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kruse Davidson leckie oar and bouzanic are carving it up in recent times :)

gosh that was an impressive run. I don't remember him being this technical...

Leckie with a very nice run and cut back for an assist to follow up his goal. Needs to be given time in the upcoming friendlies against France and Canada.

Not sure Gorlitz was the intended target for the cut back but great run nonetheless.

Leckie skins it down the left flank, cuts a ball in and gets the assist. 2-0

Bench.

is ruka starting or on the bench?

If we don't see Leckie, Davidson, Lowry, Ryan and/or Langerak, Rogic and Williams get hardly any game time in the upcoming friendlies... then good grief, Holger. Just good grief. #-o

last year the following players broke into the starting line up

r mcgowan, oar, sarota, kruse, leckie, lowry(had played championship before but I believe last year he signed a permanent deal) and holland so about 6 if you account for mcgowan going to china

this year: d mcgowan, mat ryan, o bozanic, jackson irvine, vidosic, davidson and hopefully ruka. So thats 6 hopefully 7

current number of aussies in european starting lineups is about 17 though wilkshire may not be there next time round so lets count 16. 16+4*6=40

not bad...

Leckie just scored a beautiful goal for FSV Frankfurt against Ingolsdadt. I believe it is 1-0 to Frankfurt after around 20 mins.

Edited by proud2becanberran: 22/9/2013 09:58:33 PM

Brilliant goal by Leckie.

Fantastic goal Leckie! 1-0 22'

What do you base this on ?

A few great games tonight.

Jedinak - Palace v Swansea
Vidosic - Sion v Basel
Ryan - Brugge v Anderlecht
Oar - Fayenoord v Utrecht

Some good work there from Davidson. Hopefully, he gets his call up.

Milligan ;)
Admittedly he could have been referring to his time at Shanghai, but I'm under the impression he meant Japan.

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meanwhile we are gaining 6 aussies securing starting places in europe every year. We currently have 17 I believe (counting ruka at frankfurt which is possibly counting chickens before they hatch).
By next world cup we should have 40. That would be unprecedented right?

All younger players as well. Our problem really has been those who should now be 25-32, those who were in their key stage of development when the NSL was dying/first couple of years of the A-League. Plenty of young players coming through now, are you watching Holger?

Besides Sarota anyone know when Herd should be back?

Also, really nice to see this from the OS Aussies update:

Stoke City U21 v West Ham United U21 0-1 (0-1)
Alex Grant played a full match for Stoke while Dylan Tombides also played a full match for West Ham. Stoke remains in 14th position while West Ham went to the top.

Edited by SC03: 22/9/2013 12:20:48 PM

Also does anyone have an expected date of return for Sarota or Valari from their respective injuries?

As much as I love Rogic and want to see him do well if he isn't getting the minutes at Celtic I really think Bozanic or Vidosic should be the back up AM for Cahill for the next qualifiers I think its only fair.

If you go here you can see what individual J-league clubs spent on wages in the past. 1 yen = 1 cent.
http://www.j-league.or.jp/eng/data/index_03.html
young Japanese players have a cap on wages and foreigners got paid a lot more than locals.
SInce 2009 I assume wages have contracted and foreigners no longer get paid many more times than locals.

Rogic needs to leave Celtic, looking like a bad move.

The Saturday OS Aussie wrap is right here http://osaussies.com/saturday-wrap-50/

Very good by Kruse. He needed to make the most of his opportunities and scoring 2 plus an assist is doing exactly that. It should mean that he at least gets some good time off the bench even if he is not starting.

The good thing is, you can make a starting 11 without playing anyone out if position.

----------------Langerak
Wilkshire-Williams-Lowry-Davidson
-----------Jedi---------Holland
Kruse---------Rogic-----------Oar
----------McDonald/Leckie

Heracles 1-0 down at HT. Should be 2-0 but Davidson made a brilliant and crucial tackle.

We have quite a decent list of aussies making an impact in Europe
Leckie and ruka at Frankfurt
Wilkshire starting again for dynamo
Kruse at leverkusen
Mitch occasionally at Dortmund
Sarota and oar start every week when fit for Utrecht
Davidson starting at Heracles
Rogics getting the occasional run at Celtic which has been the most disappointing since we can directly compare him to other Aussie players and conclude he is good enough but having a tough time for whatever reason
vidosic doing well at sion
Oliver bouzanic carving it up at luzern
Holland doing very well at Austria
Ryan doing very well for brugge
Williams an championship captain
Lowry in his third season starting in the championship
Jedi an epl captain
Irvine starting each week at Kilmarnock
McGowan starting each week at hearts
Then there is Scott McDonald and Kilkenny

A good coach could do really well with that lot..next year we should see another half dozen step up to start in a European club which may take us to a position where we are starting to rival the golden generation..

Edited by grazorblade: 22/9/2013 02:37:19 AM

Scott Mcdonalds well worked goal albeit a deflected shot

Edited by sanga1: 22/9/2013 02:41:33 AM