Yeah pretty sure that he said this.

Understandable reaction, but still he shouldn't be lashing out like that. Just try to take it on the chin and let your performance do the talking.

I thought he said 'fucking stupid boy' :lol:

:lol:

You're a complete idiot. Nowhere in his post is he saying anything bad about Neill.

Just to help you understand the difference:
Neill was caught out repeatedly for pace and positioning through out the game. Often he had to resort to shirt pulls and bodychecks in order to maintain his presence with the attackers. Luckily his average to poor performance was hidden by the very good job that Franjic was doing along with his two centre back partners and Davidson at left back.

Now do you understand?

In the first half when Lucas pulled the guy down on the edge of the box. He was beaten for pace over 1m :lol: that's why he had to bring him down. If Costa Rica were playing with a striker leading the line, Lucas would have been in trouble

Edited by roar #1: 19/11/2013 10:15:21 PM

anyone got youtube vision of Lucas giving to the crowd?

Kruse outstanding. Leckie and Bresc very good but Leckie must bury those chances - no excuse for that miss. Milligan, Williams and Franjic were solid. Davidson decent apart from the brainsnap and Ryan needs to switch on in those scenarios. Jedinak absolute gash in the 1st half, needs to get his head up and switch play faster (much improved 2nd). Neill was ok. Not sure what Ange wants to do with Vidosic... he's capable of more.

All the subs apart from Kennedy were good but should've created more. Hopefully Rogic gets more time with Celtic... what a player. Perhaps he needs the opportunity to play more with Kruse/Leckie.

Not much to say about the defence in general. Costa Rica didn't/couldn't get out of first gear and Joe Campbell had no support. Need to be realistic about their impotence tonight.

As for the team performance, what a difference having players in position and with complementary strengths makes to the dynamic of the team. The front three worked super well together and with Bresc in midfield. The Milligan/Jedinak partnership finally allowed Jedi to play like the beast he is for Palace and Milligan once again showed why he will be a worthy recipient of the captains armband. Of our substitutions the best one was Rogic on for Bresc. The poise combined with his strength and pace was just a joy to watch. How I wish he had a better time with injuries at Celtic so as to already be in their first team.

Not going to say anything, we are still in the Honeymoon period. Heck we won the first game with Holger, and back then everyone was celebrating.

Look how that ended up

That game really told us next to nothing about the central defence.

One of the toughest decisions will be around Jedinak IMO. He is good on the defensive side of things but straight away needs an easy pass to get things moving again or he just hangs onto it and gets caught out. Because of that I think with McKay in the centre it could work OK because McKay's work rate and off the ball movement will help present a straight forward decision for Jedinak.

Lucas needs a kick up the arse for going off at the crowd, but that's about it IMO.

That's not how a captain of a national team should react. Very piss poor. Your time is up grandpa.

Although we played well, it must be said we played against an average side. I think they were Juventus' youth team.

Kruse is a gun ... MV misses you, but I miss Langerak more.

Jedinak was outstanding, miles better than Milligan. Milligan just prances around like a ballet dancer and plays the occasional back pass, whereas Jedinak puts his whole body all over the pitch and is a total wrecking ball.

Anyone who thinks Milligan had a better game than Jedinak is a Very naughty person


Edit:SM: Seriously not a word we use here and you have deliberately by passed the software to write it. You have been warned.

Edited by StiflersMom: 20/11/2013 08:04:41 AM

After a very tentative start we looked a lot better.But we shouldn't kid ourselves.It wasn't the Costa Rica Ateam..The performance was poor and half the asian teams would have beaten them.Harper noted that defence sat deep a lot and left space in front.Obviously afraid to get too far up the pitch.The defence wasn't tested so we didn't learn too much at all.
However a win to start is a good foundation for confidence.

solid game. Costa Rica seemed a little slow, may have been jet lag or just us playing well. I think Neill is a little bit like John Terry. pretty slow and can get beaten but still a solid defender with excellent passing. If you look at Terry he was best with Ricardo Carvalho next to him. Carvalho had extra pace and was really consistent while Terry was a great leader and distributor. If we can find someone who can compliment Neill he can still hold his own. His recent club form and club movement has been shit though and if he keeps it up I still think he could be looked at being dropped.

NOTE: In this post I do look at John Terry in a positive light, I would like to say he was very good during Mourinho's first spell but he is now shit and is one of the biggest c**ts in the sport on and off the pitch.

Edited by moofa: 19/11/2013 10:31:42 PM

Credit to the boys CRC are a world cup finalist even though they're not the strongest side in the world we got the win and probably deserved it too.

Think We are still going to get mopped up in the WC but the squad is 2 wins in a row now if we can build some momentum and confidence we might be able to fight on a decent show in brazil.

Btw Cahill showing that class is permeant deserve to return to the world stage more then anyone else in that squad i dont care if he plays in the MLS he is still quality at least off the bench.



Edited by Davstar: 19/11/2013 10:31:53 PM

Not sure why everyone is so excited. We beat a Costa Rica team missing 5 regulars only one nil. To me proves nothing. This team needs to be tested against higher quality opposition

I give your troll a 1/10. Effort needs to improve.

Edited by StiflersMom: 20/11/2013 08:05:41 AM

Great second half, hopefully a sign of things to come. Really liked Robbie Kruse tonight!

McKay is hopeless mate he's a fucking jockey, he should be riding thoroughbreads not playing football. It's shocking when we have class players like Rogic and Kruse on the park people think a little squirrel like McKay belongs there.

What did Milligan do wrong? :-k I thought he was superb too. Culina would have been very proud of Mark today I think.

Why are you responding to rusty's terrible troll attempt? At least feed the people making an effort.

It's funny how everyone in this forum has a different opinion for MOTM.. Imagine the difficulty coaches have in selecting sides.. I have all my trust in ANGE. He is the best coach AUSTRALIA could ask for.. He is the difference between winning and losing and playing well to rubbish!! AUSTRALIA TO WIN THE WORLD CUP :)

So says the moron who thinks Cassio should be LB

Edited by StiflersMom: 20/11/2013 08:07:46 AM

Milligan had several sloppy turnovers, wadnt very strong in the tackle, barely ventured forward, and didnt cover Davidson when he got forward. Very sub-par performance.

I think fire & ice with Bresciano and Jedi as the two deeper midfielders and Rogic/Oar taking his spot in the XI would be perfect.

McGowan in for Luca$h and we're talking!

:lol: 2 years ago rusty. We have better options available now.

Edited by StiflersMom: 20/11/2013 08:08:44 AM

It's pretty clear here who has no class.

Average costa rica ? They shat all over Canada's USA and Mexico ? Perhaps we made them look ordinary?

I know Ange like a false 9 but we played 4231 today and sometimes I didn't feel our 1 up front was there. He played Leckie and Cahill up there for most of the game and a lot of the time they came back to collect the ball. Then when a winger was released there was no-one in the centre a couple of times

We have better options than Milligan, he is back up to Jedi.

Dario was terrible btw.

Edited by StiflersMom: 20/11/2013 08:10:19 AM

Missing 5 of their first 11, saying that it was personnel choices from Ange that helped to make them look ordinary.

Edited by general ashnak: 19/11/2013 10:46:27 PM