Harry, not as important as Emerton? Cahill, less important than Culina?

Kewell and Cahill are the two pin-up boys, but who do we need to pray has a clean bill of health.

The top-50 caused a bit of a stir last time around. Here’s the first version for 2009.

Verbeek will have the luxury of options Hiddink didn’t have. But the tier below the World Cup squad is a bit of a worry.

1.       Neil – Pommies hate him, we love him.  

2.       Schwarzer – No Zjelko. No Worries.

3.       Culina – let’s hope Miron keeps him fit for the World Cup.

4.       Emerton –

5.       Kewell – The Turks sacrifice a pig for luck before the season. Let’s hope they also prayed for H’s limbs.

 

 6.       Cahill – public hero number 1 is a bonus when he’s available.

7.       Kennedy – not quite our saviour, but it sure helps having the big guy up front.

8.       Wilkshere – Mr Fix it. And a bloody good one.

9.       Moore –

10.   Grella

11.   Chipperfield

12.   Bresciano

13.   Valeri

14.   McDonald

15.   Viduka

16.   Petkovic

17.   Garcia

18.   Carney

19.   Djite

20.   Sterjovski

21.   Jedinak – the big mover

22.   Holman

23.   Beachamp 

24.   North

25.   Federici

26.   Spiranovic – a good year should see the youngster leapfrog two of Beachamp, Coyne and North into the Cup squad.

27.   Coyne

28.    Jones

29.   Carle – remember him …

 

30.    Jacob Burns

31.   Rukavytsia – a bolter for 2010. We need another striker to step up. Waiting for Djite to first.

32.   Galekovic 

33.   Kisnorbo

34.   Holland – another project player in midfield.

35.   Steffanuto 

36.   Troisi

37.   Archie Thompson – probably won’t make another first string squad so long as Verbeek is in charge.

38.   Nathan Burns – was good when he used to get games…

39.   Vukovic

 

40.   Celeski 

41.   Covic

42.   Vargas

43.   McKay

44.   Leijer

45.   Kilkenny

46.   Jamieson 

47.   Zullo

48.   Theoklitos

49.   Bouzanis

50.   Milligan – If all went to plan, he should’ve been playing alongside Lucas Neil all WCQ. What a stuff up …

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There’s always the Griffiths’ boys and a host of Olyroos like David Williams, Dario Vidosic, Stu Musialik, Mark Bridge, Ruben Zadkovich that need to step up.

What do you reckon?