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Are we still happy to be at the World Cup?


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By simmo_1988 - 20 May 2010 5:20 PM

The criticism the Socceroos get is over the top in my opinion. This is only our 3rd finals appearance ever, we are not a Brazil, Italy or Germany. It is still a novelty for us to be at the World Cup. Whatever the Socceroos do in South Africa will be compared to 4 years ago and let's be honest that will be extremly hard to top considering the group we are in. So I don't understand why people are saying we have a problem here or this should be done this or that way, we are not a club team we have the players who hold an Australian passport. Sometimes you have to make do with what you have. Johnny Warren said, we have to stop talking about when are we going to qualify for the World Cup but ask when are we going to win the World Cup and I totally agree with that attitude but we also have to be realisic and patient. We won one game in Germany 06, and suddenly the expectations are that if we don't do better than 4 years ago it's a total fail. Fans are entitled to their opinion all they want but I believe that we should be happy we are there and just enjoy it.
What do you think, should we expect the world from our team or are you still just happy to be apart of it and hope we go as far as we can?
By socceroossupporter - 22 May 2010 3:17 PM

Tommycash wrote:
If people can't complain what can they do?


Uh... enjoy life? Be positive? Support the team? Offer solutions rather than pointing out the wrong things with the team.

Just a thought. :-k

Edited by socceroossupporter: 22/5/2010 03:19:05 PM