"I was really stressed out."
Chloe Knott walked away from playing ALW football due to the ongoing stresses of being a part-time athlete at Wellington.
A fully professional ALW would change all of that and be truly transformational.
Read about Chloe's story here: www.1news.co.nz/2026/04/02/l...
screenshot of a weather map from ABC news that shows a tropical cyclone at one end and very cold air mass at the other
australia having a Very Normal Weather Day
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
The 2026 #WomensAsianCup was attended by 355,806 at an average of 13,685 using 35% of capacity.
#Matildas matches were attended by 253,089 (71% of the total), at an average of 42,182, using 80% of capacity.
Let's pack the pubs and live sites! ๐ป๐๏ธ
The Matildas are in the Asian Cup Final, and we are compiling a master list of live sites and watch parties.
If your local pub, club, or council is hosting an event, drop the venue and location in the comments!
#Matildas #WAC2026 #FSAA
Tillies fans, Woso fans in Sydney for the Asian Cup final get down to Leichhardt Oval this Friday night for Sydney FC v Wellington Phoenix in the A League W and show some Dub love!
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PFA representatives were present across the board at the 2026 FIFPRO Asia/Oceania General Assembly in Sydney this week! ๐
Find out more about the General Assembly: www.fifpro.org/en/articles/...
A potential point of discussion for political/media/industry/diplomatic/kitchen table/whatever debate here. Likely to be relevant to most things. Evidence is pretty compelling. But whoโs to say really. Carry on.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The triple sub is fine to expedite because it leaves two subs and two sub windows, so thereโs no disadvantage in not waiting until HT to use the free window.
Great explainer by @roundballaus.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-m4...
Australia's best athletes meet its top climate scientists at
at the SURF N TURF THE GAME SHOW โ hosted by me ๐ค +
Tom Carroll, Sam Fricker, Tarni Evans, Cyrus Monk, Pat Cummins & more.
The future of sport is worth fighting for. ๐๐๐
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Several FIFPRO and FIFPRO Asia/Oceania events are coming to New South Wales next week!
The state will become a hub for player advocacy, staff development and women's football leadership, coinciding with the 2026 AFC Women's Asian Cup.
Very impressive. Iโd also say they deserve to be paid something for this performance/tournament, but will probably be in the 8 teams that miss out on prize money.
50k fans turn up for the Matildas, but only a couple of thousand for the A-League Women? ๐ค
Halfway to our target of 1,000 responses in the Australian leg of the FSAA Global Fan Survey.
Jump on it here: ๐ ๐ tinyurl.com/437kjtzb
#FSAA #Socceroos #Matildas #ALeagues
the courage and spirit of the Iranian players to do anything at all tonight, with so much chaos and uncertainty unfolding back home, is just remarkable. they should be so, so proud. #KORvIRN #AFCWAC
there are heaps of Matildas-focused #AFCWAC previews out there, but few of them dive into the other huge stories & sub-plots threaded throughout the tournament.
so, with Australia covered everywhere else, here are five other storylines to keep an eye on.
football360.com.au/womens-asian...
This survey could be a game changer in finding the crossover between the Socceroos, Matilda's, Aleague fans and how to connect the masses...
Help us spread the word!
Gee whiz there are some good ideas in here
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Congratulations to Lydia Williams who will join a list of Australian football greats to be awarded the PFA's highest honour on Monday 16 March.
pfa.net.au/announcement...
ABC was doing vox pops with voters in Goldstein this morning. One man said she โjust doesnโt look like a leaderโ, but Angus Taylor โlooks like a leaderโ.
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QLD's 2018 stadium review said that Suncorp had more unused capacity and should get another team squeezed in there ๐
Big new FIFPRO Asia report out today ahead of the Women's Asian Cup.
WAC26 will see the same great scenes as Women's World Cup 2023, but unless AFC acts, two thirds of players will play for free.
The total prize pool for WAC26 is less than what the bottom team at the Women's World Cup received.
The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, ๐ธ by @ScottStrazzante
exclusive: the AFC won't increase prize money for this year's Women's Asian Cup despite repeated pleas from players. a public campaign is being planned calling attention to what is now the lowest-paying major women's tournament in the world.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
Did you meme because you wrote it, or did you write it to set up the meme?
In Ready for Takeoff, the PFA observed that the global pie was more or less doubling each year. Itโs happened again.
Failing to make the ALW fully professional is preventing it from increasing its share of this growing pie. Already, 5% of the total is around $2m AUD - a realistic share for ALW.
