Hey Plague
You watching how shit Mooy is??
EPL player my arse
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Hey Plague
You watching how shit Mooy is??
EPL player my arse
Seriously
2 goals from corners??
What should be our bread and butter being big physical units that pretty piss poor
Great strike by Hrustic. Unlucky not to score there.
Everyone is skipping around it for now but our elimination from the WC is imminent...this team ain't good enough.
h8rQuote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
really poor tonight even if we were without our two best players.
luongo was awful and kruse is like a shot duck.
no shame in losing to brazil but half our side couldn't complete a pass.
So glad we've developed a whole generation of blokes who can run fast in a straight line and put a boot in bleed for the shirt etc etc etc.
Worshipping Tim Cahill instead of focusing on Cullina and Bresciano out of the '06 generation was the worst thing to happen.
Anyway at least GVE must be sitting back in his rocking chair pretty chuffed at all dem good engines on display.
I remember 80s 90s 00s when we would play Brazil Argentina etcQuote:
Originally Posted by plague
We were shit too but we at least made them work for the win
That was shite last night and you have to query Ange to his set up
Playing Timmy was a dumb decision
He not going to get it over Thiago Silva either in the air or on the ground
Why not play the young ones
As for the set up on set pieces
FMD amateur hour
The complete lack of intensity into our defensive 3rd to close and mark tightly was disgraceful
You will eventually get found wanting in Asia providing that much space and time
Doing it to arguably the most individually skillful country on the planet was stupid
Yeah but that's the problem, people were content to have a player stick a boot in and that made them happy.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
We had a moment in the sun in '06 with a proper coach and good technical players.
Then we worshipped false idols and did nowt since.
Back then if we'd blown it up like old Ham Berger was supposed to do and really follow the German blueprint we'd be 1/2 way to glory already.
Yet, again, we still at the starting line, and about to start getting lapped by the rest of Asia let alone the good teams in this world.
That being said Plague we are actually neglecting our advantagesQuote:
Originally Posted by plague
Being physical sticking a foot in are still required trademarks of successful teams
Look at those Joga Bonito boys last night. How well did they work to collectively press us with the ball and stifle our attack
The sad reality is last night we were massively outworked by a superior skilled opponent
Now the only other team who thinks that is a good idea is the Jets
The picture in my head whenever someone says 'stick a boot in' is that of a Terry Butcher or Mark Rudan. A shitheap player that has 'YOU CANT RUN WITHOUT LEGS' tattooed somewhere on their body. (Usually with spelling errors).Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
These days the idea of a 'physical' defender is usually pointed at the Juve bloke, Ramos and Thiago Silva.
I think of them as infinitely more skilled than anyone on our team.
Those blokes ain't 'sticking a boot in' they are just ****ing great players.
Those blokes all compete like fat starving kids would for a biscuitQuote:
Originally Posted by plague
When they face the elite strikers of world football as they do regularly they physically do not give the bloke peace and are happy to kick him push him bully him and make his life hell as that what they need to do
Now compare that to our blokes last night who were neither marking or pressuring the opposition in and around our box
No excuses for the lack of Mongrel in our game
Being the Asians are also lacking in this quality it should be a trademark of all our teams
Watched football for 30 years and all I wanted was to see a Newcastle team fill a stadium and win something, see an EPL game live and see the Socceroos qualify for a WC.
All seemed impossible way back - I can retire happily now.
Don't rest on your laurelsQuote:
Originally Posted by Jetmaster
The socceroos simply don't have the skill set to play the way Ange and others want them to play. Socceroos need to face reality and once again bring out the Eddie Thompson blueprint so we can start winning again. The only reason the Socceroos have had success in recent years is because we now avoid South America to qualify. Were it not for qualifying through the weaker Asian confederation we would not have qualified since 2006.
http://www.theroar.com.au/2018/01/04...-norway-march/
socceroos to play norway in Oslo on March 23 (24th our time).
other interesting bit:
Quote:
Three ex-Socceroos – Mark Bresciano, Stan Lazaridis and Mark Schwarzer – have been drafted into a committee to find the new coach led by consultants SRi Executive and FFA national teams boss Luke Casserly.It will recommend the appointment of a new coach before mid-February.
THE SOCCEROOS’ WORLD CUP PREPARATION
March 23 – International friendly v Norway
March 27 – Second Europe-based friendly
Late May – Sendoff match on home soil
Early June – Possible friendlies in Europe and in Australia’s base city of Kazan
World Cup
June 16 – Group stage match v France, Kazan
June 21 – Group stage match v Denmark, Samara
June 26 – Group stage match v Peru, Sochi.
https://www.theguardian.com/football...occeroos-coach
not really much in the article, but interviews about to start for shortlisted candidates. expect to appoint by mid-feb
https://www.theguardian.com/football...p-preparations
Colombia on the 27th.
squad!
Nabbout and Dimi in!Quote:
Aziz Behich, Joshua Brillante, Tim Cahill, Milos Degenek, Alex Gersbach, Jackson Irvine, Mile Jedinak, Brad Jones (gk), Tomi Juric, Matthew Jurman, Robbie Kruse, Mitchell Langerak (gk), Mathew Leckie, Massimo Luongo, Jamie Maclaren, James Meredith, Mark Milligan, Aaron Mooy, Andrew Nabbout, Dimitri Petratos, Josh Risdon, Tom Rogic, Nikita Rukavytsya, Mathew Ryan (gk), Trent Sainsbury, Aleksandar Susnjar, James Troisi, Daniel Vukovic (gk), Bailey Wright.
http://www.theroar.com.au/2018/03/06...cceroos-squad/
Whittled down to 26, Dimi and Nabbout still in.
Behich, Brillante, Cahill, Degenek, Irvine, Jedinak, Jones (GK), Juric, Jurman, Kruse, Leckie, Luongo, Meredith, Milligan, Mooy, Nabbout, Petratos, Risdon, Rogic, Rukavytsya, Ryan (GK), Sainsbury, Susnjar, Troisi, Vukovic (GK), Wright.