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by **Lionheart** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 11:44 pm

Brazil
Croatia
Japan
Australia

This is not the worst group. It is/will be difficult but the Aussies can progress. We need to knock over Japan in the first match.

Historically, Australia does have a good record against both Japan & Croatia. So it's all there for the taking.

Can we progress?? I think we can. :wwww

by **A.B.** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 11:51 pm

Hell no. We trashed you lot 7-0 the last time we played you. All those victories you had against us were in the early 90's. Now we have as good as a side we did in '98. We're difficult to break down and beat.

by **Lionheart** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 1:34 am

A.B. wrote:Hell no. We trashed you lot 7-0 the last time we played you. All those victories you had against us were in the early 90's. Now we have as good as a side we did in '98. We're difficult to break down and beat.

The 7-0 loss was in 1998 with a team made up of mainly Australia based players, not internationals.

It's the world cup...EVERYONE is difficult to breakdown and beat.

Australia can beat Croatia and there will be some added incentive as 4 of the Australian team have Croatian heritage
(Mark Viduka, Zeljko Kalac, Tony Popovic & Josip Skoko).

by **laza** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 1:41 am

I was spewing we didnt get the USA after their coach's comments

Tough group but looking forward to game against Croatians especially with several Aussies of Croat origin in their squad
As long as its doesnt turn into another confed cup i be happy

by **Lionheart** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 2:29 am

laza wrote:I was spewing we didnt get the USA after their coach's comments
Tough group but looking forward to game against Croatians especially with several Aussies of Croat origin in their squad
As long as its doesnt turn into another confed cup i be happy

Like you Laza, I was hoping to get the USA too...

What an arrogant prat their coach is. Like he's the coach of Brazil or something!!! :no

by **A.B.** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 5:46 am

Australia can beat Croatia and there will be some added incentive as 4 of the Australian team have Croatian heritage

The feck you will. You're an average team imo where as we have depth in our squad, and quality at that.

Klasnic will tear you lot apart.

by **babu** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:31 am

A.B. wrote:
Australia can beat Croatia and there will be some added incentive as 4 of the Australian team have Croatian heritage

The feck you will. You're an average team imo where as we have depth in our squad, and quality at that.

Klasnic will tear you lot apart.

we shall see A.B its gonna be a great world cup. Things will get quite tense on this forum i reckon. good stuff

:buttrock

by **Lionheart** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:47 am

A.B. wrote:
Australia can beat Croatia and there will be some added incentive as 4 of the Australian team have Croatian heritage

The feck you will. You're an average team imo where as we have depth in our squad, and quality at that.

Klasnic will tear you lot apart.

You say no we won't...

I say yes we will...

I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree & just wait and see.

Bragging rights to the winner I suppose

:laugh:

by **laza** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 2:28 pm

A.B. wrote:
Australia can beat Croatia and there will be some added incentive as 4 of the Australian team have Croatian heritage

The feck you will. You're an average team imo where as we have depth in our squad, and quality at that.

Klasnic will tear you lot apart.

Shouldnt you be supporting the USA

by **laza** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 2:29 pm

babu wrote:
A.B. wrote:
Australia can beat Croatia and there will be some added incentive as 4 of the Australian team have Croatian heritage

The feck you will. You're an average team imo where as we have depth in our squad, and quality at that.

Klasnic will tear you lot apart.

we shall see A.B its gonna be a great world cup. Things will get quite tense on this forum i reckon. good stuff

Maybe they have a divine right to beat us

by **A.B.** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 10:32 pm

Shouldnt you be supporting the USA

Never, I was born 'n raised in Croatia and I'm only supporting them when it comes to the WC. I wanted USA in our group, so the world could see us beating them.

Maybe they have a divine right to beat us

Unlike the URGayans, we worked for our qualification. We finished first in the group, beat Sweden twice[England haven't beat them in 50 yrs I hear?]. We aren't cocky so we'll take you seriously but we're good non the less.

Australia with all due respect don't have too many good strikers. Yes there's Viduka but who else is there?

by **Lionheart** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 12:50 am

A.B. wrote:
Shouldnt you be supporting the USA

Never, I was born 'n raised in Croatia and I'm only supporting them when it comes to the WC. I wanted USA in our group, so the world could see us beating them.

Maybe they have a divine right to beat us

Unlike the URGayans, we worked for our qualification. We finished first in the group, beat Sweden twice[England haven't beat them in 50 yrs I hear?]. We aren't cocky so we'll take you seriously but we're good non the less.

Australia with all due respect don't have too many good strikers. Yes there's Viduka but who else is there?

Not cocky did you say?? You sound fairly cocky to me!!!

Australia has earned their right to be at the world cup, just as Croatia has.

Just for arguements sake; the FIFA rankings has Uruguay ranked 17 - Australia beat them.

Croatia is currently ranked 20...imminently beatable!!

We'll just wait and see :buttrock

by **laza** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 12:55 am

LOL its going to be long 6 months and im guessing this going to be long thread by the time that fixture comes around

Your still going to lose though

by **Lionheart** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 4:33 am

laza wrote:LOL its going to be long 6 months and im guessing this going to be long thread by the time that fixture comes around

Your still going to lose though

At least it will keep me from doing the mowing, painting, weeding, repairs, etc.!!!! :eyebrow

and THAT'S ok by me!!! :laugh:

by **A.B.** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 9:41 pm

Not cocky did you say?? You sound fairly cocky to me!!!

Australia has earned their right to be at the world cup, just as Croatia has.

Just for arguements sake; the FIFA rankings has Uruguay ranked 17 - Australia beat them.

Croatia is currently ranked 20...imminently beatable!!

We'll just wait and see

FIFA rankings are shit, if you take them seriously then you're suggesting that the U.S.A. is really better than England?

We had a much tougher group than you did and the reason we're ranked lower than Uruguay is because the last world cup was weighted more in the rankings and we were poor that year.

Btw, when I said that ''we'' weren't cocky I ment the players. :laugh:

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