Sally Shipard writes about that game!

Sally Shipard writes from the plane to the quarter finals!

Hi guys

We are on the plane flying from Chengdu to Tianjin, yes that’s right we are not on our way home to Australia.

After a nail-biting finish to the game last night against Canada. We needed a draw or win to secure our quarter finals birth. I tell you what I don’t think any of us have been so happy to draw before.

It was so exciting;

everyone had tears in their eyes. It honestly felt like we had won the World Cup obviously not; let’s not get ahead of ourselves...

Thanks to Tommy sending Cheryl up front leaving only 3 in the backline for the dying minutes of the match, Lisa DeVanna created the opportunity for Chez to slot it pass the keeper.

We had plenty of opportunities during the match to win, but we are all so ecstatic about qualifying we didn’t really care as long as we got through. You could say the good old ‘Aussie spirit’ and the ‘never say die’ attitude shined through...

We were all fairly weary eyed this morning. Some of the girls couldn’t manage to get to sleep even with the assistance of a stillnox (sleeping tablet). We were all on such a high last night.

The next couple of days will be comprised of resting, massages, more resting, a light run tomorrow, and then the Brazilians on Sunday night!!!

As much as we all miss Australia, we don’t want to be home till the 2nd of October. We have some unfinished business to take care of. The game against the Brazilians will be tough, we will be the underdogs but that has never bothered us before. Hope to hear you cheering us on
Thanks for all your support back home guys