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A-League Women/Matildas transfers and delistings

Decentric said:
I’d like to see positive stuff, as we had head of issues in Aus men’s football, with so many fans being Eurosnobs. They have no interest in Aus men’s football.

I know where you are coming from though. It is probably a good idea to discuss issues in ALW.

You could write an article in Fan View?
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I think we all like to see positive things in our game and I’m aware that it’s easy to be critical but as we don’t have a football media anymore fans forums are the only place to air our opinions about the game.
I think it’s great to have someone like @ honest spurs fan who gives us a good summary of happenings in the ‘women’s game’ .
I do have some thoughts on where women’s football should be headed and I will write an article in Fan View in the coming days.
 
libelous said:
I can’t, for the life of me, understand the celebration of losing so much football talent to overseas clubs.
Maybe someone can explain the logic to me.
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This could be the next Matildas coaching team. The experience should be good.

Some talent goes so other talent can be created. Some talent returns too. Katrina Gorry might be back at Brisbane Roar. We’re still yet to see the best of Daisy Brown, Dani Butrus, Indi dos Santos, Shelby McMahon, Ilona Melegh, Teresa Morrissey, Willa Pearson, Talia Younis, etc. There could be some kid coming through right now that we don’t even know about yet. If we kept everyone here it’d be much harder for them to break through.
 
HonestSpursFan said:
We’re still yet to see the best of Daisy Brown, Dani Butrus, Indi dos Santos, Shelby McMahon, Ilona Melegh, Teresa Morrissey, Willa Pearson, Talia Younis, etc.
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Indiana Dos Santos is only just making her return to play from an ACL injury and Ilona Melegh has had just the one full season between the sticks, as has Teresa Morrissey. Willa Pearson still has plenty of time ahead of her to develop as a player along with Shelby McMahon who also has experience playing continental football, and arguably Skye Halmarick could be added to the list also.
 
HonestSpursFan said:
This could be the next Matildas coaching team. The experience should be good.

Some talent goes so other talent can be created. Some talent returns too. Katrina Gorry might be back at Brisbane Roar. We’re still yet to see the best of Daisy Brown, Dani Butrus, Indi dos Santos, Shelby McMahon, Ilona Melegh, Teresa Morrissey, Willa Pearson, Talia Younis, etc. There could be some kid coming through right now that we don’t even know about yet. If we kept everyone here it’d be much harder for them to break through.
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If there is no league for them to play in then what?
 
rebelliousfeminist974 said:

Leah Davidson is headed to Charlton Athletic from Melbourne City and will become teammates with Grace Johnston. She'll be under contract at the side for the next two seasons through the end of WSL season 2027-28.
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ANOTHER ONE!!!! We’ll now have 12 Aussies in the WSL next season and 16 in the WSL and WSL 2!!! This means we’ve already nearly recovered the numbers we lost in the WSL (in 2025–26 we had 13) and window’s still open till September!

Given the calibre of the other WSL signings proving that the WSL is the best league in the world and strengthening the league across the board, plus the quality coming into the WSL 2, I see this as proof we’re actually improving. It was only a while ago that people thought WSL clubs wouldn’t want our players, and now we could have up to 20 in the top two tiers next season.
 
HonestSpursFan said:
ANOTHER ONE!!!! We’ll now have 12 Aussies in the WSL next season and 16 in the WSL and WSL 2!!! This means we’ve already nearly recovered the numbers we lost in the WSL (in 2025–26 we had 13) and window’s still open till September!

Given the calibre of the other WSL signings proving that the WSL is the best league in the world and strengthening the league across the board, plus the quality coming into the WSL 2, I see this as proof we’re actually improving. It was only a while ago that people thought WSL clubs wouldn’t want our players, and now we could have up to 20 in the top two tiers next season.
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So we are producing all this talent but the domestic league can’t pay its way.
 
rebelliousfeminist974 said:
Even if the Dub ceases to exist players will be forced to ply their trade in Member Federation comps anyway.
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Of course there will always be somewhere for them to play but it won’t be professional and we’ll have no chance of attracting Matildas to end their careers here.
 
HonestSpursFan said:
The league itself isn’t unstable. It’s the clubs that are unstable.

They come from the domestic league.
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HonestSpursFan said:
The league itself isn’t unstable. It’s the clubs that are unstable.

They come from the domestic league.
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If the clubs are unstable then so is the league.
As far as the talent drain is concerned we obviously are not selling players to overseas clubs which itself would help with the cost of running the clubs.
When James Johnson was here he tried to show clubs how the football ecosystem works, obviously it was all in vain.
 
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