I was actually with you until this. USA were/ are far better than Greece. As for the group as a whole, USA, Ghana and Portugal were roughly equal...
I still would rather have had the USA group than ours, but having the US instead of Australia makes it a more difficult group for the other teams.
Now we have all of our qualifiers, I think all home teams (group winners) are favourites but some more so than others. Most certain. Colombia -...
If I was to pick the top 6 out of these, 4 would come from the first two games - plus Colombia and France. (I am impressed by Costa Rica but would...
When you look at the allocations: AFC has 47 teams and 4.5 spots CAF has 56 teams and 5 spots C-Caf has 40 teams (37? full members) and 3.5 spots...
Well we may wax lyrical about how much we have improved under Ange, and how we deserved a result v Netherlands especially, but the fact is we got...
I'm backing you guys to draw or beat them, but by 1 goal, 2 at the absolute max.
I think Mexico to beat Croatia, Germany to beat USA the other two fairly even, but England are already out so advantage Costa Rica to try and get...
This is true. FWIW I think the allocations are about correct. I wouldn't change them, but if they were to change it should be based on the...
I thought the ACN was being cut back to every 4 years Italy played Costa Rica - not England, but the results are correct. Still to come, ENG-CRC,...
Dear football gods. Next time can we (Australia) please get an easier group. Three World Cups in a row with at best the 2nd worst group. And yes I...
Sweden maybe, but the others aren't that much better, if at all. Remember as well that this is Australia at the bottom of its cycle, it's turn to...
Honduras the only other real chance, but I can't see Switzerland putting on that good a performance, or Honduras that bad, they could still drop...
That was the performance everyone expected for all games. Too much effort in the first two and nothing left for this one.
Too much effort put into the first two games. No Australian player playing to the level the did previously. Really missing Cahill, Milligan and...
He's going to rip it up in the A-League
Heard a good quote that summed up the difference between the two recently: "The Olympics are for the worlds games, the World Cup is for the World...
Cameroon. They will lose to Brazil by more goals than Spain (could) lose to Australia, and Australia wont lose by enough to catch them. I think...
Only 1. Cameroon already gone as well.
This. There is only Sweden of those that missed from UEFA that has an argument to say they "should" be here, Egypt would have an equal say from...
Swap Chile and Colombia (maybe Germany) for USA and Uruguay and you may have it. Also wouldn't put Costa Rica at no.1. They have performed great,...
So Africa should have lost spots for the last WC and probably the one before as well, with only Ghana and CIV being R16 quality. The only team at...
I'd say the opposite, Cahill's volley was with his weaker left foot with the ball coming over the right shoulder, about the most difficult volley...
Ummm........
This is not the thread to discuss a match from 8 years ago, but suffice to say that overall there were far more calls against Australia in that...