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Lucy Zelic says give Pim the flick, we dedicate the show to Tarek Elrich, Paddy Bordier reveals his
A-League team after five seasons!
And why we all love the Gold Coast...and it's the team we all want to watch.And why the FFA have
stuffed Canberra and their own expansion plans. Watch your back Lucas!
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Nationally we talk Expansion and why the FFA love Canberra. Ben Buckley did you take your national
capital for a little ride? Are you continuing to take the city for a ride?
And all the A-League, W-League and football talk you could ever dream of.
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Peter Funnell talks to one of Canberra star footballers, Ned Zelic.
I'm hearing the FFA are saying we're the front runner and we may get the nod.
Well no better time to announce it than tomorrow in my view.
No suggestion of that but it's time for the FFA to decide on Canberra's fate.
Frank Farina gives us a big plug on the SBS site, Fox Sports mention every player whoever played
for Canberra on tonights game.
by Usman Azad, Football Perth Editor
WELL, FP is back for another day - after spending a few hours yesterday with his cousin trawling
through Perth like a couple of wizened tourists.
Though FP was playing the role of the embarrassed tour guide, his cousin was genuinely fascinated
by the city.
The FFA: How's your World Cup bid process going in Canberra?
No A-League Licence, no World Cup bid from Canberra. That's what the ACT Government are
saying...and that's what I say.
Yeah, take that FFA.
Who would want a few World Cup games in Canberra in ten years time, a hefty taxpayer bill for us
poor sods, more Mariners stale crumbs in the coming years, and no legacy for football in the
region.
In the SMH today: Canberra handed inside running as Meissner pulls out of FFA race for new team
Western Sydney have pulled out the day before the A-League game in Canberra. Make of that what you
will, but Buckle-up Ben has hardly given us any encouragment has he. Ever?
Read his comments once more!
So the favoured Western Sydney bid has collapsed.
In all probability, this is good news for the A-League. It's surely inconceivable that the FFA will
consider the nebulous bid fronted by a Socceroo captain who can't even find a club of his own at
the moment; Canberra is the only realistic option if they are going to expand to twelve teams in
2010/11.
Eh? What's this?!?
The messages coming out of College Street, via Mike Cockerill's keyboard, are increasingly
confusing. Now there is to be a second Sydney franchise, only a week after it appeared the
game was up?
The lack of detail concerning the apparently successful bid is disquieting.
The FFA's expansion plans are looking ever more messy, and the quite justified grumbles from the
nation's capital are becoming louder. It is quite clear by now that the bidding process was an
elaborate charade.
Although the "boycott" mooted in the opening paragraph of this piece would be a petty and
counter-productive reaction, Ben Buckley's comments about the turnout at the Central Coast v.
From the FFA today, her excellency Quentin Bryce, Governor General of Australia, is the new patron
of women's football.
Bryce is a long-time supporter of women's sport and also supported the ICC women's cricket World
Cup in Australia earlier this year.
Full story here,
More to come from Canberra United's season launch soon.
Mariners announced their 17 players this week. Canberra United also look set to start the season
with just 17. Each team is allowed to have 20. But anyway, it's enough to field a team and a bench
and thankfully, that's all that matters. Mariners 17 below, notable omissions from last year are
Kyah Simon and Ellyse Perry, although Perry didn't play many games due to her cricket committments
last year anyway.
Around this time last year Canberra girl Grace Gill was an ACTAS players who still hoped of getting
to the Matildas again (she had been thereabouts before, made the Young Matildas squad for a World
Cup but didn't play and only had one Matildas cap), but no real way of getting there.
Fast-forward to this week and in the last 12-months, Gill would have claimed her second Matildas if
not for ill-timed ankle injuries and she has been in every senior Matildas camp since the W-League
finished.
So last week here I introduced you to Grace Gill, the face of Canberra United for Westfield
W-League season two. Now Football Federation Australia have introduced two more, Adelaide United's
Angela Fimmano and Brisbane Roar's Jenna Tristram.
And it seems the FFA are onto this reporting women's football for women thing, the Q&A's with both
Tristram and Fimmano include questions about their favourite Westfield store and in the 'fast
five', if they prefer heels or havaianas.
So last year Canberra United coach Robbie Hooker went out on a limb and picked the youngest
captain, by about five years, in the Westfield W-League - Ellie Brush. This year Brush turned 21,
and as such won't be the youngest captain in the league, the new title goes to Brisbane Roar's new
leader Clare Polkinghorne, 20.
So we didn't get the 12th licence purely it seems because we weren't called Western Sydney.
And the FFA has certainly angered many Canberrans with their process of selection. If indeed there
was ever a process.
But when the dust settles many will agree, the Canberra Bid Committee although failing in their aim
to get the 12th licence has moved Canberra back into the world of professional football.
