he was first for ghana back then actually i think :lol:

I know the rankings mean fuck all, but where are Ghana, and where are Australia?? AUS 20. GHA 32. And Gooner, a win is a win is a win. Ghana's preperation has not been good. And anyone with half a brain that knows football would dismiss pretty well anything this joker says anyway. AUS 2 - 0 GHA

Nah, Asamoah and Amoah were first choice at the time IIRC.

To be fair, neither has australia's.

villaboy....2-0? where are the two goals coming from? timmy? derek boateng will have him covered..if u know football (and by football i dont mean EPL and A-League) you'd know who derek boateng is big shot. i'm sick of all these bandwagoners that all of a sudden know ins and outs of everything football...in the ghana australia match i dont see more than a 1 goal margin to the winning team. both sides play the same formation, difference is ghana has more flair and technical nous on the ball whereas aus dont (or arent able to showcase it due to pim's anti-footbal tactics) ghana will sneak this one against a stubborn aus defence, my picks for match winners will be asamoah gyan, dominic adiya or andre ayew (abedi pele's son) Grella and culina will struggle against muntari & appiah, mark my words

First goal mid way through the first half, second goal at the end when they Ghana push forward. Just to display that I know nothing about football, Mr big shot, Ghana are a lot more organised, under their Serb coach, than they have previously been. But still not organised enough for international tournament football. They are mntally weak, and the fact that their "star" is out of the tournament, will be playing on their already weak mentality.
Who the hell are you to tell me what I do and do not know??
You know nothing about me, so keep your ridiculous comments about football.

No, to be fair, Australia's preperation has not been the best either, but Australia have the mental resiliance, and team cohesion, to toughen it out. I am not sure that Ghana have the same mental strength. In fact, I am almost positive that they dont. Almost.... :)

how can people be judging ghana, we've hardly seen any of them recently, i'm ghana fan but don't know too much about how they're team's going apart from recent results, the only one really who seems to know what he's talking about is Kwa$

Kwa$, you joined the forums in december and have a whole 3 posts to your name. I suggest you zip it about 'bandwagoners' and accusing another poster of knowing nothing about football when you've got no credibility to back up your own opinion.

Australia may have that mental strength, but under Verbeek they've lacked that cohesion, and I'm unconvinced whether it's going to be enough to counter a full-strength Ghana's athletic ability.

australia is handling the world cup the way teams are supposed to - i havent seen any of them make comments about serbia or ghana or making it to the second round. theyve only spoken about germany - theyre taking it one game at a time, which is what teams should be doing.

ghana is overconfident. that doesnt mean they will lose, but it means that australia have an advantage already. lets hope they can make the most of it.

They haven't commented about any of the other games because they haven't been asked about anything but the Germany game. Everyone wants to know how we're going to do against Germany.

and this is not nessacarily a good thing either

i dont think any teams in this group have a garentee of making it through to the group stage germany have a very strong squad but lack a little bit of workman ship and serbia also have a very telented list of players but are very unconsitent and i'm not quite sure but i think ghana won the african cup of nations with pretty close to an under 23's squad, however australia can be very dangours side in attack ie. win over irland 3-0 and irland are no dud's. australia should not be taking lightly and i think they have a good chance of getting into the group stage :) GO SOCCEROOS :)

lost 1-0 in the final to egypt :evil:

because i joined a forum in december doesnt mean i have time to be on here writing shit 24/7.....if u wanna talk football, and suggest i know nothing, if ur in sydney and say i know nothing about football because i've made 3 posts...i'm not going to talk shit on this but i'm well informed, i hope ur in sydney afroman, i'll send u the freebies i give up, maybe i could take u on an educational tour when ur beloved roos are back in town...if u wanna star

i meant if u want to start about bandwagoners, i wont drop any names but i'm not going to sit on a forum and justify myself to a keyboard warrior saying im a bandwagoner, sbs fridays. herbert street artarmon, name a time, i'll swipe u in

scary stuff

Gooner4life_8
11/06/2010 1:21:07 AM
lost 1-0 in the final to egypt :evil:


uh ok i knew they done really well with a pretty weak squads :)

they were very lucky and can't take much from that i reckon

Group D Outright Odds
Germany - 12.0
Australia - 151.0
Serbia - 67.0
Ghana - 81.0


To Qualify
Germany 1.17
Serbia 1.75
Ghana 2.40
Australia 3.50

Not to qualify
Australia 1.28
Ghana 1.67
Serbia 1.75
Germany 4.32

woah, they pretty even

Kwa$ - Your my hero. Can I have your babies??
No-one has said that you know nothing. You are the one throwing that around. And if you so sick of us "bandwagoners"..... FUCK OFF!!!!

commet003 i think you're the only one with a brain here, ppl are so narrow minded and one dimesional when they look at it, put it this way, on the 20th june we'll know then no one can throw any excuse around. for the record, the ghanaian african cup of nations squad was predominantly their u/20 squad plus 3 or 4 1st team players, Egypt are a top side, but like for like, its like the socceroos losing to iraq in the asian cup.

villaboy being a keyboard warrior..settle down mate, anyone can curse using a keyboard. take it easy on the keys and talk some sense.

Why did you have to mention that. D=
I have been trying to forget that ever happened =[

AfromanGT - That may be the case.... If Ghana were actually full strength. Its not just Essien missing. As with Australia, many of Ghana's leaders are seriously struggling.
And Australias cohesion on the pitch is not really what I was referring to. The Aussie squad has been predominatly the same for quite a while, and the players refer to themselves as a family. They will fight for each other even after the tank is empty.

What, you work for SBS one day a week (making coffee) and you know more than anyone else.....??
Look, your clearly comfortable in your own superiority, and know everything already, so why would you even need to read these articles and forums. You should be writing the damn things!!

I never said you know nothing mate. All I'm saying is perhaps you want to wait until you have more than a handful of posts before you tell people that they dont' know what they're on about or call them 'bandwagoners'. Especially when they've been on here for years. I'll take you up on that offer next time I'm in sydney ;) Pm me more details if you don't want to put it up here.

In some ways, you were right and Cahill probably is going to have a hard time but Ghana are left wanting when it comes to width and Wilkshire, Kewell and co are going to be able to take advantage of that bringing the ball forward out wide.

I don't like our chances of beating Ghana not because I don't know where our goals are going to come from, but because their midfield is incredibly athletic.

Alot of the Australian boys, aswell as the Australian media (Craig Foster article on it) and even us, heck even those who hardly follow our game (Bandwagoners you might say - though some of these I would more call 'well wishers'), have all often commentated on Australia's strong fighting spirit. It's that kind of 'battler mentality,' 'backs to the wall,' 'underdog,' 'love a challenge,' 'cut down those tall poppies,' 'we're inferior to nobody,' 'shove it up 'em,' 'determined to earn their respect,' 'respect nobody/reputations mean nothing,' 'fight to the end,' 'never give up,' 'we're always a chance,' 'cup is MORE than half full, it's overflowing!' all that kind of stuff.

All this stuff does is further fuels that. Let's just hope Grella doesn't get too carried away, when Muntari 'the red flag' appears before his fired up studs!

Incidently, as we well know, our Kiwi bros also feed on this, and may surprise some, with their potential to trip up some of their group opponents, though unfortunately for them they don't have the base skill level in their squad's talent pool, sufficient enough to truly challenge (To progress from their group), despite the influx of a former Danish Under 21 player in the very Kiwi Winston Reid, a former English youth international (Tommy Smith) and former Scottish youth international (Michael McGlinchey).

Edited by GloryPerth: 11/6/2010 01:51:01 AM

thank you for the correction kwa$ i knew it was a pretty young team :)

and iraq did have a pretty good sqaud for the last asian cup and correct me if i'm wrong but dident they end up winning the final?

"Bandwagoner" isn't a very nice term for John Travolta.

Aye, they did indeed do very well with an unheralded squad and win the competition. I don't know that they'll repeat the feat though.