Nothing. He didn’t go straight from wsw to Roma ffs. 

Anyway who cares. He could turn out to be useless. 

Hey now don't let pesky facts get in the way of arguments based on emotion.

where did i say he went straight to roma? 

 he is the only one being talked about, choose italy over australia, slipped through the failed system here and you dont like it. 

I couldnt care less who he plays for. 

Stated the facts, if you're too much  to process them, then I can't help you.

you stated no facts at all.
go bring in some more English, Scottish and Urugyain players into the national fold, cause you know the system and all is working.....

What' s    striking   is   that   it    sounds   like   nobody    from   FA    has   gone   to   Italy   to   sit   down  and   talk   with   this   guy .

What    has    FA    been   doing  ??

According to players coached by him, Arnie is both a decent tactician and a good player manager. 

The same players say that over club and international careers having both attributes is not as common as it should be.

Arnie also dropped his son in law - Sainsbury. That must have been a  hard call.

Most players would jump at a World Cup offering.

Look at the Scottish Aussies - Boyle, Souttar and Cummings. It has been life changing for them experiencing international football.

Not many players get the chance to play football for Italy out of all the domestic pro footballers in that country. Ditto Germany, France, Spain, England, Argentina and Brazil.

There are many good players in these big seven world leagues who are nowhere near good enough today for their national teams, who would walk into many other national teams outside those boasting the big seven world leagues.

Volpato has made a surprising decision he could regret later in his career.

No, Poland would just need to have "Bobbie" play a half a dozen more times in the U19s and just ignore his prodigious talent for a few more games before bumping him to the national first squad as a 19 year old.

Your right, Franky would have sent Gallop to Rome to have chat to Mourinho and Totti about the sokkah metrics involved here. Bring back the Lowys.......

@ MSC

Sounds    like   you   are   saying  the  current   FA   are   no   different   to   the    old   FFA   ...

Que? I was born in Vukovar....

We see it one way and a kid at 18 + parents/advisers another way.
He may regret not being part of a WC experience one day but he's not the first, whatever happens during his career will be a blip looking back.
As for our observations/feelings/comments IMO are based due our current state of playing stocks (not so great).
This kid playing SerieA more now is a Aussie/Italian player highlight for us for the rest of ours are you know where playing, only Hrustic ex Bundas now also SerieA play in the big leagues unless I've missed 1 more.
People need to let go, his call.
The Chosen One's not unexpected pov of one of his players earlier this morn
https://www.foxsports.com.au/football/socceroos/volpato-breaks-silence-over-socceroos-snub-as-teen-star-avoids-making-rushed-decision/news-story/72ba523a9b5d096ec7dbf6d7bd5cc121.

No, as self serving as Arnie is he at least reached out to the kid, trying to explore all possibilities, even at the last moment.... It saddens me that the head coach of our national team would so publicly throw a young player under the bus, bad enough that he was never included in this qualifying cycle, it seems that Arnie specifically went out of his way to answer social media critics and absolve himself of any blame for this lack of selection ... "I called the kid and he doesn't want to play for the Socceroos, don't blame me when we fail to score even one goal" ... thats shit Arnie, the kid's 18 ffs.

Thankfully only some of the filth from Lowys time still survive.
I think the current FA are doing the best job they can, cleaning up the short-sightedness of the mess they inherited.
With any luck, this last hurrah in Qatar will be the last time we are embarrassed by our federation.

Sure , unlike   the   32   years   before   we   qualified   for  WC2006 ...

I was never embarrassed by a Socceroos team (despite some pretty dismal performances) before 2006 Paulie, were you?

The lost to Iran was kinda embarrassing and seeing Johnny crying on live TV but I take your point, the current squad is a long way from what is what back then. 

Our   current   squad   beat   the  5th   placed   South   American   team ...

Also if Mourinho loses a few more games, I can see them sacking him. No UCL now for 2 years and looks like they wont qualify this year either. That is the new owners top priority atm with 4 slots now available up from 3. Juve should jump ahead of them after the play tomorrow. 

Couple more spurts at the media like he did with Tammy over the weekend and he should be out the door soon. That wont play out well for Volpato.

So? Is that due to the amazing work of the NEW FA or a damning indictment of the OLD FFA???   Your such a fraud Paulie.

More disappointing than embarrassing for me   would have, should have, COULD have won that one.... 

Apparently he has been invited before for previous windows and declined. GA approached him previous to the final day as well - with no definitive answer - but GA and Christian were in contact a number of times on the final day.   

If you have the guts, watch the replay of that Iran game & watch the style of play, very direct style of play & Socceroos that night (broke my heart) but could hardly string 3-4 passes together. Lets not let Nostalgia get in the way of facts. Australia has always produced very good fast direct players, but creative skillful players with a great first touch is what we have always struggled with bar a handful.

Why is anyone still talking on this thread?

I've never been embarrassed by a Socceroos team since 2006 MSC, have you?

Ah  yes , "couldda , shouldda   wouldda "  ...  we   had   32  years   of   that .

How did the system fail him, the system created him, look at Kuol, Segecic, Irankunda, Nieuwenhof, they are starting to come thru, maybe Volpato was the best of the lot but you are seeing some decent young kids coming thru, so you talking shite. 

Did the old system costs us Sumunic, because he played for Croatia. Some people just choose to play for their fathers land.

He's losing the plot even further.

Did    we   ever   beat   the  5th  placed   South   American  team   to   qualify   for   the   world   cup    under   the   ASF?