Rod and Gabi VS Canberra United BONUS

Canberra United take on Wellington Phoenix on Sunday at 3pm in Canberra and it will be Michelle Heyman’s 200th A-League Women’s match.

Rod and Gabi chat to teammate Emma Robars about the season and how she’s surviving the Canberra Cold.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I can't wait for Sunday afternoon. Renee from the News

(00:02):
was with us a moment ago talking about the significance
of feats that have been achieved by Michelle Hayman that
we haven't seen by any other A League woman in history,
and so it's going to be special a for that reason,
but also that we just need things to go our
way a you know when, and then a few other
things to work out, and all of a sudden we're

(00:23):
playing finals and that's obviously the goal at the start
of the season. Emma Robars is one of our midfield
Is this going to be a special weekend on Sunday
to share the park with one of the all time greats?
Can you believe it?

Speaker 2 (00:35):
I can't, to be honest, it's a pretty special moment.
I mean, I think Michelle has been an icon of
football for as long as I can remember, that's for sure,
and yet to be holding a record like that is
pretty substantial, and yeah, pretty special that we get to
share the field of death.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
When you play for the Matildas, do you miss a
lot of games that happen throughout the season for the
United Girls? Oh?

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yes, So Michelle hasn't maybe been a yeah, no.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
She Luckily we have international breaks now, so the club
will go and break. We'll have a weekend off off,
she's away of doing the amazing things that she's doing
with the national team, and then she'll come back and
probably within two days be playing for US. So her
schedule is busy, that's for sure.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
So you're just like chilling out doing recovery while she's
off playing.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Who's the real winner here?

Speaker 2 (01:25):
That's good? You to play for the national team anywhere,
that's all.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Right, Wake off, let's go and are you in your
on your stats sheet? Do have a goal? Which isn't
the idea as a midfielder. That's the striker's job, that's
Michelle's job. But is that What sort of discipline does
it take when you know you're close? How often do
you actually get to have a shot? Because if I
were in midfielder, I promise you I might not have

(01:49):
a lot of goals, but I'd have a lot of shots.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah. Well, it's always tempting, But in saying that, I
think this is one of the seasons where I've shot
the most because at the least sorry, because I think
when you've got a striker l like Michelle up front.
You know you just want to give her the ball
because she'll put it away. But yeah, obviously every now
and again you've got to take a shot, and luckily
how I was able to score one, which was kind
of nice.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
It's a good team player, better team player than Rod
would be.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
There's a reason I'm obviously standing in a radio studio
in my professional career in whatever just didn't quite work
out too late. Realm, you are being far too encouraging
and positive as a girl who grew up in very,
very cold, wintery mornings in Melbourne your first winter. You're
about to head into your second winter here in the Capitol,
and we're hearing it might be a warmer winter than

(02:36):
last time round, which means only minus five and not
minus eight. How are you coping with with that change?
And how have you loved the move to the capitol.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, the winter really shocked me, if I'm totally honest, Like,
Melbourne was cold, but I think Cambridge speaking out. Never
thought i'd be in the minuses and it's like practically snowing,
so definitely been a new experience. But no, I've absolutely
loved my time in Canberra. I think, yeah, I was

(03:05):
just going to say, it's a really easy and lovely
kind of community based place to live, and yeah, it
just made the transition so easy, so nice.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Speaking of the winters, like I remember growing up, I
was playing netball while my friends were playing soccer, and
because they both are winter sports, I reckon soccer girls
have it better because when you're catching a ball in
the freezing cold, that hurts like you would not believe.
So when you're in the soccer field, you don't have
to worry about that.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Emma, was that what led to your career as a
professional athlete in soccer or internationally known as football. You
didn't want to touch a cold netball that was really cold.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Pretty much pretty much. I didn't want to have icy fingers,
so football.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Gabby, things could have worked out so differently for you.
That's true, all right. It is on Sunday afternoon. I
can't wait to see Camber United knock off the Wellington
team coming here. It's going to be tough enough for them,
and let's all get around. What's an important game for
a bunch of reasons. Sunday afternoon, Michela Park, Emma Robers,
congratulations on everything you're doing at the moment. Great to

(04:09):
have you here and we'll see you on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Thanks guys, appreciate it so much.