Asian Cup 2015

[Tassiemariner]

http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/news-display/27-more-cities-keen-to-join-asian-cup-party/79143

Very interesting the final list of cities for training. No Centre of Excellence which seems to indicate maybe we already have Australia? Or whoever runs it is a muppet.

No Hobart either (We just had a $1 million artificial pitch put in place (Thanks Wilkie!) and are a capital city, weird)

 

[eenfish]

Socceroos based out of Centre of Excellence would be... excellent. They're state of the art facilities and would make sense.
THAT SAID the facilities that Collingwood/Melb Victory use around AAMI park are top notch as well. The only reason why they wouldn't be used is the AFL teams probably saying "eff off not using our facilities because we are Jacob Burns/John Terry level dog Cs", plus A-League club being host to the socceroos would be ideal for advertising the game.

 

[sydmariner]

Socceroos based out of Centre of Excellence would be... excellent. They're state of the art facilities and would make sense.
THAT SAID the facilities that Collingwood/Melb Victory use around AAMI park are top notch as well. The only reason why they wouldn't be used is the AFL teams probably saying "eff off not using our facilities because we are Jacob Burns/John Terry level dog Cs", plus A-League club being host to the socceroos would be ideal for advertising the game.

Haven't the socceroos already used it under holger

 

[eenfish]

Yeah, before the East Asian Cup if I recall correctly. They played a friendly at Pluim didn't they?

 

[Elastico]

For those interested and may have missed it -- applications are open to volunteer at next years Asian Cup.
http://www.afcasiancup.com/volunteering/en/

 

[yellowcake]

This is worth a look. The Newcastle Pack Plus (thats an advantage of being a Coastie) - bargain: 6 matches including Final, both Semis, 3 vs 4 playoff and Japan vs. ??

Just locked Cat 2 in for $299 + $199 for the young bloke

(and the opening Japan game at Newcastle is closer than from home, while we're on hols at One Mile Beach)

 

[sydmariner]

Just got my tickets for socceroos vs Oman, socceroos vs sth Korea & the final

 

[kevrenor]

Just got my tickets: Oman vs Australia in Sydney, and the night before in Newcastle (for 1/3 the price) it is Japan vs whosoever qualifies .. train it down from Sawtell, and I get two games in 2 days, plus if the Mariners play at home the weekend before I can fit that in .. sweet.

 

[sydmariner]

Just got my tickets: Oman vs Australia in Sydney, and the night before in Newcastle (for 1/3 the price) it is Japan vs whosoever qualifies .. train it down from Sawtell, and I get two games in 2 days, plus if the Mariners play at home the weekend before I can fit that in .. sweet.

i heard that the a-league might put on hold while the asian cup is on

 

[pjennings]

With our World Cup over it's worth a look at how we stand for the Asian Cup and beyond. The biggest concern to me in the World Cup has been the naivety of the fullbacks. If Williams comes in that fixes the right but we have no-one really to challenge Davidson who struggled to keep the offside trap.

These 6 should return from injury - Good, Sainsbury, Williams, Kennedy, Rogic, Kruse

I'd replace McGowan, Wright, Holland, Vidosic, Halloran and Taggart

leaving us with a much stronger squad of

-----------------------Ryan/Langerak/Galekovic-----------------
Williams/Franjic--------Wilko/Trent----Spira/Good----Davidson/McKay
----------------------Jedinak/Milligan/Luongo---------
Kruse/Leckie-----------Bresc/Tommy/Ollie---------------Oar/Triosi
----------------------------Cahill/Kennedy---------------------

The problem is still at LB.

After the Asian Cup I would expect to lose Galekovic, McKay, Bresciano, Cahill & Kennedy. I think we have a few CAM coming though but with Timmy, Josh and Bresc going only Kruse seems to have any goal-scoring form for the national team. It's a real opportunity for time for someone to claim those spots.

 

[dibo]

I can only think of the goal against Netherlands where Davidson dropped off. Were there other times?

 

[Big Al]

Yeah you wont' get Davidson out of there any time soon.

Thought he was pretty good.

The dutch mistake was inexperience for sure.

Ange: Stick to Robben like glue don't give him an inch he will punish us
So when Robben makes the run he follows like he is instructed to. If he doesn't follow that run people will be saying why did they give Robben so much room.
Was a smart run by Robben which caused Davidson to follow instead of looking at his back line. RVP cashes in from what would have been offside.

While he made the mistake I see why. Every mistake we made got punished such is the nature of the World Cup.

We do need a backup if he gets injured or like game three looked tired & that's not McKay IMO. McKay was actually pretty good in the middle but he is not a LB IMO

We really missed some creativity in the middle. Rogic would have been very handy for this team.

Taggart sucked because we were playing aerial with the wingers for Tim Cahill. When it was time to stop doing that they didn't know how to play through the middle on the ground.
Definately time to test Amini or hope Rogic recovers or fast track D'Silva

 

[pjennings]

I can only think of the goal against Netherlands where Davidson dropped off. Were there other times?

Third goal against Spain as well. He and Franjic both caught out in the warm up against Croatia

 

[MrCelery]

Seven ex-Mariners players in the provisional 50 man squad. Excellent advert for the Club. Great to see Musti in there too!

 

[sydmariner]

It's great to see josh kenneddy back cos we really need him up front

 

[nearlyyellow]

Time to get this thread active.

4 days until Aus. v. Kuwait in Melbourne.

What's the hot goss. guys?

Being a poor old pensioner ( heh heh ) I didn't buy any tickets, and now that the Cup is here I must admit I am a bit jealous of those of you who lashed out and ticketed yourselves. I could have denied myself that extra glass of red cordial and done the same, but them's the breaks. Oh well, there's always the delayed telecasts on ABC TV, and bootleg TV too.

 

[sydmariner]

Time to get this thread active.

4 days until Aus. v. Kuwait in Melbourne.

What's the hot goss. guys?

Being a poor old pensioner ( heh heh ) I didn't buy any tickets, and now that the Cup is here I must admit I am a bit jealous of those of you who lashed out and ticketed yourselves. I could have denied myself that extra glass of red cordial and done the same, but them's the breaks. Oh well, there's always the delayed telecasts on ABC TV, and bootleg TV too.

Sadly wiziwig is no more

 

[VicMariner]

It will be interesting to see the turn out for games like Bahrain v UAE and Uzbekistan v Nth Korea.

 

[sydmariner]

I'll be going to see the socceroos vs Oman next tuesday (13/1/15) socceroos vs South Korea in Brisbane (17/1/15) & the final

 

[VicMariner]

Anyone get on board the "adopt a team" initiative? Who did you pick?
I'll be following Palestine until they're out and then Japan.
Palestine because it's hard to find a smaller underdog and Japan because I just like Japan.