Australia captain Mark Milligan signs - and home kit sponsored by Shrimperzone

[southend4eva]

I am really happy about this.
Still got enough about him imo.
I would be happy if a couple of other of the Aussie team boys got signed.

 

[cerbera45]

The Socceroo's official site

https://www.socceroos.com.au/player/mark-milligan

 

[Seasick Steve]

For all those who have already written off Mark Milligan, a view from north of the border.

https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman....mistake-by-letting-mark-milligan-go-1-5006877

Sort of smacks of some of the Timlin comments on here.

 

[Rayleigh boy]

Where is Milligan ?

......out of his depth

 

[stewart]

Where is Milligan ?

......out of his depth

You must be brain dead to think Milligan is out off his depth ,that man has played higher than this just about all his career,hes not Captain off Australian national side for nothing ,Hes a holding midfielder who can deliver pass,SUFC are blessed to have him ,Ive seen him play countlesss times ,not his fault if we had a manager that didnt know how to use players to their strengths.

 

[superblue24]

Definitely not much strength on offer from what I saw of Shrewsbury's 2nd or 3rd goal where the player went past him like he was no more than a mid-September mosquito. Highly disappointed. Mind you, Australia are hardly Brazil, although they do play in yellow I suppose (as do we!)

 

[RHB]

Definitely not much strength on offer from what I saw of Shrewsbury's 2nd or 3rd goal where the player went past him like he was no more than a mid-September mosquito. Highly disappointed. Mind you, Australia are hardly Brazil, although they do play in yellow I suppose (as do we!)

If you're talking about Milligan, and you are talking about last night's game, then you may not be aware that Milligan wasn't playing. Perhaps I've misunderstood.

 

[stewart]

Exactly ,he didnt play against Shrewsbury so best look at mantom and Hamilton who did play .

 

[southendkid]

Definitely not much strength on offer from what I saw of Shrewsbury's 2nd or 3rd goal where the player went past him like he was no more than a mid-September mosquito. Highly disappointed. Mind you, Australia are hardly Brazil, although they do play in yellow I suppose (as do we!)

Perhaps the reason he didn't offer any strength in defence against Shrewsbury is because he didn't play in that match? I'm not sure who you are looking at but it certainly isn't Milligan.

 

[superblue24]

My bad. Had the same frame as Milligan. Anyone else notice the lack of challenge from the midfield?

 

[Rayleigh boy]

where is our aussie superman ?

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

where is our aussie superman ?

We were in for Steve Smith in the summer but his agent doesn’t like Ron

 

[Blueronron]

We were in for Steve Smith in the summer but his agent doesn’t like Ron

Good job Warner wasn’t free the experts would soon have been on his back .....

 

[blues exile]

Playing or even captaining an international side currently ranked 48th in the world is not setting the bar very high. He has never played in a European league apart from last season at also rans Hibernian, who were happy to let him go after one season. Most of his career has been spent in Australia or China, where he might have been a big fish in a small pond, but a soft option for any player with aspirations to make it to the top. We have seen with other Scottish Premier League signings like Shaughnessy, Ralph etc what a huge gulf there is between that league and the EFL, once you get past Celtic and Rangers, who themselves would probably struggle to get into the English Premier League. At his age Milligan has left it too late to make the grade, perhaps 10 years ago, he might have made it but not now.

 

[Floval Flyer]

We were in for Steve Smith in the summer but his agent doesn’t like Ron

Plus he kept picking the stitching out of the Mitre training balls

 

[RHB]

Playing or even captaining an international side currently ranked 48th in the world is not setting the bar very high. He has never played in a European league apart from last season at also rans Hibernian, who were happy to let him go after one season. Most of his career has been spent in Australia or China, where he might have been a big fish in a small pond, but a soft option for any player with aspirations to make it to the top. We have seen with other Scottish Premier League signings like Shaughnessy, Ralph etc what a huge gulf there is between that league and the EFL, once you get past Celtic and Rangers, who themselves would probably struggle to get into the English Premier League. At his age Milligan has left it too late to make the grade, perhaps 10 years ago, he might have made it but not now.

You may not have read post 143 above. I know that Scottish newspapers aren't anything special but the article sort of makes a nonsense of the highlighted bit in your post.

 

[Floval Flyer]

Re: Milligan’s best position, isn’t he usually a Central defender for the Aussies?

Thought Kiernan was quite effective in CM end of last season, why not put Milligan at the back with Lennon thus allowing Kiernan to push up?

 

[Tyga]

Playing or even captaining an international side currently ranked 48th in the world is not setting the bar very high. He has never played in a European league apart from last season at also rans Hibernian, who were happy to let him go after one season. Most of his career has been spent in Australia or China, where he might have been a big fish in a small pond, but a soft option for any player with aspirations to make it to the top. We have seen with other Scottish Premier League signings like Shaughnessy, Ralph etc what a huge gulf there is between that league and the EFL, once you get past Celtic and Rangers, who themselves would probably struggle to get into the English Premier League. At his age Milligan has left it too late to make the grade, perhaps 10 years ago, he might have made it but not now.

And just to add to what Rootshallbloke said above in his reply to you.

Milligan was to be signed by a couple of Championship clubs over the past few years but was unable to join either due to work permits being denied. He has said many times his dream was to play in Europe and especially in England but all previous attempts to do so were dashed due to work permit issues. He didn't play in China or Australia or the Middle East as an easy option. His last stint in Australia was a last minute decision after another move to Europe fell through.

He finally got his chance in Scotland last season before jumping at the chance to play in England. To my surprise it was with Southend.

 

[blues exile]

You may not have read post 143 above. I know that Scottish newspapers aren't anything special but the article sort of makes a nonsense of the highlighted bit in your post.

I have of course read it, but this journo's view wasn't the manager's. How do you think Hibs would fare in league 1 as a matter of interest?

 

[RHB]

I have of course read it, but this journo's view wasn't the manager's. How do you think Hibs would fare in league 1 as a matter of interest?

Not a clue mate, have a nice day.