The way I look at it is Julia, when I'm asked how I think the Socceroos are going to go, my first response is "it could be really tough".
I then give them the positive spin (i.e Germany have injury problems, we've beaten Ghana before, a do-or-die match against Serbia suits the Socceroos' mentality) but then I remind them that simply making the World Cup is massive and that for many countries that's all they care about.
You're right there should be more excitement about the World Cup coming up (expect it to really ramp up around the NZ game) but the build up will never be as big as in 2006! (32 years...remember?) In the end I'd prefer the general public to be realistic rather than if we lose all three games (which is a pretty big possibility) we don't get slaughtered by people saying "oh but we made the Round of 16 last time".
They should be thinking "well we had a squad 4 years older, injuries, and the World Cup is really hard".


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