What the fuck are you talking about, Albo has done plenty of things that he believes in even though they were electorally unpopular.

The ballboy scores!

Italiano got 89 minutes for Grazer AK in a 2-1 win. They’re looking fairly safe now.

Dunno if I’m missing something, but looks like neither Hrustic or Bozinovski are in the match day squads?

He’d need to play either 4 qualifiers or 1 World/Asian Cup game. I’m not concerned at all at this stage, a couple of decent games in the MLS isn’t going to put someone on Germany’s radar.

Want them to go down tbh. Will be better for Matthew’s and Waddingham’s development.

I agree with this entirely, but just making the point that their surnames and ethnicity also aren’t what failed them.

Oh come on. Williams was never going to play for the Roos and Chipperfield was born and raised in Switzerland and has played for them since u15s. I don’t have an issue with us “losing” players like that, because we didn’t produce them. Someone like Strahinja Erakovic (who I suspect has the kind...

They beat us last October and we’re ranked 27, so at least one win against a Top 30 nation in the last 2 years. EDIT: They also beat Uruguay 5-1 last November, so not really sure why you think they haven’t beat a top 30 side in 2 years?

One of them paired with Irvine? In that case, I think Okon might be a better choice because he’s better capable of progressing the ball. However, I also disagree with Popovic’s choices and would far prefer a midfield three, particularly given that’s where a lot of our talent is. Balard and...

Fair enough. Who would you start instead?

I didn’t really expect to be saying this 3 months ago, but does Okon Jr start next to Irvine in the World Cup? He’s come from absolutely nowhere, but every time I’ve seen him play for the Roos and for Sydney FC he just looks better than all the other options. His technique with ball at feet...

Thought the same. Tough being so isolated but he’s done some very nice things.

Yeah I don’t think it was serious, just a twinge. Week or two at most.

Yeah it’s at the point I genuinely think Herrington is one of our top 6 CBs, regardless of his age.

I’m sure he’ll get far more playing opportunities with Croatia.

It is right wing nut jobs who have made patriotism less appealing. If Pauline Hanson’s incoherent, racist nonsense is what Gen Z understands to be “patriotism”, then I applaud them for going off it.

People can be immigrants and Australians at the same time mate. Thats the great thing about being arguably the world’s most successful multicultural democracy.

This is only a problem because Popovic has decided to adopt a 2 man central midfield pairing; if he was more tactically flexible this conundrum could easily be avoided.

So keen to play for Croatia he played 20 times for Australia’s youth teams and accepted a call up to the Socceroos!