Are people fucking stupid? Why the fuck would we sack our coach now in the middle of qualification, I know it worked with Guus but this is entirely different. Name me on coach within our budget who would do a better job at this sort of notice, the players trust him and we have shown we are capable. The reason we are not doing as well as previous qualification runs is simple, WE ARE NOT AS GOOD AS WE ONCE WERE. Time to get ourselves and stop thinking we have a divine right to make the World Cup every four years, we aren't Uruguay. Qualifying for the WC is tough, no matter if who you are and while I agree if we don't make it he should go but now is definitely not the time. Hell we might find out in 6 hours that we are into Russia.

I thought we were talking about Ange. Don't sack Guus.

Sack the FFA to they a pathetic runs from top down.

Sack Guus?

Actually think that's a fair comment. I'd add if we do that he needs to be in charge at Russia still if we get there. No manager is going to want the job of taking us through the next qualifiers knowing we've sacked the previous 2 managers who got us there before the big dance.

Holger lost consecutive games 6-0, and realistically could have lost them by more, we created more chances tonight then probably the last five games holger coached combined. It's a tense situation but it's not like the holger situation where the players had clearly given up on him. This lot are giving it everything, tonight showed that. Making the change now would be a massive gamble and respective of what happens in a few hours.

We still have time to sack him before he retires.

I think we should do a Holger on him- get us to the WC and THEN sack him.

But I bet he'll be entitled to a payout if we did that.

No red for Studs up? 

Assuming we go into the playoffs, if you sack him now and lose in the playoffs the backlash will be x1000 times worse, gotta stay the course until the end.

Should have been a yellow. Not a red. Being a bit dramatic.

I also think Matt was lucky to not be sent off 

LMAO the blokes Greek you think he would walk away from a massive pay cheque by resigning you're not from Australia 

true. how the fck that was NOT a penalty. unbelievable

the ref really let it go tonight, some hometown decisions there

Goes both ways, Australia could have been down to 10 men and a goal down, ref was Australias 12th man tonight. 

:(

Interesting though, if just 2 or 3 more of those multiple chances had been converted it could have been 4 or 5 goals and we'd be having a different conversation

the thais played like men possessed

its a cruel game!

Managers always get the pay out.

Always.

They either get fired in private or in public.

Hopefully. Will probably mean we don't have to pay him out.

He has until the morning. The Saudis don't win and he keeps his job. The actual performance tonight was far from our worst, but it's a results game and if it doesn't end up being enough for automatic qualification then he needs to go.

If he does go the replacement can't be an Aussie or someone who is in the current setup, we must go abroad with someone fresh.

Bozza getting political, love it

I think Ange is the type of person who would jump rather than be pushed.

We will see in the morning. 
Automatic qualification is a past mark. We did get 19 points. Considering we had way less the previous times we qualified shows that it was a bit of an outlier.

But Ange needs to be grilled by his tactics and picking favourites.

Post match interview with Ange. For some reason he hasn't quit yet.

4-3 on aggregate and they had a clear pen not given. haha

:laugh::laugh:

i could see him stepping down if the saudi's get through

we actually only just beat Thailand. That is crazy.  barely beat a team ranked 130, below St. Kitts and Nevis, Ethiopia

He has retired