Ger Gilroy

Blowing up.

Yeah, it seems like football or soccer in Australia seems to be really on the up.

It's definitely one of, you know, it's growing in popularity, you know, maybe in the next couple of years it probably overtakes rugby union as, you know, the third most popular sport.

Probably already has in Australia.

And it's one of the great things about this World Cup.

is that this Aussie team, you know, quite a lot of the players are like kind of the sons of, you know, immigrants into the country.

You've got like Nestor Yurikunda, Aura Mabel, who's like, I think, South Sudanese descent.

Like it's a really great story and it seems to be bringing kind of

the Australian nation together.

And, um, this seems to be real buzz in Australia.

And I know I have a couple of mates out there that are, you know, watching the games and they're getting up at five o'clock in the morning to watch Australia.

And it's a, it's like a really nice story and it kind of puts a bit of faith in back in humanity and back in football because, you know, all these players have came through and, and, and being developed in Australia.

Um,

And they played really well against Turkey and have a serious opportunity of even topping the group or coming second and getting a favourable draw in the round of 32.

And, you know... The round of 32.

Yeah, which is mad.

It's just like...

if you think back though to the remember the game against Argentina in Qatar they weren't far away from Argentina in that game like Messi had to score late on you know to get Australia over the line and they had a really big chance near the end as well as the guy that went to Newcastle Garang Kual who missed a really good chance for the Aussies late on in that tournament so they are a good side alright a reminder that our bet builder is Rhys James to be yellow carded and Harry Kane over one and a half shots on target comes in at 12 to 1

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