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Australia's player Joshva Kennedy, center, scores his second goal against Saudi Arabia's player Osama Hawsawi, left, and Saud Kariri during their 2014 FIFA World Cup Asia qualifying soccer match at the Prince Muhammad bin Fahd Stadium in the eastern port city of Dammam, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
The Socceroos, baring a meltdown, should qualify in the next match for the next round of the qualifying process. Assuming we follow suit with previous World Cup qualifier matches, we will play a friendly.
My question is if we have qualified after the next match, should we use the four remaining games to test, cap and blood some players, especially in Europe who are being chased by other countries. The four games I get are the final two qualifying matches, and my assumption of two friendlies preceding them.
Say three new players in the friendlies and two in the WC qualifiers. Resulting in ten additional players capable of being tested, and capped. There are arguments for this and arguments against.
The arguments against are it could destabilise the team. Arguably not fair to teams we have already played putting a lesser team out against the last two teams we play. Finally, you do not give away a national team shirt cheaply.
The arguments for boil down to squad depth and future Socceroo teams. The third option is a middle ground and say pick five players to bring in.
My leanings are towards getting as many players ready for international level as possible and capping as many players as we can.
Always a dilemma, whether to cap for the sake of locking a player up and maybe giving the shirt away to cheaply or not giving to a player more deserving a start.
As I said for me I would cap and take the risk with a strong core we can qualify through the next round. But we all know how difficult the next round will be.
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