Its up now on my page. Go go. 

what the heck is the score

looked like a pretty impressive goal

to be honest when I look at us we look pretty good. I'm surprised though its not a flogging like the previous two games

some of this attack is very nice to watch

4-0 to Aus judging by the comments.

you feel like finishing is the last piece of the puzzle for these boys. Really needs to be a huge focus on this for the next crop of youngsters.

good because this play deserves a lopsided scoreline

Another good result, seen snippets of the game, some nice stuff should have been more.

Apparently, Ray Gatt tweeted something around that Tony Vidmar could get axed as the coach, and he will get replaced by a new coach for the qualifiers, he thinks its a result that the FFA COE isnt going to continue as its purely a cost cutting measure.....hopefully he can get a gig in the a-league.

He suggests Peter Cklamovski will take over for the qualifiers in China, one of Ange's assistants at the Socceroos and Victory.

He also tweeted about sokkazoo funding being cut. Could be huge. 

Match report from last night:


The scorers for Australia were:
> Brodie Boyce (Queensland Academy of Sport).
> Joshua Varga (Nunawading City). This was his second goal of the tournament.
> Lachlan Sepping (Marconi Stallions). This was his second goal of the tournament, and he was also Man of the Match.
> Luke Duzel (Melbourne City).
> Noah Botic (Sydney Olympic). This was his third goal of the tournament.

Also, every player in the squad has now played at least one game this tournament, and of the 12 players that are listed in midfield or forward positions, only one is yet to score.

5-0 is pretty good from what I saw. This team we played offered little in attack (or perhaps we didn't let them offer much) but were defensively stronger than the other minnows we have played

Budget cuts must be big at the FFA. I did some searching around and it seems the Olyroos have already flown out to Myanmar for the qualifiers with their first match against Brunei on Wednesday at 6.30pm aest. No final squad list was announced except for the 26 man squad that had to training matches against wsw and ccm. 

I wonder where the money from these budget cuts is going...
I wonder if anyone at the FFA has taken a pay cut yet...

At this rate we are going to have all 3 teams miss out on world cup/olympics again...reap in what you sow FFA

What kind of organisation makes so many funding cuts like what the FFA have done recently....must be about trying to find as money as they can so they keep the a-league clubs quiet whilst they keep power of the a-league.

This new 'funding' model better work lol

Squad for the U-23 AFC Cup qualifiers;

First Name	Surname	Position	DOB	Club
Daniel	ARZANI	Forward	04-01-99	Melbourne City FC
Jonathan	ASPROPOTAMITIS	Defender	07-06-96	Western Sydney Wanderers FC
George	BLACKWOOD	Midfielder	06-04-97	Adelaide United FC
Trent	BUHAGIAR	Forward	27-02-98	Central Coast Mariners FC
Joe	CALETTI	Midfielder	01-01-98	Brisbane Roar FC
Devante	CLUT	Midfielder	16-10-95	Newcastle Jets FC
Nicholas	COWBURN	Defender	07-03-95	Newcastle Jets FC
Thomas	DENG	Defender	20-03-97	Melbourne Victory FC
Keanu	BACCUS	Defender	07-06-98	Western Sydney Wanderers FC
Thomas	GLOVER	Goalkeeper	14-12-97	Tottenham Hotspur, England
Paul	IZZO	Goalkeeper	06-01-95	Adelaide United FC
Lachlan	JACKSON	Defender	12-03-95	Newcastle Jets FC
Bruce	KAMAU	Forward	28-03-95	Melbourne City FC
Stefan	MAUK	Midfielder	22-10-95	NEC, Netherlands
Riley	McGREE	Midfielder	02-11-98	Adelaide United FC
Stefan	NIGRO	Defender	10-08-96	Melbourne Victory FC
Daniel	NIZIC	Goalkeeper	15-03-95	Morecambe FC, England
Jordan	O'DOHERTY	Forward	14-10-97	Adelaide United FC
Milislav	POPOVIC	Forward	06-03-97	Eintracht Braunschweig, Germany
Lachlan	SCOTT	Forward	15-04-97	Western Sydney Wanderers FC
Jaushua	SOTIRIO	Forward	11-10-95	Western Sydney Wanderers FC
Ruon	TONGYIK	Defender	28-12-96	Melbourne City FC
Brandon	WILSON	Midfielder	28-01-97	Perth Glory FC

http://www.socceroos.com.au/article/josep-gombau-names-australian-squad-for-afc-u-23-championship-qualifiers/q8cbxtu3igkw17b1yub652bfx#0HFQewGZw7D00Csd.99

Looks pretty good. Not many European players, could be to ensure they have a strong preseason with their clubs?

Looks that way, or they were refused release. Interesting that Nizic and Glover made the trip around the world to play, as did the elusive Milislav Popovic who looks to be at a new club.

Maybe 3-6-1/3-5-2, shouldn't backfire to much against Brunei, Singapore and Myanmar. Get them used to the system if they aren't already
                   
                          Izzo
              Tongyik Deng Aspro
     Kamau Calletti McGree Mauk Nigro                
                           Arzani
                         Buhagiar
                       
Lots of strength in the middle in this squad

Do we have any natural left backs or left wingers? I was looking through the squad and think I'm going mad because I can't see any.
Agree with the lineup though.

Hmmm doesn't seem like it does it. Bit of a shame because natural width and crossing is important in a 3-6-1 with so many in the middle. Hopefully they're strong on both feet

Thought so. Gersbach is eligible so I suspect he'd be there if he wasn't currently trying to nail down the LB role at his club. Not sure why Scott Galloway wasn't included considering he's been with them throughout.
If we had every player available I imagine the team would look like this:


As with the senior team, the midfield is definitely the strongest point for us. And sadly, our attacking options at youth level aren't looking great either.

Buhagiar, Kamau, and Arzani are promising options who could be near the senior team if they continue their rate of growth, but definitely agree that we don't have a striker that screams "first name on the team sheet" which is a shame, and something that has plagued us for a long, long time 

Not sure the junior teams necessarily need to go 3 at the back, just because Ange is. For all we know Ange could change his mind 3 times before next June. I would expect they will follow the formation these guys have used throughout their time in the junior ranks.

No. Didn't Gallop the toss give himself a pay rise?

https://www.foxsports.com.au/football/frank-lowy-sounds-out-former-nrl-boss-david-gallop-to-run-football-federation-australia/news-story/828fbb433db2acd8a714bb0f19cd0bec

It was a jump from the NRL job but not a pay rise.

Good call on the elusive bit...one hears his name around the traps once a year since he was a 15 year old signing to Germany, but ti's very hard to get any info on him.

has anyone here seen him play?

If full strength i would go a step further with Hrustic on the right wing/back position, i dont think gersbach will take part again hes already part of the senior team

P.S How do you put lineup builder onto here? 

http://lineupbuilder.com/?sk=f0wy6

Looks like Awer Mabil, Scott Galloway, Liam Rose and Ben warland were left out of the final 23.

Mabil, Galloway and Rose seem like very odd omissions 🤔

I'm not sure Mabil was even in the original squad