World Cup 2014 Qualifiers

[shiznit]

How much of a difference would it have been if Reid played?

Reid's a good young player... i think he will end up being our best ever defender... but probably behind Rufer as our greatest ever player(which is no shame as Rufer was outrageously gifted and had proved himself in europe)

but he wouldn't have made a big difference...

our approach is the issue here... our whole approach to football is boring and dull... we have too many old english expats in our system who coach the natural flair out of our kids... so we end up producing half decent physical defenders but hardly any players technically proficient skill wise.

considering that we consistently produce some of the worlds most skillfull athletes in the rugby codes... with probably too much flair at times... shows that we should be producing better players.

Wynton Rufer and his academy have helped bring along some great talent... young Rojas now at Stuttgart & Tuiloma at Marseille.

In NZ football is a sport played by the upper class european kids who are to small to play the rugby codes...

IMO if the game of football could make serious inroads in to the athletically rich Polynesian community in this country we could produce some great kids...

im not saying we would win a world cup... but we may be able to have a golden generation who could at least make us competitive...

 

[abpanther]

Portugal have had the better of things so far, plenty of chances created.

Sweden need to keep possession better if they wanna hang on for a draw

 

[whall15]

Love this commentator.

 

[Haffa]

One for the haters. What a time to score.

 

[Haffa]

France looking short on ideas.

 

[Haffa]

2-0 Ukraine

France are shite

 

[abpanther]

Portugal deserved the result, could've been more

 

[Haffa]

Koscielny now sent off for hitting a player in the face after he was on a yellow for his stupid penalty.

 

[Generalzod]

Greece 3 -1 Romania

 

[ME SO HORNBY!]

Ronaldo steps up when needed. Not a lot of players would have scored that.

 

[Bulldog Force]

So are France out of contention now or do they have another chance?

 

[Russell Crowe's Band]

they need to win by 3 goals in the second match

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

Bye bye France :lol:

Ronaldo spent all game whinging look the sooky girl he is. Probably should have been marched too. Zlatan showed why the World Cup "needs" him though :lol:

Greece don't 'wreck' teams. They haven't scored more than 2 goals in a competitive match since June 2011.

On form, we'd lose 2-0 to them. By June though who knows?

Oh

 

[Game_Breaker]

Geez, Ribery went MIA

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

Ribery was France's best player by a mile :lol:

Laurent Koscielny though was absolutely woeful and cost France a huge chance to go to brazil

 

[Game_Breaker]

Kos was woeful, everyone knows that.

France relied on Ribery to step up, but Ukraine kept him quiet.

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

Maybe if bums like Samir Nasri did something then Ukraine wouldn't be able to keep 3-4 men on Ribéry all night.

Lol big bad CONCACAF. Honduras got thrashed, USA were embarrassing against a minnow and Australia got the win over Costa Rica. There's always New Zealand to fall back on :lol:

 

[Jimbo]

France on the way back...

 

[Bulldog Force]

France get the 3-0 lead they were needing...

 

[Big Sam]

Nancy boy bails out Portugal once again. A one man team if I've ever seen one.