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weekevie
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I Still think Iceland are at this time better than Scotland, So it's going to be difficult to play them again, I Think we can beat them but they must go into this match bumming with confidence , yes they lost to Northern Ireland but this match is Rejkjkavik. Of course i want us to win, I'll just see how we play against Faroes before i predict anything.. but maybe a draw wouldn't be such a bad result if it did come to that.
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CUFC_England
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Quote: from ReekySporran on 7:28 pm on Aug. 15, 2002
A Maurice, what a wheeze! England couldn't beat Greece, nor South Korea, nor Cameroon, nor Sweden (again) and got humped by Brazil, yet you are in the top 10 - hows that?????
We didn't need to beat Greece (and we did beat them away from home). A draw was enough to qualify.
South Korea and Cameroon were both pre-tournament friendlies - read into them as much as you want, we know they mean nothing.
Sweden - our nemesis. Didn't lose to them though. Are you suggesting there is some sort of shame in drawing with them? They are a damn good side and would spank Scotland.
Oh and we didn't get 'humped' by Brazil. Humped is being beaten 5-0. We lost 2-1 in a World Cup quarter-final.
And reaching a WC quarter-final is the reason we're in the Top 10, not to mention several other pretty good results such as a 5-1 'humping' of Germany in Munich. 
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JimFaeKdy
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"Humped is being beaten 5-0"
"5-1 humping of Germany in Munich"
Make your mind up CUFC.....what wan is it to be.
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the boykerr
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exactly and they way that the germans played that day, Albion Rovers could have whipped them 5-1!!!!
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Kernaghan
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I don't think they could actually.
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Joncutler
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Cufc is it just the friendlies England don't win that mean nothing? or do you mean any friendly doesn't matter.
5-0 was a friendly so does that matter to you?
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Broony
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Aye, they could now they've signed Kevin McAlistair. They played Peterhead off the park last Sat. anyway.
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the boykerr
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and peterhead are nae push-over either!
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Kernaghan
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In general I think friendlies mean a lot. When we play a friendly against Holland or Germany or Argentina you try telling me the result doesn't matter. Any friendly in fact - I always want my team to win. A lot. The same applies to you I have no doubt.
But when the game is ruined by one or more sides substituting every player on the pitch, then yes, I am inclined to think it means nothing.
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doricduncan
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Cufc and kerny i do not think you understand the Scotland fan. We are nothing like you lot and although the result is important, We pride our selfs in being the best support in the world more than the playing side of things although it is nice to win. I personally couldn't care less about the rankings.
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CUFC_England
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Quote: from doricduncan on 3:52 pm on Aug. 17, 2002
Cufc and kerny i do not think you understand the Scotland fan. We are nothing like you lot and although the result is important, We pride our selfs in being the best support in the world more than the playing side of things although it is nice to win. I personally couldn't care less about the rankings.
I understand that completely - take a look at the club team I support.
I also understand that you aren't like 'us lot' in that we have a good side, not a bunch of two-bob cloggers who will never come near to qualifying for a tournament in the next 20 years.
However if you think the fact that you don't care about being rubbish means you aren't going to get a bit of stick about it from England fans, then think again. You're crap and you know you are. So do we.
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Kernaghan
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Don't misunderstand me, Duncan, I don't care about the rankings either. But I think you are putting the cart before the horse if being good supporters matters more than having a successful team. It is because of the team that you are called supporters in the first place. There might be some scots gnashing their teeth at comments like '...although it is nice to win'. 
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craig smith
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I tend to disagree aswell doricduncan, yes it's nice to be great supporters but first and foremost I want to win, I am optimistic that we are on the up and dont get me wrong I will always follow scotland no matter what but how many of us walked out of that stadium in Belgium thinking I am wasting my time with that shower of shite but it's ok cause we are the best supporters in the world.
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the boykerr
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craig, totally agree with ye there, i think that although tartan army folk take a pride in their behaviour (especially abroad), the result is very important - if nothing else tae bridge the gap between ourselves and our soapdodging neighbours tae the south!!!
brussels was a good example though, that wee street going past the fountains outside the ground was a very unhappy place that night, but evrybody knew they would be back for the next game whether we had won or lost.
with the resourses of our country (even within the union) we should be qualifying for most tournaments and ultimately in galaxy far far away maybe we can even win something!!! results do matter!!!!
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Total Posts: 224 | Joined Dec. 2001 | Posted on: 9:09 pm on Aug. 18, 2002 | IP
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Jam
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<We didn't need to beat Greece (and we did beat them away from home). A draw was enough to qualify. >
Blethers CUFC. You needed to beat them before the game started (assuming Germany won). The players may have suspected that Germany had drawn after gayboy's freekick but to imply they played for the draw that they only happened to need in the end is a gross misrepresentation. Such foresight the english team has.  They were jammy in that game.
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CUFC_England
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We certainly were lucky. I didn't mean to suggest that we played for a draw - we most definitely did not! - but what I meant was, the way results went for us we didn't need to beat Greece because we qualified anyway.
You may just as well give Germany stick and laugh at them for not being able to beat Finland at home. We won the group - simple as that. Saying we couldn't beat Greece is fairly irrelevant. Brazil lost to Ecuador in their qualifers yet didn't do too badly at the tournament itself.
I was at the game and didn't know the Germany score - someone behind me had said they were winning 1-0, so when Beckham's FK went in I still thought we had blown it. It was only when the final whistle went and all the players started celebrating that it became clear we had done enough.
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WillfaeSwindon
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Thing is CUFC, up until just before u equalised, u DID need to win. Germany should have beaten Finland (especially with their chances they created) Do you think the england v Greece result would have been any different if Germany had scored a winner????
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CUFC_England
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No - we were playing for the win, and I'm sure most of the players thought they had to win as well.
All I meant was that we qualified without having to beat Greece, so the draw ended up being a great result - which means most England fans really couldn't give a toss when told "You couldn't even beat Greece." Really? I don't remember being gutted about that during the World Cup. We couldn't beat Scotland at Wembley either but we still qualified for Euro 2000 and they went home It's all relative.
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Larky Masher
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England qualified for the World Cup from a mediocre group. They then scrapped through a mediocre group (group of death my arse) and beat a team that aspired to mediocrity in the last 16. Then the first half decent team they've played in a couple of years took the piss out of them. I'll concede we're much worse, at this point in time, but we're being realistic and will get better. In England they can't seem to accept the team's not very good and are destined to underachieve (and reaching the quarter-final of this World Cup was underachieving as it was there for the taking) for the forseeable future because of this.
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Total Posts: 107 | Joined Oct. 2001 | Posted on: 4:47 pm on Aug. 19, 2002 | IP
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Crozzer the Bing
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I have to agree wi Kernie that friendlies are important.... I am sick and tired of seeing us get beat.
Daft as it sounds a win for the national football side does wonders for a country. Whether you like to admit it or not, look what it did for e*****d in the summer.
Living down there, it got right on my t*ts, but everyone was on a high in the weeks leading up tae the WC and until the Brazil game.... when I was on a big high :smokin: So it was quite relaxed in a way. It was just a pity the media whipped it up beyond belief.
Be most p*ssed off if we dont get some kind of result on Wednesday.
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