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That was one of the strangest penalty shoot out I have seen.

No VAR and Sweden dont get the winning penalty awarded their way.
 

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Caitlin Foord was epic tonight. She was the difference between the two sides.

With Kyah Simon named in the 23 woman squad, but did an ACL 9 months ago, so a striker who is going to see little game time, and Sam Kerr's injured calf keeping her out until the last 10 minutes + 5 minutes of extra time, it has needed a few players to step up and Foord has been Oz's best player in the 3 games I have seen. I missed the Nigeria game.

Oz had to make the 1/4 finals to get a pass mark as host. Now its time to get to the semis for the first time, then who knows,especially now USA and Germany have gone home.
 
I thought Mary Fowler was cruising and a bit lazy the first couple of games but she is so clever and cool when she has the ball. The work she did and then the perfect ball to Foord to run on to and score the goal was art.
 
Grave Danger said:
Another 0-0 then penalties result, this time between England and Nigeria, with England going through. They had a player sent off in regular time, which might've been a disaster, but they managed to hang on. Matildas v Denmark now under way...
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Its still a bit of a disaster if James misses the quarter-finals... go Colombia!
 

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Grave Danger said:
When I saw the line up for today's WWC games I presumed the early game must be in NZ, but no, that's the only game in Aus today, at the 'Melbourne Rectangular Stadium', with the other two being played at Dunedin and Wellington. Even those games will be finished in time for tonite's AFL Blockbuster, so well done Channel Seven! (except they're not showing any of these games today, just a replay of last night's Aus v Ire game)
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I was half right when I responded to you 3 weeks ago with;

Optus have the main TV/media rights and they have farmed off to 7 what they need to, to get over the anti-siphoning rules and what Football Australia wanted to promote the Matildas. 7+ has limited rights, as I was expecting more stuff on there when I looked last night and today. In NZ its all on pay TV, Sky Sport as they don't have our type of anti-siphoning rules.

They farmed off to channel 7 what they needed to, from a political/public backlash POV, not a legal POV as unlike the Socceroos, the Matildas aren't on the abti-siphoning list.

Media Watch on Monday night explained how no free to air broadcaster bid for the rights, didn't think they were worth much and made no bids or bugger all bids, including the much vaunted home of soccer, SBS.

The blokes running the networks - that's right its all blokes - just didn't see that people will watch big games and big events. Its why 7 Melbourne TV executives wont put the Showdown and the Western Derby, even the Sydney teams clash, on an exclusive Friday night, because they don't think enough people will watch, so their bonuses don't happen and as I have said for years, they fear they can't buy their blow, and book their hookers as a result.

www.abc.net.au

Ep 27 - Football fever - Media Watch

FIFA Women’s World Cup proves a commercial success for broadcasters. So why can’t fans see more games on free-to-air?
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Now, to the biggest game in town which a lot of people are watching on another channel:

SAM KERR: Playing at home with a home crowd, see everyone in green and gold, I hope I remember it forever.
LYDIA WILLIAMS: This is it. We’re gonna give it our all.
MEL MCLAUGHLIN: Be part of history, live and free on Seven and Seven Plus.
- Seven World Cup promo, 17 July, 2023
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The Women’s World Cup has been a spectacular success with more than 1.7 million tickets sold and many matches sold out. And viewing numbers on TV are red hot. Take last week’s match against Canada which delivered more than just a clean sheet for the Matildas, Seven says it was the most watched women’s sports match in Australian history:

The 4-0 win over the Olympic champions marks the first time a women’s sports event has averaged more than 2 million viewers on television … making it Seven’s most-watched program so far in 2023.
- Australia Financial Review, 1 August, 2023
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So if it’s such a hit, why is Seven only showing 15 out of 64 games? Short answer, because it doesn’t have the TV rights and that’s left supporters angry:

Fan fury as Women’s World Cup largely disappears behind subscription.
- Sydney Morning Herald, 31 July, 2023
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With Women’s Agenda asking:

… what message are we sending to football fans across Australia who want to get behind the women’s game? That women’s sport does not deserve as much accessible air time as men’s.
- Women’s Agenda, 12 July, 2023
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While SBS was having a cheeky dig at its commercial rival for dudding viewers and pointing out that it showed all 64 matches of the 2022 Men’s World Cup free to air.

So how come that is not happening this time? It’s because the Women’s World Cup is not on the anti-siphoning list, so pay TV companies were allowed to buy the rights.

And Optus Sport duly did for a bargain US$8 million, according to the Financial Review. As the Optus’ Head of Content, happily pointed out at the time:

“The 2019 women's event in France, 74 per cent of the population watched it. That’s just crazy. This will be without doubt the biggest event in this country since the Sydney Olympics.”
- Sydney Morning Herald, 4 June, 2021
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And why did the free-to-air TV networks fail to see the potential and outbid Optus? In the words back then of Clive Dickens, the man who made the deal:

“… everybody’s asleep at the wheel, because they see this as a men’s-dominated game.”
- Sydney Morning Herald, 4 June, 2021
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Knowing that there would be a fuss if nothing was on free-to-air, Optus then on-sold 15 games — including all Matildas matches and many of the knockout games — to Seven.

And why didn’t Seven take more? We’re told that Optus didn’t offer them. But we put that to Optus and they did not respond. Either way, Seven and Australian fans have lost out.
 
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Thank **** for the Columbian ref. She is a hard arse!
 

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