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rebelliousfeminist974 said:
Even though Alex Robertson has been promoted to the Championship with Cardiff City he hasn't actually managed to get game time at that level yet.
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Yeah, he has, 35 appearances in fact according to Wiki. Cardiff were in the Championship in the 24/25 season and Robertson was playing with them then.
 
This feels like Popovic making a statement with Robertson's omission. By sitting on the fence and not committing to Australia during the qualifying campaign, it may have ultimately harmed his chances of making the final squad.

I appreciate that Popovic took a different approach with Volpato, but McGree's injury created a need that made his inclusion more valuable and easier to justify.

My hope is that this decision has the desired effect and motivates Robertson to return with a renewed hunger to force his way back into World Cup contention for 2030. Ideally, he makes himself available for the upcoming Asian Cup and World Cup qualifying campaigns, because I believe he could still technically switch his international allegiance again before the 2030 World Cup.
 
Monoethnic Social Club said:
Yeah, your probably right. Herrington, O'Neil and Trewin are the MLS saviours of football, we don't need any others.
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Harrington is 18 years and potential to go much higher.
O'Neill Trewin, Triantis, Yazbeck, Ballard, Baccus, Devlin, and 1 or 2 others are all about same standards, we produce a lot of these type of players, we dont produce a lot of Volpato or Irankundas.
 
hogie said:
This feels like Popovic making a statement with Robertson's omission. By sitting on the fence and not committing to Australia during the qualifying campaign, it may have ultimately harmed his chances of making the final squad.

I appreciate that Popovic took a different approach with Volpato, but McGree's injury created a need that made his inclusion more valuable and easier to justify.

My hope is that this decision has the desired effect and motivates Robertson to return with a renewed hunger to force his way back into World Cup contention for 2030. Ideally, he makes himself available for the upcoming Asian Cup and World Cup qualifying campaigns, because I believe he could still technically switch his international allegiance again before the 2030 World Cup.
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Again I like Robertson, hope he develops next year in championship, but dont compare Volpato serie A player to Robertson league one.
 
hogie said:
This feels like Popovic making a statement with Robertson's omission.
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I think it's a lot simpler than that. I think Popovic felt he had better players available in his position.

NB: I can't comment on if I think he should be in the squad or not. I don't watch League 1 football and have only seen him for the 10 minutes or so he got in Melbourne where he showed me enough to know he isn't useless but didn't really have the chance to show what he can do or if he is better than other options.
 
With irvine going down all of our central midfield options will be in similar quality leagues next year and easy to compare. Robertson had a season in the championship and did very well that season despite his team being relegated. Similar to balard and oniells best seasons at a similar level, but being younger he has more upside. He might find it difficult to break in unless he stands well above our other options since combination with irvine is a factor in the near term
 
Everton were looking at Robertson a couple of years ago, before he proved beyond doubt he was an Australian footballer and promptly got himself injured. I think Robertson has a very high ceiling and we'll see his class next season if he strings together a good run of games in the Championship.
 
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 opt for clubs that couldn't do without them. Robertson needn't have carried on this way as Cardiff knew how important he was. Again it was probably whispers in his ear.

We need more blokes like Emerton who came in every single window rather than the picky types.
 
jas88 said:
www.portsmouth.co.uk

'No-brainer': Pompey urged for Adrian Segecic positional change to help him flourish

The Croat started just twice in his favoured position after November, with Conor Chaplin preferred
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Robbo's dad is his mentor? Is he the one behind the Croatia change? Is he been behind Alex not registering for Australia this whole time?

Why wasn't jedinak mentoring him? Wasn't he based in UK? Wtf is going on lol
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That’s disgraceful if a Socceroos’ dad is telling two Socceroos to go and play for other countries. Get Gianluigi Buffon over there. He got Ale Circati to play for us.
 
Gianluca Okon-Engstler played the entirety of the Italy under-17 side's 1-1 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final draw with Belgium's under-17s after extra time, converting his penalty in the subsequent penalty shootout which they went on to win 4-3 in.
 
Monoethnic Social Club said:
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What does Cristian Volpato bring to the Socceroos?

After 5 years of conjecture, Cristian Volpato has committed to the Socceroos and will (almost certainly) go to the World Cup.
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Yes, I'm aware you're talking about Volpato. I just can't get my head around why your observation that he only started 11 matches a season is relevant to (i) him being good, (ii) Robertson finding league one easy, and/or (iii) mid-table serie A being woeful. Enlighten me.
 
Toebash said:
Yes, I'm aware you're talking about Volpato. I just can't get my head around why your observation that he only started 11 matches a season is relevant to (i) him being good, (ii) Robertson finding league one easy, and/or (iii) mid-table serie A being woeful. Enlighten me.
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It was a worried response to JS96 commenting that mid table Serie A was woeful.. If it is so woeful then, by extension, a player for a mid table team who ONLY got a starting XI place 11 times last season and has clearly been frozen out of the new Italian rebuild may NOT be the world superstar we are all praying he will be...
 
Monoethnic Social Club said:
It was a worried response to JS96 commenting that mid table Serie A was woeful.. If it is so woeful then, by extension, a player for a mid table team who ONLY got a starting XI place 11 times last season and has clearly been frozen out of the new Italian rebuild may NOT be the world superstar we are all praying he will be...
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The majority of those starts also happened because Domenico Berardi was either injured or suspended. Unless Volpato can establish himself as a starter next season he should probably leave. ~1,200 minutes is not enough for a player of his age.
 
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