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Originally Posted by Dazz
Don't australia lose to shit like Urugauy and Paragauy in every world cup play off. What a joke they are.
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No, but they get dicked around by FIFA with this ridiculous Oceania playoff with another region. As far back as I can remember, it was Europe in 1989, South America in 1993, Asia in 1997, South America in 2001 and now South America again. Tell me if you played only 2 meaningful games over 4 years you'd be adequately prepared? If Australia had the same preperation as other countries in world football AND THEN had the two play-off games more often than not we'd do much better than we have done. Although we haven't qualified we've still done ok
- 1993 the playoff was with Argentina, 1-1 draw in Sydney and 1-0 loss in Argentina
- 1997 against Iran, 1-1 draw in Iran then 2-2 in Melbourne (offside goal though
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- 2001 against Uruguay, 1-0 win in Melbourne, 3-0 loss in Montevideo
Even Argentina fucken lost in Uruguay in the qualifiers, it's a tough joint to go to especially when you've played fuck all games in preperation. Having said that, like I said to ECG in my previous post, this time around there are no excuses whatsoever. The preperation is 50 times better than usual, we've had experience now playing in South America, the team gets together more regularly, if they don't do it this time around then they'll never bloody do it.