Cashing in on Matildas mania | Saving Football

Just from my time on social media and talking to family who now love football, i sense a new generation of female euro snobs who love the Matilda's and the WSL (mainly Arsenal) but turn their noses up at the W-League.

I liked Bozas comment on courage, undoing your self & changing the Socceroos culture 😅

The best part of this series so far as Australians we always support our national teams and attend matches the World Cup for the women we supported every nation because we are a multicultural society that loves sports and people having a red hot go like the Matildas and the Socceroos both did I remember 74 and after the games participation rate was fantastic for us skippys that played instead of being mocked all the time as I played soccer/ football instead of the normal Aussie rugby league or rugby 🏉 and the same will happen for the girls more players and participation but we rarely go all the way and attend the top tear competitions we support teams maybe on area that you come from it’s just not soccer/ football that this happens classic example is the Wallabies( crowds) and Super Rugby ( no crowds ) locally even rugby league to a certain extent doesn’t get big crowds in Sydney anyway not like AFL in Melbourne does weekly

A league women’s is great because we get to watch the Matilda’s players play locally. Wish the same could be said for the Socceroo’s and the A league.

Guys please form a unit and break into the mainstream channels and save us

Surely channel 9 , 7 , optus sb must take this opportunity

The lack of content across keep up and Paramount+ and 10 was gut wrenching


Sb please save Australia and specifically the A league and socceroos , this is the only game that matters from a global perspective

This has been a great series and credit to Adam Peacock for coordinating. I'd love to see a more regular platform where this trio talk football again. A podcast would be great.

Did you not upload part 3?

Pouring money into the womens game sent the Aleague broke.
Nobody interested in womens league.
Where are all the supporters that pack out maltidas games. Bandwagon.
Womens game is a money pit with no teturn

I went to a club showing the Matilda's v England Semi final and it was packed. The Olympic home qualifier vs Uzbekistan went to the same club and only a small few were vaguely watching.

I enjoyed listening to this, of course. I'm a ⚽ fan.
I have to disagree with what Slater says about non preparation for the Olyroos.
We had 3 games in the window before, just like Korea and other Asian teams did, plus played that tournament in France last summer.
So preparation was adequate.
Obviously sucked not having all of our Euro players, but we weren't alone.
I just felt we didn't put everything into trying to qualify. Use Arnie as the manager since it's so important to qualify. Vidmar can gain experience some other way.

The media protect AFL and NRL by suppressing men’s soccer. That is the battle even ABC does it now. They are more than happy to publicise the Matilda’s and you saw what media coverage did. USA media did the same thing push women’s national team to brand soccer as a women’s game suppress men’s coverage.

Australia is a women's football nation. It will never be taken seriously in the men's game.

Too many problems for Football in Australia:

1: Too many presidents of clubs lining their pockets.
2: Registration fees for kids are ridiculously high.
3: A lack of quality coaching.
4: The poor quality of refereeing.
5: No relegation and promotion into the A league.
6: At state league level u20's jumps straight into first grade, it should be u23's.
7: Too many sports to choose from makes it harder to compete on the world stage.
8: The over focus on Womens football at the expense of mens football.
9: VAR in the A league
10: The lack of support A league fans have from their clubs and the league.
11: Not respecting the ethnic clubs and their contribution to the game.
12: Supressing the passion of the fans.
13: Overbearing police officers at A league games.
14: Banning flares at A league games.
15: Not investing into Aboriginal communities with the round ball.
16: Not supporting young migrant children (let's be real poor kids are much more likely to be successful than rich kids).
17: Too many presidents sons and sponsor daddies paying for kids to play at youth league level.
18: Politics in Football.
19: Football Australia.
20: A lack of quality coaches, teaching the C licence courses.

And the list goes on.

The u23 played in the waff series before the tournament. Where they beat Iran, Egypt and drew with south Korea

Promoting the Game is the key. No one outside those who follow Football knows when games are being played. Walk into any Pub or Club and you will never see any A League Football on TV Screens. This has been happening for a long time. There is an Agenda.

Vidmar should have been sacked on the spot after that tournament not even a goal.

In Tasmania, I’ve seen 80% of boys stop playing at 16 years old - go from 5 divisions at under 15 to 1 at under 16 - seen lots of potential talent stop playing the game. How do we resolve this?

Before WWC my wife had no interest in football except for our kids games that I coach. She caught Matildas fever leading to WWC. We went to every home WWC game bought the merch etc. Now we watch every WSL game with a Matilda every weekend.
Still struggling to get the family to a club game, been to one women’s game, been to 2 A league (men’s) games, only because our kids ran on at half time or were mascots.
We know we can do more to support local football.

After considering the results of the AFC Women's U17 Asian Cup 2024, the Matildas are likely to face a big crisis in the near future.

i would pay for more of this. it needs to be talked about in a platform where people can watch easily with faces that aussie football fans know. keep up the great work could watch hours of it