Football - Australia V Netherlands

[Jeld-Wen Falcon]

Match is tommorow, appears that the majority of the 1st team players will play after the B team played last night (our time) and won 8-1. Also, Kewell played 85mins scored 2 and set-up 2, was apparently very impressive considering.

[DJR David]

Man oh man I cannot wait. This is just the build up to a great world cup campaign.
Just a tip, if you open a new account with centrebet, and bet 100 bucks on the world cup, you get a free nike world cup genuine shirt worth $129. show ya colours and support our boys, taking on the world in the only real WORLD cup, not just a bunch of commonwealth nations

enjoy

David

[AUCLSC]

Go Socceroos!

[AU2PWR]

Ole Ole Ole Ole , Ole Ole Ole Ole

'LIVERPOOL !' , I Mean , 'SOCCEROOS'

Daniel

[pennybrain]

C'mon Aussie C'mon C'mon

[FTE217]

Monday morning's game will be a Real tester.....lets hope they come out of it with a solid performance !
To right the only Real world cup and finally we have at least made it into the Real arena even if we don't get past the first week, will be a great learning curve.

[MethodX]

Should be a real test for the Aussie defence.

Come on Aussies

(And Italy too)

[EBII Fairmont]

Originally Posted by Jeld-Wen Falcon

Match is tommorow, appears that the majority of the 1st team players will play after the B team played last night (our time) and won 8-1. Also, Kewell played 85mins scored 2 and set-up 2, was apparently very impressive considering.

I hope Australia do win a couple of matches as that is possibly the best I reckon they can do. We played a B grade team and thrashed them. That is not really a victory because they didn't play a team who is upto worl class.

But Australia still isn't upto world class yet. Brazil, Croatia and Japan are so talented, that Australia will struggle to win.

They only beat Greece by one goal. There should have been at least another two in there. I also hope Harry Kewel gets on to play for a while. He has had lately a tendency of playing for 20 minutes and then going off and not returning for the rest of the match.

Good Luck to Australia.

[Hardtopxb]

Wolrd game,Phfftt.Come on now, everyone knows if its not top 5 in America its not popular world wide LOL.. I hope we do really well in the world cup...

[Falcon Freak]

Originally Posted by AUCLSC

Go Socceroos!

You mean footballroos? :

FF

[EF, What else?]

Originally Posted by Falcon Freak

You mean footballroos? :

FF

The FFA made the decision to stick with Socceroos, so its stuck for good.

Gonna love the World Cup, only as I have 3 teams to support. With Italian blood, and English blood, Ive got a good chance of a winner, and Australia is just a bonus!

[chief]

Chief gets in Lleyton Hewitt's power stance position 1 and yells c'mon with fist facing head like a fool.

[Jeld-Wen Falcon]

Originally Posted by EBII Fairmont

I hope Australia do win a couple of matches as that is possibly the best I reckon they can do. We played a B grade team and thrashed them. That is not really a victory because they didn't play a team who is upto worl class.

But Australia still isn't upto world class yet. Brazil, Croatia and Japan are so talented, that Australia will struggle to win.

They only beat Greece by one goal. There should have been at least another two in there. I also hope Harry Kewel gets on to play for a while. He has had lately a tendency of playing for 20 minutes and then going off and not returning for the rest of the match.

Good Luck to Australia.

Hiddink appears to be confident of a good result against Japan and I saw that Croatia got done 1-0 by Poland. I dont know if they had they're best players in or not.

Dont forget Australia did beat Uruguay, and they are no slouches.

Australia are an unknown quantity and hopefully being underestimated could turn into a few good results. 2 wins will most like be needed though because holding Brazil will be impossible. I dont think they will get past the first round but there is a slight hope.

[HTCURRY]

Originally Posted by EBII Fairmont

I also hope Harry Kewel gets on to play for a while. He has had lately a tendency of playing for 20 minutes and then going off and not returning for the rest of the match.

Good Luck to Australia.

Socceroos got a lucky 1-1 draw. Team was rubbish in the 1st half, much better in the 2nd half, despite getting a man sent off. But neither Croatia nor Japan will be anywhere as Good as the Dutch, so all in all not a bad result.

AND

EBII maybe you arent quite sure about the rules, but in soccer unlike League, AFL once you are substituted, you cannot come back on.

Finally about Kewell, he has a chronic groin problem, hence the limited playing time for Australia.

[Homer1]

We were absolutely rubbish in the first 3/4 of the 1st half. All the defensive and offensive mistakes whould've had Hiddink pulling his hair out!

[FTE217]

Rubbish 1st half or not, they hung in there against No3 in the world from memory.....
Was a tough hitout which is what they needed after the soft last 2 games.

[MRJUCY]

They certainly didn't play their best football but it was in no way rubbish, they appeared a touch overawed in the fist 15 minutes or so but settled down nicely & despite being a man down for half an hour drew with the 3rd ranked team in the world in front of a very vocal home crowd, which is a great result.

[Racecraft]

poor football by both teams.. lets be honest with 65% possession against and 1:5 shots on goal we were lucky not too lose by 3 or 4..

Kudos to the goalie though, Mark really cemented his place in the first XI

Play like that in the big show and Gus would be very very happy with a draw..

[Racecraft]

one bonus for me is that I put my bets on before last night incase we had a good result.. Drawing with the Dutch has dropped the prices on Aust to make it out of the groups by $1.15 :P

[DJR David]

Schwarzer for PM!!!

What a legend, he certainly saved the aussies. Dont forget this is all part of the master plan by Hiddink. Sure it wasnt the pretiest football, but is in preparation for the Brazilian onslaught.If they hold the clogwearers to a 1-1 draw, then hello second round

Plus the draw was lead story on Sunrise this morning. LEAD on the news not just sport news, but the news. Oh how this will change the game in this country

you beuaty.

Also how come I could hear 1,000 aussies singing waltzing matilda last night, yet at the Greece game you heard little more than a fart. Aussie crowds MUST learn to supprt correctly at home. Can no-one sing here??

David

[EBII Fairmont]

Originally Posted by HTCURRY

Socceroos got a lucky 1-1 draw. Team was rubbish in the 1st half, much better in the 2nd half, despite getting a man sent off. But neither Croatia nor Japan will be anywhere as Good as the Dutch, so all in all not a bad result.

AND

EBII maybe you arent quite sure about the rules, but in soccer unlike League, AFL once you are substituted, you cannot come back on.

Finally about Kewell, he has a chronic groin problem, hence the limited playing time for Australia.

I know the rules well enough. If my folks had some money I woulda being playing with the pros.

But for a while now, even before these problems, he never played much. He would be on for like 20 minutes. It ****es me off because he is one of those players i enjoy to watch.

[HTCURRY]

Originally Posted by EBII Fairmont

I know the rules well enough. If my folks had some money I woulda being playing with the pros.

But for a while now, even before these problems, he never played much. He would be on for like 20 minutes. It ****es me off because he is one of those players i enjoy to watch.

hehe...sorry if i came across as a "know it all", I know there are a lot of people new to the game, and thought maybe you were one of them.

But your right, a kewell on form, is awesome to watch

[Jeld-Wen Falcon]

Australia were very poor early, I think they came back well though. Early in that 2nd half (especially when Cahill was on) they really got into a rythm and looked quite threatening until Wilkshire got send (that was soft). Schwarzer was absolutely outstanding, I dont think I have ever seen a goalie play so well, well and truely MOM.

I think they played solid after the first half-hour and when Cahill and Kewell return full-time, I have every faith that Australia will be able to put up a good fight against their world cup opponents.

I would imagine that Kewell will play some part in the match against Liechenstien(sp?).

[anto]

the result was good on paper but it the game showed alot of the frailties in the side. Dont be fooled, Japan and Croatia are every bit as good as the Dutch and Brasil are a much more dangerous side.. it will be difficult.

[EBII Fairmont]

Originally Posted by HTCURRY

hehe...sorry if i came across as a "know it all", I know there are a lot of people new to the game, and thought maybe you were one of them.

But your right, a kewell on form, is awesome to watch

It's all good. It's good to know there are others out there that know something about this sport. Not like the usual people who come into work, who reckon Australia are going to blits every team this world cup :.

[DJR David]

Difficult, Yes.

Possible. Yes

Able to sleep until it happens. No

[Falcon Freak]

Originally Posted by EBII Fairmont

It's all good. It's good to know there are others out there that know something about this sport. Not like the usual people who come into work, who reckon Australia are going to blits every team this world cup :.

It was a good result but not a good game. But for Mark Schwarzer's efforts in goal we would have been thumped by the Netherlands team.

4 sleeps to go.

FF

[EBII Fairmont]

Originally Posted by Falcon Freak

It was a good result but not a good game. But for Mark Schwarzer's efforts in goal we would have been thumped by the Netherlands team.

4 sleeps to go.

FF

What still stuns me is that Viduka didn't get in. Ok he is a lot of pressure and all. But you think after playing for so many years, it would be a standard drill to take a penalty shot.

[DJR David]

poor old dukes. He has the spirit of a mad man, but the co-ordination of a burning spastic.

Still one of my favourites though, when he is hot he is hot. Just keep him away from the penalty spot thats all......

[AdzT3-146]

Was a good effort to get a result. we looked a bit over rawed early days, but we didn't really panic at any stage which was a promising sign, considering constant pressure from the dutch. Schwarzer had an awesome game but we were lucky not to concede a penalty when Grella handled it in the area though

Once Cahill came on we looked heaps better, even after Wilkshire got sent off we still looked strong and always a chance on the counter-attack. Can't wait for Kewell and Cahill to join the starting 11.

We were always going to be on the back foot away to Holland, but even though we could easily have been beaten by 2 or 3, i'm pretty pleased though to get a draw and we looked heaps better in the 2nd half.

Also Lucas Neill should take the penalties