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I would say Canada’s government is similar if not less leftist than ours but I do agree. It’s ridiculous that foreigners can come in and buy all our homes then we wonder why we can’t afford to buy a home.

Fortnite live event on right now, fuck all has happened yet though.

Sofascore says she got subbed off?

Spain with an absolute smashing of England, Germany qualify automatically, Sweden lose to Denmark, 10-player Ireland with an upset over the Netherlands. Big day! Results: Georgia 2–3 Faroe Islands Slovakia 0–4 Finland Azerbaijan 1–2 Hungary Armenia 1–1 Kazakhstan Bosnia 0–0 Lithuania Bulgaria...

I think it’s just cause we tend to have shorter contracts for only one, two or three years usually. Obviously we can’t offer massive contracts like Erling Haaland’s one at Man City (which is massive; it lasts till 2034! He’s already been there since 2022), since we’re not a top league and our...

That could get interesting given many aren’t aware of the wartime history of the songs lol. Take La Marseillaise (“The Marseillaise”) the French national anthem, for example. “(Verse 1) Let’s go, children of the Fatherland, The day of glory has arrived! Against us, tyranny’s Bloody banner is...

Greedy fucks at it again.

He’s a Championship player now.

EA really fucked up by not renewing their agreement with FIFA.

Bare minimum to make it big I meant.

It's still quite expensive and if the NPL is the bare minimum you need to make it then it needs to be cheaper. Sport should be for everyone, not just those who can afford it. Also, remember all the funding football was supposed to get after the WWC? Most of that went to footy codes.

I genuinely don't think the All Whites will score a single goal after the Haiti game. They were completely and utterly shithouse against a very similarly ranked nation.

Huge result!!!

Ironically I'm actually viewing this on PC lol, which I don't often do.

Great that they managed to give a detailed description of every single player! Some good descriptions in there too, for example here's Ale Circati's: "In the dressing room at Parma several years ago, Circati walked up to goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon – who helped ruin the Socceroos' World Cup...

Yeah, we really need to get in a coach who actually likes rotating and playing young players. Dario Vidošić should be the next man for the job. He's doing great things at Brighton and has brought in a bunch of talented players including two Arsenal loanees (Michelle Agyemang and Rosa Kafaji) and...

Thought I’d make a Tillies equivalent to the Socceroos poster thread!

I think so, not sure where though. FIFA Plus?

Crazy that a top club like Tigres can’t even provide proper facilities.

Unless someone pays up it looks like Eli Adams will be staying even though it looked like other clubs were interested.

It doesn't mean that. You can be against the idea of abortion but also not want it to be illegal. I think they’d rather govern than push a viewpoint that some members hold. And most Queenslanders currently like their government as opinion polls show, so why would they wanna make it so people...

Surely someone is, he’s one of the best players in the A-League.

Because people’s views change and it would be electoral suicide to make abortion illegal? Being personally against it also doesn’t mean you want it to be illegal.

The two Freiers if former players count.

Specifically the Arizona Athletic Grounds in Mesa (near Phoenix). They’re literally gonna shit themselves in that desert heat, that’s like a training camp in Alice Springs (which may happen if we finally get the World Cup but FIFA keep expanding it lmao).

David Crisafulli said it wasn’t part of his plan and then said he thinks women should choose. Labor still attacked the LNP on it, but they didn’t change the laws. I must say though, Ariana Doolan’s a terrific MP and a future Premier. Pumicestone are lucky to have her.

Some people on the Circlejerk Australia subreddit thought it was legit. That’s the sub where all the One Nation voters hang out.

Perth have a visa spot left then. The Glory were fairly poor last season so it makes sense that they’re cutting players.

Dunno how old mate linked some video to why we need “truth-telling”.

Labor’s still lying about abortion laws. They’re really clutching at straws.

Could make three Tourés (four if his sister counts).

Have the Catholic and Orthodox Popes fight it out for the remaining spot.

Yeah I think the thing that stopped him this time was him not playing for Mainz’s first team. If he’s good on loan at Excelsior then he’s absolutely in the discussion. Speaking of the Eredivisie and Eerste Divisie, while I’m sure Max Balard, Jordy Bos and Ajdin Hrustić should be part of the...

Yeah but look at the local clubs, especially in the regions. Some genuinely don’t even have the right facilities or can’t even form teams. I also think a lot of other things need to change at the grassroots level. One of the biggest issues for kids is the price they have to pay to play. For all...

If the funding only goes to bids and the national teams then that’s a bit of a problem. We need grassroots-level funding and funding into the A-Leagues and NPLs.

Yeah even League One would be a higher level than a lot of top flights around the world. The gap gets bigger as you go up in the pyramid, as evident by the FA Cup where you get the odd few cupsets where teams placed lower in the table or even in lower divisions beat teams above them in the...

Which is why 2013–14 was better. We improved our defending AND kept ADP.

He’s not Socceroos level but he’s not shithouse.

2012–13 was definitely worse, our defence was genuinely horrid and Wanderers won the premiership (but thankfully lost the grand final). Unless you mean for the women's then 2025–26 was definitely the worst.

Ah yeah. To be fair I'm a lot younger than 1977 lol.

They’re also nuts lol.

These are the type of people I’d be worried about. I think the players will get in, otherwise how does Trump make money? We all know how much he loves money. He’s a multi-billionaire who was a businessman, celebrity, media personality and mogul before his presidency after all.

Exactly. Greta Thunberg (who in general is usually seen as nuts) is another example that I think I missed. Went on a flotilla to Gaza but won’t speak about Iran and Sudan. Even Senator Fatima Payman once said that Iran’s human rights abuses were just Western propaganda.

To his credit, he has spoken about other countries (China, Qatar, Russia, Saudi) but he’s been much less vocal than he has when it’s about Israel or the US. I wish he was equally vocal as I believe everyone should be held to account equally. Qatar and Russia were worse than the US and Saudi will...

I think a lot of celebs are like this unfortunately. Look at all the celebs talking about Palestine (Cate Blanchett, Billie Eilish, Ariana Grande, Angelina Jolie, Zara Larsson, Dua Lipa, Macklemore, Jenna Ortega, Pedro Pascal, Chapelle Roan, Mark Ruffalo, even The Weeknd, the list goes on). None...

Of course not, but the players speaking about it really doesn’t do anything, nor does it do them any favours if that were to be the case. Trump isn’t gonna stop what he’s doing because a footballer from overseas spoke up. If anything he’d just make one of those long Truth Social or Twitter/X...

What kind of music do we listen to here?

Craig Foster’s upset that football and politics aren’t as intertwined as he thought. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-04/craig-foster-on-socceroos-world-cup-human-rights/106757514 You know what, the only reason Donald Trump’s deporting his own citizens and invading other countries is...

Babies or babes? All of them will play though, with all of them but Paul Okon Jr being starters.

I disagree, those three have been fine and Rhyan Grant won’t leave till he retires as a proper one-club man. That being said, Marcel Tisserand was born in France but played for DR Congo.

Great move if he plays!

Some underrated players in there!

Unironically three of the four goals were scored after Tim Payne came off lol.

The thumbnail lol.

IShowSpeed — "World Cup (Champions)" Number one trending song on YouTube at the moment and nearly at 10 million views. Unironically better than the official song. Shakira and Burna Boy’s has 68 million views and is the number two trending song on YouTube.

All either lacking game time and/or just aren’t good enough. Big window ahead! Víctor Campuzano sticks out like a roo’s balls here (more so than a dog’s), though he’s contracted for another year.

Legend of this club forever, thanks for all the amazing memories, Joe!

Are you on the mobile site? Works on there for me (I checked by going into a private tab).

Vulpes vulpes is the scientific name for the red fox for those who don’t get the joke.

Not sure what you mean but in French it’s called Cap-Vert (a calque of Cabo Verde, “Green Cape”).

You can still browse without an account though?

They make sense but also don’t at the same time: Cabo Verde kinda makes sense because then it’s two Portuguese words (Cabo Verde = Green Cape), but while Portuguese is the country’s official language, the main language is actually Cape Verdean Creole (in which the country is called Kabu Verdi)...

My Matchday XI for Australia vs Türkiye Formation: 3-2-4-1 GK: Mathew Ryan CB: Harry Souttar CB: Alessandro Circati CB: Lucas Herrington DM: Jackson Irvine DM: Cameron Devlin LWB: Jordan Bos AM: Nestory Irankunda AM: Cristian Volpato RWB: Jacob Italiano ST: Mohamed Touré

Except those names (other than Aotearoa / New Zealand) had historical reasoning though (and those aren't the only examples either). They changed because of the end of British colonialism and even Myanmar’s change was controversial as an unelected military junta did it (plus the demonym, ethnic...

Such a strong lineup! I’d start Cam Devlin though.

They clearly don’t manage players well otherwise we wouldn’t have so many defections or youngsters being snubbed. Exactly, that’s insane. The Courage weren’t even that good last season, they missed the playoffs meaning they were in the bottom half of the league.

On paper it sounds odd but when you think about it the A-League is ahead of the J1 League and K-League because of the All Whites qualifying and Tony Popović’s tendency to select A-League players. All 15 of those A-League players play for the All Whites or Socceroos. On the other hand, the vast...

Other than six, seven and eight that’s pretty much the order of the seven best leagues in the world. The SPL is boosted by Saudi’s qualification. The MLS is good but I think leagues like the Eredivisie and 2. Bundesliga are better.

Looks like it’s now official.

Cortnee Vine leaves NC Courage. The OG announcement couldn’t even spell her name right (they called her Corntee) ffs. Wasted a great talent on the bench for two years for her to miss the Asian Cup and FIFA Series. Ridiculous waste of time.

Yeah it’s certainly not a good democracy. Even though they almost voted him out he completely abuses his power. Turkey’s government now is more corrupt and socially backwards than it was in the past, as is Iran’s.

Germany’s name is VERY different in a lot of languages, interestingly.

Turkey under President Recip Tayyip Erdoğan (a nationalist dictator) changed their official English name from the “Republic of Turkey” to the “Republic of Türkiye” to match the Turkish name (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti), so in official contexts people refer to it as Türkiye (the native name). However...

Brisbane Heat admin on Insta: “So @starsbbl are really shutting up shop as the only BBL club in history without a trophy…” 😂

Better as in better ceiling? I hope so!

Is Avondale really that bad of a club?

I’m clearly also an uncultured swine as I completely missed the fact that we had no logo lol.

Are you a tailor by any chance?

Robbo’s still only 23! I think it shows how bad losing Nektar and Sega was though.

Actually, that’s a very good point. They don’t even have a badge or anything. Surely they coulda got MJ Bale to make one with the team crest on it.

The Italian part of my family is similar. The French part also only spoke French and not Basque, Breton, Catalan, Gallo, Occitan, etc.

Not gonna lie it’s an effective way to cut down on spending. How many times do you reckon they’ll be wearing suits? It’s not like they’re in a clown suit lol.

Ale, why are your eyes closed? 😂

By definition it is, albeit a very small one. Note that that was just arrests though.

Most of the discussions I’ve seen are about the English pyramid. Anyway my point was is it worth Tete Yengi staying at Machida Zelvia rather than go back to Livingston? The J1 League’s surely better than the Scottish Championship.

I think FUL’s referring to a specific type of fans rather than general fan culture. In saying that I suppose a lot of clubs have those type of pricks too.

Great point actually, I completely forgot about all the regional dialects and languages in Italy plus the time period where language learning was less common except for migrants and the elite (with the exception of some countries,

Surprised Dario Naamo wasn’t picked unless he’s either injured or Graham Arnold wanted to honour the players who played in the qualifiers. No Ali Auglah either, looks like his switch is still being processed.

I think one problem that might arise is clubs like APIA Leichhardt or Sydney United feeling left out given one old NSL club gets in but not others. A functioning pro/rel system would be quite good and beneficial but that looks like a distant idea. I wouldn’t be opposed to it, but would admitting...

Looking at ABS stats it’s interesting to see that while a clear majority of Italians don’t speak Italian at home (over 1.1 million Italians but less than 250,000 native speakers), just under half of Greeks still speak Greek at home (500,000 Greeks and 230,000 Greek speakers, though some would...

How do we think the A-League compares to the Premiership? Surely it’s a higher level than at least the Scottish Championship.

The reason why Nikita Haikin (Bodø/Glimt’s goalie) ever get called up to Russia’s squad despite being a good keeper is because he spoke up about Vladimir Putin’s dictatorship and the illegal invasion of Ukraine. He’s now committing to play for Norway as he’s a Norwegian citizen (making him a...

Weird decision for two bench A-League players to go and play youth internationals for Wales given the distance required to travel.

The switch itself we’ve been talking about for days but I don’t think we had a post about Fabrizio Romano talking about it (I did see it though)!

Mamma mia!

Many of Qatar and the UAE’s players are naturalised foreigners playing domestically.

How Jordan beat Korea and we didn’t is beyond me.

Pretty sure he’s changing it to “NICE” (adding “national”) now lol.

“I’m headed home” — damn right Kanye, he’s home now!

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What if he’s just tryna help the penalty taker rather than him taking it?

Nestory?

Katie McCabe to Chelsea from Arsenal. This is gonna be nuts!

Probably not start yet but maybe in the future. He should play though, it’s stupid flying him in if he doesn’t get a single minute (since he’s not a goalie).

Of downvotes? Nah that’s not a good idea, downvotes push away unpopular opinions. In spaces like the politics threads that’s pretty unfair.

Nice graphic work! AI or own work? I wouldn’t start Jason Geria though.

New Minecraft updates coming soon!

He was in the Olympics squad.

Nobody can stand Assnal.

That sounds good on paper, but they too develop academy players in the NPLW. Even if, say, Shelby McMahon (using her as an example because she's young and plays for the first team) at City, joined the NPLW team in the offseason, she's still taking the spot of a youngster who needs development...

Almost is a stretch. They reached out to him, he considered it but FIFA rejected it. FIFA then changed their rules in 2003 and he picked the Socceroos just before signing for Everton (and the Everton website referred to him as an Aussie). Pretty nostalgic to go and look back at that...

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I'm a bit late to the party because I woke up late, but I'm impressed with the final squad! Surprises me that Martin Boyle and Kye Rowles were dropped, this woulda been the former's last chance. Nice to see that Cam Devlin and Tete Yengi weren't overlooked though!

Portugal has quite a large Cape Verdean diaspora.

Can I be the French translator?

Good crowd!

She won't now. She'll have found a new club by then. That being said I do think she shoulda been given a chance to fairwell the Blues Down Under here. Oh, that's a shame. Get well soon!

Returning to Sydney FC?

Brighton really fell apart as the game went on, especially in the second half. They just couldn’t get back in it.

MARY FOWLER IS A DOUBLE WINNER!!!!

Viv Miedema makes it 4–0. Not the best goal but shows that Brighton have fallen apart.

Charlie Rule off. Brighton down 3–0.

Open goal missed by Manuela Vanegas.

3–0, Aoba Fujino, game over. Unfortunate to see every single non-Big Four team get smashed any time they get close to winning or achieving something.

Did anyone see the Socceroos NFL jersey? Hot take but I actually like it!

Malmö back to winning ways, 3–0 over Växjö at home. Courtney Nevin with a full match, Amy Sayer came on as a sub.

Brighton deserved at least a goal. Hopefully we see a comeback!

2–0 City, Alex Greenwood.

Bunny Shaw scores, 1–0 to City.

Amy Sayer came on 10 minutes ago.

Brighton playing well so far. Still 0–0.

Close game, Brighton playing well.

What a downfall. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/nicolas-milanovic-lands-aberdeen-escape-37228418

Another snarky comment. Paying them lots doesn’t make them good. As we saw this season our squad just isn’t good. We also beat a Frankfurt team that came third in the Bundesliga. Either way, my point was about him being the next Socceroos head coach, not returning as Spurs manager.

Brighton vs City on!