Random volpato footage in my youtube feed A goal and an assist for roma 3 years ago

A surprising amount of time is spent in political discussions is whether people are correctly labelling themselves on the political spectrum haha

We do seem to finish games the stronger, maybe due to poppas emphasis on conditioning

yeah not much between the sides

mind you there has been an interesting habit of the dominant team putting the cue in the rack in the 3rd game Germany losing to ghana in 2010, France losing to tunisia in 2022 are examples I can remember

to be fair i think attack was a big weakness at the 2018 world cup Peak leckie, Nabbout and post acl kruse stuggling for minutes in buli 2 were our front 3 rogic behind a good asset mind you

With irvine going down all of our central midfield options will be in similar quality leagues next year and easy to compare. Robertson had a season in the championship and did very well that season despite his team being relegated. Similar to balard and oniells best seasons at a similar level...

Mexico flog serbia 5 to 1!

Unfortunately the best ability is availability if you take injury into account robbie kruse is a better winger than bresciano and emerton

wait, I know this is a banter back and forth but is this real, you guys have paid the 15 mil?

Welcome to the forum. I like to think we are a forum where u can be dissillusioned and still enjoy the game :D

Iraq draw

https://football360.com.au/socceroos-fifa-world-cup-tony-popovic-who-is-he-australia/

Iraq 1-1 at half time. Spain look good, but not putting iraq away at the moment

Anything interesting?

Football Australia made 140million, thats more than rugby australia made in 3 of the last 4 years Revenue can clearly get better, but we need to fix what we spend on

Brilliant article once again from Samantha Lewis would love to have her on the pod, but can't get in contact (I tried a publicly available email) I was pretty furious watching that agm, but its perfectly predictable with our current governance structure.

Dala lama out of the world cup. Huge blow! Who will replace him at goal keeper? I hear the pope makes lots of saves

In the end its a football forum, not a political forum. I don't think many mods go into that thread, but if any forum rules are violated (whether left right or centrist) mods do their best to deal with it within a day or so

Bosnich had a pod where he was calling out "negative people" in the media when it comes to the roos approach saying "you know who you are" I was worried he was talking about us haha

Glad you had that reaction haha, I was feeling self conscious it was the only podcast with some periods of negativity

apparently you can get more financial details from asic if you pay 50 dollars....could make interesting reading...

I'm glad more people are digging into our governance system It wasn't the first time I have seen the finger pointed at the zone system as killing democratic accountability

https://notthefootyshow.ashleymorrisonmedia.com/are-the-answers-football-australia-is-looking-for-in-the-crawford-report/

Interestingly league 2 is still hoofball. I saw stats of games jake holman was left out of, some had 200 aggregate passes

How many go on that thread?

Probably all of them will play, volpato and herrington also very young

Curious how to watch these games? Mwgmeti might be the only striker to rival mo toure and arena for ceiling

If u say enough braggy statements maybe it stops being motivating. Would need to use a small font size to fit everything in the dressing room at this stage. Keep going at this rate and the playets wont be able to read it

Screw it you should just pay the 15 mil, WIth the cost of livibg crisis thats practically the cost of 2 middies right?

haha feel free to spread the word

Inside scoop: South Melbourne pretended to fire Sinas in order to give green and gold podcast that got 1k views

If we want to elicit a bunch of red cards we could try an even more inflamatory name "Please rise for the national anthem of Constantinople belongs to the Greeks"

I guess canada already call us that

we should insist on an extra syllable Australia-aye?

Yeah a league era

Definitely in a couple of years but not yet imo

Macedonia had 40 percent possession actually

You really need to auction one license a year to the highest bidder to do that Wun and macarthur werent technically a mistake from a cold blooded view, mls have sold some duds but still walked away with the license money after the club crashed The buggest mistake was saying the license needs...

hopefully its part of the haggling

5 players around the 10 mil mark. Hopefully 10 by 2030

I didn't anticipate that we would only select 4 specialist cms

apparently 3 places haha

if you are apl do you take avondale if they are willing to pay 15mil or south melbourne for cheaper?

ketchup and gravy coloured tie it is then

I'll home knit a suit when I win the noble prize and try not to get sauce stains on it when I eat lunch before the ceremony

yeah even home made suits look classy to me

we have numbers for how much streaming has increased

yeah that would surely be a sticking point if APL have no flexibility

If south remain a members based club and get a license....that means they get some congress votes right and members of south get to pressure their club to pressure their board for p and r?

Interesting the sums might work out pretty well compared to a franchise I expect 6k minimum average extra attendees. At 50 per attendee in food and tickets thats around 4mil a year. Apl distribution is 500k. Sponsorship and transfer revenue likely 1.5mil a year extra Expenses are an extra 500k...

Middle eastern teams have a big home ground advantage too

Crap a typo haha

Yep their best form in their careers so far

Age cutoff: must be born after 1st of January 1988 to qualify as A league era as this would mean they never had a chance to play nsl as an over 18 player. Choose which year you are plucking the player from ----------------------------------------Ryan...

hopefully a sign our opponents will be just as sloppy with their scouting

He hasn't aged a day

Welcome to the forum! This is our 2nd most experienced squad then after 2010? I suspect we get 12 first timers next time, a lot of young players in the squad

He has had quite a lot of errors for his country though, I'll go through it later when I have a chance but a lot of the goals we conceded in wcqs were from a mistake of his

that wouldn't be unusual we probably use 20 of the 26 players max

interesting video that has 2022 as our pivot point, when we decided that excuses don't count we were going to win anyway

would love a rumour if anyone knows anything

Ill make a point to watch some old games to see if he does anticipate and join a dual if a player is already marked in a set piece situation I think burgess has a pretty big error rate for the roos (not that he is a bad player, he is very good, but errors leading to goals or chances isnt...

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hopefully they can now double team arena with socceroos propaganda everytime they play roma

I disagree, Herrington was marking number 11 and in a line with circati and souttar, there is no way of anticipating O'Niell racing forward and leaving his man who was being man marked

the goal scorer was one of their shorter players and was marked by one of our mids with the main threats covered by souttar, irvine, herrington and circati. O'Niell misjudges the cross and races forward leaving his man

we might use him in 2nd halves against tired legs. Seems to be the pattern so far His height probably prevents the goal (since it was O'Niells man)

Now he is a roo he needs a bogan nickname, Vozza?

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Yep this We shouldnt use the asian cup as world cup prep and view it as our most important tournament An olymoic medal is probably possible too and i wish we took that more seriously again

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Yeah degenek is solid in his positioning but makes it hard to play out

Its been interesting, if our midfield get replaced by younger players in the next 2 years we will have technicians in all outfield positions. Curious if we see a change of style from poppa soon, irvine has only a year or two left at this level u would think

Usa have serious speed, able to get behind even against teams sitting deep Need to get pressure on those through balls to cut them off at their source

Like a game of afl now, who needs defense as usa concede and its 3-2 Pulisic is genuinely frightening and they have serious pace but the usa loom really vulnerable

Var would have been tight on the offside

I guess the most interesting example is kye rowles Was really good against peru and in qatar, still young enough he looked like he could go to another level. He has improved a bit since then but despite being at his peak is no longer good enough because herrington and burgess have overtaken him

Gee i feel for boyle, was our best player last time but did his acl Now he is well behind because our options have improved Shows how quick football can move. No one here knows if they will get more than 1 world cup. We might improve again and leave them behind

Boyle i think?

So boyle, borello degenek and gauci cut Actually pretty sensible! With those cut players well of course

Looking at pulicics resume, there is an argument he is better than kewell Started at a high level when a year younger, more succesful when going to a top epl club

Senegal pull one back, 2-1 SHould be 2 all with a good pen shout waved away Both teams really open at the back but with electric attack

Two really good goals Gotta make sure there arent gaps between the wing backs and cbs and we can transition from a mid block to a deep block quickly enough

USA's first goal looked pretty darn hard to stop. Will be a really tough opponent, a really impressive goal I think watching the MLS I've never seen a league emphasis speed as much. They are really soft at the back, would have given away a soft pen if var was active 12 minutes in

yeah not sure either

@DandyCasey ask you shall recieve

Watching usa v senegal for some intel

Very different style of player

Serbia 3-0 down against cape verde!

Looking at our xi v japan at home there were only 4 starters in that team that started last night It can feel like the youth are taking over slowly but it has actually been a pretty quick flux in players

Yeah it will literally be the first chance to play our best xi since wc qualifiers, and our best xi has changed a lot since then

I think plan a needs a lot of work still and we should go a full strength xi

Not a lot of rb talent coming through so need every prospect we have to reach their potential Dylan leonard played 10 minutes at right back

Cape verde open the scoring against serbia

I think if it came between a choice between a continental trophy and winning 9th instead of 17th id take the trophy League places arent as important to me if it doesnt lead to either winning the league or ar least getting something concrete out of it (like a champions league place)

That's true So far it hasnt led to pile ons tho Im curious what @Pasquali and the mods think