To quote ange
" the thing about blooding youth is that they never let you down, but sometimes they surprise you"

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Oikonomidis show starts at 0:55

Edited by moofa: 2/3/2015 03:01:25 PM

By the time Ange saw fit to give Brad Smith his Socceroos debut against lowly Belgium on the 4th of September 2014, he had only played four senior games for Swindon in the lofty English third division (against powerhouses Scunthorpe, Gillingham, Crewe Alexandra and Coventry City) as well as his 30 minute cameo for Liverpool the season before. Not to mention the fact that only one or two of those four games for Swindon would have been played before Ange finalised his squad for those friendlies. The majority of Ange's decision to cap him would have come from watching his Liverpool U21 games, surely.

I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with this AT ALL, this is why I love Ange, and I think it's also fair to say that someone playing (against grown men) in the reserves of one of the biggest teams in South America could get a loan in League One as well, as could someone who is clearly the standout in the U20's for a very big Italian team, who several Serie B clubs have wanted on loan.

On the left:

Kid must slay the Italian woozas.

How may goals has he scored this season?

He is basically the Cristiano Ronaldo of that league

Two, m8.

One Serie A game against Cesena, and one Coppa Italia match against Torino. Sat next to Klose on the plane.

like a dragon.

13 goals in 20 games in all comps, and an electric buttload of assists. He's especially provided great service to their regular number 9, Palombi, from what I've seen.

But yeah nah you'd want to encourage Aussie kids to go for NRL and AFL careers instead of sokkah so they can see places like Cronulla and Launceston and nail as many bogan scrags as you can handle, hey.

That blue is too subtle :lol:

There is a big difference between youth and senior football. He might be a good youth player but senior football is a different beast altogether.

So now he needs to make it to the seniors, that will be his true test.

Edited by Barca4life: 2/3/2015 03:38:45 PM

Were we talking specifically debuts? These guys are first choice socceroos aren't they?

Smith - He's played about 15 minutes LAST SEASON for Liverpool wearing the number 57 or something, not a chance in hell of making even the squad atm. He played about 3 games for Swindon then was recalled because he was whinging about playing in League One. Currently playing u21 level football.

Taggart - Last season? He will get a call up in a weeks time at which point he will be playing at u21 level...

Davidson - Guy hasn't even made the first team squad in months, currently playing u21 grade football....

Do I need to keep going? Did I ever say to even give that Ikon kid a run? NO cause its a fkn stupid idea, Babalj was killing it at youth level in Dutch league couldn't get a run at all.

Back to the bin Oscar.






Edited by jas88: 2/3/2015 03:39:23 PM

Don't change your argument... He said "only player youth football"

You lost this one, and got collectively laughed at. Cop it on the chin and move on.

Just seen Jedinak's elbow,. obviously molding his game around the far superior player in Milligan.

In all seriousness though, I hope he doesn't receive a lengthy ban after just coming back from injury and starting again. Wouldn't be good having our captain go into a game against the worlds best international team with only 1 game played in basically the 2 months before it.

I see white and gold.

fuck up grub

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Not even going to pretend to contain my man love any longer, so here's a facebook page.

Lol. I'm assuming you set this up.

You mean the lowly 3rd tier team that contains arguable Australia's best young player and current Asian Cup MVP?

As far as rating the standard of the Primavera. You have to realise that most of those guys are not Serie A level and many of them end up in the lower end of Lega pro or Serie D. Iacoppo La Rocca was also at SS Lazio youth academy.

That being said, I hope Chris makes it because statistically he is an outlier if he does make it in the Serie A, so lets hope he is an anomaly rather than the status quo. Roughly 9% of Serie A players are actually developed by Serie A clubs.

It's up there with my anti-4222 formation page. (That's not a thing).

I am indeed aware of this, yes. The fact that he's been riding the pine for the seniors and they've knocked back loan requests from Serie B clubs would suggest that he's in that 9%, however.

Either way his career at this point is very similar to Brad Smith's, who is back in the Liverpool U21's.

Ajdin Hrustic also getting two goals and an assist against Barabant United, which is also a joint youth team of RKC Waalwijk and FC Den Bosch.

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You absolute donut.

Brad Smith will most likely be involved in Liverpool U21's game against Chelsea at 06:00 Tuesday morning AEDT. There should be streams here.

Edited by paladisious: 2/3/2015 05:36:05 PM

Why go on a rant when you have to ask what we were talking about?

Seems like a waste of energy to me. :lol:

As for my original point, I'll give you a little hint. It's located somewhere above your useless rant about nothing. ;)

Edited by socceroo_06: 2/3/2015 05:41:34 PM

Wikipedia doesnt count cup games so nor do I.

=d> =d> =d>

noice

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