SA Footy

Thought I'd start a new thread to track the form of our Aussie lads in the lead up to South Africa.

I'll kick off with Vinnie Grella, who from looking at the highlights from the weekend, had some very promising moments and put in a couple of very tasty looking balls that could very easily have resulted in Blackburn goals (if Spurs keeper was not so brilliant and Blackburn's forwards been so rubbish).

Grella had a beautiful little chip from the centre of the midfield in his sides attacking half, which split the defence perfectly and resulted in a blocked shot and a scramble to clear the resulting crumbs.

Lucas Neill isn't having the best time of it, but he usually comes good and steps up when he dons the green and gold.

Timmie is on fire as usual!

Haven't heard much about Bresciano's performanced at Palermo, but he's getting games and they're up the pointy end of Serie A. Do you have any update Pels or Duce?

Harry is dominating in Turkey and scoring goals and by all accounts, he is back to his best, which is great news.

Anyhoo - in the run-in to SA2010, if you see a good, bad or otherwise notable performance from a world cup contender, let's have it in here.

Come on you Footballroos!
Pim Verbeek's Green and Gold Army!!!!

I also don't hear/see much about Brescias but he scored for Palermo against Milan at the San Siro a week or so ago. Blasted the ball home from close range then did his awesome celebration, love it.

I started a thread, which I didn't upkeep, so here's the link with some older info:

viewtopic.php?f=45&t=23076&start=20

Dogwatcher wrote:I started a thread, which I didn't upkeep, so here's the link with some older info:

viewtopic.php?f=45&t=23076&start=20

Sorry mate. I should have had a better look around .

It's no problem. As I said, I let it slide and didn't maintain it.

devilsadvocate wrote:

Dogwatcher wrote:I started a thread, which I didn't upkeep, so here's the link with some older info:

viewtopic.php?f=45&t=23076&start=20

Sorry mate. I should have had a better look around .

Yeah, come on lad, up you game a bit
On a serious note, do you think Cahill has been that good so far this year? Granted he has been part of a pretty ordinary side riddled with injuries but the three or four games I've seen him in, he hasn't particularly shone for me

johntheclaret wrote:Yeah, come on lad, up you game a bit
On a serious note, do you think Cahill has been that good so far this year? Granted he has been part of a pretty ordinary side riddled with injuries but the three or four games I've seen him in, he hasn't particularly shone for me

I guess with our Timmie, he's more of an impact player rather than a Gerrard type who bosses games. He'll float in and out, and sometimes be completely annonymous for 75 mins. But then he'll chime in exactly when required and score a goal to change a game.

He did it beautifully against Spurs - that's what he does.

If Timmie is invisible for 80% of the World Cup, but scores 3-4 goals, he'll have had a great campaign. Last time round against Japan in the opening game, we were down and out, 1-0 down and up against it after 80 mins. Enter Timmie and 12 mins later, he's scored a brace and we're flying with a 3-1 win.

Patrick Kisnorbo is having a great season soo far at Leeds. He has been arguably our best player soo far and is doing his best to secure Leeds an automatic promotion as well as put his name on Pim Verbeek's World Cup squad.

Cheers pidge - good work!

Pidge wrote:Patrick Kisnorbo is having a great season soo far at Leeds. He has been arguably our best player soo far and is doing his best to secure Leeds an automatic promotion as well as put his name on Pim Verbeek's World Cup squad.

Great to see Kisnorbo dominate against Man Who.
I'm sure Pim will have been watching and with the player ratings on Sky and also various fan's comments, Kisnorbo will surely be on the plane to SA in June.

devilsadvocate wrote:

Pidge wrote:Patrick Kisnorbo is having a great season soo far at Leeds. He has been arguably our best player soo far and is doing his best to secure Leeds an automatic promotion as well as put his name on Pim Verbeek's World Cup squad.

Great to see Kisnorbo dominate against Man Who.
I'm sure Pim will have been watching and with the player ratings on Sky and also various fan's comments, Kisnorbo will surely be on the plane to SA in June.

I reckon he was our best against Man United. He seemed to be marking Rooney pretty closely for most of the game and made many important challenges. If he can play like this in the Green and Gold, i'd almost have him in the starting line up alongside Lucas Neill.

Patrick Kisnorbo is out for the season and the World Cup with an Achillies injury in todays 2-0 home defeat at Milwall.

This pretty much means Leeds will be playing in League 1 next season.

That's gutting Pidge.
He would have been bloody handy in South Africa IMO.

Thanks for the update!