Wow! He’s a movie star now!

Tuckerman is a great writer (he writes for Football360 now). Can you please post his article? Thanks

Don’t disagree with any of that. I’m curious, let’s say Greece are playing Australia like the friendly at the MCG 20 years ago. What are your feelings/thoughts? Not having a go, just don’t personally have that experience as my background is a whole bunch of different countries/regions.

Yiqiyi springs to mind, but I’m sure there are others.

Got nothing against any of that. Also hope NPL and Australian Championship crowds grow. I’m an Aus football fan. Understand the hate for the A-League and that we are all not supposed to support it, but Aus football needs a successful top flight league. Unfortunately NPL ain’t that.

Asking for a friend?

It’s like the Chinese equivalent of the free to air ABC/SBS tv channels but with 12 (15? More?) channels.

To be fair CCTV is free to air not cable.

Not gloating at all. Context and facts right? No it’s not 61,000 but even a “shit crowd” of 16,000 it’s still 4 times what is considered a good NPL crowd right? The road is long………..

Don’t bother. Boring as. No reason to go there unless you’re collecting passport stamps.

Apart from Johor (JDT), the standard of the Malaysian League is worse than Singapore I would say.

I’ve been to Brunei many times. The airport only has 8 gates in an octagon shape. Has to be one of the smallest international airports in the world. Royal Brunei Air used to have flights from a few cities in Australia, now I think only Melbourne. I used to fly down to Sabah cheaply from China...

I’m all for supporting the rise of women’s football but what I don’t understand is how there’s a Home of the Matildas and a Sam Kerr Centre, but there still isn’t a Home of the Socceroos or a Tim Cahill Centre? How has that come about? The Socceroos have now qualified for 7 World Cups and the...

Multiply that by 4 and you’d have the same crowd as at the poorly attended match between Western Sydney Wanderers and Sydney FC…………

Only 40% more people and you’d have a bigger crowd than Perth! Keep up the good work!

FIFA Rankings 1) Australia 27 2) Haiti 83 3) Curaçao 82 4) Cape Verde 69 5) New Zealand 85 6) South Africa 60 ELO Rankings 1) Australia 26 2) Haiti 77 3) Curaçao 90 4) Cape Verde 72 5) New Zealand 68 6)...

First saw Younis playing in the Australia Cup in 2024 against Brisbane Lions. He scored and was impressive. Still impressed every time I see him play. Definitely a future Socceroo, but this WC probably too soon.

I’ve heard most away trips to Asia can cost the club up to $100K (Japan/Korea/China obviously more expensive than SE Asia), so how can Bergers realistically afford that?

You were only off by 10k or 266%, LOL

Was there a big difference in skill? Or were the North Koreans just a lot fitter?

Interested to hear what you thought of Brunei DPMM. Apparently they pay the airfares and maybe accommodation of visiting match day teams and are supposed to be quite crap.

Your Italian is better than mine. What does it say?

There’s a cup final between Sabah FC and Penang on the 19th of April in Kota Kinabalu. Dylan Wendel-Halls (formerly Brisbane/CCM) has been on fire for Penang with 12 goals, sitting equal 4th in the Golden Boot. Sabah have Kiwi Dane Ingham (formerly Newcastle Jets), Dean Pelekanos (formerly WSW)...

Not sure about this 11 years thing, maybe that was a lot earlier in the season? In 2013/14 they finished 6th, 2014/15 5th, 2015/16 3rd………Apart from last season, the last time they finished outside the top 10 was 14th in 2003/4. I know you’re not talking about the end of the season, but it’s hard...

It’s a lifestyle thing. When I’m back in Australia I end up spending time in the sun (with suncreen and a hat), but when I’m in Asia (mostly Malaysia) I almost never go in the sun unless it’s 7am or 5/6pm.

I’m not against it. I’m all for it.

It’s Friday so you’ve been on the scotch and cokes all afternoon/evening and now you’re being argumentative?

They were in the 2025 Australian Championship, yes they didn’t win it. But they did finish runner up in the Australian Cup. Having an NPL/Australian Championship team in the ACL2 promotes both the Australian Championship and the NPL. Imagine some kid in Asia thinking who is that team that I’ve...

You got me again……….

As exciting as it would be to see South in Asia, that isn’t the case (yet). Let’s go back to the original situation, which was Bergers somehow being put forward by Football Australia as runner-up to Newcastle in the Australia Cup (who may qualify twice as A League Premiers and Australia Cup...

But he didn’t play for another country’s senior team. And as LFC said, in those days clubs played hardball with releasing players. And there are stories, not sure if true or not, that players sometimes paid for their own flights, that’s how broke and poorly run Soccer Australia was. Simunic and...

I also didn’t know much about Yazbek until I saw a highlights reel (I think on one of the threads here) of him shutting down Messi. It was very impressive.

Mono is projecting again……….

I’m not so sure about that. Are you? As passionate and patriotic fans we love the World Cup but it’s well-known by players and fans that the UEFA Champions League is usually a higher standard of football than the World Cup, even before the dilution to 48 teams. Professional players generally...

Johnston played youth football for England, never senior football……..

I meant that the FA want to raise the profile of the Australian Championship by having Heidelberg compete in Asia. Not everything is about SMHELLAS you know? 😀

He was only in China for 18 months and he still played for Italy while he was playing in China. He’s 33 and played senior football in the Serie A for 15 years, so he’s had a lot of chances to impress but still only 33 caps. Good on him for trying, but probably not quite good enough. As you’ve...

Yeah. Hope it’s Alonso!

The answer is…………The Australian Championship!

Respectfully disagree with both LFC and Pat Jennings. Look at the USMNT squad, they have so many players playing in the Top 5 leagues right now: Balogun - Monaco, Weah - Marseille, Aaronson - Leeds, Pulisic - Milan, Tillman - Bayer Levekusen, Weston McKennie - Juventus, Reyna -...

Quite striking the number of “boutique”/appropriately-sized stadiums!

Really like your current first-choice team. Robertson is unproven at international level, but then he also hasn’t been given the chance to prove himself. It’s interesting the large number of players who are injured/changed allegiances/not getting game time/lost form etc: K. Yengi, C.Goodwin...

His mum is Indonesian. Born in Hawaii so also possibly eligible for the USA?

The 3 minute YouTube highlights package really is 80-90% Irankunda highlights…….

True their contracts were not renewed, which is quite surprising considering the Asia Cup win. The Japanese FA said there was a perceived “lack of passion”, a “lax coaching style”, and “cultural differences”. “Officials felt his approach didn’t meet the high standards necessary to win major...

Were they invited to compete? Only ask because Aus national teams don’t often play in ASEAN tournaments.

And perhaps even taking into account a much smaller city population, only 2 AFL teams versus 1 NRL team and 10 AFL teams?

I doubt Austria will be lame with Ralf Rangnik’s gegenpressing or whatever it’s called these days.

Didn’t Milligan come incredibly close to transferring to Crystal Palace only for Melbourne Victory to block it or something? It was 2013

Photoshop? That one looks like a proper Socceroos shirt.

Luongo is injured and D’Agostino plays for Brisbane Roar……..

He’s lived there maybe more than 5 years

He’s an Aussie………