Rally don't enjoy the daily Socceroos socials with a big player pic and some headline text. Makes me think someone is injured.

Assan Ouédraogo has been called in to replace Lennart Karl. Don't tell me he's going to have the Marco Reus curse of tournament injuries.

We've known it for ages. AFC>UEFA

Bangladesh won 2:1.

German talent Lennart Karl on his way for an MRI after a training injury. Doesn't look good.

https://kingdoggydog.github.io/worldcup2026/

Got plenty of streams which should work but still waiting for SBS to block vpns

Safety first and it's always a risk but some pretty concerning information about the protocols for lightning. Something about very long delays and rules of big distances by which the storm must have cleared before resuming. Bet our Paraguay game will eat into my work day.

With the way things are going. NZ 1 England 1. Reports England have been sweating in Kansas City and media spin the players are saying its unbearable that it's actually detrimental to their conditioning. We'll soon see how teams react to conditions.

With this whole crap about 'wanting to focus on my club situation' blokes like Herrington and Velupillay are much smarter. They're at clubs where they're absolutely wanted and a bigger fish. The issue with the others is they're risking their spot by committing to Australian travel. They should...

They're both good. Robertson was only in League One for a season and it was too easy. Mid table Serie A is woeful football.

Big teams losing before but they wont care. Algeria 1:0 in the Netherlands. Ivory Coast winning in France. Spain failing to defeat Iraq. Does something beckon?

I switched it around the after a reset and got Turkey first and USA last. Was down 2:0 after 8min against Turkey because of how rigid and distance my mids and defence were. I hate the CPU just lingering on the edge of the box and your own man is so slow off the mark. If the sliders go up then...

2nd half against Denmark we really went for it and we actually we're decent against Peru but for a goal. It shows how much of a leash Popovic has us on. I hope he releases us during the tournament and we have that strong balance of defence and attack.

I just fear we won't exploit our attacking assets and it'll be a half hope flat 2018.

Hope Bozza can still make the trip to America. 2 tours with a decent line up of ex players going. Mooy over there too on one tour for some appearances.

Well I'm not sure who really put these ideas forward. If FIFA then it's an international group but it's a ridiculous notion about trying to show unity etc. The face off is the worst part. Stolen from the A League. Ice Hockey has anthems face to face.

The German article said no flags but a fifa logo only but other articles have official quotes that national flags will of course be there. Saying the circle and looking at each other brings unity. The line and being separate is a way for each team to have their own personal bit.

FFS. The anthems will now have the entire squads on the pitch fscing off across the centre circle

Played the new world cup version. Yeah, it's fun to have all the teams but even the match order is mixed up by default and needs manual tweaking. Stupid player roles diminish Irankunda's attributes of where I want to put him. Players still too rigid or never getting goal side in midfield...

Ivory Coast defeat France 2:1.

Arnieball holds Spain to a 1:1 draw. What an achievement!

World cup power rankings. A few lower fancied sides doing well in practice games. Iran look strong. Haiti and Cape Verde surprising. Uzbekistan and New Zealand disappointing. Jordan with a tough outing against Switzerland. Ecuador are highly fancied and have looked decent while Ghana seems...

One week to go! Going to have to have a really planned out schedule with work, rest, matches, rest. I won't be watching every game live.

Iraq currently at 1:1 with Spain. A spectacular equaliser with a shot from the side which would generally be a cross. He seemed to mean it. That's the difference to Australia. We'd hold the ball up and not have a punt.

Should've called him up for the world cup. Still got it.

Wow that's massive for Yemen and a surprise. Good for them. Issue is now having to play in fiend state Saudi Arabia.

Triantis bench against Sweden. Oh imagine a Triantis Robertson midfield...

Is the concern the Herrington was 6th picked amongst a batch? Yep, absolutely. It's been analysed well on here that players peak at different times and identification can be tricky but nothing angers me more than the treatment some players get and it's definitely not based on talent. Go...

Tell me about it but it's excellent cooking and laptop work noise!

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Sam Klein. I forgot St John.

Maybe better here to keep the chat flowing better in the world cup threads. SBS has been posting these. Choose a WC and your Aussie 5 a side. 2018: Ryan, Sainsbury, Mooy, Rogic, Kruse

St Pauli manager in the cusp of being fired and ex Kiel manager Marcel Rapp to come in. This affects 3 AA.

Thanks for setting it up. I'll go through the timeline when I get a chance and sort some of the better ones. The FA should be publishing these for sale.

Just build the statue already!

I know it's a parody account but I wonder who's watching him.

German stadiums don't allow containers. Unfortunately a small minority decide to throw things. How they smuggle in flares can only be down to slipping notes to some stewards. You can buy a plastic cup of beer or coke and then refill it with tap water but whether the American stadium tap water...

Due to qualifying late, Turkey had the challenge of finding facilities and have had to settle for something in Arizona. They'll be used to the heat anyway. Slightly increased travel time to games but they also have a bit of flight wherever they go.

Remember The Chaser when they went to the Polish club dressed as brownshirts and Hitler? It was the same type of people on the audience finding it hilarious who today would shriek at anything remotely similar. They became so insular that their bubble started to make no sense. Yes, it seems...

I saw the SBS logo and couldn't think it was real. It wasn't. In saying that I wouldn't put it past SBS to do such things as their own warped comedy satire anyway and John Safran did things like knocking on local's doors trying to claim indigenous land rights with indigenous people in tow. The...

Just got a timeline reminder of Japan away 2013 on this day. I was in New York travelling and only had radio and the forum to follow. It was nervous reading. I couldn't believe it when Oar scored and had to focus that we'd actually scored. The audio for the penalty saw my heart sink as we were...

Could we make a double named team? 2 Bos's, Iredale, Goodwin, Toure. Might need to get Scott Chipperfield suited up. I know there are more out there. Burgess another. Loan John Souttar.

Honestly though, what if news comes out that McGree is actually ok just after the USA game? With a correct program he may just have snuck in. We have no information so it must be a worse injury but I do wonder. Popovic should've just gone for Volpato anyway. We're not proactive enough.

Japanese emperor has a chance here! The Kaiser is shifting in his grave for a return.

Any another. It's not a repetitive obsession yet, is it? Is it?

Welfare check on NoMates?

Algeria winning 1:0 in Rotterdam will certainly give them confidence going into the tournament. A dent for the Dutch. I expect Algeria to beat Jordan while Austria and Argentina are going to be tough.

Jokes on the latecomers. I had Payne as a career mode free agent years ago!

How great for Haitians with essentially a home game in Miami. This makes their group more interesting after this impressive result but I think NZ can have a robust showing at the tournament. Egypt and Iran look alright from their practice games.

God I was reading that Luke O'Nien was in Paraguay's squad for a second. Their defence is very experienced.

Heavy eyes 10pm on a school night Big League magazine read for the 3rd time before the weekend round. Rolls eyes at channel 10's obsession with Motorsport. Some hyped up football news in the pre show then have to wait until 10:55 to see a 3 second film snippet of Kewell at an airport somewhere.

Took the words out of my mouth. We always look better against better opponents. If we just bloody played with some urgency in Asia we'd be better off too. We should psych out the Asian opponents one day and let them have the ball a bit.

The boys! How I miss these voices more regularly in Australian football but they do have their contributions. No discredit to Basheer but it's unfortunate we've not had Hill call our world cup games since 2006. Basheer does have his own soundbites from the big moments but one does wonder how...

And his is where I makes no sense. clubs for off and spend 12 million on someone because of flag inflation when Geria at age 26 for a few hundred thousand would've performed just as well and professionally. I think in the 90s many Australians went abroad and fans had no idea who they were but...

Nice. My feed is a mix of the German and English pages. 73m in total...

Transfermarkt posted most squads on facebook but not ours :(

Was waiting for our version. Our players are underrated. Good individuals under the shackles of Poppaball.

The snake that made the glass vanish in Harry Potter was from Burma. Probably JK Rowling sneaking a colonised term in!

The Cabo annoys me when I'm doing text search. It's the O. Verd it is!

Haiti beating HZ 4:0 puts Scotland on notice.

289 players won't represent the country of their birth. Look at Morocco... Okon was more a temporary resident and born there. Waldemar Anton born in Uzbekistan and I always wondered if he'd switch had he not reached the heights. There was a time where I thought he was going to.

Extended forecast of 18 degrees for game time. It'll likely be very hot some days but I hope it's seasonably cooler and we get good conditions for the matches.

So good. Looks great.

What other conceivable combinations are there besides banana?

I'm so fat from all of this and still not full. Finish work and youtube has about 5-6 things. Everyone giving their two cents and it isn't necessarily repeptive.

I mean Turkey is the English language name rather than some colonised version and this was also to do with Erdogan trying to make Turkey the Ottoman Empire again. What's in a name I suppose?

Could've gotten 3 Roos for 21,50€ but the gold glare through my closet glass is starting to replace the lamps.

I ordered his number 3 last night. Had a massive dhgate coupon. Got Circati, Scotland away and Uzbekistan home for 23€. Mental.

Oh I just realised. All yellow against USA. FFS!

Oh so now away kit games unless we advance?

At least Australia has distance and tight rules. Look at the garbage Europe is going through. All these people rocking up and being gaslit into allowing them to stay or their home nations refusing documents to return. Germany's systems used to be watertight that non citizens struggled to enter...

I'd prefer policies that target organic growth with support for families and workers that maintain a decent birth rate. Migration on the side for highly skilled workers. Migration is slipping into a bogus college scheme and a lot of economically inactive or unviable people despite tight rules...

They didn't really turn up. Disinterested in an end of season friendly. In saying that they left spaces in midfield for the goals that concerns me Irvine and O'Neill will also do.

It's been discussed a million times.

4:0 Turkey. North Macedonia have been terrible. Same type of goal again. We'll identify this with video analysis. I think our midfield is in for hell. They'll drag them wide or high and then cut back into the space.

Güler on for Turkey. So much for an injury cloud...

He had hair then too.

Turkey leaving some space in between the lines so this is where we need Irankunda and Volpato to come in. Big issue against Mexico was the moment the front 2 got the ball, our mods weren't advancing so we had no use of the gaping 10 space.

Don't miss Miller at all. He may rise again but we wasted all that time on Teague.

You got the Aaron Mooy Bolton Wanderers youth team dvd somewhere?

2:0 Turkey. Uzun and slightly poor keeping but they've got a blueprint of running down and the opponent holding off and then a pass back and shot. Devlin must start the first 2 games or we give O'Neill some kind of drug because he won't be shutting these things down.

Turkey take a very early lead against North Macedonia. A nice cut back pass after rudimentary try skilled triangle passing. It's the type of cutback ball that Irvine and O'Neill get caught watching and perfectly between the lines. These opponent friendlies aren't nice as their passing game is...

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Exactly right. The whole welfare crap yet openly stating commercials can come too. It takes the swing out of the game and we're going to have to use whatever bloody science there is to not let it affect us like tennis players do. I welcome the rule change that keeper head injuries forbid...

3 other Benfica midfielder at the world cup. Okon needs to put his foot down and clarify if he'll be in the first squad next season. One more loan as an absolute max then he needs to break ranks

Any news on McGree's prognosis?

What do the years mean? As in when they hit top form?

Popovic said the 4 omitted players will be heading home. I find it foolish in case an injury happens. They'd have to turn someone around. Rowles might be going to Australia or on a European holiday. Trust Popovic to replace an injured player with someone not omitted from the 4 if it happens.

So the USA hate being run at by the looks and are shaky in possession at the back. Start Volapto against Turkey then bring him off the bench against the USA. Irankunda and Mabil to start against USA and just have them run at the and hassle. Tell Mabil he's got 55min to empty the tank.

German kicker Australia feature. Tight publication deadlines and the digital age is here but these magazines getting so much wrong make it redundant and misinformed. I remember 2006 the news agencies had random European and American magazines with McKain starting for Australia.

Oh sodding hell! My Iranunda away kit with 7 is now inaccurate. Can I draw a silver 1 next to it? Cammy gets McGree's shirt so I have 14 McGree. I have Circati 23 from the old one. Bos 5 is on the way. So we've gone from purple to black to grey keeper kits.

Remember FIFA 2006 where the control stick would just get good movements that were the perfect combination between a human and video game? Then they marketed the fake 'total control' which was just a slow down bug under the guise of being a true footballer.

Massive dhgate coupon from 8pm CET to tonight for 2 hours. 17€ of orders of 26€ or more so with these kit numbers I may sneak a few. I wanted to get Uzbekistan as well. Fine kit.

My orange is maybe a tad lighter

Leckie can pull a muscle and Boyle can come in for all I care. If we're going to start Leckie we can enjoy the same stuff we saw against Mexico. He's highly ineffective these days.

Did he use his head?

So now we know. Swiss game I'd play Izzo Trewin Geria Degenek Burgess Behich Devlin Okon Velupillay Tete Volpato

Like with Miller being out, a gust of of vacuum has no appeared with Boyle not being included. Too bloke but all those starts against minnows when we could've regenerated frustrated me. The same goes with Duke out we've got Tete who's raring to go.

Rowles, Gauci, Borrello and Boyle have officially been omitted.

If McGree hadn't gotten injured then he's in over Leckie. Volpato was probably always coming. I'd still have taken Goodwin over Leckie at present. Also Robertson in for Geria.

That's what has surprised me. I get Degenek is there for leadership but I could only see him facing Paraguay.

Still baffled by the release time. Bloody hilarious. Popovic must have had a succulent chinese meal for lunch and just let democracy manifest itself! Channel 10 info of 11:30 was wrong and that meant a few pods were also misinformed and are probably waking up now to tonnes of messages.

He'll be there or abouts the next cycle keeping everyone honest. Degenek and Geria drop off and maybe even Burgess and there's a bit of a drop after that.

What a great release video but doing it by cap rank I couldn't have waited for the end. How does Burgess only have 26 caps? Mabil is comparatively highly capped.

4:2 USA now so they're capable of scoring but leak too.

Think about how old Herrington was when we were struggling during the covid qualifiers. There would've been some tough conversations there. Boyle will be devastated. Your reply with Degenek had me shocked thinking him and Rowles. I opened the FA article and they didn't state it but saw...

Over the moon for Devlin and Mabil! Unfinished business. Congrats to Tete Yengi. Well done Geria no one had him 18 months ago.

No black bordering. So Gauci, Rowles, Borrello and Boyle cut. So much more sensible than we'd hoped. Given his injury last time, gutted for Boyle but we kept telling him he was on borrowed time. Sad for Rowles as he's been so passionate for the shirt. Gauci will come back stronger and it...

Well I much prefer this than 3:30 am my time but didn't someone press the button by accident? 11:30 am Eastern :D

Rowles* frantically reading the list trjtng to think.

Holy shit Boyle is out!

Gauci, Rowles, Borrello and?? Devlin, Mabil in. Tete in!

This is from the official socials. 13:30 in LA. What was this 11:30 time release then? Hawaii time or something?

Squad released!

One of their goals last time against us came from leaving space. This is why Devlin is important. He'll smother a lot of those plays.

2:0 USA already.

Mexico highlights. 10min for 1st half and 4 for 2nd half. It shows how much more we did in the second and Mexico did nothing. They dedicated 10min to the first half of a 14min video.

USA take an early lead against Senegal.

Cape Verde beat a seemingly inexperienced Serbia 3:0. The game was in Portugal and now Serbia will cart themselves over to Mexico for a game on Thursday.

Fascinating look at how a robust Iceland side fared Japan away. Japan's goal really similar to Mexico's. bounce inside of post an across and in.

I'll have to give Trewin a closer look. The pass to Hrustic and there was one other good moment I'll need to see again. The pass to Hrustic by Trewin made me think that Metcalfe would be sound in the RWB position too. His roaming versatility can add a lot more.

Look at Herrington. So raw but just so calm. Experience can be important but this kid is special. Some of our additions feel like new signings. We should start Okon to see how he goes.

It's just unbelievable we're in this situation so close to a tournament. Our best will want to put in one last good show.

I don't think we need to risk much against Switzerland. Some finishing touches but make sure our best are available for Turkey. Depending on who gets in: Izzo Metcalfe Trewin Herrington Burgess Rowles Devlin Okon Velupillay Tete Volpato

Changing your profile pic to Mabil with a thumbs down will suffice. I'll do it for Behich and O'Neill if you like.

As long as the league status is maintained you can go again next year. The plan was to win something, make the UCL and use resources sparingly.

Switzerland are leading Jordan 3:0 at half time.

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