There’s exotic and there’s this to add to the palate: the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rican national leagues(both currently in offseason) have their own YouTube channels w/livestreamed matches👀

Even though he’s prob fallen off just a tad(plus he’s no spring chicken now he’s in his early 70s), I’d do most anything to secure his services once Popa’s done after the Asian Cup; Bielsa is who we’d need to improve our pool of decidedly-average players, and this video delves into how he goes...

Having said that, Jordy Bos could do a lot worse than build up his upper-body strength closer to that of say, the AFL player Josh Rachele. He needs to💡

*Waddingham

That’d just confirm what a gaggle of clueless, shameless dillwads the current suits-in-charge are.

There’s this movie SAIPAN about Ireland’s disastrous preparation for their 🇰🇷🇯🇵 ‘02 WC campaign that culminated in Roy Keane walking out on the squad; it stars UK comedy-veteran Steve Coogan as then-🇮🇪 NT gaffer Mick McCarthy: And here’s the clip of the climactic bust-up between McCarthy and...

Ideally one in the vein of the AFL/NRL Footy Shows, rather than solely rehashing Cup Fever!’s formula💡

With Popa or any coach in his and Arnie’s mold in charge of the NT, it quite dampens the enthusiasm though😔

Was def the case w/big Harry; dunno about the others.

Finally watched it last night - by the time it finished I sincerely didn’t want it to end, but it was an absolute fucking masterpiece of a historical 🇦🇺⚽️ documentary nonetheless - that “WogBall” one from a couple of weeks ago could never, by comparison. Others have mentioned this in the...

[Update] FESFUT(El Salvador’s FA) started running another of these camps in Milan for their NT-eligible youngsters based in mainland Europe yesterday through till July 19th : Football Australia, whenTF will you learn..❓😔

Not particularly😌 That said, if they resist the temptation to operate exactly as Clive Palmer did, they’ll prob get by OK(ish) enough.

Never heard of ‘em before this morning, which is prob a lowkey red-flag. Hopefully they turn out to be kosher and not Palmer/Matheson/Tinkler revisited.

Dunno about now, but back in the day Latin footballing culture used to look down on that; it was seen as a last resort at best and tactical-cowardice at worst. Successfully playing out from the back under pressure was what earned respect in those circumstances, definitely. I recall that in his...

As a nation we’ve too many other cultural-⚽️ing influences besides England/the wider UK for that theory to hold water in this specific instance.

And in any case don’t know how to use them effectively. If Popa’s confirmedly in it for the long-haul, then we can def kiss any prospect of Gianluca Okon/Antonio Arena/Mahdi Nicoll-Jazuli and now this Max Anastasio kid ever playing for us🇦🇺 goodbye😔

I get your objection to the post being AI because a bottle’s worth of water was used up forever in generating it..but that aspect aside, as long as there were no lies/exaggerations in said post then who really gives a fuck❓

It’s possible to attempt a halfway-approach in the meantime.

We still have to make maximum-effectiveness out of the skilled players that we do have, though. Let’s not have Herrington/Nestor/Volpato playing AFL with a round ball&no hands just because that’s what Connor Metcalfe does, for example.

I genuinely reckon the current FFA are too dumb for that to occur to them. Having said that, he’s not really what we need at the moment.