Good on them, they did well and even though they are out of the tournament they went out with a victory so I think they did great


What do you think about the FourFourTwo article Cruellest Win Of All?
AUSTRALIA have bowed out of the 2010 World Cup at the first hurdle but not before regaining some lost pride after producing a sensational 2-1 win over Serbia - a result which also cost the Balkan nation a chance of making it to the knockout stages.

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It is tough going out on the back of two great performances. At the end of the day same points as 2006. Still so proud of the win and performance this morning.

My man love for the Socceroos is restored. Shame those fucking nazis couldn't have done us a favour buy hey ho, that's football.

GUTTERED! DEVASTATED! but such a good effort. we held up our part of the bargain, but elsewhere it didnt go our way. we were made to pay for wasting our chances against Ghana, and of course that lack of fortune. GUTTERED

Total pride in the boys' recovery after the setbacks of the cards. Wish I'd been at the match. One was bad enough but Tim's unfair card in the first fucked us. And Josh is a good player but I can't help thinking a more sympathetic call like the top sides get would have saved
Harry and he've had put at least 2 more away tonight. Watched the mtach in a "Walkabout Inn", a cheesy antipodean London pub with teh Germany match on the other screen and saw Germany cruise after we went 2-0 up because they knew they'd won. FIFA are a bunch of shitbags because the boys could have won the whole thing if tonight was anything to go by and the refereeing is unfair at the least, favouring the 32 times champions and the African team which will be defeated soundly by USA in the next round. Bollox to them all until Brazil 2014.

i mean 3 times champtions of course, sorry couldnt be bothered to edit

Looking at the bigger picture, after so long not making it we have proved in this World Cup and the last one that we deserve to be there and are contenders. We deserve the 2022 World Cup as much as anyone.

Bit harsh on Schwarzy to say "howler". He was unsighted for most of it, and it took a wicked bounce right in front of him. Proud of you boys!!

Beauchamp was fantastic! Good signing for Heart to get him before the world cup where everyone can see his exploits!

Ghana won't have long to celibrate. In 3 games they have created nothing, and will fall at the next hurdle.

USA have shown they are more than a match for Africa's most over hyped team.

While I am proud of the boys, it is clear that our ex coach's approch to the Germany game is responsible for us dropping out of the tounament. Since that game he has done well, but I will always remember the way he had us go out against Germany.

Hiddink - Victory against Japan dispite all odds.
Verbeek - Screwing up the Germany game, and thus our R16 chances.

Players were awsome tonight. I didn't expect that they would get more than a couple of goals in this game, I did have faith we would win it. We didn't have the preperation, and form strikers to make it 4-0.

I do hope we get better treatment from the refs at the next world cup.

It wasn't a howler, it kinda came on him a bit weirdly, always difficult when it bounced that close to you. I think it moved in the air.

Another brilliant performance by him nevertheless. Arsene Wenger must be salvilating over him, i know i would be.

Well done Australia... really good performance. Such a shame we can't continue on through the tournament with this form.

Holman has made me eat my words and I am a fan now. Jesse Fink should apologise and write a congratulatory article about Holman.

I hate to be negative but it has to be said again.

One person is responsible for us not progressing and that is Pim Verbeek and his decisions/tactics/formation and mindset that he sent out against Germany. 4-0 will always be the result with that kind of non-sense.

Fair enough Greece can play that way, Italy too and a few other nations, but it simply is not part of the Australian psyche or thought process.

The next Aussie coach should be sat down in front of a DVD player and the biggest TV the FFA can find with Pim's team sheet, tactical sheet and log book and shown that performance 10 times straight.

Just so it is clear what I am getting at.

IF ANY AUSTRALIAN COACH EVER SENDS OUT AN AUSTRALIAN TEAM WITH THAT MINDSET, THOSE TACTICS AND THAT FORMATION (Germany 4-0) AGAINST ANY TEAM IN THE WORLD EVER AGAIN. HE SHOULD BE SACKED IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE GAME.

It should have been enough to go through. We can point the finger squarely at Pim that it wasn't.

The boys did well and can hold their heads high. Pim can **** off to Morrocco. Bring on the new and improved younger Roos for the Asian Cup and 2014...

Bloody heck, didn't realise people could be as bad as the SBS pundits. We love playing the hindsight card eh?

Pim did well, we won a match at the world cup ffs, against a team way better than Japan.

It wasn't long ago that people would trade their organs, limbs and first borns to just get to the World Cup.

What a shock we'll be in when the rest of this Golden Age retire...

Edited by andytoddselbow: 24/6/2010 07:32:52 AM

Well done Australia you fully deserved that victory. Fucking arrogant Serbia, as a fan of Serbia I cant believe Antic's mindset heading into the match. He rested Subotic and Kolarov because they were one yellow away from missing the next match. Stupid mentality going into a match thinking your gonna win it easy. Altough we dominated the possesion Australia were far better. To all the socceroo fans that feel that Verbeek era was sucess think again cos australia should have gotten out of group. Dont blame referees.

Well done Australia you fully deserved that victory. Fucking arrogant Serbia, as a fan of Serbia I cant believe Antic's mindset heading into the match. He rested Subotic and Kolarov because they were one yellow away from missing the next match. Stupid mentality going into a match thinking your gonna win it easy. Altough we dominated the possesion Australia were far better. To all the socceroo fans that feel that Verbeek era was sucess think again cos australia should have gotten out of group. Dont blame referees.

Loved the AVEAGO spirit! I`m strangely happy for our boys. They did us proud!!! Pim`s to blame if you want to blame someone. We did get some unlucky reffing decisions, but the reff was good tonight, almost unnoticeable, which is how it is supposed to be. It is a bit of coulda, shoulda but in the end. Well done to a GREAT GENERATION! bring on the next generation!

Next world cup we should still have GOALman (no longer LOLman) too!

Our team won the game because they showed more drive, commitment & passion than Serbia. We wanted it more than them & went out & took it, while they perhaps thought it was gonna come a bit easier for them.
Well done Aussies, you played your hearts out.

Thats tough! I really wanted to see you guys make it through and when Holman banged that screamer in I thought we could see a collapse by Serbia and you guys slam a couple more home...alas it wasn't to be!

I don't think it's totally fair for y'all to blame Verbeek for the failure to make it to the next round. The card to Cahill, while dubious, was invited by the over zealous challenges he and others had been making. Besides, you guys should've known that Verbeek prefers to play boring defensive strategies and grind out results rather than look at creating more goal-scoring threats - look at the Korean team he took to the Asian Cup; defensively very strong but couldn't score in a whorehouse! Unfortunately for you guys your defenders are a bit crusty.

Anyway, at the end of the day you guys qualified for the cup and got the same results as 2006 so that ain't too bad; at least you didn't head backwards. Hard luck guys.

Can't help but feel gutted.

I'm suspicous that Gernamy went 1-0 and didn't go on with it as well as some of the shite ref calls again in our game.

No way do Ghana deserve to go through on what I saw. I guess if South africa went through all things would be different.

Sour grapes....you bet.

Congrdulations to Holman. He came on and played his role to perfection. I must admit when he got the ball in space Iturned to the wife and said ' shit the wrong person to give it too in that spot". I ate my words 1 second later.

Cahill playing out of midfield was exactly correct...never upfront as they mark him out of the game plus he is not onto the ball.

Can't blame Schwarz for the gaff. Low hard, moving ball on moist grass bouncing just in front is not a simple take.

He saved our balls many more times then let them through IMO.

If you had asked me before the tournament, I would have taken a 2-0 loss to Germany (same as Brazil '06). This would still not have been enough and we essentially got the same amount of points against better teams.

We did OK and I am ane who now looks at Holman with different eyes.

Top work by all the boys!

Really proud of our boys.

In all honesty, i was just happy to be at the World Cup.

But we walk away with heads held high.

Now i get to watch Brazil/Portugal, Chile/Spain and many, many other killer games without any stress!!

Oh geez I must've dozed off more than I thought - I was sure we played attacking football in the last two matches. Certaily more than in qualifying, which lo and behold, is excatly what Pim said!

Is there no end to this diatribe?

I laugh at those who made fun of holman, bar far the best aussies best player. Holman vs Carle?, it seems stupid to compare now. Onwards t the asian cup, Go socceroos

"Holman, once LOLman, now GOALman"
Love that analogy!!! I'm really happy for him, he proved his detractors wrong in the best possible way.
Valeri too has come of age and I was thinking, if Grella wants to take a year off, go right ahead, we are ok with Valeri.
Has anyone ever seen Beauchamp look better in a green and gold jersey? He was fantastic. Whereas he once looked lost at sea, now looks a power of confidence and the perfect deputy to Lucas Neill as CB.
Carney was a bit disapointing. More first team experience for Shane Lowry and Carney is in deep trouble.
I'm proud of our boys, they exited on a positive note and has restored the Socceroos brand to its rightful place in Australia's psyche. In the last two games, they fought tenaciously and endlessly and we can be all rightly proud of them. I know I am!
BTW. McLovin' the Tim Cahill pic on the top of the article. No wonder those dreadlock beanies always sell out at Roo matches!

In all my years of watching the WC Ghana would have to be one of the worst teams to ever make it through. Bloody disgrace!!

Im Very proud of the Socceroos! Holmans goal got to be up there for goal of the WC

The boys did the job on Serbia when most people said otherwise. At least we knocked the war crims out as they said all week they'd roll us.