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Is this the first step towards the Official World Rankings?

Authored by: Cam Homes
on Friday, March 19 2010 @ 11:33 am ACDT

The player criteria that I suggested was so that we can get at least some equality between all the matches that have been used so as to be fair to all nations. Also we can't go back and change the circumstances of those matches. We are accepting that at the time that the countries were accepting a set of rules applicable for both teams and that they were at least trying to make the match a legit 'International' or 'Test' even thothe game wasn't a full 18-a-side game.
I have included the Atlantic Alliance Cup games in the ranking and I'm pretty sure I saw somewhere that it was a 12 or 14-a-side comp, but all played under the same set of rules. Correct me if I'm wrong.
If the scheme is accepted by the leagues and we go ahead with it, there MUST be Criteria set down for all future games to played under. (possibly with a small degree of flexiblity as has occurred in the IC's) Again, my criteria is only a suggestion.
00Bock I think suggested that Tonga could field a strong team soon so we could include the juniors matches in the scheme. Can't go along with that idea - Some teams have both juniors(not very many tho) and senior teams. Most at this stage don't have junior sides. Also we never play junior teams against a senior team "not level field" that one.
Cam

Is this the first step towards the Official World Rankings?

Authored by: Aaron Richard
on Friday, March 19 2010 @ 01:08 pm ACDT

I think the upcoming USA vs Canada is in Toronto during August. It's Canada at home at any rate.

There are a few new countries that could enter the rankings in the coming months if we stick with the current system:

Inaugural Oceania Cup (Seniors): Tonga and Fiji very likely, plus Solomons, Vanuatu and New Caledonia have been invited and could be there. This is being held in Auckland at the end of this year.

European Championships: Croatia have it on the calendar on their website, plus Iceland were talking about it. France were discussing it, but last I heard probably won't be there. Maybe Catalonia, Spain, Netherlands, Italy? Italy are sounding like they're keen to make the IC 2011.

Is this the first step towards the Official World Rankings?

Authored by: Cam Homes
on Friday, March 19 2010 @ 02:01 pm ACDT

That's not good for the Canucks if the US win as far as points exchanges are concerned.
I had some discussion with somebody from French Footy a whle back when they used a Central District guernsey in a match because they were short of their own Red, white and blue ones on the day. He seemed to think they were holding off for the next IC. Costs and experience etc all being considered.
Cam

Is this the first step towards the Official World Rankings?

Authored by: Aaron Richard
on Friday, March 19 2010 @ 04:48 pm ACDT

We've had some contact with the guys in Paris suggesting they're interested in 2011. Hopefully they can make it, it would be great to see them on the big stage.

Is this the first step towards the Official World Rankings?

Authored by: WFN Administrator
on Friday, March 19 2010 @ 04:57 pm ACDT

Note that we've altered the presentation of the table, so that you can see the teams that have played under 5 games and are therefore still only provisionally ranked.

Is this the first step towards the Official World Rankings?

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Friday, March 19 2010 @ 05:25 pm ACDT

If a team is provisionally ranked then I think they can be shown on the table for interest, to see where they would fit in, but they should not be allocated an actual ranking position. In other words, the current list:

Rank	Country	Points
1	Australia	N/A
2	New Zealand	51.57
3	PNG	51.10
4	USA	44.69
5	Nauru	44.20
6	Ireland	43.81
7	Great Britain	42.19
8	Samoa	41.72
9	South Africa	41.61
10	Denmark	41.27
11	Peace Team	39.86
12	Canada	38.92
13	Germany	38.22
14	China	35.43
15	Sweden	35.21
16	Japan	34.21
17	Finland	32.92
18	India	32.00
19	Spain	31.05