Moore Caught in Club Versus Country Conflict

It turns out that Craig Moore won’t be in Guus Hiddink’s training camp next week in Holland. The Socceroos centre back was denied permission from his club team Newcastle. Moore has been injured for seemingly years now and hasn’t played for Newscastle’s first team after joining the club this past summer. Says Glenn Roeder: “But I have told Australia that Moore will not be allowed to play for them until he has played for Newcastle United. In fact if I did let Moore go out Holland this week it would be a really poor professional decision. What would I say to our fans and my chairman if Moore went and broke down again?”

This a classic example of club versus country and since I am on the side of country I must say that Roeder needs to get a clue. Moore deserves a shot at representing his country this summer and without a chance to show his stuff to Hiddink he will not be able to achieve this goal. Sure Newcastle pays the bills, but frankly Roeder’s team sucks anyway and I doubt that Moore is going to do much to change that.