The round ball game

Indeed @flollo.

btw when i said 'nup i'm out',...im glad i stuck it out.
I'm the worst kind of supporter! hehe

Socceroos are easy to beat, you just press them hard and high. They’re terrible on the ball and lack a real press resistant playmaker. The last good player on the ball I remember is Mark Bresciano. Their game is at least 20 years behind modern day football.

Fark i was just thinking of Marco Bresciano @flollo as the key player that made a difference in the socceroos. He was my favourite. That goal was world cup standard and world cup standard players stood up in that key moment.

A lot of it is a result of slow domestic football. A league game usually has 300-400 passes per team. Japan had 640 today. Their only mistake was being wasteful in the final third. And then they got punished for it.

Bresciano was the Andrew Mcleod of soccer.

Why do you reckon that is @flollo? Overinflated egos on the domestic stage as the game's jumped in popularity in recent years? Can understand as a nation that's so far away from the world stage that they'd start to feel like legends in their own lunchboxes.

There is a bit of that, for sure. And classic Aussie nepotism, not employing many overseas coaches. We need more good coaches on youth level, and we need to give them consistency. You can't change the coach every year, and you can't have random parents doing coaching if you want to be serious about it.

Another big problem is the lack of training. Most clubs will do 1 or if you're lucky 2 training sessions per week. And that is a 1h session. And it's only done during the season, which is around 5 months long. Compare that to Europe where kids train 5 times a week, sometimes twice per day, and they do it for more or less 10 months a year, and you can easily see why you can't catch up.

I'm coaching U11s this year, and I had to beg to get a 2nd time slot for training. I didn't get the pitch assigned in the end, but I'm doing it anyway, kinda unofficially. I find a bit of grass on a side somewhere, it's good enough. Then you have bad weather to manage. Infrastructure is not there, everything gets cancelled (games, training sessions..) with wet weather. I try to do indoor theory with the boys, and I even book indoor courts with my own money, but this is all my initiative, no one else is doing this.

The results are clear, we won every single game this season, and we score 5-6 goals per game on average. But none of this is a result of some good system, it's just me being enthusiastic about kids and their development. It's remarkable how kids develop when someone shows faith in them. And there is no money in any of this, this is just me doing it as a volunteer. I also had to buy goals, cones, bibs, and all sorts of other gear from my own pocket.

So yeah, you can't go to the next level with this system. We need more proper coaches, we need more games (30+ per season at least), we need more training and better grassroot infrastructure. And your own philosphy that everyone follows. How do we want to play? Spain has its style they nourished for generations. Everyone trains towards it. As one player retires a young one is good to go and understands the system. Australia still has to define that. We are still booting long balls and trying to score on muscles which is a legacy of old school english system. This needs to change.

Thanks for the intel @flollo.
I'd be keen to put you up for socceroos coach!
Funny that the comparison with the Tillys is even starker based on your analysis.
The beauty of being a burgeoning new kid on the block i guess.
Or is it something deeper than that....cultural....gender.
Keep up your legendary work mate. That's so rad to hear.

FAIRY TALES do happen!

Comprehensively outplayed in first half, second half outplayed again but not as bad.

THEN, the chance that can occur was TAKEN!

i'm not a fan of Behich, Ive seen him make mistakes that(imo) have caused us to lose,HOWEVER,tonight he delivered from his weaker foot!Ofcourse, Riley McGree made the goal.What a great turn and cutback!!!!

SO, 6 points clear with q huge GD advantage...IF, Saudi drop a point or 3 in a couple of hours we are qualified.

Next game, paramount Plus 3/45 Wednesday morning in Jeddah....I'll expect ten defenders in the Socceroos!

flollo wrote:

There is a bit of that, for sure. And classic Aussie nepotism, not employing many overseas coaches. We need more good coaches on youth level, and we need to give them consistency. You can't change the coach every year, and you can't have random parents doing coaching if you want to be serious about it.

Another big problem is the lack of training. Most clubs will do 1 or if you're lucky 2 training sessions per week. And that is a 1h session. And it's only done during the season, which is around 5 months long. Compare that to Europe where kids train 5 times a week, sometimes twice per day, and they do it for more or less 10 months a year, and you can easily see why you can't catch up.

I'm coaching U11s this year, and I had to beg to get a 2nd time slot for training. I didn't get the pitch assigned in the end, but I'm doing it anyway, kinda unofficially. I find a bit of grass on a side somewhere, it's good enough. Then you have bad weather to manage. Infrastructure is not there, everything gets cancelled (games, training sessions..) with wet weather. I try to do indoor theory with the boys, and I even book indoor courts with my own money, but this is all my initiative, no one else is doing this.

The results are clear, we won every single game this season, and we score 5-6 goals per game on average. But none of this is a result of some good system, it's just me being enthusiastic about kids and their development. It's remarkable how kids develop when someone shows faith in them. And there is no money in any of this, this is just me doing it as a volunteer. I also had to buy goals, cones, bibs, and all sorts of other gear from my own pocket.

So yeah, you can't go to the next level with this system. We need more proper coaches, we need more games (30+ per season at least), we need more training and better grassroot infrastructure. And your own philosphy that everyone follows. How do we want to play? Spain has its style they nourished for generations. Everyone trains towards it. As one player retires a young one is good to go and understands the system. Australia still has to define that. We are still booting long balls and trying to score on muscles which is a legacy of old school english system. This needs to change.

great work flollo ,

The Saudis had a 2-0 win, so for them to qualify directly and tip Australia out of 2nd place in the group, it will require a NINE GOAL margin on Wednesday morning.

That was a sick goal!