James Overy

He's already shown so much and he's probably just going to keep getting better.

Who else have we got? Why do I feel like I'm just really forgetting players right now? Obviously, we've just signed James Overy.

I think he's going to be one that I think he probably needs a little bit of time to really settle in and then hit his straps.

But I think, you know, he's had so much promise around him.

Who else have we got here?

James Ovary, Oreola Sunday, Zach Harrison.

Ethan Dyer.

Gabriel Popovic.

Um, anyways, um, Jamie, your thoughts on the incomings.

I really like Sakine from what I've seen so far.

I think James Ovary will probably be good.

Jay Coleman I'm iffy about just 'cause his injury record isn't great.

So a few of those boys that came off the bench certainly provided a bit of a spark.

We didn't see James Overy off the bench.

So hopefully...

The opposite of what we saw for the Socceroos, we're going to see some heavy rotation into the second game where we're going to see plenty of the players that weren't used get some game time.

And I think, you know, great advert for Australian football.

Yeah, and especially with this Olly Roos team, I mean, Irat Kunda will still be young enough, and you can always take over aged players, but he's not in this squad, but James Overy will be, of course, a Perth local and also someone that has been mooted for a potential senior Socorro's call-up.

So certainly this series rolling into the A-League season, even though it's only a short runway to the Asian Cup, I still feel as though there are plenty of A-League-based players who, if they start the A-League season in hot form, could definitely get called up in the November window and send that into a potential spot at the Asian Cup as well in January.

Absolutely.

Yeah, and I think that's not a bad thing.

I think also when you look at it, we talk about returning players from overseas, a bit of a coup for Sydney in getting someone that was in the Manchester United line-up, a young Australian who you thought, you know, choice between Man United and Sydney, but he's coming home.

On the other hand, I'm sure James O'Brien would have had to go out on a series of loans if Manchester United wanted to keep him on the books, or he may well have been left to his own devices, potentially, to find a new club if they'd released him.

Whereas in the A-League, he's right under Tony Popovich's nose, great chance of getting selected for the Socceroos.

Is there concerns that maybe the 2007-2008 generation may not be as...

Apart from obviously outliers like Lucas Harrington and, you know, Dylan is showing some promise, maybe James Overy.

Do you think apart from that, do you think there's some concerns about the depth of that generation that whether we have some really good talents compared to say the 2005, 2006 generation? You've obviously had experience as a scout.

So your opinion on this is particularly interesting.

Obviously, Dylan Leonard is in that age group as well.

James Overy, another player in that age group, but obviously had a transfer situation going on.

So a lot of players, yes, have graduated to senior football proper.

And these three players have started playing some senior football.

Yeah.

So we see what it does.

For Overy... really exploded his developments as well and his profile to the point now that he's earned to move to senior football and was getting into Socceroos squads, right? So these are important, right? These are important competitions that we need to do well.

Additionally, though, there is also part of that story of we've also lost players to other nations, right? Some of which are understandable in the case of Gianluca Oconensola and Arena, Italy.