Not exactly. It's rather speculative. It's not the squad for a tournament, is it now?

There's nothing whatsoever wrong with the FFA liaising with those who are playing in Europe. It's only by getting them into camp that Gombau (and the FFA) will have any kind of idea as to what cards they have.

Maybe a few checks on where some of these lads are playing would help , please don't shoot the messenger just do a little research and all will be revealed .
That's all

A bunch of them are still in their teens. It's par for the course.

They have camps where it's local-based, and this camp seems to be for the Euro-based.

What exactly is wrong with doing that?

If thats the best talent we have got outside of australia we could be in some trouble. Apart from Mabil, Gersbach and Mauk the rest are not involved in first team football, those guys cant afford to be playing academy football by those ages.

No DeSilva , and only one player from Aus , got to be the weirdest camp / selection policy ever , most of these overseas players are playing in second or third string u19s and u21 sides .
Please do some checks or scouting Ffa

They already had a camp in Gosford.
No need to send them to Europe

John Roberts was useless in the last u17 AFC championship.

Ha, i have no idea what you're talking about but I absolutely love your spirit. Big thumbs up.

You may be on to something though. Could this be the reason for Josep's strange, untimely and unanswered departure from Hindmarsh? Makes as much sense as anything else I've heard.

And thanks for your insightful knowledge as to the general quality of kids around Ds98. I might be looking into things a little too much but it is a little strange this A to P weighted squad. Very unusual even.

Hang on...A to P and Dylan is the only one that gets in
A quick google search shows APD stands for Adelaide Parcel Delivery
Gombau worked in Adelaide for several years.
Is it possible this whole camp was set up to boost the numbers of parcels being sent overseas from Adelaide in order to boost revenues?
Does Josep Gombau have some sort of financial stake in this Parcel Delivery service?

I think you're onto something.......

I think you're looking into it a little too much with the surnames, I honestly think this is genuinely the best available squad he could've come up with considering, the ability to release key players. The only others I can think of are Joel Rollinson (Reading) Kosta Sparta (Reading) Stefan Valentini (Braunschweig) Daniel Wong (Espanyol). Regardless, these blokes wouldn't have made it into the squad.

^ awesome list but that's even more bizarre! It's only Dylan Ryan who would be ruled out through Josep's surname rule. All those others would qualify due to having surnames beginning with A to P. 
Have you got a list of all our talented persecuted kids with the wrong surnames??

I don't think so... we still have
Fran Karacic   Lokomotiva Zagreb
Jacob Eliopolous   APOEL
Reno Piscopo   Torino
Gab Cleur     Virtus Entella
Dylan Ryan    Willem II
Antonis Martis    FC Midtylland
Chris Marques      Nottingham Forest
Dom Kurasik       Brentford
Seb Pasquali        Ajaz
Dan Bouman           Groningen
Lyndon Dykes         Queen of the South
Tom Beadling          Bury
James Georgaklis       Swindon Town
Jasko Keranovic           West Brom

And a lot more who would qualify for this, so actually I'm pretty convinced that we don't have a depth problem in Europe at the moment. only other problem is the lack of game time these guys are getting

Is there going to be a second camp? All these players are from pretty much the first half of the alphabet. This squad stops at P.
Where are all the Q to Z's of which surely there would be many.
Did Josep just start at A and got to P and went woah, that's 22, that's plenty???
Could this just be a really bizarre, spooky lack of depth amongst young Aussie kids mostly getting a shot to play football in Europe without much potential to play for their country? 
Is this the only squad in world football whose players surnames only come from the first 16 letters of the alphabet? I would think yes.
Kooky.

He hasn't played for a while for us, seemingly because our coach has chosen others, so that would make sense. 

I hope so as well, but I'm not holding my breath.

Hope these games are streamed! Really keen to see some of these kids we've been reading about in action.

It says in the Deni Juric article that A-league clubs are believed to have blocked call up for their players, so it seems Cowburn was the only one given release by Newcastle.

It certainly sounds like he was that impressive that they wanna see him amongst the Euro boys as well - good luck to him if that's the case

Nick is a great footballer and a wonderful human being.

If he gets the right coaching I can see him being so vital for the National Team. 

Clearly Josep/Ange/etc see similar in him.

The future's fine. We only need about 4 of these to make it into the Socceroos every 4 years, but 2 of those must become real stars like Kewell, Cahill, Schwarzer, Bresciano level.

Very interesting that Nicholas Cowburn gets picked for this Euro camp and he is the only Australian based member of the squad. He wad chosen for the Aussie based camp the first time last month in Gosford.  Was he that impressive to the staff or did he pull out injured last time for Josep wanting to have another look at him in Spain? 

i didnt recall him but the others you mentioned for me stood out more.

I looked it up

http://www.couriermail.com.au/questnews/logan/standout-junior-soccer-player-rahmat-akbari-tells-how-the-sport-helped-him-settle-in-australia/news-story/6fa6d4dde4b948ee384bbe8353ed6eca

who is this?

@barca

Is the afghani kid from Beenleigh any good?

Najjarine for WSW is also a promising young talent another one that did well for the Joeys last year.

Some good players in there its now putting a decent team together to have a crack against the best in Asia now.

They picked a Jets player. I think it is their ages (too young).

yup.  they did an australian one not long ago.