University of Canberra Capitals

A-Rod, straight into the Melbourne Cup.

Michael Cordell, a Sydney filmmaker, has been documenting

Footscray's progress through 1996 this year.

Round 17, Footscray got about eight or nine goals behind Collingwood, I think it was, pretty early, and staged a fantastic comeback, failed at the end.

Five months

ago, she comes back and drops 28 in the first game.

Good game too, beaten by Sydney Uni, who look like they're going to be a pretty good team this year.

Capitals.

It's cool.

Over in Canberra, the UC Capitals head off a massive win.

Massive.

Just keep going.

Yeah.

I mean, even, you know, I played for Canberra Capitals for a long time, um, the Cannons sort of left, um, after, in the early days and Canberra really embraced the Capitals.

And the, the Capitals have sort of been, there's- there's so much pride around the team, um, and their success, and they ride the highs and lows.

Um, but it is definitely an opportunity just having, you know, the one team there, the female team there and, um, having the whole city get behind them.

Yeah.

All right, onto our final group, and that is, of course, my beloved Capitals-

[laughs]

... who have had a lot of changes.

And, uh, you know, we talked about, uh, Shannon Sebam being a, a bit of a master of recruitment.

Gozza's put together a pretty, pretty impressive team too.

So, uh, the biggest probably one- ... that we've, we've managed to tempt over to the UC Capitals is Amy Atwell.

I am-

I think just that little bit of experience, um, that those girls bring now will be instrumental in, yeah, going that bit further and, and also just having that season under our belt as a, as a core and, yeah, retaining the same core going into this season I think will be, yeah, massive for us.

And you've got, uh, it, it starts off with the, the Canberra Capitals, uh, away from home.

Um, how-- what are the confidence levels like to, to get the season off to a good start?

Yeah, we're feeling good.

It was big brother versus little brother.

And now, without the cannons, we're all about the Kings and excited to see them, our home team, taking on the Breakers tonight at the AIS Arena.

And very cool to have our next guest joining us.

He's got the call-up.

How are you guys? I appreciate you guys having me on.

Mate, we appreciate you coming out to Australia.

Is this your first time here? I mean, you've been here for a little while playing with the team, but you hadn't played out here before?

No, never been to Australia before.

[laughs] But l- I, I suppose, and while I understand you're trying to get fans engaged, you're trying to, you know, freshen things up, is that gonna work against the league in terms of merch sale?

It'd be an interesting study to do over the season and talk with, you know, talk with one of the clubs and, and say, you know, "Are you noticing an increase in jersey sales or a decrease from last year?" I know, I mean, I know at our, at, at Capitals games, there are an awful lot of jerseys in the crowd.

There's so many of them, and you go up to the shop up the top, and there's There's hundreds.

Yeah, I, I could ask around and see what the, uh, the up and down's like, whether the, the new jerseys will not have an impact, 'cause that, that's a really interesting point.

Can, can I just actually-

They should've been posting on there.

On a serious note, for 10 months I was sending out You know, a call out to female players and, and I sent it to every single basketball association, um, including the Capitals, and like Facebooked them and, and emailed and messaged them and got next to, to nothing.

It was just one of the ex-Capitals saw it somewhere sh- and it wasn't something Canberra, and she put it in an ex-Capital players-