Re: see.. this is what I do not get
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Originally posted by TianaKaeSha
this is the bit that bugs me...
IT IS ONE WEEK.... a Game.. Maybe two... Oh BIG WHOOPIE DO!
The league goes for more than three weeks... if it was a three or four week league.. then perhaps I would understand... but people are worried about one week when the aussie team could play one of the most important warm up games in their careers....
It is just plain selfish...
but hey.. that is just my opinion
:D
BTW>.. sorry if I yelled!!
Well, at least the Aussie ego is World Cup sized... :D
The problem is that this will happen several times this season to teams with ANY international players. And it'll get worse towards the end of the season when matches really count and players are getting tired.
So it isn't just one match - it's just one of many.
And friendlies like this don't achieve anything. They're eye candy and money spinners (in Australia) or pains in the backsides (over here). ;)
Re: Re: Re: Re: it makes me so mad!!
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Originally posted by jezza
I have to admin, D4Demon is pretty wierd, like most Victorians! :)
I heard that scallop boy :p
Re: ignorance is bliss - heh
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Originally posted by sichi
Arsenal under achievers of the Premiership yeah right - mince off!
The Gunners rate well beyond Chelsea and Spurs, and Leeds for that matter.
And anyway T didn't even want to fly half way around the globe so you can mince off for starting this thread in the first place :)
Patrick Vieira, T, Sylvain Wiltord and Robert Pires - jeezus do you want our blood too. Australia is a 23 hour flight away yunno! Just treat them nicely cos every point counts in the English Premiership.
[Edited by sichi on 11-03-2001 at 12:35 PM]
Haha, how much have you spent on those players???? You are underachievers because you have a squad that should win and you never do. Spurs don't win because they don't have the squad to win. And when you bought these players, did you know they were going to have to play internationals? YES. I don't want your blood because I would hate to become as arrogant as to think a small club game is more important than a country qualifying for the world cup.
And by the way, 'mince off' is a pretty bloody lame put down. Calling Henry 'T' is pretty darn lame for that matter too. Good mates are you?
Re: Re: ignorance is bliss - heh
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Originally posted by jezza
I would hate to become as arrogant as to think a small club game is more important than a country qualifying for the world cup.
Jezza, a friendly will have no effect whatsoever on improving Australia's chances of qualifying for the main competition.
The only match that will do that is the actual qualifier itself. If the Australian squad can't play football now, then it will never be able to do so, and certainly not in time for that qualifying match.
In fact, should Australia fail to qualify after all this, if the Aussie press is anything like the UK press, it'll likely turn out that it was because of that friendly. (wrong, of course, but that's the press for you).
Also, and for the record, when league clubs buy foreign players, it isn't BECAUSE they are international squad players. That is a separate issue. OK. Granted, because they cost a lot they tend to be in the international squads for their countries, but that is in no way a definite.
A player's career is >99% league football and <1% international (if he's lucky). So please think before putting Australia's world cup qualification against that statistic.
Remember, it has been sorted out, now. So there's no point in keep going on about Wenger or anyone else's (Ferguson has been anti in the past) gripe.
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Re: Re: Re: ignorance is bliss - heh
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Originally posted by Sualdam
Jezza, a friendly will have no effect whatsoever on improving Australia's chances of qualifying for the main competition.
The only match that will do that is the actual qualifier itself. If the Australian squad can't play football now, then it will never be able to do so, and certainly not in time for that qualifying match.
In fact, should Australia fail to qualify after all this, if the Aussie press is anything like the UK press, it'll likely turn out that it was because of that friendly. (wrong, of course, but that's the press for you).
Also, and for the record, when league clubs buy foreign players, it isn't BECAUSE they are international squad players. That is a separate issue. OK. Granted, because they cost a lot they tend to be in the international squads for their countries, but that is in no way a definite.
A player's career is >99% league football and <1% international (if he's lucky). So please think before putting Australia's world cup qualification against that statistic.
Remember, it has been sorted out, now. So there's no point in keep going on about Wenger or anyone else's (Ferguson has been anti in the past) gripe.
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I'm sorry, I'm not normally this harsh, but that was one of the stupidest posts I have ever read in my time here.
Do you honestly believe that a warm-up match against the best team in the world will NOT help us prepare for our qualifiers?????? HELLO????????? HELLLLOOOOOOOOOOO???
Answer this: Is the World Cup more important than the English Premier League? Ask a player what they would want to win more. Sure there aren't as many international games as club matches, but the big international matches are a hell of a lot more important.
