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Viduka subbed off after 60 minutes, strange move. Kewell on.

We will get knocked out by Japan in the next match, mark it down.

Ah ok then, will turn it off. Couldnt believe it, thats an everyday word! Kewell makes it 4-0. Scoreline certainly does flatter us... quite a bit.

Make that 3-0 as Viduka has a double. Great leap to get in front of the Thai player and head it down into the bottom left corner, across the keeper. 2 goals to Viduka and now he is subbed off. Aussies through to the knock out phase.

That fat lazy aussie b******, who is no good just scored a nice goal. Holding off two defenders to lift it over the keeper and into the net off a Thai player. 2-0 Hahah i just edited this as i found out that b@stard is on the swear filter, comical.

Love it!

If Oman beat Iraq then we have to win by a couple of goals as there will be 3 teams on 4 points. So if we win by 1 goal and Oman win then Oman and Iraq go through. If we beat Thailand and Iraq win then we go through.

Aussies 1-0, the way it stands we are going through.....

Hilarious. Given scraps all night and no real clear cut chances to even attempt a shot at goal and he is slated. He wins basically all the balls in the air and he is slated. Despite this being played in hot, humid conditions and playing with some sub standard players around him. What was he suppose to do all night? Run up and down the wing? Put in a few crosses, which lead to goals? He did what he could, he held the ball up and won the balls in the air. He scored a goal and this is playing in a side that was utter s*** all night. I dont think i would expect much more from any players. Target men, especially if operating as a lone striker, have to work a lot harder than that in order to create goals and chances. Think about Drogba, Van Nisteelrooy, and Kevin Davies from Bolton, those guys are/were target men, and they really had to put in all-action performances to lead the line, something Viduka wasn't doing. There was almost no movement from anyone on the team, including Viduka. Yeah, he's happy to stand around and win speculative long balls when they get near him, but that's not gonna cut it in this league, the pace is a lot faster. I'd like to see him along side a pacier partner, and I think a Viduka - Owen/Martins partnership has promise, but he really shouldn't be played as a lone striker. And it was a pretty laid-back performance regardless. He has been cutting in this league for a few seasons now. I stand by Viduka, the whole team was shithouse and to single out Viduka for having a poor performance is hilarious. Put him in a team with the likes of Solano, Zog, Owen, Martins, Barton et al around him and he would be so much better.

Australia just has to win on the weekend to go through. It is a head to head record to go through and not goal difference.

Hilarious. Given scraps all night and no real clear cut chances to even attempt a shot at goal and he is slated. He wins basically all the balls in the air and he is slated. Despite this being played in hot, humid conditions and playing with some sub standard players around him. What was he suppose to do all night? Run up and down the wing? Put in a few crosses, which lead to goals? He did what he could, he held the ball up and won the balls in the air. He scored a goal and this is playing in a side that was utter shit all night. I dont think i would expect much more from any players.

Hahah Arnie having a go at the players, love it. Said some players dont want to be there and also singled out Lucas Neil for his 'pathetic' performance. Schwarzer lost 2 kilograms in the first game. Imagine what the outfield players lost, i think some lost up to 5 kilograms i heard.

And that means what? We beat Thailand in the last game and we will go through. However i would rather a team like Thailand in the finals then us. We are shizen at this stuff and Arnold is a shocker. We need a tactician like Guus again. Funniest part was when the Iraqi grabbed Emertons balls and Emerton basically just squared up to him and then the Iraqi complained. Highlight of the match. Before everyone slates Viduka, he has had scraps to work with. Has won plenty of headers but no one is around to run onto them. He will be better when at Newcastle you can mark them words. Imagine Owen or Martins running onto the balls instead of Holman etc.

Viduka nearly scores a 2nd, probably should of scored to be honest. He is going to be good for us this season, cant wait.

It isnt just Viduka though so i wouldnt single him out. We are utter tripe at the moment. Viduka just scored a wonderful headed goal across the goalkeeper. Well done Dukes!

Its on right now

Cant really say that, we werent the best tonight but we will be better with that performance in the humidity and game conditions. We have really only had one warm up match so this was a good hit out despite the result. We can go from this address the issues and move on. Everyone in group A is now on 1 point so it is all there for the taking.

Aussies 1-1, Tim Cahill 90 odd minutes. Oman still spending more time on the deck rolling around pretending they have cramp then anything.

dont know what match your watching, Oman should be 3 or 4 goals up. Aussies not even had a sniff up to now Should be but arent, they are just hitting us on the counter attack. We have had more possie, even in the first half but lack creating that killer chance to put the ball in the back of the net. We just had a few good chances but no one could get a clean shot away. So i dont know how you misread my post saying we havent played well and we clearly have had more of the ball as well as the possession stat will show.

Oman, diving and carrying on like they are dead Still we have had more of it this second half but we havent played too well at all. Bring on Timmy Cahill to score 2 goals.

Fat aussie bastard money hungry prick lazy aussie etc etc Would be a good signing for us and would compliment Martins nicely for reasons already said. Why some people want to sign a huge name player for a bucket load of cash is beyond me.

Cracking game mind you. Aaron Hughes went off injured aswell. End to end stuff for the last 10 - 15 minutes at high tempo. Got to love it when players are throwing themselves around and they arent your players so you dont fear for their safety.

Do you even read the article? It clearly says that we will not be going after our old targets eg Zat Knight, who we were close to getting in the summer. So clearly by this article it seems we will not be going after him. It also seems from the article that we will be going for a left back so just relax.

Hilarious

So over this argument about Luque, he should of come on it is really as simple as that. He is (was) a Spainish international for fuck sake and against the shit that was Charlton last night he could of gone on to score a goal or set someone up. You just never know unless you just sit him on the bench like Roeder is doing to him right now. If Roeder was to sell him (or Fred as we all know he does the deals around here now) then why not put him on and give him a run of games to show potential clubs what he is about? Then rather sticking him on the bench... and selling him for sweet FA at the end of the day.