Roars problems were mostly with their foreign strikers last two seasons.
Aging duds who hardly scored but even worse put no work in.
Berengeur you can hardly describe him as one the league best players, and now he is 34.
Looking at their recruiting you have to be competely stunned that Corey Brown is back.
All they need now is Mitch Nichols to be the equivalent of a NRL or AFL team.
The only bright light is that Akhbari is gone and Caletti is in.

That is the point I am making, Arnie even says he has been more consistent in England how is that possible given how long he has been there. Silvera should have been selected because he was the best Australian player in the final series.

Eddie Jones as in born in Tasmania , is an islander.
While he looks like a Pacific islander its because his mother is Japanese.

Has Silvera actually done anything in England yet.
FInal series in the A-league he was scoring sensational goals and assists.
Aided of course by being up against Lopez and Reiz.
Arnies selection policy seems to be play in the Championship your automatically in the squad.

If it so magic then why doesn’t the media cover it in the slightest. Even in the good old days of the SMH covering the A-league they skipped on the Australia cup. Its money down the drain and its also artificial with a rigged draw. The only people that back it are the gooses that back the second division and seem to have a hard on for the so called old clubs.
What about the final crowds it gets. it hasn’t cracked 20k for the final. People dancing up and down about 16k when it was Sydney United and Macarthur and the first derby final was ridiculous as well

I think he could have got away with everything and even a bit more , if he hadn’t been so stingy with the women financially, the financial aspect was the main reason for the boycotts. While Spain are not the super rich federation like England, they would have more than enough money to be able to afford it as opposed to the African and Carribean nations that have little or no money. That he stiffed them financially he should have kept clear of the final actually as he didn’t back their success. Imagine if Trump had turned up and laid one on Rapinoe.

Why would you go for Jack White to replace Landale.
Thon Maker would have been better.
Doncic double team him and he will pass is it an effective tactic.
Canada they have never performed as well as their squad is on paper.
They are not as invested in internationals as much as other teams. The USA might be the least invested and in holiday mode but they have the talent to do that.

The Wallabies would be better off with 8 forwards on the bench, they get tired out and it goes downhill from there.

Part of the youth team almost 10 years ago and then since has been around the lower leagues in England and had not had any interest from anyone till he is in the championship this season.

What a load of nonsense. Hardly anyone play rugby league these days, and AFL their figures are exagerrated by a factor of 2 minimum.
Mcgree average player good athlete, Samuel Silvera talented but can be lazy, Geneau lazy, Alexander Robertson he could be the one.
Souttar for me is a liability not a good defender on the ground and cant score from set pieces what use is he in Asia.
So you actually watched Kuol in his limited minutes?
I think the younger Kuol can make it he has speed and control he doesn’t need physicality.
Australias real problem is the local NPL and their interest in only rich parents.
Cahill and Kewell will not get detected by NPL clubs, they dont like talented attackers because the sponsors kids are in those positions. If they are in the big cities Cahill would be still working at the pizza place.
Its not like Kuol got picked up by a Melbourne he is from country Victoria.

Thats not true generally pokies fund professional and semi professional sport.
Easts are the one club that would have dissapeared ages ago without the pokies,
the pokies are what funds most NRL clubs particularly in Sydney.
If you take out the pokies your left with South Sydney.
AFL tried to copy NRL but haven’t had the same level of gambling success.
AFL expansion clubs in QLD took the pokie money from grassroots to put it into the professional level.

“Just imagine if $2 million was given to each A-League club for an additional marquee.”
Absolute bonkers comment.
At 2 million these days you would get nothing. This obsession with marquees is what stuffed up the A-league. There is zero marketing, spending 2 million on B grade marquees is going to result in nothing. Del Piero cant be emulated , ticked all the boxes and there is a big Italian community on top of that here.

No Cabello no problems. Cabello was owned by everyone he came up against at NPL level last season.
Why is the draw so rigged A-;league teams haven’t lost a match to NPL teams this season.
In England they dont go around rigging the draw so they have 3 of the 5 teams from lower divisions guaranteed at quarter final stage and then have two of them play off for a semi final.

Segecic apparently gone on loan to Dutch second division which is really stupid they really need him now. CCM I thought they need a winger badly the elder Kuol is a pure striker, Tulio is better central was poorer on the wing, if the new striker can also play on the wing .

Apart from netball , is there another team sport without a mens version.
What your saying is certainly not true even with the current rapidly rising womens wages.
Women in top netball comp still have average higher salaries and have had them for a lot longer when others were unpaid. They are up to 43k minimum and 91k max so still higher than others.
Womens basketball was the biggest sports league for women here in the 80-90’s, but has been going nowhere for till Kestleman improved things recently. They have 20k min now. Even WNBA in the States the wages are pretty ordinary 200k US is the max salary. In the USA their major sports are purely for profit as well. Surely you would think someone would say for about 2 million a year you can have the equivalent of the womens dream team and win the comp easy.
AFLW started off as a couple of thousand with a few teams , finally this year they increase but still under netball. they are 33k minimum.
Cricket new pay deal puts them ahead of netball, but they have been around forever and were unpaid till the last 10 years. The pay parity they supposedly have at national team level without the 2 million a year contracts the men but parity in match payments is a furphy.
A-league W most players used to be unpaid with 8 teams, now the minimum is 17k so they are half netball. The Matildas as the national team get paid well now, didnt get paid well till 2015. Sam Kerr gets big money but she is a one off and most of her earnings are from endorsements.
Comparing the womens world cup prize money to the netball world cup money, only one had prize money, but thats only available at the world cup for national team members. The irony of the world cup prize money is most women at the world cup earnt more money there than they do annually and some earnt more than their whole life time earnings, a lot of the players from smaller countries are unpaid outside of this.
NRLW they get decent pay for the first time this season, still behind netball but will go above them by the end of the deal in 2027 which is increasing.
Rugby Union the only players getting paid used to be the sevens rugby union womens squad omce it became an Olympic sport, they are now going to be hosting the womens 15’s rugby union world cup, they finally made the Wallaroos paid this year, super w teams on the other hand are way behind.

its either Canada or Spain in the quarters followed by the USA in the semi if Australia come 2nd in the group. Win the group its either Canada or Spain followed by Serbia probably.

So its a pseudo group stage, with previous result was wondering why they were only showing two matches.
Australia having a narrow loss to Germany leaves some hope they can get first place if they beat Slovenia and Slovenia beat Germany and Australia ends up ahead of goal difference.

Australia spends most money not on elite athletes in this country its on hosting events, stadiums and training facilties for AFL and NRL.
Event hosting its not just the Olympics and Commonwealth games, they are the big ticket items but not annual. NZ is a thousand times smarter they have avoided the events
F1 grand prix costs a fortune to host, and thats annual, F1 has become greedier and charges more. Its Melbournes vanity project and its a single weekend as well. With other Asian grand prix the overseas tourism has been waned. The most massive waste of tax payers money was the 90m cost of having supercars at Olympics park in Sydney, when you have a dedicated race track at Eastern Creek. The urban supercar races are just huge wastes of tax payer money, the excuse that sponsors from Sydneys wealthier areas did not want to travel to Eastern Creek was astonishing. That the media was not jumping down their throats was also astonishing.
The Tasmanian situation where they are paying for regular season AFL games as events.
Not only do they pay fees for the games, then they have had to have two stadiums for these events and the cost of that is in the hundreds of millions which has all gone to waste effectively because now they have to pay for another completely new stadium. The AFL and Tasmanian state government their latest plan for Hobart is they want their pick of Hobarts best parks for their high performance center in a prime position which the tax payers also has to pay for.

This round was a bit weird, there is no difference between being first or second in the group.
I suppose the format was caused by this hosting situation. The next group round, the thing that counts is to avoid the USA, if the USA comes first , Australia need to come first.
If they come second by some
Germany is one of the tournaments big threats, they came third in Eurobasket 2022, they have a good team I dont see why it was an upset..
Xavier Cook he did the job inside on Japan, its going to be tougher from now on. They need to win what should be two close battles with Germany and Slovenia, the other opponent whoever qualifies will be weaker.
If they come second amd win the quarter final they will meet the USA in the semi not quarters.
If USA comes second in their group then they need to come 2nd which is unlikely.

Thats misinformation the AFL puts in a bit of money only when it gets free rent in return.
The AFl then uses the contribution as some of media propaganda tool. In Tasmania they are trying to pretend their share of the broadcast rights from being in the competition is now a special AFL contribution.

“NSW banned him until the very last Shield game of 73/74”
Why was he banned?
His football career with Melita Eagles came to an end with punching the ref.
What did he do in cricket get banned?

Almost half the squad is over the hill and needs to be retired and Gustavsson has kept a lot of players who haven’t played and some are unattached even. The big concern is in the same way Logarzo and Kellod Knight hobbled their way through the last local season they need to pick them on merit not have the old over the hill Matildas when they get dumped from overseas clubs as some have now come in.
You used to have the situation where them most Matildas played both overseas and the local league in the same year with the USA and Nordic leagues. The whole Matildas squad have played in the local league recently with Kerr the least recent her last season was 2018-2019.
That still happens Chidiac was made player of the season locally even though she didnt play that many matches. Gorry is in this category as well.

Mills and Ingles are 35, so thats a limiting factor for this team.
Usually what happens at the FIBA world cup apart from USA winning is the team that knocks out the USA then loses the next match and sometimes by a large margin. . I cant see Australia having any chance against the USA and they need to avoid their side of the draw, so they need to come first in the next group not this one to do that, if another team knocks out the USA for them, that will exhaust that team and make them beatable in the next match. So if they can squeeze through to the final and say Serbia knocks out the USA in the semi final then winning the final will be very doeable.
What about the women when they funded the local womens league Australia were a super power in womens basketball and won the womens version plus all those Olympic silver medals. What happened to that funding, its going to be a lot easier to put a couple of million into the womens basketball league and be second behind the USA in womens basketball.

Australia should save money actually because at the moment the coach gets a massive bonus for qualifying for the world cup. Arnie would not be anywhere near 2 million a year either , if he didnt qualify it would have cost him 2 million because he would have got sacked and not got the qualfiication bonus.

I think you make this stuff up to big note yourself.