World Footy Rankings - the inaugural list

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World Footy Rankings - the inaugural list

Authored by: Mister Football
on Wednesday, September 15 2010 @ 03:29 pm ACST

I mentioned Tonga because I was vaguely aware that they had won some regional comp recently - but perhaps that was an underage comp?

On the subject of Australia being ranked number one, it might look anomalous, but it would look more ludicrous if PNG or NZ were shown up as being number one.

At this point of their development, their national teams can be defeated by Australian country teams, and even a team in the Canberra competition (which is not amongst the stronger comps in Australia), would give both those national teams a hiding.

It may sound crude and harsh, but that's the fact of the matter.

Having said that, I would dearly love to see PNG and NZ getting regular opportunities to play against that sort of competition, leading up to a day when, for example, they might be competitive against a SANFL team - but even at that point, you'd still be some way from pitting such teams against a team made up entirely of AFL grade players.

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World Footy Rankings - the inaugural list

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Wednesday, September 15 2010 @ 03:58 pm ACST

Yes, Tonga won the Oceania youth champs. PNG were a late withdrawal.

There's talk later in the year of PNG versus an All-Stars side drawn from Queensland Gold Coast clubs - that should be pretty interesting if PNG can get something close to their best team on the field - the first chance to see the development of their AFL rookies combined with their AFLQ talent. I think PNG's best squad is actually getting close to the quality of some state leagues sides, but they still lack key position side - some improvement but they don't have 4 or 5 good quality 190cm + players as far as I know. The two tallest listed for IC2008 was 184cm for Overa Gibson and Amua Pirika, who both proved to be key players. Their tallest player in the South Pacific squad was John Ikupu at 188cm at 17 years old - perhaps he'll get into the 190s.

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