Originally Posted by
The Dunster
Agree. Our players are not the sharpest tools in the shed when it comes to making decisions about where and when to pass. Moreover, we don't have a high quality player anymore - unlike in the past when we had four players or more that were genuine starters in the highest leagues.
We are going down the same path as English football only thing is they started their downhill slide from a much higher point on the mountain.
Domestic talent is now staying in Australia because of the money rather than heading overseas for the required experience. Domestic talent then gets cashed up playing in Australia and goes overseas. Then fails probably because they are either too late, or too financially secure, meaning, they know if they fail they can always come home and make a fortune playing shit quality football.
The A-league has made it too easy for kids to make a very good living playing not so great quality football. This in turn leaves us with a national team of over-paid mongs with no incentive to ever become as good as they need to be at the international level.
For the money being put into them the socceroos are terrible and it's only going to get worse. The FFA are clueless on the matter.
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