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ally
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54th now - only 2 ahead of Iceland
I'm not even gonna waste my time shouting about why fifa's ranking system is so sh*t.
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Total Posts: 179 | Joined Jan. 2002 | Posted on: 3:38 pm on May 16, 2002 | IP
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Phil MaGlass
GET A LIFE!!! |
Hopefully it has nothing to do with the fact that were 5hit.
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Total Posts: 698 | Joined Sep. 2001 | Posted on: 3:44 pm on May 16, 2002 | IP
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Craigos
Opinionated Wind Bag |
Hey, 54th is doing us a favour. I don't think we are as good as Iceland. Watch us slip further down when we get gubbed by SA and the Honk Kong League Select, Scotland aren't a good team any more.
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We have beaten England! Lord Nelson, Lord Beaverbrook, Sir Winston Churchill, Sir Anthony Eden, Clement Attlee, Henry Cooper, Lady Diana, we have beaten them all! Maggie Thatcher, can you hear me? Maggie Thatcher, your boys took a hell of a beating.!" - Norwegian commentator after his country's defeat of England, 1981.
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Total Posts: 203 | Joined Mar. 2002 | Posted on: 4:02 pm on May 16, 2002 | IP
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jimbers
GET A LIFE!!! |
Well that all depends on who plays!!!
Sully
Naysmith Elliott Weir Stockdale
McCann Bazza Lambo Burley
Big Don
Dobbie
might do better against korea???
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Total Posts: 410 | Joined Mar. 2002 | Posted on: 4:13 pm on May 16, 2002 | IP
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jimbers
GET A LIFE!!! |
as for fifa's rankin yep its trash but when qualiying draws come along we will be like Wales!!
two/three massive sides
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Total Posts: 410 | Joined Mar. 2002 | Posted on: 4:16 pm on May 16, 2002 | IP
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Neutral Observer
Opinionated Wind Bag |
I know I'll get funny looks but I am a staunch defender of the rankings system as it is.
The FIFA rankings procedures aren't perfect. If they were, they wouldn't have been revised in 1999. But they have to come up with seedings somehow and I shudder to think what would happen if they went down the avenue of a media poll like college sports in America do, you'd end up with martial law most likely.
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Total Posts: 163 | Joined April 2002 | Posted on: 10:00 pm on May 16, 2002 | IP
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giblet
Talks too much |
The problem with the rankings is that they favour big fish in small ponds, ie Mexico.
As long as they are merely used to fill spaces in Newspapers, thats fine. The problems will start when/if FIFA uses them for seedings.
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"A huge Scotsman has been stood completely still, holding a football and a constant supply of two bottles of beer, staring into the square for , according to witnesses, two hours."
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Total Posts: 141 | Joined Feb. 2002 | Posted on: 10:04 pm on May 16, 2002 | IP
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sandyb
Fresh ideas |
Remeber
Its not the rankings that count, its the taking part!
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ding a ding a ding there goes wullie on the wing
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Total Posts: 14 | Joined Mar. 2002 | Posted on: 10:25 pm on May 16, 2002 | IP
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Neutral Observer
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Quote: from giblet on 10:04 pm on May 16, 2002
The problem with the rankings is that they favour big fish in small ponds, ie Mexico.
Agreed, but FIFA have done reasonably well in offsetting that.
As long as they are merely used to fill spaces in Newspapers, thats fine. The problems will start when/if FIFA uses them for seedings.
They already do. the World Rankings accounted for about 33% of the co-efficient that decided the 5 teams that joined the hosts and holders as seeds in the World Cup (the other 67% from performances from the '90, '94 and '98 finals). (I know, I know, reading FIFA media directives...I need to get out more)
(Edited by Neutral Observer at 10:35 pm on May 16, 2002)
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