Another day, another fixture adjustment for Canberra United.
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Football Australia announced its seemingly daily change to the W-League draw on Friday, announcing Perth Glory will now be visiting the capital on January 24.
The Glory become the third team scheduled to visit Viking Park next weekend - Sydney FC and Melbourne Victory had also been slated to play there this round.
It follows on from the postponement of Canberra United's trip to Newcastle this weekend to play the Jets.
"From the beginning we've been used to schedule changes," United captain Kendall Fletcher said.
"The coaching staff did a really good job from the outside of the season setting us up saying hey this is going to be unlike any other season that we've had. We need to be prepared for everything.
"Even in some of our preseason games we weren't allowed to play. It's been a little unpredictable but we've been prepared for that."
In a bizarre nine days for the club, Canberra United have gone from pinching a late equaliser against the Roar in Brisbane, to three days of quarantine on returning to Canberra, to being told they wouldn't be playing this weekend, to receiving a third opponent for January 24.
The loss of this weekend's Jets match also means United have gone from playing three games in nine days, to none in two and a half weeks.
Coaching staff have organised an intra-club match to be played this season as Vicki Linton looks to keep her unbeaten charges in top shape.
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"We knew this season was going to be on again, off again, we knew that was the potential for it," Fletcher said.
"We are a young team and we are a new team, it gives us a little bit of time. You don't always get that time in a season.
"Vicki and the coaching staff said okay we're going to utilise this to continue doing the things we've done well, but there's things that we need to improve and so we have this two and a half week block where we can address some of that.
"If you're playing week in and week out you might not have as much time [to do that]."