Carney for Chipperfield?

Hate to say it of Chippers, but that MAY be one necessary change? Carney has a bit more pace to recover than Chippers has, and has he said in the article, the Ghanians certainly are quick and powerful.

And don't forget Jedinak/Valeri for Grella and

Kenedy in for Garcia and

Kewell in for Cahill.

And maybe even, Bresciano in for Culina?

Edited by GloryPerth: 17/6/2010 07:44:29 PM

Chippers did better than Moore or Grella, I'll give him that.

Still, you could probably count the number of bad games he's had on one hand, he's a dependable pro.

I guess it depends if Chippers still has the legs. Age has to catch up with him sometime. I hope he just had a bad day at the office against stellar opposition. I guess Verbeek would no best as he sees the fitness, speed and agility test data.

Sorry? There is no way Culina should be removed from the starting XI

With Carney for Chipperfield- I feel very insecure with Carney at LB, he is and always will be a LM. I wouldn't mind him coming in at LM in that regard, he can do most of the running for chippers. Piss off Garcia and get Kewell in the centre

Hmm my perspective on Culina was coloured by his being played out of position on the left against Germany, that's probably partly why his performance looked soo bad, aswell as the fact that Lahm and co were soo good. Have Culina back where he belongs, that is DM alongside Valeri or Jedinak, and yeah, hopefully he's the goods.

BUT

Then again, since he's come back to the A-League Culina hasn't quite been the same Culina of old - Hasn't impressed as much as the past. But that difference is miniscule compared to the drop in form etc... of guys like Grella. Going from the A-League to Germany IS quite a reach, but again he kept assuring us that he would not drop off his training etc... despite joining the A-League and he DID train with PSV in recent times for WC prep.

And with Chippers, yeah again, Germany did make him aswell as the rest of the team look bad, but one wonders against Ayew, Boateng and co how he'd cope - He'd need the support of the left winger and one of the DMs inside ofcourse. TBH I wasn't as serious on the Carney for Chippers move, as it's certainly unlikely Pim would do that - That would be a more drastic move in the more 'risk taking/caution to the wind' range. But hey, when it comes to that approach, THEN I wouldn't be surprised to see a Carney come on for Chippers there, for fresh legs and possible a more attacking option pushing forward. BTW People keep saying they aren't confident in Carney as a LB, and while, sure, his background is that of an attacking winger, in recent times for club aswell as country, he's been utilised as a LB, and when I saw recent times that has been the past few seasons now. And he's featured as our NT's LB in our qualification as much as Chippers has, if not more. Sure, in a number of ways he's no Chippers, but he may be quicker on the ground and that can be valuable against certain opposing wingers. As anonanimal suggested, these physical aspects can still be quite important as we saw against Germany.

BTW I'm no Chippers hater - He's been a great servant to our NT and I'll never forget his commitment to the NT, especially when it wasn't soo fashionable in the days of Oceania - including once paying his own way from Europe for qualifying fixtures against the Island nations when no other Euroroo would etc.. And indeed he's NEVER let us down. Infact that Germany match was the first time in a long time (even ever?) that I've seen Chippers have a sub-par game for Australia and ofcourse part of that was squarely down to Germany's ability and ofcourse Chippers was far from alone when it came to disappointing that game and the NT as a whole was a collective disappointment when it came to it's lack of defensive organisation as a wider team and general combative resilience (And I know tangent, but our tactical organisation, as set out by Pim, played some part in that, clearly).

Edited by GloryPerth: 18/6/2010 11:20:51 AM