Socceroos' Series Against Brazil Preview with Brisbane Football Review

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Foreign.

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Hello and welcome back to the Aussie football passport. It has

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been a little while between drinks and I guess it always seems

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to be the Brisbane Football Review who are joining me. But yet again, I've got

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Adam and Scott with me to discuss the upcoming Queensland Football Series.

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How are you, Scott? Good, Alex, how are you? Very well, thank you.

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Very well. Looking forward to these two games against Brazil, as I'm sure you are,

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Adam. I am. Thanks for having us on again,

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Alex. Yeah, I think we, I think we're certainly on a retainer agreement

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these days, but it's always, always fun to chat socceroos and

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international football with you. Thank you very much, Adam. You're too kind.

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And I would say the checks in the mail, but I believe checks aren't permissible

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form of tender anymore, so I'm gonna have to update that joke

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anyway. Okay. All right, chat GPT.

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I'll stand down. Stand down.

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Anyway, before we launch into it, Adam, I'll get you to plug at the Brisbane

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Podcasts and Spotify. Brilliant. Thank you very much,

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Adam. And of course yourselves and Kurt

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will be gearing up towards the A League season, which is not too

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far away, about five weeks away. So make sure you

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check out the season previews that the gentleman are doing, as well

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as the Queensland All Stars taking on the Brisbane Raw, which is

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happening over the next couple of weekends as well.

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So plenty of content there along with this international series

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which is also happening in Queensland for once in a blue moon. So very

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exciting times here. And I know, Adam, you've got a couple of points you

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want to make, but we'll. We'll park you just for now. We'll get your thoughts

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initially on this series against Brazil. Two friendlies in Townsville

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on Friday 25th September, and then on

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the following Tuesday here in Brisbane at Suncorp Stadium.

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Scott, how excited are you? I'm. I can't

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wait for this. This is absolutely fantastic to see the national team back here in

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Queensland for the first time in, well, it's like quite a while, but they were

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on the Gold coast about two years ago now, so we are seeing them a

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little bit more regularly. But having this series here in Queensland in Townsville first

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season back down here in Brisbane. It's going to be absolutely sensational, these two games.

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It's great having them in town this week as well for the lead up to

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the games. Of course, I'll help the town till later in the week, but seeing

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the national team in Queensland's always a fantastic thing from our perspective. But there's just

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such a buzz about them at the moment after what they did at the World

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Cup. To do what they did, how well they played and the excitement people are

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getting around this young group of players, to see them here in Queensland is going

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to be quite special. Yeah, that's for sure. And particularly the

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homecoming of our only Premier League player at the moment in

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the form of Lucas Harrington, of course, a Brisbane Raw alumni

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and probably one of our best defensive

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prospects in a very, very long time. But Adam, I'll throw

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to you. How are you feeling about this series? Oh, look, this first time in

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a long time that I've actually been genuinely excited for a.

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For a Socceroos friendly like again, you know,

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it's always. You always want to see the national team do well,

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but there's a genuine vibe and interest in this because look,

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it is Brazil. Yeah. Even though they may be

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a waning world power, depending on where you look at it,

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they're still Brazil. And there is a big Brazilian community that I

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know absolutely amped up and ready to see that it's a. It's a change

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of the guard somewhat after. After what they would say was a failure in.

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In North America, but which we'll discuss later

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on. But again, genuinely, I think the series,

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especially up here in Brisbane, it's going to be great. In Townsville, first time they're

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going to see international football as well in the heart of what is

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usually rugby league country. So let's see how it goes there.

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But then. And then it'll be a massive game on next Tuesday night.

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A big sellout, or close to a sellout as it stands as we record.

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It's going to be. It's going to be a massive atmosphere. Definitely. And let me

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throw a little jab at the North Queensland Cowboys. I'm sure a lot of their

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fans will be, well, looking forward to something because the

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Cowboys absolutely bottled their season against

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Cowboy slander. Thank you very much. Against a very poor Cronulla

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Sharks. But that is the wrong podcast. Alex, how dare you. Get back to

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the topic at hand. And Liam Parzo will also enjoy that

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slander as well, which is very rich coming from me as a West Tigers fan.

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Anyway, let's right along, right along,

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right along. We're both coming after you. Yeah, that's fair.

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Completely fair. If I have broken legs, you'll know why.

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Folks, now let's move on to the squad selections

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before I dig this hole any deeper. A late withdrawal,

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of course. Motore was initially named in squad

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and has dislocated his shoulder right after scoring

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a goal in the first minute for Norwich at the weekend.

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Terrible news but he's replaced by one of the

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more divisive figures in the national team set up in Nishan Voluple.

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So not a direct like for like replacement which is very interesting.

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And then you've got Alex Robertson who has also pulled

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out due to load management according to one

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of the Cardiff based journalists who followed that question up as well.

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So a little bit interesting there. Of course Alex Robinson has been named in a

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few squads in recent times, actually hasn't got onto the pitch or very limited

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amounts of football. But maybe if I start with you Scott with the

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Motore news. Obviously very devastating, isn't it a

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tremendous shame. The form that he is in to start the year for Norwich City

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is absolutely sensational. We did see he was linked to moves away in

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the transfer window. He ended up staying in Norwich but he has been in red

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hot form up front for them and it would have been fantastic to see him

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up front for Australia. The replacement is interesting as well. Voluplay coming

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in. So if you thought that experiment experiment was over after the situation

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against the US in the World cup, unfortunately you are incorrect

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because he's still in his play as you said, one of the more divisive figures

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out there because I think a lot of people would have preferred other players to

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be called up. I think it's interesting it's a winger who's replaced him as well

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and it kind of leads towards what Tony Popovich said in his post World

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cup press conference about a month or so ago now where he fronted the

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media in Sydney and was asked about the future Nestry Nestry Aaron Kunder and

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he said he can see him ending up moving playing more centrally as as his

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career goes on and I wonder if he will now play more centrally in this

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series once again. I know a lot of people were hoping we'd see him back

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on the wing in this series after it didn't quite work in the World Cup.

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I kind of think we're going to see him playing through the middle alongside Tessa

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Yangi. So that might be the what, what what we end up seeing. But no,

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Motore is a Real shame. And I was really looking forward to seeing Alex Robertson

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as well because he's a midfielder that we don't have too many of. There's not

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a lot of players like that that we produce in terms of progressive midfielders.

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So that would have been a really nice impact to see what he can do

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in that midfield. But unfortunately that's gonna have to wait. Yeah, definitely.

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And I just want to. Excuse me, add to

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that point, Scott. You know Alex Robertson, I'm a massive fan.

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He's playing a lot deeper at Cardiff City now as a holding midfielder. Of course,

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traditionally he's played as a number eight and a number 10. Did play a bit

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of six or holding midfielder at,

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in his junior years at Manchester City in their academy. But he is

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a player that has the ability to break

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the lines with one pass and that's what we definitely need

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in, in terms of the way we play poppable.

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So big shame to lose him. But we do have someone

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else that in that midfield area that I'm also

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excited to see. But we'll talk about that a little bit later.

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Adam Nestor and Kundas actually got his first

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start for Sporting Lisbon just on the weekend and he played on the left wing,

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I do believe. So I, I think we all probably expect him

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to play through the middle as Scott mentioned earlier.

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Yeah, I think he will. Not that I'm happy

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with that. I, as, as I said, I've been sitting up top of this show.

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I never want to see him play. Yeah. As a number nine ever again for

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the soccer roos. But maybe with the, the injury to motore

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you might, it might have to do again.

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I do think that Tetiangi probably deserves,

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deserves his chance again. I think that especially you know,

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if they're going to play a lot more sort of counter attack football and,

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and, and whatnot and just having that, that drive through,

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through the sort of mill that, that, that target man as

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well. But overall, yeah, I think, I think again

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it might be a case of, you know, it might have to possibly be just

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a little bit longer with Iran Gunda. Yeah, in, in a, in a

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striking position rather on a wing. I think when we'll see the best of him

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is when, when you get the whole gang together of you know, of a toure,

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Iran Kunder and, and you know, whoever that, that third, that third wing is going

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to be, you sort of almost take your pick on who that would be.

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And I think the most frustrating thing for us is the fact that there

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are quite a number of number nine options out There now that are playing at

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a decent level overseas. In fact, he could have went left field and got

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someone like Locky Rose in this squad. I know it's probably not one that we'd

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all agree on, but again, a player that's playing pretty

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well in Scotland and scoring goals and you know, he's actually

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usurped Zach Sapsford, who I'm a big fan

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of in that Dundee United squad. So yeah,

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I don't know Scott, where did you want to go with that one? Well,

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there were a lot of options he did want a pure center for, weren't there?

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Of course, Lock hero, Zack Sapphire, Zach Samson. He did just mention

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you've also got John Idaho scoring a bunch of goals in career at the

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moment as well. So they're going to go left field. There's another one as well

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in addition to the two young guys in the mls, Luki Ivanovich and Archie Goodwin

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over there. So there were options. You could have gone for even Arzani and Marco

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Till. You have had great starts all year as wingers, so you could have looked

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at them as well even as a replacement for Robertson. So there

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were plenty of options. That's the one thing you look at now with the Australians.

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I remember we did that show at the beginning of the European League season.

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There's so many players over there now playing at a good level and that's

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what makes it so difficult to pick a national team squad now there's, there's.

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It's almost not who do we pick, it's who do you leave out and there's

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that many to choose from and you could have found half dozen strikers to replace

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Place Motore. In the end he's gone for another winger. So it's interesting how it

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will pan out. Yeah, it's actually funny. I was just. I just remember

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seeing something on Football360 this afternoon was post about two hours ago as we record

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and sort of to the options as far as Australia's

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strikers that are out there at the moment and also Teddy Yankees in the

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squad. But then the cap players are out there at the moment. Adam Taggett,

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Brandon Barillo, Cassini, Yangi is is out there.

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Nick d', Agostino, John Iredale as Scott mentioned,

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Denny Urich and Apostleopoulos and then

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the uncapped players. You've got Locky Rose, Ante Suto,

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Zach Susten, Noah Bottage, Lucas Smith,

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Max Caputo, Luka Yovanovic and Archie Goodwin. So that's

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all the options that I had and for some reason,

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well, I Think we know the reason in a way. Poppich has gone

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with Nishan Blue.

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Yep. Because he wants to play Nestry through the middle. That is the short fantasy

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did score for inat last week. Yes. So there you

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go. There you go. Bringing goal scoring form into camp. Exactly.

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But I dare say he didn't play as a number nine. Although I could be

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wrong about that. And I probably should have done my research before the show

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on that one. You got to watch my third division German football, Alex. I do,

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I do. If anyone knows where I can get a straight. I mean a

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legal means of watching that, let me know.

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Moving right along. So that's not. That's not on what's

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his name's YouTube channel, is it?

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Oh, the. Yeah, the Man United fan.

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Goldberg, whatever he's saying. No, no, don't talk about him. Please don't

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talk about him. Sorry,

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what's. What's that? Move on.

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We'll. We'll move along. We'll move along. That's okay. Thanks, Adam.

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So. So yeah, in total, seven potential debutant

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in this squad. So there is a bit of

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a refresh there. There's. In total there's nine players that didn't

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go to the World cup and including two that were sadly injured before the

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World cup in the form of Riley McGree and Patrick

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Yazbeck, who is the player I was alluding to earlier in regards to potentially

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taking that spot that Alex Robertson may have had in

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this squad. Another interesting one

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is boss in, boss out,

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Casey Boss, he gets a spot and I guess he's probably the

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most natural successor to his brother, as weird as that sounds a more defensive

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option in that left wing back role, but he's starting to get some

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minutes of the excelsior building towards it. There was a bit of talk in the

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Netherlands saying that it might be too soon this. This international window for him,

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but he has been selected. So I mean Adam, I guess it's a good

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chance to look at Casey and see how he's developed since he's been at Europe

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despite it being a very injury plagued time for him.

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I did actually hear once upon a time where

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both, both Casey and Jordy were here that the

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scouts actually thought that Casey would be the better of the two brothers.

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So it's very, very interesting that 11

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replace the age. Especially given the meteoric ride that the Jordy boss has had in

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the for the Socceroos and what viral part he is. And then they're gonna,

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they're gonna miss him. There's no doubt about but look,

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having. Having his. His brother there in that spot

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plays a very similar natural position. Look, it's probably a good thing

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in a way, but. But again, I do. I do agree

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that maybe it might be a little bit too soon. But then again, we said

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that about certain other players in this squad before, before the

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World cup and see how it turned out. Sometimes you've got to roll the dice

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and I think it's probably. It's probably a good one to roll dice on.

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Yeah, for sure. I think it's probably. In terms of when we say

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it's too soon and what the reports were, I think it's just due to.

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Due to his fitness and building towards that. I don't think there's any doubting the

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talent in Casey Boss. If he's even half the player. The potential we've

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seen with his brother for that left side is going to be very,

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very good. And it's also, I should say it is a wonderful opportunity for

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him to get under Aziz Bay's wing, much like his brother did at Melbourne

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City all those years ago in the A League. So wonderful opportunity

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there. But it would also be remiss of us not to discuss the

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big outs in between the sticks. Matt Ryan

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not selected in the squad. Paul is, though, and Patrick beach,

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of course. Well, Patrick beach of course selected. Paul Izzo selected even though

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he just sort of is in the squad and never plays. Jacob Chapman

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comes in as the third goalkeeper. He started the season quite well at

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St Mirren and has had to do the rounds in lower tiers

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of English football to get this opportunity. So it's a wonderful chance for him.

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Whether we see him on the field is another story. But Scott,

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I might throw to you on Matt Ryan and whether you think this, this might

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be the end and whether it is a little bit disrespectful from Tony

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Popovich in regards to leaving Matt Ryan out of this squad,

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I find it hard to believe it is the end. It's hard to see him

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going from being the goalkeeper that Turnpoff was trusted the most in the penalty shootout

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back in June. So now he's being completely discarded,

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never to return. I think we will see him back. I think we will see

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him back actually in November. I feel like this is just an opportunity to have

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a look at a couple of young golfers, including young Jacob Chapman, who's had quite

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the courage, you said over there in the uk after moving from Sydney at Huddersfield

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for a bunch of years, made that move up to Scotland and you have to

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think he's looking at that thinking that this move has been the best thing that

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I could ever have done because he's now playing regularly in that league and now

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he's in the soccer squad. But with Matt Ryan, I'm sure he's going to be

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back. I mean you look at for the Asian Cup. It's very clear Australia want

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to go to the Asian cup and win the tournament. Having Matt Ryan there as

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a goalkeeping option makes perfect sense for that in a short term capacity.

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His experience is invaluable. I'm sure personally he

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wants to try and break that cap record. I'm not sure how many games away

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he is from breaking that record, but I'm sure that's on his agenda to get

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to that point. So I don't think he'll be announcing his retirement anytime soon and

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I think there's still a spot for him in that national team. He is playing

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in La Liga. Let's not forget he's one of a handful of players we have

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playing in a top five league. So we shouldn't be just discarding that just because

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Patrick beach had an amazing World cup and he's now playing in France. But obviously

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he's going to get the first chance. Patrick beach. But I'm sure Matt Ryan will

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be back in the squad at some stage. Yeah. And I mean an alternative

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view to that is of course Matt Ryan does have a young family at the

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moment so potentially he could have asked Tony as well. Why bring him out here

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if you're not going to play him. Exactly. Yeah. So there you go.

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That's the other side of the coin. If you like. A couple of

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other interesting call ups, I guess Keely Adamson there as a potential

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solution to that right wing back problem he's starting. It looks like he's slowly making

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his way into that QPR lineup, getting regular minutes there. So it's wonderful to see.

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So another one. We should keep an eye out for Scott

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or Adam. Any, anyone else we got our eye

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on or excited to. To see in this squad. I actually

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think Marcus Eunice might be a very, very shrewd

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call up as well. I think he's, he's had a very had

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Ron B in Denmark. We saw what he did he

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saw. He did when he came out here on loan for, for Melbourne City

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in the, in the last season as well. Obviously a Western Sydney

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junior. He's been going very, very well. So again

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I think his core will be very interesting. Also Dylan, Dylan Leonard as well.

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He, he got, he got the move the Loan move out of Shulpa to

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play for Armani Ashton in in Germany. So I think I think

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a few more minutes than he would have probably at Schalke so probably reward

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for getting getting minutes there. So I think that's two

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players to watch certainly of the young cap I will leave

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the other obvious one for Scott because I know he wants to talk about him

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as well also. Yeah Dukely as well I think will

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be a be very interesting where he sort of fits in.

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Obviously of Adelaide sort of fame but he's also making his way in

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Europe as well. Now I will get to the player Adam wants

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to talk about. That's Eli Adams at the moment but firstly on Kelly Adamson.

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He's had a fantastic 12 months over there really building his reputation in the

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championship now and I'm really looking forward to seeing how he goes because that

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right wing back spot it's still a problem area for Australia. Lewis Miller

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might be back for the Asian Cup. I'll have to wait and see. So there's

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an opportunity there for Keely to step in there and really tend

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to make that spot his own in the short term and become a real option

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in the squad. So that's really interesting. Yard Deoli I'm very excited to see as

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well. He's been playing regularly in Slovenia at a good club. They are not a

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club that Australians would necessarily think of but they were in the Champions League qualifiers.

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He was scoring in that phase of the competition playing regularly in the

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league. I'm excited to see how he goes. How he goes. That move kind of

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happened out of left field during the World Cup. None of us really saw that

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move coming so hopefully it seems to have gone really well for him. We'll see

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how it goes in the national team but I will now get to the player

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Adam. Also talk about Eli Adams. It's fantastic to see him playing in

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a national team after what he's done for Newcastle last year out of south

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of Squint and Thunder in Toowoomba. Seeing him potentially making his national

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national team debut either in Townsville or in Brisbane would be absolutely

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fantastic and he could bring something to the national team that we don't have too

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much of. He's really direct and quick and he's almost a bit like you're in

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corner in that respect but off the right hand side could be a real impact

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player for Australia. So I'm excited to see how he goes out there as well

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and I'll get I'll save my point later on between him, Eunice And De Coulee,

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but across the board, I'll be very excited to see how those three players fit

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into the national team this camp. Yeah, well, let's stay on it,

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Scott. Let's. Let's continue with that point. Out of those three,

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Eunice, De Coulee and Adams,

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if we're to. If you're to pretend to be Tony Popovich,

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who do you think gets the most minutes out of them? Or does

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he try all three across these two games? Well, it's interesting, I think

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back to the Games 12 months ago against New Zealand, where he called up Bottic

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Milanovic and Sega Church, and I don't think any of them got

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any meaningful minutes. Maybe one of them got a handful of minutes off of the

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bench, but I don't think they got any real time with. Now that Adrian Sega

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just made a decision, you're going to represent somebody else, it feels like. So I'm

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very much hopeful that we don't see the same thing in this camp with Eunice,

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Adams and De Cooley, that they get caught up and we don't see them.

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I'm pretty sure, given those six attackers there, that's half of them. I'm pretty

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sure we'll see some of them in some capacity. I'll be very interested to see

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who does get the first call. I personally think it will be Marcus Unis.

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He was so good for Melbourne City last year at the back end of the

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league to the point where there were legitimate questions of would he end up being

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called up into the World cup squad. He never even got into the. The training

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camp, so it didn't happen. But he's followed that form up in Denmark and to

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me, he would be the first player I think we'll see. But it wouldn't shock

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me if we see all three. Yeah, Yeah. I tend to agree. I think Eunice

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is the first one to get called up, given the form.

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But Tony Popovich isn't one to play biological all

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the time, as we've seen quite a lot, particularly in the last

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six to 12 months. But, Adam,

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what are your thoughts on these three? Do you think we see all three?

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Is there one that you think gets first shot at

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in the starting lineup in Townsville?

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I think in Townsville, I think that all three,

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if they get. If they do get a cap, it'll be off the bench.

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I sort of feel like in game one up in Townsville that

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they'll go with the tried and true or as much as it can be with

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the relative inexperience in that is with Rank Bunda and Yengi.

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But I think maybe for game two in.

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In Brisbane I did. I dare say we might see at least

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one or three. I, I tend to agree with Scott though. I think Marcus is

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probably the. The most of those three. It probably was close enough

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to the. As far as you know

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the squad as far as you know getting that call up that

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where Dukely and Adams they. They. They're forced away in. Through. Through form.

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Whereas I think use a lot more about potential and sort of has been a

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long time sort of tag to be in sort of in this role. So.

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But again either way I think there are exciting options.

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I think it's just fantastic to see that again we've

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gone from oh my God how we. We've got no. We've got no

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forwards where they scored. All of a sudden we've got embarrassment of riches almost and

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young players. So it will be. They could make the mark for years to come

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in the squad. Yeah, definitely. And that's. That's a really interesting point and

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we're starting to see a quite, quite an extensive

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depth chart as I think we've all discussed at this point.

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And Scott, I see you wanted to add something there. Just quickly

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we were just thinking about that front. We know that Connor Metcalfe and Nestria and

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Konran Tetiyengi are the most likely three. But where does Wiley McGree

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fit into this mix? Is he going to be a part of that central midfield

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pairing or is he going to be in that front three front three options and

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where he could very well end up being a potential player playing off of the

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left hand side. We need to know that Tony Popovich played him in that front

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third from time to time. That may very well be an additional option that we

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haven't necessarily considered. And if he's going to play in that front third,

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then all three of those young guys we were just talking about potentially making a

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debut, maybe they take a step back further down the pecking order. So that's something

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else to keep an eye on in this camp. Yeah, it is definitely. And you'd

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imagine McGree takes one of those spots in the front three,

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I would think. But it does lead me to ask you

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both a question and I guess Scott, we'll start with you since

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you made the point. Do we see a change in shape from Tony Popovic?

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Do we see change in tactics? Does he experiment or does

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he stick with the tried and true? I think he'll experiment in terms of

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personal. He won't change the system. I Think he is very much now embedded in

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at this. What do you want to call it, a back three or back five

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with the, the holding midfielders then the three up front. However you want to define

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or describe that system on a sheet of paper. That's what he seems to really

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believe in suits this group of players and I don't anticipate him changing that particularly

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with the Asian cup on the horizon. So I expect to see that same formation

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in both of these games. It'll be tinkering around who, who fits where

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in that system over these two games will be worth tracking. I don't think he's

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going to change the system at all. I do, I do think we, we have,

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we haven't spoke. We've spoke about midfield and the attack I had defensively and the

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reason why we haven't mentioned because I think it's going to be business as usual.

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I, I do think that it'll be the same three center back at the World

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cup. That and that and that would be a Harrington, Sutar and

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Ducati. And then I think where the variables are will be the, the.

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The fullbacks and I think that, I think that both,

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all three of those players I would expect to play a lot

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of minutes over two games. I reckon. I believe they'll probably, they should probably start

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but like Patrick beach as well. I think plays plays both

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games as well save maybe a late substitution depending on

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whether they do. But, but well Patrick Beach I

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expect to play 180 minutes down here and I think they get go then

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links into the point that Scott made before about Matt Ryan. I think if Patrick

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beach is playing his take play both games, what is the point of him bringing

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Matt Ryan out here? I think they might be better off keeping at home.

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Let him, let him have rest up, you know and, and build his fall up

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again with Leante. So I do think yeah that as, as we said

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I think the, the goalkeeper and, and the, the center,

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the center backs, I think it's business as usual but I think there's a lot

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of intrigue about the midfield firstly and also as well who starts, who starts

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up front alongside Aaron Kunda and probably Yangi. Look, it's made.

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There's no guarantee that Yankee even starts. So yeah, yeah there were a lot of

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lessons learned in the World cup, wasn't there Alex? And it's more interesting to see

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what he takes from that and how he implements that in terms of the way

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we go forward, in terms of we want to be more assertive in the way

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we play and that's probably more what we want to see in terms of how

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he does that. I don't think it's going to be in terms of changing the

439
00:28:06,500 --> 00:28:09,000
system. So it'll be how he looks to do that with this group of players

440
00:28:09,500 --> 00:28:13,000
that be worth watching. Yeah, agreed. And. And whether

441
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:17,479
we see as much of that in this series as

442
00:28:17,979 --> 00:28:21,240
we want to, I do highly question. Considering the quality

443
00:28:21,740 --> 00:28:25,400
of the opposition. The question for me probably comes

444
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:29,240
more so in the next international window when we're playing

445
00:28:31,490 --> 00:28:34,770
guitar and Jordan. Thank you very much.

446
00:28:36,370 --> 00:28:39,290
I had a little bit of a brain fade there for a minute, but when

447
00:28:39,790 --> 00:28:43,410
we play them and I guess the emphasis will be

448
00:28:43,650 --> 00:28:46,370
on us having the ball and looking to attack them,

449
00:28:47,090 --> 00:28:50,530
that's going to be the issue that I think we

450
00:28:50,770 --> 00:28:54,090
sort of saw at times in that World cup, particularly the Egypt

451
00:28:54,590 --> 00:28:58,550
game. In the knockout stage. We saw flashes of individual brilliance

452
00:28:59,050 --> 00:29:02,310
in the Paraguay game from Jordan. Boston looked like it might open up the game,

453
00:29:02,710 --> 00:29:06,750
but we have to find other ways of breaking down those low block

454
00:29:07,250 --> 00:29:10,950
defenses. And I think we learned that more so in the November window

455
00:29:11,450 --> 00:29:15,270
as opposed to this current window. I. I'm sure you both agree

456
00:29:15,430 --> 00:29:18,310
on that. Yeah, we're gonna have to do it by the time it gets the

457
00:29:18,810 --> 00:29:21,910
Asian cup, aren't we? We always know in the Asian cup the Chinese for Australia

458
00:29:22,410 --> 00:29:25,590
is to play on the front foot and to take the game on because everyone

459
00:29:26,090 --> 00:29:29,070
expects us to win the games, particularly in the group stage, new playing, some of

460
00:29:29,570 --> 00:29:31,590
the things will play. So, yeah, at some point we are going to have to

461
00:29:32,090 --> 00:29:35,270
flick that switch and I'd like to see him try that against Brazil just to

462
00:29:35,770 --> 00:29:39,150
see if they can do it against that level of opposition because we look comfortable

463
00:29:39,650 --> 00:29:41,670
at the World cup now being there. But we get to the knockout stage,

464
00:29:42,170 --> 00:29:44,990
we always have that thing of like, do we really belong here? It always feels

465
00:29:45,490 --> 00:29:48,390
like we take a step back into our shell and if we can show we

466
00:29:48,890 --> 00:29:52,110
can do it against Brazilian are friendly, it might give them confidence going forward,

467
00:29:52,610 --> 00:29:55,350
given it's still a young group. And this group will largely be the team we

468
00:29:55,850 --> 00:29:57,990
take to that World cup in 2030. So I'd like to see them try it.

469
00:29:58,490 --> 00:30:00,830
But I tend to agree it'll probably be more November.

470
00:30:01,870 --> 00:30:04,790
Yeah, it looks like that. And. And if we do say it, it might be

471
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in a short spell of like 10 to 15 minutes. If we're down a couple

472
00:30:09,370 --> 00:30:12,150
of goals and we're trying to claw a result out of the game, it could

473
00:30:12,650 --> 00:30:15,470
be a perfect opportunity to see whether the. The boys are capable,

474
00:30:15,870 --> 00:30:19,670
capable of that. But so let's move on to

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the opposition and I know that Adam is our resident Brazilian

476
00:30:24,850 --> 00:30:28,950
expert out of the three of us. So I'm going to throw to him and

477
00:30:29,110 --> 00:30:32,590
I'm going to skip over a Finniverse Vinnie debate.

478
00:30:33,090 --> 00:30:37,030
I'm sure other podcasts will deal with that. Let's talk about the new keepers and

479
00:30:37,530 --> 00:30:41,110
Adam in particular. I think Oscar is the one that you mentioned to us

480
00:30:41,610 --> 00:30:45,500
in, in the group chat is the next starlet

481
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,620
between the sticks for Brazil. Yeah. So the three,

482
00:30:49,700 --> 00:30:53,340
so three Brazilian Liga

483
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:56,980
A keepers picked. So no Alison,

484
00:30:57,300 --> 00:31:01,260
no Edison in this. And the

485
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:05,460
three keepers are Hugo Souza, Pedro Morisco and

486
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Ottavio. And the word is that.

487
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And hopefully my Brazilian contacts listening to

488
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:17,980
this as well and they'd be very, very complimentary of the research I've

489
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:22,260
done. Tavio is. Seems to be the one that could be the next big

490
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:25,940
thing as far as the belief as far as the keeper goes. 20 years

491
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:30,020
old from the Cruzeiro he

492
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:33,780
looks like he could be one for

493
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:37,890
the future. Very, very highly rated. Very very similar story to

494
00:31:38,390 --> 00:31:42,050
Patrick beach where, where sort of come through young player didn't. Didn't think

495
00:31:42,550 --> 00:31:45,290
that get much a chance. And this is more so for club football.

496
00:31:46,090 --> 00:31:49,970
The. The regular keeper got injured and also Natavio has taken his

497
00:31:50,470 --> 00:31:53,770
opportunity and never looked back. But I, so I.

498
00:31:54,270 --> 00:31:56,770
I don't know if he starts. It'll be. I think it'll be between him and

499
00:31:57,270 --> 00:32:00,810
Hugo Souza. Hugo Souza has the one solitary cap.

500
00:32:01,290 --> 00:32:04,460
The other two will be potential debutantes.

501
00:32:04,930 --> 00:32:09,010
But I do think at some stage I think we'll see Yanatavio

502
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on the pitch whether it be in Townsville or Brisbane.

503
00:32:13,010 --> 00:32:16,290
Yeah. So it looks like it's a genuine three way shootout between

504
00:32:16,790 --> 00:32:19,970
those goalkeepers, doesn't it? And it could even be a fact that you know,

505
00:32:20,369 --> 00:32:23,650
they might split the game time in some form

506
00:32:24,150 --> 00:32:28,210
between all three of them across the two games or potentially one

507
00:32:28,710 --> 00:32:32,370
each game because of course Brazil do have an extra friendly in this

508
00:32:32,870 --> 00:32:36,840
window against India after the two games against Australia. Australia and

509
00:32:37,340 --> 00:32:40,600
I know Scott, I think you posed this question in the group chat the other

510
00:32:41,100 --> 00:32:46,040
day and I did Read this on Football360 that Australia did decide

511
00:32:46,540 --> 00:32:49,840
to only go with two friendlies in this window to have the good faith built

512
00:32:50,340 --> 00:32:53,480
up with the clubs. They'll release the players after the

513
00:32:53,980 --> 00:32:57,440
second game on Tuesday so they can go back to their clubs and work back

514
00:32:57,940 --> 00:33:01,640
so that when the Asian cup rolls around the clubs are hopefully a little

515
00:33:02,140 --> 00:33:06,190
bit more lenient with letting the boys go. So that

516
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that sort of answers that question potentially. But this

517
00:33:11,610 --> 00:33:14,910
Brazil squad, there's still stars of course we've got raf Rafinha,

518
00:33:15,410 --> 00:33:18,910
Vinnie Jr. Jao. Pedro was named but has pulled

519
00:33:19,410 --> 00:33:23,110
out with injury. Of course he didn't play for Chelsea last weekend. But in

520
00:33:23,610 --> 00:33:26,910
all 16 new players in this squad, only 10 remain from the World Cup.

521
00:33:27,410 --> 00:33:32,010
And and Scott, thanks for this research. Eight players over 25 in

522
00:33:32,510 --> 00:33:36,210
this squad. So Adam, I guess a complete refresh by the

523
00:33:36,710 --> 00:33:40,290
looks of things for Brazil it Is and only two players over

524
00:33:40,790 --> 00:33:44,970
30 as well, that being the captain and Doug

525
00:33:45,290 --> 00:33:49,210
Douglas, Douglas Sentos in

526
00:33:49,710 --> 00:33:53,050
the team. So it's again

527
00:33:53,550 --> 00:33:57,370
it does look like that. There's certainly a direction that Carlo

528
00:33:57,870 --> 00:34:01,450
Ancelotti wants to go, go down as far as at least for this series,

529
00:34:01,610 --> 00:34:05,050
these series against Australia and India,

530
00:34:05,290 --> 00:34:09,410
plus potentially the November series in Singapore against Japan

531
00:34:09,910 --> 00:34:13,530
and Singapore. So plenty, plenty of new faces,

532
00:34:13,610 --> 00:34:17,130
nine potential debutantes. But again there

533
00:34:17,630 --> 00:34:21,050
are stars as we said as you mentioned, Vinny Rafinha,

534
00:34:21,930 --> 00:34:24,770
two of the big names, Marquinhos from Parasite,

535
00:34:25,270 --> 00:34:28,929
Jamal the captain obviously he's probably the most well known of that.

536
00:34:29,409 --> 00:34:33,009
But again some good young exciting players coming out. I think

537
00:34:33,509 --> 00:34:37,169
Endrick and Rayan as well that you saw the Edrico

538
00:34:37,669 --> 00:34:41,369
of Real Madrid, Rayon of the high flying Champions

539
00:34:41,869 --> 00:34:45,569
League, flying Bournemouth as well. So there is, there is

540
00:34:46,069 --> 00:34:49,489
a, there is a good mix of players. One player of the

541
00:34:49,989 --> 00:34:54,060
sort of the outfielders as well that apparently has plenty of wraps coming

542
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:59,260
out of the Brazilian domestic league is the midfielder Matthias Martinelli.

543
00:34:59,740 --> 00:35:03,140
They, they're another one 24 year old place with

544
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:07,500
Luminese. Apparently he's, he's also seen as a

545
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:11,820
future star for that team. So, so it's

546
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:14,860
a, it's a very, very interesting and it'll be very, very interesting to see how

547
00:35:15,660 --> 00:35:19,800
Ancelotti sort of responds. As I said round of 16 while

548
00:35:20,300 --> 00:35:23,880
we were to get there Brazil in Brazil they see the bit of failure

549
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:29,240
and again as well having 11 domestic based players

550
00:35:29,740 --> 00:35:32,920
of that squad as well that's a very very interesting move because

551
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:36,960
maybe an attempt to potentially sort of nullify sort

552
00:35:37,460 --> 00:35:41,560
of that European influence. You know Carlo Gelotti is

553
00:35:41,720 --> 00:35:45,360
very, very well renowned in Europe and so more that Brazilian flair which

554
00:35:45,860 --> 00:35:48,760
I think that's going to be something that I know a lot of people,

555
00:35:49,350 --> 00:35:52,790
a lot of Brazilian fans here for this series will want. We're coming to

556
00:35:53,290 --> 00:35:57,030
see that. I think they want to see that Brazilian flair return because the

557
00:35:57,530 --> 00:36:00,910
European style, why I think it's getting its unaware very, very thin.

558
00:36:01,410 --> 00:36:04,470
I think that's also reflective on where their world ranking is at the moment.

559
00:36:05,109 --> 00:36:09,070
Yeah, it's. It's almost maybe an attempt to recapture their identity

560
00:36:09,570 --> 00:36:13,110
by naming these domestically based players and

561
00:36:13,830 --> 00:36:17,180
hopefully, you know, it doesn't quite work

562
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:20,740
out as well as Carlo wants in this series because we'd love Australia

563
00:36:21,240 --> 00:36:24,660
to give him two really fantastic games and maybe even nick a

564
00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:29,140
results off off Brazil. That'd be absolutely fantastic in this series.

565
00:36:30,420 --> 00:36:34,180
It's going to be a very interesting series, isn't it? I mean Scott, we've still

566
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:37,900
got later rivals coming in so I, I don't particularly

567
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:41,500
expect the game in Townsville to be a,

568
00:36:42,460 --> 00:36:45,900
a free flowing attacking masterpiece to you.

569
00:36:46,860 --> 00:36:50,260
Yeah, I tend to agree to that. I think that first game up in Townsville

570
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:53,940
will be more of a defense, not defensive but more

571
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:58,300
of a stop start sort of an encounter where it's players are still getting over

572
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:02,020
the travel from Europe and South America and everywhere else around the world. And then

573
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:06,540
I think it'll open up at Suncorp Stadium on Tuesday night. That'll probably be the

574
00:37:06,940 --> 00:37:10,660
more attack minded, entertaining game of the two given

575
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:14,660
players are still arriving from all over the world so I think that probably will

576
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:18,300
be the case. But there's lots of game for Australia in both games here because

577
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:22,620
it's two different styles of games as well against Brazil and for me it's more.

578
00:37:23,260 --> 00:37:27,020
It's not, I'm not worried about what Brazil bring. I just broke

579
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:30,100
down the squad. It is very exciting some of the names they are bringing out

580
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:33,260
here. It's going to be nice to see a proper Brazilian number nine as opposed

581
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:37,600
to Matias Quinya pretending he's number nine. But I'm more worried

582
00:37:38,100 --> 00:37:40,800
about what Australia do in this, in these two games and how they,

583
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:44,480
how they go about building their game and taking on a nation like Brazil and

584
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:48,120
whether it's more of a stop start game first up and then more open

585
00:37:48,620 --> 00:37:51,640
in the second. I think it's a great opportunity for Australia to take them on

586
00:37:52,140 --> 00:37:55,120
and see what we can do. So I'm very excited by it. Yeah,

587
00:37:55,620 --> 00:37:58,920
it's a great opportunity for Australia to shake off a bit of that imposter syndrome

588
00:37:59,420 --> 00:38:03,060
that I guess we seem to suffer at major tournaments when we're playing the bigger

589
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:05,820
nations. You know, we, we tend to think, question,

590
00:38:06,540 --> 00:38:09,860
I think as you made mention earlier Scott, question whether we

591
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:14,060
should be there and, and this is, I think this is

592
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:18,419
the perfect time to play Brazil given that squad and given. Yeah what

593
00:38:18,919 --> 00:38:22,540
we've said, the factors of travel. Obviously Australia probably aren't at their best and

594
00:38:22,780 --> 00:38:26,700
potentially this isn't the best squad we could have Named either depending on

595
00:38:26,940 --> 00:38:30,190
what opinions you want to take. But Adam, I just wanted

596
00:38:30,690 --> 00:38:34,350
to get your thoughts. I do believe that it's soccer has got

597
00:38:34,850 --> 00:38:38,670
exceptional record here at home bar a couple of blemishes trying

598
00:38:39,170 --> 00:38:43,790
to game for using qualifier. Let's never speak of Bahrain

599
00:38:44,290 --> 00:38:48,350
ever again. Last time we read a socceroos a

600
00:38:48,850 --> 00:38:52,030
Socceroos fixtures so let's

601
00:38:52,530 --> 00:38:56,070
hope that we're not the jinx. But look in all seriousness as well, they have

602
00:38:56,570 --> 00:39:00,390
got a great record here here at home, especially with the Brazilians.

603
00:39:01,270 --> 00:39:05,110
As I said before, 11 domestic players are flying in

604
00:39:05,590 --> 00:39:09,710
as well. It's a very, very long trip from Rio

605
00:39:10,210 --> 00:39:13,550
de Janeiro or Sao Paulo to to Brisbane and

606
00:39:14,050 --> 00:39:17,310
then then the additional flight up to Townsville on

607
00:39:17,810 --> 00:39:22,350
Thursday or tomorrow depending when you listen to this and I

608
00:39:22,850 --> 00:39:25,030
do think that that may have a factor. I think if Australia could get a

609
00:39:25,530 --> 00:39:28,950
good result, I reckon the Townsville game might be the one. I I

610
00:39:29,450 --> 00:39:32,950
do believe that probably the the game in Brisbane on Tuesday. I think

611
00:39:33,450 --> 00:39:37,590
we will probably see see more of an indication of what Brazil are

612
00:39:38,090 --> 00:39:41,670
capable of. But then again this is a highly experimental team that

613
00:39:42,170 --> 00:39:45,550
this Brazilian size. So if the socceros can match intensity, learn a few things

614
00:39:46,050 --> 00:39:49,230
and play out his skins. Look you, you never, never know.

615
00:39:49,470 --> 00:39:50,830
And again,

616
00:39:53,130 --> 00:39:56,250
I know I do also say with Scott's point, I think it's a

617
00:39:56,750 --> 00:39:59,890
very, very starting point as well. Despite Brazil being

618
00:40:00,390 --> 00:40:03,170
here in the and you know, the brand Brazil and all that, it's very,

619
00:40:03,670 --> 00:40:07,530
very important the fans also focus on the Socceroos and that there's

620
00:40:08,030 --> 00:40:11,170
some very good young players coming through. They get to David Minsk world class

621
00:40:11,670 --> 00:40:15,170
opposition. Also got to worry about what worry less about what Brazil

622
00:40:15,670 --> 00:40:19,490
are doing and their rebuilding phase and more worry about what socceroos can do building

623
00:40:19,990 --> 00:40:23,480
up to a very, very important Asian cup campaign. Yeah, I think that's

624
00:40:23,980 --> 00:40:27,320
a wonderful point to end on actually. Adam, get excited

625
00:40:27,820 --> 00:40:31,960
by this wonderful group of socceroos and let's hope that they can build towards

626
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:36,120
an Asian cup where I think we're a genuine chance of

627
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:42,120
getting close to that trophy for the first time since 2015

628
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:45,920
under Ange on the home soil. So thanks for listening and

629
00:40:46,420 --> 00:40:50,170
before my voice goes, Adam and Scott from the Brisbane Football Review,

630
00:40:50,670 --> 00:40:54,370
thank you very much to you both for your time this evening as we record

631
00:40:54,870 --> 00:40:58,650
this brilliant. Thank you and

632
00:40:59,150 --> 00:41:02,410
keep an eye on social media. Adam and Scott

633
00:41:02,910 --> 00:41:07,730
and I will look to do some content for you after both games and

634
00:41:08,130 --> 00:41:11,410
hopefully it'll be just as entertaining as this podcast, maybe just in

635
00:41:11,910 --> 00:41:14,980
a little bit of a shorter form. Thanks for listening. And that has been the

636
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:19,740
Aussie football passport with Brisbane Football Review to preview the Queensland Football Series

637
00:41:20,240 --> 00:41:24,860
as the Socceroos take on Brazil in Townsville. And Brisbane,

638
00:41:25,180 --> 00:41:26,300
thank you for listening.