Actually, I like your referral to stats comparing Cape Verde. I’m keen on proactive football too, but I’d rather be competitive with...

Well Decentric the thread is called 'Poppa Out' so you can't blame the thread for not wanting to buy the man roses. The manager should...

What we are critical of is not the performances so much, but the tactics Popovic used and the way he (mis)used some of the players which...

Because if a team like Cape Verde can show fight, then playing club football at elite level is not a pre-requisite to showing fight...

Stares at you in Cape Verde. I think the point most people are making is that hiding behind these stats is defeatist. We keep trying to...

And for anyone that says we don't have the players so the manager is irrelevant then I'll do the job. I'm not qualified but since a...

I wonder how many countries without a TD made it to the round of 16?

Roger Schmidt sounds good, but he's got a job with the JLeague as Global Sports Director. Also if he's managed PSV and Benfica I wonder...

If Football Australia is serious about taking the next step after this World Cup cycle, Roger Schmidt should be at the top of the...

Better get his VISA sorted before Pauline comes to power, he doesn't even speak English and guarantee as hell he won't adopt the "dinky...

Would changing assistant coaches really be enough though? Apart from improving set pieces we also lack possession based attacking plans...

I wonder what Switzerland are doing right?

I get wanting to be the next Norway or Japan or Cape Verde but shouldn't we aim higher? We are a sporting nation. We should be trying...

I also subscribe to the school of thought that Australian players are inherently undervalued because of the passport they carry, which I...