Even Robert Mugabe could run the A league Roos better!!!

bRING BACK NICKY CARLE!!!!!

So no surprises that the non-FIFA dates will be a scramble to get results, let alone rhythm and style into the team. But Pim probably won’t be here post 2010, so what does he care? Nada.

Also theres no problem with depth in football in this country its the quality of footballer & his professional training in that depth that is at fault. I dont wish to be misquoted on this but I’m sure Simon Hill said last Thursday that Kuwait (pop 3 million)
had only 8,000. registered football players. Thats not what I call a deep pool of players,but the quality of their coaching & depth of football knowledge passed on therefore must be far superior to ours.
Also regarding the 100 places below us on FIFA rankings at one stage they were ranked 24 in the world a position we have never been in. FIFA rankings in my opinion should be taken with a grain of salt.

“My point was that anywhere a team is playing another team ranked around 100 places lower in the FIFA World Rankings, the higher ranked team, that being Australia, would be expected to win.

Whilst this point has merit & should essentially be true in 99% of cases,in this case the coach/FFA were negligent.
My view after a long lifetime of football is that whenever a football team runs onto the park it is the coaches responsibility to make sure that that team can perform to the expectations of the only group who really count in professional football,us the fans.
Clearly with 10 players with no or next to none International experience (some kids) for Australia this was not the case.
Funnily enough I said the same thing about Frank Farinas selection for the Roar(Fan of myself) in the finals game against Adelaide when he chose Mitch Nichols who choked on the big occassion. Yet Pim chooses him again against Kuwait.
Many succesful teams across the globe have youth policys for developing players & are extremely succesful.The most noted being ManU. But if sir Alex pulled a youth player with no experience from his youth squad to play in the ECL & the kid crumbled ,the world at large would have his balls.
No Sir Alex & other smart operators & operations make sure that that kid is slowly “ripened” into an ECL player gradually,Unlike us who see the sharks waiting with open mouths at the end of the jetty & throw in “:Spotty” Jim(no offence Slippery).
The bottom line is sportsfanlife that in the broader world of International football the FFA is no more out of its infancy than yourself:-

“I have to say that my budding football supportership (it’s a word, google it), is in its infancy. My knowledge is a work in progress and I still have no clue on the finer points of ‘The Beautiful Game’.”

So just join them on the learning curve. This is a prime example of how far we have to go to match the’Old world football”savvy of European & South American nations & it seems some Asian nations.

My point was that anywhere a team is playing another team ranked around 100 places lower in the FIFA World Rankings, the higher ranked team, that being Australia, would be expected to win. You are right about the Kuwaiti’s being up in the head to head, my reference was based on the World Rankings.

Either way, thanks for reading! Cheers….

That the only way to fill the gap to the elite Socceroos.

There’s no budget way to do football business, FFA.