I've seen refs close to getting bashed for deflecting breaks like that :D

I've seen refs close to getting bashed for deflecting breaks like that :D

Ref having an absolute mare missing that corner deflection from Foord

we're looking good in the 1st half - Some absolute fantastic link up play 

We're the better team so far but not by much

Reading the live streams asserts it was Denmark in control first half hour

This game has another goal in it, Tony better not park the bus. 

Kerr slipping and creating that divot was scary.

Always a gamble whether to save her for next game or risk her now, even if a short wile. Does she look OK?

Do not understand what the coach is doing with the subs. Agreed that Foord was awesome tonight

I'm not sure which coaching course you've attended? It has been a constant theme discussed in my neck of  the woods in coach education events. 

Even at NPL level, far too many decisions about football performance are made by Presidents - with money. They have often played the game some decades ago, but have never updated their knowledge.  They don't understand how the game has evolved.

It happened to me. When I was a NPL TD I wanted to recruit a player  from South Hobart, the most successful club in the state , who was ageing. When I was watching him with the club President, he could not see how his clever movement off the ball, and speed of thought, constantly opened optimum passing lanes for his teammates.  He made  them look good as they passed to him when he created space - before they received the ball.  He constantly provided them with optimal passing lanes. He was bit  slow over the turf, but more than compensated with speed of thought and game sense.

The club Pres, would  not sign him. He went on to another NPL club, captained it, under the tutelage of one of my coaching course buddies. Later in the season  they beat South Melb in a NPL  National  knock out comp, with him starring.  They lost the final to WA club, Bayswater.

This is relevant, because even Berger, who had the highest  status and profile  of any Aus TD we've had, was only one of a five person panel who appointed Holger.

 IMO Holger was easily the worst Socceroo coach we've had since Guus.  The team started to go backwards through no  renewal. The decision to appoint the  coach in the Holger  era, should have been entirely through the Football Aus Tech Dept. The controversy was that Holger also wasn't steeped in the direction of Aus at the time. He was an old school German coach - not the new stuff they embarked on in the early 2000s. The rationale, was that most of the Aus players under Holger's epoch, also  hadn't  been inculcated in  the new methodology that the youth teams were being instructed in at the time.

Ange immediately rebuilt,  using the new standard possession game in Aus. He brought in Franjic, Wilkinson, Ogger. I've attended a big coaching workshop under Ange at the time- organised by the then TD of Football Tas. Learnt a lot from him about playing possession football.

The problem is with coaches like Holger, and Tony G, is they are completely out of step with the Aussie coaching methodology - that coaches are now trained in, in Aus.  Tony G may be a great player manager, but IMO he is taking the team backwards in playing style - possibly  with the most talented national team of either gender we've had.

Conversely, Arnie is value adding with the Socceroos.