YES!!! TONIGHT WE QUALIFIED for the 2011 FIFA WOMENS WORLD CUP!!! THANKS TO GILLY'S cool, calm and collected finish. Full credit to everybody, players, staff and supporters. It was a hard fought match. We counter-acted their game with ours- complete and utter brute strength:-) surely there will be more technical lingo thrown about in team meeting's, but ultimately we disrupted their style of play with ours! job well done! The feeling we all experienced today.....

It was SUNNY today! Yesterday we beat South Korea= We are through to the Semi's. Tomorrow- our remaining group match against China. Quick turn around= The Coaching staff have done their job, we are all well rested and raring to go. Words cannot describe how your body feels when your team scores, no matter if your on the bench or out in the midst of it all. Adrenalin pulsates through your body, your heart rate escalates...then continues to race, the wide...

It's Game day... Our opening match against Vietnam. How are we feeling? Ready! Are we good to go? Yes! Are we nervous? Yes... Because we care... What's a competition without nerves anyway :-) We do have a very young squad- this was the topic of conversation over dinner a few nights ago. We were flicking through the tournament magazine and we have a lot of girls in the squad with very little international caps for the senior team. Although as a collecti...

Giant Panda excursion today.... The list had been up on our Physio's door for days- yet names would be scribbled on and off almost instantaneously. 'Word' had gotten out that the Markets were on the cards. Cheap DVD's and fake polo's (I guess we all get our 'cultural fix' in different ways).... Although i'm not one to judge. Some of the girls were apprehensive about the Panda trip as it was an hour away, some had already been several times on trips previously...

Our World Cup qualifying campaign is now truly underway, as a group we have been talking about arriving here in Chengdu for several months now and late Wednesday night the time finally arrived. Towards the end of our week at the Gold Coast, you could sense the common feeling amongst the group, a case of the old 'Itchy Feet'.We just wanted to board the plan bound for China, the destination which will soon decide our fete for next years FIFA Women's World Cu...