Comments on: Verbeek was right to spike McDonald

By: dan

dan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:42:01 +0000

hey jesse,

how about brosquey getting the call up to the national squad hey!!!!!!

i say very well done to the lad and very well deserved…… may he put his best foot forward and i truely hope he can go on to now make the world cup squad.

so much for u saying in your blog there was no hope of him picking either thompson, bridge or brosque in relation to pim’s comments about some a-league forwards being really close to making the national team squad last week…..

i hope u can write a blog now admitting to your mistake my friend….. i hope your eating humble pie now mate!!!!!!

By: AndyRoo

AndyRoo — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:25:42 +0000

Not a Dario Vidisic fan i see

By: John

John — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:13:20 +0000

Also whoever think any A-league graduate player is justified to play at the highest level, clearly has zero football knowledge.

By: John

John — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:11:30 +0000

Wow this report fails big time. Holman is absolute garbage the only one who should not be getting a call up is Brett Holman, absolute junk of a player.

yet Verbeek the Anti-football good refuses to play a formation or partership to shoot the 07/08 highs SPL scorer what a laugh. Verbeek and Holman need to leave the NT for GOOD.

By: Pippinu

Pippinu — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:12:42 +0000

Yes – well – the point is that at least in international terms, I’m not sure that Timmy has shown the range of game to enable him to be viewed as a strong box-to-box mid.

In fact, if we want to get technical and pigeon hole him with a pithy description – I would chooose: trequartista.

By: vladimir

vladimir — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:07:22 +0000

why is box to box unhelpful? its simply a term to describe a player who runs around a lot and gets involved in both the offensive and defensive sides of the game. as for ‘cliched’ this is football were talking about not poetry…

to write that cahill has only been in the defensive box once for australia exposes your parochialism…

i recall that foul and it should have been a penalty but do try and construct a coherent argument that sticks to the point…

By: fatboi

fatboi — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:49:12 +0000

I don’t think Pim was amused when Scott pulled out of the Oman game due to injury but played a full game on that weekend.

By: andrewMc

andrewMc — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:39:32 +0000

Croatia still isn’t part of the EU

By: ABCDEFG

ABCDEFG — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:33:30 +0000

I think leaving him out only makes it worse for him. He has got to adapt to the system, to the players, to the play. Maybe he isn’t entirely comfortable, we know he has quality and I’m sure he will score goals, even for Celtic he doesn’t get to involved in distributing the ball left and right, when he’s there he’ll kick a goal, so far he hasn’t been but it will come.

By: Pippinu

Pippinu — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:48:45 +0000

That’s true – and the same for others that went the same route.

By: Freud of Football

Freud of Football — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:39:51 +0000

I don’t think it particularly matters if Croatia was a part of the EU. Viduka has croatian parents which makes things run a lot smoother.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:16:24 +0000

Id stick with Mcdonald myself. Jesus is a good player but just attracts too much route one thinking from the rest of the team
From what Ive seen I like the look of Vidosic…but I cant see any genuine striker being happy in Verbeeks system. If PV selected no strikers at all in a squad of 23…… that would be still more than he needs for his system

By: dasilva

dasilva — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:38:31 +0000

i think this is just disciplinary reasons why Mcdonald has not been selected. Mcdonald will be in the WC squad as long as if he stop skipping matches for the socceroos.

By: dasilva

dasilva — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:37:35 +0000

Vladimir
I don’t know what your problem is.
People don’t agree with you and you start insulting people. Is it so impossible that people watch the same game and come out of different conclusion to you?

Carney has certainly improved his game over the last couple of games. However I still think Chipperfield is a more effective player for the Socceroos in both attack and defence.

Carney is a better dribbler and he certainly a better goal scorer but his passing and crossing is not very good. Chipperfield is far more likely to get an assist then Carney is.

Chipperfield may be a lot more slow due to aging but he has a greater physical presence than Carney and is far more capable of winning the contested possession (one on one duels) with the opposition.

By: Gibbo

Gibbo — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:11:11 +0000

clayton zane

By: Roger

Roger — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:07:10 +0000

McDonald may not have scored (yet) for the Socceroos, but he is an excellent player up front.

Why he hasn’t scored seems to be one of the mysteries of life, but score he will. When he does, we can all move on, and enjoy the consistency of this talented player.

Pim would be mad not to take him to the World Cup next year.

By: Pippinu

Pippinu — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:46:10 +0000

Firstly – I find the expression “box to box” to be as unhelpful and cliched a term as “long ball”.

Secondly, we did once see Cahill come and do some defensive work inside our own box – and he nearly gave away a penalty barely 60 seconds after scoring Australia’s first ever WC goal!!

By: sledgeross

sledgeross — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:43:42 +0000

Paul Agostino and David Zdrillic?

By: dasilva

dasilva — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:34:56 +0000

The reason why people don’t call Cahill a box to box because he barely gets involve in open play. He’s defensive pressuring for socceroos is non-existent.

Kewell, Bresciano, Holman, all do more work defensively then Cahill is. It’s strange, in the holland match, even the dutch superstars such as Sneijder were doing lot more work off the ball then cahill.

However Cahill has an eye for the goal and is supurb in the air so we can carry his deficiency in other areas in our team.

By: Ben of Phnom Penh

Ben of Phnom Penh — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:57:45 +0000

there is something to that and the thought had crossed my mind

By: FIsher Price

FIsher Price — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:46:13 +0000

Well if that’s the case he’s decidedly average at it.

By: vladimir

vladimir — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:04:33 +0000

exactly, energy and durability with an eye for goal… he’s a box to box midfielder einstein…

By: vladimir

vladimir — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:02:46 +0000

so who would you have in their stead rob?

By: Gibbo

Gibbo — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:56:06 +0000

agreed on emo and wilk, but still the idea of bresh displacing either culina or jedinak in central midfield is one that i reckon could have merit. add a bit more dynamism to the middle

By: FIsher Price

FIsher Price — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:55:35 +0000

Cahill is barely a midfielder. He may try to go box to box but he isn’t particularly good at it. He’s a forward of limited skill and vision but above-average energy level and durability.

By: vladimir

vladimir — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:48:31 +0000

apoligies… i withdraw…

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:47:57 +0000

Djite is hopeless. full stop.
Despite the fact that everyone seems to want him to be a success, the fact is he has no ball control and no positional sense. He just wanders around the field like hes stoned, always one move behind the play…….Rukavytsya is fast and hopeless.

By: eh

eh — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:45:28 +0000

Vlad, why so teste?

By: vladimir

vladimir — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:40:17 +0000

glasses are no cure for carrying an extra chromosone…

By: vladimir

vladimir — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:37:27 +0000

so? that has nothing to do with the point i was making…

make youre own comment rather than making irrelevant replies to mine…