Bresc makes us look infinitely better, agreed.
That was a much better performance than I was expecting when I got out of bed this morning.
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Bresc makes us look infinitely better, agreed.
That was a much better performance than I was expecting when I got out of bed this morning.
always beenQuote:
Originally Posted by belchardo
Taggz put himself about a bit in his short cameo but received zero service
matthew leckie is the shittest khunt
yepQuote:
Originally Posted by parksey
I don't see the Leckie hype, still. Kruse I can see and have seen and we miss him massively on the right... but Leckie does nothing for me. Halloran was even worse when he came on, somehow.
Halloran has looked fine, he just had a nightmare appearence.
Davidson had one in his first Socceroos game, and look where he is now.
I am not a fan of Leckie being played wide, but he is never going to be played central with Sir Timmy there. I would prefer Rukavytsya out wide, but he appears to have disappeared of the face of the football planet.
Oh, I don't disagree that Halloran has something about him... but he had a horror show tonight. That touch out for a goal kick was almost as good as Carle's attempted rabona.
^^^^ this by a bazillion.Quote:
Originally Posted by belchardo
regardless of where he was standing or who he was marking, any goal that goes in is on him, and ultimately the coach that keeps ****ing picking him.Quote:
Originally Posted by belchardo
Ange out.
all you ever hear about is is "how fast" Leckie is, but all he does is run really fast to the ball then give it away or do something else equally retarded.Quote:
Originally Posted by parksey
Leckie out.
I think Ang has it just right. Bresch is not defensively strong enough nor has the legs to play in a 3 man midfield for 90 mins. But bring him on late in the game to open up defenses. Tommy Oar was very good, covered the ground well and looked great with the ball at his feet. Not bad for first game at 10.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grimario
Not his first game at 10 unless you mean for the NT. He has apparently played at the point in a midfield diamond for Utrecht half a dozen times this season. Dunno how true that is though.Quote:
Originally Posted by borat
Also, FFS... what is with the massive number of ****ing braindead knobs who don't have a clue about football? So many people on FB/twitter/other foz's going on about how we played so much shitty long ball for wingers to chase. Did anyone for a moment stop to think about how Chile play? It's pretty ****ing obvious that Ange has gone "you know what... we might struggle to play possession against Chile. They throw numbers forward. Maybe I can set up like MV and look to counter quickly with fast wide players".
Not ****ing rocket science, khuuuuuunts.
Lol at grim expecting educated football comments to appear on social network sites.
Facebook is not the blizzard
Not just there... EVERYWHERE. Even from people that up until recently had appeared to have a clue.Quote:
Originally Posted by GazFish35
I meant for the NT. We are going to have to defend long periods of each game and I can see why Ang wants young, fit and fast players.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grimario
Against Chile we have a good chance if we can defend well. Chile are going to throw everything at us but they play a flat back four that Egypt exposed twice in the first 30mins of their recent friendly.
I would, dare I say it, start Taggz upfront for this game
I could understand not playing Taggart if there was an alternative to him, but we really have got no other guys who are true strikers. One thing in both the South Africa and the game today, is that we don't look overly dangerous in front of goals. Taggart, regardless of the fact that he is young and mostly inexperienced, proved for a whole season that he could score goals, yet he gets all of about 8 minutes to play. If you had Bresc giving him through balls and someone giving him good crosses or good passes running in from the wings then he could definitely do some damage to any teams defence, even Spains.
Don't want chile to see him though..... Until kickoff
i'd love for ange to **** leckie off but i can't really think of any alternatives considering the squad we have.
not bringing brillante or wilkshire was a mistake. i'd much rather start with franjic higher instead of vidosic/leckie/halloran and have one of those previously mentioned at rb. halloran has showed genuine promise but the other two just don't look up to standard at all. i'm not a huge franjic fan but he's looked more comfortable and would do a job defensively as well.
also wilkinson starting for australia at a world cup is deadset disgusting. surely our defensive stocks can't be that bad, can they? i know we have a few injuries at the back but come on.
Our defensive stocks are that bad. But to be fair I thought Wilkinson performed a lot better than expected, probably cemented his place in the team. Think you are being harsh on Vidosic too as this was one of his better games for the NT. Was up for attack and back for defence. This game gave us everything we needed which was to give Tommy Oar time at 10 and see how it worked. Croatia may not have been playing full throttle but IMO we put them under far more pressure then they were expecting. Franjic was outstanding but need to leave him there now, too late to be trialing other RB's.
Leckie was really the only player who may have cost his chances with that performance. Ang needs to forget about ever playing him centrally and Leckie needs to start to think about supporting other players in the team for a change. Seems to run away from everyone when he has the ball. Just read Ang's post game comments all focused on the front third. Against Chile I would go with
--------------------------Ryan
Franjic------Wilkinson--------Spiranovic------Davidson
------------Milligan-----------------Jedinak
---------------------------Oar
Halloran-----------------------------------------Vidosic
-------------------------Taggart
vidosic is just a really, really average player. works hard but he's not threatening enough going forward, which is sort of the key issue seeing as how he's playing as a winger.
too slow, too scared to try anything.
Not sure about the Leckie part but that is one of your better posts, totally agree on the rest (although I'm a HUGE Franjic fan).Quote:
Originally Posted by parksey
Apparently the Soccerroos will be playing Belgium in September
Overseas?Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
believe it is gonna be in belgium
Liege apparently
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Originally Posted by MFKS
Thankyou.Quote:
Originally Posted by furns
Should be a good test.
After watching Belgium play Argentina in the QF last week was impressed with them.
They were unfortunate to go behind to the opportunist Higuian strike
After that they probably had the better of the game and kept the Argies quiet.
Despite having some good players just lacked the class player to drag them level
It will be a great test and they are a quality team especially if their players get some league form behind them early in the season.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
I disagree about the belgium v argies game. Belgium were woeful, absolutely no game plan and even less creativity. If they play like that against us, we have a great shot at knocking them off with the way ange has us playing.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/...e-with-belgium
Belgium - 4/9
UAE - 10/10
Qatar - 14/10
All away, also another match in september and 2 in november.
Young Socceroos game vs US U20 is live right now if anyone wants to watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F20jnQdW9ks
how did they go?
Apparently we are also playing Saudi Arabia at Craven Cottage a couple of days after the Belgium clash.
Been well publicised
Mitch Langerak, Mathew Ryan
Trent Sainsbury, Brad Smith, Carl Valeri, Alex Wilkinson, Bailey Wright, Tomi Juric, Robbie Kruse, Mathew Leckie, Massimo Luongo, Mark Milligan, Tommy Oar, Terry Antonis, Josh Brillante, Tim Cahill, Jason Davidson, Ben Halloran, Chris Herd, Mile Jedinak
20 man squad for games against Belgium and Saudi Arabia
No Taggz = no party
Taggz is injured
facts have no place on the internetz
so who comes in when Herd pulls out???
Carl Valeri!?!
You been drinking too much from the Fountain of MemberQuote:
Originally Posted by furns