General Football Chat

Do we have an Eredivisie thread? PSV won overnight 10-0 haha which included some crackers.

http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/news/1029741/Leckie-ruled-out-for-two-months

Mathew Leckie has been sidelined for 8-10 weeks following the injury he suffered against Melbourne Victory on the weekend.

Fabio Capello has named an experimental England squad ahead of Wednesday's friendly with France, handing Jay Bothroyd, Andrew Carroll, Chris Smalling and Jordan Henderson their first international call-ups.

England squad: Ben Foster, Robert Green, Joe Hart; Ashley Cole, Rio Ferdinand, Kieran Gibbs, Phil Jagielka, Joleon Lescott, Micah Richards, Chris Smalling, John Terry; Gareth Barry, Steven Gerrard, Jordan Henderson, Adam Johnson, James Milner, Theo Walcott, Jack Wilshere, Ashley Young; Gabriel Agbonlahor, Jay Bothroyd, Andrew Carroll, Peter Crouch

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=841831&sec=euro2012&cc=3436

How does Smalling warrant a spot in there?
And Bothroyd is questionable, sure he is doing well in the Championship. But International Football is a whole different ball game.

How does Gibbs get a spot and Jack Wilshere not?
Dont get me wrong, im delighted for Gibbsy but he hasnt played a game in 4 weeks .

philly wrote:

How does Smalling warrant a spot in there?
And Bothroyd is questionable, sure he is doing well in the Championship. But International Football is a whole different ball game.

its experimental squad he is picking players for the future, which begs the question where is Marc Albrighton?

a_F_c wrote:

How does Gibbs get a spot and Jack Wilshere not?
Dont get me wrong, im delighted for Gibbsy but he hasnt played a game in 4 weeks .

look again afc

a_F_c wrote:

How does Gibbs get a spot and Jack Wilshere not?
Dont get me wrong, im delighted for Gibbsy but he hasnt played a game in 4 weeks .

Jack is there, his name is after Theo's and before Ash Youngs.

a_F_c wrote:

How does Gibbs get a spot and Jack Wilshere not?
Dont get me wrong, im delighted for Gibbsy but he hasnt played a game in 4 weeks .

Look again..

And on Smalling when he has been given a shot he has looked really good, if that warrents a spot in the England team then so be it. Personally i would say he isn't ready but it's not like he is going to play anyway, he's probably being groomed as englands long term CB.

a_F_c wrote:

How does Gibbs get a spot and Jack Wilshere not?
Dont get me wrong, im delighted for Gibbsy but he hasnt played a game in 4 weeks .

What chu talkin bout Willis?

Sprooly wrote:

philly wrote:

How does Smalling warrant a spot in there?
And Bothroyd is questionable, sure he is doing well in the Championship. But International Football is a whole different ball game.

its experimental squad he is picking players for the future, which begs the question where is Marc Albrighton?

I agree but he is playing for the U21s anyway.. Carroll should be playing for the 21s but the lack of strikers has him in the senior squad.. Albrighton wouldn't get a game i don't think with the quality of the wide men in the team so atleast he will get gametime with the 21s.

Beckham wrote:

Sprooly wrote:

philly wrote:

How does Smalling warrant a spot in there?
And Bothroyd is questionable, sure he is doing well in the Championship. But International Football is a whole different ball game.

its experimental squad he is picking players for the future, which begs the question where is Marc Albrighton?

I agree but he is playing for the U21s anyway.. Carroll should be playing for the 21s but the lack of strikers has him in the senior squad.. Albrighton wouldn't get a game i don't think with the quality of the wide men in the team so atleast he will get gametime with the 21s.

yeah thats a fair point

Haha I completely missed it. Carry on...

In Fabio I trust!

Barcelona & Qatar Foundation agree £125m shirt deal

Barcelona have ended their long term stance of refusing commercial shirt sponsorship by signing a record £125m deal with the Qatar Foundation.

The Catalan giants have paid to carry the Unicef logo for the last five years and the children's charity will share shirt space with the new sponsors.

The deal will be worth £25m a year from next season through until 2016

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/9276343.stm


More money for Fabby now i'm guessing

The whole Terry family are a disgrace.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1338852/Rushden-Diamonds-goalkeeper-Dale-Roberts-hung-fiances-affair.html

RIP to the young lad, must of been going through a really tough time

Dunno if it's been mentioned already but Coopers is our new major sponser, pretty farkin happy with that

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Manchester-City-striker-Mario-Balotelli-has-claimed-Barcelona-superstar-Lionel-Messi-is-the-only-player-in-the-world-who-is-better-than-him-article655505.html

of course mate.

Man I hate that C***...such an arrogant toss.

Gave the big tip a go after dane's man love for that website.

So here's my first crack

http://www.thebigtip.com.au/football/why-arsenal-need-buy-transfer-window

teal have u seen mexes play?

if bendtner is behind vela then he is shitter then i thought

Bendtner52 wrote:

Gave the big tip a go after dane's man love for that website.

So here's my first crack

http://www.thebigtip.com.au/football/why-arsenal-need-buy-transfer-window

We don't need a midfielder Tealio. And if Fabianski keeps playing well, a keeper isn't needed right away unless someone quality pops up at a really good price. Bendtner will go pretty soon I reckon and JET will just step up. Hope we get Samba, a back 4 of Sagna - Samba - Verm - Clichy could be awesome if all play well.

philly wrote:

Bendtner52 wrote:

Gave the big tip a go after dane's man love for that website.

So here's my first crack

http://www.thebigtip.com.au/football/why-arsenal-need-buy-transfer-window

We don't need a midfielder Tealio. And if Fabianski keeps playing well, a keeper isn't needed right away unless someone quality pops up at a really good price. Bendtner will go pretty soon I reckon and JET will just step up. Hope we get Samba, a back 4 of Sagna - Samba - Verm - Clichy could be awesome if all play well.

Yeah I put midfielder because if we lose Nasri and/or Fabregas we're in a spot of bother.

Asian Cup is coming up as some of us will be well aware of. Anyway even though it seems like we have very limited chat atm, reckon we should all contribute to this...at least, all the Aussie fans should.

Any certain way you guys want to go about this, or just go with the flow? I reckon a thread for each group for general chat, results, etc. and then probably a thread for each Socceroos game seeing as they'll obviously get by far the most chat.

I would also run some sort of a tipping comp, but I'm going away for a week in late January so I won't be able to do results then, unless someone can help out.

Thoughts?

Yer sounds good Sibs...I could help you out in your propsed tipping game if you want.

Sibs back for a day and already running the show .. Nah jks but 1 big thread should be fine.