Well, the odds aren't with us now as far as progressing from our group. Let's just say the red card and penalty were absurdly harsh and very rarely do you see them given, although by the letter of the law, it was the right decision.

What I do have to say is that I'm incredibly proud of 9 of the ten men we had on the pitch for most of the game, and proud of Harry for his twenty minutes of contribution - probably his last action at a World Cup.

Pim got the starting lineup and tactics almost exactly right, and all credit to him for that. We were on top and comfortable. After the sendoff, even, they never looked like scoring, we played like we should have against Germany - with verve, fight, and scrap coming out of every orifice. We would have gone on to win comfortably - they created nothing, even with an extra man.

Holman, Valeri, Wilkshire, Carney, Bresciano, Emerton, Neill, Schwarzer. All absolutely 14000% for the cause. Culina had a poor-ish match, but what do you expect when you chop and change a guy so much he doesn't know what his role is? Moore played exactly as he has the last year and a half - with some technically good defending mixed in with painfully slow and lazy patches which were lucky not to lead to opposition goals. That being said - I think all the boys gave it their all and the Australian spirit somehow got injected back into the team after that aberration against Germany.

I hope we can come out and fulfil our part of the plan against Serbia - and inflict a heavy defeat on them. I hope we come out and attack and have the attitude we had today against them - we will stand every chance in that case. If Ghana play like they did today they will get thumped by a wounded Germany. We are hanging on by a thread, but it's a fairly strong looking thread...

I'll still be glad to see Pim go, but I'm glad he got it right for at least one game before he left. Even his substitutions were excellent.