How many chances does this clown get before he gets sacked the FA need to drop the axe RIGHT NOW. 

Get an international coach who has some tactical awareness Qatar is 12 months away and we still got to qualify i dont want GA around our national team EVER AGAIN

ALSO every one of you f**ken C**ts who stood up him, supported him and wanted him in the job i esp say F**K YOU AND F**K YOUR OLD Lady becuz i knew this would happen 

GOOD NIGHT 

Classy as always...

Useless without foreigners.

This is football in this country.
It's all about fighting national team spirit, valiant losses and 'next time'.

In the meantime, we'll watch the A-League, get overexcited about young players who are 'the next big thing'. We will hype them up too much, they'll go to Europe on hope without much senior experience and then they'll probably get injured for a while adjusting. Might get loaned out a bit, might come home again. They'll probably turn in to solid pros, but certainly not stars.

We'll get up at 2am to watch Middle Eastern qualifiers I'm 50 degrees. We might scrape through and qualify for a World Cup.
When the Cup comes we will be hopeful, yet probably lose our group games, but it's okay. Because we'll show fight and character. But hey, we qualified! Remember when we couldnt? Didn't you know that that's our victory?! And so I'll be hurt and frustrated again, and I'll wait for next time. 

Like a toxic relationship, that's the cycle of being an Australian football fan. It's always the hope that kills.

..the boys tried their best. No denying that. Massive question marks over Arnie's squad management and tactics. This was ALWAYS our must win game.

At least we got to witness Arnold's latest sophisticated super weapon:
D'Agostino long throw ins into a crowded box

We sacked Holger for losing 2 friendlies after qualifying us for a world cup - we can sack this useless idiot for bottling 4 competitions 

We did and it didn't work...

need a second division and more teams to build coaching depth

This 1000%. We think we’re improving and then we get dusted by Egypt. It’s the hope that kills, but it’s never getting better. 

Maybe I should dig my Wallabies jersey out if I’ve still got it.

You forgot the ‘put a CB at centre forward when 1-0 down. 

How did we bottle it when next to nobody expected us to go through before the tournament began?

When you compare our squad to Argentina and Spain's, not a single one of our players would make their squads while I don't know much about Egypt. Obviously it's disappointing to go out but I think we did well just to be in a shot of qualifying for the next round going into the last game. 

However, the players coming through now seem to be better than what we've had in recent years so hopefully in a few years, we will be able to get out of the group at the World Cup or the Olympics. 

F**KEN MASTER CLASS 

I’d give him a pass for the tournament we did well in the group games. But I thought his team selection and subs were wrong tonight and we should of won this match 

He got the tactics and line up wrong. But no way sackable. 

Would love to see a list of players that weren't available before this, honestly seems like an extremely long list.

I'll cut the bloke some slack, he did convincingly beat Argentina, and took spain 80 with a bunch of aleague players

Thankfully i missed the last two games.But from the commentary,it looks like Arnie screwed up big time.
From a super defensive intent to mismanagement of players for the three games and bad selection choices.
Smells of fear. Verbeek style.
Shock the World…?
How depressing.

I think he's being exposed as manager in a tactical sense but also with his overall approach.

Arnie is always seen as a pragmatic coach, he always looks to the opponent before making a judgment on player selection and his overall tactics.

The problem with this is it has a ceiling, pragmatic managers are becoming less relevant in the times when pressing and positional play is becoming the norm even though international football is still in a time lag on that front but unless you have outstanding talent it will have a ceiling on what you could achieve.

Even though he's a great man manager and has a clear passion for Australian football which I admire I see he's approach as an outdated one which is problematic going forward.

At last, someone saying how it really is. Well said fella.

Would kisnorbo be his Aus replacement?

Too many yellow cards when you have wafer thin talent in the squad

Yep. Egypt - African champions. Held Spain goalless. Clearly easybeats…. 🙄

Definitely got the first half wrong. Shades of Pim v Germany game 1 2010 WC, but we looked even money to equalise 2nd half until the big guy came on up front then looked out of ideas. 2 great saves by their keeper and it could have been different. 

I said it earlier even before the long throws...

Arnie is the Australian tony pulis 

The game against Spain was pathetic too. Despite the valiant defending. No one could put 2 passes together.. this generation has a lot of talent (armenaskas, de Silva, piscopo, kalik, tilio, arzani) but instead Arnold started lachy fucking Wales every game 

1. Had zero rotation plan... Played basically all the same players every game despite only 2 days between games. Wales, Metcalfe and genreau were clearly tired by third game, king too. Bacchus who has the biggest engine in the squad meanwhile was only used as a sub twice. 

2. Arzani meanwhile, who was electric against Spain, was inexplicably left off despite being subbed early in the first 2 matches. Like if there was anyone you would have started it would have been him. Wales meanwhile starts 3 fucking matches 

3. The non selection of actual footballers in kalik, Deni, de Silva and armenaskas makes no sense to me either. Again, Wales meanwhile starts 3 fucking matches 

4. Our biggest strength in this side is the centre back partnership of souttar and Deng, and then Arnold goes and shifts Deng to Right back, where he looked like a fish on a bicycle! 

5. Despite our players being completely fucked from 3 games in quick  succession, arnie leaves 2 subs up his sleeve til the 90th fucking minute.. what is the point of that! 

6. In a reduced squad with again little time between games, what was the need for a third keeper?! Should have brought an extra striker as evidenced by what happened with a CB up forward. 

7. Arnie had another 2 overage spots up his sleeve that he didn't use. Now look I get it that its good to give the exposure to the young guys blah blah, but think about the effect that say a Ryan and mooy would have made in helping us keep possession of the ball which was our biggest fault this tournament. These 2 guys I think would have helped us get to the knock out stages i believe  which would have given even more spotlight to our young stars like arzani, Atkinson, Deng etc to potentially earn a big move. 

8. Clearly played for the draw in last game rather than back in our more technical footballers in arzani and piscopo. 

9. The selection of genreau and Metcalfe and non selection of devlin and Bacchus in last match.. they were both cooked and blind Freddy could see that Bacchus should have started that game.. the fact Arnold brought him on at half time is an admission of that fact 

How did Egypt beat the over-rated Olyroos????

I would give the players more credit for the 1-0 loss against Spain than Arnie. It was about 70 minutes of desperate defending that kept us in it rather than tactical genius. 

Arnie screwed up the player selections for the Egypt game. Deng at right back looked completely lost from the get go. Metcalfe is class but was completely and utterly cooked and had his worst game of football for the entire year as a result.  Not his fault but Arnies. Wales for the life of me somehow still keeps getting selected. He's like our under 23 version of Robbie Kruse. 

To lose like that is the worst kind of loss. No balls to control our own fate. Arnie had to accept full responsibility. 

A good domestic manager.

Not good enough to take on continental duties IMO.

Strongly disagree.

With the fine margins of football,  two decisive saves from a very experienced Egyptian overage (?) keeper, denied Australia making the quarters against Brazil.

One decisive fumble  from correct age Glover,  conceded the second goal.

I don't think anyone could've done better than Arnie.

African champions perhaps. Not bad considering the quality of opposition in Africa.

Not saying we couldn't have done better but it's ignorant to think Egypt were a team we could have easily beaten. 

ahhhh the old could of, should of, would have won argument...............
gets a pass for finishing bottom of the group.....................
get rid of this fraud of a coach