Debate - World footy rankings 2008 - IC08 placings

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Debate - World footy rankings 2008 - IC08 placings

Authored by: Niels Schønnemann
on Wednesday, January 07 2009 @ 09:19 pm ACDT

I think the difference between DK and Samoa was shown in their games against Sweden. DK beat Sweden by 17 goals and Samoa beat them by 4 goals. Denmark also missed two of their best ball getters (Cederholm and Gjørup) and Full forward ( Krolmark) against Sweden. Also, GB beat Samoa a lot easier than they beat Denmark.
With this in mind (that both GB and DK performed better than Samoa), its justified that Japan is valued a closer look to compare to DK and GB. I doubt Japan would have beaten either (when you look at results against similar opposition), but wouldnt have lost significantly though.

Debate - World footy rankings 2008 - IC08 placings

Authored by: Eurofooty
on Thursday, January 08 2009 @ 11:24 am ACDT

A couple of points here:

* The match conditions between the Sweden v Samoa match and Sweden v Denmark were vastly different.
* Sweden v Denmark - again not much can be drawn here being the last game of the tournament and with Sweden missing half a dozen senior players with injuries.
* Denmark had a slow start to the IC with a difficult travel ordeal coming into Australia; and I think deserve to rank higher.

I think the rankings system, while an interesting thought exercise, are purely academic and will remain so until we see an IC played out in full in the northern hemisphere.

Debate - World footy rankings 2008 - IC08 placings

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Saturday, January 10 2009 @ 09:56 pm ACDT

Yes it's an academic exercise, but it really always is to some extent in any rankings system around the world - no one ever plays everyone else or enough such games for every spot to be accurately determined. True that Aussie Rules is even further away from adequacy than many sports in that respect.

Even if a full IC is played in the northern hemisphere, then we'll still be unable to fairly rank many of the southern hemisphere teams as many of them won't travel at full strength either. I guess at the end of the day you try to judge performances in the big tournaments and don't make much allowance for injury or availability - I assume FIFA and other bodies don't for their sports.

I guess at the end of the day it would just be nice to have, for the historical record and for the casual reader, a bit of a sense of how all the nations stack up in this early stage of the game's international development.

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