2012-2013 Football (Sokkah) Thread

@happy tiger said:
In my opinion Archie Thompson is the most over rated sportsman in Australian sport

He goes alright. I think he actually scored a late winner or got the goal for a tie earlier in this qualification. His energy off the bench is not what defenders want.

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He was hopeless Allan, they were far better served leaving Kruse on, and bringing on Rogic for Holland instead of Bresciano.

What we need is a impact striker that can sink a goal in the last 10-15 minutes. We relied way too much on Cahill's superiority in the air.
 
The team was terrible, shock shock, I blame the coach.

No game plan other than cross it to Cahill, which although he's undoubtedly one of the best in the world in this area, its such a low percentage play, especially when they were crossing from so deep! This was evident from the effectiveness of corners in comparison. Even if we can get away with this against the teams from Asia, try this play against the defenders in the final 32! GOOD LUCK!

Coach has to go. No vision or plans. We will never improve under such a coach. Football has moved away from Defensive lineups, Hell Italy play a flat 3 as do most sides in the Serie A!!!

Holland was horrible as the other holding mid. If it weren't for a bad piece of keeping, he'd have NOTHING positive from that game. Both just seemed to walk around all night, disgusting. Although to me it looked like they were doing exactly as instructed.

Best players on the night, by FAR. Kruise and Orr in the limited time he had. Bresciano also showed why you pass and move, pass and move, not just pass… stand. Orr came on and showed urgency and willingness to take on players. You won't make space against a team of 8 defenders unless you do this!

GOODBYE HOLGER, THANKS FOR ABSOLUTELY
 
@happy tiger said:
In my opinion Archie Thompson is the most over rated sportsman in Australian sport

He's certainly up there (though Shaun Tait holds that title in my book), banging in 13 goals against American Samoa (if you've seen the video you can see how comical that game was) does not make you a superstar. He dominates the A-League, but never took that step up overseas. In my opinion Kruse and Rogic are both superior players to him.
 
@Cultured Bogan said:
He was hopeless Allan, they were far better served leaving Kruse on, and bringing on Rogic for Holland instead of Bresciano.

What we need is a impact striker that can sink a goal in the last 10-15 minutes. We relied way too much on Cahill's superiority in the air.

Kruse must have been carrying an injury for him to be substituted as he was posing questions to the Oman defense and was probably the only one.

Brosque couldn't get into the game with the ball going over his head which was a shame.

I suspect Rogic may have came on if Bresciano didn't have to be substituted almost straight off. Bresc straightened the attack and we looked better with him on.

And I'm not surprised we kept going to Cahill as he was very dominant in the air. I have honestly not seen such dominance.

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@happy tiger said:
@AndTheKungFoSing said:
@happy tiger said:
And the Roar are coming , **watch out all**

Couldn't agree more!

We'll see

Wanderers haven't played finals football before

The Roar are the real deal in finals football and are coming good when it counts

The Wanderers hadn't played an A-League game before the season started but still seemed to do ok…
 
@TripleB said:
@happy tiger said:
@AndTheKungFoSing said:
@happy tiger said:
And the Roar are coming , **watch out all**

Couldn't agree more!

We'll see

Wanderers haven't played finals football before

The Roar are the real deal in finals football and are coming good when it counts

The Wanderers hadn't played an A-League game before the season started but still seemed to do ok…

haha.. THIS.

Sydney isn't sky blue this morning either cultured :wink:
 
@AndTheKungFoSing said:
@happy tiger said:
@AndTheKungFoSing said:
@happy tiger said:
And the Roar are coming , **watch out all**

Couldn't agree more!

We'll see

Wanderers haven't played finals football before

The Roar are the real deal in finals football and are coming good when it counts

The Wanderers hadn't played an A-League game before the season started but still seemed to do ok…

haha.. THIS.

Sydney isn't sky blue this morning either cultured :wink:
They haven't won a game which could be make or break yet We'll see how good the Wanderers are in the next few weeks
 
Man U home and hosed now

Hopefully Hammers should beat the relegation battle with 4 more points

Talking of relegation which clubs do you think will go down ??
 
I think Reading and QPR are pretty much done (although QPR definitely have the talent to pull off a miracle survival). I think Villa will be the third, although they have a pretty strong line up, it just isn't happening for them at the moment. Wigan are at that point in the season where they morph into superhumans and stay up and the only other teams I can see going down are Stoke and Norwich who should be able to get a couple more wins each and stay up.
 
@Marshall_magic said:
I think Reading and QPR are pretty much done (although QPR definitely have the talent to pull off a miracle survival). I think Villa will be the third, although they have a pretty strong line up, it just isn't happening for them at the moment. Wigan are at that point in the season where they morph into superhumans and stay up and the only other teams I can see going down are Stoke and Norwich who should be able to get a couple more wins each and stay up.

Reading definitely gone imo

Sunderland might go as well

QPR's game today is humungus for them they have to beat Fulham away

Newcastle is the other side that are in trouble

Wigan will find a way through ,they always do
 
Paolo di Canio appointed Sunderland head coach following sacking of Martin O'Neill
Sunderland have put their faith in Paolo Di Canio to save them from relegation after the sacking of Martin O’Neill.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/sunderland/9964025/Paolo-di-Canio-appointed-Sunderland-head-coach-following-sacking-of-Martin-ONeill.html

Comeon boys! Now no game plan O'Niell is here, lets stay up!
 
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