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A penalty really is too harsh a punishment for some offences in the box imo. Need more indirect free kicks for accidental offences and/or situations that almost certainly would not have prevented a goal.

Obviously England deserved to win the game though. Defended much better than we did on the night, and were sharp up front

If we'd won the cup, it would have been celebrated with the same amount of joy as if we'd won the men's one. And I think that would've been great for the world to see.

Frustrating.

It's gonna be a long day defending these set pieces and corners.

Amazing turn of events

Spain vs Sweden kicking off now

I've stopped paying attention to football transfers, but tuning back in now I'm just absolutely lost on what's happened. This Saudi takeover of all the world's players seems about as joyous as if Elon Musk bought all 20 premier league teams, switched all jerseys to plain white and renamed all the clubs alpha, beta, gamma etc

This might not be visible outside Australia but the level of excitement here about this team has now eclipsed the Socceroos qualifying and progressing through the group at the Germany world cup in 2006.

Honestly don't think democrats should bother with a Bernie candidate until they can win enough senate seats to kill the filibuster, add a couple more states and abolish the electoral college.

Josh Shapiro and Jared Polis would be decent picks. Klobuchar and Buttigieg also high profile moderates that would be worth mentioning. but that said I've been happy with Biden's policies and would be enthusiastic in voting for him in 2024. He's delivered a huge amount for a president with a very precarious congressional balance, with Manchin the deciding senator.

This sounds like confirmation bias. If they won you sure wouldn't be saying they rode to victory due to being fired up about a woke agenda would you?

Also in terms of the equal pay discussion...

This is shaping up to be a very interesting world cup. Still lots of teams capable of winning it.

Sam Kerr is probably the biggest name in Australian sport these days. So good to see her finally getting some game time

Yes!

I'm sympathetic to this argument, but I do think sport is one thing that can help unite a divided society, and the value of that should not be taken lightly....

I don't like rapinoe but I have no issues at all with her campaigning for better pay. The men's team are a 25th seeded team that are shit to watch. The women's team are the first seed and world leaders in the sport and hugely important in popularising women's football around the world. Right now if I could vote for a revenue share between the Socceroos and the Matilda's I would go beyond equal pay, because the Matilda's are undisputedly the most marketable national team in Australian sport right now of any code or gender... But do we really want a scale that says "hey team X you're a bit shit at the moment relative to the other team so we're cutting your pay"? For me, no. So equal pay seems fair.

What a crazy penalty shootout! Absolutely insane ending too.

The challenge for democrats is finding a candidate that will win Michigan, Pennsylvania and Arizona, all of which are about 6 points more conservative than the median voter and constantly on a knife edge.

Yes they are all pretty undeniable. But the process moves slowly. I don't want would reach the point of sentencing before the next election.

That goal was seriously one of the most perfect free kicks, man or woman, that I've seen. How many world cup free kick goals top that one?

100% agree with that. Australia has zero nuclear capability, and no regulatory systems in place. It would be a 25 year project to get one plant up. And it would not be financially viable because the market being flooded with renewables makes wholesale prices negative half the time. But Europe, Japan and the US, and major developing nations have a completely different calculus and could have done much more in this space.

Definitely. It's a finite, non renewable resource obviously, but it's a fantastic carbon free generation option. And it doesn't introduce those huge imbalances between supply and demand that non-despatchable renewables cause. And whilst it was incredibly expensive, that would definitely come down over time with committed investment, as some of the regulatory inertia and limited experienced talent pool are addressed.