I swear they drop hints with the groups and numerical order the kits are hung pre game. I reckon Rowles, Silvera, Fornaroli, Yengi Baccus, Gauci, Miller and Goodwin are on the bench.

The gaps suggest Bos, Boyle, Metcalfe Souttar, Burgess, Irvine are starting. 

Bos, Burgess, O'Neill in; Baccus, Rowles and Behich are out.

Thomas, Atkinson and Iredale are the three who miss out.

Edit - I mean Goodwin out, not Behich.

What's the point of including Iredale then as he won't be trusted to score against a bigger opponent so fresh? FFS he'll be thrown t the lions when our cards our down and scapegoated.

                Ryan
Jones  Souttar  Burgess  Behich
           O'Neill Irvine
  Boyle  Metcalfe Bos
              Duke

I'm ok with McGree not being whipped just yet. O'Neill and Bos in is great. Jones is surely going to be used early and exhausted. I think it's right Metcalfe keeps getting the minutes to dust things off. While our other striker options are good, we're clearly going to exhaust Duke that he'll be rendered ineffective come the quarters.

Jones for me is a weak link haven't seen anything impressive rather Miller there.
O'Neil and Bos inclusion is good
Baccus out is puzzling he was one of our best
Bruno up top second half looked good last game
McGree on second half and Tilio

Jones for me is a weak link haven't seen anything impressive rather Miller there.
O'Neil and Bos inclusion is good
Baccus out is puzzling he was one of our best
Bruno up top second half looked good last game
McGree on second half and Tilio

Is there a preview show on 10?

Metcalfe is our creative midfield again?!!!  

I watched the replay in peace and thought Baccus did a lot more than I originally saw. It was a dogfight of a game and our final 3rd was the worst part. Miller needs the international minutes too.

Yes.

Ok good. I'll be using Youtube with a Czech VPN.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGWLUbe69PQ

Has the grass been cut to an appropriate level? We don't need an investigation I hope! 

Maybe we should give the bus parkers the ball for a while and see how far up they go with it. I think we can trick teams this way. Japan seemingly do it with us.

O'Neill's balance and poise is so superior to the others. He can just hover on one foot and distribute. The others tip toe in a panic. 

It worked to get Bos through to cross but having Behich hang inverted and Irvine being way out left goes against all their skills. 

Syria would've gotten a penalty had the ball into our arm like that. Bos maturing by the second!

Boyle has been absolutely rotten so far. Tournament nerves or something? 

FFS he's trying and all but is this the Asian Cup where Jones is our pivot and the one who'll be standing on the 10 when there's a half chance? A right back who also plays centre back is the person who should be the go to man?

These odd Arnold obsessions... 

Look at all the space in the pockets and Behich doesn't overlap or even go with Bos! 

Irvine's final passes... Why the fuck is his instruction to hug the left sideline now? He's tall and good in the air. Get in the middle. 

We’re so predictable in attack. I guess it works for Arnie, because we usually do score in the end, but it’s always such hard work and makes us look poor.

That first touch by Jones on the edge of the box. Bos would've glided past.

That's surely a yellow for the Syrian. Coming in with a stamp... 

Purely accidental by O'Neill. He gets a yellow touching the ref is seems. Ref said 'don't do that' 

Everything Irvine touched it turned bad. He looked awkward there.

The final ball each time goes to no one. The ball lands in the box and he diagonally kicks it for a goal kick. He just loses the ball. 

Bos and O'Neill have been fine so now it's a matter of having a few more like that across the pitch and we should be OK. Wingers have swapped sides. 

He and Boyle are both very poor atm

Syrian time wasting is getting old fast. 

Duke is not what we need up front 

Difficult to watch... So much possession abs zero genuine attempts on goal.