And if Ange selects Dave Carney....

Davidson has really come along this season. On current form and quality of competition he has become one of our better players.

Would prefer Davidson or Aziz Behich. Carney for me should only be used LW/LW. Maybe Curtis Good or another young player from the A-League in order to blood them for the Asian Cup?

fo me Zullo hasn't shown enough on loan a AUFC.. Davidson on the other hand is killing is and only 22, every one raves about some younger players but none i can think of have had as a good of a start to their careers as him as far as high level consistent first team football, except maybe Oar

One of the left back spots for the world cup squad may go to Brad Smith as an incitement to play for Australia.

This forum will go into absoloute meltdown. World War III will commence, with North Korea attacking & invading South Korea. Pakistan will nuke India, whilst Iran will launch nukes into Israel, who in retaliation will launch 3 nukes into every neighboring Arab nation, essentially rendering the Middle East a Nuclear wasteland. Canada will launch a covert sniper team into LA to take out Justin Bieber, thus ending 'Canada's Embarrassment & Shame'. The IRA will announce that they're resuming war against the British Government and show their intent by successfully blowing up the houses of Parliament.

America and the world (who are already reeling from the aforementioned events) will be further shocked when the Amish community in Pennsylvania will reveal themselves to be space Aliens who had secretly been infiltrating the U.S Government for decades. They will declare war against the World, rising up in tripod-like killing machines
(operated by horses) as seen in War of the Worlds, however they will still wear outdated clothes and be affected by any other technology.

These horse-drawn killing tripods will make their way to Brazil and destroy all the stadia, including those that are still unfinished, before swimming across the South Atlantic Ocean (Godzilla style) consuming all but the ugliest of bottom-dwelling sea creatures, before rising out of the ocean in the South of France, where they will proceed to make a beeline for FIFA HQ in Switzerland.

President, Sepp Blatter will be in his office rubbing out a few morning knuckle children (Hey, who said 77-year old men can't masturbate!!!) to a photo of Cristiano Ronaldo giving 'head' to Wayne Rooney back in his Man Utd. days you know the photo I'm taking about, before thinking about how to punish the Syrian National Football team who during a 'friendly-relations' match with Turkey, pulled out AK-47's from under their tracksuits during the national anthem and slaughtered the entire Turkish team, including coaching staff, before opening fire upon the crowd of 45,000 women & children in the stands. Men had been banned from attending this game due to excessive flares and violence, this being imposed by new head of Turkish football, Ben Buckley.

Suddenly a dark looming shadow will fall across Blatter's office. Blatter, whose pants were on the other side of the room, gets up to peer outside, only to be confronted by an Amish Alien in a horse-drawn tripod, with a vaporizing gun. Unfortunately for world football, Blatter's heart which was already racing due to the vigorous rubbing he had been giving himself, combined with unhealthy diet of double cheese & bacon burgers with a caviar garnish gave way before the Amish Alien could pull the trigger on his vaporizing gun. Nevertheless the Amish Alien destroys the FIFA HQ killing a number of suspect corrupt individuals.

With the world in absolute turmoil and the 2014 FIFA World Cup moved rapidly to Qatar (the only Middle Eastern nation to avoid being Nuked), every nation who had qualified decides to boycott the Cup. Teams that had never and never will qualify even close to the finals will be picked, with nations like Mongolia, Cuba, South Sudan, Zimbabwe (Gotta Keep Zimbo's happy), Malta (gotta keep Bowden happy), Armenia and the Solomon Islands representing their nations on the worlds biggest stage for the only time ever, in front of record crowds in Qatar of around 32 sheiks, and a few lost camels that wandered in off the desert (some sporting odd Nuclear fallout ailments, like 10 humps, and 9 legs...)

After some pretty woeful quality of football played, with nobody in the world actually giving a flying fuck, and not even Al-Jazeera bothering to send cameras or reporters to the Cup (due to 90% of their staff being killed during the initial outbreak of Nuclear Warheads raining down on the Middle East, and the rest of them in Pensylvannia covering the Amish-Alien uprising, calling it the 'payback upon America that had been coming for decades'), the final was held in Doha between Madagascar & Sri Lanka, with Madagascar running out 2-1 winners in Extra time. Sri Lanka, whose national team is so shit, and without any players who anybody recognises, rushes in retired international cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan, and gives him the #11 jersey, at the ripe age of 41. Muralitharan winds up being the Golden Boot in the competition with 18 goals, his trademark 'googly eyes', freaking the fuck out of defenders and goalkeepers like. However he is sent off in the final by referee Ben Williams in the final, after picking up the ball during a free kick, and sending down only what a can be described as a 'wrong-un', which left the Madagascan keeper stunned after it rose over the wall, outside the left-hand side of the 6-yard box and darted into the side of the net.

Meanwhile, now living in Southern Vietnam after moving from the Jets to An Giang F.C. in the V-League 1 during the off-season, David Carney be like:

I trust in Ange even if he selects Carney. The guy knows what he's doing.

Heiniken, it was worth dealing with you for five years to read that post.

Heineken going for post of the year early.

Davidson or Lowry. Maybe just Davidson, but he's looked nervy the last couple of Socceroos games he's played.

That Heineken post is the best thing I've read all year.

Leave Justin Bieber out of this Heine. o:)

I lol'd the most at the googly eyes part. Great post Heineken :lol: :lol:

Yeah, like fuck, good post Heiny
Faptastic
...

I dislike Carney as a LB, but as a LW - he actually showed he has something to offer in the Canada game. I was there, and bagging him before the game as being useless as a LB, but being pushed up to the wing he showed he could still do a job. I think there are better options available at LW, but definitely keep him far away from our defense.

Where's Hoffman?

1. As soon as that announcement is made I'll be heading to Supercheap to buy a screw driver.

2. If he plays I'll promptly proceed to poke my eyes out;

Who the fuck voted for Behich?

Where's Brad Smith in that list?

Pecking order for me at left back is Davidson, Lowry, Smith

Definitely David Carney 8-[

How I'd rate them atm:

Davidson
Lowry
Zullo
Behich
>>>>>>>>>
Hoffman
Carney

You just wanna see a World Cup final between Madagascar & Sri Lanka held in Doha, don't you! :lol:

:lol: Exactly

Ange would pick Zullo over Lowry every day of the week.

I've got to say I have been checking Zullo out every game but he has not stepped up IMHO.

He was better a few years ago when at Roar than he is currently.

You can't ignore Brad Smith either...playing for Liverpool at left back could be a reality for him this season.

I would cap him at the very least and offer him a development spot in the WC squad as a minimum.

the wankfest for Brad Smith has to stop. Yes he could potentially be a very good player, but he has never even given an indication that he wants to play for Australia.

Also, the only reason he made his debut is because Liverpool were crippled with injuries - hell he didn't even play in his favoured position.

I'd be genuinely surprised if he played more minutes this year in the first team - and until he says otherwise i'm going to think of him as an englishman.

=d>

Saw this on twitter and thought it was interesting.
http://worldcupreport.wordpress.com/2014/02/06/phantom-23-man-brazil-squad-february/

Zullo may not have stepped up but Lowry is apparently having an absolute awful time in the championship this season. Not just the red cards, his stats appear to be the worst of any semi-regular player in his team.