Star player: Pick one! Massive opener. Excited

Was hoping we'd avoid an African team this World Cup

Haha. Bring it on. Lets take it to them and also limit the damage if it goes pear shaped.

8pm kickoff with SBS coverage starting at 7pm. France are a world powerhouse with many big name players. This is the best kickoff time we have ever had for a world cup we have played in. France have never encountered us before at the world cup. Its our opening game. This game is easily one of the most prolific matches in the history of football in this country. There should be relentless coverage on this considering the profile of France and the amazing kickoff time should help that.
I am so excited for this!

Saturday 16 June 2018
13:00 MSK (UTC+3)  8PM AEST
Kazan

What, is this on tomorrow or something?

Calm your farms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaBkN-Dyx58

Never forget France's opening game of the tournament in 2002

Haha I can't be calm :D

Gonna be a big day. Our game then Argentina Iceland, Peru Denmark, Croatia Nigeria

Well the only positive is that we play them first game.Just hope the usual slow start the French have in Tournaments will be repeated this time round.
Thinking about goal diffrences it will be a must to not repeat a 6-0 loss.
Peru might struggle at sea level.Since most of their games were won in high altitude.
Denmark will be tough but doable if we have the right coach.

Bloody hell they have a young squad and their youth side wins have paid massive dividends. Just gotta take it to them and prepare.

Juric, McLaren, Rucka, Kruse  and Troisi start goal scoring practise cause they will definitely score but will we? Near misses are not good enough. France will score at least 2, if we play great, but Socceroos need to score 2 and get away with a draw.

Petratos double in 2-1 victory. 

The score is 1-1 with 2 mins of regular time left, Australia win a free kick from a long way outside the box and Dimi Petratos steps up to take it, what could happen?

I hope the new coach gives the likes of DeSilva and Petratos a go and consider Burns.

#	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	GK	Hugo Lloris(Captain)	26 December 1986 (age 31)	96	0	Tottenham Hotspur
	GK	Steve Mandanda	28 March 1985 (age 33)	26	0	Marseille
	GK	Alphonse Areola	27 February 1993 (age 25)	0	0	Paris Saint-Germain
	DF	Raphaël Varane	25 April 1993 (age 25)	41	2	Real Madrid
	DF	Adil Rami	27 December 1985 (age 32)	33	1	Marseille
	DF	Samuel Umtiti	14 November 1993 (age 24)	16	1	Barcelona
	DF	Djibril Sidibé	29 July 1992 (age 25)	15	1	Monaco
	DF	Benjamin Mendy	17 July 1994 (age 23)	4	0	Manchester City
	DF	Benjamin Pavard	28 March 1996 (age 22)	3	0	VfB Stuttgart
	DF	Lucas Hernández	14 February 1996 (age 22)	2	0	Atlético Madrid
	DF	Presnel Kimpembe	13 August 1995 (age 22)	1	0	Paris Saint-Germain
	MF	Blaise Matuidi	9 April 1987 (age 31)	64	9	Juventus
	MF	Paul Pogba	15 March 1993 (age 25)	51	9	Manchester United
	MF	N'Golo Kanté	29 March 1991 (age 27)	22	1	Chelsea
	MF	Thomas Lemar	12 November 1995 (age 22)	10	3	Monaco
	MF	Corentin Tolisso	3 August 1994 (age 23)	6	0	Bayern Munich
	MF	Steven Nzonzi	15 December 1988 (age 29)	2	0	Sevilla
	FW	Olivier Giroud	30 September 1986 (age 31)	71	30	Chelsea
	FW	Antoine Griezmann	21 March 1991 (age 27)	51	19	Atlético Madrid
	FW	Kylian Mbappé	20 December 1998 (age 19)	12	3	Paris Saint-Germain
	FW	Nabil Fekir	18 July 1993 (age 24)	10	1	Lyon
	FW	Ousmane Dembélé	15 May 1997 (age 21)	9	1	Barcelona
	FW	Florian Thauvin	26 January 1993 (age 25)	3	0

Suppléants :- W. Ben Yedder- K. Coman- B. Costil- M. Debuchy- L. Digne- A. Lacazette- A. Martial- A. Rabiot- M. Sakho- M. Sissoko- K. Zouma

Standby list ain't too shabby. OK lots of names there who are a little unfortunate. Interestingly their side isn't exactly too experienced at international level compared to a number of our players getting a decent quantity of caps of late. Might mean little or perhaps a lot. Denmark has already stated they're aware of our recent tournaments being pretty valuable. 

Their standby list would beat us 6-0. We’re gonna get reamed.

Great thing about football. It’s not won on paper. I think we are in with a good chance.

Might need to drive a bus in for this one...

We’re not the worst team going to the World Cup so I don’t see why we’re talking ourselves down. Saying that France are my favourites for the cup

10 nil at least. This result will put Australian football back 15 years.

Do I detect some hopeful positivity? 

Wrong forum my friend. Just more whinging about Cahill, the lack of pro/rel and the salary cap by bluebird and 3rd grade memes by Buggalugs. 

Gotta look at the group. We're clearly the weakest of the 4.

I'd love to make it to the round of 16 and if that's the case, we should minimize damage from the French and try and get results from the other 2.

the 442 podcast wants milligan and jedi pairing lol we'd get destroyed.. please play mooy and jedi.... mooy can handle Kante

Not to mention 1954!

On paper is this the best French team ever? Their second team looks better than most the other countries first teams in the world cup.

Gotta be close. 1998 would be up there surely: Zidane, Pires, Viera, Lebouf Descahmps etc.