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Maty Ryan is our greatest Socceroo ever!

Hillbilly55 said:
The GOAT is Bosnich, with daylight second. The first game against Brazil in the 97 Confed Cup, the Club World Cup game for Man United are 2 games that Bosnich was magnificent. He is the only Aussie who was world No. 1 in his position ever, though only briefly.

Schwazer's heroics in the 2005 penalty shootout puts him above Ryan out of the two of them. Arnie's substitution of Redmayne for Ryan in the 2021 shootout against Peru will always tarnish Ryan's legacy and place in history. Having said that, the save and recovery from the penalty against Saudi Arabia this week was fantastic.
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Ryan and Vukovic were both had better penalty stop stats than Redmayne. Crawley just thought they wouldn't have seen too much of Redmayne. Chances are that it wouldn't have come down to the last penalty if Maty or Vuka where there in the first place.
 
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Sharkman84 said:
Think Tim Cahill & Harry Kewell occupy that title.

Maty isn't even our greatest ever keeper.
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I was looking at it from our GK's perspective due to the many following GK discussion comparos but your right.
Title does quote Greatest Roo.
yer nah sorry MR isn't near TC as much as HK was the better more skilful player (my opinion) TC's stats beast over HK's.
 
LFC said:
I was looking at it from our GK's perspective due to the many following GK discussion comparos but your right.
Title does quote Greatest Roo.
yer nah sorry MR isn't near TC as much as HK was the better more skilful player (my opinion) TC's stats beast over HK's.
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I'd have Schwarzer & Bosnich (the latter was my childhood hero in the mid 90's) over Maty too.
 
Bosnich on a podcast is great as he'll go off on stories. Those who played with him tell them from their view. The loud walk into the Iran hotel reception in shorts and laughing with armed guards about :D
 
Muz said:
Persona:
Scwharzer: Sosphisticated renaissance man - sips cognac, while smoking a cigar in front of a fireplace in a red velvet jacket. Unlikely to have a beer with you.

Bosnich: Larrikin everyman - nose beers in a dunny when not playing with his fake hair. Most likley to have a beer with you.

Ryan: Bogan westie - smokes winnie blues when he's not punching cones or skolling rum and cokes. Most likely to punch you for having the wrong shaped head.
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There are a number of images, texts, discussions on how players would be had they not become pro and rich. Rooney in a caravan, Ribery some disco creep, Ryan would be some Mount Druitt lad with and eshay hairstyle.
 
LFC said:
I was looking at it from our GK's perspective due to the many following GK discussion comparos but your right.
Title does quote Greatest Roo.
yer nah sorry MR isn't near TC as much as HK was the better more skilful player (my opinion) TC's stats beast over HK's.
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I go the other way. Harry fitted into the team. The team was built around Timmy. I remember the game against Iraq in 2013. Timmy couldn't get a head on the ball and that was our only tactic. Replaced Timmy with Josh and we were through (pending another result later that night I think).

TBH Timmy would probably struggle in the days of VAR. His habit of pushing his defender just before the ball comes in to go him space would severely hamper him. Archie Goodwin does the same move and has been caught a few times by VAR and now the referees look out for it.

Harry was a sublime footballer that struggled with poor injury management - especially at Liverpool. If I remember correctly he was outscoring Owen from the wing for outfield goals when he first went there - Owen was only ahead because he took the penalties.
 
Those forever golden shirts look really good. Trust only 50 were made.
 
Schwarzer's heroics in the Uruguay game puts him just in front of Maty.Bosnich best shot stopper but when the rule changed that GKs had to play with their feet he was not that comfortable.
We have been lucky with our custodians-Ron Lord,Ron Corry,Terry Greedy,Jim Fraser,Jack Reilly and Rob Zabica were all terrific between the sticks in past Aussie teams
 
booney52 said:
Schwarzer's heroics in the Uruguay game puts him just in front of Maty.Bosnich best shot stopper but when the rule changed that GKs had to play with their feet he was not that comfortable.
We have been lucky with our custodians-Ron Lord,Ron Corry,Terry Greedy,Jim Fraser,Jack Reilly and Rob Zabica were all terrific between the sticks in past Aussie teams
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I never saw good shot stopping for the roos from bosnich mind you
 
I mean in terms of contribution. Schwarzer had at least some quality ahead of him Neill, Moore, Vidmar were all top defenders. Maty has played the majority of his Socceroos career with guys like Wilkinson, Bailey Wright and Ryan McGowan in front of him.... there's no comparison lol.

Bosnich was our greatest keeper but he barely played for Socceroos, Maty will be playing at his 4th world cup next year.
 
jas88 said:
I mean in terms of contribution. Schwarzer had at least some quality ahead of him Neill, Moore, Vidmar were all top defenders. Maty has played the majority of his Socceroos career with guys like Wilkinson, Bailey Wright and Ryan McGowan in front of him.... there's no comparison lol.

Bosnich was our greatest keeper but he barely played for Socceroos, Maty will be playing at his 4th world cup next year.
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That's actually a very valid point. Pound for pound keepers at big clubs aren't that great due to having great defences and opponents often submitting and not attacking.

Neuer had this for over a decade yet when teams tried he often got beaten. The same in the UCL he faced a different calibre. For me, Oblak is probably pound for pound the best keeper of the last decade.
 
patjennings said:
Just watched a 10 minute highlight video. Really nothing that stood out as outstanding. Very good defensive effort though.
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Ok. I haven’t seen it for a long time, but my recollection was that Bosnich seemed unbeatable that game. Maybe my memory is wrong and it wasn’t so much him as the rest of the defence.
 
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Seeing some of the former team mates there shows the longevity and things achieved by the team along the way.
 
Ha the last one 'Hey, Soutts, we know it's 3am in England but could you quickly record for Maty?' :D
 
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