Hey all Hearts
.....Negativity is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing......"Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once."
Apologies to Mr Shakespeare

Not and excuse by any means but it interesting that the Jabulani is hard for keepers to handle, and difficult for players to read in flight...

Australia's main strengths: Schwarzer in goals, and Kennedy and Cahill's aerial ability....

Bugger.

=d> Yee Gads man. I think you might be onto something. Next you'll be telling us that the earth is round and May comes after April.


Pim = Baldrick. I'm sure tonight he's ringing Frank L to say, "Iv'e got a cunning plan".

Yes but the valiant are oft cannon fodder.

Surely you arent saying Pim is doing a good job? It's looking like the charge of the light brigade from here mate. [-o<

An embarrassing loss against a nation we consider our equals. Good to see he's aiming the right direction.

He's right, we do need to improve, lets start with the decapitation of the coach. A headless chicken can take over and do a better job.

Verbeek's selected over 100 players since he started. What do you want him to do? Pull another Harry or Mark out of a magic hat? If the talents not there, its not there. The fault lies with the development and talent identification or lack thereof of the juniors.

BTW Vidosic, Williams, Jedinak all debuted under Verbeek.

Our defence is the most huge cause for concern. With Moore and Chippers both 35yrs and Neill a couple of years behind, we will get caught by a fast front line. If the opposition has a fast midfield or striker duo, we will have major headaches during counter-attacks and clever build-ups. I hope we can get Carney and Beauchamp to figure more in the group stages because I don't think our first team defence against the US will hold Germany or any team in our Group scoreless.

Verbeek like his interviewing style tells it as it is. He has a view that we can surprise in this World Cup but that's all. I've got this negative feeling that we will finish stone cold last in our Group and that will be surprising to some. Verbeek is such a conservative coach but he is incented to get results and qualify for the World Cup. It was just unfortunate that he didn't have such a high opinion of local talent and I think we're too thin on the ground with the attacking talents we brought to Africa.

Chippers may be 35, but he's greased lightning. Doesn't look like he's lost much pace yet.

And Federici, Zullo, Oar, Spiranovic, Galekovic and a bucketload of others