Thanks for putting it up, Brenton. Might have to renew my Psramount prescription, but we have a local game live.

Is there a team list, Baggers?

When I looked at the WC replays, I didn't really scrutinise how effective Toure seemed? I recorded and analysed a lot of data pre World Cup. Toure was terrific. Sadly, Toure played an unforced error in the last few minutes of regular time against Egypt. I thought Aus were on top through most...

Interesting looking at the original post WC tournament rankings compared to FIFA. Paraguay 34 for FIFA and 16 in WC end of tournament rankings. They are mentally tough. They came back well from their USA thrashing.

Germany are apparently terrified of playing Italy in big comps.

When I looked up the UEFA WC qualifiers, Norway beat Italy twice in the group stage. Then they couldn't qualify through the UEFA play offs. It is the third time in a row they've failed to qualify for the WC - Russia, Qatar and Canada/Mexico/USA. Does this question the calibre of the 40%...

It could well be the case, but I won't use anything unless a health pro advocates them.

All good questions and comments. Not sure we will ever know?

If anyone hasn't seen them, there are some excellent Matildas articles in Fan View re Aussies Abroad and transfers.

If Toure was fit, I'm perplexed he wasn't played? In the last year, with all the stats I've done, he is easily our most effective central striker. Aussie Scout produced stats to say that Irank won more headin duels in the WC than Toure. What I found in my stats, Toure competed against...

No. Tend to avoid supplements. The Ex Physios don't advocate them.

I train in 3 different gyms, because I train a lot. ZAP - at some ZAPs there is a posing culture. The one I go to tends to have more clients over age 35. There are about 20 Exercise Bikes, Cross Trainers, Rowing Machines, Treadmills, Mountain Climbers, which have good traffic. Few of the users...

If done slowly these are called 'negatives'. The 8-10 slow reps obviously did you a lot of good. I kept training for 2 months at a time from 18 - age 25, getting towards BPing a 1 Rep Max of 115 kg, pulling a muscle then quitting. I often did reps of 5. Then I found a martial arts weight...

At last! It must have been months to get this response, LFC! 3 reps at 120kg indicates 125kg plus for 1 rep. Without taking steroids this is serious big weight lifting, mate!

Scottish season has started early! Good on ZS.

I keep forgetting about deceleration. I forgot to count the number of Spanish players in the Argentinian and French defensive halves. Turkey and USA often had 8-9 players in the Aus defensive half as they Full Pressed and Squeezed intensively! It seemed to me, Spain didn't Squeeze as...

I feel optimistic reading this post! A few players going to new clubs don't go into starting line ups immediately though.

Depressing to read this, JS.

His performances at the WC should supersede Serie A - whose 50% of Italian domestic players cannot even qualify for the last 3 WCs, despite winning a Euro Champs in between. Colombia, USA, Japan, Turkey, Canada, USA, Paraguay and Egypt have been tougher competition than the mid- ranked and...

There are also 30 - 40 big clubs outside the Big Five in UEFA, who play a fair bit of Champ League and Europa League match comp intra-continental football. Bos's Feyenoorde is one of them.