Australia's 2010 World Cup Qualifying Campaign (3 Viewers)

[Peartie]

is it goal difference, or results against the tying team, as per some other comps recently?

not entirely sure...dont other comps go goal difference then head to head the home and away?

ie:

Australia and Iraq 10 points

then: Say Australia and Iraq have a goal difference of 0

Then

Australia and Iraq have 1 game each

then goes to home/away goals...which is 1 goal at home to each of them.

This would be a conundrum - maybe do what they do in Euro this year and have to have a shootout betwee them which would be very hard to do i guess....


any idea waht would happen then?


other alternative is head to head record first, then goal difference, then home/away goals head to head...or something similar anyway....

 

[blakegman]

Loves a good airswing does Harry.

Always known Emerton was one of if not our best player behind only maybe schwarzer. Good to see him get a few goals, should raise his profile a bit.

I think it goes on goal difference not head to head. Not that the seeding even matters really.

 

[stazi]

you're joking? there's a penalty shootout in the group stages of euro 2008? that's insane.

 

[Peartie]

yea they were talking about it today.....in one of the groups if all the results go the right way it ends up as a penalty shootout to determine rather than head to head or goal difference or something like that anyway....i was like WTF!?!

sif seeding doesnt matter - we want to be place number 1 so we get an 'easier' run through...or is it drawn out of a pot again?

 

[blakegman]

Well top 2 from 5 groups right ?

So there is 5 teams in first and 5 in second.

Seeing as though 5 is an odd number, i would imagine it would just a pot again.

Unless the seedings are based on factors outside of just this current group stage.

 

[Peartie]

Seeding
The 10 qualifiers will be drawn into two groups of five teams at the draw in Kuala Lumpur on 27 June 2008. The seeding for the fourth round will be identical to the third round draw, with the qualifiers split into 3 pots of 2 teams, with the bottom 4 ranked nations grouped together in a separate pot. Because Saudi Arabia and Japan are seeded equal 4th, there will be a random draw held to determine which pots they go into. Additionally, if Iraq qualify for the fourth round, they will be designated fifth position in their group, in order to avoid conflicts with the Confederations Cup commitments they have, as a result of their win in the Asian Cup.


Pot 1: Australia and Korea Republic
Pot 2: Iran and Japan/Saudia Arabia
Pot 3: Saudia Arabia/Japan and Bahrain
Pot 4: Uzbekistan, Korea DPR, Iraq/Qatar and UAE/Syria

Each group will include 1 team from each of Pots 1, 2 and 3, and 2 teams from Pot 4.


good ole wikipedia

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification_(AFC))

 

[blakegman]

Pretty tough groups they will be.

 

[Peartie]

hardest group in my opinion would be

Australia
Iran
Japan
Iraq
Korea DPR

 

[spiny norman]

Why do the commentators seem to love Brett Holman so much? And why does Verbeek continue giving him a run?

He's the worst player the Australian team has had in years. Is Ajax really interested in signing him??

We need to drop him and some of the other dead wood (Jade North, could do with dropping Carney too) and gaining a striker (and not Viduka).

 

[barbecuedflava]

Why do the commentators seem to love Brett Holman so much? And why does Verbeek continue giving him a run?

He's the worst player the Australian team has had in years. Is Ajax really interested in signing him??

We need to drop him and some of the other dead wood (Jade North, could do with dropping Carney too) and gaining a striker (and not Viduka).

unsure about holman but carney? why drop carney hes an awesome player

 

[stazi]

Why do the commentators seem to love Brett Holman so much? And why does Verbeek continue giving him a run?

He's the worst player the Australian team has had in years. Is Ajax really interested in signing him??

We need to drop him and some of the other dead wood (Jade North, could do with dropping Carney too) and gaining a striker (and not Viduka).

I would trust the opinion of the commentators who are certainly experts. After all, Ajax would have spent loads of money in figuring out whether he's a good prospect. Their consideration implies that he is indeed an excellent player.

 

[Captain Gh3y]

Commentators... e.g. Slater?
He's probably only in the team because of Arnold

plus the Ajax thing was only a rumour (like Carney to Bayern Munich and Milligan to Arsenal, lol)


meanwhile,

ROOS coach Pim Verbeek has ruled out talented Bristol City midfielder Nick Carle for this weekend's China World Cup qualifier to give the player time to rest.
“He must start with his championship club for pre-season soon and he's had a tough season with Bristol. He'd had no holiday at all when he arrived with us,” said Verbeek of Carle.

“It's good for us and them if he gets a starting position with them.”

The Socceroo boss said Harry Kewell will lead a team featuring a core group of Socceroos who were part of the successful Qatar qualifier against China on Sunday.

“Harry Kewell, Michael Petkovic, Beauchamp, North, Valeri and Holman will all stay here,” Verbeek said earlier this morning at Sydney airport.

 

[stazi]

when will the next round start?

 

[blakegman]

FFS lolman is shit. Rubbish player, seen better players in park soccer.

Also why the fuck would we drop Carney, he has been absolutely brilliant since he started playing Leftback. Probably on form one of our best players with emerton and schwarzer.

 

[spiny norman]

I would trust the opinion of the commentators who are certainly experts. After all, Ajax would have spent loads of money in figuring out whether he's a good prospect. Their consideration implies that he is indeed an excellent player.

Hardly. Good clubs have shit players all the time. And these same commentators used to laude Viduka, who was the worst player we had on our team at the time. I'd certainly prefer him to Holman right now though. Please have him gone by 2010.

 

[blue_chameleon]

Hardly. Good clubs have shit players all the time. And these same commentators used to laude Viduka, who was the worst player we had on our team at the time. I'd certainly prefer him to Holman right now though. Please have him gone by 2010.

Lol. Armchair critic much?

 

[Captain Gh3y]

And these same commentators used to laude Viduka, who was the worst player we had on our team at the time.

NFI

 

[Omium]

NFI

Whats NFI

 

[stazi]

no fucking idea?

 

[blakegman]

Viduka used to draw 3 defenders to himself alone with his back turned to the goal. Had we had a more potent attack, Viduka probably would have been noticed a lot more.

Having him up there created gaps for our other players to get through. When defenders see brett lolman coming they just laugh.