WE WE CAN DO IT!!!!!!!!! HAVE NO FEAR!

Lucas Neil needs to be stripped of the captaincy also. I'm tired of his inferiority complex on show ever since he got off the plane




What do you think about the FourFourTwo article Kewell: We Can Still Progress?
SOCCEROOS veteran Harry Kewell remains adamant Australia can still reach the second round of the World Cup despite the humiliating 4-0 loss to three-time winners Germany in their opening group game.

Have your say.

Bloody Oath we can. Time for some of the youngsters to step up and be counted :D

On that point, the following observations from TWG are worth noting:
http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/news/1008837/Verbeek-facing-selection-dilemma-

Alternate headline: Unused Substitute Has Faith In Team

All we need is two "Pim Specials" dour 1-0 wins and we will have a better record than '06.

CMON AUSTRALIA! pim was right not to risk kewell for the whole game against germany but had it all wrong not starting bresc or kennedy (the reason why the germans went forward at will - there would be no consequences for them having numbers forward. after all, who was going to score? garcia? culina? HA).

if pim plays bresc, kennedy, kewell, and emerton all on the park at once we will not have a problem, as all of those players will be feared by the defense, leading to a more balanced game. they might not be able to win it, but they can sure as hell try / do better than on sunday.

i just feel sick in the guts, with the chance of not making it out of the group stage.....cmon aussies, 2 wins please lads......then all of us wankers can start spruiking about how bloody good we are.......

The Ghana game is huge!! Must must win!! Hoping then Ghana and Serbia lose with Germany, it will be like 06 when australia only needing a draw to go through the second round.

Except that we wouldn't know if that's all we needed, since the Ghana v Germany game will be played at the same time.

Edited by tomw: 17/6/2010 03:55:17 PM

We all have to remember that a loss to Germany was compensated in the plan. Any form of points against them was just a bonus but we were always planning on picking up on Ghana and Serbia. I am confident we can get through, just need to show some passion and heart- that Aussie spirit.

Still gutted at Pim and Neill's throwing of the game against the Germans. Wrong time to start experimenting Pim. And how about starting a striker and playing positive football and not getting our best midfielder red carded out of frustration? I think Neill should not even start, never rated him and can't stand a captain who touts a loss.
Harry's right though, we CAN still qualify although probably need to ignore Pim to do it. Used to like the guy but he has a long way to go to win back respect!

:lol:

the unused substitute is sounding more positive than the captain has been...

Most of us haven't written off the team we are just gutted by the apparent defeatest attitude of Neale, verbeek and others towards Germany that became a self-fulfilling prophecy encouraged by bad tactics and selections. Maybe its the Dutch way but this is not the Australian way to do things, and it shocked most of us. Compare this with minnow New Zealands attitude towards the Italy game regardless of what the result is going to be they still believe they can win we never once did...it's poles apart!! Neal's public attitude prior to the game is a national disgrace!! Many bridges to be rebuilt here so let's get it rolling with Ghana!! No excuses this time.

I've finally gotten over the loss and am willing to think that, at the moment, anything is possible for our lads.

Our current plight is amazingly similar to that faced by the Ukraine in 2006.

In 2006, UKRAINE had its opening game against one of Europe's powerhouse nations: ESPANA

Here's what unfolded at Zentralstadion, Leipzig

1. UKR down 2-0 at half time
2. UKR have a player sent off after half-time
3. UKR lose 4-0
4. The UKR team is demoralised and their press are scathing in criticism.

What happened next gives me hope for our future in this tournament.

5. UKR won its next 2 matches: 4-0 win against Saudi Arabia and 1-0 against Tunisia
6. UKR went on to play in the 1/4 finals

what does kewell know? lets forget about kewell and put our hopes on Garcia and Hollman, both looked utterly stunning against germany.

All us Soccerro fans want is for the team to do their best....if they bow out of WC, it is not the players at fault,its the wrong tactics...we need Josh kennedy and Kewell for the Ghana match...Go the Socceroos

And pigs may fly ; really

Seriously we will need two wins and for the other games in our group to go in our favour

Chance of this happening taking into account the current state of the team is about 7 %

Does anyone know what the betting odds’ are for us getting into the next round

Betting odds for us winning has dropped to 3.95 compared Ghana's 1.95 (or there abouts). I remember seeing before the tournament we were pretty close.

DR1964 while that Ukraine example is very heartening, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia are very very different opposition to Ghana and Serbia. Will be a much tougher assignment for us. Plus these sort of examples are always the exception to the rule. I'm sure there are more examples out there of teams losing their first game convincingly and dropping out of the tournament. I'm an avid socceroos supporter and want nothing more than for them to prove me wrong and succeed. But I'm just trying to keep things in perspective

As long as we don't gain a whole lot of yellow cards against ghana, thus dismissing half the team from the final game against serbia then perhaps we will have a chance. (that hoard of yellow cards from the first game was pathetic esp how some of them were accrued)

hotrod spot on my friend.

We can still do it, but it will be tough. One false move and where GORN.

predictions.
serbia 1-0 germany
ghana 1-1 australia

well well well whadya know...

the serbia win of course.

following serbia win against germany is now about 3 %

holy shit!
my predictions were correct!

:(