Australian women's football team FIFA rankings as of 21/04/26

New rankings are out but the site is updated live after every fixture now so we can see the points lost after taking part in and winning a FIFA series 😌

A crossword clue: Currently broadcasted

Oh, not a fan of this mini crossword clue at all. 😵‍💫 I get the same uncomfortable feeling when I hear someone say a player was "offsides" instead of offside.

The APL really need to get their shit together asap. We can't afford to lose a team like Canberra.

Death, taxes and Michelle Heyman going to town on the football authorities about the lack of certainty for Canberra United's future.

based af 🤘

Brazil v Canada on FIFA+
Don't mind if I do

I'm a big Kahli Johnson fan. The injury hit first season with Calgary was unfortunate, but she showed good signs. Hopefully she can get a good run, this time around.

We have some young up and coming strikers in Holly McNamara (23), Annalise Rasmussen (20) and Skye Halmarick (18) to name a few, but Rasmussen hasn't played for Juventus yet, Halmarick has only had 478 minutes in the Dub, and McNamara hasn't tested herself at an overseas club.

Sam Kerr 2026 85 minutes vs Kenya 1 Goal 80 minutes vs Malawi 1 Goal 90 minutes vs Spurs 1 Goal 90 minutes vs Arsenal 1 Assist 90 minutes vs Villa 1 Goal 1 Assist 90 minutes vs Japan 90 minutes vs China 1 Goal 90 minutes vs North Korea1 Goal 90 minutes vs South Korea 1 Goal 59 minutes vs Iran 1 Assist 90 minutes vs Philippines 1 Goal 49 minutes vs Man Utd 1 Goal 26 minutes vs Liverpool 12 minutes vs Spurs 41 minutes vs Man City 57 minutes vs Arsenal 61 minutes vs Man City 61 minutes vs Palace 2 Goals 30 minutes vs WestHam

Kerr earned her spot as a starter in the Dub and then went to the NWSL as a youngster and played alongside Abby Wambach and Carli Lloyd before breaking out. She's not going to be an easy national team player to replace when her "out of form" play is still so ahead of any other Australian striker.

3 of Kerr's 4 goals during the Asian Cup were game winners. And none of them were "easy" tap ins.

Club season shooting numbers excluding penalties (League Cup shooting stats not available)

Sam Kerr: 57 shots, 28 on target for 10 goals (1024 minutes)

Bunny Shaw: 114 shots, 49 on target for 18 goals (1831 minutes)

Very similar conversion rate overall

I've said this elsewhere, but I don't think I have ever heard as much about any other striker's missed chances than I have about Kerr's. At least, a striker with her rate of scoring/score involvements. The same complaints were just as frequent during her golden boot seasons as well.

Sam Kerr: 1158 minutes 12G 3A 1G/97 Minutes - score involvement every 77.2 minutes WSL, FA Cup, League Cup, UWCL Alyssa Thompson: 2181 minutes 9G 3A 1G/242 Minutes - score involvement every 181.8 minutes WSL, FA Cup, League Cup, UWCL JRK: 1531 minutes 7G 6A 1G/219 Minutes - score involvement every 117.8 minutes WSL, FA Cup, League Cup, UWCL Aggie Beever-Jones: 1237 minutes 6G 2A 1G/206 Minutes - score involvement every 154.6 minutes WSL, League Cup, UWCL Lauren James: 1218 minutes 5G 2A 1G/244 Minutes - score involvement every 227.6 minutes WSL, FA Cup, League Cup, UWCL Sjoeke Nüsken: 1593 minutes 5G 2A 1G/319 Minutes - score involvement every 217.3 minutes WSL, FA Cup, League Cup, UWCL Wieke Kaptein: 1783 minutes 6G 3A 1G/297 Minutes - score involvement every 198.1 minutes WSL, FA Cup, League Cup, UWCL

Bunny Shaw: 1917 minutes 21G 7A 1G/91 Minutes - score involvement every 68.5 minutes WSL, FA Cup, League Cup Kerolin: 780 minutes 9G 5A 1G/87 Minutes - score involvement every 55.7 minutes WSL, FA Cup, League Cup Vivianne Miedema: 1687 minutes 13G 5A 1G/130 Minutes - score involvement every 93.7 minutes WSL, FA Cup, League Cup Lauren Hemp: 1478 minutes 6G 7A 1G/246 Minutes - score involvement every 113.7 minutes WSL, FA Cup, League Cup

Alessia Russo: 2669 minutes 19G 6A 1G/140 Minutes - score involvement every 106.8 minutes WSL, FA Cup, League Cup, UWCL, Champions Cup (150 minutes) Stina Blackstenius: 1360 minutes 11G 5A 1G/124 Minutes - score involvement every 85 minutes WSL, FA Cup, League Cup, UWCL, Champions Cup (105 minutes)

One of my regular defences of Sam Kerr's current form in her first season coming back from injury 😅
If Australia had another striker with her current club form we'd be crazy excited, and not saying she's been poor.
Comparisons to other Chelsea players and top attackers from other WSL teams:

a man is holding a flock of pigeons in his arms and the birds are flying around him . ALT: a man is holding a flock of pigeons in his arms and the birds are flying around him .

That's some top notch sibling behaviour 😅

The Birds [1963]
I did enjoy watching two people in the front row ducking constantly as seagulls swooped around them from all sides 😅

Just cannot see out games. And then seemed to drop their heads after the penalty instead of fighting back 🙃

Melbourne Victory men warming up on the AAMI Park pitch under the lights before their last home game of the 25/26 regular A League Men's season.

Friday night footy

Sources: NWSL expected to vote on calendar shift this month The NWSL's Board of Governors is expected to vote later this month on whether to flip the league's calendar to a fall-to-spring season, multiple sources told ESPN.

NEWS: The boardroom debate to flip the #NWSL calendar to fall-to-spring has intensified again, with another vote potentially imminent. A change was voted down in 2024. It might now have the momentum to pass with MLS flipping, NWSL expanding, ongoing summer/FIFA window congestion. Big decisions loom.

Yeah understandable why the players didn't want to let that go. It was an insane call. 😵‍💫

And it's why wasting a year to get "the right coach" felt so needless and annoying since we're seeing the same patterns repeat.

Yeah probably not 😬
And international football is such a different beast from club football. I feel like it suits a pragmatic coach much more. Especially for a team outside the top 10.

I'm glad Kenya exposed the issues Australia often has with teams that can play quickly in transition. Now they need to hopefully learn from it.

I will say, loved Clare Wheeler's goal last night. Sam's was funny and Foord's not being given was so bizarre. It didn't look like offside was the reason given. Looked like the ref said it went over the bar??

I was optimistic going in and hoped we'd see some variation in the 2 lineups. Maybe play Holly and Sam together for more than 5 minutes or start a new midfielder with a couple of regular starters around them. But I think this has brought back why I wasn't a fan of the coaching choice to start with.

I watched both Tillies games. Joe (in his overseas coaching anyway) is a plan A and no plan B type of coach and it seems that will be the way he does it here. It was the same in the Asian Cup. Sometimes it works, a lot of times it doesn't.

I really loathe the idea that the Brands get this kind of control over what should be personal preference for players.

Given the bottom of the NWSL wage structure, the fines being proposed here also seem pretty out of line to me.

My pet peeve across all soccer is I want to see ball when it’s in play. If I see something other than ball, no. I want ball. Why no ball?

I don’t want to see a kid or some dipshit like Teal Man when the ball is in active play

maika hamano, good young player, chelsea should look into signing her

Maika Hamano 👏🏼
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