Friday's action from the Aussies abroad http://osaussies.com/friday-wrap-4/

http://www.soccerway.com/players/christos-tomaras/70361/

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whose that guy in greece that got a run?

All the Aussies abroad action from Thursday http://osaussies.com/thursday-wrap-5/

Didn't realise this earlier but Bouzanis is in the League 1 team of the week.



Image taken from SFCU forum.

I'll ask him and get back to you asap

I think it'll be a while before Babalj nails down a spot. Teams in Europe don't play youngsters as much as they used to. Players need to do their 'apprenticeships' these days. Which sucks but what can you do.

Babalj needs to get the hell off that bench.


Do you know if McKay is being played in central midfield on on the left VOR?

Haha great timing mate. Just posted it ;)

love your work
did you ever do that interview with lustica?

Edited by grazorblade: 25/10/2012 04:35:17 PM

There was action overnight for the Aussies abroad in Korea and Europe http://osaussies.com/wednesday-wrap-4/

I hesitate to presume that's because Turkey's league, like a few in Europe, have 'historically' had a big gulf between their 'Top 3' or 'Istanbul Clubs' - Galatasaray, Besiktas and Fenerbahce not unlike the gap between Celtic and Rangers and the rest of the SPL, back in the day, or what not - Even at the top with Barca and Madrid these days in la liga. Certainly, in terms of reputation and European success, that's the case. Trabzonspor is the one club I can see who've won a few titles amongst their domination and still challenges somewhat, but the rest all fight for the rest, pretty much - including the clubs all our Aussies have been at, Jedinak, Troisi, Carle, Djite and the lot of them. Only Gulum is at Besiktas now, but not sure how he's going.

So what I'm trying to say is, like Celtic the other day, and like Gala and co in the CL historically - You can inter-change the big clubs of Europe and they play in their own league called 'The Champions League' but domestically they more often than not dominate their competition rivals. But you could take Gala, Besiktas or Fener and put them in the Bundesliga and they could compete quite well. Just as you could take Celtic and Rangers (back in the day) and put them in the EPL, as some proposed, and they would be quite competitive mid-table clubs (Probably lower-mid table now, as the EPL has strengthened).

But Cisak hasn't been injured for quite awhile now. Bouzanis is keeping him out on form

+1 Hope so.
3rd and 4th place at the moment but its only a third of the way into the season so far.

You would expect both of them to easily keep their starting spot if they got promoted too.
The championship is always so exciting when theres Aussies involved :d

Its an interesting question. Amusingly on soccerwiki.com the top turkish teams are rated as highly as the top bundesliga teams.

Troisi came from the turkish league and was dominating at the end of last season and while he is slowly working his way into the serie a, one comment in a newspaper that struck me was "he needs to stop playing turkish football and adapt to the italian mentality 5/10". Jedinak also went from turkey to the championship and I personally believe that the championship developed his game which leads me to suspect that championship > turkey. If someone had of dominated the championship the way troisi did the turkish league they would probably be almost as effective in the premier league

having said that I can't remember too many aussies coming from the czech republic so its hard to compare...

surely better than the czech republic league though?

I doubt that. Cisak much better with bouzanis only getting chance through injury to Cisak.

could this be the year both rhys williams and jedinak get promoted to the epl? Middlesborough coming third without their captain and palace not far off...

Check out the latest overview of the Aussies abroad http://osaussies.com/tuesday-wrap-4/

he came back when he couldn't get game time.

Turkish football isn't very good to be honest mind you.

I thout Kerem Bulut plays in the turkish league now?

Was more worried about Norval's first name than the historical accuracies :lol:

This update of the Aussies abroad in action overnight is focused on the youth http://osaussies.com/monday-wrap-4/

Lol "if my memory serves" yeah your such an old geezer now

Understudy to the 'highly rated' Ryan Norval if my memory serves

His younger brother is at Sydney FC

Mistaken, he's the top GK for Oldham.

A much better result. Rostyn Griffiths hasn't quite taken off the way he would have hoped. Good to see Zullo and McGrath on the bench.

Dylan McGowan getting on the pitch is another positive as well as Brosque and Bresciano banging them in.

I thought Bouzanis was back at Sydney or am i mistaken?

you can again (sort of if you include gulum and amini) make an entire team of young players getting starts in good leagues. 3-4-3 this week (with davidson, herd and willaims returning from injury eventually an even better team can be made)

--------------bouzanis--------------
--Mcgowan----Devere-----Gulum-------
-------------holland----------------
--sarota-----------------troisi-----
-------------amini------------------
--------kruse----lecki---oar--------


just about everyone seemed to do well this week in that group from what I can see except for troisi where they said he needed to adapt to the mentality of the serie a and not play turkish style football

An overview of the Aussies in action from Asia, Europe, and North America. Plenty of Mid East goals http://osaussies.com/sunday-wrap-4/