Loving this mornings drama!
Compare this to qualifying for the eggball World Cup!
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Loving this mornings drama!
Compare this to qualifying for the eggball World Cup!
we ****ed
Should see the two Trinidad goals
Mother of own goals from 15 yards into top corner and a 30 yard belter into the top corner from near sideline
Official: Honduras
FT
USA lose
Panama win
Honduras game is dragging as their fans doing pitch invasions
FT in the Honduras game
Mexicans screwed the Yanks
Panama qualify
Honduras v Australia
The massive thing is this
The Yanks are one of the best travelling groups for a WC
Obviously have cash and ability to travel. Throw in the Yank sponsors and FIFA's interest in developing the game in USA and this is a massive massive bad day
This. It's quite remarkable.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
https://youtu.be/_6HLwSdIClI.
Check out the oggy
https://youtu.be/OidpCrh0Ouc
Check out the second goal for Honduras
Crossbar keepers head and into the net
Lol
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Originally Posted by lquiquer
Can’t help but laugh with both of them goalsQuote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
:rof:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jetmaster
I can see 2001 happening all over again although legs are swapped.
We're gonna get more screwed 1st leg 3-0 then come home and
maybe not lose but not go through.
Difference is the class of 2001 were class and actually grew form that
experience in Montevideo. Most of this lot couldn't give a flying f***.
I was actually quite satiated football wise with this qualification phase
with witnessing Timmy's 50th goal in the flesh last night. Had that free kick gone
in I wouldn't have left that disappointed.
Russian bars will be devastated with no USA or Oz there....
Is that falcon an oggie? Clanger!Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
Get used to those crown scenes. Looks worse than Montevideo
and is from what I've heard. They don't play in the capital but in
San Pedro Sula - out in the boondocks.
A few quick facts:-
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San Pedro Sula is a city in the Sula Valley of northern Honduras. It’s known as one of the country’s main transport hubs.
The San Pedro Sula Anthropology and History Museum has exhibits on the region’s past, from pre-Columbian times to the present.
To the west, in the Merendón mountains, Cusuco National Park has trails through cloud forest rich in wildlife,
including many species of bats and the rare quetzal bird.
Montevideo is a shit tip but it ain't that bad a place safety wiseQuote:
Originally Posted by Retro Jet
What happened in 2001 was our stupidity going out the front door of the airport and getting harassed by the local yobbos etc
In hindsight we should have stayed in Buenos Aires and jetted in the day before the game or took a ferry over
That was just Soccer Australia being naive dumb ****s
The Uruguayans although passionate about football ain't exactly violent aggressive ****s
This place we going though is a going to be interesting but we.at least not as ****ing naive as we were in the past
Statement released by FFA and Ange
No denial on him going in the future
Reading between the lines he gone
He saying he focused on the Honduras games and qualifying for a WC
Acknowledged the rumours but does **** all to dispell them
Pretty poor media management creating a distraction like this etc
Looks like a fun place
"San Pedro Sula was the "murder capital of the world"until early 2016 when Caracas, Venezuela surpassed its homicide rate.[11] Since the 2009 Honduran military coup "unemployment and underemployment rates have doubled while the number of people living in extreme poverty has skyrocketed."[4] In 2013, the city had 187 homicides per 100,000 residents.[12] This surpassed Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's rate of 148 killings per 100,000, or an average of about three homicides per day;[9] Ciudad Juarez had previously topped the list for three consecutive years.[13][14] Both cities are major operational and strategic distribution points in the illegal drug trade, particularly to the United States, and have significant gang activity.[7][13][15][16] In response, authorities launched Operation Lightning, saturating violence hotspots with police and soldiers.[9] Meanwhile, arms trafficking has flooded the country, with just under 70% of all firearms being illegal. 83% of homicides in the city involve firearms.[8]
According to the Los Angeles Times, "the homicide rate is stoked by the rivalry of the brutal street gangs, mostly descendants of gangs formed in Los Angeles and deported to Central America in the 1990s, including Mara Salvatrucha (MS) and the 18th Street gang. Their ranks are fed by the disastrous economy of Honduras, and emboldened more recently by alliances with Mexican drug traffickers moving cocaine through the country."[4]
Crime and economic stress have led to the migration of large numbers of unaccompanied minors to the US border. The latest data from the CBP shows San Pedro Sula as the major source for Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) migrating from Honduras."
3rd Honduras goal offside. So its going to be like that.
When do tickets to this atrocity go on sale?
Who's going to Hondu?
This shit with Ange
Any chance it just a media beat up engineered on purpose
Until these ****s confirm 100% he coaching elsewhere come mid November he has actually managed to drag the focus off the players ineptness and has actually insulated them from the pressure of the big occasion coming there way in November
This just too convenient to be playing out this way if it not done on purpose
At the moment the entire focus is on Ange Postecoglou and the players are off scot free
As for any argument that Ange's future may be distracting the players. They playing for a trip to a World Cup I pretty certain they be able to focus on the task at hand v Honduras when it roles around
This just smells like a cooked up story that done to keep the siege mentality going
Well, If we qualify he can say he qualified us through 2 playoffs. I’d give him the World Cup to see out his tenure if I was a neutral.
If he doesn’t qualify he resigns and that’s that.
#jetfuelcantmeltgoalpostsQuote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
#staywoke
hahahahahahha ive just been reading up on this Tim Cahill goal celebration nonsense.
man oh man does anyone remember the stick Harry Kewell used to get for whoring himself out for a dollar?
watch Timmy goooooooooooo
#brands
#branding
#onmessage
#content
#reach
Some bloke got fined 100k at the Euros for dropping his shorts a fraction to show the label of his underwearQuote:
Originally Posted by plague
I never heard of this company that Timmy is plugging but if Timmy gets 100 K fine then I sure they will cough up the 100k
The publicity and free advertising they getting out of this is worth more than 100k
Nicholas BendtnerQuote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
As I said some blokeQuote:
Originally Posted by StannyCFCJET
He i s a nobody
So some bloke fits
He is the Lord of footballQuote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
Anyone see the interview with Ange and Peadick yesterday??
30 odd mins at a football function
Ange is more or less happy and relaxed about the speculation about his future
Just listening to him talking about the Honduras game and things he don't sound like he going to walk if we win in November
It almost seemed like Ange was quite happy for the bullshit shit storm of media about him to continue for a month like it was actually organised
Not only that for a bloke who is under the pump in the media etc he didn't seem too fussed and seemed remarkably relaxed and self assured
I was interested in his body language etc and I think he feels quite confident of getting the job done in November
Didn't see the interview, but read a quote - something along the lines of "at least nobody is talking about the back 3 anymore..."Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
What utter tripe. Another cop out IMHO
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Originally Posted by MFKS
theres no reason for Ange to be stressed.
clubs everywhere lining up to sign him regardless of the result aparantly.
hes a bloke now choosing what situation and cash is best for him.
hes the only one sitting in the audience at an Oprah taping knowing shes about to start giving away cars.
good on him.
If we lose, he will resign or be sacked.
If we win, he will take us to the World Cup.
So you believe everything you read but not aware of the context it was said etc ??Quote:
Originally Posted by WolfMan
Ok
Ange just showed he couldn't give a **** about people speculating shit about him
Good on him for actually not buying into it
I don't buy that his scripted response is anything but damage control.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
You correctly point out I don't know the context fully, but I can't be bothered so I'll plead ignorance
For the record, I don't care what he does with his career, go off somewhere, earn squillions.
I think he hitched his horse to the wrong wagon (3 at the back and playing absolutely boring, trying-not-to-lose football) but I guess there's honour in going down with the ship, rather than mending the leak?
Damage Control??
The bloke hasn't given a flying **** about the speculation for over a week
Even now he couldn't really give a **** about it
Don't forget this is still a rumour and not a fact alleged by a journo
The bloke concerned hasn't given two ****s about the rumour damaging his teams qualification campaign, the FFA have also barely given a flying **** about it costing us a WC spot which is bizarre as they hitch the code onto the back of WC Qualification the only thing they have done was offer a press release acknowledging the rumour and none of the Socceroos players have been seen in the media talking about the situation at all
Other than two bit media pundits and social media fans blowing up this rumour to epic proportions this story isn't going anywhere
Davutovic broke the “rumour”. He is usually pretty accurate.
Anyway, it’s whatever. You can blindly follow someone if you wish.
https://ggatravel.com.au/honduras-away/
Dengue fever, Malaria, Zika Virus, Water-borne, food-borne and other infectious diseases
(including hepatitis, typhoid and tuberculosis)
Sounds enticing! :grin:
Box2Box allay any fears for potential supporters though.
https://omny.fm/shows/box2box-radio-...-kevin-pollard
Mentions supporters might be coming back with the players on the charter!
???Quote:
Originally Posted by Retro Jet
It a 3rd world country in a tropical area it pretty much the norm for anyone travelling
Same thing was in effect in Brazil for the WC
There you even had to get Yellow Fever shots as they won't let you back into Australia without them
Plus most of that stuff is the usual scare mongering to tourists that goes on to any exotic destination
I would feel safer in Honduras than I would in the UK or USA to be fair . Besides the T word being an issue the gun nuts and other wack jobs in the UK and USA are a bigger threat than some 3rd world street urchin
I spent a few days in Honduras after the 2014 World Cup, can't say I even felt unsafe when I was there but this was mainly in the "touristy" parts (Copan, Roatan Island).
Probably went through San Pedro Sula on the drive from Copan to the Atlantic Coast to catch the ferry out to Roatan. Even on that drive I can't remember anything too sketchy. However, the tour I was on did fly from Roatan to Tegucigalpa as there had been a few hijackings/murders on a particular stretch of road between the two... :blink:
Good news guys
Not only is Leckie suspended for the away game he currently injured and racing the clock with a thigh complaint to be back for the second leg
Could be just what we need
I like this because it forces Ange's hand to hopefully try an 'unknown'. Someone like Goodwin in the mix might be an X Factor that Honduras won't have a clue about or have done their homework on.
Then again..it's Ange the sauce bottle we're talking about.