Where do you reckon his best position is? Left or right? 

Harry was the closest we had to a world class outfield player. Unfortunately his career was marred by injury. 

I would put him in more of the Garang Kuol class. They both have heaps to do. I hope they both have a career as good as Harry's (without the injuries). Then we may start asking who is the next Nestory or who is the next Garang rather than who is the next Harry  

 

	Games	Goals	Assists	Minutes	Mins per goal	Mins per goal contribution	Birth Date	Leaving Leaving date	Age When leaving
Nestory	57	15	8	2243	150	98	9/02/2006	26/05/2024	18 years 3.5 months
Garang	17	6	4	531	89	53	15/09/2004	1/01/2023	18 years 2.5 months

Based on what I have seen in recent youth teams the average technical level should close to being on par with most Asian and European nations from now on. 

I dont know part of his game is his ability to play on either side, I just think its insane. Every time he touch's the ball even if it looks like going no where he draws in 3 or 4 players and creates space/chances for other. The asian teams in our qualifying would panic every time he touched the ball and when beating a packed defense this extra movement makes it so much easier.

I just think we genuinely have a weapon that other teams would be scared to play against this opens space for our other guys to shine too. 

Its just hit shooting that reminds me of kewell so much not the finesse type finish but just the power not many aussie strikers can hit it like they do.

All starts tomorrow. Time to get going. 

Can't believe it. Waited for this for 2 years. 

The wait just makes the stakes higher. Havent felt like this nervous since the south korea semi in the asian cup. Football has that ability to turn fans into a nervous wreck doesnt it

The last 2 WC qualifying saw me running numbers through my head every time I went for a walk. If Saudi stuff that and we win or maybe Oman can beat Japan. If only we hadn't drawn in Thailand....

Predictions for lineups?

I'm thinking 
................................Hall...........................................
Italiano..........Girdwood-Reich........Natta.........Farrell
...............................Teague..............................
.............Segecic.........................Hollman.......
......Brook.............................................Milanovic
................................Alou..................................

Will be something along the lines of this. Personally, I wouldn't choose this lineup but I think this is what they'll do.

I prefer: Jelacic over Segecic, Toure over Alou and maybe Garang over Brook.  I just think Segecic, Alou and Brook are all defensive lineups as they're all really good at pressing and tracking back, but I think against a likely more defensive side in Jordan we need to be more explosive from the get-go. 

Tricky thing about lineups is we dont know when, how and how much rotation there will be.

If we make the quarters my side is

--------------------hall---------------
Talbot----jgr----popa--farrel-
-------------teague-hollman-
------------------jelacic/segecic-
-milanovic-toure-kuol------

Feel like segecic is a more aggressive choice as his best qualities are on the ball

Peru gave me that 2006 feeling

Started each game feeling depressed there was no way would make it, belief grew more with each minute passing, a big player bottling a penalty making me think here we go again then the sheer joy of qualifying

Mooy was absolutely immense with his rhythm changes. Everytime peru had momentum or the crowd got involve he would kill the game for a few minutes stroking it around then accelerate the game when we were emotionally back in control. As immense effect as guus hiddink despite being a player, to take nothing from arnie who did a very fine job

Yes but also I think Jelacic is better on the ball and a better passer but Segecic brings the intensity and very good pressure. He runs the whole game where Jelacic can be lazy sometimes. Both pretty good options at the 10. 

I trust Youtube will have livestreams. Surely official ones at that. It seems Vietnam TV channel V5 is showing the game. Maybe without a login or subscription so that could be an emergency workaround. 

On Paramount+ thankfully for me. If you can't find a stream, i'll try to find one for you guys closer to the game. 

so it won't be on channel 10 main channel?

nah it isn't.

Team out: 

Beach
Talbot
JCP
Popovic
Farrell
Teague
Youlley
Hollman
Milanovic
Brook
Alou

Rotation is key in this type of squad and that's clearly the methodology we are using

I finish work at kick off. Got to get off on the right foot. 

Lineup is alright and pretty balanced but the defence does worry me with Talbot, JCP and Popovic and especially with Beach behind them who I don't really trust.

Lots of good players on the bench, seems like we may be saving our better team for the game against Indonesia which I think is our hardest opponent in the group.

6 or 7 of our best xi imo

Agreed. I think Natta, Hall, JGR, Kuol, Toure, Italiano, Jelacic/Segecic could all join that lineup. Game by game rotation is a smart move but need to be a bit more top heavy against better competition. If we come up against SK/Japan we have to use our best team because that game is literally the whole tournament and cycle in one 90 minute moment. 

It takes me 10 to 15 games to assess a player

Those with more of an eagle eye than me, how good is youlley compared to our other midfielders?

usual streams working

would love an english speaking stream but oh well

our sydney 2000 olympic squad was insane. How did we struggle so much?

Great playing surface and not overly hot like usual underage Asian tournaments. 

I wonder how many paramount plus free trials will get me through this tournament 

Just use the free trial

Jordan players look quick