Just let the guy play for NZ. We should be looking at players for the world cup

78min for Peupion in EFL trophy 

Luongo should def be in the next squad. He's always been highly rated wherever he's played, but injuries have curtailed his progress. A solid Championship player, with decent technique and solid defence. A far better player than Irvine.

He'll be 30 in 2026 so he'll be at the right age. It's just a matter of whether the likes of Bos, King, Farrell and Maraugis kick on and develop. Even Gersbach could get back into contention with regular football, he should go back to Ligue 2.

How King makes Roos selection over Gersbach i will never understand 

Gersbach can’t get a game in the MLS, hence why he needs to leave and go somewhere where he’ll actually play.

Luongo is finally back fit and in form. He should come in for Devlin. Love Devlin but we can't leave Robertson out now he's growing with first team football. Baccus is a mainstay. O'Neill is in a strong position. 

Two new Aussie coaches replacing Staj for Filipinas national team.... interesting 


Sinisa Cohadzic, has been appointed as co-coach of the Phillipines National women’s team. He will share his duties with Western United Senior Women’s Coach, Mark Torcaso. They are taking over from Alan Stajcic, former Matildas Senior Coach, who successfully navigated the Phillipines to the recent Women's World Cup defeating co-hosts NZ in the group phases.The roles will be predominantly based in Australia which allows Sinisa to remain in his role at South Melbourne FC and continue developing the blue print that has helped shape our successes over his tenure.

Durante has been appointed as assistant too. That info you posted is slightly wrong as Cohadzic is actually an assistant coach as per the PFF release.

Yup, correct, just saw that as well. Interesting move by the Philipines, I wonder if Staj had anything to do with recomendations?

https://pff.org.ph/2023/08/23/pff-names-torcaso-as-pwnt-head-coach/
Australian Sinisha Cohadzic will be Torcaso’s assistant with the PWNT and will also serve as head coach of the girls’ Under-17 and women’s Under-20 national teams.

I love Mass Luongo, but he plays as a number 6 these days, so he'll be competing with O'Neill to take over from Mooy. Luongo & Irvine play a different role. Irvine does a good job for us as a number 8, but he's got a lot of competition now. 

Jefferson Cheng, a Filipino who co-owns WSW is their team manager and no doubt would've had a say in both the appointments of Stajcic and now Torcaso.

Bos is already better than this player and a lot younger. I doubt this player would get more than 5 caps so no point taking him from New Zealand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhPgrjJJzp0

Brad Smith goal on 5:30. 

Didn't realise it had been scheduled for Wednesday. Hibs smashed 5:0 at home by Aston Villa. Boyle and Miller full games. Jeggo subbed on at HT. 

What's our starting midfield against Mexico? Options - Luongo, O'Neill, Irvine, McGree, Baccus, Robertson, Genreau, Hrustic, Devlin. Wild card Volpato 

Lewis Miller, got badly shown up for the rank defender that he is. He is nowhere near the required level. I said on this forum when he was at the mariners, that he was never good enough.

Can’t believe people think he’s in contention for the Socceroos. 12 months before going overseas, he was getting benched in favour of Stefan Nigro lol

Yeah I watched him play for Olyroos and I wasn't impressed. Just seemed to be off the pace. 

Wouldn't mind Luongo need to O'Neill where Baccus was against Ecuador. They move around that much he'll be in the 6-8 region. Also would like Genreau to start just ahead and feed McGree and Boyle. It's a shame Iredale is probably going to be unfit because we need to park him up top in a game one day.

The 3 starting for Hearts. No Nieuwenhof. Ryan starting.

Early Hearts penalty scored then a few minutes later PAOK burst through and Rowles lunges in and it's a penalty and 1:1. Geez Rowles very unnecessary that.

These Scottish commentators are hilarious. Minimal contact for Hearts pen and they claimed it was the equivalent of being shot while Rowles cleans him up and 'I don't think there's much contact to be honest.'

Rowles just gave away a silly penalty, minutes after Hearts went up 1-0.

Devlin really involved again. Nice swift cross to Shankland headed to keeper and rebound should have been scored. Devlin just works at Hearts. Tricky to fit him in for Australia. It's interesting as his club form is markedly better than O'Neill currently. I wouldn't say O'Neill has been bad but Devlin has a lot more fire in his belly at the moment. Healthy competition. 

All of our Scottish based players are crap. The league is extremely poor, it should never be viewed as an upgrade from  the A league, unless its Celtic or Rangers. SPL based Australians should only he considered for national teams once they transfer to a decent standard like the Championship. 

https://twitter.com/ozhubfootball/status/1694237299339604461

Our key players Baccus,Rowles and Atkinson are just too slim
Need to put alot more muscle on as id like to eventually see them in the championship.

to be fair not a pen in SPL :D

Need to kickbox someone to the face and urinate on their unconscious corpse to get a foul

Hope it doesn't affect how they play in the whistle happy asian federation

Boyle, Jeggo starting. Miller bench. No Tilio.

Elder bench. Dougall, Bilokapic, Iredale starting. AMB benched for next Charlton youth keeper. Concerning.

McGree, Silvera starting. Glover bench. Triantis bench. Luongo and Burgess starting. 

McGree and Silvera starting together is fantastic news.