All Whites v Socceroos Match Thread

i actually think australia is a good side that has learnt how to be very effective and competitive at international level. they may struggle this year at the WC but i think their dip, if there is one, will be relativley shortlived. they are producing a steady flow of decent players that will ensure they continue to qualify for world cups, are successful at Asian cups - and from time to time they will do better than that depending on draw, luck and mix of players at the time.

Nar mate why lev en Bondee when i can lev en melben mate im no sheep shag kiwi fag repping off tha hard wurking ozzies. fark those guys mate. breng back pauline hanson so she can deeport them all maate flaming hell!

Strewth mate!

well we were supposed to get humped by bahrain (bc you guys found it hard to beat them) and we were meant to get humped by you.  so just maybe we like to entertain a little bit of fantasy for SA.

james dean2010-05-26 21:45:59

In his defence that is probably the first time he's heard of that.  He probably thinks Australia magically started playing football in 2005.

I believe 'New Dawner' is the common term.

So to summarise, Melbournite's baiting went from 'we won, you lost, na na na na na' to 'we are richer, you are poorer'.  What a winner.

I was gonna suggest stopping feeding him, but really, its fun to bait trolls isn't it. Enjoying reading.

Maybe if we ignore Melbournite he will go away..... All of the Aussies I met over in Melbourne were fantastic... full of hospitality as gving it as much as they got from us..... but then all that I talked to after the game were humble and admitted the fact that they were very lucky to:

My thoughts exactly! Melbourne was great, the people were great, before and after the game, and the Kiwi supporters were awesome. I look forward to next year's rematch in Wellington!

Game got a mention on ESPN Soccernet Press Pass.  Nothing about the results.  All about the tackles.

Press Pass whining, must be f**king kiwi's.

No, save your money for spending on your whores that you call your mothers. [and now I am totally ashamed of myself]

Melbournite.. firstly, you had me when you admitted to "my childish windups"....
then you admitted... I will)patronise.
and you also admit..the sh*t I've been talking in here today.

In your own words then, you've admitted to.. childish windups, patronising and talking sh*t...hardly an invitation to take you seriously.

  We know the Australian history in qualifying, and thanks, NZ and the NZ team doesn't need your advice about tough WC qualifying.
For the record, most of us on here have a realistic view of New Zealand's chances in SA. We also have a realistic view of Australia's chances.
Both teams will play with passion and commitment and proudly represent their country... just the way they did on Monday night, right?

Question: What do you get if you cross a Kangaroo and a sheep? Stevo2010-05-27 00:22:13

What do you get if you cross a kangaroo and and elephant?

What do you get when you cross Melbournite and Dingo's Son?

ok. Wind ups aside and lets be honest.
" australia is still as modest as it was four years ago in football"  rubbish. Australians are arrogant they always have been. Have you forgotten that your ONLY world cup win was against another Asian team? You were in the weakest group thats ever been in a world cup and you qualified from it.  Good on you.

"when it comes to you kiwis talking us down and yourselves up after..." well no not really. Yep we have talked our selves up a bit - but seriously we just outplayed the #20 team in the world on their own patch...I think we are entitled to feel a bit more confident about things. As for talking you lot down...two points - (1) under Pim Verbeek you lot have been absolutely dire Your players are better than he allows them to be but as a team they are awful. You know this. (2) By far the most talking down about the Sheilaroos is the awful assaults on our players. You know how bad it was you cant defend it. Had Cahill been crocked  you lot would have been screaming blue murder.

the reality is you scraped past bahrain to qualify  That would be a Bahrain that you only scored in the last minute to beat in Bahrain and won by just 2 goals in Australia. You obviously missed our games where we had a perfectly good goal disallowed over there and could have won by 4 in Wellington. Further we qualified via a route that Australia failed to qualify through. Guess hat makes us a better team than your 1997 heroes eh?
we had to work twice as hard to qualify in '06 and '10  Rubbish. You played more games yes but you qualified from a group that we would have qualified from - as we proved by beating Bahrain.

The bottom line is you and your arrogant countrymen were surprised at how well we played. There is no doubt who the better team on the night was. Without the THREE Australian officials and the inept ref, you would have had 2 players at least sent off.

How do you think you would have gone playing the 2nd half with 9 men and a goal down?

Very well said. Sadly,I think most of it will be ignored,and there will be some of this instead

From Sky News Australia's Sportsline on Monday. Sorry, no video, blocked I suppose.. I've posted mostly for former Socceroo Paul Wade's comments.


http://www.skynews.com.au/podcast/feeds/SkyNewsPodcast_SportslineFootballChat_20100525041601.mp3

hmmm...... fark...... some of the quotes... sure it is not out of Context "that was rubbish out there.... I have a lot of respect for Pim and he likes this system but I don't, but they are used to it and all that, .` but I stil the greatest natural asset is the aggressive attacking nature of Australians in sport in nature.... we like to go at them"

Moving on for a moment... another classic from Chris Rattue in the Herald:

I saw Rattue on my flight on the way over. I felt like saying to him "why are you covering the game when you know f**k all about football?"

i dont mind when rattue sticks to telling us how brown's injury is progressing or what the starting line up is or what the mood in the camp's like, but when he starts expressing opinions on players and performance, it really makes you cringe. unfortunately, it seems the ego in him wont accept that he's really not at all qualified to comment on such things.

As far as I can tell, Rattue just looks for people who do know something about soccer and tries to get them to say something sufficiently "juicy". And as we all know there are enough Ricki-bashers and armchair coaches out there who want their say. Rattue now seems peeved that most of them are smart enough to keep their mouths shut.

Is Rattue really arguing that Ricki should have been playing Mulligan, Christie, Barron etc in all the warmup games just in case Brown (or Elliot) got injured? Wasn't he saying last week that if we're not putting our strongest team on the field at all times we're not trying, or was that someone else?

ETA: I'm glad Rattue hasn't found this forum yet, because he would no doubt jump on the BRING BACK OUGHTON bandwagon as soon as he found out that Duncs exists. Doloras2010-05-27 09:36:49

Spot on - most here would go crazy if we got a point, let alone a win at the World Cup.

The reality though, that's about as well as Australia will probably do. I mean, this great global footballing juggernaut has won 1 (that is ONE) game in World Cups before (with a younger and better team), so the Krauts, Serbs and Ghanaians are obviously quaking in their boots as I type this.

From Football365 letters:

A Tackle We Haven't Seen
It's never going to get any air time and I can see why, the quality is quite rubbish. However i thought I'd write in to say how despicable Vince Grella's challenge on Leo Bertos was this evening in the trans-Tasman farewell game (glorified friendly). Two feet, flying in, a straight red in any game! and to top it all off he complained about the yellow he got.

You are probably asking Leo who??? fair enough but does it really matter? The kid is going to the World Cup and regardless of who the player is and how little (in this case no) chance you have to win the damn thing this is still the dream and you shouldn't have that dream taken away from you by a big bully who couldn't deal with his team being outplayed. Unless you are Michael Ballack in which case you get what you give.
Hakim (Cmon Portugal) Abdulhussein.

I dont know who this Chris Rattue is but I can tell he knows nothing of the beautiful game and that Melbourne tube has no idea.

Must have been said already but I found Ryan's comment about how Gr#ll@ does that sort of thing week in week out in the EPL rather odd.

I hope the Krauts break his legs. Twat.

Have been following Chris R reports for years. E-mailed him during the last World Cup and he got quite sh*tty with me. hHe looks for an angle that will sell papers but knows nothing about football.

Don't mind Rattue. At least he's getting enthusiastic about it and giving it plenty of coverage. Nothing wrong with enthusiastic new converts, not everyone can be Hard News...

All Whites deserve talking up

I have to say, stuff.co.nz and the associated Fairfax papers, are doing a great job with their world cup coverage. I am biased though!

yes stuff doing well. still im massively disappointed no NZ media (zero apparently) have gone to Austria. Toooo cheeeap

As long as the All Whites are ahead of the All Blacks on the sports news for the next month and bit, I'm happy!

Talking of bad football coverage, and back to the thread topic, did anyone else read this:
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/soccer/melbourne-bares-its-soul-as-socceroos-take-on-new-zealand-at-the-mcg/story-e6frfg8x-1225870743259
Worst reporting ever. The print headline was more ridiculous.