Azərbaycan dili Bahasa Indonesia Bosanski Català Čeština Dansk Deutsch Eesti English Español Français Galego Hrvatski Italiano Latviešu Lietuvių Magyar Malti Mакедонски Nederlands Norsk Polski Português Português BR Românã Slovenčina Srpski Suomi Svenska Tiếng Việt Türkçe Ελληνικά Български Русский Українська Հայերեն ქართული ენა 中文
Subpage under development, new version coming soon!

Asunto: National Team

2008-03-05 22:07:17
Thanks Com... I think it's a bit more "readable" than the age rankings.
Interesting to see you're interested in junior with talent below 5... that should give you some work as there are plenty around I would think...
(editado)
2008-03-06 01:47:29
Indeed, but I'd be able to inform them whether they'd have a chance. If they had a really bad distribution or something I'd be able to say there's not much chance.

Just find that the more youngsters I can keep track of the more players we have up our sleeves and a greater chance some of them will be trained correctly.

Also, if I start receiving excessive amounts of juniors that pass that criteria without passing one of the other two, I can easily adjust and reduce it to 4.5 or 4 etc, or just make it that you should pass 2 of those 3 instead of 1.
2008-03-08 04:09:37
Tomorrow i think Australia will win with a big goals difference.You should try a different tactic in my honest opinion.You could learn from this match.
2008-03-08 05:26:05
what do you mean different. All of my tactics are different in some form or another ;). I'd be guessing you mean something completely new in formation that we've never tried before. I'm open for ideas, just send a sk mail with your idea and I'll consider it. That's the same for everyone else too, so if they've got ideas I'm always willing to listen to them although I get the final say ;).
2008-03-08 06:58:26
Have a tactic made and ready for Honduras. Should be a relatively straight forward game, a win by more than 7 goals would be ideal.

I'd be expecting them to go fairly defensive, to try and get a draw, although if I was them, I'd be looking to try and win the game against us to give Honduras some chance of qualifying.

Basically, situation is this:

If South Africa defeat Island we only need a draw from our remaining 2 games. (Should secure that up against Honduras easily enough)

If Island defeat South Africa we need a win of more than 7 goals and that should be enough as South Africa would then have to defeat us by about 2 or 3 goals minimum, although 4 points from 2 games would secure it

If Island and South Africa draw, we only need a win from our last two games to make the next round.

So we're in a strong position to make the next round, the only question then becomes whether we finish 1st or 2nd and I think we'll need to finish top of the group to get the easier ride through the MWC, so 3 wins is what I intend to do.
2008-03-08 08:28:34
good luck with your match against honduras guys! ;-)
2008-03-08 08:28:59
should be fun hopefully ;).
2008-03-08 08:36:11
i'm nervous as hell :D
2008-03-08 08:39:09
Can imagine. I'm always nervous, quite often I still look over my tactic square by square to see if anything doesn't look right and change a few things here and there at last minute.
2008-03-08 08:44:33
same here .. double and triple checked it .. but still :)
2008-03-08 09:00:18
Line-up for tonight's game is:

1. Clint Deeley
2. Tony Nikas
3. Wesley Broxton
4. George Mangos
5. Dustin Pierce
6. Stuart Widera
7. Noah Baveas
8. Clint Oliveira
9. Andy Willis
10. Kris Hirons
11. Dean Byers

12. Brendan Ando
13. Greg Cunico
14. Jeremy Timpano
15. Grant Zdrilic
16. Carl Richter

Ando swapped out due to significantly lower form, same reason why Howarth isn't in the squad.

Going in with a 4-1-2-1w-2, should be pretty stable in defense and we should be able to create chances to dominate the game.

Hopefully the game goes our way and they haven't stuck 11 players behind the ball so we can win by a large margin.
2008-03-08 09:02:57
good luck, and i guess by ando being on the bench it is looking like our keeper stocks are doing rather well for once.
2008-03-08 09:22:48
beat danmark 3-1! :)
2008-03-08 09:24:53
36 shots for 7 goals.... Sigh.....

Other than that comfortable game, don't know what more I could have done except taken one defender away, but I figured when their manager said they had changed a tactic that it was going to expect us to play 3 at the back so I played 4 for that extra security.

Reasonably happy with the win, but would have been nicer if a few of those passes from our mids had have been finished off better by our strikers.
2008-03-08 09:25:24
Hard to believe we didn't score a ton more really.
2008-03-08 09:28:45
At least we matched South Africa's tally, which was the most important thing to do, although you've got to think what were our strikers doing missing so often, but hey that's not new for us. Byers long ranged missile to give us our 3rd goal I think was an absolute pearler.