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katelynnwrites · 2 months

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if this isn't the cutest squad announcement ever 🇦🇺

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aus-wnt · 11 days

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matildas | In our Solar Eclipse era 😎

#charli grant #kaitlyn torpey #clare wheeler #kyra cooney-cross #clare polkinghorne #teagan micah #hayley raso #steph catley #matildas #auswnt

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joanjamie · 8 months

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louie03 · 8 months

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Win or loose we did it as a nation! And I'm extremely proud of that 🇦🇺🇦🇺 They have inspired a whole country and the next generation 🫶

Not the ending we wanted but the atmosphere and the crowd was insane. Can't wipe the smile off my face. I watched the Aussies on home soil, in a semi final - AT the stadium. That baller from Sam Kerr 🤩....The stadium was electric is all I can say.

#the matildas #aussie #auswnt #wwc23 #sam kerr #caitlin foord #ellie carpenter #hayley raso #steph catley #katrina gorry #mary fowler #mackenzie arnold #cortnee vine #kyra cooney cross #clare polkinghorne

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wosocharleeeeess · 9 months

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THEY MEAN SO MUCH TO ME

#sam kerr #ellie carpenter #mary fowler #clare polkinghorne

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mittwoch-addams · 6 months

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Ellie's goal celebration was hot

It’s sooooo good 💛💚 (and so cute)

#ellie carpenter #charli grant #auswnt #emily van egmond #cortnee vine #courtney nevin #clare polkinghorne #amy sayer #matildas

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themaresnest-dumblr · 8 months

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World Cup Semis

Obviously happy with the result, but sympathise completely with Aussie fans - the team that had the big momentum to go on and win the tournament were undone by some appalling decisions that must surely see their coach Tony Gustavsson sacked.

If there was a moment that doomed the Matildas to lose the match, ironically it was this one:

Sam Kerr scored thanks to a goalkeeper not paying attention (if Mary Earps reaction time to the shot had been any slower, she could have been a British Rail train), after a game - and a tournament - where the few times she's played she has been less than average.

The moment she scored, any remote chance of her being substituted not before time was gone. And it cost Australia dear.

Forget the goal, this was no different - she missed three absolute sitters from point blank range (including a howler of what should have been a basic header) that just about any other Aussie player would have converted, and spent most of the match lumbering around like a constipated cart horse.

This was the first game Kerr started in the tournament and stayed to the end, and it cost the Australians the match.

The Matildas had advanced to the semis largely without her onfield presence - common sense by this stage would have meant keeping her appearences due to injury restricted to substitutions when the team was needing a psychological as well as physical lift.

But under pressure from the media (and probably Australia's football chiefs, under pressure in turn from the sponsors ...), the 'talisman' had to get her full match.

Which meant Courtney Vine - excellent all tournament, and when brought out tore England apart with her speed - spent most of the match bum warming a bench. Considering Australia's game plan was clearly to hit England on the counter attack - hence the ludicrous amount of possession they allowed England to have - why was Vine not on from the start instead of Kerr?

When she was finally brought in, it was to replace the brilliant Hayley 'Ribbon' Raso, arguably Australia's best outfield player all tournament, and despite the fact she'd plenty left in the tank in a game she never seemed to stop (does she ever tire?).

This was beyond stupid, as Raso along with the most underrated player of the whole goddamn tournament - Mary Fowler - had been causing England endless problems when she got the ball.

Fowler in particular was a delight to watch, her turn, her pace, her crossing, everything about her is an advert for all that's best about the women's game, and someone with a good shout of being the best player in the world in a few years time the way she's playing now - an absolute revelation in this tournament.

A Raso - Fowler - Vine frontline line would have done the job, but instead seemed to have been drilled to send everything to the 'talisman' - who proceeded to waste chance after chance after chance.

But the final piece of madness from the Aussie coaching staff was taking off Clare Polkinghorne.

Australia's most capped player of all time, a solid tank of a defender who kept the backline well and bailed the Aussies out of jail too many times in the match when the others weren't doing their jobs, taking her off of all defenders when they were a goal down and nine minutes left on the clock was nuts.

Good defenders are all about situational awareness, and that only comes with experience. Given they were in trouble, why take off your most experienced defender? Especially when it was taking off a defender for a midfielder - if you're gonna deplete the backline to save a match, at least leave your back anchor in place.

Five minutes later with Catley and Hunt sleeping yet again on the job, it was game over. Crazy, absolutely crazy decision to take her off.

So yeah, happy with the result, but a match that would and should have been a hell of a lot closer were it not for some self-destructive choices by the Matildas management. Australia should have made the final, the one team becoming significantly better with each match. Instead they've been left with memories of what might have been.

And please, British media, STFU about all this 'first team since 1966' cat's piss. This is the first woman's team to have done it in the woman's game, stop trying to make it all about the bloody men's game as per usual.

This is their win, their moment, stop trying to co-opt it so the fans of the Shit Penalty Takers XI (Three Lions On A Shirt, Eleven Donkeys On A Pitch ...) can feel better about themselves.

#women's world cup #england #lionesses #australia #matildas #sam kerr #tony gustavsson #hayley raso #mary fowler #clare polkinghorne

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glimmerofawesome · 9 months

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#clare polkinghorne #mary fowler #auswnt #australia v canada #july 31 2023 #wwc23 #wwc 2023 #pm gifs

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lessirussolvr · 3 months

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#matildas #clare polkinghorne #alanna kennedy

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kristies-mewis · 1 year

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#matildas #sam kerr #steph catley #caitlin foord #clare polkinghorne #cortnee vine #i love this team so much

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defensivewall · 10 months

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via matildas Instagram Story

#clare polkinghorne #hayley raso #australia matildas #australia wnt #g posts #q things

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aus-wnt · 8 months

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Australia vs France | Post-match scenes Part 1 FIFA Women's World Cup 2023 - Quarter final

#ellie carpenter #clare polkinghorne #kyra cooney-cross #charli grant #katrina gorry #sam kerr #caitlin foord #kyah simon #courtney nevin #emily van egmond #matildas #auswnt #wwc 2023

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louie03 · 8 months

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The Tillies World Cup might be over, but not the movement they created!!! Fourth place, and we couldn't be prouder 🇦🇺 That Aussie Aussie Aussie chant after the welcome to country still gives me goosebumps.

Now a quick flight over to watch the final ✈️