2014 World Cup Socceroos Thread

[MFKS]

Just got back to hotel

We won the Chileans respect the difference was the finishing

We wasted shit load hey put 4 on target all night

Considering our technical deficiencies Ange got most of his decisions right
The **** ups were the inexperienced defence who for the mmost part were fantastic but made some glaring mistakes that were poor

Ange did **** up with not putting Taggart on. We had plenty of times where Timmy got the ball but he has no speed. Need the quicker man as the Chileans were slow

Song of the night at fulltime

Where 3rd in the group how shit must Spain be where 3rd in the group

Atmosphere top notch I hate to say it but better than the day Griffo scored the winning goal in the GF against he gypos


Chileans were fantastic and very humble and respective at FT

Those that spoke English were relieved as they thought we deserved more than we got

[MFKS]

also, thought leckie was great, have never really rated him, but his crossing tonight (after a while) was excellent.

Leslie was a lot better in second half.

First half he offered little assistance to Franjic and dogged many challenges. That run he had in the first half if he had of got on his ****ing.bike and not been blushing he would have been one on one and not blazing a cross well wide

Amge got massive improvement out of him at h t

Bloke just needs to back himself mo're he is unsure of himself at times

[Buddha]

If there is something that we have an advantage over most countries in this world cup, is never say die attitude, and with Ange i think he's really pressed that into the boys here is to show the mentality.

Jedinak was pretty poor in all honesty, he needs to show why hes being made a captain in the next 2 games.

I honestly thought Davidson and Wilkinson were our best, Davidson did well to not let Sanchez run those channels and got forward well too.

Strangely enough i think our RB situation is the current problem now, whereas it used to be the LB area.

Can safely say i think the boys did the Nation proud this morning. And probably won the hearts of many others watching the world cup across the globe

[belchardo]

how good was the clearance off the line by wilkinson? FIFA jizzing in their pants that the got to use their goal line technology for a goal/no-goal that was actually close to controversial.

[Jeterpool]

Did Abbott really wish "Mike" Jedinak good luck?

Really impressed with the response from the team after a nervous start. Don't think we deserved a draw, but 3-1 was a bit rough.

What happened to franjic?

I thought bresciano was solid and brought something else to to team. Leckie got better but I'd prefer to see halloran still. Needed more taggz. Spira did well and Davidson was excellent.

[plague]

Did Abbott really wish "Mike" Jedinak good luck?

Really impressed with the response from the team after a nervous start. Don't think we deserved a draw, but 3-1 was a bit rough.

What happened to franjic?

I thought bresciano was solid and brought something else to to team. Leckie got better but I'd prefer to see halloran still. Needed more taggz. Spira did well and Davidson was excellent.

Well said.
I think Franjic was a hammy. Not sure how bad.seems a new injury rather than the problem he had before.
As for Abbott he's got to be dead set trolling everyone at this stage.
He's fast turning into Vince McMahon at this point.
I'm kind of enjoying it.

[steve136]

Leckie got better but I'd prefer to see halloran still.

Could not disagree more. Leckie was our most dangerous player out there today beside Cahill.

[Jeterpool]

Could not disagree more. Leckie was our most dangerous player out there today beside Cahill.

He had a great second half. I felt his first half was poor.

He started running at players but his touch and ability to beat a player let us down a bit. He's done enough to retain his place but I thought halloran offered a bit more

[WolfMan]

Hope the beer and bacon is good for those who chose to head out for this

Can confirm the Breakfast Pizza at the Grain Store was quite good.

Place erupted upon Cahill's bonce shot.

Pretty intelligent crowd too, clapping and cheering for the right things. All stayed til the bitter end

[Bremsstrahlung]

Pretty happy to be honest.
I think a draw would've been a fair result and a good one at that.
After our initial 20 minutes of frailty, I thought we played well. We had an obvious Gameplan of target Timmy's head with early balls. Did well to get back into it. After half time I said, we'd level it at 2-2 or we'd concede in Injury time and vwullah.

I thought our defence did reasonably well once they settled.
Jedinak wasn't his best. Bresh did reasonably well. Oar didn't play the best, take a touch son. Troisi was rubbish.
Franjic did well for me. It was his big tackle and cross that lead to the goal. We were dying for a big tackle at that kind of inspired for want of better word. Cahill was soooo close to being sent off. His dissent could have seen his second yellow so often. He was excellent today in terms of giving his all. Would love to have a out and out striker that can turn and have a dig easily. There were times when Cahill and bresh to a degree could've loaded up bit didn't.
And on leckie, he looked a bit shaky at first but as the game wore on he was getting better and better. Should've at least got a shot away on his long counter run.

All in all, a good effort against a chile team that is rated quite high. We made them look pretty average in the second half.

[MFKS]

What frailty???

For the first 12mins we were chasing the game but Chile never looked like scoring.

There first two shots came from our ineptness. Both ended up in the net.
They only had 1 other shot the entire first half.

Ffs Ryan had little to do most of the night.

What's this settled shut we were settled until they scored ffs

[The Dunster]

I cannot understand the love for Troisi. He's not a striker, he's not a playmaker, and he's certainly not a defender.
What does Taggz need to do to get a run ?

[belchardo]

I cannot understand the love for Troisi. He's not a striker, he's not a playmaker, and he's certainly not a defender.
What does Taggz need to do to get a run ?

but he is one of ange's pet products...

was pretty useless when he came on. to be fair on ange, i think he would have put taggz on for timmy with 10 to go if franjic hadn't required a sub.

[Jeterpool]

I cannot understand the love for Troisi. He's not a striker, he's not a playmaker, and he's certainly not a defender.
What does Taggz need to do to get a run ?

Have played for Victory or Roar

[pv4]

Did Abbott really wish "Mike" Jedinak good luck?

Mile Jedinak's full name is Michael John Jedinak.

[boz-monaut]

Tony Abbot is still a ****, no matter what he calls Mile Jedinak

[plague]

Tony Abbot is still a ****, no matter what he calls Mile Jedinak

Tories>Gypos

[joel31]

a lot better than I expected.

I was very pleased with the performance

[Jeterpool]

Mile Jedinak's full name is Michael John Jedinak.

Like he knows that.

[GazFish35]

Mile Jedinak's full name is Michael John Jedinak.

Ange's full name is Angelos, but he didn't go with the formal option there.

He's a douche who doesn't do his homework.