Hell no. He's never playing another international

He looked pretty good in that match, I mean he's playing a higher level then most of the socceroos team. In saying that selecting him is kind of a backwards step for Ange, I think I would be more inclined to see a younger guy given sometime to impress, if come January we are struggling for a RB then maybe he can get a look in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfG_l6bhyzE

Leckie and Ingolstadt highlights. Nice stadium!

Are people interested in minutes played/game time from Socceroos in competitive matches? Since the season started 3 weekends ago:

Scott McDonald Millwall 423
Bailey Wright Preston North End 411

Cameron Burgess Fulham 360
Adam Federici Reading 360
Mat Ryan Club Brugge 360
Massimo Luongo Swindon 353
Luke Wilkshire Feyenoord 352
Neil Kilkenny Preston North End 332

Alex Wilkinson Jeonbuk 270
Aleksandar Jovanović Jeju United 270
Mitch Langerak Dortmund   270
Tomislav Mrčela Lokomotiva 247
Bradden Inman Crewe Alexandra 246
Joshua Kennedy Nagoya Grampus 232
James Meredith Bradford City 215

That's all >200 minutes. Didn't bother going lower than L1. Sourced from OSAussies blog.

Fulham v Everton U21s tonight, Aston Villa U21's playing also, likely a good few Aussies in action.

Nice stats! Funny that it comes from OSAussies though. Adam is obsessed with game time :lol:

Is he Ange in disguise?

You talk like this forum is homogenous.

I can only speak for myself but I've barely ever uttered a word about Oar, nor have I ever spoken about the Eredivisie before.

My post in this thread is just relaying the opinions of people who watch the league a lot more than I do who believe it's a very poor league. The only other opinions I've seen regarding the Eredivise have been from this forum and I am skeptical how much people on this forum have actually watched the league.

I don't doubt it's a step up from the A-League. We're talking about people who primarily watch the EPL though so that's the relative basis for their opinion. One must also factor in the contradictory nature of how the English talk about football. On one hand, they are often derogatory about their national team, and I find many of them to be very derogatory and critical of their own teams. Yet, they are even more derisive of other football leagues... Must be all that dreary weather.

if they are a regular in osaussies they would have watched the league regularly

Babalj just scored for AZ reserves.


Sittard v Telstar: Quinn, Dougall, Marveggio all on the bench.

Ascroft and Cooper nowhere to be seen.

Edited by playmaker11: 26/8/2014 03:57:09 AM

and another one for Babalj

and he makes it a hatrick to win the match 4-3 after being 3-1 down.



Edited by playmaker11: 26/8/2014 04:26:06 AM

6 goals in 3 games
thats beating down the door you would think

I'm not sure I'd take him at DM but honestly I thought he looked great at RB and didn't really see the lack of pace/fitness that others mentioned. His short passing like you said is amazing, he looks a class above in that regard. Also in the game the other night, particularly in the first half, he delivered so many great crosses.

I'd rather Luke at RB than McGowan tbh. I would prefer a fit Franjic though.

Go Babalj. He'll have to get a chance at some stage.

Giannou with a brace in the first game of the season with his side getting a 2-1 win. Will try and find highlights later

He's good enough.

Imagine a front two of Babalj and Juric at the Asia Cup.That would certainly scare a few defences.

Eli Babalj may soon get his opportunity with AZ Alkmaar. Coach Marco van Basten was scathing in assessing his side’s 3-0 defeat to Willem II Tilburg on Saturday. Earlier in the week, van Basten told Dutch media he was closely monitoring the Australian’s progress at training. “We’ll judge him on the training and what we see in the matches of his promise,” van Basten said.


From Foxsports website in a article about osaussies before this mornings reserve match.

That sounds very promising
we arent far from having a team thats actually ok

That's great, to have comment like that and then come out a get a hat trick , surely the manager has enough to back up the comments . Elis biggest issue has been staying fit , let's hope he puts a decent run of matches together

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Giannou's game. Scored the first and third. Both off crosses, second much better.

Decent. Wonder why he doesn't get a look in. How does the Greek league stack up to the HAL? Thought Ange would have people there watching him, you know, Greek connections and all...

Gethin Jones playing the 90 at RB for Everton U21s in their 2-1 loss to Fulham.

Just read the West Brom forum post match review and nearly all comments on Davidson were positive. The only negative was a guy who said that he looked very, very good but seemed to be very left footed. All other reports were that we was solid and that they didn't look much weaker with him on.
The general vibe though was that he wouldn't be in the match day squad in a full strength side.

My thoughts exactly. Especially with his Greek contacts and Giannou's form for a while now.

You should take this personally and do everything you can to distance yourself from the herd.

Having a look at the Reading forum, they seem convinced that Feds will be dropped for McCarthy unless McCarthy leaves before the window closes, which is possible as he's already in talks. They also don't seem to rate Edwards very much, a few blokes have him on the bench in ideal line ups for this week, but only due to injuries.

How can this be, I thought Ryan Edwards was the greatest player to ever live (equal with Cameron Edwards). 8-[

Almost hooked me with that last line. :lol: