Will both of Popa's sons get a Socceroos cap this window or only one?

"consistently demonstrated an ability to develop winning teams"

https://www.socceroos.com.au/news/test-1

This will be an interesting few months..... 

I think winning the ACL is a bigger achievement than winning mickey mouse league with a salary cap that can be manipulated via richer clubs signing marquees.

Winning the ACL with an a-league squad is basically impossible nowadays.

I do like that he wants to bring back the honour and pride in the jersey which I think has been a little lost with guys who didn't grow up here wearing the jersey.

Friggin hell….Popovic for gods sake.
Have FFA learned nothing??????
apparently!!!

Same ole same ole approach. When will FFA learn we need something and someone completely new.
 Poppas mates, that’s what it will be and is,

Just shows those clowns running FFA have no idea about world football.

Yep but we are talking international football with tactical savvy coaches. Poppa is not that.

Best thing Popa said today was ‘nobody is entitled to a Roos spot’
maybe he will ditch some of Arnies old favorites

Having a look at Popa’s coaching career he seems to have actually done quite well. His failures overseas can be attributed to bad luck imo 

His results aren't the issue 

Well fuck!

Rip

Typical FFA appointment.

Teague - was developed by Syd FC and spent the previous 3 years overseas in Portugal.

Veladon- got minimal match time last year, 300 minutes in the regular season.

Velupalay - was introduced to the squad the year before Popa arrived. I'll give you him noting a vast majority of his match time was played under Popa. That being said his minutes are well below where they need to be at the moment, he's not even hitting 2000 minutes a season.

Bos played 6 minutes of time last season and 35 post season.

I’d go as far as to say that MV developed the least amount of youth under Popa behind every other A-League team during that 3-year period. 

interesting. What about perth and wsw?
Valadon is a worry since he seems a really high quality player. Though I did hear he was injured

The only 'strategic football acumen' I have seen is the elbow to Recoba - forcing Guus to bring on Harry. Even the I would have given him a red.

master plan to be fair, sensed that kewell needed to come on and the ref was letting things go so wanted to give guus a scare into making that early change
doesn't even take the credit for it

Not one person have given me credit for calling this weeks ago 

Yes you called it but but but 

I was thinking it - well done mate 👏 

Everyone called it.

Except they mostly said: I hope it isn't Popa...

Fair play mate, good call.

I still don't want to acknowledge it.

(But was a good call).

For his first year at Perth the average age of his signings was 30, the second year was considerably less at 26.3. The number of youth in squads at Perth over those 2 years was 14, (Scott, Italiano, D. Walsh, N Walsh, Rawlins,  Barford, Tatafu, Ostler, Timmins, Hore, Cook, Lee, and his 2 sons). 8 in 18/19, 12 in 19/20.

In the 2 seasons, all U20 players excluding his sons accumulated, 134 minutes of match time during the regular season (45 - Italiano, 189 - Scott).

His sons got 1,160 minutes in those 2 years.....

I suppose he was even reluctant to play aaron mooy

old players can decline quickly which can be exacerbated by having a lot of old players in the same squad at the same time

Is this why he has had a couple of seasons where everything imploded?

I dunno, this was only a quick analysis.

My personal view is, for the first year/year-and-a-half of his time at a team, he's able to implement his tactics without having to deal with unwanted departures.

I think from an oppositions perspective, it's trying to find weaknesses in a very compact unit. It takes time, but when it happens most structured attacking teams can exploit it, and Popa doesn't have a plan B.

His plan A is he'd rather protect the 1 at all costs than take the 3 risking throwing players in to advance positions. If he goes ahead, he parks the bus. Last year, ladder pressure meant he had to press forward at the end of the season, where in the last 3 games of the season he conceded 2 (of 5) losses.

I agree, even talking about it saddens me, but we have to back what we have I suppose.

Relax nostrodamus, I think everyone knew he was one of the only realistic options - against our wishes. 

Give me the tattslotto numbers and I will be impressed

Expecting personnel changes under poppa, plus possibly no more club coaches selecting the socceroos team.

So if he was successful, then it's on him. If he wasn't then it's just bad luck? 


I think Poppa was lined up from when Arnie got the job. This was a signing that could be seen coming from ages away.