Socceroos World Cup Qualifiers - Socceroos V Bahrain/Indonesia

[Jeremias]

1 point from 6 to start us off. No goals in 2 outings.

Against ****ing Bahrain and Indonesia.

Absolutely diabolical.

 

[RossFC]

Take Souttar out and this team is completely hopeless.

 

[Fabab]

Garbage ,will calm down before I post anymore.

 

[largebus]

I'm no Arnie fan but a new coach won't change anything when the finishing is this diabolical.

 

[giggler99]

well we can pretty much kiss automatic qualifying out of this group goodbye. Massive pressure should be piled on Arnie.

 

[kaiserchief13]

The wingers are absolutely useless. Can't beat a player on the dribble, can't pass or cross to a team mate. Even if they had a good striker who can score their chances they would still suck because they can't create anything. Only thing they ever get are half chances through deflections

 

[RossFC]

Wonder why Souttar didn't pick Scotland, would easily start for them.

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

Bleak.

Irukanda aside, there's no real talent coming through either so we're going to have some real dark times ahead.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

I thought we were promised a golden generation who would be inspired by the exploits of '06.

What gives?

 

[gaskin]

Wonder why Souttar didn't pick Scotland, would easily start for them.

He didn't pick them because they didn't want him.

 

[FreoRicci]

Arnold got what he wanted.
Dull, defensive football.
Get this ****wit out. It’s been too long

 

[FreoRicci]

He didn't pick them because they didn't want him.

Why?
Australia are better than Scotland. Dumb

 

[FreoRicci]

I would argue we've declined, the 2006 side would beat this side consistently, as would our 2010 side, and then we've slowly gotten more and more mediocre since then, from a team that wasn't exactly world class to begin with.

Funding never came in.
Wtf has Football Australia and the Government even add to the promotion and development?
Nothing.
Gross. I remembered been inspired in 2006 that football finally would take off here.
Instead it has gone backwards.

Corruption and greed everywhere

 

[Jeremias]

Arnold got what he wanted.
Dull, defensive football.
Get this ****wit out. It’s been too long

19 shots, 15 corners.

It's not just Arnold.

 

[Aristotle Pickett the3rd]

Arnold got what he wanted.
Dull, defensive football.
Get this ****wit out. It’s been too long

The coaching is not good but we don't deserve to be at every world cup.
Soccer has high participation here but the AFL has over 800 professional players making on average $300,000 a year.

 

[ep2018]

Should still scrape into the 4th round and top the subsequent group to qualify but will lol if we somehow miss out on qualifying.

 

[gaskin]

Why?
Australia are better than Scotland. Dumb

IIRC there were better players ahead of him at the time.

 

[FreoRicci]

Japan 5 nil v Bahrain.

That’s how it’s done

 

[FreoRicci]

Should still scrape into the 4th round and top the subsequent group to qualify but will lol if we somehow miss out on qualifying.

46 teams with 3-4 open spots for Asia. Would be catastrophic to miss

 

[FreoRicci]

The coaching is not good but we don't deserve to be at every world cup.
Soccer has high participation here but the AFL has over 800 professional players making on average $300,000 a year.

Football Australia are just corrupted and greed.
The way the system works is a joke.

It’s run by white AFL biased lawyers.
Was Gallop now it’s Johnson. So dodgy

 

[Hamingja]

So tell me about the A league being a great developer of talent again

 

[krakouers]

Sigh…

 

[GOALden Hawk]

Problem is we’ve got 5 weeks until the next games, no way FA have the organizational skills to sack Arnie and install a new coach. Getting smacked in Saitama next month will be the end of it surely.

Clearly fatigued in the second half and the subs offered very little. No McGree or Hrustic meant we were so bland. Mabil has declined and Silvera doesn’t seem very good full stop (what about that last free kick???)

Not sacking him after the Asian Cup debacle is going to haunt us for years.

 

[Bleedblueandgold]

Long way to go, but it's crazy that the AFC have been given an extra 4 spots but we are on an uphill battle to even qualify for the 4th round.
Perhaps not surprising considering that we qualified through the inter-confederation playoff the last two times.

 

[GOALden Hawk]

We’ve still got 4 games against Japan and the Saudis, be lucky to get 4 points out of those.