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Socceroos vs Mexico/Switzerland - Pre-World Cup Friendlies 2026 🇦🇺🇲🇽🇨🇭

Watching the replay carefully for the pod, to avoid spoilers I've avoided comments here haha

That chance switzerland created in the 8th minute was pretty much undefendable
 
highkick05 said:
I mean wasn't hit with with any force so idk wat the issue was.
I thought they were a bit more open minded in those Scandinavian nations
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I see a much greater risk than the 'damage' of this incident.

Why the fuck did Irankunda need to do it at all? It was petulant and nasty and shows he can still be riled and do something stupid that hurts the team.

Popa will have to have a quiet chat with him at the least.
 
RIMB said:
I see a much greater risk than the 'damage' of this incident.

Why the fuck did Irankunda need to do it at all? It was petulant and nasty and shows he can still be riled and do something stupid that hurts the team.

Popa will have to have a quiet chat with him at the least.
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When we were kids our coach trained us in pulling the handbrake and turning away. We very rarely had a scrap with the other team. These players need a sport psychologist to avoid stupid shit like this.
 
Bbouy said:
Going to rewatch the game soon. Feel like I was so tired and therefore braindead during the game that I missed a lot.
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I've got a vague memory of the first 15min of the second half so tjsgs my focus area. First half was so stop start.
 
Keeper66 said:
Whether or not they ask them at press conferences isn't the issue. Your words were None of ours know anything about these aspects of football. I strongly suspect they do know something, and some of them possibly quite a lot, regardless of whether they refer to the terms at press conferences.

If you have originally said something along the lines of "you very rarely hear any of our journalists ask questions about those aspects at press conferences" I may have agreed with you. But that isn't what you stated.
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I know Garby quite well and Vince R a little. They both know a LOT about football.

My issue with Oz football journalists (since Mike Cockerill - who I knew very well) is their timidity. No-one has the guts to ask the right questions any more and we have so few working journos now that the power is all with the coach and the establishment. Journos won't risk their access by probing so all we get served is banal mush.
 
I think people have correctly pointed out that the opposition went hard early and tired. So perhaps that's part of our plan too. We've got the conditioning and more in the tank.

The problem is going behind. It's also interesting Switzerland didn't really sit back. The staggered line for the goal was bemusing but even then we had some good territory and they missed some passes too.
 
JS96 said:
Oh ok that's fine then. They're just using the dazn platform. The game was on dazn but I wasn't sure whether I was part of my package or in the FIFA plus section.
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DAZN is free by the way! They already have or have had a fair bit of women’s football on there, men’s not so much.
 
RIMB said:
I am a very big Herrington fan, but I have noticed that he tends to drop back further than his teammates early when danger looms and exposes our wider defensive players to attackers getting behind them legally.

It suggests to me that he has played a lot as the one defender keeping his side safe, but that can damage an otherwise resilient defence against quality opposition at higher levels.

I have always thought you want your backline in a line together so everyone knows where offside is and they all trust one another to hold.
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I thought Herrington stayed in line pretty well. Behich was the furthest back. There were a few times I got very nervous of a forward pass because Behich had them on but they never pulled the trigger.
 
JS96 said:
I think people have correctly pointed out that the opposition went hard early and tired. So perhaps that's part of our plan too. We've got the conditioning and more in the tank.

The problem is going behind. It's also interesting Switzerland didn't really sit back. The staggered line for the goal was bemusing but even then we had some good territory and they missed some passes too.
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Very good point.

They made a LOT of changes after we got on top in the second half. That wouldn't happen in a real match.
 
Mr Cleansheets said:
I know Garby quite well and Vince R a little. They both know a LOT about football.

My issue with Oz football journalists (since Mike Cockerill - who I knew very well) is their timidity. No-one has the guts to ask the right questions any more and we have so few working journos now that the power is all with the coach and the establishment. Journos won't risk their access by probing so all we get served is banal mush.
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I remember an article by Hill on the state of football journalism in Australia. Hill knew he was moving back to England then so in the article he didn't pull his punches. It was pretty concerning.

A lot of journalists have been chased out of the game. Death threats. Stone walled if they didn't tow a party line. A lack of interest from their parent organisations. Many have moved on. Why would they stick it out?

The guys that are left are just trying to stay in the game. It's no wonder they're cautious in their questions.
 
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Quicky said:
I thought Herrington stayed in line pretty well. Behich was the furthest back. There were a few times I got very nervous of a forward pass because Behich had them on but they never pulled the trigger.
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I noticed him doing it in Roar games.

He anticipates danger from wherever it might come and starts dropping to cancel out the sudden burst of speed from his opposing forward.

It means his own player, does not get in behind him unless they are that much faster. But it does come at the cost of leaving our wingbacks a couple of metres of danger zone in behind them when the opposition is smart enough to anticipate Herrington dropping and takes the chance.

To take advantage, the opposing team needs their striker to look like they are going to break through behind and draws Herrington into his defensive anticipation - while their wingback (or whoever else is running with them) ignores the backline and counts on Herrington keeping them on.

I am possibly imagining deliberate behavior where it just works out coincidentally. Someone can set me straight on that.
 
Quicky said:
The guys that are left are just trying to stay in the game. It's no wonder they're cautious in their questions.
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That's exactly my point.

It's a bit like what Trump is trying to do to the media in the US... intimidate it into compliance.

Once you're no longer asking the right questions you've surrendered to false consciousness. That's the Oz football media right now.
 
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