FIFA World Cup Thread

[Gyoza]

Hate the new uniforms...all gold or all green was much better.

Really have no feeling as to how Australia is going to play. It feels like a long time since the best squad played a match together. Are there any warmup games scheduled in the next 40 days?

Edit: To answer my own question:

24/5 v New Zealand @ MCG
1/6 v Denmark
5/6 v USA

[robrulz5]

The all gold strip looked much better.

It's going to be tough for the Aussies to get through their group.

[Madden]

Initial 31 man squad - just announced by big Pim.

Goalkeepers
Adam Federici, 0 caps. Club: Reading (England).
Eugene Galekovic, 4 caps. Club: Adelaide United.
Brad Jones, 1 cap. Club: Middlesbrough (England).
Mark Schwarzer, 79 caps. Club: Fulham (England).

Defenders
Michael Beauchamp, 19 caps. Club: Al-Jazira (UAE).
David Carney, 23 caps. Club: FC Twente (Holland).
Scott Chipperfield, 63 caps. Club: FC Basel (Switzerland).
Shane Lowry, 0 caps. Club: Aston Villa (England).
Mark Milligan, 9 caps. Club: JEF United (Japan).
Craig Moore, 47 caps. Club: Unattached.
Lucas Neill, 53 caps. Club: Galatasaray (Turkey).
Jade North, 28 caps. Club: Tromso (Norway).
Luke Wilkshire, 40 caps. Club: Dinamo Moscow (Russia).
Rhys Williams, 3 caps. Club: Middlesbrough (England).

Midfielders
Mark Bresciano, 52 caps. Club: Palermo (Italy).
Tim Cahill, 37 caps. Club: Everton (England).
Nicky Carle, 12 caps. Club: Crystal Palace (England).
Jason Culina, 45 caps. Club: Gold Coast United.
Brett Emerton, 72 caps. Club: Blackburn Rovers (England).
Richard Garcia, 5 caps. Club: Hull (England).
Vince Grella, 42 caps. Club: Blackburn Rovers (England).
James Holland, 4 caps. Club: AZ Alkmaar (Holland).
Brett Holman, 29 caps. Club: AZ Alkmaar (Holland).
Mile Jedinak, 9 caps. Club: Antalyaspor (Turkey), on loan from Genclerbirligi (Turkey).
Tommy Oar, 1 cap. Club: FC Utrecht (Holland).
Carl Valeri, 19 caps. Club: Sassuolo (Italy).
Dario Vidosic, 4 caps. Club: MSV Duisburg (Germany), on loan from FC Nurnberg (Germany).

Strikers
Josh Kennedy, 17 caps. Club: Nagoya Grampus (Japan).
Harry Kewell, 45 caps. Club: Galatasaray (Turkey).
Scott McDonald, 15 caps. Club: Middlesbrough (England).
Nikita Rukavytsya, 2 caps. Club: KSV Roeselare (Belgium), on loan from FC Twente (Holland).

To be trimmed to 23 by June 1st.

[Rossoneri]

Will be lucky to even draw a game.

[Ossie]

Lose to Germany
Beat Ghana
Draw with Serbia

Into the round of 16 where we will get bent over by England.

[bomberdonnie]

We will be lucky to score a goal

[hillchaser]

Very worried about this team. Apart from Kewell we don't have a game breaker unless Vidosic or Ruyka have a break out moment. I expect that Cahill will do something special but without a Viduka we will get pushed around by the good teams.

Also worried about our defence. Moore and Beachamp are both pretty slow Kisnorbo would have been good even if he wasn't fast. I would play Williams in defence. We are really going to rely on Schwarzer.

[Rossoneri]

Dukes was rubbish for Australia, so no need to worry there. However, how the f*** does Holman get a game?

[Sismis]

Did I hear Eddie's rant on MMM correctly today? they are NOT going show the games at Fed square?

The last world cup was the only thing that made that f****** monstrosity worth having!

[hillchaser]

Dukes was rubbish for Australia, so no need to worry there. However, how the f*** does Holman get a game?

Rosso .. what the dickens are you talking about. Dukes was our best player ever ...didn't score a lot of goals but would always draw a couple of defenders and actually had a bit of class about him.

We don't have a player who can hold up the ball now ... it's rebound city ...especially when these big Germans and Serbs defenders start pushing Kennedy around like a rag doll.

But you are right about Holman ..if he scores .. or even hits a target with his passing.. I'll go hopping to China.

[bomberdonnie]

Dukes was rubbish for Australia, so no need to worry there. However, how the f*** does Holman get a game?

Rosso .. what the dickens are you talking about. Dukes was our best player ever ...didn't score a lot of goals but would always draw a couple of defenders and actually had a bit of class about him.

We don't have a player who can hold up the ball now ... it's rebound city ...especially when these big Germans and Serbs defenders start pushing Kennedy around like a rag doll.

But you are right about Holman ..if he scores .. or even hits a target with his passing.. I'll go hopping to China.

Dukes our best player ever.... What?

Holman scored Monday night... Get hopping

[boncer34]

McDonald would be a star if they played him in tandem with someone. Instead they persist with this lone man crap.

Kewell's groin is still stuffed. Is this bloke ever fit?

[Crazyman]

McDonald would be a star if they played him in tandem with someone. Instead they persist with this lone man crap.

Kewell's groin is still stuffed. Is this bloke ever fit?

Yeah, but it is about as often as BD's favourite cricketer...only differnece is, when Kewell does play, he actually can contribute...hahaha

[Rossoneri]

Dukes our best player ever.... What?

Holman scored Monday night... Get hopping

I think Hillchaser was talking about a meaningful game, not some rubbish against a rubbish team. He will get found out this WC and hopefully the new coach wont be as generous as Pim.

[Royza]

I can only assume that Holman is given a game based on playing in the Dutch league. His main talent is to run in a straight line and lose the ball.

[hillchaser]

Feel for Williams missing the cut but would have liked to keep Tommy Oar instead of Garcia.

Hope that we play Valeri in preference to Grella and would like to see Jedinak and Vidosic get some time. we look heaps better when all these young guys are in the midfield. Start Grella, KEwell and Bresc on the bench.


Bring it On !!

[Ossie]

Feel for Williams missing the cut but would have liked to keep Tommy Oar instead of Garcia.

Hope that we play Valeri in preference to Grella and would like to see Jedinak and Vidosic get some time. we look heaps better when all these young guys are in the midfield. Start Grella, KEwell and Bresc on the bench.

Bring it On !!

Agree on Jedinak - thought he was nothing better than average when playing at Central Coast but I have been impressed every time I've seen him in the last year or so. Not convinced on Vidosic.

[Sismis]

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[Crazyman]

DO YOUR BIT! Get your lucky jocks on!

Get your SOLO Lucky Undies and support your boys in South Africa.


We beat the Kiwis and the Danes. But we’ve drawn a pretty tough group in South Africa. You never know what a little bit of luck could do for the QANTAS Socceroos. That’s why we need you (and every other fan in the nation) to pull on a pair of SOLO Lucky Undies everytime our boys take the field.

Get your SOLO Lucky Undies from COLES and COLES EXPRESS or take the Lucky Pledge at sololuckyundies.com.au You better hurry, these fine garments of luck are getting snapped up quick smart.

Our website is up and raring to go. There’s a load of lucky things on there you can do to support your boys.

And you’ll get a bunch of exclusive content from the QANTAS Socceroos if you ‘Like’ us on Facebook.

So C’mon Australia! Get behind your boys. Undies on. Game on.

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[boncer34]

Really feel for Brad Jones. Poor bastard, but it does put the WC into perspective a little bit.