Do you think our football team has improved?

[hongwei09]

I havebeen to almost all our football games played in kallang and i dare say our team at this moment is the BEST i have seen for years!Apart from 94, we haven really have a team as strong as now.

 

although we haven beat vietnam or indonesia or malaysia, but i guess the win against Laos speaks great volume.

 

Let us support the Lions to beat arch rivals Thailand in the Final!

[pyro13]

baihakki khaizan is darn gd..

[wait4me]

good??

 

er ..... i dun thik so ...

good means winning and not on penaties...

winning comfortably

 

 

thailand is good

[archenemy]

the only thing im glad about is that the average age of our players are coming down..

 

i see more youngsters in the team...

 

look at the team last time...fandi + david lee + sundram + malek = more than a 100 years old already!

 

so its a good sign...

[pyro13]

well, penalties still differentiate the winners rite??? they used to be beaten by malaysia badly..but they won now..give them credit.. we need pple to support our lions.. its pple like you tat causes the lions to be disheartened

[wait4me]

Originally posted by pyro13@January 29, 2007 11:55 am

well, penalties still differentiate the winners rite??? they used to be beaten by malaysia badly..but they won now..give them credit.. we need pple to support our lions.. its pple like you tat causes the lions to be disheartened

yeah so be disheartened .....

 

gone are the days of real support

[Aie]

Hmmm, I don't really follow our local soccer scene so I wouldn't know whather they have improved or otherwise. I think this thread should have been posted in the Soccer Frenzy section...

[singrider]

Actually its the opposing teams (like Malaysia for one) that has slacken and which give the impresssion tt the Lions has 'improved'.

[binkaz]

watching the last penalty, it seemed like lionel lewis knew where that guy was going to kick... dun seem to have much flow in their game too sia... but i guess what matters is they win la...

 

btw, what happened to goal 2010? it seemed to have vanished

[åæçˆ]

I still rem one time in malaysia cup , malaysia beaten singapore... And i have such a malaysian frd being scarastic saying the singapore players played lously. Now, singapore has won.. Yet they saying that there is foreign players playing in the group. But who is the one who kicked the winning goal after all? Singapore is better than malaysia in economy , yet suffered a bit in the sports world. Y? Cos singapore dun have Full timer players, yet Malaysia has Full-timers for their sports career. So , in this view, if a PT players can play well in ASEAN games or other competition better a FULL -timers, this really show the capable our players are. Dun u guys agree?

 

[Aie]

Originally posted by binkaz@January 29, 2007 04:34 pm

btw, what happened to goal 2010? it seemed to have vanished

They scrapped that goal cos by the way things are going, really cannot make it...

[åæçˆ]

Originally posted by Aie@January 29, 2007 01:44 pm

Hmmm, I don't really follow our local soccer scene so I wouldn't know whather they have improved or otherwise. I think this thread should have been posted in the Soccer Frenzy section...

hahaha...

[LimHammett]

Originally posted by singrider@January 29, 2007 04:26 pm

Actually its the opposing teams (like Malaysia for one) that has slacken and which give the impresssion tt the Lions has 'improved'.

if we can start beating our local south east asian oppenents regularly and easily.. den we can start talking about our team improving..

 

we are a still loooooooooonnnnnnnngggggggg shot from the world cup..and even the asian cup!!!

 

dominate SEA soccer den.. ASIAN soccer.. den WORLD soccer!!

 

hahhaa!

[compfused]

Originally posted by singrider@January 29, 2007 04:26 pm

Actually its the opposing teams (like Malaysia for one) that has slacken and which give the impresssion tt the Lions has 'improved'.

Have to agree..Ahaha..Why Singapore does not excel in sports like our neighbouring countries? Simple..We cannot make a living (career) of the sport (any sport that we love)..Hence the reason why its hard to find new talents..Goal 2010? Ahaha..Wishful thinkin..Also seems like our players get fat headed easily just by winnin a few games here and there..And they get overconfident and think too highly of themselves..They are not in anyway humble IMO..

[patriots]

I would really say that Singapore soccer improves if they can compete well against the Thais.

 

Watch the final first before I cast my vote

[saboon]

Hopefully all those who are so critical about the national team would still support them wholeheartedly. After all it is OUR national team, not some one else.

 

If Singaporeans do not support the national team, then do we have to sub contract it to the foreign talents to do it for us?

 

Come on, forgo what the mind says, go with the heart, it may be wrong but it sure feels right.

[mat-vtech]

Originally posted by saboon@January 30, 2007 12:56 am

Hopefully all those who are so critical about the national team would still support them wholeheartedly. After all it is OUR national team, not some one else.

 

If Singaporeans do not support the national team, then do we have to sub contract it to the foreign talents to do it for us?

 

Come on, forgo what the mind says, go with the heart, it may be wrong but it sure feels right.

[LimHammett]

Originally posted by saboon@January 30, 2007 12:56 am

If Singaporeans do not support the national team, then do we have to sub contract it to the foreign talents to do it for us?

sub contracting those NFL or NBA cheerleaders would be good!!

 

heheheheh!!!

 

[wait4me]

i miss those malaysian cup days

 

 

i miss queing up overnight for tickets

 

i miss those times walking from kallang mrt to stadium

and then when we win... the joy of walking back to kallang mrt from stadium

 

 

i am sure going to miss kallang stadium

will go and take pics for my memories

[Tortise]

Originally posted by summerlove^_^@January 29, 2007 04:43 pm

Cos singapore dun have Full timer players, yet Malaysia has Full-timers for their sports career. So , in this view, if a PT players can play well in ASEAN games or other competition better a FULL -timers, this really show the capable our players are. Dun u guys agree?

 

Singapore team is made up of full time professional S-League players, some of whom are paid much much more than the Malaysian full timers.

 

And players from both countries should take heart at the performance of players from Thai and Vietnam who get even half of their monthly salaries.

 

It's not really about being full timers or highly paid professionals. If a team is good, they're good.

 

I'm not saying the Lions are totally lousy coz there are good players like Baihakki, the right winger with the bandage, Daniel Benett, Noh Alam Shah (my favourite), Indra. But they are not that good either coz they are so disorganised. Poor passing and too many longshots at goal (which means totally no idea how to get into the box). This can be improved (I think) with more setup practice.

[Jengo]

Originally posted by saboon@January 30, 2007 12:56 am

Hopefully all those who are so critical about the national team would still support them wholeheartedly. After all it is OUR national team, not some one else.

 

If Singaporeans do not support the national team, then do we have to sub contract it to the foreign talents to do it for us?

 

Come on, forgo what the mind says, go with the heart, it may be wrong but it sure feels right.

yea man.. its after all our home team.. give dem d support dey need.. who knows, they would repay us back wit magnificent display of goals against the thais..

[audere]

But imo i still feel our S'pore team lack a V.Sundramoorthy or Fandi Ahmad. Players like dem makes us excited thru their skills n brilliant goals. But nonetheless d current team is improving under d stewardship of raddy avramovic. to me he is the man who transform our S'pore team into one which have resilience, discipline, teamwork and unity.. SINGAPORE FOR THE ASEAN CUP!!! :cheer:

[TLK24]

Originally posted by audere@February 03, 2007 10:52 pm

But imo i still feel our S'pore team lack a V.Sundramoorthy or Fandi Ahmad. Players like dem makes us excited thru their skills n brilliant goals. But nonetheless d current team is improving under d stewardship of raddy avramovic. to me he is the man who transform our S'pore team into one which have resilience, discipline, teamwork and unity....

but somehow it's better not to have players of Sundram/Fandi calibre coz if there is, the whole favouritism policy will occur again

 

if they are out-of-form or not playing well, they will still be in the field and of coz, they will be the ONLY target man. so once the target man being marked down, the rest of the players will sumhow have no idea/ on how to attack.

 

whereas for now, game play is wide open, from Benett to Mustafic and even to Riduan. that type of open play is makes the opponent unable to predict the game. that will leave more space for our strikers to move forward.

 

at least now, we have the big Precious as the backbone of the defence (sorry, Aide's fans), reliable Mustafic doing the Keane-job at the centre of midfield and Noh Alam Shah, the opportunist who seems to have found his scoring boots

 

of coz, the rest are playing their part too esp their up-to-standard physical game which had brought worries to our counterparts

 

but I think some new faces need more exposure. can really see their "kanchong-ness" when playing in front of some 55,000 demanding fans (of coz i'm included)

[Tortise]

Originally posted by TLK24@February 04, 2007 01:26 am

but somehow it's better not to have players of Sundram/Fandi calibre coz if there is, the whole favouritism policy will occur again

Unless of course if we have 11 of them

[hAnZahAr]

they should go back to malaysia cup