in pretty regularly so far this season.
Gabi Rennie once again
— The Niche Cache (@thenichecache) May 12, 2024
That’s 2 goals & 2 assists in her last 3 matches 🫡#FlyingKiwis pic.twitter.com/qOOtdvTKtl
🗨️ 'Geweldig dat ik mijn eerste contract bij Feyenoord mag tekenen' pic.twitter.com/Sqg5BiGLDn
— Feyenoord V1 (@FeyenoordV1) May 9, 2024