Pretty sure Slippery didn’t win a premiership , mostly played in the 80s and might have lost to the Dogs in one

My biggest gripe with the term dynasty is that it’s not used properly…to indicate successive generations of leadership. Ivan never won a title I’m pretty sure.
But while we’re on the topic, name a father and son combo who both won a premiership.
I’ll start with one of the obvious…John and Scott Sattler.

I’d say the blame lies as much with the media. This is the only article I’ve found after trawling all the major news sites. Only proper football fans even knew the games were on. All those fringe football tourists that piled on to the Women’s World Cup bandwagon had no idea and who knows, with a little more promotion from Football Australia and a lot more coverage from the media, maybe some of that Mathilda energy could have been carried on watching football.
And yes, being in the shade at Leichhardt it was a bit embarrassing to see, as the cameras would have shown, a very empty hill bathes in sun. I can assure you, the stands were pretty full.

Except Radley should have bin sinbinned and wasn’t. Rising shoulder connecting to the head has been an automatic sinbin for a few years now. Funnily enough the Grant knock on happened when Radley should have been in the bin but I don’t see a media storm about that. Strange that Robinson didn’t bring that up either.

I’ll believe him when he shows all the equivalent footage of him kissing the men on the lips like that.

As has been said by a few others here, the world cup doesn’t offer more points in the rankings than any other competitive match and the France game counts as a draw, so it’s all about who you beat or lose to. What part of 1 proper win against a team 5 places above us counters losing to a team ranked 30 places below us?

I don’t think there’s a genuine football fan who is surprised. We lost to Nigeria, England and Sweden, conceding a lot of goals. We beat Canada and scraped past France. We drew with Ireland. On balance of just those results of course we don’t go up.

I thought the same thing…so often I’ve seen it happen to the Dogs, or other teams, and it’s play on despite the restart mere seconds earlier. Very strange that they don’t have a clear rule on something very simple. And very strange Ricky didn’t point that out.

I don’t recall Ricky asking for Rapana to be sinbinned last week twice… for the knees in the back and the elbows to the head. Imagine how that would have changed the game considering Rapana was by far and away their best player.
C’mon Ricky, do your job and complain about decisions that go your way too.

Don’t worry, by the time the game is played the media will have reminded everyone so much about the rivalry it will have become real.

So you didn’t take public transport home which makes your advice redundant.
My point is I usually drive but cause I wanted to have some beers watching the Matildas beforehand I took public transport. How long would it take you to get public transport all the way home?

So many articles I wasn’t sure where to come on with my two bits worth but this seems appropriate for the humble blokes.
This world cup had a lot of mediocre football in the group stages. Against Ireland and Nigeria our Matildas were struggling with pass accuracy and ball control. Several other games I watched were similar. An exciting 0-0 draw was not what I witnessed seeing France v Jamaica, the first game i got to see.
Yes there were some wonderfully entertaining games and moments of quality but they were somehow always in games I wasn’t watching.
But boy have the knock out rounds stepped up. Being at Olympic Park last night I watched 2 games that had sublime passing and intense defence. The Matildas v France compared to the Matildas v Ireland were like Premier league v division 1. And if they hadn’t made that progress France would have hammered them.
And the Columbians weathered early pressure to really take the game to the English, scoring one of the most exhilarating goals of the tournament only to heartbreakingly give one right back through a keeper fumble.
But both teams were passing like Barcelona at times, with Columbia just looking a little less composed once they got near the England box England look very good moving forward and our Matildas will have to improve again to beat them
On a sour note. 8.30 kick offs at Olympic Park are ridiculous. We do not deserve the World cup hosting rights with such atrocious transport options. If I hadn’t left at the 80th minute in the England game I wouldn’t have got home before 1am. As it was I managed to just make my connecting train and made it home by midnight. It should not take 90 minutes to travel just halfway across Sydney. I’d always driven before and will never take public transport again based on that experience.

Great result but that 8.30 kick off means me home at midnight. Biggest cheer was when Kerr came on but she didn’t look 100%. Even in the warmup in front of us for 15 min she looked tense and limped a bit. On the field she was definitely not running smoothly, pulled up a couple of times. At 2-0 up I’m not sure it was wise to risk her….but glad I got to see her on the pitch.

Based on the video you posted at the top, the first one was no where near as bad as the second one. I couldn’t be more neutral between these two teams. The second one was a much more forceful shot to the head that deserved a send off. The Roosters one as well.
All the calls so far I agree with this weekend. Maybe there could have been more send offs throughout the year but this weekend have all been pretty consistent.

Dam, quick nap during the rain turned into a few hours.

Fair play to England, Bazball is entertaining and they should have had the win at Old Trafford. They’ve rejuvenated test cricket…not for us hard core fans but for a lot of other people, and helped create an epic series. Stokes is a genius captain and a phenomenal player. Without his tactics while bowling England wouldn’t have gotten Australia out so readily across the series.

However, they should also admit t it wasn’t just Bazball that won them their 2 tests, it was the weather. Headingley and the Oval they get beautiful sunny conditions for batting and both times Australia get rain interrupted cloud and moisture.

But weather is all part of cricket and I wouldn’t have been too upset if England had won the series on pure merit alone.

The only upsetting thing now is England fans endlessly going on about Old Trafford while blindly forgetting the weather gods helped them with their 2 wins. They’ll also go on about the Bairstow stumping as if that galvanized them to dominate the rest of the series despite everyone knowing it was all pure media spin and hypocrisy.

All said and done though I’m already looking forward to the next Ashes! And some regular sleep.

I’ll tell you this, Matildas get knocked out in the group stages and numbers will drop like when Barty retired from tennis.
Every mens World Cup has had the same effect, great ratings until the Aussies are out and very little follow up.

No.
And I don’t mean that flippantly. The games I’ve watch have all been very dull affairs with poor quality football being played. The France Jamaica game I went to had more attempts at the Mexican wave being started than any sporting match I’ve been to my life…and that number has got to be over 500 across a dozen sports. Also, it was teenagers starting and joining the wave because they were mind numbingly bored.
Several colleagues I’ve spoken to agree and said they’ve switched off or not paid attention to games they’ve watched the on TV. Talk has remained mostly focused on NRL and the Ashes.
The only fans defending it have been hard core football fans to begin with and even my biggest football tragic mate admits it’s not better been great.
All the crowd numbers and ratings show is Australians, like myself, love a big event and being involved in it.
I would say there’s one thing that could prove me wrong…if the Matildas go deep into the tournament and make the final, at least the semi final. That will keep the kids watching and playing and get them knowing more player names than just Sam Kerr.

I’m sad to say after the first half I switched over to Dragons and Tigers (with the cricket on my phone of course), and found it more entertaining.
That surface for the Matildas, as Brainstrust has mentioned, had the ball skidding awkwardly and made both sides have terrible first touches. It changed the contest completely and probably helped the Irish, but luckily for us they can’t shoot and had just as much trouble running with the ball on that surface.
Hopefully I’ll get better entertainment for the France Jamaica game, my consolation prize after missing out on the Matilda tickets.

I’m not making excuses, we defended terribly and gave up too much posession. I just find it annoying when commentators and journalists talk so much about other teams injuries so much. But if we’re comparing numbers, we were also missing Oluapu who’s been starting the last few weeks. I wasn’t going to mention Biondi Odo who’s missed the whole season though because I’m not sure he’s that good…hes not really been fit enough to show us. That’s 6, yet this article, and other reports, only talk about AddoCarr.
We then lost Sexton before half time and Burns later too. Before losing Secton we were looking pretty good too.
Broncos were the better side for sure, but don’t go crowing about doing it with an understrength side.

Yeah, if we improve our defence we have the attack to compete with the top teams for sure. I’d take hard nosed old school forwards any day. TPJ is the new T-Rex. Preston and Morrin are the ones with heart, a couple more of them but bigger would do us nicely.

Cheers Barry! I was out there too and it was a fantastic day. My 20 month old son went mental running around the field non stop until we got kicked off and I even copped a footy to the head by a kid that looked about 13… the dad apologised. Was that you? The whole experience was top notch and despite the Broncos having more class in the second half and us setting them up with silly penalties and dropped balls the match gave a lot of hope for the future.

I hate when people always talk about being understrength against the Bulldogs. Remember when we had 11 players missing? Or that kikau has been out almost the whole season, and Luke Thompson has. We’re also missing Josh AddoCarr and Sutton. 4 first choice players worth a big chunk of our salary cap and among our 4 oldest players. We’re basically fielding kids every week and it shows in the lack of mental fortitude.

How many beers had you had by 11.20pm last night when I sent that message with my pudgy intoxicated fingers on my tiny phone?

Please please please don’t resign Freddie.. this game showed exactly why he lost 3 our of 6 series despite the talent he’s had to choose from. Choosing AddoCarr for the series but not spreading it wide until game 3? Absolutely shows he doesn’t understand the players he’s got..it was only Cody Walker who understood that and recognised when to spread the ball quickly.
Kicking high to corners when both our wingers aren’t big jumpers?
Picking TPJ in game 1 despite him being a turnstile against fast runs down the middle.
Not putting Murray at centre when turbo was injured and completely negating Cook for the rest of game 2, handing the game to Qld on a platter.
Picking an unfit turbo in the first place.
I’m sure there are several more things I could add but it’s getting late.
Can’t wait till next year!

Not sure if it’s been said by anyone here but the truth is, if Australia won the toss, or the weather was very slightly different, we’d have destroyed England. They got lucky to bowl at us under clouds then bat in the sun. Other way round it wouldn’t have been as close a finish as it was. Normally winning the toss goes a long way towards winning but England only managed 1 out of 3.
Most importantly, wasn’t it nice to to bed before midnight last night.