What team wears rose?You’re clutching at straws, Prakash is not a defender so that rules out any comparison there and Halmarick creating A chance, having a shot on target and leading the golden boot race have absolutely no comparison to Prakash’s work rate up front.
I’m not having a go at any player as Japan was far too good for our girls but sometimes it’s better to take off the rose coloured glasses.
Andy Harper was talking about this after our horror SheBelieves Cup opener when Japan smashed us 4–0 in Houston. He said it’s system vs system and our system fails compared to theirs.
Tom Sermanni was not an A-League coach, he was a former Matildas coach as well as formerly coaching the USWNT and Football Ferns.
His last job was head of women's football at Wanderers.
Maybe but it is erroneous to say he was an a-League coach especially if you’re not outlining his career in women’s football.
True. He just doesn’t have the managerial spark anymore.
What was he supposed to do, he was a caretaker coach whilst FA were waiting for Montemurro to sign on the dotted line and he was well known to many of the older players. If anyone lacked the spark it was the players.
Even though Avaani Prakash is not a defender, when facing tough opposition like Japan players need to put in both attacking and defensive efforts regardless of their position, and Skye Halmarick had more or less the same work rate as her from an all-round perspective.You’re clutching at straws, Prakash is not a defender so that rules out any comparison there and Halmarick creating A chance, having a shot on target and leading the golden boot race have absolutely no comparison to Prakash’s work rate up front.
I’m not having a go at any player as Japan was far too good for our girls but sometimes it’s better to take off the rose coloured glasses.
I form my opinions based on what I see and not on Opta Data or whatever it’s called.
If Avaani Prakash performed well based on what you see then that's fine but both her and Skye Halmarick need to be putting in the hard yards on Sunday along with the rest of the girls if we want to be getting a result against the reigning Asian and world champions North Korea in our quarterfinal.
That goes without saying and I’m sure they will.
Lots of Dub stars go to sports high schools, especially Hills or Westfields. Even if you look at the Tillies you’ll find most are former students of sports high schools. Not all though, Clare Hunt for example graduated from Grenfell High in her home town of Grenfell in country NSW.
It's likely this will continue to be the case with the future Dub stars and Matildas prospects who progress through the farm system especially with the Emerging Matildas Championships underway this week which is a key part of identifying talent from those specialist sports schools.
I guess that’s why few players (male or female) come from Tassie or the territories (also due to lower population but even there’s a lot of regional representation from other states, especially NSW and Victoria). Belgium similarly has few players for the Red Flames who come from Wallonia but plenty from Brussels and Flanders.
State sports high schools as well as private sports colleges are indeed a good source of future ALW players who may potentially become national team players.
The specialist sports schools and academies established by clubs are feeder sources into the Matildas farm system in that future Tillies prospects from the talent pool are identified as part of the talent identification process and start to progress from Junior Matildas through to the senior national team setup when they are admitted into the system.
The ‘farm system’ as you call it sounds rather Orwellian and I honestly think it doesn’t happen the way you describe it.
The farm system just refers to the youth teams, doesn’t it? Doesn’t every country promote players from youth teams?