+x+x+x+x+xI still think if we had just brought the entire Sydney FC defence (Vuk, Grant, Wilkinson, Zullo, Ryall, Jurman) to the tournament they'd be doing a better job. There's no way this current national side would concede only 12 goals or fewer the entire season if they were a club in the A-League. I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that maybe, just maybe, the German national side might be a little more difficult to defend against than the mighty central coast mariners. HAL based squads have struggled against Indonesia in the past... The current OS based squad aren't exactly killing the likes of Thailand either. And of course I wasn't saying to fill the entire national squad with SFC players, but to not take advantage of only the most dominant side in the history of A-League - not even one player featured in any international game in the last 12 months - is simply bizarre. Sydney have a leader in defense (Wilkinson, who else?) Australia doesn't, we have sainsbury who doesn't Marshall his defensive partners anywhere close to what he should and barely even communicates if I'm honest. THATS what we have been missing. (Among many many many other things) yeah, your in trouble when the the coach has to yell "OUT" to get the defenders to come out and prevent the second ball coming back in after a corner. Its really shocking, say what you want about jedinak at CB, but he'd at least lead the backs and talk
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