I think he is unlucky, not as much because he won Europa, but more the fact that his 5th placed finish in his 1st season didnt count for much either. That said he is in a decent position career wise. Spurs will improve ladder positions obviously but will never win anything again.

The top level will always have the issue of being compared to overseas leagues. The best aussie rules and rugby league players play in the afl and nrl, unfortunately we dont have that, mainstream Australia doesnt do 2nd rate comps. Basketball threatened briefly in the early 90s somehow but thats...

Dont think they can play for another few more weeks.

Frustrating we cant put in a 90 minute performance. Our squad is so much better than St Albans but its always going to go back to us refusing to get a coach. Sinisa cost us last night and he lost us the Port game. We need our individual talent to drag us over the line. That means washed up...

After the 3 home games coming up we have to get up to 20-21 points. I still think 25 points will be enough. Its in our hands the next few weeks but what an opportunity missed to put a massive gap on the rest. Its such a shame our defence has turned to shit this year...the past 5 years if we were...

Doesnt 3rd and 4th go into another easier qualifying group? No way the Saudis arent making it.

To be fair Ange accumulated 19 points and only finished 1 point behind Japan and Saudi Arabia. In any other campaign that gets you through directly. I agree with you about squad strength, i went to the qualifier in Melbourne where we drew 1-1 with Japan, we had 68% possesion and battered them...

Comparing the firepower of that German team with the Saudis? Cmon lol. We should start the game with 9 men to make it interesting, bet they still wouldnt score 5.

Absolutely no way we are losing by that margin, has an Asian team ever even scored 5 against us before?

They have to win 5-0 tonight and beat us 5-0. We will go there and get a 0-0...or pinch 0-1 whatever lol. Either way its done.

Its easy to criticise but as Behich said in the post game we just arent good enough to take the game to other teams. Opening up and taking a beating doesnt really do much for us either. We played for the 0-0 and capitalised on a rare turnover from them at the end, you take it every time...

Poppa has to now make sure no friendlies are organised against powerhouses, wouldnt wanna an Osieck repeat in the lead up to a WC.

Lol picked it.

Im confident we will fluke a result here but its embarassing that we cant touch the ball. Hopefully we get a few set pieces and overpower their midgets.

Would be handy off the bench. A win will go a long way to securing survival but a draw wouldnt be the worst result either. We have a great record at that ground but this will be our toughest test by far. Between this and our upcoming 3 game home stand we can put this relegation talk to bed by...

A group of 3 teams? Lol. Your fate was decided by 2 leg matches.

No, without losing. So imagine our current team was knocked out because they lost to Bahrain in the first qualifier. Now we can drop bundles of points and still make it easily. Back then you couldnt even draw!

Not wrong, do you think we were bringing the likes of Robbie Slater, Graham Arnold, Aurelio Vidmar, Ned Zelic etc back from Europe to play the soloman islands? We would use the nsl players to get by the early rounds, we only ever played our absolute best teams in those final playoffs. After...

Did they actually lose though? No. Now imagine after 2 draws against Iran you could play Bahrain, Vietnam, Indonesia etc.

The golden generation was probably the teams from 93 through to the one that went to Germany. The point remains we didnt have a league phase qualifying path, you played cuthroat 2 leg ties and if you fucked up you were gone, none of this get 6 points in 6 games like we did in this campaign and...