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Split Game 2



May as well get it out of the way. Dundee United play Cowdenbeath tomorrow, so we can steal a March on them. But it's very likely that at close of play, we've lost and they've won.



And so goes the absolute baffling nature of this side. We played the Champions elect off the park at Firhill to win 3-0, while their cross town rivals smashed through Queen of the South. That secures Champions League football for Rangers at the very least, and some kind of Europa League place for us. It's either 3rd or 4th now, both of which would satisfy expectations. But I don't think anyone can argue with my thoughts that it could've been better.



Fair to say that the Old Firm game will be a fiery one...

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What a day for Scottish football. The title could well be decided, as could the battle for 3rd and 4th. Livingston's fate could also be decided, as well as who might finish in the playoff place with Dundee and East Stirlingshire facing off.

Day of reckoning.



****.

Celtic open up a five point gap with two to go, and have almost certainly won the league again. Dundee United have narrowed the gap to two points now with a commanding win that leaves us looking over our shoulder, where we should have been securing 3rd.

In the bottom half, Livingston do win but only a Dundee defeat would have kept them fighting. Their win means that Livi are down, and the battle for that playoff place gets a bit interesting.

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Bit of annoying scheduling as we don't play the same day as Dundee United. they lost unexpectedly the day before they, meaning that our draw puts us well in the driving seat. Any sort of result in our final game will secure third position, while Dundee United have to win and hope we lose.

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It was almost disaster in the final game as we absolutely stank the place it in a defeat in Cowdenbeath. Fortunately for us, Dundee United weren't much better, losing their own game at Ibrox 2-0.



Huge anti-climax in the end with both of us losing. We finished a massive 14 points behind Rangers, and at the start of April it was just 5. We even took points off them in that time. Just goes to show how much we struggle to close out seasons.

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Post-season







The board are happy with what happened, but to be honest I'm not. Like I said earleir, we're so frustratingly inconsistent. With the results we're clearly capable of, we should be challenging for the title, not struggling to beat bottom half teams one week then beating Celtic the next.



And then this comes out. Only £1 million given for transfers, which to be honest isn't really enough to pick up one player, let alone the multiple ones we need to fill the leaving loan players. Every year we have players I'd love to keep, but their parent club says no because, totally correctly, they're good enough for that first team. So we get another raft of players in that don't know each other, the form suffers early in the season, and then we're left playing catch-up right up until our inevitable end of season collapse around the split.

My only real hope is that I can get enough loan signings in the door that we don't choke at key moments and manage to grab 2nd in the league. But then we need to somehow get into the group stages, which I'm not sure we've got in us. We need that Champions League money for the next level, but I'm not sure it's even that achievable.



A shock decision, perhaps, but one that I thought long and hard about. Australia is going so well, and I'm not happy doing double duty. I'm not convinced I won't spend the next few years working my fingers to the bone qualifying for the Champions League, then spend lonely years struggling there. If this was a one-club save, that would be fine, but I have targets to meet, and I'll do whatever it takes to meet them.

So I leave Glasgow, heading over to Australia full time as we prepare for the final round of World Cup qualifying. We're now two years away from a possible World Cup campaign, and around 30 months from our Asian Cup bow. After that, I'm leaving the country no matter what, but hopefully it's with one more trophy.

Sorry Kingsley...

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So, Australia. First up I was asked whether I wanted to manage in the Olympics. Not one I planned on winning, but hey, may as well take the shot.

Unfortunately, it seemed to all be a ruse. We actually already have an U23s manager, and although I clicked take control, it didn't have any effect.

Boooooooooooooooooo.



No water for me, thanks. No more club jobs either for the next two years, unless the perfect one comes up.



Naaaah...



This was a little tempting, surely? A chance to manage one of the greatest teams in Europe, right? Wrong. A couple of second place finishes, but they haven't won the league since 2028. A horrible run for the men from Bavaria. Still, I attended the interview, got offered, but declined. The tease.



Never did like Milan. I'm a Rome man.

[Nobby_McDonald]

So where next then... Deportivo Wanka?

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We start the final phase as we finished the second. By demolishing the opposition. It's already looking like a straight shoot-out between ourselves and South Korea once again, but Iran may have a say.



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We may have won our game, but first blood has been drawn in the group as South Korea have another massive win. They draw considerably ahead of us on goal difference, putting slightly more pressure on us ahead of our next meeting with them. It's easy to imagine a situation where we trade wins in the two games between us, and in that case it will come down to who batters the others by more goals. 1st and 2nd doesn't really matter, as both will qualify, but still it would be nice to top the group. There's always the small chance that we make it into the top 8 in the world, and so secure a pot 1 spot in the World Cup. That's the aim.



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No-one blinks yet in the group, still neck and neck.



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Oh. Oh dear.

I stupidly changed slightly away from how we always play to pack the midfield. Essentially I moved away from using full-backs to put an extra man in central defense and central midfield. It worked. For approximately 8 minutes.

South Korea fully deserve their win, and now they're three points ahead AND have a far, far superior goal difference.



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The comeback trail begins. I stuck with the system that was ruthlessly exposed by South Korea, because I believe that it is still a good system, just maybe not the one to play in a must-win qualifier. We struggled at times against Lebanon though, so maybe I'll have to bite my tongue and move away from using it. South Korea, once again, battered their opposition. A commanding lead for them now.



To put it into perspective, if all our results match South Korea's from now on, except when we play them (where we win, obviously), then we'll need to win 10-0 to get the required swing. Obviously from now on the aim will be to win and score as many goals as possible, so that we only need a smaller win. But the way the Koreans are playing, we could struggle.

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In a break from qualifying, we found the time to lose to Scotland. Wonder if Bobby Nicol had a wee wry smile over that one.

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No messing about. 4-4-2 makes a return and it was enough to absolutely demolish Yemen. And to give us another boost, we bettered South Korea by four goals, inching ever closer.



South Korea already have a play-off spot at least, and we'll probably join them in that after the next round of games. Obviously though, it's the top two spots we're going for, and probably what we're both going to get.

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Well that was fun while it lasted.

Iran put up tough resistance, as we knew they would, and South Korea danced all over Uzbekistan. Top spot is now looking very, very unlikely.



Three games, a nineteen goal swing needed. Unlikely. We secure a play-off spot, and we'll have secured qualification in the next match if we win and Iran drop points.

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Hello...catching up again. I can't help but feel like they're suckering me in and that South Korea will end up beating us in the final game, but hope is still there.



Just the fifteen goal swing now in two games. Two 5-0 wins will do it. Easy.

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Worrying friendly action. We're doing well in our own confederation, but that's two defeats now to sides from Europe and South America. We'll need to improve for next summer.

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The dream survives, even if it's flickering.



You know what? This is doable. Nine goals of a difference, so a 5-0 win for us would see us take it. Obviously that's still a huge, huge ask for us, but it's achievable.

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Have to hold my hands up, we just had too much to do, and South Korea played us brilliantly. In a completely opposite universe to the second phase, we had to watch as our opponents beat us twice and finished with a perfect record. I set us out in a conservative 4-4-2, but with the full intention of going at them. We did just that, and found ourselves 2-0 down. We never really recovered from that, and by the time the last half hour or so came round, I was already resigned that it was over.

Full credit to my side though - we're going to the World Cup after only losing two games.



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Again though, against opposition outside of Asia, we're struggling. Finland are the latest side to tear strips off of us. This World Cup is going to be very interesting.



Finally though, some good news. We beat a side from outside of Asia! Sure it's only Algeria, but they'll be taking their place at the World Cup too, so still a creditable win.

Which brings me on to...



The draw itself. We got Wales, Chile and Holland. Well thank **** for that, for a minute there I thought we might actually get a reasonable group...

If we do manage to get through that, then it's one of Italy, Japan, Tunisia or Uruguay in store for us. Uruguay have beaten us recently, Italy we play in March (and I'm not hopeful), and strangely although we haven't had trouble with Asian sides, we also haven't played Japan in a long time.

But that's getting ahead of ourselves, as I'm not even sure we'll make it out of the group.

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A little bit of a morale booster with a friendly win over old foes South Korea. We've now played them five times since the start of qualifying, and we're edging it 3 to 2. This one might have been a friendly, but it mattered a lot to us. The win s hows us that our qualifying performances in the final phase were not now we have to play. We're better than that.



But for all the promise that that result gave us, it evaporated when Italy shook us off easily. 3-1 seems like a decent scoreline, and I suppose it is, but if we were to sneak through the group in 2nd and face Italy, I saw nothing here to suggest that we can beat them.

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Cut Squad

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A wonderful start to the World Cup for us as we get what seemed like an unlikely win against Wales. Both Chile and Holland will prove tough opposition, so to get three points on the board at this stage is great news. One more win and we're in the next round...

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We gave it a good go, but just came up short. 3-2 against a team like Holland goes down as a good result in most team's books, but we're left thinking that it could've been better. A late goal looked to have grabbed us a point, but they got the winner two minutes later to break Australian hearts.

Wales now face Holland in their final game, while we face Chile. The advantage is still just about in our court, but it's still in the balance.

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Thursday 29th June



We rescued a draw, but a crazy five minute spell in the second half saw us throw away a position of strength, and throw away three points. Would it be enough to see us qualify?



Just. Wales couldn't get anything from Holland, so they go through with a 100% record, and we follow them on just four points.

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All that meant that we finished second. You know exactly who finished first in the opposite group, don't you?



Yup. Italy. We're screwed.

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Unfortunately, Italy proved to have just too much for us. Well, I say just too much. Far too much really. In the end this tournament wasn't about winning it. Of course I would have taken that, and been absolutely delighted, but we were never realistically in with any chance. A second round exit is just above par for me, and we can't really have any complaints.

We now turn attentions to January, and the Asian Cup.

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And a quick round-up of how the rest of the tournament went. A familiar look to it, and of course, Germany went on to win. Good for them.

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World Cup qualifying doesn't start for a little while, so the end of 2102 was all about preparing for the Asian Cup by playing a number of friendlies. Observe...











Unbeaten, but to be honest we were never that impressive. They don't really mean anything though, and as long we're in form come the tournament, I'll be happy. Speaking of which...



Fairly happy with this. No huge team in the group, and we should be able to top it fairly easily. Elsewhere in the tournament...



I assumed it would be a smaller one, but we've ended up with 24 sides, same as the expanded Euros. Realistically there are four possible winners - ourselves, Japan, China and South Korea. We're all top seeds, so avoid each other. I would think we'd also avoid them until at least the quarter final, possibly the semi. We'll meet them at some point though, I would hope. Beating South Korea in the final would be most pleasing.

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Saturday 13th January



We are Australia. We're here for the trophy.

An unbelievable start to our campaign with an 8-1 demolition of sorry Iraq.

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It's just oh so easy. That's 13 goals, with the only blemish being the conceding of two goals. We have been nigh on perfect so far, and all I can say is that I hope it doesn't breed overconfidence.

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Again, it's hard to complain when you've just scored five again, but we're leaking sloppy goals at the back, and I'm worried we may come unstuck when we face sides of quality. Still, that's three out of three, and eighteen goals scored. We're on fire.

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Singapore are next up to face the Australia Trebuchet. Can they stop us scoring at least five?

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No, they can't. 5-0 is the scoreline, and to be honest it was another stroll.

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And that concludes the first round of games, meaning we can now plan out our route to the final. We're up against one of the favourites (although probably the 4th favourites) in China, with a probable meeting with South Korea in store for the winners. The final is likely to be between Japan and one of the other three favourites, but anything could happen here. Our goalscoring run has to end sometime.

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Is there anyone that can stop us? China dispatched easily as we hit seven past them.

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That win sets up a semi final clash with South Korea. Bring them on.

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Remember that 4-2 win in the final match of World Cup Qualifying where we struggled and eventually lost? Karma's a bitch isn't it?

We were far from our best, certainly nowhere near the heights we've hit so far in the tournament. But then this is by far the toughest match we've faced. We got through it, and with Japan awaiting in the final, can they stop us?

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Asian Champions.

We've got the trophy that I've now spent almost four years coveting, and it feels damn good. Again, it was a tough match, much tougher than anything other than the South Korea game. But twice we had the game easily won, one of those times we were pegged back. At 2-2, I was worried. I've been saying the entire tournament that we're going to pay for losing sloppy goals, and that was so nearly the case here. Luckily we turned a corner after their equaliser and managed to head into a 4-2 lead that we didn't relinquish. When we scored the 4th in the 85th minute, it was party time.

Champions.

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Just the 17 goals in 7 games. No biggie.



And following that, we move up to the 9th best side in the World. This may be a false position given that most other sides in World football haven't played since November, but it's good way to go out.



The usual "where now" news item. Well, wherever it is for them, it won't be with me. I'm off.

[Jason the Yank]

Cross off another trophy, Bobby.