AFC U23 Asian Cup

[Tevor]

I'm hoping Nizzy gets a few more minutes at some point.

Surely game 3 as the other mids have played a lot of minutes in the first two games.

 

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Saving the best for last!

However in the last 2/3 games of our regular season Miller and Nizzy were both carrying knocks/niggles and that wasn’t that long ago.

 

[AuzDutchy]

Nisbet robbed

 

[true believer]

 

[true believer]

the 6 should be on his 3 rd yellow . ref card happy for our guys

 

[true believer]

fear of kuol draws penalty which the keeper saves off najjarine and then gets a retake for a goal

 

[scottmac]

the 6 should be on his 3 rd yellow . ref card happy for our guys

Little bit more than card happy.

 

[ryan]

Another soft red card.

 

[true believer]

another dodgie red card .

 

[Tevor]

At least winning the pool kept us away from playing the Uzbeks as the officiating is sub standard and you can only imagine how bad it will be playing the home nation.

 

[BrisRecky]

Righto P- ! WHERES THE f**kING REPLAY …YOU GORMLESS JACKOFFS

 

[ccf]

Go into other match replays and 4th one down, it was up at 9am when I started watching it

 

[BrisRecky]

that red was ridiculous .....quite clearly on replay, the jordanian bloke shoots a forearm into the back of our guys head, our guy reaches back and brushed his shirt and the other gutless sack of shit goes down screaming, yes, yes, its a "tactic" but its cowardly and after these two shit red cards, if i was the olyroo boss id been hooking my team off the pitch , then maybe a proper conversation about knocking that shit diving on the head might start....lets see how half these asian teams in tournaments go if they cant roll around screaming in perceived agony

 

[Allreet?]

that red was ridiculous .....quite clearly on replay, the jordanian bloke shoots a forearm into the back of our guys head, our guy reaches back and brushed his shirt and the other gutless sack of shit goes down screaming, yes, yes, its a "tactic" but its cowardly and after these two shit red cards, if i was the olyroo boss id been hooking my team off the pitch , then maybe a proper conversation about knocking that shit diving on the head might start....lets see how half these asian teams in tournaments go if they cant roll around screaming in perceived agony

Hard to disagree, but given the politics of Asia (and how many countries would love to see us shunted back to Oceania) taking that kind of action would only lead to sanctions and harder judgment about the naive but sanctimonious Australians who don't really belong in Asia.

If I was king of the world (and I really should be) I'd divide Asia into East and West and include Oceania in East. Would be a much better arrangement for all concerned.

 

[sydmariner]

Hard to disagree, but given the politics of Asia (and how many countries would love to see us shunted back to Oceania) taking that kind of action would only lead to sanctions and harder judgment about the naive but sanctimonious Australians who don't really belong in Asia.

If I was king of the world (and I really should be) I'd divide Asia into East and West and include Oceania in East. Would be a much better arrangement for all concerned.

The AFC Champions League is already split into east & west groups

 

[Allreet?]

Yep, that's for travel purposes for the clubs - to save costs. Do it permanently for all things is what I'd be doing. It's the Arab countries who most resent us being in Asia.

 

[turbo]

Yep, that's for travel purposes for the clubs - to save costs. Do it permanently for all things is what I'd be doing. It's the Arab countries who most resent us being in Asia.

It also guarantees a certain number of west Asian clubs advance. Perhaps not so much an issue now but it wouldn’t have been a good look for West Asia if Japan, Korea and China took up 80% of the spots after the group stage.

 

[Allreet?]

I think going forward, Asia gets 8 spots in the WC and Oceania one.

If you could draw a line somewhere between India and Thailand as the divide, then West Asia would get 4 spots and East Asia (incorporating Oceania) would get 5. That would mean Saudi, Iran, Iraq, Qatar and UAE would be the main contenders in the West and Australia, Japan, Korea, China, Vietnam, Thailand would be the main contenders in the East. NZ would also be a contender. They wouldn't have their (almost) guaranteed spot but they'd be in a much better competition which is better for them in the long run.

 

[Allreet?]

And you could still have both divisions in the Asian Cup.

 

[FFC Mariner]

I'd split west Asian completely away as its own federation