Graham Arnold you are an idiot!

title says it all really. what kind of person would not chose burns and djite for the olyroo team?

he has stacked his team with defenders, which is fair enough, we are ranked 15 out of the 16 teams after all.

Even so with the resources disposed to him he has decided to play 3 defenders as midfielders. Milligan as a defensive CM, Carney as LM & Zadkovich as RM. Even with the team he chose, which is not the team i would have chose, you should play Milligan at CB and Spiranovic at CM. Spiranovic actually plays for Nurenberg as a CM and they love him, they think he's great. And you can tell by his solo run late in the first half that he would be quite the attacking threat. Milligan however is useless in that position, he plays it like a CB, comes back to clear, but offers nothing going forward. In fact playing him alongside Musialik, a natrual DM, is too defensive. They cannot make the passes to give it to our forwards and we end up depending on the CBs to bomb it up.

I would have djite playing forward, and Archie playing behind him. I would play Burns on the right and push Zadkovich to right back. On the other side is ok, carney offers enough going forward. milligan and north at the back, and spiranovic in the middle. Maybe Musialik if i was feeling defensive, but sarkies if i wanted to attack.

Troisi and bridge are guys that i would be looking to bring on. so frustrating watching this defensive team, this is not how we played to get into the olympics and it's not good to watch!

i've written this as we are finishing the first half, and if they win then i will eat my words!

who is this idiot that they are playing up front anyway? anyone heard of him!?

EDIT just seeing on wiki that we've already played. wonder how the other games will go.