Mustafa Amini	Aarhus Gymnastikforening, Denmark	5 (0)
Terry Antonis	Melbourne Victory, Australia	3 (0)
Aziz Behich	PSV Eindhoven, Netherlands	35 (2)
Brandon Borrello	SC Freiberg, Germany	0 (0)
Joshua Brillante	Sydney FC, Australia	5 (0)
Thomas Deng	Melbourne Victory, Australia	1 (0)
Craig Goodwin	Adelaide United, Australia	3 (0)
Rhyan Grant	Sydney FC, Australia	7 (0)
Chris Ikonomidis	Perth Glory, Australia	12 (2)
James Jeggo	Austria Wien, Austria	1 (0)
Matthew Jurman	Al-Ittihad, Saudi Arabia	7 (0)
Mitch Langerak	Nagoya Grampus, Japan	8 (0)
Awer Mabil	FC Midtjylland, Denmark	9 (4)
Brandon O’Neill	Sydney FC, Australia	0 (0)
Dimitri Petratos	Newcastle Jets, Australia	2 (0)
Andrew Redmayne	Sydney FC, Australia	0 (0)
Brad Smith	Seattle Sounders FC, USA	19 (0)
Harry Souttar	Stoke City FC, England	0 (0)
Matthew Spiranovic	Perth Glory, Australia	35 (0)
Adam Taggart	Suwon Bluewings, Korea Republic	8 (4)
Lawrence Thomas	Melbourne Victory, Australia	0 (0)
Rhys Williams	Al-Qadsiah FC, Saudi Arabia	14 (0)
Ryan Williams	Rotherham United, England	0 (0)
Bailey Wright	Bristol City FC, England	23 (1)

Fantastic to see Rhys and Spira back in the Socceroos setup- feel they definitely still have a lot to offer the NT.

From the A-League, think Davidson can feel a bit stiff to not et a call up, but with Behich and Smith in the team its understandable. 

No Maclaren is great news - form has been atrocious all year (including Scotland). Taggart deserves another shot. 

Meh @Brillante

Im very happy with what Ange has done here,  something alot of people have been asking for, the mainstays really do need a rest and the next generation need a chance. 

Stoked for Terry, but will defend the fact that it’s 5 months too late til my grave.

Lawrence is an odd one- his form has been below his normal standard recently but still very happy for him to get a foot in the setup.

I hope Deng plays centrally.

5 goals from 9 appearances is hardly atrocious, that rate would have put him in the running for golden boot (particularly because in that time he didnt play CCM or WSW)

Penalties are not indicative of a players form.

Terry Antonis and Lawrence Thomas in the squad. That doesn't quite fit the conspiracy.

Great to see Goodwin and O'Neill in there, thoroughly deserved.

He has a hate boner for JMac for some reason.

Only scored the 1 pen from memory.

Good to see Smith there.. big chance for him.

2. 

As a player who is extremely limited outside of scoring goals, to score 4 open play goals for an entire season is not form you reward with a National Team callup. 

This forum always talks about rewarding players in form and not playing favorites, yet ignore Maclarens limited impact. How many more 0 goal 9 touch performances  does he need to have for the National Team before more people realise that his style of play is not suitable for international football where you don't get weeks and months to develop a style that benefits him like club football. 

I wouldn’t have picked Rhys Williams personally but I’m happy with the rest of the squad.

Edit: I forgot about David Williams, he should be in the squad imo.

Wow - THREE MV players!!! How is this possible??? 

I agree that Arnie's supposed Anti-MV conspiracy is complete bs (because deserving non-MV players also missed out on the Asian Cup), but there's still no doubt in my mind that Antonis should've been in the Asian Cup squad. 

I was just about to come on here and post the same thing 

Davidson is poor defensively in a back 4. He is playing in a 3 4 3 at Perth. 

Is this a conspiracy theory? Ange is secretly making the calls behind the scenes?

Thanks for posting some sense. 

Nobody ever claimed that Arnold had an Anti-MV conspiracy.  But fans of teams he used to coach will constantly bring it up to distract from his failings at National Team level. 

I didn’t say whether he should be in the squad or not. Personally I wouldn’t have picked him as David Williams and Adam Taggart are in better form. I was pointing out the fact that you clearly have a hate boner for Maclaren.

As for your comment on the style of play, I think Maclaren will be useful in a style that he’s suited to. However Arnie’s style doesn’t suit him and I understand why Arnie didn’t pick him. 

Agreed based on the past, but we haven't been able to see whether this is still the case after Popa's coaching. On an eye test only he definitely looks a lot more switched on this year.

Pala and Iknowbest have on multiple occasions and Pala has even tried to claim that Timeotheo was let go by Sydney because Arnie held a grudge against him.

@jlm If I was at home right now and could be bothered I’d go and dig up the quotes.

That is exactly what was being claimed.

All because MV defeated Sydney FC in a semi final last year. Lol. 

where is nabbout?

Giving Iknowbest's comments any weight is like listening to Moufloroornnge in ET.

Again, (and happy to be corrected if I'm wrong) Pala has never stated that Arnold has a bias against Melbourne Victory. Pointing out his potential relationships with former players is not the same as saying that Arnold is biased against a whole club. 

It is not just Melbourne Victory fans who think Antonis was slighted for something that has happened in the past (I've heard rumours from Sydney fans that they didn't get along all too well back in the day), and there was legitimately no good reason that a player in his form wasn't even in the best 50 (FIFTY) players at the time of the Asian Cup. 

Some odd selections (Thomas...but I think he could’ve been called up earlier when he was in form and playing well) but I don’t really have any complaints..McGree should’ve been selected imo.

Apparently Izzo was in the frame but was ruled out due to injury.

I’m 99% sure Pala did claim that Arnie did have an agenda against Victory players after last seasons semi-final. I don’t have the time to dig up the quotes though.

they should have done this in the last window

im happy to see they are resting up some players though. the last season was ridiculous - full season (think of guys in the championship with 48 games + cups) - world cup - asian cup.  no wonder they have all dipped in form. it's too much.

i really think we need to look at an aus/asia squad and a europe squad to take  some of the travel pressure off the team for most friendlies.