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Socceroos vs Cameroon/ Curaçao March 2026 🇦🇺🇨🇲🇨🇼

How should Australia do March?

  • European based camp

    Votes: 7 38.9%

  • North American based camp

    Votes: 6 33.3%

  • Australian based camp

    Votes: 4 22.2%

  • Middle Eastern based camp

    Votes: 1 5.6%
  • Total voters
    18
It's so idiotic. Our Mexico game is set the day after the squad deadline but we are permitted emergency replacements. Herrington should have had the Mexico game as a final audition. I get his hype but there's a slight lean towards Geria and Rowles given their versatility. I honestly don't wish it on anyone but a few 'possibles' getting injuries will make Popovic's decision easier but he could so easily cut a few anyway.

Someone like Trewin helps with versatility but he probably isn't going to play. We need to pick people we can have faith in playing. At the same time around 18 of the 26 get on the pitch in the end.
 
JS96 said:
It's so idiotic. Our Mexico game is set the day after the squad deadline but we are permitted emergency replacements. Herrington should have had the Mexico game as a final audition. I get his hype but there's a slight lean towards Geria and Rowles given their versatility. I honestly don't wish it on anyone but a few 'possibles' getting injuries will make Popovic's decision easier but he could so easily cut a few anyway.

Someone like Trewin helps with versatility but he probably isn't going to play. We need to pick people we can have faith in playing. At the same time around 18 of the 26 get on the pitch in the end.
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More importantly, that their team mates have faith when they do play.
 
Tomorrow night I want Herrington and Trewin to start together. I want to see how they go with less leadership. Ok, put Degenek in the middle but there's less than with Geria, Burgess and Circati
 
WhatAmIWatching said:
More importantly, that their team mates have faith when they do play.
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The intent shown by Bos and Italiano being so high up was refreshing compared to the deep backpassing from Miller and Behich. So much more ovement and smarts.

Behich should start tomorrow and we'll see whether he'll be instructed to emulate Bos' positioning.
 
WhatAmIWatching said:
A few things:
1. When Burgess came on Herrington switched from LCB to RCB. I don't think that Burgess can do that.
2. There are not 26+ players expecting to play CB. Well there may well be but by the time you get to the 10th aspirant, they are dreaming. Herrington can be a useful replacement for Souttar if Souttar does not get match fit in time or if another player suffers an injury.
3. He has scored for both BR and Colorado Rapids and almost did within the first two minutes in the first quarter.
4. Although Cameroon are rebuilding, most of their players play in Europe, on average they were physically bigger than the Socceroos.
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Yeah their xi has a higher transfer value than our xi. Nothing to sneeze at
 
Decentric said:
Handling speed for a CB was quick.

Ability to play on both sides of the body - receive with right, pass with left, or receive with left foot, pass with right in 2 touch passing featured quick handling speed.

H is also quick on the turn, compared to similar size CBs like Souttar and Burgess.

H distributes well in limited time and space.
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Thought he was superb in those aspects. At such a young age I wonder if he was a midfielder when he was younger.
 
JS96 said:
Hopefully this is something identified by Popovic as Miller and Behich didn't go up very far but also passed it back all the time. I noticed O'Neill dropping to cover and our back 3 could over a lot of area.
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Keep trying to educate posters on this.

Players pass forwards depending on the movement of their teammates further forwards off the ball in opening viable passing lanes.

Or sometimes teammates pass backwards to a player, in a quick decision, closely marked in a cul de sac.

Often a back pass, with a 1 or 2 touch sequence under close marking, is harder to execute, than playing forwards when the player on the ball receives in plenty of time and space and passes to a teammate further advanced in plenty of space.

Dutch TDs Rob Baan, Han Berger, plus KNVB staff coaches, Ad Derkson and Arie Schans, tried to educate Aussie coaches and players in this, nearly 20 years ago. It still took a while for some AL coaches to comprehend it.

No player at Socceroo level passes backwards if there is a viable passing lane opened further up the pitch.
 
jas88 said:
Thought he was superb in those aspects. At such a young age I wonder if he was a midfielder when he was younger.
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Enough for mine, where he has overtaken most CBs ahead of him in the pecking order.

Kye Rowles went to one senior WC where he was quite inexperienced.

Not long ago, Herrington was third choice U 20 Aus CB behind Esposito and Kikianis. Players can improve so fast in the early stages of their career.
 
Decentric said:
Keep trying to educate posters on this.

Players pass forwards depending on the movement of their teammates further forwards off the ball in opening viable passing lanes.

Or sometimes teammates pass backwards to a player, in a quick decision, closely marked in a cul de sac.

Often a back pass, with a 1 or 2 touch sequence under close marking, is harder to execute, than playing forwards when the player on the ball receives in plenty of time and space and passes to a teammate further advanced in plenty of space.

Dutch TDs Rob Baan, Han Berger, plus KNVB staff coaches, Ad Derkson and Arie Schans, tried to educate Aussie coaches and players in this, nearly 20 years ago. It still took a while for some AL coaches to comprehend it.

No player at Socceroo level passes backwards if there is a viable passing lane opened further up the pitch.
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To an extent but I just think some players have back passing and laziness ingrained. Behich and Miller are comparatively poor to who we've got there now. In the past we had plenty of forward options only to keep playing it back. Neither Arnold nor Popovic clamped down on it.

Someone else correctly identified on here that we've had too much of a U shaped formation in possession. No one running into the ball, slow build up and against a deep block it's like a handball game.
 
Decentric said:
No player at Socceroo level passes backwards if there is a viable passing lane opened further up the pitch.
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Like Behich ignoring Mooy ahead of him against Argentina? Back to Rowles, back to Ryan and then disaster.

Hours of footage shows how our player kept passing it back when space was available with decent opportunities ahead.

The Colombian game was painful how our midfield insisted on going back when there were some big openings.
 
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