World Cup: Germany vs Australia

[DirtyJosé]

Sure I'm not saying the system isn't fair, just saying that there's always teams there shouldn't be in there as opposed to some of the teams that aren't.

Simply due to the fact that Serbia for example doesn't have a damn chance in this tournament, sure Turkey or The Czech Republic doesn't neither, but I would've thought of them as way more legit than Serbia.

But if you don't make it, you don't deserve to be there. You can be a better team in many ways, but if you weren't the better team on the field, where it matters, it's all pointless. Lopsided or not, Serbia stepped up when and where they needed to to get here. What's not fair about that?

 

[Барбоса]

Sure I'm not saying the system isn't fair, just saying that there's always teams there shouldn't be in there as opposed to some of the teams that aren't.

There are always going to be lower ranked teams at the World Cup. That is what makes it special.

I will always say that if those teams are good enough, they would qualify no matter who they have to play.

 

[Ferbian]

There's nothing saying Serbia didn't get there fairly, but no matter how you twist or turn the card of the tournament, I still see Serbia as an odd team on that card because their name doesn't scream "WINNER" as opposed to the fact that Turkey and Czech Republic, Sweden etc. have done great in past world, or European cup's

Not necessarily Barbarosa, because as I used the examples earlier, France and Brazil (in 2006 at least) would rip apart any team that was put in front of them for the most of it, as well as Spain would rip through half of the teams that qualified for this world cup, but if Spain was in a group with France and Brazil, do you really think Spain would have the chances of qualifying?

 

[Ferbian]

I just realized something, beneath all this, there's one EPIC thread potential for the sport section, who wants to make it?

 

[Super Hans]

Its all about emerging nations.Serbia are a better team than Sweden and Czech Republic in most peoples eyes.

 

[DirtyJosé]

But they didn't bring that with them when it mattered. That much is an aspect of sports that Americans love: that just being the better team on paper or in the past isn't enough, but that you have to bring it on game day. I can understand it being frustrating as a fan of those teams, the teams who deserve to be there are all there now (with the exception of France/Ireland. That was some bullshit).

 

[Ferbian]

True, but even on that site there's also teams going against each other where one team has a bad day, or the other team has a fluke victory, some people looked at USA's goal last night as a fluke and that England should have won that one, I looked at it that way for example.

Thread is up by the way.

 

[Барбоса]

If any team gets a hard draw in any competition then that is just tough. You might get poorer teams through but they beat the team put in front of them

 

[Ferbian]

I will say this although, I fucking love you guys, I have never enjoyed talking football with anybody as much as I have during the peak of this world cup, it's great to have different nationalities to talk to.

When I was younger I used to be able to talk a lot of football with kids from my class, but it were more the whole "who's your favorite" and "what team is best" not talking about the games as they were going on, and not about more "advanced" football talk like this.

Sure they beat the team, but it's still a shame having to watch some team being in there with less credibility as opposed to the other team that got tough competition.

 

[Ferbian]

On a final note, I'll reply to you guys in the thread I created tomorrow, time to go to bed, you guy's have fun now, been great talking to you all

 

[DirtyJosé]

Great thread, Ferbs. And I agree, I might not be as into this if I didn't have awesome knowledgeable folk like you guys around to chat with and learn from. Or if Sam didn't stop by and call keepers *****.

See you guys next game.

 

[Lee]

So were Germany just amazing or were the Ozzie's just shit?

 

[Барбоса]

Germans looked very good going forward. They will give up chances at the back though; the Aussies just were not good enough to take their chances