2010 World Cup - Australia 0 Germany 4 (Group D)

[HevyDevy]

Surely they'll appeal Cahill's red.

Anyway, I reckon Pim is saving Mark and Harry for the Asian Cup ...

 

[skeepe]

Luke Wilkshire has been very good, but he's been the only one really. Garcia was ok I guess.

 

[Raiders_Premiers]

Surely they'll appeal Cahill's red.

Anyway, I reckon Pim is saving Mark and Harry for the Asian Cup ...

:lol:

 

[HevyDevy]

Luke Wilkshire has been very good, but he's been the only one really. Garcia was ok I guess.

Schwarzer

 

[Timbo]

It's disturbing that Wilkshire has been our best player.

 

[Misanthrope]

Emerton was good prior to being subbed off.

Fair dinkum though. We need a coach who is going to start building for the future. The fact we're fielding essentially the same side as 2006 is not a good thing by any stretch. Verbeek's basically ensured that the next coach has to do all of the development himself by barely taking any risks.

 

[fish eel]

lol oh noes Holman has been awesome don't criticise him pwease

Yeah, the same Brett holman who has been involved setting up our one or two only attacking plays this half

 

[CycloneSteve]

Cacau has been watching the Italy vs Australia game from 2006

 

[Raiders_Premiers]

IMO Emerton was our best.... Looked good every time he had the ball

 

[Timbo]

Noone ever mention that game again.

If we pretend it never happened, maybe it'll be erased from existence.

 

[HevyDevy]

Emerton was good prior to being subbed off.

Agreed, which again makes me wonder why he was replaced in the first place.

Showed some good touches early.

 

[fish eel]

Schwarzer

aside from his f**k up when he came out, didn't get the ball and gifted a goal?

It's disturbing that Wilkshire has been our best player.

Why?

Luke Wilkshire is very consistant and always one of the best

 

[Timmah]

That won't be a red in ANY other game this tournament. f**king disgraceful.

 

[Raiders_Premiers]

No chance in hell we'll be able to beat Ghana and Serbia

 

[skeepe]

Agreed, which again makes me wonder why he was replaced in the first place.

Showed some good touches early.

I'd say the fact it was Emerton's first game in about 6 months had something to do with it.

 

[HevyDevy]

aside from his f**k up when he came out, didn't get the ball and gifted a goal?

I was referring to the 17 good chances he managed to stop.

Germany really should have won by a lot more.

 

[CycloneSteve]

No fairytale this year me thinks....

 

[Misanthrope]

If we pretend it never happened, maybe it'll be erased from existence.

Isn't that the German mindset regarding that whole holocaust thing?

 

[Tommy Smith]

Ok time to vindicate myself after one of the most ridiuclous posts i had ever read after the Australia-NZ match.

Shiznit wrote on 24/5/10:

i actually think the Germans will be very lucky to get out of there group...

Australia will go through for sure IMO...

Theve shown far more than Germany have imo... people give Scot McDonald a hard time for not scoring... have a look at Klose and Padolski... theve scored next to nothing this season... with Ballack out... there in trouble IMO

Tommy Smith wrote on 24/5/10:

Are you taking the piss?

"Australia have shown more than Germany" What f**king planet are you on and when did 1-0 wins over Qatar and the Uzbeks give you the impression that Australia are better than perennial world superpower Germany?

I find it hard to believe that anyone seriously believes Australia have the "talent to be at the top table of world football" when they're team is made up of Championship players, bench players for average teams in minnow European leagues like Turkey and yes, the odd class player in Cahill and Schwarzer.

Again, if anyone seriously thought a team of broken down old donkeys like Moore and A-League hacks like Culina, led by Verbeek, were going to compete with Germany then i guess perhaps now they've finally woken up to reality.

Pim - what a wanker. If he keeps those tactics up for the next two games he'll set football back 10 years in this country!

 

[HevyDevy]

I'd say the fact it was Emerton's first game in about 6 months had something to do with it.

This isn't really the time or place to be playing it safe.

If you want results, you play your best side. When things are going awry, you don't replace your best players. When you do, sh*t happens - such as the Raiders winning the 1989 grand final.

Seriously, the entire German defensive line could have gone off to have a coffee after the first 10 minutes of that game and nobody would have noticed that they were missing.