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We'll have mini episodes going team by team ahead of the new season with our burning questions, players to watch, and the big ins and outs for each team (as of October 16 when we recorded)

It's one very particular example across a small sample size, but perhaps the easiest one to measure and display to make this particular point.
I'll probably expand on this at a later date, because while I'm sure the crowds increased post-WWC, if you don't have a "big name" Matilda, it looks bleak.

(3/4) The Leichhardt crowd average (11 games) was 3243 and Allianz (3 games) was 6792 during the 2023/24 season after Vine became a household name.
In 24/25, Leichhardt's average (7 games) was 1969. Allianz (3 games) was 3881. Sydney lost their marquee Matilda, and the numbers crashed when Vine left

(2/4) interested in the Dub, but there has to be a better approach.
I'd love it if all it took was slapping the Matildas name over content and advertising to attract fans to the Dub, but it needs more.
Cortnee Vine played one season for Sydney after she became a household name.

I made this point on the other site, so I'll make it here as well.
Fans aren't turning up because the current big name Matildas have all come through the #ALW, nor are they interacting with Dub content just because the word Matildas is on it.
They're probably trying to get Matildas fans (1/4)

It absolutely was. 11/10. Would recommend.

It was so good. 11/10. Would recommend a million times over.

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I can't believe I'm getting to see @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social DM a campaign with my very own eyes 😍

If the most creative (presumably) drunken American fans can get chanting is "Maty Ryan, you've let in two goals", that's poor form, albeit factually accurate. #USAvAUS #Socceroos

Sorry, but getting the troops together for this one in the middle of the day during a work-week proved a bridge too far.

(My excuse was getting two fillings at the dentist)

It would be insane if she's recovered that quickly, but ACL recovery times seem to be getting shorter on average, so we'll see.

This is going to be the 2023 WWC all over again for Australia for the Asian Cup, isn't it?

Not that it would have mattered too much with Tony G's strategy and player choices if Simon wasn't injured, but I hope Pep makes the right choice if Mary isn't playing, but it's a Schrödinger's cat situation.

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I completely forgot Zegras was traded to the Flyers, and that is one ugly ass scorebug.

If you're an MBA out to revolutionize a sports league, follow the Beer Line Method: go to a game and describe your idea to any five fans in line for concessions, and if they tell you it sucks major ass, buy their beer to say thanks for saving you money on AI match reports or NFT monkeys or whatever

@almostclutch.xyz is either going to love me or hate me after this 🤣

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Mondays are better with @thefarpostpod.bsky.social

I think the worst part about watching this is that as a Raiders fan, regardless of how bad the Raiders are this year, there are so many other teams that are worse, like Miami, and the Jets.

Hell, the Raiders could get four wins this year, and they still might not get a top three pick.

Seeing so much football media go this way absolutely sucks, but especially when it's the league itself.

If you don't care enough to write about a game in your own league, why should I care enough to watch it, ESPECIALLY when said league is stuck behind a paywall?

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

Because when you burn down a house and nobody ever rebuilds it, someone is still forced to live in the ashes

The Albanese govt’s first term was the second most secretive on record.

Rather than changing their ways, they’re doubling down and tightening our FOI system to make it even harder to get information. Not a single expert or member of parliament outside of the Labor party has backed their new bill.

Like Bari Weiss being stuffed by a billionaire atop CBS to lie to normies, this is billionaires stuffing rightwing ideas into AI systems to lie to normies.

The whole fascist takeover of the US is built atop an information war.

I've never had an issue when I do tune in.

I don't say this to be fatalist, rather to move the conversation on. We're past this point. It's too late. The government has had many opportunities and won't do it. Dismantle corporate capitalism or this the inevitable media future

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This is insane. In the ever-reaching world of capitalism in sports ruining the game, teams, events, and organisations are just blindly accepting money from illegal companies the same way they'd accept it from legal companies.

Bootleggirl on twitter writes: "I still dislike the Star Wars sequels but I can't no longer fault them for running with the premise of "20 years after fascism, same fascism again, but stupider" bc I just lived through that.

you know what fair