Congrats to Dura and Jonny

Congrats to Dura and Jonny

Named in the Ockeroo squad to play the Indo's...

SurgeQld2010-02-17 17:58:59

Brilliant!  I said on fourfourtwo they deserved it and look?  Pim reads my posts/agreed with my sentiments!

Link?

Very good for them! Quite proud I am.

Tho so did McBreen

Ferrante didn't make it? Oh.

Whoohoo Dura! First Aussie Cap!

Full squad:

Bolton, Brosque, Cole, Colosimo, Culina, DeVere, Dura the absolute awesome legend and bestest A-league skipper ever, Galekovic, Jamieson, Kantarovski, Kennedy, Leckie, Marone, McBreen, Ahhh Jonny you legend - you've done it again and good bluddy on ya, McKay, Milligan, Musialik, North, Oar, Matt Thompson, Vukovic, David Williams, Wilkshire, Zzzzzzullo.

I might watch the Aussies play for once then

http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/2009InsideFFA/default.aspx?s=insideffa_newsfeatures_newsitem_new&id=32643 S.O.N2010-02-17 18:12:54

That is f**king great news.

Well done :) kind of sad we won't get to have Dura in the All Whites though

Man that's awesome. Shows we can still be an international path for Aussie players.

Great for Dura and McKain, well deserved, unlike some of the others I am about to mention.

Would have recalled John Aloisi instead of McBreen. Even Bollcok puncher, after being Beijing Guo'an's top scorer he must be wondering what he has to do (get a new personality perhaps - but in footballing terms he has to be ahead of McBreen!).

There are some duds in there as well. What have DeVere, Jamieson Kantarovski, Marrone, McKay, Musialik, Matt Thompson and Michael Zullo done to deserve a Socceroos call up? I suppose Pim has to pick someone!

Matt Thompson is the most capped player in the A-league.
Zullo Broke a Kiwis leg.
Not sure about the rest
Stefan2010-02-17 18:45:04

No chance of sky televising it?  I wouldn't think so but I emailed them anyway.

Joel Griffiths, though an arse, should have made the squad ahead of a few of them.

Great to see Colosimo in the squad.
loyalgunner2010-02-17 18:52:49

The Kennedy in the squad is not Ben Kennedy is it?

Cue the Auckland City knitting circle.

No Hampster, it's Jesus.

Well done lads, well deserved  

Fantastic, well done guys. Well done indeed.

That's good stuff.

This is so good

Congratulations Andrew Durante and  Jon McKain.
 With the performances you've been putting in for the Phoenix lately I'm not surprised.
Thoroughly deserved, I selfishly would love to have had you guys playing for NZ if you were able but the opportunity to represent your own country is fantastic.
Well done, good on you!

While I do agree I don't want us to turn into one of the gulf states who have average players but will take Brazilians (and others not quite good enough for their country) at the drop of a hat.

I mean, with Daniel he loves the country so fair enough.  Durante probably likes Wellington but I haven't heard him say 55 times (like Daniel) how much he likes it and wants to live here so it wouldn't be as genuine if he was to play for us.

Having said that, it doesn't matter how I feel.  There are some great players out there who we could get.  Hearfield is surely worth a look.

dont you have to get on the park b4 you can only play for the one country. I doubt both dura and mckain will start and centre backs often watch an entire game from the bench. Here's hoping mckain starts and dura watches the whole 90. then no games for a league based socceroos squad for a year or two and he jumps on the AWs train

I can see Dura coming on in the 3rd minute of injury time... but who cares - good on him if he does, and potential win for the AWs if he doesn't

especially as in that scenario Marius he'd be fairly pissed off i expect tigers2010-02-17 20:14:03

First of all, congratulations to both! they thoroughly deserved it!

secondly, when COULD hypothetically Durante play for the AW's? Don't you have to live in a country for 5 years before you can represent it? How old would that make him?

Hearfield, on the contrary, would be a tasty RB/Winger for the AW's..but he's played for Junior National Aussie teams in the past so would he want to???

i didnt realise it was a 25 player squad. good news. 5 or 6 wont even travel and they have got North and Colosimo (who will probably start as CBs, although im guessing) plus mckain, dura and devere. so good chance he doesnt play.

  tigers2010-02-17 20:22:23

Yep, i think FIFA changed it recently from 3 to 5. Daniel was told he wouldnt be able to represent NZ for this WC, and would have to wait until the next. Otherwise he would probably be going to SA this year.

valeo2010-02-17 20:42:52

True. It's unbelievable to me that Jade North continues to be selected. 

Fantastic for Dura and McKain and sooooo deserved !!

^^ This!