Cheryl gives a big shoutout to the upcoming Women in Football Leadership conference. Eric gives a rundown on the Nix and the latest signings here and abroad. Steffen drives us towards the end of the Nordic season (or Iceland at the very least). 

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• No byes plus an extra round means 57 games expands to 74!
• At least 7 players must be Australian
• Partnership between the Nix and NZ Football

• Read Sam Lewis' piece

• Dub - Season 14 squad page
• Around the World - Aussies/NZ Abroad

Seven Aussies remain

• Winners
• Lyon (

While we were discussing haircuts off-air, or the lack of, once that 'live' button is pressed we're back on track discussing the hottest topics in women's football this week.

Rhali is happy the Matildas will be back in action soon. Eric and Dale have plenty of recommendations to fill new W-League teams, Cheryl is all about seeing more women coaches amongst the new teams and Steffen is giddy to hear one Aussie is back in centre-back.

• Wednesday September 22nd
• Everyone loves a 4am game

• Three teams will join the league "ahead of" the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2023:
• Wellington Phoenix
• Western United FC
• And the return of the Central Coast Mariners (2008-2009) - previous players include Kyah Simon, Michelle Heyman, Teresa Polias, Ellyse Perry

• Emily Gielnik to Aston Villa
• A plethora of Dub signings all condensed on our Season 14 squad page
• Tanya Oxtoby signed as an assistant coach with Chelsea

1st leg: 

• Vålerenga 1-3 BK Häcken (Dylan Holmes)

2nd leg

• BK Häcken vs Vålerenga
• Date: Thursday, September 9
• Kick-off: 3:00 am AEST

1st leg:

• Levante UD 1-2 Lyon (OFF ‘78 Ellie Carpenter)

2nd leg:

• Lyon vs Levante UD
• Date: Thursday, September 9
• Kick-off: 2:00 am AEST

1st leg:

• Arsenal (Steph Catley, OFF ‘62

Neil Bennett makes his pod debut, with a long-awaited update on NPLW WA. Eric picks his Women's Super League ShePlays squad based on Leprechauns. Cheryl runs through the latest signings with Dale busy predicting Canberra United squad announcements, which leaves Steffen with a massive Nordic wrap.

• Round 1 kicks off September 12th but we won't see JEF Chiba and Alex Chidiac until Round 2 

• Ellie Carpenter kicked off the D1F season with a 3-0 win with Lyon over Stade Reims
• Montpellier was back in action, but Mary Fowler wasn't listed on the team sheet.

• (9) Klepp IL (Nikola Orgill) 
• NM Cup: 26/8 vs tier 2 side Amazon Grimstad (home) - postponed to 9/9
• Toppserien: 28/8 vs Lyn Lightning at home, 1-1, Nikola not on match card
• Away to Stabæk 4/9
• (3) LSK Kvinner FK (Karly Roestbakken) 
• Karly out of quarantine, but no reports yet as to training status
• Cup: 26/8 vs Grand Bodø, massive 2-9 away win 
• Toppserien: 4/9 vs Kolbotn at home
• Top 4 teams have a massive jump on the rest of the league

• (1) FC Rosengård (

Lachy France makes a pod return to discuss the latest FIFA rankings. Ben Gilby debuts with an FA WSL preview, with Dale on backing vocals.

Plus, we've got news on the latest player signings around the world as well as here in the W-League.

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COVID is the unwanted gift that just keeps on giving. Shoutout to anyone and everyone in lockdown and/or affected by this beast.

In this podcast, Eric, Steffen, Rhali and Cheryl talk about the Hot Topics of the week, including a potential Matildas documentary. Plus NPLW wraps for NSW, ACT and VIC.

Steffen gives us his regular Nordic wrap as we're scrambling to watch football around the world, particularly given we can't watch it here.

• Post-Olympic press conference with James Johnson & Tony Gustavsson
• Defence is on the table for our discussion as well as does anyone have a 6?

• LSK Kvinner FK (Karly Roestbakken) played Klepp IL (Nikola Orgill) at LSK Hall, with LSK grabbing a 2-0 home win which sees them climb to 3rd after Sandviken beat Rosenborg 2-0 at home, and Vålerenga drew 1-1 away at Avaldsnes 
• Karly flew out at the end of the week to Norway after working on her rehab here in Australia
• Both teams also had midweek cup wins, LSK 0-9 vs tier 2 Kongsvinger, and Klepp 0-3 vs tier 2 Viking FK 

• Mid-season break; no games until this coming week
• (1) FC Rosengård (Charli Grant, Teagan Micah)
• (2) BK Häcken (Dylan Holmes)
• (3) Hammarby (Elise Kellond Knight) 
• (7) Vittsjö (Emily Gielnik, Clare Polkinghorne) 

• (2) Fortuna Hjørring (Indiah Paige Riley, Clare Wheeler, Angie Beard, Alex Huynh) 
• R2 at home vs Nordsjælland, 2-0 win
• First start for Clare Wheeler, Angie Beard also started
• Indi Riley came on in the 64th minute (and copped a cheese slice)
• Alex Huynh not listed on the team sheet

• (5) UMF Selfoss (

The podcast crew had a couple of weeks off during the Olympics while Cheryl moved house, but don't worry (no one was) ... because we're back live, unscripted (no show notes) and jealous.

In this episode, Dale and Cheryl talk about the highs and lows of the Olympic women's football tournament plus, a much more organised Steffen delivers his Nordic wrap. 

The amazing Christine Sinclair gets a gong from Dale.

Cheryl gets a freebie and votes for Ann Odong and Steffen gives the crown to Nicole Begg.

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Are you a monarchist? What if Julie Dolan was named Queen of the Week? Or Rebekah Stott for that matter? Listen in as guest co-host Fatima Flores, Nordic Steffen and lockdown 5.0 Cheryl jump into another week of football banter.

We're not sure it gets any better than this as we talk to our mate Julie about the Olympics and 2023.

Julie Dolan was the first-ever captain (Cap 1) of the Australian Women's National Team, with 34 appearances for the Matildas including eighteen international matches between 1978-1988. 

Dolan is recognised as football royalty and has a plethora of awards and acknowledgements including Captain of FFA's 1979-89 Team of the Decade (2013).

In 1988, the Julie Dolan Medal was announced by the Australian Women's Soccer Association to recognise the best player in the league. 

In 1999 Julie Dolan was inducted into Football Federation Australia's Hall of Fame. Dolan is also the recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Australian Sports Medal and is an OAM (2018).

• (9) Klepp IL (Nikola Orgill) played Kolbotn away on the weekend, with a second successive 3-0 loss. Nikola was not on the match card, having strained a hammy last week.  
• (4) LSK Kvinner FK (Karly Roestbakken) drew 1-1 at home against champs Vålerenga, who lost influential captain Sherida Spitse to Dutch football (Ajax) this season and were also without Elise Thorsnes for this game, well known to Canberra United fans. LSK looked like they were good for the win but a bizarre goal equalised the game with just over 10 minutes to go, as Norwegian left-back Emilie Woldwik headed the ball powerfully onto the side of the head of forward Celin Bizet inside the penalty area, only to see the ball loop into the top left corner, leaving the LSK keeper no chance.
• The results see both teams tied on 19 points, with Vålerenga just ahead on goal difference.  
• Karly is returning to Norway this week.
• No games now till August 7   

• (3) UMF Selfoss (Emma Checker) First win for Emma as captain, 1-0 at home vs Keflavik (one of the promoted teams) further indicating they may be coming out of a slump. They retain 3rd place and play Þór/KA (‘Thor’) on July 21. 

NSW and Victoria's NPLW competitions are still in lockdown, but there's still football around Australia including:

• Round 14 marks the end of the second full round, 1 full round to go
• Gungahlin United vs Canberra Croatia postponed due to state of pi

Rhali returns, albeit with a broken leg, Dale worries about Eric in lockdown, Cheryl asks the dumb questions you all want to know the answers to and Steffen delivers his Nordic wrap with promising news on Karly Roestbakken. All that, plus a super special guest.

Kate Gill (Matildas cap 127) is our special guest who works off the field every day to make football better. This month, Gill celebrates her one year anniversary at the helm of PFA as co-Chief Executive.

A prolific striker, Gill debuted for the Matildas at the age of 17, amassing 86 matches.

Domestically, Gill also played in the W-League (Newcastle Jets and Perth Glory) and won the Golden Boot twice, first in 2012-2013 and then 2014.

During the podcast, Gill reflects on her time in Sweden (Damallsvenskan) playing with AIK, Sunnanå, Malmo and Linköpings FC.

Gill was the first Australian to win AFC Women’s Player of the Year and part of the 2010 Asian Cup winning team.

It's only nine days until the first football match at the Tokyo Olympics. We continue with team previews and discuss the upcoming friendly between the Matildas and Japan.

Hot (bad) news hits our world, with Amy Chapman voted off the Football Queensland board.

From when we last spoke, there is no longer a four-way logjam at the top of the table.

Teagan Micah, played her last game with IL Sandviken in Round 7, leaving just two Aussies in the Toppserien. Word is Teagan may return to the Nordic leagues after the Olympics.

(9) Klepp IL (Nikola Orgill) played Avaldsnes away on the weekend, losing 3-0. After 2 wins at the start of the season, Klepp have fallen away and now sit 2nd last. To make matters worse, it looked like Nikola pulled a hammy at the end of the first half, and she had to be substituted. 

(4) LSK Kvinner FK (

After a week off, we're back on the air with Dale wearing a super 70's outfit, while lamenting the Team GB Tokyo Olympics kit. Eric is loving the North Shore Mariners link with our guest and Cheryl is just happy to not be in lockdown for a change.

In this podcast, we're excited to be joined by Player Pathway USA co-founder Catherine Thomson.

Player Pathway USA is a US college soccer recruitment company for young Australian soccer players to receive athletic and academic scholarships to attend universities and colleges in the United States of America.

As a football player herself, Catherine shares some of her personal journey as the catalyst in founding Player Pathway USA.

With only 16 days until the Tokyo Olympics, we take our belated turn to review the Matildas' squad, plus key news about alternates and how it's a great change.

We're also rolling through our Team Previews in the lead up to the Olympics. 

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In news around the world, Dale is preparing for Alex Chidiac's debut for JEF Chiba in Japan's WE League.

There's almost always Nordic news, and although we ran out of time to talk about it, here's an update from Steffen.

It has been three rounds since the last episode and there is now just 1 team instead of 4 with max points (after Våle

Episode 51 was a cracker - what a memorable podcast!

We start off with special guest 1, Angela Christian-Wilkes of Beyond90 and The Far Post Pod fame and roll into a wrap of NPLW across NSW (Eric), ACT (Steffen) and Victoria (Cheryl). Then the stage lights really come on for our headline guest Emma Checker. 

Rhali returns from her 150km walk raising money for the Mark Hughes Foundation and Matt Stonham gatecrashes our party.

Plant-based footballer, Emma Checker shares her vegan journey, covering nutrition, cooking and Iceland's vegan accessibility.

• Seven Matildas caps debuting at the 2012 4-0 win against Hong Kong East Asian Women’s Football Championship qualifiers.
• Two recent caps against the Netherlands and Germany
• 100+ W-League matches playing for Adelaide United, Melbourne Victory, Canberra United plus an undefeated season with Melbourne City in 2019-2020.
• Currently playing with Selfoss in Iceland

Whether they're looking to improve their performance or taking an ethics-based approach, Checker, Lauren Barnes (Victory, City and OL Reign) and Melissa Maizels (Victory, Canberra and Perth) are part of a growing number of plant-based athletes.

English fourth division men’s club Forest Green Rovers runs as a completely vegan operation and has been certified by the UN as the world’s first carbon-neutral football club.

READ MORE: Kickstarting a green revolution

We're eagerly awaiting a response from the club when they're starting a women's team.

Eric called two games for the week, notching up his 50th and 51st caps including

Wednesday's catchup game between Sydney Uni 0-1 Sydney Olympic and Northern Tigers 1-1 APIA Leichhardt where it doesn't sound like he was in his comfy container finishing up with wet notes