Let's pack the pubs and live sites! 🍻🏟️ 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!

PFA representatives were present across the board at the 2026 FIFPRO Asia/Oceania General Assembly in Sydney this week! 👏 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 who’s to say really. Carry on. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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 — hosted by me 🎤 + Tom Carroll, Sam Fricker, Tarni Evans, Cyrus Monk, Pat Cummins & more. The future of sport is worth fighting for. 🏄🏈🌏 luma.com/a5jjyh4f

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. I’d 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? 🤔 Halfway to our target of 1,000 responses in the Australian leg of the FSAA Global Fan Survey. Jump on it here: 👉 🔗 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

𝐀𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭, 𝐏𝐅𝐀 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱 𝐓𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐧 𝐎𝐀𝐌 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 🏅 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...

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, 📸 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...

inside.fifa.com/transfer-sys... FIFA transfer data are out for 2025 and some notable takeaways on the women’s side: global growth of 83% over 2024 and Australia again got 1% of the global pie.

last year, I was introduced to a mysterious American man who wanted to know more about the #ALeagueWomen and women's football in Australia. as it turns out, he represented an overseas consortium looking to expand their portfolio here. so what happened next? football360.com.au/my-encounter...

The Dubcast is back to tackle @thepfaaus.bsky.social Ready for Takeoff report, looking at the players vision for the #ALW. Poletti and Burke give their thoughts, as well as interviews with Beau Busch, Melissa Barbieri and Rhianna Pollicina. 📺: youtu.be/RLNJ_EujRGM 🎧: open.spotify.com/episode/0LXl...

𝐖𝐞'𝐫𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐨𝐟𝐟. 🚀 The PFA have officially launched 'Ready for Takeoff', a landmark new vision to seize Australian sport’s biggest opportunity and secure the future of the A-League Women. Read the full report here: pfa.net.au/news/players... #SupportingThePlayers #BuildingTheGame

AUSTRALIA, here’s this week’s cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/sport/pictur...

AFC Women's Champions League Final Knockout Stage Draw results #AWCL #ALW #ALeagues

CEO of @thepfaaus.bsky.social Beau Busch had a strong message for new APL CEO Steve Rosich on Wednesday at the unveiling of the players vision for the #ALW, which has 21 recommendations for the competition across four key areas.

Off the back of the PFA's Ready for Takeoff report, Perth Glory captain Isobel Dalton has urged the A-League Women to not waste the chance to capitalise on the looming Asian Cup after the league’s post-Women’s World Cup shine quickly wore off.

In @theguardian.com; “Very bold action is needed” - Elise Kellond-Knight. We are less than two months out from the Women’s Asian Cup. And in a new vision for the A-League Women centred around full professionalism, the PFA says it’s a rubicon moment. 🔗: www.theguardian.com/football/202... .

Elon Musk's X is currently mass-producing deepfake images of women and children. The federal government — which says it's "committed to restricting access to nudify tools" — has no plans to stop its 7 figure X annual advertising spend or using it as a major comms platform

'This week has shown the explosive growth of solar power in particular had diminished the risks of blackouts during heatwaves caused by supply shortfalls' www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Hey Melbourne, Now is a good time to work out how you are going to keep yourself and those you love safe through next week's forecast extreme heat. Heat like what is forecast injures and kills even the previously healthy. 💛

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

If I had $1 for every time a sporting organisation has changed the terms of its CBA this year without consultating its female players, I'd have $2. It isn't a lot, but it's abhorrent that it's happened twice.

NWSL Players Association Statement on League’s Unilateral Implementation of the High Impact Player Rule:

In @espnaustralia.bsky.social; A piece on the arrival of new A-Liga chief executive Steve Rosich. On not just the challenges but on being visible and selling the dream. 🔗: www.espn.com.au/football/sto... .

The PFA has today released its 2024-25 A-League Men Report. The annual Report dissects a number of key trends, including crowd trends, the league's youth skew and numerous challenges the game faces. Read the full Report here: pfa.net.au/announcement... #SupportingThePlayers #BuildingTheGame

In @espnaustralia.bsky.social; A-League players would prefer the competition to be run by an AFL or NRL-style independent commission, according to a report from the PFA, which is also refusing to rule out strike action if negotiations over a new CBA bog down. 🔗: www.espn.com.au/football/sto... .

A-League Men 2024-25 Report is out today @thepfaaus.bsky.social pfa.net.au/wp-content/u...

"The partnership brings together two groups that sit at the heart of the game - the players and supporters." www.fsaaus.com/news-and-ins...

I have become coefficient-pilled. Love to see it get a write up! City up to about A$2m prize money and counting, assuming they’ve done enough to progress to R16. football360.com.au/afc-champion...

🇦🇺 Australia are a Pot TWO team for the 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup! This comes as 🇮🇹 Italy, 🇩🇰 Denmark and 🇹🇷 Türkiye (all ranked higher than @Socceroos) only managed to qualify for the UEFA playoffs - making them Pot 4 teams. Who do you want in the draw on Dec 5!?

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

This is really must-listen, you couldn’t say it better than Grace does.

Joe Montemurro, ladies and gentlemen. #matildas

In a new edition of The Far Post Explains, we chat about @thepfaaus.bsky.social's A-League Women report for the 2024-25 season, breaking down the key takeaways. Tune in @espnaustralia.bsky.social and the usual pod spots. cms.megaphone.fm/channel/esp2...

On Wednesday, the PFA released its annual report on the A-League Women, which had some shocking statistics about what the players experience. Poletti and Burke discussed five of the big talking points from the report on The Dubcast. 📺: youtu.be/jcf4EUdICUA 🎧: open.spotify.com/episode/02Ze...

AFC Women's Champions League Melbourne City FC v Lion City Sailors FC Date: Thursday, 13 November 2025 Kick-off: 7:00pm AEDT Venue: Thong Nhat Stadium, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam www.youtube.com/live/8GOu_jt... #AWCL #AsianFootball #woso #ALW