Socceroos

Although words cannot express how incredibly angry I am at Pim Verbeek's utterly perplexing selections on Monday morning I'm going to try.

We all know that Pim is a defensive coach. As the saying goes defence wins premierships. But we're nto after premierships here. This is the World Cup, a competition that Pim Verbeek has never gone to as head coach.
Yes he did a fine job to get us through qualifying but this is an entirely different kettle of fish.
Perhaps because of the job Pim did in qualifying is why we were thinking there might be a possibility of getting something from this game.
But the team and tactics Pim employed for the game against Germany said to them, and the rest of the world that we were not going to attack, we were going to sit back and let them come at us for 90 minutes.
That's not what Aussies do. We have pride and passion and want to win every game, not settle for a draw before the game has even started.
I don't know what Pim Verbeek has done to those boys but they played without passion. Actually i do what he did, he sent them out with a 4-6 effectively. I was zapped of passion the minute i saw the line up, no wonder the boys played without heart.

I'm sure had Richard Garcia's goal gone in we might be talking a little differently here but it didn't and we got our asses handed to us on a plate.
After the first goal he should have made attaking changes. Obviously our defence couldn't absorb their pressure, so why not take the game to them? Put Kennedy on, surely if Jason Culina can out jump Phillip Lahm then Josh Kennedy wouldn't need to get off the ground in order to beat him. But instead he puts of Brett Holman,a player who has scored twice for the Socceroos. Why does he persist with Brett Holman? He couldn't hit the side of a barn if he tried. Remember the Netherlands friendly in Sydney Pim? I do and we would have had it won if it wasn't for him and his "ability".
And playing Jason Culina out of position? Yeah, nice one, worked a treat!
We need to be more attacking, put on Kewell, Bresciano, Vidosic.

And as for the FFA. Get of our arses, stop sucking up to people to improve our bid and try and get Timmy off that card! It wasn't even worth a yellow and yet he got a straight red. If the player involved said that the card was unwarranted then surely something isn't right! Timmy is a massive part of our team and if we want to make it to the round of 16 then we need him to help us get past Ghana and Serbia.

Pim, you may be our most successful coach but we don't love you. We loved Guus because of what he did with our boys. We love them and we want them, so desperately, for them to do well. What happened on Monday morning was an abomination and spits in the face of Australian football and all we have done to try and raise our reputation.
Pull your finger out and play it like we know they can!!