Forget about the 2nd half the other day, there were about 6 changes.

Look to the first half, at least 9 of the 11 will be playing in those same positions and it will be a very similar structure (something like a 4-2-2-1-1).

The South African manager should be worrying more about where his team is currently ranked than whether Australia plays like Brazil (who have played pragmatically since at least 1994).

“That’s why we play football. I would never want to play the way Australia play – my players don’t have those characteristics.”

Being Dutch isn’t everything and I can’t say I disagree especially after the second half performance.
We are a bit underdone and will get done by the Uzbeks in a couple of weeks, if we keep playing for a defensive draw.

BTW there are 13 football programs (about 20 hours of football) on Fox Sports tomorrow.

Agree …… who will be next I hope Dutch so as not to break the pattern and style we have been heading for. At the same time local coaches should be inivited to look and see how its done.

TBH any if not all the A-League coaches and maybe a couple og the old NSL coaches could do with a bit more training .. it would be good for the A-League …… remember all but Kossie & Mitchell (he was not appointed at the time)m went overseas to improve and its in the coaching were we need to improve.

Mark my word, he will be gone by the end of this month at the most.

Welcome to the Roar love the psots love the passion.

Also and for the record as was heard at Spirit Point after about 12 rounds …….. ARNOLD OUT

I’d throw my support for the Egg. Especially if it means not having to write an essay of Russian Art in the Modern Era for Jim, though i definitely have a soft spot for kooky Minimalist Art.

Don’t get me started on Dadaism, tho, you won’t hear the end of it.

Slippery Jim, i have finally resolved our impasse. I do not live in a black and white world, though I think you believe otherwise. I push for playmakers, cos we have an abundance of players who could be called workhorses in the squad incl. Wilkshire, Beauchamp and Holman. If caution mandates that Pim leave playmakers like Carle on the bench, then he will live or die with those decisions. If we continue to fail to create opportunites, let alone finish them, then he will criticised for that. I am only pushing for a balanced squad.

I appreciate both edges of the blade, to be honest. Finesse and fitness. In Football, the marriage of the two is ideal, in any one player, but we must accept that is rarely the case in reality. So in Art I can appreciate an IKBlue canvas, and call that Art, as much as a French Impressionist canvas of Water Lillies, or a Dutch styled photo-realist Potrait. Also i like rugs, and tapestries…but that’s not Art, that’s Craft (sorry, could not help to throw that jibe in).

Anyway, the main point is, for me, Football can be Artistic, sure. But it is not Art, in itself. It is Sport, “at the end of the day”. So any metaphor you care to use to address aspects of the Artistry of Sport will ultimately fail. Conversely, it goes the same for saying there is Sport in Art, and some Artists may feel competitive (Picasso, …?maybe) and goal driven, but it would be the exception. Art is transcendent of competition, that’s why it works so well, as “ART”

BTW, Anti-Football would be to score goals, in your own net. I don’t even think Arnold would go that far to prove he has his own “vision” of a unique style of Football. He may prove to be a decent coach one day, but he hasn’t got the goods, especially at International level, yet.

And why should he? It took Guus alot of time and experiences to be Guus.

Let’s shake hands and move on, yeah ; )

Graciously,
The Bear

Gary Van Egmond

This will please the people on SBS like Craig Foster because he plays possession football . It will also please people like Cockerill at FOxsports as he is Australian

Win win situation to me.

Otherwise it just all comes across as rather sour hate-mongering…just a thought.

sign the petition

http://WWW.SACKARNOLD.COM

the people are voting

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KB

cheers

That’s actually a lot cleverer than I first thought – sometimes I truly surprise myself – we could make a thesis out of this!

I’ll await your responses before I chime in with mine.

I guess tapestry is to rug, what Carle is to Holman,

discuss.

And i am not chastizing the lack of http reference, you will noticed i mentioned that it was Bonita Mersiades from the PA office of the FFA, the least you could do was let us know it was Nancy’s words, not your own. You should know that The Roar have specific editorial constraints, if you have ever indeed posted an opinion piece, here, before.

Graciously
The Bear

http://www.theroar.com.au/2008/08/19/ffa-serves-%e2%80%9cthe-good-china%e2%80%9d-httpwwwfanboycomimagesbride-nappingjpg/#comment-64775 (90th comment down, fourth paragraph, second and third line)

Yes indeed, but doesn’t that encompass just about every type of football there is, including that played recently by the Olyroos? If you exclude them from that which you claim to embrace, it seems somewhat hypocritical.

By the way, I had already posted the link and put the quote in quotation marks, what more do you want? Yet your article, which features several key quotations as an intrinsic part of your argument has no links to these…

Interestingly, early Monochromatic paintings such as that pioneered by Kasimir Malevich’s “Black Square” were termed ‘anti art’, whereas many claim the artist formerly known as Arnold produces “anti football’.

If only we can keep the likes of Cockerill entertained/distracted, before he starts lobbying for Arnold’s reappointment to the FFA, through his media connections, and undo all the great “rug weaving” we may attain.

Slippery Jim, i am not adverse to a little metaphor here and there, but the bow you stretched is broken as can be. There is room for all sorts of art in this world, from classics…to contemporary classics. Just know that diversity is something to be embraced, and not feared. All artists know this, i should know.

And you really should reference all psycho-babble in future. It’s “ettiquette”, lol.

Yours Graciously,
The Bear

I blame Pippu for taking us down a more philosophical route with his rug comment…

Graciously,
The Bear

When it comes to Art – I don’t know what I like – but I sure do like that of which I know little.

Our coaches will learn naturally anyway by participating in the Asian Champions League & being exposed to different coaches & styles. Thats the beauty of Asia we have to learn.