Exactly. We're basically picking crap rusty parts instead of well oiled modern tech. All I want to see is the better players out there and should they fail we can revert back to the others. I think we'd be so sleek with such players under the right coach.

No AA for DU. Boyle and Iredale starting with Tete Yengi on opposite bench. Garang not in U21 which is his current team?

Rhys Williams was a tidy player but for those horrible injuries. I think his only dampener was an early red card in the ME? The 2025 games were excellent so compliments to Popovic for that. The early ones were rusty and I find it a little odd how a 4 month break saw better implementation...

I think an initial cap in the preliminary round can at least help get the wheels in motion. I think it's foolish to be so risky with what is evident as very good talent. We've had plenty of flops before but these guys seem different. Toure still isn't locked in.

Segecic previously told ESPN: “I played for the [Croatian] U17s; it could be a possibility. It's just whatever opportunity arises. If the Aussies aren't going to give me the chance, and I have an opportunity to play first-team international football, no kid can say no to that” We've lost him I...

3:0 Forest at half time. Wood with 2. I'll raise my hand as the idiot who didn't include him in fantasy.

Ange to be Brentford manager by November.

That's true yet we're discussing the bigger issue of other countries being able to get them. The other matter is the preliminary qualifiers can allow for these cases to be sorted. Once it was clear we were going to advance, we needn't have played every single regular all the time. Triantis had...

The signs were there in March 2023 at the U20 Asian Cup. Arnold invited some young players to his very first camp. Stupidly we took 3 right backs to the Asian Cup. We're not talking about someone as bad as Marc Warren here.

The players in question are ones who have a strong chance at coming good. Meanwhile we've been busy playing Brattan, Caceres, Jones, Borrello and giving Okon a ridiculous invitation. Not to mention the overplaying of Irvine, Behich, Duke and Leckie which has only hindered rejuvenation. Irvine...

White text? As in the text on this website?

There should have been. They'd already excelled for the U20 and both were available. Triantis wasn't very involved at club level so there wouldn't have been a disruption. Segecic was in and out in The Netherlands and a squad inclusion would've put this matter to rest. I don't expect the FA or...

Eze free kick goal taken back for being within the metre limit of the wall. Wood scores early.

We've really missed the boat. We're stuck in a hole where our next competitive game is the opening WC game. We could've put these matters to rest with smart capping as early as March 2024 and especially with Triantis beinh ahead of Brattan and Segecic ahead of Caceres.

If clubs buy players with potential at 17, why shouldn't we apply the same principle for the national team? Anyone who excels at U20 national team level and is at risk of playing for another country should be expedited in preliminary rounds especially. Instead we've capped ridiculous players...

As opposed to Okon right now? Even the way Matthews got rushed in shows it can be done. Segecic and Triantis were the two best at the U20 Asian Cup 12 months prior to those windows. We capped Irankunda and Stama in June and Iredale, Yazbek and Nisbet in March. It would've been prudent to get...

Ah just noticed Drew scored in a 2:1 loss to Salzburg. If we remember how Silvera can turn it on like at the Mariners he's a very capable footballer.

Irankunda posted Segecic's goal. Popovic will likely see this as a coup against him and select neither.

Miller being on a football pitch is regularly inappropriate. He's got to wisen up.