I’d love to see Foster coach so he can show us how easy it is…

"walk down after the game and sack him" "send some captains in there" classic Craig Foster 🤣🤣

Love him, hate him, Craig Foster bleeds for Australian Football.

RIP Les Murry you will be missed :(

I remember thus very well. One of the best constructive arguments by Craig Foster after the hurtful 4-0 loss to Germany 4 years ago. Good on him for speaking and up and was right about Verbeek . Would rather delete that part of our games history if I could

R.I.P Pim

Australia would never have stood a chance against Germany even if the team did have a plan. Germany has finished top 3 for most world cups and have a superior academy system that trains players from childhood, plus most Germans stay in the Bundesliga and so have more team cohesion than the 11 Australian blokes that get together only every 4 years. Plus what does he mean Aussies die on their feet? Nobody thinks Aussies are tough just because Niell and Muscat slide in hard and break legs.

I remember getting up at 4am to watch the Germany v. Australia game. When the team sheet was shown and there was no striker and all players out of position, I was flabbergasted. Verbeek sent us out in "damage minimization" mode and we paid for it dearly.

I like a guy with a viewpoint. It takes courage.

RIP Pim Verbeek

RIP Pim, 😔

the worst thing of all is that we went out on goal difference. this single loss resulted in us going out of the tournament.

I have to say that i don't agree with sacking a coach 1 game into a world cup but you have to love Fozzie's love for his country and his passion for the Aussie shirt!

I remember this. Who the hell was responsible for hiring that guy?

I love craig foster. I love how passionate he is. He understands the game. He believes Australia will win the world cup one day. Someone has to believe before it happens, I am one of them too.

Craig Foster, spot on it's exactly how we feel as Australian supporters. The warning signs were there during qualification, verbeek does not get the best out of our player

2023 Australian Football still needs improvement! A permanent Football Academy and Better Youth National League Competitions and Academies (amongst other improvements) -Graham Arnold (after FIFA World Cup 2022) We all agree with Arnie!!

Craig Foster thinks he is a football expert ......and he was just a plodder for Portsmouth .....nothing special .

Wasn't biased or harsh, spot on in my opinion. Who the hell plays a 4-6-0.. & especially against Germany. No strikers WTF.

Foz is a legend. We loved him. From a Portsmouth fan :)

The only thing Foster loves more than Australian football is the sound of his own voice

Spot on. A thousand times SPOT ON!

this one's a classic... bring in the captains... hahaha

haha this ones a classic... walk down after the game and sack him... send some captains in there

Craig Foster, the Holy Prophet of Australian Football.

Aurelio Vidmar should be the coach after Pim Verbeek has gone. Aurelio coaches with an European type of approach and he has done extremely well with what he had to put up with at Adelaide United. He is our best hope of beeing the most successful Australian coach to lead the Socceroos IMO.

Pim picked a team without an actual striker, we had a fat slow guy from Hull (richard garcia) who was playing upfront? most defensive god awful team ive seen from australia

you said he is no expert implying that he has no right criticizing. I disagree as I've already mentioned he was a pro footballer that knows what hes talking about, he's also been an analyst for many years. Most professional players arent coaches and they can tell you whether a coach is doing a shitty job or not.

Tim Cahill was striker culina attacking mid and grella and valeri in mids , + it was 2-0 when cahill got a red...maybe foster needs to calm down.... players shot themselves in the foot.

Are they really good enough ...

It is incredible that the team that Verbeek sent on the park was so peculiar to analysts and amateurs and housewives alike. Thankyou Verbeek for sending Australia out to the slaughter. Two million dollars - job well performed! We were lucky that the score wasn't 8-0. Germany had so many chances. How would that have looked? That score would have certainly reflected back on the coach. And then he would have been made to be answerable.

I can see he has passion but he's a glitch for fuck sakes, even with the argument against Ange Postecoglou, who is now the fucking manager for the Socceroos, he is the Bill O'Reilly of Football.

@MelbKnights Dude, he represented Australia 29 times. I agree with the rest of your comment though. I generally admire Foster as an analyst, but he does let his emotions take over, as is the case here. He gave absolutely no credit to Verbeek for Australia's great results against Ghana and Serbia, which is just shows how arrogant and stubborn he can be.

i remember this live. what a laugh! fozzie is awesome

Harry Kewell said himself: they shouldve just gone out there and played a game of football. and play with their heart. this is what fozzie's saying - we were held back, and we should have put our best possible performance down against the germans because as we saw, the fearful approach we took to that match punished us with a -4 goal difference which saw us eliminated in the end, even after beating croatia. had they a coach who let them play and play hard, we'd have gone through to round of 16

australia seemed pretty strong at the start, but Pim's tactics and style of play is inconsistent with the team's ability

In addition, I don't think you need to have been a world class coach either, to criticize someone. I never said Foster had a great career, but he played professionally for most of it, again someone who was paid to play football, I think has the right to criticize.

@spielberg01... But he didn't send out the weakest team, did he? He essentially sent out our best 11, with the exception of an unfit Kewell, Kennedy, and arguably Bres. Pim's strategy was clear to see: try to contain and hope Tim could pop up with a goal to either win or draw the match. He played with his customary 2 holding midfielders, moved Culina to the left (likely to slow down Lahm) and brought in the industrious Garcia to harry the German defenders. He was hardly trying to throw the game.

it's not the players. look at france for an example of what bad leadership does to a team, no matter how good the individual players are. whereas on the other hand look at how decent players responded to good leaderhip and tactics when guus hiddink managed south korea 2002 and australia 2006.

Thats rubbish, he played for Australia many times, I'd hardly call that an average career. Regardless, just because he wasn't the Messi of his era, doesn't mean he isn't an expert. He has probably watched more games than you've had hot meals, I think he's more than qualified to criticize. Some legendary coaches are amazing tactical practitioners who themselves had very ordinary playing careers, Arsene Wenger, Alex Ferguson, Felipe Scolari, the list goes on. Your logic is flawed.

@sydneyfcanddascc we need a system in out national legue to support our socceroos with bright young players for the future...and that is the most important thing...

Loved how completely unhinged Foster was after this result. I think I remember him flipping out even worse at half time? Craig Johnston is thinking "...how do I politely distance myself from this nut?" 😂😂

Socceroos drawbacks were oversees people : The ref who sent Cahill off for 1.5 games. The ref who sent Kewell off for 1.80 games. Pim Verbeek who sent Kewell off for 1 game. Sepp Blatter who doesn't want replays so he can control who wins or loses. The refs who didn't see two deliberate German handballs. The ref who doesn't see Ghana tackles. Aussies should have won last two world cups if treated fairly.

You have to love Craigh Foster. He tells it like it is.

you the man Fozz!!! With Pim on $2million pa, we would assume that one would restrategize after the NZ, denmark and USA games, so we'd have a respectable performance against Germany!!! Playing anyone solo upfront is useless for us! Last world cup it was all about crossing in from the wings. ps. Neil said the players dont even know if they're on the team until match day. WTF?? How's a team supposed to function like that? If we lose against ghana, do we get a refund?

we will always die on our feet rather than live on our knees........... Fossie is the best!!

Foster is still Criticizing but forgot to Criticize Arnold's no show media after the WCup

@thermalz0mbie... I'm not English, I live in England. Anyway, I understand what Foster meant - what I'm saying is that it's a stupid idea. No coach in the world would work under those conditions and nor should they. There's a good reason why teams aren't run that way, and that's because it's an unworkable situation. What would lead anybody to believe that a committee comprised of Foster, Tobin, Okon, Vidmar, Horvat etc are in any way qualified to devise strategy at the top level of the game?

One more goal against Ghana would have seen Australia through....And Germany gave a few teams a touch up.

Graig's right. Fear will always end in your demise!

Some one call a f cab, Foster has had one too many drinks.

Your point was that because he had an ordinary playing career he wasn't qualified to criticize. I just refuted that by pointing out that several people who are also ordinary players are considered experts without ever being "good" players. Les Murray is also considered an expert even though he never played a professional game in his life. Either way, I think playing for your nation in any sport more than qualifies someone as an expert.

haha i think Pim got it a bit too rough.. Just compare his qualifying campaign to this one! 4-0 vs Germany isn't the end of the world, they're a quality outfit. Minus a Harry Kewell handball, our campaign might've lasted longer

I Understand the passion exc but Craig did the Same to Ange tearing into him but at the end of the Day it's so easy for people outside looking in to point the finger with this and that. Ids love for Craig to take up the coaching position and see how he goes even at 2023.

We should’ve made it past the group stage in 2010. We got absolutely screwed.

RIP Pim

He is Australia's answer to eamon dunphy

Fair go Craig. This one was awesome German team. They beat England 4-2 and Argentina 4-0. Pim wasn't the best coach, but he didn't deserve that tongue lashing. The result just showed the reality of Australian football. We've got a long, long way to go.

Respond to this video... Who's Graig Fosters?

Almost qualifyed. Schwarzer mistake against Serbia was The final straw.

Pim's Socceroos are still the only Socceroos team to defeat a European team at the World Cup. They haven't won a game against anyone since.

Craig Foster should've had this reaction to Bert Van Marwijk as well. Not putting Cahill on. And what's with all these Dutch coaches being hired?

and what happens post world cup? the aussies beat germany. not coincidence. that first game was an utter disgrace and it nearly deterred me from watching the rest of that world cup because i was so hurt by australias humiliation, and just wanted to see my hero harry kewell and our best boys out there to give germany a run

Might see the same thing before too long unless Holger turns the socceroos around soon

Love you Craig...... Johnston.

I think Fozz has done nothing but hurt himself with that outburst.... Some truth in there, but fuck there was some rage fuelled rubbish too!

Ok, It isn't Fossie's job to coach, it's his job to analyse, and he is the best in the world at that, so all you Foz haters can shut up! Although let's be honest he would prob make a better coach than Osieck but that isn't hard!

give em hell craig. you god dam legend!

I can't believe the Australian media's soap-opera standards reflect in football, when PIM Verbeek took the Australian team undefeated thro the qualifiers, he was hailed for his coaching. Now when they get defeated by a supreme German side(due to a flawed tactic)... under-achieved analysts like Craig Foster let their mouths fly? 1) Where is the respect when we drew with Ghana? 2) How about a win against Serbia? This shows immaturity... have passion not blind faith on winning the cup...

They were beaten by Germany, FFS their 3rd or 4th string team would have beaten us, all Foster seems to do is attack and criticise, if he had any decent standing in the game he would be involved in it, not sitting behind a camera, he is a total flog

when will foster realise australia isnt brazil amd they cant beat everyone they play

craig foster scored how many goals in a world cup game?

my favourite part of the australian campaign was the part where they said where's harry, then he got a red card 30 mins into the next game. i was rofling then! tho he didnt deserve the red!

A lot of coaches are crazy though and leave out the best players. My Mum knows not to leave out Kewell from the team. Hiddink left out Schwarzer and Cahill. Maybe two assistants to correct the head coach when the head coach goes crazy. Was Arnold scared to tell Pim off ? There's not much between winning and losing, but the refs were 70% to blame though. Pim the other 30%. Managers should know that changes should be small. We should have known in the trials Kewell wasn't playing. Speilberg coach.

BREAKING: Craig Foster attacks Craig Foster on live TV. During his regular segment 'Craig Foster Attacks People' on SBS, the former Socceroo made the shocking claim that Craig Foster was an over-rated forward who was waaaaay too defensive during his all-too-short career of little note. "Craig Foster needs to take a long, hard look at himself and fall on his sword", said Foster, the former goal-less Albion Park City striker. Foster continued, "If Foster fails to act then SBS, or whoever employs him these days, needs to sack him. Foster has failed and everybody except Foster can see that". Foster is no stranger to controversy, having previously attacked every former player and coach in Australia since he burst onto the scene as a grey-haired 17 year old defensive forward for winless, relegated West Wonthaggi in the Lower Upper Gippsland B Grade reserve team in 1962. Craig Foster holds the Australian record as the only player to play for a relegated team in every season of football played. Craig Foster has been contacted for comment.

Think its ironic Craig Johnstone is going on about Aussie spirit...

First of all 'wow'

@peterzhang1989 I think he was just annoyed with the approach against Germany. They really didn't even try to win the game, and why not? They're not world champions. I'd bet money that under Osieck, win or lose, the result would've been different.

@koorja1 well maybe in my mind soccer(football) is taken seriously by certain people(actually alot LARGE group of people in the world), i just hope that you respect other people's view and comments and discuss issues rationally.

however i don't agree with this 'commitee' idea. maybe to pick a manager. but you can't have a manager having to justify his selections and tactics to a commitee every game he plays, who would accept that job? just pick a manager, give him a chance to show what he can do and, if he isn't doing the job, give him the boot. you have to say, this manager won the qualifying group for australia so that's hard to criticise

Well I disagree again, I think he's a rather good pundit, at least one of the better Aussie guys. Sure he goes over the top, but he definitely knows what he's talking about. Much better than the likes of Branko Kulina who was actually a coach himself.

I agree totally with Craig Foster, we could have done much better.

just read again my original post about Foster.All i said he was a someone who sits in the stands and criticizes all the time.His professional career,while it was professional is not that glittering.It maybe to you but not to me.There are so many former Australian players who are well worth listening to rather than him.Maybe he should have tried coaching or management he too may have been far better at that than player and football pundit.(the latter would not have been hard to be better at)

bring a committee in? wtf? this is like pre-war England. Is that guy serious? I don't think Verbeek is a good coach either but then again what does he have to work with? The quality simply isn't there.

Get that bloody hair cut, also not the same without Les.

@sydneyfcanddascc sorry for the late reply...well to be honest i havent seen his performance yet and it is too early to tell at the moment.... BUT there is 1 thing we are certain, we are at the age of the older generations passing to the newer generations...and if the our football association is still doing jack shit and not supporting our A legue...we will face alot of difficulties in the future of australian football!!we need good new young talents to support our national team....

@Meatballer I don't care what the rest of the world thinks, we have our own codes of football that have been here over a hundred years and suit us just fine. The rest of the world can have soccer

+1 vote foster for manager of australia

People might think that this is a rant from Fozzie but weigh that up against 90 minutes in front of the world of total bullshit from the Australian side against Germany. Who is going to take responsibility for that? I couldn't believe my eyes watching the game. All I was thinking was, "How can this be happening?"

It seems to me that the only thing Foster cares about is giving out about a manager, no matter who he is. He was criticising Ange few years ago and was made look a fool afterwards. I’m not a professional football manager but if I was managing a team against Germany, I would put out a very defensive team also. Australia were beaten by four goals, but Germany are certainly at least four times better than Australia. Ireland have a very average football team but they’d beat Australia more often than the other way round. Try and get behind your team mate, not constantly tearing their manager to shreds. By the way, Ange won the 2021/22 Scottish league with Celtic - this Celtic team would rip Australia a new one, never mind what Germany did to them

Craig foster know nxt to nothing about football, he amounted to nothing playing and as a commentator

@hipete2008 You have to be insane. And please do tell me what elite level has Craig Foster played at? He is a critic, nothing else. I respect the guy how he loves his country and has feelings. But his comments to sack the coach one game into the World Cup is ridiculous! No one does that, Australia shouldn't be the first. Having said that, I thought Pim's tactics and the use of his substitutes for the other two games were very good. unfortunately, we came short of the mark.

Love this video. Craig foster is right about Australian football. Pim verbeek. And holigier osiek worst coaches of Australia

The Fozz on the attack. Love it

Foster who?

Fozzie sometimes goes overboard and makes ridiculous comments. Who sacks a coach during the World Cup? Pim stuffed up the first game, but I thought his tactics were very good for the 2nd and 3rd game. Unfortunately, the first game killed us and was always catch up since then.

As much as I hate Fozzie, he does raise some valid points. The performance was Pim's fault, the players did their best given the ridiculous formation. If you're going to bring strikers at least play them, poor Timmy was all at sea as the 'striker'. What was he thinking, playing essentially a 4-6-0 formation, yet with the defenders playing so high up? The likes of Moore and Chipperfield aren't even up to international standard let alone playing the offside trap against the speedy Germans.

@spielberg01 paranoid behaviour mate , dutch are not close to germany in a million years . he said on dutch telly that he aimed for a draw while keepin the counter option open . ozzys do better stickin to footy and cricket . and ofcourse drinkin hehe

@waheedrulzatsoccer i agree with you man.....right at the first pim's play style is like playing rugby.....man mindless long cross......against germany....and against all teams.....wtf is wrong.....in 2006 while we was under hiddink we didnt play like that...out players were constantly moving in terms of attacking and defending......and look at this years world cup....we are not doing that...and that is wht costs us...look at newzealand they did really good,so there is no excuse.

@sydneyfcanddascc lol I was only joking, settle petal