Yes great call with Luongo coming back to Socceroos fold, he is exactly what we need to guide the team around.
Yes also great to see more players in the top leagues, hopefully they keep him & he plays.

Yeah hopefully Luongo is back with the Socceroos. We will need him as DM along with Irvine in the final qualification.  We can't rely on Baccus anymore with his countless turnovers Infront of our box.

The first time Justin Rees told his wife, Tjinta, that he wanted to buy a small football club 10,000 miles from their home, she cried.


“Our plan was to open a hotel and wedding venue, have two girls and a dog and live in Bondi and then live happily ever after,” Rees told me.

“But I obviously threw a hand grenade at those plans.”

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/may/02/southend-united-fc-slow-death-possible-rebirth-ron-martin-justin-rees?CMP=soc_568

Gauci bench against Olympiakos. They're down 2:0.

Great news!! Shout for AA of the season.. there are a few to pick from actually along with Irvine, the 2 Ipswich lads, metcalfe, Ryan, Robertson, N'hoff. 

 Re 2nd youngest.. Neil kilkenny was a starter in prem at very young age. Unfortunately that was his peak.  

kilkenny and rojas probably are the biggest a league era underachievers perhaps followed by oar and herd (I'm combining oz and nz)

For me it's Arzani.  thought he would be a top 5 starter. Genuinely worried France as an 18 yr old at the world cup. That injury at celtic was such a shame 

Goody broke a rib.

Let's go St Pauli!! A win & they go up!!

Metcalfe and Irvine starting. A win seals promotion. A draw means if Düsseldorf also wins its 6 points with 2 games left so nearly there. A loss would suck but Düsseldorf still need to catch up.

Düsseldorf hosting Nürnberg now too so well know a lot more in about 2 hours. 

Düsseldorf lead. Hamburg scored but I felt it was wrongly taken back where the St Pauli defender tripped himself up.

Apparently Irvine crossed the halfway line while warming up and it led to a scuffle. Irvine must have an invisibility cloak as all photos don't feature him as everyone else came barging in. Nothing more laughable than someone in HSV gear trying to act tough. Joke of a club. 

Hamburg score and it's Japan goal in Kaiserslautern again. Initially I felt the keeper did mistime his jump but to go in like that by the attacker. VAR rightly rules it out. 

Bos starting.

Jones starting and Iredale bench in first leg against Barnsley. 

Düsseldorf make it 3:1. A draw for St Pauli will be OK. Still, win with 20min to go and promotion is confirmed.

Geez when I see the keeper quality in the first two tiers these days compared to when Langerak came in, he really entered during the holy grail. 

Not the most aggressive of derbies tonight but Metcalfe has made a few good challenges from the side to steal the ball.
St Pauli in two minds that a point is alright but like in the last round of a bout they know one final punch and the title is theirs. 

Bloody hell Hamburg go down the other end and Metcalfe gets a really astute block away with the defenders and keeper swarming him with encouragement.

The ensuing corner sees a ridiculous charge by the keeper and the header goes in off one bounce. Might be given an own goal by Irvine as he heads it into the net in a last ditch scramble.

Not ideal but St Pauli host Osnabrück next so surely they'll do it at home. 

Hamburg win. A setback for St Pauli but they're still looking fairly comfortable. 

bos with a drive into the edge of the box and then a screamer

This man only knows how to score screamers

https://x.com/ElevenBeFR/status/1786516082552881661

Interestingly looks like Bos has been playing LB for his club most weeks rather than the LW he plays for socceroos. 

Meanwhile Jason Davidson's Eupen are at the bottom of the table and look like they'll be relegated 

Some great AA news.. Bolton won their first leg of thpromotiin semi final against Barnsley 1-3. Imagine they are likely through to the final now. Gethin Jones started at RCB in a 3, Iredale stayed on bench 

Yeah mostly lb

Played rb last week weirdly enough

Big big game today .. Ipswich and Leeds play their final fixtures at the same time. Ipswich 3 points up but behind Leeds on goal difference so a point will do it for Ipswich.. lose though and Leeds win and Leeds go up. 

Fingers crossed for Luongo and Burgess. 

Lunch time Championship kick off which is much kinder for Australian viewers

Think he should be the roos starting LB/LWB. Wasted at LW.. needs space to run into.

No Souttar or Glover on final day. McGree still injured. Silvera bench. Luongo and Burgess starting in what is a massive day. 

Underway in England and now that the ball is rolling you just know insane things can happen. Ipswich need to be wary.

It's the inevitable and maybe unavoidable part of growth but I do feel sorry for the Ipswich fans that will be priced out if they go up to the Premier League not to mention all the suits crawling back in having ditched the club when they needed support most. 

Nice. Southampton lead in Leeds.