Socceroos v Brazil Series Review with Brisbane Football Review

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Foreign.

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Hello and welcome back to the Aussie football passport and

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I am joined yet again by Adam and Scott from the Brisbane Football Review to

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review the Queensland football series which has just concluded

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last night at the time of recording. Adam, how are you?

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I'm good, Alex, how are you? Yeah, not too bad. The voice

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is a little hoarse from screaming at Brazilians last night, but alas,

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we continue. Scott, what about yourself? There were

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plenty of Brazilians in the forward screen in addition to the the players on the

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field. It was a great week, wasn't it? Having the socceros here in Queensland for

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two games and really good result on Friday and a decent performance on Tuesday.

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But great. It's great to see them back in action after the World Cup.

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Yeah, definitely. And some signs of further growth,

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but we'll get into that a little bit later. However, first of all, I'd like

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Adam to plug the wonderful work that himself, Scott and Kurt

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and women's seasons in a couple of weeks time. Adam, take it away. Yeah,

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also we can't leave out James as well even though of course.

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Adam. And before we get into the show, I'll throw to a

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little bit of audio from the wonderful work that Adam and Scott

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did in the mix zone here to speak with one of our Socceros.

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12 months ago you were preparing to play for BR in

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this stadium copaslager playing Brazil. Do you pitch

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yourself sometimes at how far you've gone as a player to.

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To go from that 12 months ago to right now? Yeah, of course. It happened

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quick. I was fortunate to get very good opportunities, you know, with the,

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with the raw and then with Colorado and being picked by the

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boss for the World cup. You know, it's happened quick, but I've been, you know,

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so grateful and I've learned so much about myself along the way and I've just

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got to keep, you know, working. I'm a young player that's got a lot to

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improve. So, you know, every day for me, just a learning experience and just enjoy

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the ride. All right now, Adam, we both went

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to the game in Townsville. So I'll pick your brains for the first game.

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So actually before we get into it, what I'll say is how this is going

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to work is we're going to go through game one, game two and then

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get I guess a collective overall thoughts on the series in total,

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in. In totality, something like that, you know what I mean?

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From there. But Adam. Yes. We were both in Townsville.

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Wonderful atmosphere around town there and I

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wanted to throw to you on the first game and what you thought particularly maybe

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let's start with oh, I don't know the pitch.

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I was, I was going to say I'll take one step back before the pitch.

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I said that you and I both we and our good friend Liam.

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We, we, we had a beer outside the brewery down

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Flinders street as well. But pre game and the atmosphere was absolutely

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electric. Absolute hats off. Credit to the Townsville City council

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and venues live and everyone involved that it was a very,

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very good occasion. You could, you could feel the game that was,

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was on and it found a big game feeling. So that's first of all.

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But yes, the, the pitch was a big,

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a big talking point as well. That probably was an unwanted distraction.

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Look, it wasn't, it wasn't great.

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Apparently it has been an issue for a while not only for football trying to

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get this ready but also in rug. Apparently there were play with problems in

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the Cowboys Raiders game. I believe there was also a,

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an NRL women's game as well as a double header a month ago.

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So not sure what's happened there. A few people saying

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that the weather has been an issue apparently that up until the

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Thursday before we got up there, Alex that they had, they had

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no rain in about six months so. Yeah, so. So it probably did.

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Did have all sorts of issues with the pitch, the white like the grass and

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all that. So. But again that's you know, that's not here nor there but again

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you take, you look at it and go well both teams have to play it.

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But it wasn't a great adversement which was probably just the, the one downside.

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Otherwise what was a great spectacle and a great game. Football.

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Yeah, it was. Yeah. Let's you know,

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get the negative out of the way because the game of football that broke

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out on said pitch was you know, dealing with those

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conditions. I thought everyone did pretty well.

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In particular there were a couple I wanted to mention in that

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lineup but Aziz Bay, it's Evergreen. Seriously on that left hand

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side, you wouldn't know he's 35, would you?

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He is just incredible up and down that left side defending,

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attacking. He was brilliant. You know Tetty Yangi up

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front joined by Connor Metcalfe of course of the World cup hero.

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And Teti Yangi's link up play was incredible,

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wasn't it Adam? It was and again

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he had big shoes to fill with Motore being

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announced just before the series, you know, got selected, being out injured and that

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was a big uh, a big call for Tetiangi and uh, Italy. He's a different

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style player to uh, Motu Raid, definitely your,

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your prototypical hold up and, and release sort of to

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number nine. But I thought he did a great job against uh, some very very,

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very, very you know, I guess you know, competent defenders. You know Martinos

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being, being one of the Brazilian captain and parasite Jamar.

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So he did very very well. But I also thought where the

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feature was is that his service ability towards Iran Kunda. I think

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that was a big feature as well. Just be able to hold up the play

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and then Iran Kunda sort of you know running either sort of you inside

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or outside the, the, the fullbacks and I thought that

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was a great, they got played. And also, also Connor Metcalfe on the other side

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as well I thought was very, very good as well. And I think that was

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all with the play of a hold up play of Teddy Yangi.

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Yeah, definitely it was. You know Teti Yangi was very much the outball

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but as you said taking on Marquinhos on one side

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and Gabrielle Magales on the other side

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like he had two, two of arguably the best

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center backs in the world and, and he held his own I thought

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you know, really linked up with his fellow forwards in Matt Carfineer

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and Kunda quite well and of course it did lead to the moment

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of magic, the one that everyone is talking about and if they're not they should

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be that nestery iron Kunda free kick Adam.

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Wow. How good was it? Honestly this, this kid is special.

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It's actually, it's actually funny that usually I,

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when I try and record, record off off my phone free

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kicks generally nothing happens. Yeah.

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So blessed to see Aaron couldn't put that away.

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It was a great, it was a, it was a great strike.

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Look if your half glass empty there's going to be a bit of focus

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on Hugo Souza, whether he could have done better and all that. But this will

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take the moment away from, from this door. It take, it takes balls

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of steel really to, to sort of to decide I'm, I'm going to have a

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ping at that stage of the game. Where it's starting to get a bit.

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Bit sort of, you know, bit loose. And you could tell Brazil had

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a couple of opportunities just before that. So the fact that he said decided

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to step up and go direct a goal, I thought, you know, was wonderful.

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And you know, again, a superstar in the making and those

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special players are the ones that can seize the game, you know, on their own

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boot. Yeah, that's it. And. And we're starting to see

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this come into his game a little bit more and more, which is what

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we want. And that's what's ultimately going to take Nestor to the next level

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and to be able to do it on the international stage. And playing against

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Brazil, I mean, there's pretty big wraps for. For the young man and hopefully

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the coaching staff at Sporting Lisbon saw that and go,

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oh, okay, yeah, this. This kid's all right. Maybe we should give him some more

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minutes. Of course, he did get his first start before departing for

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this international window, so fingers crossed that there

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is more minutes coming his way. Now.

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Adam, anything else you want to cover on the first game? I was just

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going to say just on that moment as well, that I. I think

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there's a very, very good chance that Sporting 9, Sporting Lisbon

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Club, the fans as well, saw that it was one of the most

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viral clips going around in world football. And that's no exaggeration.

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And that's the. Izzy, when you play Brazil and you can.

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You can create a moment like that, your name goes up in lights. And I

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think that's also how important it was. But yeah, look, the one. I guess the

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one last point I'd like to make is obviously is the Israel's header just

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to that with the virtually last kick of the game.

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I think it's just a case of Brazil were pushing a bit unlucky.

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Look, could Patrick beach done better? Possibly.

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But again, Brazil sort of in that

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last five minutes they did push for, they got lucky. One all draw a

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good result. But I also note that a tinge of disappointment in the Australians

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after the game, which I actually think is a good sign. I think it's showing

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the maturity of. Of them as a footballing team.

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And also a lot of. A lot of. Again with

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the fans also being a bit disappointed. I think it's maturity as a football nation.

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Yeah, yeah, completely agree. Fair. Adam. I. I felt disappointed.

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Very deflated after that. I mean, it's not often you get to say

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1 nil up against Brazil. Right. So very disappointing.

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But. But Scott, I'll let you take it away with any Closing

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thoughts on this match. I think in a way you guys kind of almost broke

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the lead apart from the year and corner thing. The first 20 minutes from Australia

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was absolutely sensational. I know Brazil arrived late,

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they were potentially jet lagged and they blame the pitch and all the rest of

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it. But the way Australia played in that first 20 minutes, pressing really high up

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the park, forcing Brazil into mistakes, winning the ball back, getting on the front

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foot and dominating the game, that's one thing I was really looking forward to seeing.

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Could we do that and would we be brave enough to do that in this

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series against Brazil? And right from the first minute they came out with that mindset

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and intensity of let's go for this. And that was really impressive to me the

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way they came out and really dominated that first 20 minutes minutes or so.

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Now Brazil did come back into the game obviously as you guys were just talking

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about, but that first 20 minutes I thought was a real marker down for the

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way Australia wanted to take the the entire game. I agree with what you said

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Alex about as his Bates what he is was able to do in this series

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having not played for his club since the World cup, incredibly impressive.

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But Jacob Italiano in this game on that right hand side was every bit as

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impressive. And we'll talk about later on in the show. He may very well have

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cemented himself as the first choice in that right wing back slot now given

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the way he's played. So there's a lot of positives out of this Te Yangi

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hold game is really good as well. But I thought that first 20 minutes from

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Australia was really impressive in the way they just, just put went on the front

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foot as a, put a marker down like we're not yes you're Brazil but we're

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not scared of you. We're going to go for it. I thought that was really

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impressive. Yeah, it was. And, and I think it was a theme for,

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for both games and maybe a little bit of evolution and

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confidence and a whole mix of things from

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not only the coaching staff but some of these big moves that our players have

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made in this most recent transfer window.

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All right, now let's talk about game two in Brisbane.

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We all three of us attended this one. It was a 42

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loss for the Socceroos and again look,

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I can't really say my thoughts. I was quite angry about how this one panned

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out. I thought the referee was man of the match for Brazil.

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It more or less had a seller sour jersey on but anyway I've

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got that out of the way. But Scott, the first point I want to raise

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only the second time in Tony Popovich's tenure that he's named the same starting

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lineup in consecutive matches. I mean, that's a pretty wild statistic, isn't it?

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It is a wild statistic, but it was certainly prepen and clearly something

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that Tony Poppish wanted to do was to take that 11 that he had for

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these two games and see if they could back up after so well in town

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till four days later in Brisbane on the Tuesday. And for about 60

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minutes they certainly were able to do that. Apart from maybe that first 10 minutes

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where Brazil we knew there was going to be a big reaction from them after

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all the criticism that they copped the entire last week after the performance

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in Townsville, the way they might have conducted themselves in the advance of that game

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up there on the day before with the welcome to country, they certainly were feeling

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a bit of pressure to the point where they actually canceled their open training session

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and went to behind closed doors the day before. So you knew that they were

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taking it seriously for this game and you knew there was going to be a

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massive reaction. And boy, that first 10 minutes, that was the best that

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I've seen Brazil play in quite a while in terms of just the way everything

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Australia did well in the first 20 minutes, they. They went down the same path

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and maybe to a higher level again. I mean, it could have been 2 nil

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after 5 minutes and it was to nil. It would have been completely deserved given

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the way they came out. Nice strike from Vandersen and maybe Rafinha should have scored,

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but we expected a big bounce back, Alex. We certainly got it.

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Yeah, definitely. And I think you rightly point

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out that they started the same way the soccers did, but arguably

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the quality of Brazil's players probably elevated it and they got that goal

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and potentially could have had a second there, which would have been devastating.

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But I guess on the flip side, we have to also praise

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the socceroos and their ability to fight their way back into this one

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and grab the equalizer. Absolutely. And that's probably the one thing I'll

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take from the series is the biggest positive of all against the Brazilian side,

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which were on the front foot with the ascendancy and clearly had to prove

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a point to their own coach in there and then football media back home that

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the soccer has got right back in control. And from about the 15 minute on

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mark through the rest of the first half, they were the side that were in

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control. Much like the first half In Townsville, they were the team pushing forward.

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I mean, Chakati's goal, I don't know, like you said, I don't know what the

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referee was seeing either. On that one, it looked like a pretty clear goal to

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me. And there was obviously issues later on with the penalties, but on that one

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it was a great equalizer. And on a Metcast goal, that is absolutely

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sensational. I think it's the first goal scored in open play against Brazil

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and what a fantastic way to do it. Yeah, absolutely incredible,

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wasn't it? Like it, it's almost a carbon copy of the one he

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scored against Turkey and the World cup, really. And it really beggars

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belief that he's playing in the German second division. You just feel like he should

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be playing at a much higher level level where he can showcase that

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quality a lot more. But, you know, maybe it's his versatility, maybe it's

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just something that, his laid back attitude

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or something that just doesn't get him that next move, which is,

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is, is a real shame for me. But I guess that might be something we

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can discuss a little bit later. But I guess to, to demonstrate

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how much it meant to Brazil this game, which is quite interesting,

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was the, the flashpoint between Endrick and, and Harry Sutar.

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Gee, that got my blood boiling. I don't know about you, Scott,

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he's brave, I'll give him that. Not sure how smart he used to take on

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Harry Sutar in a physical encounter like that, but look, it was a flashpoint moment.

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It felt like it was coming as well. The series was a little bit chippy,

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wasn't it? Felt like that was the moment where it did kind of boil over

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slightly. Nothing untoward happened, but that was kind of that moment. And in fairness to

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Brazil, I think they came out of that pretty well in terms of that got

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them going for the last 25 minutes. I think Australia at that point,

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given they played the same team two games in a row and they,

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they were fatiguing. Let's be, let's be clear about it. It was somewhat by

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design for Tony Popich to see these players play 2 times 90 minutes and then

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the physicality and exertion that would require to give them a, a guide

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of what they need to do to get in terms of going forward, to be

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able to perform at that level in terms of, at 90 minutes. It's something that

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he was talking about quite a lot in his postgame press conference, was how he

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wants the starting lineup to be the players that make the difference at the End

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of the games, not just the players coming off of the bench. And he wants

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one of that starting level to experience playing Brazil twice in 90 minutes.

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And I think it, you could see that fatigue at that point after the

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Endrick Sutar incident. But he's brave. I'm not sure how smart he is or how

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good at finishing. He's either because he probably should have scored about five minutes after

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that after the venicious shot that was Pat beach parried. He had an open

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goal and he didn't take it. So not his finest night out there at Suncorp,

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put it that way. Yeah, definitely. You can probably see why his club coach Jose

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Mourinho is not playing him at club level with the

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quality of finishing like that new wear number. Jose's got some good options to choose

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from. He does. That's probably the other. That's the flip side as well.

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But look, I think set pieces an

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ever important part of the game. Thanks a lot Arsenal.

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But you know we saw in Townsville Rayan

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get the goal from a corner in this game. We saw, we, we saw Jakarti

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get a goal for us and then I think it was Bruno Gumaras goal

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came from the corner as well. Correct me if I'm wrong there gentlemen.

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So yeah, where are we at with set pieces? I mean for a coach.

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I think we had this conversation in our

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post World cup sort of wrap up. For a coach that

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is so renowned for his detailed analysis and,

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and you know, planning and things, set pieces still seem

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to be an issue which I think is. It shouldn't be a big

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concern but it's still a concern for me. So it's a threat for Australia as

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well. Like we are quite effective in terms of the attacking set pieces. Chicati scored

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in this game from a corner. He could have scored as well actually in the

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second half. Had a free header inside the six yard box. If he puts that

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in at two wall it is potentially a very different game. In addition to the

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Jack's nervine non penalty which should have been a penalty given the way he was

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just body checked when he was trying to get through. So Australia had chances to

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do that. But set pieces? Yeah, I think we have strong options at set pieces.

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The one in Townsville does need to be looked at. How did that happen?

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Why did it happen? Was it someone with a blown assignment? Was it fatigue?

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Whatever it was, you do need to get to the bottom of it because you

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don't want to concede too many that way. But Australia did get a goal against

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Egypt From a set piece in the World cup, they got one against Brazil here,

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so it certainly is something that they can really, really maximize.

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And looking ahead to the Asian cup, everyone focuses on Harry Sutar because he's the

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tallest and most physical defender there. Maybe someone like a Lucas Harrington or Chakake

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can sneak through and actually be the one who pops up with the crucial,

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crucial header to get the goal. So it certainly is an strength. And you mentioned

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Arsenal mentioned Gabriel Migale is actually, I think he might have had a bit of

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a tangle with Tetty Yengi on the sideline, leaving his foot on the calf

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of Tetty Yangi as well. So just thought, throw that in, nephew. I know you're

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a big fan of Arsenal's dark arts. Yes, yeah. And particularly Gabriel.

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He is captain of the dark arts for them and

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good to see him continue his form for his country

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as well. And I think just

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quickly to your point before I throw to you, Adam, on Harry Sutar,

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it looks as if he is almost the decoy now. I mean Chicati's goal certainly

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suggests that and I think think that could be a very, a route

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to goal that could be quite fruitful for the Socceroos in this upcoming

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Asian Cup. And think back to the qualifiers in the Asian cup last time Harry

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Sutar was a very prolific scorer from set pieces. So it's only natural the

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Asian defenders are going to focus on him and if they do, then you've got

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plenty of other options there. You can get on the end of things even.

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I think Lewis Miller actually got a couple of headers from goals in World cup

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qualifying as well. So it's not uncommon for other defenders

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to sneak in and get the limelight in these, in these set pieces because Harry

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Sutar's taking all the attention. It's a big weapon for Australia.

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Definitely, definitely. And I think that will be certainly

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something that Tony Popovic and his coaching staff continue to work on.

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But Adam, I guess final thoughts on the game at Suncorp.

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Oh, look at the atmosphere was tremendous.

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52,

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452 I do believe was the final

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attendance, give or take a few. But which,

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which is actually the now the highest attended ever for a game

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of football in Queensland. So it did blow.

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Blow sort of that out as far as. As. As atmosphere but

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also the atmosphere that Brazilian fans brought to that I was

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fortunate enough to be be across the road at last man

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standing before the game and I reckon that almost

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every, every Brazilian living was in the Milton precinct

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somewhere somehow and it was party central. The,

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the atmosphere and the, and I guess the,

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the fervor when the Brazilian buses, and I

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do say buses as in plural arrives at some corp. Stadium.

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Just the noise and just the,

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just, just the fever pitch. It's something, I know it's

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something you may be reserved for state of origin during, for rugby

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league. It's, it's definitely something you've never seen this country before.

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So amongst all that just the obviously the incessant

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sort of, you know, cheering and, and yes, just the noise that the Brazilian fans

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brought. Yeah, for both games in the series they were very, very good in,

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in Townsville as well. It just was a different level. And again

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for those that were going to football lucky enough to get to the game again

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that was a magnificent experience. I know my, my own brother, he, I,

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I, I got him tickets for that and he, he, he's notionally rugby

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league man, he loved it. He thought it was great. Didn't expect

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a soccer game could attract such a event.

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And that's where it's a congratulations to all involved.

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You know, Queensland government, you know, venues live, the, the,

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you know, football Australia, they put on two very, very good shows and hopefully

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it's things to come. The standard of what you know, football tenacious is high

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profile nations can bring. I thought that is just an amazing

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experience. Amazing experience. Well for Scott and I in, in the media as well.

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Yeah, as well it's something different having all of the Brazilian media as well

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here. It's just, yeah, it was, it was just a fantastic

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experience. Yeah these last two games especially for me going to Townsville and also Brisbane

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last night. Yeah, well said Adam. Very well

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said. All right now gentlemen, I'm going to ask

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you some thoughts on the overall series now Adam,

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maybe I'll throw to first of all players that stood out to you in

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this series for the Socceroos. Look,

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I actually think that it's the young players that starred at the World cup have

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made their name. They continue to you know, their, their reputation

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only grew especially those that made big moves to,

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to bigger clubs, you know, after the World Cup.

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Harrington, you know, Chicati. Yeah, they both,

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they both were exceptional. Okon as

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well. I thought he was very, very good as well. But like I said it

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wouldn't get as much attention as say because I said being

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a number six probably doesn't, doesn't get the praise

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it deserves. And of the older guys I thought Jackson Irvine had a great,

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had a great series as well. I think that he's, he, I think he certainly

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may have all of a sudden you See, and his move to Japan looks like

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it's, it's worked wonders because I think he's actually gotten ahead of Aiden o' Neill

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in the pecking order of those screen screening midfields which is a great headache

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for Tony Povich to have as well because Aiden o' Neal, I think yeah,

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he's probably a bit underdone because he's coming back from injuries, so perhaps that's the

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reason why Popovic led towards Irvine.

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But he's certainly going to make a hard case to be displaced as

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well and we know how good a World cup the Aiden o' Neal had.

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So there's a lot of, there's sort of a lot of problems

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selection wise that, that, that tape Poppage had his and his

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coach stuff has, that's only a great thing. And look, as I said,

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I agree with your boys both Jacob Italiano as well. I think he

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may be the, the future right back for the Socceroos for

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years to come. Yeah, definitely. And probably one to keep

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an eye on on the transfer market. I doubt he will be in Austria

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at the end of the winter transfer window. If he

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is well, I'll have to come on here and eat some humble pie. But that's

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probably not won't be the first time, let's be quite honest with that

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now. Now Scott, I know there was something you wanted to discuss

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and it's the idea around Tony Popovich testing

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the players for two big games and

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for the full 90 minutes. So what, what, what do you want to discuss

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there Scott? Well just quickly Jacob Italian will probably still

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be in Austria because he with the Asian cup in January. So doing a transfer

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when you're in a international tournament. But apart from that I completely agree he's

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well and truly on the way turn into a bigger league. But yet Tony Poppich

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came out and said actually during the press conference on, on Tuesday after

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the game that he would that he wasn't necessarily that invested

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or not invested was more experimenting with this starting 11 in terms

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of playing back to back games and the physicality of playing a world class team

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twice in four days. He said the team that he took to the World cup

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there was no chance they were capable of doing that. And you see the changes

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he made in all of those games and what he said after that in the

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press conference he did about a month or so ago now in Sydney kind of

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reiterated the point that this group wasn't capable of playing twice

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90 minutes at that high intensity. He was challenging the players to

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do that and I think For a game and a half it worked. You did

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see at the back end of that game in Brisbane they did fatigue quite a

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bit. And that was, was. Wasn't by design, but it was done in a way

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where it was expected that they were going to have that challenge and how they

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could overcome that. And I think it shows you how far the group has come

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and how far it still has to go in terms of being able to do

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that. And you look ahead to the Asia cup in particular, Alex, where games do

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come thick and fast. Even in World cup qualifying. Two games in a short period

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of time in a window, they can come thick and fast. I think he wants

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his players to be able to play at that high intensity and be able to

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back it up a few days later. And that was what it felt like.

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His most experimental part of what he was doing here was, was all about.

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Yes, we all wanted to see players like Keely, Adamson, Casey Boss,

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Eli Adams J and like get an opportunity.

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It felt like if those players were ready they might have got that opportunity

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off the bench. Maybe they weren't quite ready in his opinion, but he would.

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His priority, it seemed like, was to test out this, this group of players that

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he has in his squad. Can they do that twice in 90 minutes against quality

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opposition like Brazil? And for a game and a half it went really well.

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So you have to give that quite a tick as well. Yeah, definitely. And I

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think that that almost flows quite neatly into your second point escort

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around the, the lack of debutantes and yeah, it is, it is definitely

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a shame, but it seems to be the, the way of Tony Popovich, doesn't it?

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He, he casts the net quite wide. He brings a lot of players into the,

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the training camp and then only a select few seem to

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get the call up. And of course we did see minutes for Marcus Eunice which

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personally I'm very happy about because I think he's absolutely fantastic.

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00:28:06,090 --> 00:28:09,770
Another one that was good to see back Patrick Yazbeck

442
00:28:10,270 --> 00:28:13,450
and Adam, I think more importantly Riley McGree. We got

443
00:28:13,950 --> 00:28:17,890
to see him twice across both games. So positives and

444
00:28:18,390 --> 00:28:21,250
negatives there I guess in, in terms of the, the lack of debutantes, don't you

445
00:28:21,750 --> 00:28:25,010
think? Oh look, I think it's positives. I think as well that what, what these

446
00:28:25,510 --> 00:28:28,940
young players need to learn is that yes, you might get picked up, picked in,

447
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:32,780
in a 26 man squad but you've got to earn that cap.

448
00:28:33,260 --> 00:28:36,660
And for, for a while there and

449
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,700
even I think Tony Poppich was guilty of this. So it was very minor

450
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:44,900
beforehand that sometimes giving caps out for the sake

451
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:48,820
of it just to get given minutes. I think it normal not use the word

452
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:52,780
cheapen or devalued but be.

453
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:56,980
Represent your country as a. As a professional. Football should

454
00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:00,900
be the highest honor and you shouldn't just be given that because oh, you're the

455
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:04,420
flavor of the month or you've. You've got a. Yeah,

456
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:08,340
you've having a good purple patch of form. It's great that you got selected but

457
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:11,500
you've actually got to do more than that. You've got to impress, you've got to

458
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,980
earn yourself. And a lot of these players that now are enjoying the fruits

459
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:20,060
of being in that consider that starting 11 they did toil in some of

460
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:23,770
the earliest squads if not under Poppy, under Arnold. So again

461
00:29:23,930 --> 00:29:28,250
that, that's reward. So I, I really don't see any negatives that honestly

462
00:29:28,490 --> 00:29:31,610
if you. Other than say Adrian Secret who seem to

463
00:29:32,110 --> 00:29:35,490
be offended by the fact that he didn't get. He didn't play against bloody

464
00:29:35,990 --> 00:29:39,610
New Zealand again, it should be an honor to get picked for the squad

465
00:29:40,490 --> 00:29:44,450
and, and be around that squad and learn those

466
00:29:44,950 --> 00:29:48,810
players. I think that's, I think that's what it comes down to. So I'm glad

467
00:29:49,050 --> 00:29:52,490
to see the Tony Poppage is putting such a premium on

468
00:29:52,650 --> 00:29:56,090
being on minutes at the international level, especially against a high profile

469
00:29:56,590 --> 00:29:59,690
opponent like. Like Brazil. I think especially that. Yeah,

470
00:30:00,190 --> 00:30:03,050
there is going to be time where they'll play inferior P. Yes, you could probably

471
00:30:03,550 --> 00:30:07,050
experiment a little bit but make no mistake, this Brazil series is important.

472
00:30:07,210 --> 00:30:10,970
It's great to see that he took it seriously and tried to play the

473
00:30:11,470 --> 00:30:15,370
best possible 11 that he had. As far as Riley McGree goes. Just a quick

474
00:30:15,870 --> 00:30:19,210
point on that. Another selection headache because again we know that it's

475
00:30:19,710 --> 00:30:22,250
Christian Valpardo that has to come back in at some stage.

476
00:30:22,890 --> 00:30:25,530
It's Ryan McGree coming back as well, a similar player.

477
00:30:26,570 --> 00:30:30,410
It's also. These are very, very good problems for Tony

478
00:30:30,910 --> 00:30:33,290
Poppins to have and yeah, and you have a look beside in general the players

479
00:30:33,790 --> 00:30:37,450
are out. You've got, you've got a. You've got Jordy Boss

480
00:30:37,950 --> 00:30:41,250
to come back. You've got Motorway to come back. This is a very, very good

481
00:30:41,750 --> 00:30:45,230
team all of a sudden. Yeah, you put you into those two players

482
00:30:45,730 --> 00:30:48,830
into this squad and if they play the level. I do. Wow.

483
00:30:48,910 --> 00:30:52,310
I am so excited to see how this team could be as rest.

484
00:30:52,810 --> 00:30:57,390
Especially coming up in the Asia Cup. Yeah, he put boss to Ray Miller and.

485
00:30:57,890 --> 00:31:00,150
And back into that side. It makes a big difference. But to Adam's point,

486
00:31:00,650 --> 00:31:03,390
Alex, actually, he was our team proper, which was asked about some of these young

487
00:31:03,890 --> 00:31:07,470
players on Monday before the game, about. About the chance of the de Couley

488
00:31:07,970 --> 00:31:11,420
or Anil Adams or whatever. I forget exactly who it was about, and I'm

489
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:14,780
only paraphrasing here, but he mentioned that for some of these guys in their first

490
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:18,740
camp, the lights are very bright. And I think that's. He's not. Doesn't want

491
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:21,900
to throw those players in when they have that mindset. He wants them to be

492
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,860
fully embedded within the group, used to being there, accustomed to being

493
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:29,380
there, acclimatized, being there, and all of the things that you want in a national

494
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,700
team player. And I guess that's why what Lucas Harrington did is so impressive.

495
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:36,540
To be called up in March and in one training session to convince

496
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:40,940
Tony Popovich he's ready to play. That's. That's the rare exception I know everyone wants

497
00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:44,540
to see. Like you said, like Adam said, player gets called up, you cap them.

498
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,740
No, no, no. Just called up is one thing. Minutes is another thing. I think

499
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:51,340
that's a differentiation that Popovich has made. He's done really well with that,

500
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:55,060
and people like Sega don't like it. He can go and play for Croatian under

501
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:59,700
21s. Yep, exactly right. And in.

502
00:32:00,500 --> 00:32:04,180
Even then, yeah, you're not getting first team football anytime

503
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:09,020
soon. Considering that Croatia is quite deep

504
00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:13,180
in terms of their quality of players. Funnily enough, I was actually

505
00:32:13,420 --> 00:32:17,140
reading some. A book by Paul Murphy, Soccer is in

506
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,860
Scotland, and talking about Danny Invincible. He was in that golden generation,

507
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:25,340
was he? He talked about how he got called up to something like 15 squads

508
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:28,900
and never actually got any minutes, but he wasn't bitter

509
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:31,860
about it. He was happy that he was in that, but he knew that the

510
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:35,460
players ahead of him were just better than him. So I think that also adds

511
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,680
to that point, doesn't it, that sometimes you've just got to have a humility.

512
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:41,800
And that's something maybe Adrian Seage doesn't have.

513
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:44,920
I think it's fair to say. Now,

514
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:48,960
moving right along before I get myself into any more trouble with

515
00:32:49,460 --> 00:32:52,840
a comment like that, I guess. What.

516
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:56,920
How do we then take these lessons

517
00:32:57,420 --> 00:33:00,840
from this game where we're playing against the side that I guess

518
00:33:01,340 --> 00:33:04,910
we're the underdog now. We're going to be playing friendlies

519
00:33:05,410 --> 00:33:08,710
against Qatar and Jordan in the

520
00:33:09,210 --> 00:33:12,710
next window. How. How do we. Where we're. We're probably more

521
00:33:13,210 --> 00:33:16,670
likely to see more of them, or maybe not so much against Qatar, but games

522
00:33:17,170 --> 00:33:20,590
we're expected to Win against sides that are going to have a deeper

523
00:33:21,090 --> 00:33:24,950
defense. How do we tackle that problem against

524
00:33:25,450 --> 00:33:28,190
Brazil? Sorry, I really take what you did against Brazil. You take the game on.

525
00:33:28,690 --> 00:33:31,030
That's exactly what you do. That's why what they do against Brazil was so impressive.

526
00:33:31,530 --> 00:33:34,620
They did not sit back and defend for 90 minutes and try and claw out

527
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:37,620
an e cat a result. No, they went for it. So the things I'll,

528
00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:40,540
I'll take out of this series is the way they took the game on,

529
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:43,020
the way they played on the front foot and tried to win the ball back

530
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:47,180
and be expansive in the front third. The bravery to do that from coach

531
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:51,340
to player, to actually go out there and do that. The mentality of actually

532
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:53,340
no, we actually are going to go out there and do that. They're the things

533
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:55,580
that I will take out of this series. And that's what you have to take

534
00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:59,780
into the games against Qatar, Jordan and in the Asian cup where you probably do

535
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:02,780
expect to win in the group stage. You go out there on the front foot

536
00:34:02,860 --> 00:34:06,380
and you play. They may play a low block against you.

537
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:10,700
Okay. You have the different problems after to solve. But I think Australia has

538
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:14,740
shown in this series we are capable and we are prepared and confident enough to

539
00:34:15,240 --> 00:34:17,780
take the game on. And I'm not sure that's always been there. When we drop

540
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:21,060
back into playing in Asia sometimes we do do fall back and try and play

541
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:24,869
that counter attacking transition game. We've got to take the game on the front foot

542
00:34:25,369 --> 00:34:27,949
and I think we saw enough in this series to suggest we have the players

543
00:34:28,449 --> 00:34:32,229
capable of doing that. Yeah, definitely. And Adam,

544
00:34:32,549 --> 00:34:35,469
I, I like I said yes got beat me to that point as well and

545
00:34:35,969 --> 00:34:39,789
I absolutely agree with him is that the socceroos can't be afraid

546
00:34:40,289 --> 00:34:43,109
to be the aggressors, to be the favorites. And you're right,

547
00:34:43,609 --> 00:34:46,789
they've shown in this series where they were big underdogs

548
00:34:47,289 --> 00:34:50,809
to show no fear and just to go and attack. They play like that

549
00:34:51,309 --> 00:34:55,369
against you know a Kyrgyzstan or Sing or Singapore in

550
00:34:55,869 --> 00:35:00,089
the. In, in in the group stage valibly

551
00:35:00,589 --> 00:35:04,409
murder them assuming that they, they find the back of the net and

552
00:35:04,909 --> 00:35:07,969
there's actually when the draw came out and on the back of the World cup

553
00:35:08,469 --> 00:35:11,569
and sort of the way, sort of yeah the soccer sort of played back

554
00:35:12,069 --> 00:35:15,809
then they were very timid. You got unbelievably there was some delusional people

555
00:35:16,309 --> 00:35:19,930
actually thought that Singapore could actually lay a glove on. On socceroos.

556
00:35:20,170 --> 00:35:23,650
I dare say that, that after seeing that

557
00:35:24,150 --> 00:35:27,890
and then what Brazil will probably do Singapore in In the

558
00:35:28,390 --> 00:35:32,850
November window. I think those people would rightly shut up because again,

559
00:35:33,350 --> 00:35:35,930
this is a team now that I think have got confidence, they've got the players,

560
00:35:36,430 --> 00:35:39,850
they've got the ability. But, but there's also the other lesson is that

561
00:35:40,350 --> 00:35:43,570
there are levels to this and as good as this performance is against

562
00:35:44,070 --> 00:35:47,620
Brazil over two games, they've got to find a way to match that because that's

563
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,820
the next level even. And like I said, we'll talk about a sec about Brazil

564
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:53,820
and focus on that. And I think, I think you know where this is leading

565
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:57,820
towards. I do think that the soccer is. Need to go to that next level.

566
00:35:57,980 --> 00:36:02,060
And again that, that, that is to match it with say a Japan or

567
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:05,300
an Iran or South Korea. Be the kings of this,

568
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,540
this region. That's got to be the next goal. And again,

569
00:36:09,180 --> 00:36:12,300
great opportunity to, to put the swords and say something like Qatar,

570
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:15,700
who. I think it'll be a little bit of pretenders in a way. And I

571
00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:19,680
don't mean that with the ab respect because they were very, very good

572
00:36:20,180 --> 00:36:23,080
in the Asian cup four years ago. But what they did in the World cup,

573
00:36:23,580 --> 00:36:26,760
other than get out jargon, Switzerland was just God damn awful.

574
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:30,440
So that's the next challenge. At the moment they've got, they've got to

575
00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:34,040
put a message, especially against, I guess in the

576
00:36:34,540 --> 00:36:37,160
Middle east where they don't have a great record. They need to write that before

577
00:36:37,660 --> 00:36:40,200
they go to the, to the Asian Cup, Saudi Arabia, early next year.

578
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:44,280
Yeah, that's some good points, gentlemen.

579
00:36:44,780 --> 00:36:48,080
I appreciate that. And while I've got you, Adam, I think you know what,

580
00:36:48,580 --> 00:36:51,860
I'm going to you Brazil. Are they actually any good?

581
00:36:52,500 --> 00:36:56,180
Well, that depends on who you are. Crazy question, crazy question to ask,

582
00:36:56,680 --> 00:37:00,380
isn't it? Considering our vintage, you know, we've all seen some great Brazilian

583
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:03,860
teams. I, I can't actually believe I'm asking this, but. Yeah, go on. I'll let

584
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:08,540
you actually answer it. Now, Adam, you mentioned history, you mentioned history and

585
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:12,580
vintage. Absolutely not. This, this current squad

586
00:37:12,740 --> 00:37:16,230
is a shadow of the great teams that we all grew up with.

587
00:37:16,700 --> 00:37:20,620
An absolute shadow. And it's a player like Vinicius

588
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:24,300
junior is their best player. Yeah,

589
00:37:24,540 --> 00:37:28,540
this is. There's a lottery building and look, it's not just us saying it.

590
00:37:29,180 --> 00:37:31,900
I've got, as you know, I've got a lot of Brazilian friends.

591
00:37:32,940 --> 00:37:36,100
We talk football. I just got the sense of that, like I said,

592
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:39,660
I. For the sense from the media, Brazilian media,

593
00:37:40,220 --> 00:37:43,430
that they're not convinced by this. Yes.

594
00:37:44,070 --> 00:37:47,630
Especially after Townsville, they were ropable. They were absolutely Rope.

595
00:37:48,130 --> 00:37:50,630
How, how could you, how could we draw one all to Australia?

596
00:37:50,870 --> 00:37:54,710
Yes, it's arrogant, but also as well, you've got to remember this

597
00:37:55,210 --> 00:37:58,550
is Brazil, the five time world champions. You don't go, ah,

598
00:37:59,190 --> 00:38:02,630
well, it's okay, well next time. No, it's win

599
00:38:03,130 --> 00:38:06,430
every single time. It's, it's been every single time. Every single time the

600
00:38:06,930 --> 00:38:10,160
select y' all hit the pitch, they're expected to win. And this team at the

601
00:38:10,660 --> 00:38:13,880
moment, there is not the same faith as there was four years ago, eight years

602
00:38:14,380 --> 00:38:18,000
ago there. I say we've joked about this on, on, on show in previous occasions.

603
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:21,440
Ever since that 71 semifinal loss.

604
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:25,160
Brazilian football, as far as the sexual goes, has never recovered.

605
00:38:25,660 --> 00:38:29,160
They've had some moments here or there. And again, Carlo Ancelotti

606
00:38:29,660 --> 00:38:33,080
has got a big task and the lot of task is knowing the football

607
00:38:33,580 --> 00:38:37,120
on the pitch, but actually convincing the Brazilian fans and the Brazilian

608
00:38:37,620 --> 00:38:40,720
media that this is a good team because there is not much faith in this

609
00:38:41,220 --> 00:38:44,000
young group coming through. And I dare say that if they're going to have any

610
00:38:44,500 --> 00:38:48,400
success in lead up, you know, the South American qualifying copper America, they may

611
00:38:48,900 --> 00:38:52,640
need to recall some of their more experienced players to at least write the ship.

612
00:38:53,140 --> 00:38:56,040
As we said on the last shot on the last show, only two players over

613
00:38:56,540 --> 00:39:00,360
30. They may need a bit more experience to, to get them through, but they're

614
00:39:00,860 --> 00:39:04,080
expected to belt India, they're expected to beat Singapore. How they go against

615
00:39:04,580 --> 00:39:07,400
Japan, I think we're gonna, we're gonna learn a lot of lessons about their forward

616
00:39:07,900 --> 00:39:10,960
progress as well. And if they don't beat Japan, oh boy,

617
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:14,760
that's. That is going to be popcorn viewing

618
00:39:15,260 --> 00:39:18,560
stuff. Yes, it will be. I'll have my popcorn on order for

619
00:39:19,060 --> 00:39:21,800
that one. I think it depends, Alex, on what your definition of good is as.

620
00:39:22,300 --> 00:39:24,720
Well, that's the thing. If you compare it to Australia, they were better than Australia

621
00:39:25,220 --> 00:39:27,720
and particularly in the second game here. And you saw when they did up the

622
00:39:28,220 --> 00:39:31,520
intensity, there was a, a difference between the two sides. But honestly,

623
00:39:32,020 --> 00:39:34,880
by Brazilian standards, Adam's absolutely right. You compare this team to the teams we all

624
00:39:35,380 --> 00:39:38,480
grew up with, none of this group that was here in, in Queensland this week

625
00:39:38,980 --> 00:39:42,840
would get anywhere near that 1998 or 2002 vintage side.

626
00:39:43,340 --> 00:39:46,560
They'd be lucky to make the side in 2006 when those players were a little

627
00:39:47,060 --> 00:39:50,640
bit older. So, yeah, Brazil have fallen off away from where they were. There were

628
00:39:51,140 --> 00:39:54,160
a little, a couple of signs in the, in the game in Brisbane of them

629
00:39:54,660 --> 00:39:58,180
getting back to somewhat of their, their former cells, but just Nowhere near

630
00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:01,420
enough for what you expect of Brazil. I mean I thought the darkest days were

631
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:04,580
with Mattias Cunha being the number nine of Brazil and I'm not sure it's gotten

632
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:08,980
any better since then in June. So they have a ways to go and luckily

633
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:12,300
for them there's four years before they really truly do get judged at the World

634
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:16,260
cup where of course they expect to be there. They almost certainly will be

635
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:20,060
there given the expansion of the World Cup. So they've got a long time to,

636
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:24,070
to sort this stuff out to get some ready for the World cup in four

637
00:40:24,570 --> 00:40:27,910
years. But they've got some work to do. Yeah. And they've got to make

638
00:40:28,410 --> 00:40:31,550
moves now and is anchored the right person to do

639
00:40:32,050 --> 00:40:35,030
it. He's not really renowned for youth development. That's the,

640
00:40:35,590 --> 00:40:39,350
that's the big question mark. I think a lot of Brazilians probably have.

641
00:40:39,850 --> 00:40:43,630
I know for me that's, that's the question I would have towards Carlo. That's no

642
00:40:44,130 --> 00:40:47,870
disrespect to him. He's obviously a wonderful coach, but he's a man manager and he's

643
00:40:48,370 --> 00:40:51,640
used to managing big egos at big clubs and just putting the

644
00:40:52,140 --> 00:40:55,320
jigsaw pieces in the right place to, to, to get the puzzle

645
00:40:55,820 --> 00:40:59,400
to work. Brazil needs someone with

646
00:40:59,900 --> 00:41:03,360
a more hands on rebuild knowledge that can actually develop

647
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:07,240
young players. Also the Brazilian football system probably needs a good shake as

648
00:41:07,740 --> 00:41:10,800
well. But before we, before we leave,

649
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:15,040
Scott, I think you had one last point you want to discuss around

650
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:19,320
the coverage rights. Paramount plus and game two

651
00:41:19,820 --> 00:41:23,300
exclusively on Paramount Plus. I'll tee Adam

652
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:27,100
up as well. I think this was Adam's point on the running sheet.

653
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:30,260
But it was interesting the fact that the first game was on 10. The second

654
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:34,140
game was exclusive to Paramount. No wonder. I assume it's something to do with

655
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:38,500
just the fact that what the. They wanted to try and drive some subscribers

656
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:41,460
over to Paramount. I think Adam's probably got more of a point there on,

657
00:41:41,540 --> 00:41:45,500
on this one. Yeah, look it is very, very interesting

658
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as well. There's a lot of discourse about this but look

659
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it's. The anti cycling lords Charlton are not required

660
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to show even a home friendly at home. Now that

661
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only applies to World cup qualifiers as well.

662
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Yeah, you're right. Home, yes, absolutely.

663
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It's. It's World Cups where it doesn't matter.

664
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But, but the thing is that there's two points. Yes,

665
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child 10 have the rights but as our learned friend

666
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Vince regarded just before. But in response to all this,

667
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look, it comes back down to Australian football fans and you know what you

668
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Want, you want coverage of Free to wear,

669
00:42:28,780 --> 00:42:31,540
then you need to support the game. You need to, you need to go out

670
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and actually show that you care. And you not just wait for Brazil to

671
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come out here, have a big series, call it the biggest game of the year

672
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and then have a theory because you don't have Paramount Plus. Look, if you follow

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00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:46,690
football Australia, you should have Paramount plus anyway because that means that you are

674
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following the alien. That means that you are, that you know you're following the Matildas.

675
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So again I, I do not buy this excuse from people

676
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saying, oh, it's not fair. It's not fair. It's not fair.

677
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No, it's not fair is that we get 52000 people in,

678
00:43:03,430 --> 00:43:06,810
in Brisbane, we get 20, we get 25000 in,

679
00:43:06,890 --> 00:43:11,150
in, in Townsville and it's. And they're yet

680
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the A league. In a couple of weeks you, we're, like I said,

681
00:43:15,210 --> 00:43:18,030
you're not even gonna get 52, 000 across five games.

682
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And you tell me that what's not fair?

683
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7,000 for the open training session, which was brilliant as well.

684
00:43:24,750 --> 00:43:28,590
Exactly as well. Exactly as well. And that, that's going to be a big

685
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wake up call to Australia football fans. I'm so sick of tiny the

686
00:43:33,090 --> 00:43:36,030
whinging or football doesn't do this, football doesn't that. Well, what are you going to

687
00:43:36,530 --> 00:43:39,210
do for football? Because at the end of the day, and this is exactly the

688
00:43:39,710 --> 00:43:43,250
reason, this is why commercial reasons like this happen. If you don't support the football,

689
00:43:43,970 --> 00:43:47,210
then they're gonna, they're gonna bury it behind a pay wall and then you have

690
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the audacity to whinge about it. Get better people, get better.

691
00:43:51,250 --> 00:43:53,250
Thanks for talking. Thanks for listening to my TED Talk.

692
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Wow, I just gave Adam a standing ovation by the way.

693
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Of course. Audio only, medium probably, thank God.

694
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But thank you, Alex. That's all right, no problem. I, I actually don't know

695
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there's any going to be any better way to end the podcast than,

696
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than that. So I'm going to wrap it up. Thank you very much for your

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time there, Adam and Scott. That was brilliant. Adam, just doing a

698
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massive mic drop at the end there. Absolutely love it. If that's not a rallying

699
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call to get your backside to the A league this season, then I don't know

700
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what is. Go and support the very leagues that develop our

701
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:33,510
socceros and Matildas. Go and do it. Buy your memberships,

702
00:44:34,010 --> 00:44:38,030
buy a ticket, buy Paramount, do the bloody lot. Get out there and

703
00:44:38,530 --> 00:44:41,390
support our game because that's where our soccer is and Matildas come from the A

704
00:44:41,890 --> 00:44:45,390
League. No, it's not that bad. It's actually bloody good.

705
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It's bloody excellent. You'll see heaps of quality youngsters out there and

706
00:44:50,490 --> 00:44:53,510
just go and support it. So I think that's my $0.02 side to that.

707
00:44:53,830 --> 00:44:57,310
Thank you very much Adam and Scott. Really appreciate it. That has been the

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Aussie football passport with a couple little Ted Talks at the end there to

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get behind the A leagues. Join us soon and I'll be

710
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back hopefully once I'm a little bit less bunged. And of

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course, make sure you check out the Brisbane Football Review as Adam, Scott and Kurt

712
00:45:14,500 --> 00:45:17,920
and James all get around the A Leagues and the Brisbane Raws upcoming

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season. Thanks for listening. Goodbye for now.