Clubs may not have knocked down the door, but he's a guy who has seriously slipped under the radar in World football. An excellent goal scoring ratio, and is a major asset with both his height and his ability to work the ball at his feet to find half a yard to shoot (a seriously under rated part of his game).
Would be great for a promoted Premier League team in need of some goals, a target man and a constant threat.

What a record!

While i rate Kennedy, he's really nothing special. I think you have to be offered spots in Europe to say yes to one, i don't see clubs knocking down the door.

Nagoya fans think of him as a deity. Would be hard to leave a club that he does well at and fans that absolutely adore him.

it was not his fault that under previous coaching regimes our football was varying degrees of terrible and too direct and that's been proven since with the awful play with Cahill upfront and then the dramatic changed enacted via Ange.

Jedi made ESPN's EPL team of the week.

What a beast.

No kidding. I've read that when he was first trying to trial in Melbourne and Sydney after coming from Albury-Woodonga they told him to fuck off and play AFL.

Edited by paladisious: 7/4/2014 01:50:40 AM

Nice! Any comments on him from the panel?

Vukovic on bench again as Vegalta Sendai go down 4-0 to Urawa Red Diamonds.

Would have been better off staying at Glory?

So, results for potential socceroos over the weekend:

Mile Jedinak (90min)
Lucas Neill (90min)
Bailey Wright (90min)
Neil Kilkenny (90min)
Mitch Langerak (90min)
Mathew Leckie (90min + 1 assist)
Mat Ryan (90min)
Tomislav Mrcela (90min)
Joshua Kennedy (90min + 2 goals)
Brett Holman (90min + 1 assist)
Ryan McGowan (90min)

Dario Vidosic (83min)
Mark Bresciano (81min)
Massimo Luongo (70min)
Ben Halloran (71min + 1 goal)
Adam Sarota (70min)
Nikita Rukavytsya (15min)
Oliver Bozanic (2min)

James Holland (DNP susp)

Chris Herd (DNP)
Brad Jones (DNP)
Jason Davidson (DNP)
Tommy Oar (DNP)
Luke Wilkshire (DNP)

Rhys Williams (DNP inj)
Trent Sainsbury (DNP inj)
Tim Cahill (DNP inj)

Would've had more practice.

Jovanovic (CB) makes the K-League team of the week

Jedinak got another win to pull Crystal Palace further away from relegation.

You mean the game against Cardiff 4 days ago yeah?

Once Arnie gets sacked, which probably won't be too long away unless he starts getting wins, I can see Vukovic and McGlinchey coming back to the A-League riddy-tick.

Definitely should be considered for the world cup.

Neill came off injured in the 65th minute, apparently feeling his hamstring.

I've not seen him play, but isn't this his for K-League season? Unless I'm thinking of someone else that was playing 2nd Div over there...?


No no...:cool:

:lol: To be serious, hope it isn't too bad for him. Don't begrudge him trying his best to crack the NT...but my preference is that he not be there.

Jovanovic played in the Korean second tier last season. Prior to that he was playing in the Serbian first division.

Tomislav Mrcela (90min)

how good is he? would he be worth taking to the world cup?

Ah, so it is him. Someone I've only heard about, but never seen.

Well, if he can keep his form up (as it's obviously good, since he made TotW), then he'll get some more eyes on him.

We really need some CBs to hit form, as we're pretty thin.

Sportnet: How important is faith to you?

Terrence Boyd: Man praying already that you remain healthy and work out things.

James Holland: In football and in life generally it is very important. He plays a big role for me.

Sportnet: Some say that Rapid is a religion. Is that right, Terrence?

Boyd: Definitely. It is more than a club. The fans think after getting up only to Rapid. I think it's cool that it shapes their everyday lives so.

Holland: Rapid is not a religion, I follow. It's hard to comment for me.

Sportnet: Are the sums that are in football game, crazy?

Boyd: It's crazy, if you compare it to normal working people. My step-father is an electrician. What I spend a month on food, my family has to live for the whole month. It is sobering, what numbers are in play there. On the other hand, has a footballer just ten years to make money. So it evens out. Finally it depends on how each handles his money.

Holland: In some areas, it is a bit ridiculous. But as Terrence rightly says: We make our money in a short period of time.

Sportnet: Where to make more, at Rapid or Austria?

Boyd: I do not know. I do not know what they deserve. (Both see a pretty girl on the roadside)

Holland: Oh, baby. We still have space in here.

Boyd: cab, stop! (Both laugh)

Sportnet: What would you study?

Boyd: Sport Management or art. Although I can not paint, but I like pictures. This hidden beauty. You can see it so much, you know I think that's cool.

Holland: I'm studying psychology. I would like to continue after retirement. After a year I interrupted. I must not necessarily be a psychologist, just'm just interested in the nature of man.

Sportnet: What was your life so far the toughest test?

Boyd: When my grandfather died. That was three or four years ago. If you are for the first time a man lose, then you wake up and think to yourself: The problems that you have in football, no. It was a great loss. The important thing is that your family is healthy, because you can not buy with money. I have therefore not afraid of anything tattooed on me and Old High German on the arm: it goes on.

Holland: For me it was my time in Holland. When I got there at 19, I was all alone on a new continent. In football, it ended badly, the coach did not like me. I was inwardly broken to Vienna. Fortunately, I got the chance. In life, you always get the chance if you work hard.

Boyd: Eben. You've played this year Champions League.

We're really scraping the bottom of the barrel if we think some dude who plays for some lowly HNL club is good enough for the Socceroos, just by virtue of playing in Croatia.