He does, but he wasn’t capable of making it fully and w/the requisite informed nuance. Long story short, if he knew (our)ball then he’d have leveled the bulk of criticism @ TG’s nonexistent rotation policy. Tired legs(& minds too, in context of the rollercoaster vs France) were always gonna come back to bite us and they did, the Lionesses’ class aside.

Maty Ryan stuffed up v Argies and didn’t cop this much criticism so i think Cornes should stick to eggball. ALL elite players female and male, fuck up sometimes. 4th place finish in WCUP not as good as top 3 but still a good achievement 

My point is though that the team deserved serious analysis (from football people) of the management, tactics and errors and reporting of these aspects were washed away with the feel good aspects of their run into the semis. 

Can't really remember too many articles commenting on what went wrong.

Sure but why is it up to an AFL clown to take the reins? Where are our journalists asking the hard questions?

It’s the age-old problem w/⚽️ in 🇦🇺 innit; no-one dares ask the hard questions bc dissenting opinion is seen as sh1tting the bed, ergo it’s ‘convenient’ to instead act as a cheerleader at all times

The lack of critical analysis is certainly a problem within the football media landscape, maybe they dont want to upset the apple cart as you said given there are not many jobs available to ask those questions.

Another thing that annoys me from fans and even from media is when they question you being negative when your only critiquing what's going on in the game, I hate the cheerleader mentality. 

If we want to a 'football nation' like especially critical analysis should be encouraged not frowned upon.

Tony argues that using the same starting 11 in tournaments is ‘proven’ to be best strategy throughout history. FA never ask him tough questions. Carpenter, Gorry were cooked in that 2nd half before fuck ups- meanwhile Grant & co. just left to rot on bench.

FA - like Apl- don’t seem accountable to anyone 

Good achievement, but if you step back, he lost 3 games easily, won 3 (lucky in the first one) and drew 1 (pens). 

How much was them playing for the fans and country - rather than his tactics in the wins

Cornes is a piece-of-shit professional shit stirrer. The worst pundit in the AFL. I would give his opinion zero consideration. 

Beacause most of the football journalists in Australia have been driven out of the profession by abuse, death threats and vested media interests. Simon Hill wrote a good article on it recently. The football journalists left are either yes-men, walking a tightrope or non-existent hence these other hacks entering the void and offering their dumb shit opinions. 

The last interviewer that asked tough questions was Foz interviewing Ange. It was a turning point for football in Australia.

Bit rich for some of you blokes bemoaning the media not asking tough questions when most of you cheer leaded Arnold's team for playing what was pretty defensive with a bit of luck

If anything the Matilda's embodied the Aussie spirit than Arnolds team did.

At least the Matilda's are playing for in top leagues, and top teams within those top leagues.

C'mon Muz a bit of self reflection mate, when did you give Arnold's socceroos that level of serious analysis?

Its literally the same thing, most Aussies football fans are cheerleaders not football analysts.

The Spain team have gone on strike after the President's refusal to resign after kissing a player on the lips at the trophy ceremony. 

Matildas drop to 11th in world rankings. 

Man kisses woman = he must be sacked

Australian player (Lisa De Vanna) makes claims of sexual harassment, abuse, bullying, and grooming of underage players in Australian women's football = nothing to see here.

We live in strange times.

This. When I covered the A-League, I got called names by Damien Do Bohun when I brought up some concerns all those years ago. Fair to say I no longer work in the field. 


This is all we need to move on from him. He saw us lose to England due to fatigue and still insists. When a manager insists on something that is not working, it is a detriment to the players too. Having those player over fatigue could have also caused an issue to their health. What Tony fails to mention is that teams who may have had the same starting 11 actually didn't. They would swap 1 or 2 players, but also, and most importantly, USE their subs. 

Its insane.

Unfortunately the first one fits the populist political narrative that we have an epidemic of women being harassed by men, white privileged ones specifically, the second one doesn't.

While on the subject of Lisa de Vanna -she has completely disappeared off the radar.One of the greats of Australian football but she was hardly mentioned in the coverage of the WC and certainly did not make an appearance as a guest/expert commentator in the matches I saw( only saw Channel 7 games).Probably frozen out of the Matilda set up for all time.

And what a quality player she was. Technically superior to many of current squad. Hammered home that goal against the USA in 2015 Wcup from open play- don’t think any other team did all tournament v Usa

From winning the World Cup which bought joy to Spain has now been ruined, quite incredible.

And I thought the APL moving the grand final would make people made, but this is even worse.

Feel sorry for the Spanish players especially for Jenni Hormoso who have worked so hard for this moment to win the world cup. 

Yeah I saw a player from the men's side, can't remember his name, saying instead of talking about the football and the joy it's brought us we're discussing this.

Did she though?

The only thing I saw was her tweet out 'LIES' when all that blew up.

And then radio silence.

I was also annoyed she wasn't part of the coverage. Unless she told them to jam it.

Eleven members of Spain's coaching team resign

https://trib.al/EaDjivR

https://7news.com.au/sport/soccer/more-soccer-abuse-claims-to-emerge-pfa-c-4174057

Interesting. I just watched video of “the kiss” again. Player definitely moves into it rather than turning away. There’s got to be more to this than a simple kiss during a hugely emotional moment. 

This will bring you up to speed:

https://thewomensgame.com/news/soccer-abuse-cases-from-process-originally-prompted-by-lisa-de-vanna-claims-handed-to-police-580554

What he did was wrong, he should have apologized, received some sort of reprimand, the player and the Spanish FA should made a public statement that the matter was dealt with, is now behind them, and now let's celebrate that we are world champions.

But that was never going to be allowed to happen because women's football these days is as much as a political tool as it is a sport.   Its too good of an opportunity.This MAN has to be sacked and made an example of. 

The furore is over the top, especially given that De Vanna's allegations are for more serious and she's been basically air-brushed out.

Maybe and I don't know, just like you, this was the straw that broke the camels back.

Clearly something is not right with their FA. After all 15 of them resigned and after changes were made only 8 of them made themselves available for selection.

There's been complaints for a long time. At first privately before the FA leaked the names to friendly journalists forcing them to go public.

Maybe they're blowing up because they've had a gutful of being treated like 'girls' and to be grateful for the pat on their head they get occasionally.

Not everything has to be a culture war. I've never had a woman force herself on me in a public arena and I'm pretty sure you haven't either so who are we to say they 'should get over it'.

Spend 5 minutes with old blokes and a lot of them think this sort of thing is fine. It's not the 40s, 50s, 60s or 70s anymore.

As for de Vanna what are you saying? The Spanish FA should be putting out a statement about her? The USWNT? The French?

Just typical look over there, something bad is happening therefore what person A says isn't valid.

Bloke is obviously a grub, the joint is riddled with nepotism and there's been mass resignations but 'nothing to see here' apparently.