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[socceroosmad]

John Aloisi and 10-man Chengdu Rongcheng defeated Ross Aloisi's Zhejiang Professional 4-0 in their Chinese Super League game.

Australian football tentacles reaching deep into Asia! This really is an exciting era for Australian coaches. "Milligan at Man U" would make a nice alliterative headline one day ...

 

[socceroosmad]

Flying your family to your debut would suggest commitment (only to not get game time).

We can't know if the motive was for self-glory or patriotism

 

[Robbos]

Croatia should cap him in a few friendly games, that way he stays there.

I highly doubt ill see him much or at all around the 1st team. Unless he goes to another level. I.e top 5 leagues in the world.

Yes, I agree, hence tongue in cheek comment in this real gem to replace Luka comment.

While I agree with most it's poor Poppa man management that has let to this, at this present moment no great lost to the Socceroos or gain for Croatia. Unless as you say he gets to next level.
At best he was squad player for Socceroos, at best.

 

[rebelliousfeminist974]

Lucas Herrington starts for Colorado Rapids in their MLS game against Vancouver Whitecaps.

 

[socceroosmad]

Ryan McGowan starting for Livingston as captain in their Scottish Premiership relegation group game against St. Mirren.

Hey stats guys and gals on here, how many contemporary Oz players have captained overseas clubs? McGowan plus just off the top of my head (and Google AI's head) there's also Jackson Irvine (St Pauli), Aiden O'Neill (Standard Liege), Bailey Wright (Bristol City, Sunderland), Cam Burgess(Swansea), Martin Boyle (Hibs), Mat Ryan (Valencia ok just pre-season game!), Al Circati (Parma), Harry Souttar (Sheffield Utd, Stoke City), Cam Devlin (Hearts). Who else? I reckon that's a pretty outstanding leadership record especially for a non-European nation.

 

[socceroosmad]

Daniel Bennie

 

[mkxx]

Kyle Rowles scored

 

[socceroosmad]

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Kyle Rowles scored

 

[HonestSpursFan]

We all knew this would happen with Segecic. His heart was torn but he would’ve played for Australia if selected. Probably same with Triantis. Popa and his “back in moi day ya had to foight to play for ya country” might have made sense to a sh*tkicker like Popovic playing in the J league but for these guys already carving it up in Europe you can’t afford to fxck around with them. That stupid camp where he dragged Segecic all the way from Europe to sit his arse on the bench so he could watch a bunch of A league nuffies probably tilted him to the Croats. But don’t worry we snagged Suto and Karacic so it’s even stevens.

POPA YOU MORON!

Welcome to the forum!!!

I can’t complain about getting Fran Karačić and Ante Šuto as they’re both good players (and we need the latter for more depth up top if Mo Touré’s injured or gets subbed off). But yeah we really, really fucked up with Nektarios Triantis and did so again with Adrian Segečić. The only difference is Sega may never play for Croatia’s first team while Nektar will play for Greece’s first team (though Greece won’t make the World Cup so he may never play in a match bigger than a draw in the group stage of the Euros).

 

[HonestSpursFan]

Might be the best debut post I've ever seen. Couldn't have put it better.

Metaphorically scored a hat-trick on début!

 

[HonestSpursFan]

Hey stats guys and gals on here, how many contemporary Oz players have captained overseas clubs? McGowan plus just off the top of my head (and Google AI's head) there's also Jackson Irvine (St Pauli), Aiden O'Neill (Standard Liege), Bailey Wright (Bristol City, Sunderland), Cam Burgess(Swansea), Martin Boyle (Hibs), Mat Ryan (Valencia ok just pre-season game!), Al Circati (Parma), Harry Souttar (Sheffield Utd, Stoke City), Cam Devlin (Hearts). Who else? I reckon that's a pretty outstanding leadership record especially for a non-European nation.

Current or also former? Men or also women?

Katrina Gorry captains West Ham and Clare Wheeler has captained Everton (she’s basically third captain). Wini Heatley used to captain Nordsjælland till she joined Roma. Polly Doran is vice-captain for Linköping.

 

[patjennings]

Welcome to the forum!!!

I can’t complain about getting Fran Karačić and Ante Šuto as they’re both good players (and we need the latter for more depth up top if Mo Touré’s injured or gets subbed off). But yeah we really, really fucked up with Nektarios Triantis and did so again with Adrian Segečić. The only difference is Sega may never play for Croatia’s first team while Nektar will play for Greece’s first team (though Greece won’t make the World Cup so he may never play in a match bigger than a draw in the group stage of the Euros).

Don't worry though - we capped Caceres and Brattan!! oh - and the assistant's son

 

[HonestSpursFan]

Don't worry though - we capped Caceres and Brattan!! oh - and the assistant's son

Don’t forget the great Nishan Velupillay!

 

[mkxx]

Don’t forget the great Nishan Velupillay!

Nishan really helped us with the last WC qualification but Bratten and Caceres are a waste of space.

 

[mkxx]

Welcome to the forum!!!

I can’t complain about getting Fran Karačić and Ante Šuto as they’re both good players (and we need the latter for more depth up top if Mo Touré’s injured or gets subbed off). But yeah we really, really fucked up with Nektarios Triantis and did so again with Adrian Segečić. The only difference is Sega may never play for Croatia’s first team while Nektar will play for Greece’s first team (though Greece won’t make the World Cup so he may never play in a match bigger than a draw in the group stage of the Euros).

Another trick for the future is that if the players have 2 citizenship then play them right away for the last few minutes. If they are NOT then you can do like Popa did.

Im sure if we are England or at least Denmark or Sweden or Australia (2005 squad) Segecic would go back to his club and train harder waiting for the next opportunity to play for the national team. But when the value of the Socceroos is only around €50 m these younger players got big ego and got upset easily. They tend to turn their back on us if we treat them badly. They probably couldn't understand why this guy or that guy are ahead of me !!! They know we don't have much depth and losing them we will feel extremely sorry just like people on this board..

 

[Keeper66]

Alright so decent news that a few players are hopefully done for the year.

I get that we don’t want players to get injured, but the reality is that there is still 7 weeks to go until our first World Cup game, and 5 weeks until the first friendly v Mexico. I don’t think it would be ideal if we have players not playing a competitive game for that long. In the case of Toure for example, Norwich have only one more game next Saturday, and I think it would be better for Toure to get some time there ( and not get injured of course!), particularly as he seems to me to be a player who gets a bit rusty if he doesn’t play for a while.

 

[socceroosmad]

 

[Keeper66]

Welcome to the forum!!!

I can’t complain about getting Fran Karačić and Ante Šuto as they’re both good players (and we need the latter for more depth up top if Mo Touré’s injured or gets subbed off). But yeah we really, really fucked up with Nektarios Triantis and did so again with Adrian Segečić. The only difference is Sega may never play for Croatia’s first team while Nektar will play for Greece’s first team (though Greece won’t make the World Cup so he may never play in a match bigger than a draw in the group stage of the Euros).

Karacic and Suto? Karacic is average at best, plays for a low level Croatian club and is injury-prone, and Suto is a bench player in the SPL. We lose nothing if we didn’t have either or both of them.

 

[JS96]

Jesus fucking Christ, how old are you?

I used to rollerblade around the neighbourhood with a Walkman if that helps.

 

[Kitwally]

I used to rollerblade around the neighbourhood with a Walkman if that helps.

With an afro, headband, short shorts, and listening to Cliff Richard’s Wired for Sound?