The Socceroos thread.

[FFC Mariner]

Great point has Slater chipped in to blame everyone else but Arnie?

 

[Big Al]

Virtuallly zero genuine creativity in that starting central midfield because Arnie was playing defensively in our opening qualifier at home jeez.

At least have a go maaaaate.

Just simply by passed the middle. They were there to defend and recycle it to the backs to go wide.

Not one single Tom Rogic long range bomb into the stands. Niz would have been perfect (maybe we are biased) but arnie doesn’t trust him.

The energy that came late should have been there all game.

However the bullshit rolling around should be yellow carded by var but it’s not the rules. So many var checks and i am wtf for.

Very very poor. Not one chance we should have scored from

 

[FFC Mariner]

Shithousery or the dark arts is part and parcel of football and I for one, bloody love it.
It's part of the theatre. Arnold brought that on by putting out a team with no forward intent.
Our kids do it. CCM do it.
MDP is brilliant at it. Ditto Theo

 

[turbo]

Shithousery or the dark arts is part and parcel of football and I for one, bloody love it.
It's part of the theatre. Arnold brought that on by putting out a team with no forward intent.
Our kids do it. CCM do it.
MDP is brilliant at it. Ditto Theo

There’s dark arts which most teams do and then there’s AFC qualifiers dark arts on a whole other level. I never want to see our boys lay it on like that, it was genuinely embarrassing.

But I do agree we played ourselves into that position. Little intent or creativity was always going to lead to encouraging time wasting as the game went on. The only way to make them play is by getting infront.

 

[FFC Mariner]

3 points is 3 points. Bahrain have them.
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[sydmariner]

 

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[Melange]

Is it wrong to hope we get beaten tonight so that Arnie gets the sack?

 

[sydmariner]

Is it wrong to hope we get beaten tonight so that Arnie gets the sack?

Yes, it is even if we lose he won’t be going anywhere anytime soon.

 

[Ben10]

Is it wrong to hope we get beaten tonight so that Arnie gets the sack?

if we lose tonight I doubt he'd get sacked, but should definitely be last chance saloon. We need results, not excuses

 

[Spacks]

I just really hope we don't play Irvine, Metcalfe and O'Neill all at the same time. They're all the same player.

 

[Spacks]

Interesting video about St Pauli tactics

 

[Big Al]

Is it wrong to hope we get beaten tonight so that Arnie gets the sack?

Unfortunately yes.

Qualifying is way more important and we can boot him after qualifying

 

[sydmariner]

Qualifying is way more important and we can boot him after qualifying

People (myself included) said the same thing after the Peru shootout & then we had our best World Cup result ever & Garang nearly knocked out Argentina.

 

[turbo]

Arnieball isnt that bad against the big teams where we're playing up to their level (or dragging them down to ours), but it isnt great against teams trying to bring us down to theirs. We still struggle to shift between those gears.

 

[pjennings]

Arnie is a defensive manager. But his teams can attack. He first of all concentrates on getting defence right and then adds to attack later. We saw that at CCM and also at SFC.

I think this squad will change markedly in the next year as attacking options are added.

 

[Stuartmcateer]

Arnieball isnt that bad against the big teams where we're playing up to their level (or dragging them down to ours), but it isnt great against teams trying to bring us down to theirs. We still struggle to shift between those gears.

Except France, we didn't get to their level or bring them down to ours 🤷🏻‍♂️

 

[sydmariner]

He has stated that a-league players weren’t available due to still being in preseason.

 

[Spacks]

He has stated that a-league players weren’t available due to still being in preseason.

Yup, makes sense really.