Roar deserves W-League title

I know its been nearly a week since the Brisbane Roar womens team took out the W-League but I thought I'd offer my (late-ish) views.

The match was high quality and the best team on the day took home the title.

Brisbane got off to a flying start with Tameka Butt's goal after some tidy work y Lana Harch who was having a blinder until she went off with an awful ankle injury just before half time.

Sydney leveled before half time with almost the strike of the season from Sydney's Kylie Ledbrook.

I haven't been too impressed with Peter Wilkin's commentary of the W-League on ABC1 (and I am not the only one!) but his comment that 'you will never see a better strike than that in the W-League' was spot on.

While we are on the topic of the ABC - a big thumbs down (or 'dislike' for the facebookers) for the national broadcaster not putting the game on live in Queensland. Seriously bad move Aunty! The local fans in Qld were pretty jacked off

Brisbane brought on Lisa DeVanna when Harch was stretchered off and in the 65th minute the West Australian slotted home the winner. Then she got herself a yellow card for doing a Pat Cash (wow they had some bad outfits in 1987...sorry got distracted) - going up into the grand stand to celebrate.

I simply love watching DeVanna in action - as a defender I think she would be your biggest nightmare. Quick, technically brilliant and unpredictable.

I can't wait to see what she does in the FIFA Womens World Cup later this year.

If you missed the action you can watch the whole thing on ABC's Iview or just the highlights here

If you want the low down on the match, with commentary on the season from someone who knows female football I high recommend Fiona Crawford's blog on the 442 website (or the match report on 442 which is here).

For a sanitised version of the match try the official Roar's W-League website and have to give a shout out to the guys from the Football Sack who also covered the league.

The Football Sack also picked a W-League team of the year. Hmm interesting - very Sydney/Brisbane top heavy AND they excluded the Matildas captain Melissa Barbieri.

The Womens Game also covered the match and have been providing excellent info about the W-League and everything else to do with female football. Teo Pellizzeri and his crew were awesome giving us live coverage of lots of the matches.

And how exciting was it during the final to see so many people twittering about it - if you haven't already check out #wleague.

I have been watching the W-League from the start and its not a cliche to say its been better every year its simply the truth. The more these women play, the better the coaching the facilities the better they are. Bring on the World Cup.

Did I mention that I tipped Brisbane before the match. No? Its true