Matt Simon isn't a star by any means but has a role to play and does a decent job of it.

There are definitely worse strikers in the league.

The Asian cup is a brilliant tournament and the reason is there is so much variety in the teams and how they play. You have the Arab teams, then the Persians(Iran), the Uzbeks who play like a European team, the developed East Asian teams, the developing East Asian teams and then Australia. All we need is New Zealand in the mix who play a more defensive style of "European football" and this tournament would be amazing.

It is incredibly unique because no other tournament in the world has such variety. There is the World Cup but if you look at it from the point of which teams can legitimately win the tournament then it becomes the top four European teams against the top three South American teams. There are such huge mismatches that everything prior to Quarter finals pretty much serves as warm ups for the big teams. Not knocking the World Cup as I love it but just pointing out how unique the Asian Cup is and how heavily underrated it is in this country. 

actually i must give credit where credit is due. he's been a pretty good leader of that team. it still doesn't mean CCM should have signed him on a 2 year deal. 

Arnie is not the problem with the national team. Any other coach (whether we still had Ange, Bert, Bielsa or Guardiola) would still have had to deal with the mass injury crisis, the lack of even one goal scorer, the loss of Cahill and Jedinak, teams parking the bus, Rogic not replicating his Celtic form and playing in a part of the world where we have always struggled. 

I'd say that's what half the forum think. 

The Socceroos are an overrated national team expected to do much when they can offer so little? 

When you pick strikers (and other attecking players) who cant score for their clubs, what do you think will happen when they play for the national team.

Arnie is a big part of the problem. He picks JMac to start then the team strategy is to send aerial crosses into a little fella who can't score goals. Madness.
Then he benches Mabil who was scoring goals. Threw on Nabbout who wasn't ready.
These are all Arnie calls, which were big mistakes.

Spot on. Blind Freddy could see MacLaren was never going to score yet he kept on playing him and then didn't start Mabil in the final game. I had no problems with Arnie up until this.

just fixed this for you

What other aussie strikers are there to select? Matt Simon?

IMO he should've played Leckie when fit and before that Giannou or even tried Rogic as a striker. We have a long history of playing midfielders as strikers.

I'm not completely over Arnie but just angry at the moment. After all Ange put me through many matches of watching Kruse as a lone striker.

The sequels are worse than the prequels.