will the socceroos make 2014 ??
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avaoid korea and potentially japan and have an easy run in, please its almost a given, top 2 through so the odds are in our favour, bring on the beach and budgie smugglers 



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Re: will the socceroos make 2014 ??
DOC wrote:avaoid korea and potentially japan and have an easy run in, please its almost a given, top 2 through so the odds are in our favour, bring on the beach and budgie smugglers
please no!!!!!!!!

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IMO if we don't cruise through this qualification (except for a couple of tight games with Japan) then we don't deserve to go to Brazil as we will only be making up the numbers again. May as well let a nation that hasn't been there before do that. If we cruise through then it gives us hope the squad is up to a WC standard, Holger's tactics are decent and we stand a decent chance of going through to the next round. Which IMO is a must for Australian football. We must keep moving forward. Raising the bar. If we go to Brazil and bomb out we may as we have sent the U23 squad there. They are used to it!
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Think we will cruise through as we shall hopefully be able to use our overseas players
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why wouldn't we?Reds11 wrote:Think we will cruise through as we shall hopefully be able to use our overseas players
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Stuckey wrote:IMO if we don't cruise through this qualification (except for a couple of tight games with Japan) then we don't deserve to go to Brazil as we will only be making up the numbers again. May as well let a nation that hasn't been there before do that. If we cruise through then it gives us hope the squad is up to a WC standard, Holger's tactics are decent and we stand a decent chance of going through to the next round. Which IMO is a must for Australian football. We must keep moving forward. Raising the bar. If we go to Brazil and bomb out we may as we have sent the U23 squad there. They are used to it!
Some good points - especially the ones about if you don't then you don't deserve to be there - never a truer word.
Personally I hope Australia doesn't qualify I don't think they are good enough but the upside if they do is that there will be better coverage of the teams that deserve to be there like Costa Rica and NZ.
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Play like that last half hour vs Saudi Arabia for most of the next group phase and we will be playing in Brazil
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So New Zealand deserve to be there more than Australia?OldRedback wrote:Stuckey wrote:IMO if we don't cruise through this qualification (except for a couple of tight games with Japan) then we don't deserve to go to Brazil as we will only be making up the numbers again. May as well let a nation that hasn't been there before do that. If we cruise through then it gives us hope the squad is up to a WC standard, Holger's tactics are decent and we stand a decent chance of going through to the next round. Which IMO is a must for Australian football. We must keep moving forward. Raising the bar. If we go to Brazil and bomb out we may as we have sent the U23 squad there. They are used to it!
Some good points - especially the ones about if you don't then you don't deserve to be there - never a truer word.
Personally I hope Australia doesn't qualify I don't think they are good enough but the upside if they do is that there will be better coverage of the teams that deserve to be there like Costa Rica and NZ.
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i think we have a tough start to this group, first 3 games two are away and the home game is japan.....thats tough!!!!!!!!!!!!
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should be battling Japan for top spot in the group!
Seriously, those that dont want Aus tpo make the world cup......surely ur taking the piss!

Seriously, those that dont want Aus tpo make the world cup......surely ur taking the piss!

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I don't care whether they do or not.
On the verge of a nervous breakthrough