Following what has been a year of disappointing results, the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) has decided to disband the national team, looking instead to blood younger players into coach Radojko Avramovic's squad in a major revamp.
FAS president Zainudin Nordin has finally drawn the line in the sand.
He told MediaCorp yesterday: "We have analysed what has happened in 2010 and realised that for the good of football, we need to have a major revamp of the national team.
"This group of players has served us well ... and reached the end of the line of their career, and it's for us to look for a new generation of players to take us to the next level.
"The players will all be dropped and the national coach and the technical team will have to do a selection, based on merit."
SINGAPORE'S players have reacted with shock and disbelief to this decision
oh no! how am i supposed to afford my spice boy lifestyle!?
Mr Zainudin, calling it the 'the best thing to do for the good of the future of Singapore football', added that probably only four players from the current set-up may return in the future.
Losses aside, the national team has also been hit by revelations of a smoking culture, curfew breaking and ill-discipline among some players.
To add to their woes, Singapore's Fifa world ranking fell last year by 20 places to 140th - their lowest ever.
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