Unfortunate really as a forced omission against Brazil will allow us to try someone else. We get good reliability out of O'Neill and Italiano and I think both have a solid understanding of Popovic's system. Playing them in every single friendly is pointless.

Should probably go elsewhere as the coach fancies others but the system isn't exactly working. He's getting a full half tonight so a bit of progress.

Even the big world cup hype is left to be enjoyed by the other codes and people are so fickle they all disappear afterwards. A big issue with football in Australia is the eventism and the ad hoc nature of shared grounds, closed league and a stupidly long off season. Out of sight, out of mind.

49ers have arrived. It's sherrin time!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2027_AFC_U-20_Asian_Cup_qualification#Ranking_of_second-placed_teams I simply can't calculate as yet. If we lose or draw to Indonesia and Malaysia win by a decent margin against Laos we don't qualify. Tie breaker is H2H.

Mooy's EPL stint eclipses them all. The guy was a beast.

For 3rd keeper I think so. Good bit of exposure.

Neill needs to s Massive storm over Vientiane by the looks.

Rough past 2 games in a conceding sense but all about learning at better levels.

Bit of rotation fine with a mid week game after Sunday. Cup on weekend.

McGree starting.

Sep 1 is generally the cut off for nice things. We got in early this season.

Pre game posts and articles should state where the game can potentially be viewed.

Burgess out for the season.

What's wild is Souttar was on loan at Fleetwood in League 1 and too brilliant world cups later he finds himself in that division as a prisoner. Leicester bolstered overnight with some experience to go hard for promotion but that is a disgusting injustice he got kept there. Faes, Okoli still...