This.

Hope Moore gets cut, he is not up to it and was a step too slow. Wished Tommy Oar got more of a run and I wanted to see what Nicky Carle would have done had he got onto the pitch. We seem to win ugly with Pim but a win is a win I suppose, can't wait for the next few games vs Denmark and those Seppos.

Just watched the replay carefully and Moore was at fault for their goal. The poor bloke on the inside had 2 to mark and tried to stay closer to the man closest to the goal which left the bloke who scored on the outside free.

Grella should have got a red and I'm a massive socceroos fan.

Just heard Pim on Fox say Grella should have gone for that tackle.

Culina man of the match for the 2nd half, He was a ghost 1st half.

Pims on TV saying grella and cahill should of got reds, good on him for honesty

LOL pim on fox

Saying his team should have been down to 9 and the players should have gone off

Even Pim admits we didnt deserve the win, and that he should have had 2 players sent off. Kiwis deserved more from this game

Brett Holman is a legend!!!! You can prove that by voting Here :p :p :p

Seeing above comment, maybe he was just saying Cahill.

Disgusting performance by Australia in the first half. Cahill, Grella and a few others were not mentally prepared for this game at all and resorted to some dirty tackles in frustration.
Moore should be chopped for Millsy IMO.
I liked how the attitude of the team was vastly improved when there were people on the park who wanted to be there.
The only positive was the two Aussie goals coming from Vidosic and Holman, good finishes both of them.

I'd say Dario was man of the match when all hope was gone and i'd said to my self Socceroos are f***d in the world cup he stepped up and he's only 22.

Tonight's performance is no indicator of how the team will go in the World Cup. Before 2006 Australia struggled against Liechtenstein before winning 3-1.

That was a disgraceful tackle by Grella on Bertos....but it is true to form, he's always been a bit of a thug. Personally, i feel embarassed being an Australian football fan when i see that rubbish....in a friendly FFS.

Grella should go into the room of mirrors and have a good hard look at himself.

Moore is clearly past his prime. Oh well, Wilkshire and Chippers to come back

Good stuff Vidosic, i like that kid, i bet he scores in the World Cup

we didnt deserve to lose but the goal at the end doesn't show that we dominated the game thats for sure.

New zealand were pretty ordinary in the second half compared to the first but it goes to show that some re-organisation and our game can be put back on track by the coach. Obviously, this was no where close to our first choice team.

Lol, when holman scored, All i could think about was all the haters crying out at the same time and not actually supporting the australian cause. We snuck it in but its a win and regardless, im sure from this game they'll rectify those problems or at least lessen it by the time the world cup comes. It looked to me that new zealand wanted it more and it showed that we were quite nervous to begin with.

Brad jones did a good save in the second half, federici was okay though that 1st goal could have been handle better by the defence mainly.

I know oar didnt feature much but he didnt really do to much with the chances he did get and caused a foul that really wasn't needed in the first place; inexperience. It was a shame carle didnt get a run but if he's meant to get on that plane soon, he best be impressing in training :P

Moore didnt really have a great game but it wasnt horrible either, but beachamp coming on you could see the defence settle a little more.

Mcdonald and culina combined well to help vidosic onto the ball and holmans placement at the very end was well done.

cahill in any other game probably would have been sent off and we did let loose on some dodgy tackles but other than that carney was pretty good on his side.

Hopefully we won't be playing like this come the first game against germany but then again we wont be overwhelming favourites either and to be honest, i kept thinking to myself the longer the game kept going the more likely australia was going to get that goal this was a good kick about to get the nerves out of the way. bring on the danes and usa.

Edited by bryan: 24/5/2010 09:59:07 PM

I was suprised but for a freezing monday night over 55K against Nz was pretty impressive.

did i miss something kevin????????

Yep. Good on you bobbyR - proving kiwis are pathetically sore losers - go a f*ck yourself.

Aus 2
NZ 1

Disgusting performance by Australia in the first half. Cahill, Grella and a few others were not mentally prepared for this game at all and resorted to some dirty tackles in frustration.
Moore should be chopped for Millsy IMO.
I liked how the attitude of the team was vastly improved when there were people on the park who wanted to be there.
The only positive was the two Aussie goals coming from Vidosic and Holman, good finishes both of them.

grow up.......no one should be proud of that first half performance, it was diabolical.......

yep good on you Reason - proving Australians are big headed arrogant pricks who think their shit smells of roses.

good luck getting a point at the WC.....................

the so called stars better lose the egos and break into a sweat or we are goners..........

And you're STILL carrying on.
LOL.
Cry a river mate - Italy will f*cking DESTROY you.

hahaha bobbyR, nz lost to Australia, even when they where playing the worst ever. G'luk getting out of your group mate.

LOL

Germany will fucking destroy you.

Reason

Pretty ironic Rory Fallon (WHO THE F*CK IS RORY FALLON???!) talking up injuring Aussie players mid-week, and no less than 3 kiwis went off with injuries. F*ck, you wanna talk smack, accept the consequences - c*nt.

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Yep. Good on you bobbyR - proving kiwis are pathetically sore losers - go a f*ck yourself.

Aus 2
NZ 1

Also ironic that you've obviously ever heard of a dignified winner. Shame you don't comment as your name indicates you should.

NZ Better of the first half, Oz better of the second. Congrats to you guys, in four - six weeks time you may just thank us for giving you a wakeup call :)

Hopefully now there won't be quite as many negative types about playing us more regularly. Good luck for the WC.

Moore didn't show any of his experiece in which he is suppossed to have a wealth of, Beauchamp looked light years ahead of him. Grella, Bresciano, Federici and Carney should be ashamed of themselves, their passing was woeful and wtf has Grella thinking when he took that halfway shot. Valeri and Jedinak looked very good. Vidosic wasn't fantastic in the first half but he looked much better in the second. Oar didn't make much of an impact, whenever he got the ball he was closed down fairly quickly. Mcdonald wasn't as bad as Grella and Bresc but he was still pretty bad. Brad Jones looked pretty solid, I think he should become the new number 2, Fed looked very nervous and unconvincing. Culina was a lot better on the right then in DM. I would've liked to see Carle get a run but oh well.

I have to say New Zealand definitely surprised me.

And Holman.... I always liked him :^o I could not stop laughing when he scored.

Difference is THAT was your first team.

We were without HALF our first team....that and at no stage did we take you seriously...LOL

how has holman silenced his critics? Every time he had the ball his touch and passes were terrible

attention everyone: brett holman is still shit!!!

just a good ball by valeri. beauchamp needs to play, fuck moore off

It's funny how much people forget how shit Brett Holman is after one goal. He proved again tonight that apart from the goal he has the touch of a rapist and should not be near a Socceroos starting eleven.

so Cahill and Grella 'avin a laugh with Bertos ? yep, not serious at all

and TBF that was not our FIRST team. We played most of the game without first team players mate.

Bertos
Vicelich
Lochhead
Smeltz
Fallon

all got subbed before AUS stepped up.