Every journo in the country wants Craig Moore back in the Socceroos.

Every player says we need Moore. We don't, and I don't want him nor his thuggish style.

Craig Moore has played and achieved great things for Rangers and the Socceroos. But he came back to Australia younger than many. Click to continue reading...

Archie Thompson proved himself the hero on Saturday night when he snatched a last minute - literally - equaliser against the Central Coast Mariners, ensuring the Melbourne Victory remains at the top of the A-League ladder after five rounds. For the second week in a row, Melbourne ended the game with ten men. Click to continue reading...

Matt Simon scored two stunning goals for the Mariners last night, and with Victory's erratic keeper Michael Theoklitos given his marching orders for stomping on Sasho " I'm never innocent" Petrovski in the second half, at 2-1 in 93+40 seconds everyone must have thought the game was won.

And then the ball broke to Archie Thompson. Click to continue reading...

Key Questions and answers this week:
Will Mark Bosnich get caught out again either kicking or coming to clear the lines. Yes and it will be fun to watch, or maybe embarrassing.
Can Perth win at home? Not this week.
Will the Jets turn up? Not unless Van Egmond solves the central midfield woes. Click to continue reading...

Archie Thompson has re-signed with the Melbourne Victory for another two years. Archie has been the club marquee since its inaugural campaign and with him re-signing today, it seems he may continue to be the marquee for the next two years. As with most things, some fans are happy with the news, while others aren't quite so [. Click to continue reading...

A-League Assists

If you look at the FFA Hyundai A-League player assist table it shows after Melbourne Victory's 5-0 demolish of Newcastle Jets that Archie Thompson leads the assist table with 3.

A mistake....

Surely Jade North should be on 3, and after last weeks showing Tarek Elrich should be on at least 2. Click to continue reading...

The entire A-League has been handed a weekend's recess to allow the national team to concentrate on their World Cup qualifying visit to Uzbekistan on September 10, but it turns out only one side will actually be affected by national team coach Pim Verbeek's call-ups.

After finally being convinced to elongate the regular season to allow byes over FIFA-recognised match dates, Australian football authorities must now wonder why they bothered. Click to continue reading...

Can't wait to see Melbourne and Sydney playing at home this weekend. Both of the big city clubs have shown they have enough talent and money to keep me awake this year...

Melbourne might have the luxury of leaving Archie Thompson on the bench. Wow!

And Sydney still have John Aloisi to come in. Click to continue reading...

Nick Ward and Archie Thompson will both miss another round, while Michael Theoklitos has also picked up an injury and won't make an appearance against the Wellington Phoenix. The big story this week, though, is the return of Grant Brebner. Brebner hasn't played since December 2007 and looks ready to make his reappearance after a long time [. Click to continue reading...

Nearpost Host Russ Gibbs asks the question.....

The Olyroos: Where was the Magic?

By Russ Gibbs

So, that's that then. After building it up for several months in advance the Australian Olympic team have bowed out of the Beijing Games with barely a whimper having picked up a solitary point from their three group matches. Click to continue reading...

Big game tonight. Can Arnie's defence hold out? and perhaps more importantly can we create....anything!

Australia earned a point, outplayed generally by Serbia in the opening game, but yet if the fastly improving Billy Celeski had scored rather than unluckily hit the post we would surely have won. Click to continue reading...

Strikers Mark Bridge, Nikita Rukavytsya, Archie Thompson Midfield David Carney, Billy Celeski, Stuart Musialik, Neil Kilkenny, Kristian Sarkies, James Troisi Defence Adrian Leijer, Trent McClenahan, Mark Milligan, Matthew Spiranovic, Nikolai Topor-Stanley, Jade North, Ruben Zadkovich Goalkeeper Adam Federici, Tando Velaphi The Offsiders Everyone is talking about the exclusion of Burns and Djite. Click to continue reading...

The Olympic team was announced today and I must say I am disappointed. Greame Arnold has left out Djite, Burns, Williams, Vidosic. He has bizarrely used age as a reason for the decision not to take Djite or Burns. These are the same players that have played against the likes of Kevin Muscat and Craig Moore week in week out. Click to continue reading...

After the hammering Bruce Djite got for his move to Turkey, Harry Kewell has followed by signing with Galatasaray for 3 years. This must mean that the various Italian and Spansih talent scouts gave him a big thumbs down.

It is a very curious move and it will be interesting to see what the financial inducement was. Click to continue reading...

Bruce Djite out, Nathan Burns out, bu Canberran Nikolai Topor-Stanley is in. The Olyroo squad has been named, and eleven A-League players are in the 18.

Australian Football's Big Chance

The announcement today of the men's football section of the Australian Olympic team was a long-awaited reward for eighteen promising athletes. Click to continue reading...

Oman, Kuwait and our near neighbours Indonesia, that's are group for the 2011 Asian Cup.

With the games to start in January on top of the World Cup Qualifiers we're going to need as many professional footballers are we've got. Keep the games and the players coming.

And with left-back David Carney expected to be named in the Olyroo's Beijing squad today as an overage player along with Harry Kewell and Archie Thompson, Canberra born Nikolai Topor-Stanley will face an anxious wait. Click to continue reading...

The calf injury Archie Thompson picked up in the Socceroo's World Cup qualifier with China earlier this week could keep him on the sidelines for the next six weeks. At the very least, Archie will not be available for the Melbourne Victory's April 9 Asian Champions League match against Gamba Osaka, considered by many to be [. Click to continue reading...

"Hand of God," I'll take that in Kunming, how about you?

Now I don't want to worry you but have you seen our goalscoring stats. Goals for Socceroos in brackets.

Now Harry Kewell (9 goals) is out, we have Archie Thompson (21 at least 13 against the Solomon Islands), Marco Bresciano (10 goals) Brett Holman (1)
Michael Beauchamp(1) Jason Culina (1) The other fifteen players No, Zilch, not one! Click to continue reading...

Archie Thompson and Rodrigo Vargas were announced as co-winners of the Victory Medal last night. Kevin Muscat and Michael Theoklitos were joint runners-up, with Carlos Hernández trailing a point behind. Both Thompson and Vargas picked up other awards as well, with Thompson receiving the SEN Player of the Year award and Vargas voted Players' Player of the [. Click to continue reading...

Pim Verbeek held his second training camp yesterday, this time calling in 29 players from the A-League. Eight of the players at the last training camp were left out this time, including the Melbourne Victory's Leigh Broxham and Nick Ward. Kevin Muscat, Archie Thompson and Rodrigo Vargas have all been picked again though. Click to continue reading...

Pim Verbeek announced his 22-man selection for a Socceroos training camp next week. Among them are Melbourne Victory's Archie Thompson, Kevin Muscat and Rodrigo Vargas. Only A-League players were picked for the training camp, though Verbeek insists there's no guarantee that he'll pick exclusively A-League players for the opening World Cup qualifier against Qatar on February [. Click to continue reading...

Apparently Lynch was missing, so the two Victory stars decided to interview each other. Topics include the Phoenix match, the upcoming match against Perth, Muscat's send-off and the Socceroos World Cup qualification draw. Check it out. Share This Click to continue reading...

Things appear to be settling down on the Archie front, but a great big question mark is still looming over Ljubo Milicevic' future with the Melbourne Victory. Earlier this week, Archie Thompson expressed his anger over the suspension, suggesting that he is willing to return to Europe if the "right offer" should arise. But after meeting [...] Click to continue reading...

When Ljubo Milicevic and Archie Thompson missed breakfast on Saturday morning, who knew their absence would cause the controversy that has developed over the past few days. The incident has escalated into question marks over whether Milicevic still has a place at the Melbourne Victory. The pair, who are close friends, went out on Friday night [...] Click to continue reading...

Archie Thompson needs no introduction. In his two years with the Melbourne Victory, he's scored 23 times. Five of those goals came on February 18, 2007, in the 6 - 0 thrashing of Adelaide United. An equally memorable occasion for the striker came in April, 2001, when Archie became the world record holder for goals scored in an [...] Click to continue reading...