Either leave before 18 if you have a passport, or the teams have the balls to play a 15/16 year old and give them the experience and then sell them at 18/19, it's probably our best bet right now.

I just read it, excellent work mate well thought out. (y) I think this has been mentioned before in various circles but clearly 16 and below we on par with the world but after that things fall down. For context our best young talent right now, 3 of them have represented Italy (now we got...

Who is next? lol. But in all seriousness the FA need to step up their game when it comes to duel national players, we seem to be losing more than gaining players now.

How should they capitalise on it?

I wished we back ourselves more instead of tearing each other down, not sure if its the consequence of our geo. isolation to the rest of the world or our inferior complex but the fact people Juan Mata can find positives about our game then maybe we should to but we love a whinge instead lol.

Trying to follow the great Joey Champness aka JOWIC

yep agree

That's why I mentioned hopefully some new talent comes in and ultimately replace them, we don't want to experience this again with the Socceroos where we struggled to replace Kewell and Cahill.

Here is mine lol

Any help we can get especially from FIFA can only be a good thing, after all they are the most influential sporting governing body in the sport and the world.

The fact that FIFA are stepping in is interesting, clearly something needs to be done considering how much money the egg ball codes get for COE’s and all.

At the moment they are no where near close to making the top 6, I think they may have won only 1 game since the start of the year which you expect won't help their chances. For a club like WSW they have under performed for too long as well, does it help Valkanis chances not sure but they are...

I don’t think height is a major factor in the end it all comes down to performance at their clubs, it’s not easy for Australian players once they move to Europe anyway but the pressure to perform is a lot higher in Europe.

Never head of him but this Mantell kid looks like a natural playmaker always showing for the ball good to see a-league club back a youngster in a key position on the field instead of relying on the usual experienced player. Good talent nevertheless and a well taken goal. Do Brisbane stick with...

More like the Olyroos than the Socceroos at this stage, still it's a strange move to do this so early on in he's career.

Maybe he was trying to get Arnie’s attention lol

I don’t normally talk about referees, but the refereeing standard this season looks to have dropped off. Sakai should have got a red card but somehow it was given as a yellow card even with VAR as an option.

He will not take the job because their cattle isn’t good enough anymore lol

Well done to Iraq and Arnie, what a fantastic achievement!

They would be daft to wait for Italy, when Australia has been in every World Cup since the last time Italy even won it, but it’s their choice so who cares now lol

It’s crazy to think kids would have not seen Italy ever at a World Cup and you tell them they won the world cup 4 times they would not believe it… If this is a not a wake up for Italian football then I don’t know what it is, they should be learning from the likes of Germany, France, England and...