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Analysis of Cup draw

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Thursday, July 17 2008 @ 12:13 am ACST

No doubt C looks toughest on paper. We'll have more on South Africa in the next few days. I had been thinking they wouldn't improve much until the FootyWild juniors come through, but it looks like they've found some good adult players already in the other provinces that are now getting involved, so they could be a real threat to the US.

And Denmark finished 4th in 2002, and since then all those Farum youngsters have grown up with the game, so they theoretically should be much improved. Their score in 2002 against NZ, who finished 3rd and then 1st in 2005, was New Zealand 3.7 (25) def Denmark 2.4 (16).

And I think we tend to assume the US will have improved, but some old hands have moved on, and they did have a loss to Canada, so like Chris referred to, the vagaries of international footy, it could turn out to be a very tough pool. Or not. 8)

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

Analysis of Cup draw

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Thursday, July 17 2008 @ 10:50 am ACST

On this thread and one of the others a few people have suggesed it is less than ideal for Sweden to play Finland, since they already do that regularly as neighbours. I think that's a reasonable point, except that the AFL did ask countries whether they would like to see certain match-ups at the tournament, provided it didn't interfere with the draw too much. I'm told by the AFL that Sweden and Finland REQUESTED to play each other at the IC, so you can't really blame them for drawing them that way. Having said that, in the end they didn't want to compromise things too much, so it was more chance (i.e. seedings) than design that put them in the same pool.

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

Analysis of Cup draw

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Thursday, July 17 2008 @ 11:18 am ACST

Nice to see the draw is getting coverage as one of the 4 featured stories in the main section of the AFL website at the moment. They've used the Elk logo from Sweden as the main image.

http://www.afl.com.au/tabid/208/Default.aspx?newsid=63478

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

Analysis of Cup draw

Authored by: Ian Hill
on Thursday, July 17 2008 @ 04:08 pm ACST

I think at one stage Denmark and Sweden were wanting to be in the same pool, too. But how stupid would it have been to have had all three in the same pool?
In the cases where neighbours wanted to be in the same pool, I think the AFL should pull a bit of rank and explain to those countries why it is not such a good idea. For heaven's sake let's take advantage of the fact that you've flown half way around the world and play someone else!!!

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

Analysis of Cup draw

Authored by: Eurofooty
on Thursday, July 17 2008 @ 04:52 pm ACST

Brett said "..Sweden and Finland REQUESTED to play each other at the IC..".??!? Sources please.

The initial request to play Denmark was to take up an opportunity to play in Geelong. The Cats have been a long and active supporter of Scandinavian footy. Last year the reigning Brownlow Medalist Jimm Bartel visted Denmark, Finland and Sweden in the post-season. The AFL denied the request as they are fully entitled to, and we happily accept it.

For the record, we have no problem playing Finland, Denmark or anyone else anytime, anywhere. We are very satisfied with the AFL's match schedule and notified them of it as soon as it was made available.

Team Manager
Swedish Elks

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

Analysis of Cup draw

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Thursday, July 17 2008 @ 05:02 pm ACST

As I said, the AFL told me. My source was international development staff at the AFL responsible for putting together the draw. They said it was requested, and I double-checked with them before making that post and they said yes, it was requested, but that in the end it was how the seeding resulted anyway.

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

Analysis of Cup draw

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Thursday, July 17 2008 @ 05:06 pm ACST

Perhaps there was a mis-communication or mis-understanding or mix-up in countries. I don't know. Just quoting what I was told.

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN