Olivia Fergusson: Women's Wellington Phoenix player on their unbeaten streak

The Women's Wellington Phoenix are on a 3 game unbeaten streak. 

Forward player Olivia Fergusson said the teams win in Adelaide was a shift in momentum and kick started their season. 

Fergusson joined the show to discuss what had made for their success so far. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the All Sport Breakfast podcast with Darcy
Waldegrave from News Talk ZEDB.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
From the men's at football to the women's football. We
go now the A League women the an Inju A
League is up and running and this is what next day.
Seven out of twenty yard I believe it is in
Wellington hosting Sydney the South afternoon at four o'clock in
Potua at the Jerry Collins Stadium. We're talking now to

(00:34):
Ford from the Wahenix Olivia Ferguson. Good morning, Good morning.
You're looking forward to today's game? Will be an understatement
the women's Phoenix, the Wahenicks as we like to call them.
You're on an absolute tear at the moment, aren't you.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah. We've had some really good results in the last
few games, so I think we see that. We do
feel like we're flying a little bit. Be so good
to keep that run going and carry on from the
montum today.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
What so three game unbeaten run so far? Is there
anything in particular? Don't you attribute those results too?

Speaker 3 (01:09):
I don't think so. I think our performances were good
in the first few games. Just the result. I think
the Adelaide performance, and when we got our first win
was a big shift in momentum for us and we
felt like we could really kick start our season from
there and then we've managed just to carry on through.
So I think it's good. There's a lot of belief
in the group now and a lot of confidence.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
How important is that from a player's point of view?
Often talk about belief and confidence. It's one thing to
say it, but can you feel that bouncing through the team.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
Yeah, definitely, and it just has a mass is not
going to affect and you see it in one player
and they're having a good game. You know, it's like
a ripple effect across the team and you see it
in training as well, building us in the weeks. But
I think momentum is massive as well and in football
and it goes both ways. So to be have some
winning momentum or even being unbeaten at the moment is

(02:00):
just everything. And you know we can just keep building
on that, which is the most important thing.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
To the You go, hey, look you're taking on Sydney.
If they're propping up the table seeking the bottom easy beats.
You don't think like that, do you, Olivia?

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Absolutely not. You know they've obviously not started the season
as strongly as they would have liked to, but we
know the qualities that they have and will be as
ready as we would go at top of the table,
know that on our day we can be anyone in
the lean to believe it. He is exciting like that
as well, So yeah, it should be a good game.
Should be a good one. The result or mean as
much to them as it will to us.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
It's super tight, isn't it. You've got Central Coast sitting
in fifth six and two, and then you've got Newcastle
the same Wish United, the same well and send the
same camber, the same Perth Glory the same.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
This is a.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Rigid competition, isn't it. There there are no easy games, Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
And that just makes it so exciting. I think if
you get a win and a few teams around you
they don't get the points that day, you can jump
up the table by five positions or something like that.
So yeah, really exciting.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
And as far as playing at home the importance of that,
because I think, what is this a third time you
beck at Jerry Collins at Potterdor Park this year? How
much energy does it bring?

Speaker 3 (03:12):
Yeah? Massive, We're really looking forward to being back at home.
Our fans are amazing. They bring such good energy and
that helps us so much on the pitch. We feel
like we bounce off them, and then if we're performing well,
that bounces off them as well. So yeah, so good.
Really looking forward to being back at home and hearing
the fans that they're so good for US.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Olivia, Furgots and joins US Olivia and Paul Temble. What's
been has main thrust so far and training.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Oh yeah, he's definitely got his style of play which
he's been He's being driven into us and I think
we're really showing that now in training books, deiply and
game that game as well. I think we've had a
few tactical changes in the last few games and that's
been really good too, to show that we're can adapt
to saying against different oppositions. He's just really smart and yeah,

(03:59):
he's good for the group. I think he has a
lot of respect from everybody and we'll trust him. We
trust what he's asking us to do, buy into it.
So yeah, it's really good, really important.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
The ability to pivot. If you will look at what's
going on and go hold on, we may maybe change
your structure, we maybe change our format. So this is
something he enjoys and something the team embraced too them.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Yeah, definitely, we've played a different formations now, different personnel
in different positions as well, with informations across a few games.
I think it's important. It makes us unpredictable, it's more
difficult for opposition to prepare to play against us. Keeps
us exciting, keeps us evolving as well. You know, we
keep getting better. But yeah, I think that's down to

(04:41):
Paul and the coaches to trust us to be able
to do that as well, and for the players to
trust Paul and start to buy into what he's asking
us to do and that it's the right thing for
that that specific game.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Sorry, what about yourself, Olivia? What do you look toward
to carry on with and maybe leave behind? Where are
your improvements?

Speaker 3 (05:01):
Yeah? I think I'm obviously a forward player. Getting that
first goal is going to be massive for me. The
got momentum for the team is also important. For men
get a goal of managed to get a few assist
I'd like to keep that going. I think I'm bringing
a lot of energy which is good and yeah, encouraging
the team as well being a leader out there and yeah,
leading from the front, energy, creating opportunities and a goal

(05:25):
would be nice, being too.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
Alright, make it too go and clete yourself more. Get
a hat trick just before Christmas. That's a Christmas present
for you, four o'clock this afternoon in Polyda and looking
forward to that in more positive results. We thank you
very much, Olivia for Ferguson for your time get amongst
go well, thank you so much. Thank you very much
for joining us at seven twenty three? Did I bust

(05:48):
out an app right there? I didn't do here for Ferguson.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
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