Gabby

Bad enough having to get up at 1am to watch it - but to wait to 3am for the Ref to give that penalty was a bit much. No excuses though, we should have pressed our advantage earlier and the Italian bloke's send off was an embarassing gaff from the ref. The worst thing about it is was watching Sky News UK and them saying that the English were feeling sorry for us!! I can take a bad ref decision. I can handle having my heart broken in the 95th minute. But I cannot handle the English feeling sorry for us. Very good effort by our blokes, we never in a million years expected to reach round 2 - so well done that team!!1 Gabby

Poll is an indiot. Viduka was assaulted in the box and he missed a blatant Croatian hand ball in the box. But..we got the right result. Not that I'm biased of course :004:

Got to disagree with you ICT_Away. I went to 6 of the Queensland home games and the atmosphere was terrific. Queensland average crowd was almost 15 000 for the season. There was singing, chanting and cheering. (Probably becasue we were drinking heavily at the games in 30C heat) I thought the standard was as good if not better than the SPL. In seeing that I have only seen 2 SPL games live and about 10 via Internet Football. I think you only need to look at Australia's improving ranking in world football to see that the future looks bright. Especially given that we have qualified for the World Cup and now find ourselves in the Asian Conference. I think Butcher will be able to achieve much more in Sydney than Motherwell. Sydney should qualify for the Asian Champions League next season.

jamsie snr, You must not have been to a Wallabies/All Blacks match yet.