Opposing keeper gets thumped!

For his sake I hope he does make it. Great for him and his family.

12 points from safety and 5 games to go? Even winning all 5 does not give them a great chance of staying up at this stage.

Yep, logistics after the group stage will be a nightmare. I've got conditional tickets to Australia's R32 game. We will know somewhere between Thursday 25/6 and Saturday 27/6 if and where Australia will have a R32 match and we will be in San Francisco on the Thursday for Australia's last group...

I fully agree, it’s about giving 16-19 yo a go. But to do this various other decisions may need to be made or philosophies followed. Such as deciding not to sign as many visa players, being prepared to tolerate initial underperformance compared to a more experienced player, being prepared to...

Unless the socks are toe-socks this is just looking for trouble.

It has been going flat out apparently, and maybe some maintenance tasks have been delayed to cater for that. Delaying scheduled maintenance in an oil refinery would not be something that is decided upon lightly, but there is always a risk/reward trade-off for these type of things. Not saying...

Excellent analysis and a good read as well. While we all can debate the validity or otherwise of the points you raised (and on first read I think all or most are very valid), a detailed and brutally honest analysis of all points by each A League club (and many NPL clubs) about how those points...

Actually some of the SBS newsreaders these days are not that great with non-Anglo names. Not enough practice since the station doesn’t cover much football anymore!!!

I don’t know what the ref did disallow it for, but from this screenshot it looks like Sayer may have been offside from the initial pass.

It’s just AI crap, which has just re-selected the most recent squad and added Souttar. Not even worth debating.

Gauci is only on loan at Port Vale presumably until the end of the season, he is an Aston Villa player. By the same token he needs a move away from Villa also.

SBS News are a bit behind the times. On their news tonight in the sports section, they said for Socceroos fans to take note after reporting on and showing footage of Adrian Segacic taking a corner that resulted in a Portsmouth goal overnight :cool:

I didn't realise that living in Japan gave you eternal life.

Yep, Aussie games certainly were in the British Pools back then, even before the National League started. I recall seeing the first division games from NSW, Vic, Qld, SA and possibly WA on there. The pools were also available in Australia.

My opinion? Not an easy one, but based on the everything I know about him, on balance I consider him Croatian. Again, his opinion is the most important, and I don't know what he would say. I don't think there is a set formula (e.g., where born, parentage, time spent in Australia, where living...

Some similarities with Johnston, although I consider Vieri to be an Italian born in Italy to an Italian father, lived in Australia after his father relocated to Australia for football (work purposes) but returned to Italy to progress his football. A little bit different to Johnston who wasn't...

He was eligible to play for England in football, but that doesn't preclude him from being Australian in every other sense. I would be pretty certain that he still holds an Australian passport. Born to Australian parents (albeit in South Africa), lived in Australia from an early age and played...

Of course he is an Aussie. What nationality do you class him as?

Hrustic often does ok against the weaker teams, of which I would consider Curacao to be one. But he normally goes missing against the stronger teams.