The Football (all sorts) Thread

[SharkyMcShark]

Cracking finish for South Africa's goal there.

[i_amtrunks]

Maybe we need to split this into a round and elliptical football threads?

Andrew Johns is once again allowed to say/do whatever he wants and keep his job. Man is an idiot, and rewarded for it. Good on Tahu for walking out on the crap NSW team.

And in the roundball world cup, I bet England wont be using that keeper again next game, that was an under 12's goalkeeping error.
South Korea played really well, but I hate the way they dive everytime someone looks at them funny, The Kiwi official was duped about 35 times in that match, I hope they start getting carded for it come the second round.

[Bartrim]

And in the roundball world cup, I bet England wont be using that keeper again next game, that was an under 12's goalkeeping error.
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I was only half awake watching that. I wasn't sure if it really happened. Got a goodlaugh out of it.

[snaketales]

aaaarrrrggggg why can I never correctly tip Dockers' matches??!!!
They win when they're meant to lose and lose when they're meant to win!!!

[Lint]

australians getting slaughtered at half time

[Sharky]

australians getting slaughtered at half time

Disgusting. we are a tired old team that lacks any strike power..

cahill was unlucky to get a red, that tackle was only worth of a yellow

the ease at which germany broke our defensive line and turned our defenders inside out is not a good sign for future games...


that has pretty much ended our campaign there

we need two wins now and ghana is not easy

[Skullcruncher]

australians getting slaughtered at half time

hopefully that will stop craig foster and the media stop saying australia are a worthwhile top 20 team in the world! Last world cup run was good but a bit of a fluke.

[i_amtrunks]

So Australia on track for last place in the world cup!

That was an abysmal performance, why'd I bother getting up at 4am to watch that? They made the same mistakes again and again at the back, mistakes an under 11's team would be ashamed of.

I thought the main ref was pretty good (bar the Cahill red card, that was a yellow at best), but those touchies were about as hopeless as they get, the Germans were offside way more than they were called for.

Germany played like they were a player up, and then they were, no surprise they won so easily. Australia are not a defensive team, no use pretending we are, we need Kewell and Kennedy up front next game.

[Lint]

I didn't really approve of the refereeing, a lot of poor decisions and missed calls. But I hope he gets to ref an Italy match

Towards the last quarter it was basically a slim white knife stabbing into a sea of blue. Australia had really given up (or were in total disarray, hard to tell) after the 3rd goal which is just disrespectful.

[SharkyMcShark]

It was what amongst my friends we'd refer to as an "Eiffel Tower" performance (Eiffel Tower being the name of our shit uni 5 a side team), in that as soon as they were 2 - 0 down most of the players seemed to stop caring really. No one really bothered marking anyone, The defenders were strolling about the place, no one really chased back with any conviction. We just kind of went into a stupor and got done over.

Which is not to say I expected us to get anything against the Germans, but I did expect us to try a bit at least.

Cahill's red card was harsh but not unwarranted. Generally that ref was quite card happy...