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worst of touches by kennedy

Will all you negative, whiny, anti-aussie Pim-haters please STFU NOW?

Valeri > Grella and Beauchamp > Moore

Being critical of playing style doesn't make you anti-aussie.

+1 joffa

Edited by torana_a9x: 1/6/2010 11:39:19 PM

No it makes you ignorant of football. I'd rather win than entertain you buddy and all the Socceroos agree.

Whether the style is good or bad we are very sound defensively across the whole squad. when you make wholesale changes the flood gates can open but two games in a row now it hasn't.

And we take our chances, unlike many more favoured teams. Good teams make their own luck. These boys can win against ANY opposition.

Holman hasn't been hopeless

No Holman is proving me wrong. Thank Jesus for that or we were going to be in real trouble! But let's hope Tim etc are fit and we dont need him just to be safe!

How does it make you ignorant of football you loser, there isn't anything wrong with wanting your team to play good entertaining football all though I agree that the result is more important at international level.

I wasn't saying I'd rather be entertained than win the game, I was just saying that criticising the style played doesn't make you anti-aussie.

watching this game, and no we haven't been fantastic by any means, but there is enough there to suggest we won't be pushovers and have a better than even chance of getting out of our group.

but he keeps passing back when he has the ball.

Holman possibly our best in the second half.
Vidosic definitely over Garcia.
Kennedy looking alright.
Cant wait to see us against USA.

Maybe but does that say more about him or a) our lack of pace up front or, b) a lack of forward options or, c) him playing to Pim's instructions or, he's just shite?,

That was fucking woeful.

1 zip is a good result for us considering we are in a heavy training period now we now need the Serbs to bottle and lose again this time against Poland.

this win only makes Pims resume look good.
thats all.

looking at those stats, we dominated the shots on goal and won the possession. for an australian team, that's pretty much all we can hope for. let's wait and see how we go against a more attacking team in USA.

Holman played some positive football. Good on him. He doesn't seem like such a waste of space now.

I think Grella is out of his depth. I can see him getting a red quite easily at the world cup. Both in the Denmark and the NZ game he has done some highly questionable tackles. I never feel easy watching him play these days.

It wasn't great, but I don't think it was woeful...much better in the second half.

Because Kennedy walked the ball into the net against in a game that means next to nothing? Why would that change anything.

Theres nothing anti-aussie about it. If anything the way the team is playing is 'anti-aussie.' Of course results are what counts but we would be playing at a higher standard, actually entertaining fans(say what you like its not damn chess its a sport that relies on public interest) and could achieve better results or at very least the same. Its far too late now and Pim wouldnt know how to play football anyway but i hope the next coach can adjust the tactics somewhat.

+1

We're playing against fucking Denmark. Every time we had a chance to break and counter it cross halfway, then went back to one of the defensive midfielders then to the cb or keeper.

How are we going to go against Germany?

We scored a lucky goal of a fluke deflected cross, and was that was our only shot on target?

You'll keep this attitude even if we beat Germany with one of those 'lucky, fluky' goals won't you? :roll:

Actually it's part of FIFA's rules that it be shown on FTA.

Not the best performance from the aussies yet again. The Danes really lacked an x-factor tonight and we were relatively fortunate.

Good to get another win under our belt in our first real test. But I'm waiting to see what happens when we take on the yanks.

My $0.02 (if anyone even reads it):

Holman not constantly turning over and played well, good game by him - he was the only one that was running at players and forcing bad decisions, something others should've been doing. Grella is a tool, we cannot afford to risk using him. I reckon Vidosic should be an absolute certainty. Garcia didn't impress me. Moore has stepped up a notch, thank god. Despite the odd ball movement Wilkshire is an absolute champ at those crosses from the right. Kennedy was amazingly calm and collected with the ball at his feet in close to goal, I am SO happy to see his confidence at that sort of level

What I found interesting is that now in both games the non preferred midfield seemed to control that area of the field better. Was it because the other side also had their non-preferred on at that time? I don't know. But the passing was much more direct, precise, and showed some imagination.

:-k :-k :-k

Poulsen not enough for you?

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Under verbeek we don't have the confidence to play cohesive attacking football, whether it be on the counter or in a game we should be dominating, it just doesn't happen.

We're going to struggle against Germany's clinical nature if we don't take advantages of openings like that.

We had two shots on target IIRC.

Grella just doesn't have it at the moment, Allardyce has encouraged him to turn into a hatchet.

He controlled their midfield as he always does. But he didn't make that game-breaking play.

Edited by afromanGT: 2/6/2010 12:14:06 AM

Who exactly will score for Germany is my question. This is there weakest squad in a long time.