The Suba-roos (Australian Men's Team)

Caltex Socceroos 23-player squad for Australia v Korea Republic – Saturday, 17 November 2018 – Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane

Caltex Socceroos Train-On Players – FIFA Window – November 2018

Note: Tim Cahill (Jamshedpur FC, India) to be included in 23-player squad for Caltex Socceroos v Lebanon (Tuesday, 20 November 2018) when second 23-player list is named on Sunday, 18 November 2018.

Only one player from the A League. 2 players from PSV alone.

I thought Arnie said Australia's domestic league was now stronger than the Eredivisie.

Looks like Martin Boyle is going to make his debut. He's Scottish, never actually set foot in Australia but eligible through his dad born in Australia. Scotland weren't interested, but good wide player, could be useful for them with Arzani out. 

The WeeMac of Australian football then?

Currently 0-1 down to Sth Korea.

Sth Korea up 1-0 at HT.

Long ball, defensive error by Sainsbury, goal.

Socceroos dominating possession.

Sorry but the in studio female presenter with Channel Ten is cringeworthy awful.

Seems like whenever free to air coverage is not by SBS, it’s a drop in standard. ABC did a terrible job of Sydney vs Liverpool a few years ago.

Last kick of the game Luongo scores.

Finishes 1-1.

That was a full strength Socceroo squad up against Sth korea B side and they were lucky to get the draw, Koera should have won it 4 nil.

Not sure if Korea B, though know they were missing their 2 big name EPL players.

Still it’s a fabrication to say they should have won 4-0!!

Oz had 23 shots to 4 by Korea!

However finding goals without Cahill & Jedinak is going to be a big challenge for Arnie. He would die to have Chris Wood.

Lol. Pretty biased comment.

Cahill to score!

Socceroo's should win this one easy. Lebanon haven't lost a game since 2016 I think.

Australia 2-0 up at half time. Scottish born Boyle with the 2 goals.

They lost 1-0 to Kuwait in October. AWs would have given Socceroos a harder game. A November window AWs side that is.

Still I guess Lebanon provide similar opposition to likes of Jordan and Palestine who are in Australia’s pool at the Asian Cup. Other pool opponents Syria should be a step up. 

Leckie nice volley. 3-0

Finishes 3-0.

Cahill got 15 mins off the bench.

Nabbout hit the post late.

Note: Aaron Mooy’s knee injury will be assessed independently and by FFA’s High Performance Coordinator – Senior Physiotherapist, Phil Coles, in the United Kingdom on Friday, 21 December 2018. FFA expects to be able to provide an additional update regarding Mooy on Monday, 24 December 2018 following consultation with Huddersfield Town on Sunday afternoon (UK time). Nations competing in the AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019™ have until six (6) hours before their first match of the tournament to replace a player in their squad due to injury.

When Mooy is ruled out, surely they call up Antonis?

Hope so. We play Victory twice during the Asian Cup.

"Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like the squad is picked on merit and picked on performance. Not just myself, but I think there’s a couple of other boys that should feel very hard done by." - James Troisi

WHACK. ???#ALeague #Socceroos pic.twitter.com/BLPGzyMzuu

— Daily Football Show (@DFS_AUS) December 20, 2018

Troisi a bit salty today.

Not sure about your comment Vader... less than a handful haven't played A-League

James Jeggo will join the Caltex @Socceroos squad for the upcoming @afcasiancup
Read more: https://t.co/x7ZYVBHr8a pic.twitter.com/aKdkWngldt

— Caltex Socceroos (@Socceroos) December 24, 2018

Drat, we are gonna have to deal with a miffed Antonis on Friday night.

1-0 Aus v Oman after 10min of play.

2-0 Aus Ikon scored

3-0 MABIL.

Simon Hill saying the Socceroos, would find stiffer competition more useful this close to the Asian Cup, than the Omanis who are poor.

Suggest an AWs side drawn from the European & MLS/USL pros plus Brockie etc - would be doing better. Probably get a bigger crowd if played in Dubai in front of a few thousand expats too. Not feasible for a lot of reasons I know, but well overdue for a trans tasman clash.

To take my fairytale idea further. He's a NZ side of players not playing club football this week (or out injured), who could be running around in Dubai v Australia right now -

Brockie, Rojas, Boyd, Howieson, Tuiloma, Wynne, McGarry, M Boxall, Themi, Smith, Marinovic.

Bench - Bevan, Collier, Dyer, Payne, Musa, Kyle Adams, Cory Brown, N Boxall, Woud, 

Not the worst ever AWs side. Only two "shamateur" players

4-0 Aus

A little secret I actually wrote an email to Mr Arnold, 'begging' for him to give the AWs a game a few months ago. 

Had a guess at his email address, from looking at other staffers email addresses on FFA site. Email never rebounded so hoping he got it!

I'm sure Arnie enjoyed getting an email from some NZ football fan nutter. He has nothing better to do that read random emails.

I did make a reference to his 1980's perm, and Grant Turner's fantastic header at SCG in 1981! Hopefully he or his PA appreciated the attempted humour!

If there's an AWs v Socceroos game in 2019 - I'm taking the credit.

5-0 Aus

Boyle sustained a contact injury to his knee late in Australia’s win over Oman. Following a review with Australia’s medical team in the Middle East, the decision has been made to withdraw him from the tournament.

Details: https://t.co/AVHqvp7c7c pic.twitter.com/IM0T9n2Jgo

— Caltex Socceroos (@Socceroos) January 1, 2019

The irony! Chris Sutton must have a voodoo doll.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/world-game/...

Apostolos Giannou joined @Socceroos camp today, following confirmation of his inclusion in our 23-player squad for the @AFCAsianCup.#TogetherAsOne #GoSocceroos pic.twitter.com/3Lcg3k02Sv

— Caltex Socceroos (@Socceroos) January 3, 2019

Since there is no Aussie Women's thread, I'll put this here

Matildas set for shock coaching shake-up five months before World Cup: https://t.co/sOI1rad9nr #Matildas @TheMatildas @TraceyLeeHolmes (Pic:AAP) pic.twitter.com/XTuBtWjzo9

— ABC Grandstand (@abcgrandstand) January 18, 2019

FFA confirms that it has today terminated the employment of Westfield Matildas Head Coach Alen Stajcic.

Full story: https://t.co/OQpyXMGExJ pic.twitter.com/oTdyEu42Jq

— Westfield Matildas (@TheMatildas) January 19, 2019

Player dissatisfaction by the sound of it. Been in the job since 2014, after previous coach was sacked due to a player revolt.

So it ain’t just an issue in NZ.

Still surprising, as the Matildas have been doing well (beating Japan, Brazil and drawing with USA). They are being trumpeted as a genuine chance at the World Cup in France. Ranked 6th by FIFA on women’s rankings.

Dom Bossi excellently answering some questions on Staj axeing, but consequently also raising even more...https://t.co/r2sUvex7f9

— Kevin Airs (@KevinAirs) January 19, 2019

Gallop doing a press conference at 7pm, better grab the popcorn