I guess if he has done little for 6 years then sfc academy should continue to churn along

https://sydneyfc.com/news/berger-to-step-down-from-sydney-fc-board/ Interesting Hans was still at SFC after all these years

Yeah it was fun to watch for a bit over a decade where we hit a level we could get the occasional result. Hope we get thereabouts in a few years

Apparently we have an app haha Would be cool to have chat rooms during the world cup

Minimum of 5 games in a row against opponents i enjoy watching us against We arent good enough for me to enjoy watching us against top 10 nations, so I much prefer these 11-40 ranked opponents

What a fantastic opponent, well done football australia

Welcome back We have promotion and relegation now havent u heard?

Just pay my visa fees lol

The paper i linked is a bit of a joke paper by the way (its meant to be funny, i had a laugh)

you would imagine so I follow those games much more passionately than a league games, so would be good for me regardless of who qualifies

probably not a loss for the Australian team (but you never know) but a huge loss for the olyroos since there is a good chance he is here and dominating during qualifiers

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Might get confused trying to deport my mothers side of the family to Prussia

I get frustrated when I hear people say we win as many as we lose If there is battle between a big football country and a weaker one, the stronger one usually gets their man which gets their man In our case we got that with Scicluna and we probably only get volpato if they aren't good enough...

You could see with all three players how miserable they were flying half way around the world, inviting their families to see their debuts then not getting a single minute. Then you go back to your club and your agent, family and coach are all saying "stuff them they dont appreciate you". Then...

In good form and playing in a problem position Probably a chance for the asian cup if he is playing at a good level

Yep because he played for croatia u21s

Sega with an assist too The insanity of calling him and not even playing him for 1 minute in a friendly Oh well at least he gave 10 minuted to robbo

Here is Jackson Irvines last buli 2 season for comparison. No short passing or progression, slightly better ball winner and way better in the final 3rd. Almost a discount tim cahill haha

true, being in the big 5 is mitigating to be fair

Worst thing is they have ryan fraser too Whats going on in the west?

Scicluna being so good and wanderers still being so bad is pretty impressive you have to say

Metcalf and baccus appear to be below the minute cutoff but thats all the others @patjennings asked for

Robbos wagon wheel is interesting. I didn't expect his defense to be that good, but I also didn't expect his progression to be so weak? Part of it could be that half his games he has played as a half space attacking mid rather than a central mid. Lots of danger around the penaltyarea and he has...

Pretty spectacular wagon wheel from mcgree which is expected. Wins turnovers high, causes headaches in the box,lots of end product. Listed on the role ranking page as the 4th best inside forward in the league, made for poppas system

Nisbet I didn't know what to expect because I didn't get a chance to find a stream of his this year.He has had all round good performance and is listed on the role ranking page as the best DM in the league. Needs to find a better league. Probably not enough progressive passing to partner irvine...

No surprises with Irvine's wagon wheel. He is capable of very high skilled actions, but he cannot do low skilled actions consistently enough to trust him in build up. So he has low progression, (progressive passes and carries). He also has low short and medium passes because he isn't trusted on...

Devlin has to be in the squad for me. Unbelievable defensive quality which makes him ideal to bring on late in a game to defend a lead. Better progressive abilities than i thought, though only through passing, maybe worth a try though

Max baland, quite all round apart from final product. So good in a 4-3-3 where there is less pressure to compliment irvine

Eager too but drawing blanks, any one you have in mind?

Velupillay actually generates a lot in the final third without converting, which unfortunately has been the story of his career. Not much defensive contribution even for his position

Behich will be there. Barely makes defensive actions, but nearlly all successful. Good at advancing the ball at a league level. Honestly the last 12 months have been some of the best I've seen him

Here is Scicluna and....crikey I've seen plenty of players where I hope they could play straight away in the big 5 (of course, back the players every time) but I've never seen a player where they look a real chance....should probably go bundesliga 2 or something first just in case

Wyscout data for the A league is now out. Here is Paul Okon, little in the final third which is understandable for a specialist 6 but good progression and ok defense. His defense needs to improve if we stick to a 2 man midfield with irvine in there (who can provide in the final third)

He is eager to help oz football anyway he can Curious what he does

Yeah wasnt a pretty watch and coukd have been worse

That satisfying feeling of "haha look whos time wasting now" as we get revenge on all the time wasting by heading to the corner flag

Haha we win with the last second of the game The reverse middlesborough

Ill be honest the standard hasnt been great from us

Still nil all at 80 min

Australia really struggling to break singapore down. 0-0 and near half time

Looks a completely different xi

Souttar basically save Kye Rowles career here

doesn't look as bad as the pim/holger era to be fair given some of our best are still youngish.

Match day!

3 goals from open play in 1700 minutes seems a big drop in form to be honest Mind u we learnt against cameroon what happens if we dont have a specialist penalty taker haha

He hobbles off his crutches, coming on as an injury time sub and he limps around the penalty box only for a stray ball to smash the back of his head past the keepers desperate dive to send australia into the knockouts Redemption, you love to see it

Gone off the boyle....

Recognize the username

Kuol probably Also some random who has australian heritage no one has heard of

4th most likely to press high in the world

https://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/Serie-A/Roma/14-01-2026/antonio-arena-dal-pescara-alla-roma-per-un-milione-di-euro.shtml Italy sounds confident, but no direct quotes from Arena yet. Does imply that football Australia is making contact which is all they can do (though they should make it regular...

making sure I give credit to the author Lets see how it cuts and pastes: Multi-Sport vs Soccer Specialization: What the Research Actually Says Every time someone says "let them play multiple sports," the same studies get cited. The same talking points get recycled. The same argument gets...

I was thinking of John

Socceroos: Did we produce a standout attacker in the top 5 leagues of the world? No, we have a couple of big 5 attackers but not standouts in those leagues How many players do we have playing regularly in the big 5? Well take how many are capable and divide by 2 for injuries, bad attitude...

yeah if this becomes a regularly thing that would be brilliant wish they would also step in to help us with p and r haha

Fifa writing a letter to albo surprised me

Vpn then watch it on indonesian free to air tv

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/his-dad-is-a-former-socceroos-captain-but-paul-okon-jnr-is-no-nepo-baby-20260408-p5zm3o.html Agree he should be there regardless of who his dad is but i think he undermines his case by just asserting that his dad wouldnt treat him different to every other...

best xi as of April 2030 assuming everyone is fit

Used to do these on 442 to look back and have a laugh at how wrong we got things. Give your predictions for what football will look like heading into the 2030 world cup. Will bump this thread in April 2030 Socceroos: Did we produce a standout attacker in the top 5 leagues of the world? How...

Interesting comparing Younis and Segecic who are one year apart, both spent a year in the ereste divise before coming to the a league at the same age and then going off to a second tier league. Their end product has been pretty similar at the same ages, with Younis being better at producing high...

Leonard made the schalke bench half time

oh weird wonder if there is an injury

So vital he gets regular game time given our dearth of fullbacks coming through

Might need to show interest in playing for australia before he gets another start haha

Updated team of the season excluding players who haven't played much. Short of left backs! --------------------------------------------------------------Beach (2003, 7.0)----------------------------------------------------------- ----Bertolissio (7.1, 2003)-----Esposito (7.1,2005)------Kikianis...

its definitely weird how little they talk to the media

thats pretty normal to be fair to have losses year after year. In general football I've been posting the much bigger losses of every club in the 2nd and 3rd divisions of england mind you, owners are unambiguously willing to lose more money if they are in a league with p&r so I guess we don't...

in principle if owners are willing to fund it its sustainable

the average is fine, the long term trendline looks a worry

16k is rough I'd love to poll people who used to come and dont anymore and find out what went wrong

doesn't sound outrageous to be honest

Metcalf subbed on in the 68th minute

This is one heck of a claim. It is a journo mind u

middlesborough choking the last 6 games has to be studied. Just complete collapse of form they concede a late injury time winner

ball just keeps getting blocked pompey so many bodies deep inside the box blockinng shot after shot

mcgree with a beautiful volley from the edge of the area but the keeper saves it

boro seem psychologically scarred by the last month, just missing some unbelievable chances

how much would 3 games cost? participation prizes are actually pretty decent for acl 2 these days right? Wins give a good bonus

Tripple good news

Some general comments - we are more dangerous down the right flank than left. Cant remember a chance of note on our left - Brunei are defending deep in the box inviting shots from distance and fire from crosses

5-0 with all the territory to us

4-0 after 38 minutes Brunei brave to keep us out for 30 minutes after conceding early before conceding a few goals in a flurry big physical difference between the teams

match starts in an hour apparently free on Indosiar TV though i suspect we need a vpn

A few debuts: 2003: 16 2004: 17 2005: 34 2006: 28 2007: 16 2008: 6 2009: 4 Historically players who make the big 5 tend to get regular football as a u19. This season the list of u19s getting regular football are de Abreu, Mehmehti, Herrington Dobson and Eames

Id like to see him last another 4 years in europe. We are a bit weak in future keepers

auckland score just before half time after a ton of set pieces in a row

Victory using a lot of backheels to break Aucklands press including the goal been quite effective

Ai safety researchers find ai is less likely to scheme if you convert it Christianity Now how are we going to baptise all those computers.....

Fantastic, imagine the 1 two punch of olympic and asian cup at home

I think we have had a history of shorter players dominating the league and not getting a lookin overseas

Interesting work on the serbian league They have in recent times had even more emphasis on youth than the a league. But the difference is their young players are athletically elite. I dont know where thry are technically. Generating serious coin for the league tho. Where the two countries are...

160cm mantell, same height as nisbet Wonder what the best career strategy for his career is? Tilio finally getting some joy in rapid wein but its been hard, nisbet struggling to get a decent level. European clubs might only play 1 short player in their team and you are usually competing with...

poor goal keeping but great to see a goal on debut he is tiny lol, looks nimble. though

Mantell looks shorter than nisbet

The joke made sense in my sense in my head at the time, now Im trying to figure it out haha Darn kids making me exhausted all the time

This time both guests are on the forum for those interested in quizzingthdm. This is part one of a two part interview @jrvkfootball @AliG040803

I agree those were key goals and he was responsible for a lot of key moments Im just saying he would have been sig ificantly more impacful if he got the chance to play 10 meaningful games a year for the national team A real shame was we only saw 10 minutes of him in the 2010 world cup

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yeah I doubt Neill goes to ground like that against italy if he plays 10 matches a year in asia and gets used to antics go to extra time, make the semis

yeah if he is playing dm week in week out for a buli 2 side chasing promotion he almost certainly makes our squad unless he is a dual national in which case who knows what shenanigans happen :D

we really only got a glimpse in the 3rd round of qualifiers in 2009 where they were by far our most successful in that round getting nearly 2.5 points a game. By then they had declined significantly yet still were really strong 2011 also was our best asian cup away from home, most of them in...

Definitely agree with this an average player with good aerial ability was more effective for the roos than dukes because unfortunately we lacked players that could feed him I do suspect more regular international football could have seen him at another level. His best I thought was saved for...

I meant the opposite we didn't see the best of kewell because he didn't play enough oceania games to gel with the roos and really see his best. his roos performances were poor compared to his club performances (been watching them on footballia) this gets lost because poor by kewells...

You dont fewl bad for a player who did his acl just before the world cup when he was a standout in qualifiers? I do feel for him and would love this to be a redemption story but he is well down my pecking order

U17 game on saturday for asean championship

Shame that friendly is after the squad submission

Leonard training again as of 6 days ago https://www-ruhr24-de.translate.goog/s04/schalke-04-edin-dzeko-dylan-leonard-bryan-lasme-vitalie-becker-verletzung-gelsenkirchen-s04-94245191.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp

Will be missed. The den seems to have been quiet this year. Is that due to heaby handed policing or frustration with the club

Welcome to the forum Sad to hear Dave passed away What can u tell me about him

11 goal contributions in 29 games for a bottom placed team that struggles to create chances is impressive..his roos form has been rough in my opinion despite showing flashes

Metcalf always does more on replay than watching live. Unfortunately like holman its easy to miss his quality interesting to hear some good news about hrustic. I groaned when I saw him starting. He is finally hitting club form after 4 years of bad form at club level. Maybe we start see him...

the drop from grella to valeri was pretty noticeable, we struggled to work the ball forward when that transition happened. Really underrated because his shooting sucked (and people notice goals and assists)'

also being in the shadow of viduka 5 seasons of regular football in the big 5 and always put the national team first better results for the national team too, which is partly because he played against weaker nations which meant he had time to develop chemistry with the team viduka and even...

the other thing is how much you rate commitment. I think players who played in hte big 5 and still turned up against oceania opponents for farina should get a lot of credit Aloisi comes to mind?

my list would be very different depending on how I weight the ability of the player, vs their roos performance

Feel bad for boyle after him doing his acl last world cup and working hard to be part of this squad I want to want him there but i dont haha I wonder if scicluna makes it

I Wonder if what happened was an eager desire to correct a trend in oz to put too much emphasis on the responsibility of the ball carrier and they over corrected? I agree the execution of an outcome (in this case a progressive pass) can be broken down into components like handling speed...

The only benefit they have together is they are able to kill the game for long periods as they can give your team a lot of control like they did in the first half against a very good columbia Can turn the game into a very cagey one with few chances. Hopefully not our tactic but it is a tactic haha

Sydney fc having the best academy and least youth friendly xis is so weird to me Would make sense if they were 1st every year and could argue their xi is just too good for youth to break through....but they arent haha

Nope

Thats great the fa are working with you to track these players

A good thing for hope to die last to be fair For all the sports issues thr last few years have seen the rise of the championship and a league clubs forced to not pretend they are a temu epl but try playing youth. Two small steps towards better times and they may not signal any trend towards the...

I definitely read it as a sign the relationship between the fa and apl is still a bit passive aggressive Nominating the bergers is like dropping "kind" from "kind regards"

welcome to the forum!

Thanks for the kind words. Ill try trevor morgan

We can agree to disagree if you wish but players are differentiated on their ability to pass forward by people at a high level

That would unfortunately be at odds with where the game is at now which shares responsibility between those on and off the ball for progressing it forwards I havent done a uefa course mind u and can only take the word of people familiar with current ideas The challenge is to get curricula that...

really underappreciated player I think a lot of people take out frustrations of us not producing better players on the ones that are there and doing a good job. Duke managed to punch way above his weight in a very dark era for player development

https://football360.com.au/graham-arnold-nestory-irankunda-australian-football-column/ bit of optimism about the game ahead of the world cup

not sure, there is a lot of pressure to get rid of the state feds, not a lot of pressure to reform them to make it more accountable

what are the key blocks? I wouldve imagined a more streamlined voting meant better decisions and less blocks

welcome to the forum I've never seen a physically remedial player get game time under poppa. Tillio has also been sidelined. His system seems to require strong athletic talent. In Nisbet's case the league he plays in might count against him too regardless of the head coach

there is certainly more than one way to skin a cat and Victoria's system of 1 club 1 vote seems sufficiently streamlined A system of 1 player 1 vote would in theory be more accountability but might be tricky to implement

for me watching young players keeps the joy alive, but indeed we do have problems

Jake is indeed based in England, glad you enjoyed the pod! My understanding is that it is indeed standard in every country in the world to credit players for passing forward. Progressive passing is not just the responsibility of forward options to open passing lanes, but players can be...

Bump For the first time i just realized that the report recommended every player coach or ref who pays participation fees votes for congress in the member fed which would have made it the most democratic system in the world

Elo is a ranking system

A franchise is a club whose first season is in the top tier, so those clubs wouldnt count

Bare minimum you would think

What was the point jake made that u disagreed with?

Mls have unique advantages that are difficult to repeat here, 50 states meaning they can continuously expand and upoing the license cost then redeistribute the money. I suspect they continue to improve for a while yet The interesting thing is what happens to older franchises. I looked at the...

Whenever i click "for you" instead of "following" some pretty wild stuff comes out haha

We do need to eek out every advantage we have (lots of concerns over the time slots of nst games too) Its tricky tho because tv stations have a big say too

credit where credit is due after the heidelberg announcement there was a mix of opinions but unlike soccer twitter i didn't see any dog whistles for once (some passionate debate, understandable, but maybe mods have gotten better at noticing xenophobia). Saw some dodgy comments on twitter

quite a lot of debate on twitter on article 7.4 and whether that automatically rules them out i think afc can allow a 1 off exception, so fa might be trying this first to see if they say yes

Glover wouldve been a big improvement, oh well not to be

THis kind of statement is what we got with pim do we want an international manager in that case haha

Mcgree off

Mcgree with a dangerous chance in the box but its blocked

both penalties absolute gifts after boro got the lead....coach killers....what were they thinking?

I wonder why boro's form has fallen off a cliff?

that pen....gee...what a gift. It would be like a defender randomly picking the ball up with their hands mcgree gets frustrated and yells at the ref for no reason and gets a yellow card here is the reaction to the pen

Fire the boro keeper. Unbelievably dumb penalty. Ball going wide and well away from goal and the gk decides inexplicably to tackle someones legs with no attempt for the ball right when things loomed inocuous

irankunda scores, been a good day so far just need ipswich to choke and borough to return to form bennie on with 18 to go

Can burgess do borough a favour and score an own goal haha

5 goals 3 assists in less than 300 minutes of football is mad If he can play 1500 minutes or more next season id love to see what he can do

Toure doing mcgree a serious favour here

Sydney united have seriously woken up

Toure assist

Poor jones had a worse run than farrel and neiwenhof

Tilio returned and got 20 minutes

Metcalf on at 72min

Ahhhh fotmob notifications lying to me again haha

Oops lol

Izzo and ryan probably have to keep another cycle mind u

Devlin starts in a huge game v celtic

Irvine starts metcalf bench If metcalf could improve his shooting i do think he is good enough to start regularly

I wouldve though corica to be a lower level than those two, mostly benefitting from a genrous owner?

Hrustic bos and bozza start

Would male female double headers as often as possible help?

Im worried we get someone worse Would love to intetview the bakries

goodness gracious a gentle backpass from 40m out and the goal keeper somehow miss judges it terribly lets it in....completley bizzare, like watching match fixing, feel for the keeper. Everytime i watch the mls the difference in quality between the best and worst player on the pitch is like 3...

and another red lol, this time a second yellow and the fullback is sent off for colorado

some terrible goal keeping there, sneaky shot from an angle outside the box catches the goal keeper slightly out of position

herrington getting a lot of love on twitter

streams been a bit dodgy in the second half, i think a long pass from herrington set up the second goal as well but can't be sure

the counter attack results in a red card for colorado

an unbelievable pass under pressure starts a counter attack

herrington with a good tackle in the box in the last line followed by a good block he takes a lot of pressure off his team defending crosses in reading the flight of the ball and getting into good positions. He also was involved in some good forward passing and good short passing, but as i said...

Really harsh red card for colorado, I'm a bit baffled by the decision In any case, we should see herrington tested a lot league is strange, technical level is good, athleticism is good, squeezing is very low intensity compared to similar quality leagues...

And simunic would play a big role in croatia getting knocked out

Herrington starts

We dont care about his team haha

Had rough form recently Seen this movie a lot, aussie goes abroad makes an initial impact then gers dropped to the bench sue to struggling to adapt to the schedule, then their body adjusts and they go to a new level Hope this happens with sapsford

depends on whether he changes his mind lol in which case I'll delete one of these few years from now wow, so many minutes at his age in the seri A! Next Golden generation or what a flop, lol don't need him can't even make an impact

Italiano starts

New visa rules are incomprehensible. My wife is on an obscure visa so we cant figure out if she is not allowed to work or has to work