His MO is obvious.

He has his 'winning' reply cued up that only works if his opponent answers his completely irrelevant question with a binary answer. Rinse and repeat every time.

Hard to be that disappointed when you can see it coming a mile off....bottle of shiraz frustrated maybe. However was please to find out that England have won the fair play award, probably the most coveted of all the awards. Well done Southgate. They also won the carbon neutral award, so Miss Meldre...

6 World cups 3 podium finishes 3.9 million people Admired what 37-year-old Luka Modric and his team achieved. But try these stats: 2022 Uruguay population 3,422,794. Two World Cup crowns. 15(!) Copa America crowns. And Straya’s 2006 World Cup golden generation beat Uruguay in the Qualifiers for tha...

England fans, at what point did that familiar feeling set in?

Imagine being a Korean fan and seeing those Brazilians dancing as a team after every goal.

Must be demoralising.

oh well.....4 years on and youre still happy with honourable losses built on guts, grit and physicality..... i know we arent good enough but accepting the status quo isnt good enough...... credit to Arnie for getting the max out of the team by drilling a low defensive block and playing on the count...

oh well.....4 years on and youre still happy with honourable losses built on guts, grit and physicality..... i know we arent good enough but accepting the status quo isnt good enough...... credit to Arnie for getting the max out of the team by drilling a low defensive block and playing on the count...

Back to the football, both games went pretty much as I expected, France comfortably beating a very average Poland and England ponderous in the first half, then running away with it after the first goal against an equally average Senegal without Mane. Southgate effectively moved to a 451 with Foden ...

oh well.....4 years on and youre still happy with honourable losses built on guts, grit and physicality..... i know we arent good enough but accepting the status quo isnt good enough...... credit to Arnie for getting the max out of the team by drilling a low defensive block and playing on the count...

lol the Aussies Bradburied their way into the last 16

worst team I've ever seen in that stage of the tournament, but there's something to be said for getting results with minimal footballing ability. Kudos to the management for getting them that far with a low block. It was very Australian.

:oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: The curriculum focuses on a preferred development model......not how the national team 'has to' play......let me guess....you've never read it right? and youve never read Ange's 'Changing the game'...right??? Remind me how that development model is going? How many...

Just Dave now wrote: ↑Thu Dec 01, 2022 2:18 pm well this thread has gone quiet lol

still couldn't string 2 passes together after 20 years of national curriculum

predrag wrote: ↑Wed Nov 30, 2022 3:49 pm One thing i wonder can computer graphics change positions of cartoon VAR players?Why not show real play with lines like in EPL?

Good point.

Most people are gullible to believe fancy graphics on TV like most other things, but the only compelling evidence is the line across the field.

eagleboy wrote: ↑Sun Nov 27, 2022 2:56 pm Good to see a true Football front page story on the Sunday Mail

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good to see they're finally banning phones in school classes

getting excited at falling over the line against minnows Tunisia

nice to see the Aussies win the kids table game

N5 1BH wrote: ↑Fri Nov 25, 2022 11:04 pm Can’t fix a problem until we admit there actually is a problem though

So it'll never be fixed. Welcome to Australian football.
Nobody listens to critics here.

The size of the country does make it difficult but that is the reality and it doesn’t stop Australia excelling in many other sports. The FFA are the powers that be regarding football yet Sydney (5.3 mil) & Melbourne (5 mil), both bigger than Croatia, Uruguay & Wales with excellent facilitie...

The reason why Australia will never be good at football is because its at the a r s e end of the earth and it takes 2 days to fly anywhere. To compound the problem, the country itself so big and population centres are so spread apart there's no viable way a proper national competition pyramid can op...

50 years later it will still be the same

hoping the government will fix football here

the only reason Qatar government spent a bucket load on football there is because they're hosting the WC...and what good did it do

Unread post by eagleboy » Thu Nov 24, 2022 7:43 am 2 of the 3 teams in our WC qualifying group that made it through had good wins. against perceived powerhouses and past WC Winners....thus, qualifying via the playoffs is a fair indication of where we are at....5th best team in Asia Iran failed but ...

Understand this... we are mediocre at Football. Plain and simple. We have achieved what we have achieved through grit, determination and organisation. We once had a coach who was ultra attacking and everyone complained. Now we have a defensive mindset coach and people are doing the same. If you wan...

I am proud of Goodwin for scoring against the powerhouse that France is,but our game second half just fell apart it looked like we played with no heart,Cummings was crap,Mclaren would have been a lot better as a sub.I hope the guys get it together for the next 2 games in group. The first half was j...

Unread post by Arena Oaxaca » Wed Nov 23, 2022 9:18 am MegaBonus wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 9:07 am Arena Oaxaca » Wed Nov 23, 2022 7:48 am Not everyone in your opinion, 'ideally', how should Australia have developed , and if different to how they actually did, how should they have 'practically' done...

I've never seen a good Socceroos team, but this is the worst I've ever seen. They don't even try to play. 2006 we were good, probably never be that level again. They looked like a Sunday league amateur team. France could've had 10. What has Australian football been doing for the past 20 years? Just...

I've never seen a good Socceroos team, but this is the worst I've ever seen.
They don't even try to play.

eagleboy wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 10:39 pm Saudi Arabia 2:1 . I thought the ref was going to play on until Argentina scores.

He was waiting for an opportunity to award another dubious free kick or a pen but it never came

turning out to be the most political of all world cups ever . all this virtue signalling and political righteousness is making me sick. play the game and shut up No need for England players to take the knee. Why not, BLM not relevant anymore? racist organisation run by communists who used it to fun...

predrag wrote: ↑Thu Nov 10, 2022 5:04 pm This could be an exiting team,or a disaster.

oh they will be exiting after 1 week

Australia is becoming an international pariah.

nice excuse they probably wouldn't qualify anyway