Thought this could use its own thread
Some interesting stats about our all age teams in asian cups
U17 points per game: 1.8 U20 points per game: 1.7 U23 points per game: 1.4 socceroos points per game: 1.9
u17 goals per game: 2.1 u20 goals per game: 1.7 u23 goals per game: 0.8 senior goals per game: 1.9
A couple of thoughts 1) there is clear decline in relative quality until our players trodge off to europe and close the gap. In the last window there were a lot of u23 players unavailable due to clubs not releasing them. I don't remember this being much of a problem for underage teams in the last 10 years now 2) at 0.8 goals per game for the olyroos it isn't that much of an outlier to go goalless in a tournament 3) extrapolating back to u15s (an admittedly dodgy assumption since there are only 3 data points I'm using to form a trend!) our u15s would be as good as japan and perhaps the best in asia
What do you think are the key needs of u17s, u20s and u23s to stop that decline?
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