Aussie manager on Sammy’s inclusion:
Sam Silvera's inclusion and the Boro boys
I was away overseas for the last two and a half weeks looking at players. Being close and seeing them live is a completely different thing to sitting at home watching them on the computer. I've had a great experience catching up with all the boys. Sammy Silvera’s doing very, very well with Middlesborough. I had a meeting with Michael Carrick, everything is really really positive about himself, Riley (McGree) and Tommy Glover there. So, I was able to go and watch a lot of the boys play and they're probably the ones that have been included that were impressive when I went and watched them play, but also, they’re fully match fit, and they're ready to go against a nation that's ranked number 12 in the world.
Silvera's scintillating form
Already, (he's Silvera) probably played 10 games. And, by the end of this September, you would have already played half the season in the A-League (Men’s). So he's doing very, very well. He's playing on the right-hand side at Middlesbrough as a right winger out-and-out, very good. I watched him twice when I was in the UK. It was only a couple of nights ago against Bolton Wanderers. And he's doing very very well but, just think that in the A-League [Men’s] at times, he was a bit hot and cold but he's he seems to be performing more at a good level now.