Germany v Australia Mon 14 6.30am

After a fairly good World Cup last time the Australians have been arrogant and unbearable.  This should knock them down a notch or two.  Germany looked like they could have done much greater harm to them.  Glad to see Cahill go.  Like him for Everton but a dickhead for Australia.  That tackle could have been a yellow or red, though, depending on the ref.  Wasn't surprised, personally, to see a red, though. 

Australia were just slow and bad.  While I don't want to get ahead of myself I think we have a very good chance of doing better than them this year.  That would hurt them a lot.  Their group isn't much tougher than ours, to be honest.  Slovakia could mix it with Ghana you'd think - don't know about Serbia, but if the Serbs played like they did this morning then probably.  Paraguay and Italy would obviously match the top teams in that group as well.

Craig Moore has to be dropped. I said that I was surprised he made the squad and it will be an even bigger surprise if he's retained. To me Aussie got what they deserved. You play without a striker and without the talent and/or discipline to get forward from midfield then what hope have you got. To do it against a side of Germany's quality (however surprising that quality might be to you) is naive. Verbeek screwed up monumentally. Wrong players, wrong system. (Posted on Aussie thread too, sorry to double up.)

careful guys, we could easily lose 4 - 0 to Slovakia...

I guess we could, but not easily. We're lot closer to Australia than Slovakia is to Germany.

I thought Neill was worse.  At least everyone knew Moore was sh*t.

Is Pim regretting dropping the only thing Australia have who resembles, however vaguely, a striker?

No,  Italy don't do that to sides.  Paraguay is the one that terrifies me.

When I turned on and saw they hadn't bothered with a striker, I lolled.

This.

Have watched up to 55 minutes - Moore is horrendous. 3 or 4 times now he has just drifted off a man and is to slow to recover resulting in a number of chances Germany should have put away. Have to lol at the Aussies who said we would butcher them in the friendly - this mob can dish sure dish it out. Aussie for most cards in the tournament?

If you all interested in watch it again: Full replay of Germany vs Australia is planned on Justin TV, right after the Algeria vs Solvenia replay. About 10:25am.

http://www.justin.tv/loyal921AllWhitebelievr2010-06-14 09:20:50

The defence is awful, and they don't play any strikers.

cards will dry up in the last 16. refs will stop making big dick calls in the more important games

Does anybody know for certain whether Cahill misses one match or two for the straight red? Seems to be uncertainty on FFT, I thought it was one match whether it was a straight red or 2 yellows.

Hooray. Back from pub. Awesome atmosphere at Fox's Ale House in Auckland. Heaps of Germans/Germany supporters. There might have been some Aussies there but they sure as hell kept shut up. sneakyrat2010-06-14 10:23:15

ok, I know there will be quite a few people tempted to do so but, let's hold off trolling Aussie forums until after the group stage

Ha-Ha Aussie.

 
convict colony?

The only way that could have been any better is if Grella was sent off instead of or in addition to Cahill. I found myself supporting Aus at the last World Cup as a country close to us battling against distant opposition. I thought that might happen again this time, but no way. After their filthy display against NZ in the warmup game, I revelled in the sweet justice handed down today. :)

^ Those guys are just asking for a penis.

Angry Drunk

Roary Fallon

There is a time for the snarl, for sure, but when was the last time you saw Cahill or Grella smile?

This pic looks like a three-way bumming with Lochhead doing the camera-work.

Smiling's for women and creepy men who hang around outside schools.

Sport is aggro.


AAAAAAAAAAAARGH!

I still want to see them do well for 2 reasons, I have good friends over there, and also that football in this area is strong and seen to be strong

Chopper" roos" are toast!!!!!!bye,bye!!!!!!!!!!!

I love the fact that most of us are delighting in the sh*teness of the roos as opposed to giving kudos to the German's, quite wonderful.

The Socceroo backline was just woeful, they try and play it flat but it seemed that Neill kept holding them onside, with the German's exploiting this with pace and clever runs. I just wish it had been 8-0 which would have been entirely possible!

Bringing it back to NZ (which of course we do)- the difference between us and the Socceroos- surely defensively we are better than them. Up front, with three men, we are better than them. I'll give them Schwarzer, and the midfield, but tactically it seems we have more of an idea- in terms of we know our weaknesses and don't try to do what we can't. I'm probably getting ahead of myself, I mean we'll probably get pumped 4-0 by the Slovaks (reverse jinx), but after last nights performance I can't see Oz being a better side than us, albeit against a quality German outfit.

PS Paulinho, how's work?

I loved this game. Germans played brilliantly. Ripped the Convicts to bits. Could well have been 8-0. And that hit from Podolski, that was travelling!