Socceroos farewell game in oz

[adelaidebloke]

When?
Where ?
Who against ?

[adelaidebloke]

it is in sydney in may, opposition to be determined

[Bob Dobalina]

Don't care
Don't care
Don't care

[adelaidebloke]

well you care enough to go into this thread and comment 3 times

[Stuckey]

well you care enough to go into this thread and comment 3 times

These posts are as useful as the Toilet Seats spam we get. Just ignore them.

[adelaidebloke]

over 50k sold to the game so far

[Red-4-Life]

South Africa fielding a weak team apparently with lots of players withdrawing? Poor choice of opponent for such a game

[adelaidebloke]

besides Greece at the G, they haven't done a good farewell game!

however to get over 50,000 I doubt FFA care

[Red-4-Life]

besides Greece at the G, they haven't done a good farewell game!

however to get over 50,000 I doubt FFA care

At least NZ were also going to the world cup in the 2010 farewell match, the only other one we have had in recent years

[gone]

Who do you want? Brazil?
Now that would be one way to demoralise the team before they get a chance to learn to play together the Ange way.
A weakened South Africa sounds like a good send off game to me.

[adelaidebloke]

you want a solid hit out though, not a mickey mouse opposition

[gone]

you want a solid hit out though, not a mickey mouse opposition

Something tells me that's what the Croatia friendly is for.

[adelaidebloke]

loved knocking them out in 2006

[Old Redback]

Based on that showing last night the plane might as well leave the engine running

[Black_Panther]

Based on that showing last night the plane might as well leave the engine running

that's pretty funny

[GaylyColouredStumps]

loved knocking them out in 2006

savour the thought, you'll need it for the pain ahead

[Stuckey]

I felt we were fairly unlucky. A number of very good chances created that should have been converted. We could have easily been 4-1 up at HT.
Still not enough to offer me hope of progressing but as I've said hopefully the signs are there that we'll be competitive in the Asian Cup on home soil.

[GaylyColouredStumps]

we'll be competitive in the Asian Cup on home soil.

no can do

Asian cup is development prep for 2018 world cup...which in turn will be development prep for the following Asian cup.

[Red-4-Life]

not a convincing performance

[Russki Claw]

Based on that, we will be lucky to concede less than 10 goals from 3 group games.
Woeful in Defence, average in midfield and impotent in attack. We do not have any world class players with only Cahill, Jedinak and Bresc being up to standard for this level of football.

Blame Pim and Holger for this, should have been blooding these guys 3-4 years back in the friendlies and getting them ready for such occasions.

[Stuckey]

Based on that, we will be lucky to concede less than 10 goals from 3 group games.
Woeful in Defence, average in midfield and impotent in attack. We do not have any world class players with only Cahill, Jedinak and Bresc being up to standard for this level of football.

Blame Pim and Holger for this, should have been blooding these guys 3-4 years back in the friendlies and getting them ready for such occasions.

Yes exactly right.

[Con M]

Should have got 2 or 3 goals in that first 25 minutes when we were all over the South Africans.

Leckie will learn from that game, especially about going more to the line before cutting the ball back. He did well down the right, but too many of his early curling crosses were cut out by the first defender.

Oar knows he should have buried a couple.

We were really patchy in the last 60 minutes, but a procession of subs in these friendly trial matches doesn't allow for continuity.

Desperately need Bresciano & Rogic in to create, and Milligan & Jedinak further back anchoring the midfield otherwise the Chileans will kill us. Have to draw that critical first game.

ps, sometimes we complain about coverage of our sport here in the paper, but I thumbed through an old (Monday 26 May) 'Sydney Morning Herald' to see what sort of preview they had of the farewell game. Nothing on the back page numbered 44, all NRL Origin stuff as expected - but the Socceroos v. South Africa preview headlined "Lack of box office stars forces Ange into spotlight" was 12(!) pages back inside on page 32.