I have received an email regarding voting for players for the above mentioned awards. It would appear that there is no awards night again this year, awards will be presented at halftime at the grand final. If this is the case then it’s a further indication of professional football going on a...

The next FIFA windows are June and October so we should see how committed Montemurro is to developing a refreshed squad for the next World Cup. Judging by the recent friendly games he will be keeping the core of the squad and then giving a couple of players a few minutes. Hopefully he looks at...

I don’t think the media would have a direct influence on selections but hopefully they can be a ‘weather vane’ for conveying fans concerns to the football hierarchy.

I would have thought that neither Kenya (#128) nor Malawi (#153) would be a difficult opponent so giving newer players in the squad more time on the pitch was the reason for choosing to play these teams. I hope it wasn’t to allow older players to rack up milestone appearances and/or goals.

It seems like Montemurro is hoping that the ‘older players’ will stick around for the World Cup next year and he will tinker around for edges with the rebuilding of the a new squad.

Has Rosich said anything about the ALW building on the successful staging of the Asian Cup. I note that Football NSW are talking about establishing an infrastructure fund for NSW but I haven’t seen or heard anything from APL regarding the issue of the professionalisation of the ALW. Football...

Gomez and Nash too.

It seems that we are adopting the North Korean system where a player gets promoted after they have completed their agricultural duties. 😳

They will probably be deported to some place in Africa.

There won’t be any dual nationals allowed to represent Australia when Pauline becomes Prime Minister only dinki di’s and preferably white. We will become a mono ethnic country again. Of course descendants of ten pound poms will be exempt. 😳😲

Indi dos Santos and Willa Pearson will be banging goals in for fun.🤩

Dream on.😂

Having just rewatched the game against North Korea I will give my thoughts. Our defence was poor at ‘man marking’ although they dealt with Korea’s physicality well, our goalkeeper was ‘shaky’ although I don’t think she had much confidence in the defence. In midfield I thought McMahon and Younis...

They won’t hear you, they live in a bubble. 😟

Complete silence on all of these things.

I don’t know if it was nervousness that caused so much poor passing but there were far too many turnovers. Most of the players have played in age tournaments before so it shouldn’t have been a reason. It’s something that coaching staff will have to work on.

They are a more skilful team with a better technique and are probably fitter all due to their highly intensive training from a young age. They are a physical team and like to disrupt the flow of the game, all of which Australia found difficult to deal with.

I disagree, the development system needs a massive overhaul as Joe Montemurro has pointed out. It’s very ad hoc and coaches get very little time with squads prior to tournaments.

Hopefully it will get that if the measures Joe Montemurro wants are put in place but we’re probably looking at a decade before we see that coming to fruition.

Poor coaching too, maybe.