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A post from MV fans forum I agree with just posting here

I think people often underestimate how difficult it can be to qualify for the world cup and I believe it should never be taken for granted no matter what team you have. In fact qualification into major tournaments is not exactly a given either.

As I have mentioned the following case studies.

England probably thought that anyone could have taken them into Euro08, especially when you have some big names like they do… Croatia ruined the party at Wembley, but they really had themselves to blame

I reckon Cameroon and Nigeria probably took World Cup qualification for granted in the WC06 campaign, two respected nations with considerable talent.

Holland with the talent they had and with Louis van Gaal in charge probably thought they would make WC02, didn’t happen, Ireland pipped them to the playoff spot with Iran.

I have heard time and time again about England v Poland at Wembley in 1973

So credit where credit is due for Pim.
As I have said before people need to realise that there are nothing given with regards to World Cup Qualification and in elongated campaigns results are more important. Quality of play can be important in sudden death playoffs as an away goal for example can prove invaluable and the stakes are ultra high. Another issue is that it is simply impractical to always be able to play fantastic coherent football when the team only has two days training like with Japan awa

If people look closely, even the European powerhouses have stuttered at times like France and Italy have often been sluggish, plus look to South America where in the initial stages it was Paraguay who had the early running and Argentina are getting beaten 6-1 by Bolivia etc

Of course there is a need for Pim to develop the quality of play skills and tactical capacity in handling/reading high pressure situations like World Cup Football but that it catered for by some high quality friendlies like the one we have organised against Holland, with there being a need for a few more. Perhaps a few training camps to get some of the fringe players who have come on since 06 into gear and familiar and fluent with the system needs to be held. Similar to what Guus did in place of the Colombia friendly

…As I have said before people need to realise that there is nothing given with regards to World Cup Qualification and in elongated campaigns results are more important. Quality of play can be important in sudden death playoffs as an away goal for example can prove invaluable and the stakes are ultra high. Another issue is that it is simply impractical to always be able to play fantastic coherent football when the team only has two days training like with Japan awa

If people look closely, even the European powerhouses have stuttered at times like France and Italy have often been sluggish, plus look to South America where in the initial stages it was Paraguay who had the early running and Argentina are getting beaten 6-1 by Bolivia etc

Of course there is a need for Pim to develop the quality of play skills and tactical capacity in handling/reading high pressure situations like World Cup Football but that it catered for by some high quality friendlies like the one we have organised against Holland, with there being a need for a few more. Perhaps a few training camps to get some of the fringe players who have come on since 06 into gear and familiar and fluent with the system needs to be held. Similar to what Guus did in place of the Colombia friendly

Does anyone really think we have a chance against a top-tier nation if we open the game up and play all-out atttack?

I’m thinking sh1t we are going to get thrashed in the WC, but hey, that tinny Dutch b@stard keeps on winning and keeps getting results.

Maybe we’ll get the results in the WC and make it to the knockout rounds – who the fark knows?

Agree especially Triosi..

Honestly …. these people who keep saying a bunch mostly of second league player should be playing like they are top and if they don’t we are doomed …. Honestly …. making the WC is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooo important nay critical to the long term development of football in Australia so many posts by so many thinking people explaining why …. but … honestly these folk who keep listening and re stating the impatient one’s wishes like they had any real hope of being achieved… honestly they drive you made don’t they mate .. I mean honestly I want it to be Christmas tomorrow so let it be so… so this bunch of players older and most struggling to get off the bench in second tier leagues honestly they should play like Brazil and take risks galore…

“Socceroos set subscription TV record
Thursday, 2 April 2009

The Australia v Uzbekistan World Cup Qualifier football match last night created a new Australian subscription TV record audience with an average audience of 431,000 people watching the game on FOX SPORTS.

The three and a half hour telecast reached just under one million Australian viewers according to ratings recorded by OzTAM Data.

These figures do not include the huge number of people who watched the match at one of the 4,000 FOX SPORTS venues around Australia.

“This is an outstanding result for FOX SPORTS and the Australian subscription TV industry as it again reinforces our commitment to and investment in Australian sport” said FOX SPORTS CEO David Malone. “To achieve audiences of this magnitude is a clear indication of the strong growth of subscription TV and further evidence of the viewing audiences we can deliver.”

Football Federation Australia (FFA) CEO, Ben Buckley, said that the record FOX SPORTS audience was further evidence of the popularity of the Qantas Socceroos.

“We know from the 2006 FIFA World Cup that the Qantas Socceroos have a large following and Australians are genuinely excited about the possibility of us participating the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

The Australia v Uzbekistan World Cup Qualifier had a higher average audience than any program in the history of Australian Subscription TV and a peak half hour audience of 508,000.”

From the FFA website.

An example of Okon days .. I recall a match at Hampton Park Scotland.. the Roos dominated Scotland .. some years ago now .. but it was an extraordinary performance by Okon. He was totally in control of the midfield and leading the team with real authority.. Not too eager to release the ball .. but holding it … moving forward … making precision passes ..

Culina is a fine player but is too eager to release the ball too soon instead of taking on players before making the killer pass…

We can remedy the situation by giving Nicky Carle a go .. Someone who can carry the ball and get past a player before releasing that killer pass… A real personality player… My God we need one in a hurry… Millster, you better go back to the ANZ and tell Brett Holman he can stop chasing shadows now .. the game is over .. and we won ..

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KB

I’m a bit of a homebody, and avoid being in places where there are other people.

Still waiting for my email from Andy Dimitriou thanking me for attending a couple of Swans games last year or an update on how our AFL World Cup quest is going.

Hi Pippu

Ben Buckley

Only yesterday I wrote that Culina is as good on the attacking side of midfield as he is on the defensive side, and why GC has an unbelievably good signing there (of which I’m extremely jealous).

On the one hand you can’t always play champagne stuff in World Cup Qualifiers, and the name of the game is one of grinding out the result in often awkward conditions that makes for a good team, this is the case for everyone not just us and like everyone other teams also have to address how they would play well in cutthroat and high quality World Cup conditions

There is the other side, we have had a bit of luck with some matches and events and got results when we are crap, but you can only play crap for so long until you are found out so one cna understand why some people are apprehensive

All in all the issue is that you may play some crap games from time to time but one needs to play some good games to show they have it in them, and either way need to pick up the points.

For us what we need to do is have some high quality London based friendlies to hone our skills in high powered situations against quality opponents, where both sides have decent players and the team that comes out on top is the one that tactically utilises them the best type thing. This is a different skill base to the one that Pim has done well with, which is the getting the result in awkward Asian conditions like playing surface and altitudes etc

We do need to improve, but we need to bring in some up and comers through playing alongside a core or Euro players, rather than all of thema t once like the A League based ACQ’s

100% agree on bozza

Joe FC said …4 wins and 1 draw from 5 matches, 8 goals for and none conceded, leading the group and still some are unhappy! …….. it is a good statement…

Jes agree we are still trying to sort out the defense and attack … maybe someone new as well., Megys (CD) & Macca, are ???…..but I am sure there are many out there hopefully Troisis will get a run soon and some others ….

I did really enjoy the night though.