Azkals lose Etheridge to Fullham recall

The opening match is your 1st eleven is up not just against eleven Thai players but against 12th Thais on the pitch, with the latter in the form of the 80,000 passionate, noisy deafening crowds. This will be baptism of fire for some of your players who may not had the experience playing in such a capacity noisy crowd. Remember soccer is a mind game not only skills, talents tactical. The  experience players come in handy here, as to guide and calm some of the younger players nerves. 
The recent U-22 tournament in Burma where your U-22  fare poorly was not because the players are not technical skill enough but for some of the players it was their  first time that they were playing in such a crowd capacity with deafening noise,, They were raw and with the noise from such crowd capacity, they lost their concentration and their game fell apart. In the peace Cup, ,the youths that were picked played very well, aid  with support from experience players.
Please do not mistook what I’m trying to put forward here, When i visited Jose Rizal Stadium which i heard so much of, I could sense Patriotism in the air which made why  it is so renown, but i humbly say if i was a player and my first time to play in Jose Rizal Stadium, I wont be affected nor will my game fall apart by such crowd size, because i had played in Stadiums double the size. So maybe it may shed some light here, that Tournament like Suzuki Cup and other major tournaments , you definitely need experience players cos they had played in such a crowd capacity.  Add experience and youth in the team and  you will have a well balance team of youth and experience. Players like Neil is definitely an asset, not only because he is good and  first choice but also he had the experience of playing in many places where the crowd size does not mean anything nor affect his game  Filipino fans from what i observed, are not so noisy and better behaved than some of the us here. Some of the  fans ( exclude Filipino fans )   jump up and down like monkeys  for the entire 90 minutes, swearing cursing insulting trying to intimate opposition teams and some of them bring along Dequadine or Strepsil sore throat relief capsules  ( they had to, after all the screaming  swearing and yelling for 90 minutes ), Even heavy metal rock bands lose out to these type of soccer fanatic fans, These are  some of the reasons I stopped going to stadium here, I wish The Philippines team all the best and win or lose, your team and soccer  in Philippines is on the rise, Thank you and God bless