Harry won't be ruled out.. IMO one of Vidosic, Jedinak or Garcia. Out of those three there is only one I'd be angry if he did miss and that is Vidosic.

They did say 7:30 pm didn't they?

For fuck's sake... why the lengthy delay?

Yeah. I did. He wasn't completely useless. Wow. We should start him against Germany. He still had his typical run around do nothing get passed around defensive duties, and his typical touch of a rapist traps.

you obviously didn't waTch last nights game

As I understand some articles I've already read this is strictly a media embargo. Those that need to know (FIFA, the players, not us apparently) already know within the deadline. Tonight's announcement is basically to let the public know.

I'm pretty sure the squad itself is in to FIFA already. The deadline passed already right?

Hopefully Holman did his ACL falling out the bus on the trip back to the base.

Build suspense? Or it might've been a "hard" decision?

Cahill for sure.

He just fucking won the World Cup......












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Harry to be cut....

Probably be someone like Milligan up there aswell. Don't need him as well as Beauchamp, Moore, Neill, Williams who can play CB

Pim's busy playing out different formations on FM. Seeing which one works best.

Announcement is now going to be at 7.30pm - Awaiting a reason for the mysterious delay...

lol tbh We may even see Valeri or even Jedinak take Grella's place, come atleast one of those Group fixtures, BUT, these are only lead up fixtures and as we saw with Moore, Grella and I'll throw in Bresc, may perform a fair bit better against the USA, when they've had some more match time under their belt and have also gotten used to the local conditions a bit more.

BTW Bresc was pretty ordinary last night, but I'm sure he will improve with more match time, though tbh, his spot in the line up has hardly been secure for the past year now, he's more a bench option these days.

Pim gave Garcia big wraps in the interview.

My guess it'll be;

Galekovic
Oar
Holland
Lowry
Jedinak

After last night, Valeri is a safer bet than Grella. We're going to need a CM after Grella is suspended.

I think he is going to cut Cahill ;) or my other guess is Garcia

Damn it Pim. was looking forward to it.

A number of players competing for squads for this WC have not made their final squads due largely to fitness/form issues, notably Benni McCarthy.

Garcia may've been unlucky with injury this season, but you can see his performances haven't been the best for Australia, especially in these recent friendlies, including against Denmark last night. Meanwhile young Vidosic is fit and showing good form, including for the NT now, at just the right time, including scoring that goal against NZ. With our lack of striking options, whoever of Garcia/Vidosic make the final squad will be utilised as much as a striking/final third option, especially off the bench, than further back on the right flank. Vidosic has demonstrated he can be more effective for the NT and can provide a little more of a threat for the opposition, especially with his speed and general movement on the pitch, aswell as his technical touch in interplay. I again noticed this difference between the two, in the match against Denmark last night.

If Garcia had, had the kind of season with Hull that he had, last season, then he surely would've secured his spot, but now he's being linked to Championship clubs (Coventry) and tbh it was his breaking into the EPL which was the reason he achieved the long awaited call into the NT side, in the first place. And he will be into his early 30s come 2014, so having Vidosic in there, who should be a key player come 2014, is another bonus/incentive, Post-2010 legacy wise.

And in regards to our four DMs - Pim clearly favours having two holding midfielders (Grella & Culina), so it would make sense if both Valeri AND Jedinak made the final squad, as back up holding/central midfielders #3 and 4. Especially as both have performed well with the NT, especially in recent times, and that includes against Denmark last night. Also, Culina can play in a number of positions, especially on that right hand side, so his flexibility also means the squad kind of has only 3 DMs, if one knows what I mean, as Culina can cover a number of areas in the squad. Same goes for some other players, like Kewell (MF/ST), which Pim certainly favours, as one of the players said in a Post-Match interview, it means Pim is not required to use as many subs or what have you, if, like we saw against Denmark last night, a Culina can just switch to RB/RW who was subbed off for a Valeri or Jedinak. It can enable some tactical flexibility aswell.

Edited by GloryPerth: 2/6/2010 04:02:00 PM

VALERI - what does he add?

If it's Jedinak or Vidosic, I think I might cry.

Did anyone see the interview before the match last night? basically he said Garcia is going to make the cut from what i understood..

Jedi or Garcia will be the last player cut imo. Doubt it will be Williams

I hope its not R Williams, as he provides great cover at RB and central midfield (which would allow one of the DMs to be cut).....but I fear it could be given his injury problems....I would feel so sorry for him and the blame would lie with gordon strachan for continuing to play him injured even once boro's season was over....it would be unfortunate so I hope not.

It could/should be one of the DM's because we have so many...but to be honest I'd feel sorry for one of them because they are not the worst players in the squad - just too many options in the one position.

If it were a direct choice between garcia and vidosic, I'd take vidosic. Garcia did not look great last night and Vidosic has looked better the last couple of games.

jedinak and valeri's names are also in the hat as we have too many central playing midfielders.

my guess, it will be Richard Garcia going i was that impressed with him against denmark.

From http://www.goal.com/en/news/1863/world-cup-2010/2010/06/02/1954227/australia-coach-pim-verbeek-delays-public-announcement-of-23-man-

"Verbeek has informed goalkeeper Eugene Galekovic and youngsters Tommy Oar and James Holland that they will not be competing in at the finals."

England 23 FYI.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/interactive/2010/jun/01/world-cup-2010-england-squad

Why fifa has to limit the number to 23? It is such an important event and some teams will obviously have to play a lot more than 3 games. I would like to have at least 25 players at my disposure.