oar's goal and match highlights

http://allscorers.com/24-Feb-2013/Utrecht-v-Roda.html

Yep, both are starting :)

Rogic starting for Celtic v Motherwell this morning.
Holland starting for Austria Wien too..all three matches kick off within the next half hour or so.

Edited by JayEss: 28/2/2013 06:20:33 AM

ugh spl is an ugly league to watch...

rogic struggling winning arial duels (which seems to be 90% of the game in the spl!)

had a couple of nice touches so far

Yeah, he's not great in the air. One or two of them he has peeled off the side to get the crumbs cause a team-mate has been steaming through though.

He's playing alright, certainly looking a lot more comfortable with his role - he seems to be getting on the ball more and pushing forward a little more compared to other matches he's played for the hoops. Starting to run with the ball also which is nice to see.

Edited by JayEss: 28/2/2013 07:12:43 AM

rogic does look like he needs an off season to improve his defence. His attacking touches are decent so far

rogic has been playing very deep in this game. Starting to get involveda lot more. First 15minutes it looked like his team mates had something against him not passing to him at all. Now he's had some confident touches and starting to touch the ball more regularly

gosh I'd like to see the pass completion rate of this game.....must be below 50

celtic starting to play something resembling football

defensive error leads to goal for motherwell

not to be selfish but I don't care as long as rogic isnt at fault

Edited by grazorblade: 28/2/2013 07:17:57 AM

Poor goal to give away.

Anyway, he's playing alright. Holger needs to pick Rogic for the Oman match, we need players like him for the qualifiers and beyond.

Edited by JayEss: 28/2/2013 07:22:08 AM

my forehead is sore from all this facepalming

so many awful passes
fortunately rogic hasnt had any

but why the heck is rogic playing so deep?

rogic decides to be physical and wins the ball

thats the way fouls dont exist in this league

half time. Rogic played well but not spectacular but I suspect you would see a substitution at half time. They seem to be playing 2 attacking mids which seems a little unbalanced. There is a slight chance rogic could get subbed but I hope not

if I was the coach I would sub commons and either kyle or rogic (even though the latter two have been the best they need a mid fielder who can play deep and work the ball forward and win posession)

Edited by grazorblade: 28/2/2013 07:34:33 AM

or even better play rogic or kayal more forward (sorry its kayal not kyle apparently) and sub on a genuine cm or dm

granted i missed the first half hour of the match, but saw the last 15 minutes and rogic is not looking that great tbh. He seems lost when celtic need to defend, and seems to be well off the pace. When he's had the ball i've seen so many of his passes be to the guy standing about 2m away who's more tightly marked than rogic, he's played about 3 balls that weren't to the guy who looked the easiest and 2 were either over or underhit and got disposed without too much difficulty with his the one run that had some intent. Hate to be a miser and I know that I am being critical of the guy because I want him to succeed at the highest level, but in the bit of game time he had against dundee there were some of the same signs.

On the plus side, he was seeing a fair bit of ball, and despite what people say Celtic try and do play along the ground rather than long ball stuff. He's only young and still adjusting (thinking how much of a fat useless shit Carlos Hernandez looked like when he first started in the A-League), but after seeing him tonight I wouldn't mind if Holger left him out of the Oman game to let him get up to speed at Celtic. Hope the second half is better for him

reading the celtic forums almost universal praise for rogic except for his physicality

Has anyone seen the first half of the Middlesbrough game? Seems Williams is playing defensive mid but that may just because of bikeys injury

rogic coming off sadly well thats the end of me watching this horrible league

rogic did ok considering he was playing dm

Can see why he was subbed off, but he was one of their better players. Celtic have been quite poor.

Problem is, he's playing out of position as a really deep playmaker and required to do a lot of defensive work, yet he's barely got a defensive bone in his body. Celtic do have plenty of attacking options, and he'll have to bide his time to get a crack up there.

Time to watch the Middlesbrough match :)

A big night of action for the Aussies abroad http://osaussies.com/wednesday-wrap-18/

watched the last half an hour of the boro game, mac looked pretty good actually and rhys was solid won some 1v1s and I didnt see him miss a pass (all easy passes mind you)

Thursday's Aussies abroad action http://osaussies.com/thursday-wrap-20/

Good news about behich

Here's Fridays wrap feat. A couple of Socceroos http://osaussies.com/friday-wrap-22/

2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2013

All the action from Saturday involving the Aussies abroad http://osaussies.com/saturday-wrap-22/

Thread title OS Aussies update (February 30th update)? Looking forward to February 31st

Watching Kruse now for Ddorf. Ruka injured and not in Mainz squad.

UPDATE: Sunday's wrap up of all the Aussies abroad http://osaussies.com/sunday-wrap-23/