there are only questions and no answers. honestly i hope the matildas absolutely thrash them

@kieranyap.bsky.social I am fuming

Hannah Wilkinson has questions and so do I

I went to school with someone who played for junior national teams, I remember her over-training and needing to be rested but I also remember how irrepressible she was, and basically how impossible it is to contain someone who’s at that level and raring to go

I know but injuries happen in the non-pro leagues too right ? And potentially without the infrastructure for prevention and rehabilitation? I actually don’t know at all tho

I also love the fact that Phoenix now have Brooke Nunn lol

Which is also why Earps’s team have let her down so badly - all this just looks so bad from the outside, like a bitter old bully unable to give a 21yo any grace

Like I realise it was bad enough for both club and country teams to discipline her over, but a high performance environment would have standards that sometimes a developing brain would just… freak out in. I shudder to imagine my own 21yo self trying to cope lol 😩

The thing is, i suspect there’s not that much to the “behavioural issues” with Hampton in 2022. Having worked with 21yos for the last ten years they can sometimes just be annoying! And then they grow out of it! End of! Which is why what Earps has done is so cringe 😬😭

an excerpt published on the guardian - it's horrific own-goal type territory

Watching the replays, Russo realllyyy makes a meal of it. So, so silly to give her that opportunity. Gorry looked p good I thought but ditto with giving away that (albeit kinda harsh) pen. They are senior players ffs 😩

Happy birthday! So nice there was no game on, can’t wait to watch the rescheduled match