Group F Teams: Successful/Unsucessful WC????

[Edwin Thorne]

For the teams in Group F, what do you think would constitute a good and/or bad WC performance.

Brazil
My Prediction: Win Group and Finalists
Good: Finalists
Bad: Loss before Semis

Japan
My Prediction: Fail to Advance
Good: Round of 16
Bad:Earn no points.

Croatia
My Prediction: Advance to Round of 16
Good: Round of 16
Bad: Earn no points.

Australia
My Prediction: Fail to Advance.
Good: Earn any points.
Bad: Earn no points.

[Ragnarok14]

I'm still surprised at how much people underrate Australia, their good worldcup/bad worldcup would be the same as japan and croatia. Australia has beaten a fair number of 'big countries' and has relativily good records against japan and croatia and that was before we had any sort of proper admin running the sport here and a great coach. I'm not saying that Australia is better than croatia or japan, but all 3 teams are about level and have as good a chance as the others of making it to the round of 16.

[Bruzza]

Brazil:
Prediction: winners
Good: winners
Bad: Flop in round of 16/quarters

Japan:
Prediction: Do not advance
Good: Round of 16
Bad: No points

Croatia
Prediction: Do not advance, goal difference.
Good: Round of 16/quarters
Bad: 1 point

Australia
Prediction: Round of 16
Good: Quarters
Bad: two draws

[Champagne Football]

Brazil
My Prediction: Win Group and Finalists
Good: Semi-Finalists or better
Bad: Loss before Semis

Japan
My Prediction: Fail to Advance
Good: Round of 16
Bad:Earn no points.

Croatia
My Prediction: Fail to Advance
Good: Round of 16
Bad: Earn no points.

Australia
My Prediction: Advance to Round of 16
Good: Round of 16
Bad: Earn no points.

[Ragnarok14]

Brazil
My Prediction: Win Group and Finalists
Good: Semi-Finalists or better
Bad: Loss before Semis

Japan
My Prediction: Fail to Advance
Good: Round of 16
Bad:Earn no points.

Croatia
My Prediction: Fail to Advance
Good: Round of 16
Bad: Earn no points.

Australia
My Prediction: Advance to Round of 16
Good: Round of 16
Bad: Earn no points.

[Da Shah]

Brasil
Australia
Japan
Croatia

[Simo™]

Australia

Prediction:Move on from round 1

Good:Quater Finals

Bad: No points

[tfoz]

I'm still surprised at how much people underrate Australia, their good worldcup/bad worldcup would be the same as japan and croatia. Australia has beaten a fair number of 'big countries' and has relativily good records against japan and croatia and that was before we had any sort of proper admin running the sport here and a great coach. I'm not saying that Australia is better than croatia or japan, but all 3 teams are about level and have as good a chance as the others of making it to the round of 16.

As much as it annoys me when people really underestimate them - i'd prefer it that way. We're always better as the underdog, and i'd rather sit back i'd hope we prove the critics wrong then go promoting ourselves to a level where it'll be embarrassing if they fail.

My prediction - advance to round of 16/quarters
Good - round of 16/respectable exit in groups
Bad - group exit and outclassed

As for brazil, you can't have anything other than win for a good world cup for them - there brazil and they're favourites (even though i don't think they'll win)

[dor02]

Brazil:

My prediction: second round or quarter-finals
Good: Cup winners
Bad: runners-up or worse

Australia:

My prediction: second round
Good: second round
Bad: no win in group stage

Croatia:

My prediction: first round
Good: second round or quarter-finals
Bad: first round and not beating Australia (ask Zlatko Kranjcar)

Japan:

My prediction: first round
Good: second round
Bad: losing all group matches

Brazil is getting so much praise and I think that they won't fulfill their promise. Look at 1982. The Selecao were the hot favourites, played attactive football and defeated teams convincingly. A World Cup win seemed like a forgone conclusion but Paolo Rossi steped up plenty of gears for Italy and sent Brazil packing.

[BSjanitor]

Brazil
my prediction: 2nd in group, runners-up to WC
good: winning it all
bad: not reaching the semifinals (to me), not winning (to Brazilian's in general, I think)

Croatia
my prediction: win group, out in quarters
good: second round (one better than 2002)
bad: no wins

Australia
my prediction: last in group
good: second round
bad: no wins

Japan
my prediction: just behind Brazil
good: second round
bad: losing every match

[Acidman]

I love that japan is being unsanly underated.

Prediction - Japan to semis
Good - Quarter Finals
Bad - not progressing out of round of 16

[Latin Pride]

Brazil:

My prediction: WC winners
Good: WC winners
Bad: WC runners up

Australia:

My prediction: group stage
Good: second round
Bad: group stage exit

Croatia:

My prediction: group stage
Good: quarter-finals
Bad: group stage exit

Japan:

My prediction: second round
Good: quarters
Bad: group stage exit

Croatia is the 2nd best team in the group but i have the feeling their gonna choke like last time

[Ombak]

I love that japan is being unsanly underated.

Prediction - Japan to semis
Good - Quarter Finals
Bad - not progressing out of round of 16So in your opinion a performance equal to the one they had at home would be considered a bad World Cup for Japan?

[kofi86]

maybe he has watched too much tsubasa:D

[Colm]

Brazil

My prediction: WC Winners
Good: Retain the world cup
bad: not winning the world cup

Australia

My Prediction: 2nd round, mabey QF
Good: 2nd round
Bad: failing to advance

Croatia

My Prediction: First round knock out
Good: 2nd round
Bad: failing to qualify from group

Japan

My prediction: first round knock out
Good: 2nd round
bad: failing to qualify from group

[Acidman]

So in your opinion a performance equal to the one they had at home would be considered a bad World Cup for Japan?

yes because it's not progressing further,

[Ombak]

It's not realistic to expect a team to do even better away from home. Especially a team with limited World Cup experience like Japan.

Getting to the second round would be good and should be their objective, but saying that a second round exit = a bad World Cup is nonsense.

[almango]

Australia

Exceptional: 1/4 finals or better
Very Good: second round
Good: qualifying
Poor: learning nothing from the experience.

[england66]

I love that japan is being unsanly underated.

Prediction - Japan to semis
Good - Quarter Finals
Bad - not progressing out of round of 16


it had better be a much better Japan than the one that showed up in the USA recently and got totally dominated for about 80 mins....

[england66]

yes because it's not progressing further,


you may find that a WC played in europe is a different kettle of fish to one played in the far east....(see S. Korea in 1998)