Just highlights again how frustrating it is that Michael Fitzgerald is no longer available. I'd much rather bring in a starting J-League centre back, who is still reasonably young, ahead of someone like Luke Adams who is apparently not up to A-League standard.
I can see why Matthew Ridenton and Luke Adams made it though. If you had a pool of just our professional football players to choose from then there's not many players that missed out ..other than Dan Keat, Craig Henderson, Rory Fallon, Alex Rufer, Jason Hicks, Tony Lochhead, Steven Old and Jake Gleeson. (and at a stretch Leo Bertos)
You could argue that Keat, Henderson and Hicks were unlucky.
Someone tell me what happened to Gleeson? Doesn't seem to get much, if any game time for Portand Timbers anymore and is certainly out of the NZ frame.