I'm not interested in hypotheticals, I care about evidence-based facts only. The correlation between success at U-17 level and success at senior world cup level is not significant.

Top 4 U-17 performing countries:
1. Nigeria
2. Brazil
3. Mexico
4 Soviet Union

Top 4 Fifa World Cup performing nations:
1. Brazil
2. Germany
3. Italy
4. Argentina

However, should underage national teams be disbanded in order to save the FFA money and look to develop these players by other means? I think that is a question worth investigating.

I thought the sarcasm was obvious :lol:

Every one of those teams you listed for the 17's have and do perform better at the senior world cup then us.

Beautiful finish.

Seen enough, these boys need to cheer the fuck up.

The Nigerian defense just has to sit on a player and we're fucked. How stupid this philosophy is.. first it was supposed to be positive, we're supposed to BREAK OUT of this Dutch defensive mould. Now we're just pathetic and wasting possession passing to manned players

Foul my arse. Shoulder to shoulder.

For the pen the Oz bloke kicked the Nigerian.

#vidmarout

Shhhhhhh.

The Cruyff turns where we are dispossessed are good too.

Getting absolutely caned now. They could have 7 at this rate.

Means literally nothing. We perform better at junior level than at senior level.

You must be enjoying this Munrubenmuz....

:lol: you're very anti Australian Atm, clear foul

No imagination or fantasy.

Wrong.

Nigeria - best result is Round of 16, same as Australia
Mexico - best result is Quarter-finals, prior to any success at U-17 level
Soviet Union - best result Fourth Place in 1966, long before the U-17 WC existed and when they were an amalgamation of many different nations.

The odd one out is Brazil, which is no suprise.

Are you listening to the commentary Decentric. All the stuff about technique and naive defending, missing vision, wayward passing, positioning?

All the stuff I was saying we lack but all you can crap on about is diamonds and triangles and how I don't "understand" what the curriculum is about.

FFS.

Pretty happy with the performance apart from the finishing
some beautiful skills on display
the group younger than this are a step up again

We're fucking shit.

Seriously you would prefer Australia over any of those 4 teams above?

Put our socceroos up against any of their senior sides and 9 out of 10 times we'd come away with a loss.

Are you the one commentating? He's very negative about everything.

When Bournemouth get beaten by Man city they don't bitch and complain about how shit they are they just deal with the fact they lost to one of the best teams in the world.

Confident we'd destroy the Soviets 3-0 these days.

I've heard this here a few times but not exactly sure what that's based on. Are those players developing in better clubs or something?

Nigeria are good but doesnt mean anything at under 17 when at senior level they flop, just saying.

Bullshit. The "eyeroll" gives you away.

We are talking about correlation between U-17 WC success and Senior WC success. ](*,)

Also you are talking about hypotheticals again.

People in denial always try and build strawman arguments.

Edited by socceroo_06: 29/10/2015 11:48:22 AM

Geez 6-0, feel sorry for these kids.

We have far more work to do in youth development, we have made some strides but still we have a very long way to go.

The eye roll was directed at your comment

Not at all. I hate it.

I think we could be so much better that's all.

The coaching concerns me greatly. (And when you have blokes like decentric (and other here) not even willing to even question the aspects of the methodology or have a discussion about how it could be improved then you've got problems.)

exactly as predicted.

Nigeria have been clinical this game.

They are finishing like 10 year professionals and not 17 year old kids. Pretty incredible

What is your advice for improvement ?