Australian National Team Thread - #PopaOut!

And other upgrades totalling $25m

Even against Bangladesh the defence wasn’t that convincing. Some of their runs peeling out wide from the line we were playing which even though the forwards weren’t that great & were getting zero service actually weren’t that bad. Whilst Bangladesh weren’t much of an opponent against a better opponent I think they could be found out.

And Luongo give yourself an uppercut, whose idiotic idea was it to let him take a penalty.

I thought they should’ve given the spot kick to Yengi. There’s a decent chance we’re going to need him later on in the qualifiers, and even getting a goal against Bangladesh would’ve given him some confidence.

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Now that he’s back from injury, he’ll resume banging them in for fun for Portsmouth again…

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Oooooh, controversy! But also, good! Great, in fact.

There go all the future government grants…

That’s ok, we can all get contracts at St Pauli

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Aren’t St Pauli’s fans going to disown Irvine for being antisemitic as a result of this?

It begins

Edit: Sydney Football TV, who I believe is Palestinian, responded in kind, although I’ve also seen him complain about pride flags being “politicisation of football”.

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Germans taking their own guilt out on Palestinians is quite a site to behold. It’s easy to support the descendents of the people you killed or ran out the country having a state far away from you.

Since when is St Pauli in favour of ultra-right ethnonationalism?

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They digital waving flags freak me out.

Boyle charming the pants off the ref.

Is that a big hole in the pitch? Near halfway? Looked like Boyle nearly tripped in it.

Behich looking skittish on the ball.

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The Palestinians, understandably, have fire in their bellies. They’re up for it.

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Hopefully that settles the game a bit.

Been watching the U17s game on my phone around when Boyle scored.

Iran was winning the last 20 or so, Morocco equalised deep into injury time. Morocco won on pens (goes straight to pen shootout). I had no idea U17 had VAR. Their keeper saved to setup a winner, was off his line, he saved it again, then it was checked out but his foot was on the line, then they scored the next.

And the Iran seniors are 80 minutes into their qualifier