While the result may be meaningless, the value is in getting the team together, building cohesion, learning to play the system, etc.

I wouldn't mind the first Sept game in Basle, Switzerland and then the mid-week in Madrid.

Definitely UAE in January.
http://au.fourfourtwo.com/news/169014,roos-set-for-january-uae-date.aspx

The Victorian Government pay for the main game each year. Unfortunately for Victorians that was the World Cup send off against New Zealand. From memory the MCG is not available anyway as it is under preparation for the cricket season in October. Sydney getting the Chile game would be appropriate as that is were most people of Chilean decent reside.

we need to take the asian cup seriously this time.
that seemed to be our biggest downfall.

august looks like its confirmed with slovenia

looking at the september clashes
supposed we are playing european nations, these are the only nations not playing on those fifa dates

3rd sep switzerland, denmark, czech republic
7th sep wales, cyprus, spain

oct is in sydney (sydney fc are giving away tickets to 'a socceroos clash tba in october' when you sign up new members

nov and the january warm up are anyones guess.
mine is egypt and uae

Totally get you, at the time, a lot of folk here felt that the FFA was trying to milk Melbourne for all it was worth. Many of us were happy for the May 'farewell game' to have been hosted elsewhere.

We will take it in a heartbeat

Im just saying its a bit rich to complain about Socceroo games when you are the lucky ones that get to see them in the first place. You get to see them play live, you get to see them train or if there is a day were the players meet the fans its you guys that get to do that with Cahil, Kewel, Schwarzer, Brech and co.....weve shed as many tears over Qualifying losses and stayed up through countless late nights praying for a great result as pasionatly as any Victorian, Sydnesider or Bannana beder and what do we get........f all

I still be a proud Socceroo and a United member till the day im pushing up dasies but sometimes its infuriating not to be given a chance.

Edited by UnitedGal: 29/6/2010 09:43:31 PM

Edited by UnitedGal: 29/6/2010 09:45:15 PM

Most of us in Melbourne were happy to hand the NZ game to either of your cities, trust us.

And Adelaide - its been too freeking long!!!!!!

A melbournian complaining about what opponents they get - they should count their lucky stars they get games unlike Adelaide and Perth

Edited by UnitedGal: 29/6/2010 09:29:31 PM

NAIL HAMMER HEAD

anyone that thinks our new generation are going to benfit for playing meaningless friendlys and thats it are deluded

This is a fantastic schedule of matches and will allow the new coach to build some momentum. Credit to FFA. Friendlies such as this are an important part of tournament preparation. We have come a long way in the last 6 to 10 years. People should remember that there was a time not so long ago that our national team played only a handful of matches in a calendar year. These regular matches for the national side can only be beneficial. Good news.

I hope they give Lowry a run at left back to test him at international level. IMO that was the biggest problem position in the team at the world cup. Hopefully he steps up as well as Vidosic and Williams.

you will find that most internationals will be played at suncorp as ffa did a deal with them to lower the roars overall costs

I don't think we will be playing against South Korea in a friendly as we will be playing against them in the Asian Cup. I'm guessing someone like Uzbeks, Iran or UAE for Asian teams

It's about time Perth got a proper Socceroos game.

+1. You only have to look at the confidence the US gained from the last Confederations Cup to show that it is a worthwhile tournament to be involved in.

Sick Idea.
Hopefully pays dividends for the asian cup. I'm a softy for the confederations cup and hey if it means we will likely play new zealand then boo yeah.

That looks accurate. I hope the September matches are in London.

Toys and prams.

Read somewhere that the games are:

August - Slovenia
Sept - Switzerland & another TBC
Oct - Chile
November - Eqypt
January - UAE

Its been this last world cup experience that has shown us that people like John Boultbee must go and be replaced by football people. Thanks for the service but its time to go!

I said Melbourne wants a proper farewell game.

mark viduka should coach the socceroos

It's not just about playing a heap of games it's how we play them. No more of this constant crappy double defensive midfielder crap all the time. If we have learnt anything from this WC it's to be more flexible and versatile in our approach with more emphasis in going forward.

Will be in Sydney. Brisbane had Indonesia, Melbourne had New Zealand.

Edited by Mr: 29/6/2010 05:52:48 PM

I think we should use the Asian cup to develop the next team, like the Olympics is used to develop the youngsters (or is supposed to be, thanks GA). No passengers. if Tim, Harry and Mark (and Marco, Brett and Jason too IMHO) say they want to go to Brazil then they can go in the squad but I wouldn't start them because in all honesty they likely won't start in 2014 if we qualify. Time to take a page out of Germany's book and learn from our mistakes. Bring on the new. Our average age in January should be 23, so the average age in 2014 is 26 or so like the Germans in this tournament.
BTW FIFA thinks we are playing Slovenia: http://www.fifa.com/associations/association=aus/fixturesresults/gender=m/index.html#

Totally agree.

Macca should play too.

Edited by TimmyJ: 29/6/2010 03:43:18 PM

There's talk of hosting Chile at home later this year, it better happen and it better happen in Melbourne so that we get a proper 'farewell game' to see off some of the boys.

A good move by the FFA and I hope now that Pim Verbeek has gone, the new trend will be for the governing body to arrange lots of friendlies involving the Socceroos, especially A-League-based Socceroos squads, whether the new coach likes it or not. Under Pim Verbeek a Soccerros squad made up of local players was always under-prepared because it never played a single friendly game ahead of Asian Cup qualifiers.

Friendless are by and large meaningless. Need tournament experience.