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Authored by: joingler
on Wednesday, August 17 2011 @ 03:12 pm ACST

I find it slightly disturbing that the top teasm are beating the middle teams so easily. It shows that while development in 4-5 countries is fantastic, middle nations (such as Great Britain) are struggling. If New Zealand are doing this well against the Brits, imagine how bad New Zealand v Canada will be

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Authored by: Rog
on Wednesday, August 17 2011 @ 03:23 pm ACST

It is a bit of a joke this Australian IM women's side. It's disrespectful to the women's teams that have travelled here to have to play against this extremely poor AUS IM side. They would have been much better off playing a NSW womens side or even a sydney club team. Then they could have gained some good learning experiences rather then walking over this AUS IM team. There are no benefits to international women's footy from having this IM side.

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Authored by: Brett Northey
on Wednesday, August 17 2011 @ 03:45 pm ACST

I think that's a little harsh Rog. However, it does seem maybe the strength of the international women has been misjudged when the Aust. IM side was put together. Consider the flipside though - if they fielded an All-Australian side I still believe they would have crushed the international women, and then people would be saying it was insulting for them to travel all the way around the world to get thrashed and have no chance of winning the title, that's not what the IC is about.

Thus a happy medium needs to be found. I believe the AFL tried to do that but perhaps misjudged the international women. Probably better to err on the side they did. And remember they are trying to encourage the multicultural aspect with the Australian side, that was the criteria they were selecting for.

As a fan of international footy I reckon this is a great problem to have - next time Australia needs to up the ante to compete better, and we all know they have the depth of talent to do that despite what Rory said.

Also, about middle sides like Great Britain supposedly not improving, I assure you they have, but the top few are getting better quicker, that's all. But certainly the key for any country is getting more juniors involved, starting early, and what Rod said was spot on, increasingly teams need exposure to weekly footy in Australia to fine tune and be real top contenders.

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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Authored by: Cam Homes
on Wednesday, August 17 2011 @ 04:55 pm ACST

Howdy All,

As long as all the scores are correct the WFN World Rankings are as follows:-

Wednesday 17th August 2011.

Australia
Papua New Guinea 53.85 26
New Zealand 53.85 30
Ireland 49.31 35
Nauru 48.72 16
United States 46.95 32
South Africa 45.55 19
Denmark 44.80 38
Great Britain 43.86 40
Samoa 41.85 18
Germany 37.37 10
Sweden 37.23 23
Canada 37.14 32
Japan 35.76 22
China 35.09 8
Israel/Palestine 34.87 8
Finland 29.02 12
India 26.94 8

No movement in ranks in the top 14 today but China, Israel/Palestine and India move out of the provisional ranks and from now on are fully ranked nations. China has entered at No 15, with Israel/Palestine joining at No 16. These two nations have pushed Finland down to 17th and India have joined in at 18th place.

The provisional nations now look like this

Croatia 40.60 4
Tonga 40.35 6
Fiji 40.12 3
France 38.43 4
Iceland 35.64 4
Timor Leste 34.75 3

I guess there will be some champers consumed tonight in the French Camp to celebrate first win at International Footy. Fiji might just get stuck into a bit too.

The results of some of today's games are indicative of the great divide between the top half dozen or so nations and the rest. The Ranking scheme is I think, really starting to reflect the relative differences in standard between the teams from the power teams at the top right thru to the new developing nations at the lower end.

I think we will see a bit more movement after the next round of matches.

Cam

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Authored by: Brett Northey
on Wednesday, August 17 2011 @ 05:15 pm ACST

Should note that the official name I believe is Peace Team not Israel/Palestine. And it was France's first win at IC footy, and maybe full field footy (?), but they have won some 9s in the past I reckon.

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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Authored by: Cam Homes
on Wednesday, August 17 2011 @ 09:26 pm ACST

Looks like the French team really hit their straps especially in the last 1/4, will be really interesting to see how they go against Fiji and China.

Could we see a Fiji v France GF in Division 2?? The AFL seeded them 18th. They might just end up ranked about 15th or 16th (WFN Ranks)(France will be fully ranked by tournament end) if they can keep up the form. They weren't disgraced against Tonga either.

Those that were there, were they that good or Timor Leste just not up to it????

Cam

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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Authored by: Aaron Richard
on Thursday, August 18 2011 @ 03:20 pm ACST

France were better, but should take into account that it was wet and cold, which the French were much more used to, plus Timor-Leste copped a number of injuries and basically didn't have a bench.

So it started tight, but got progressively further apart until the French were miles ahead at the end.

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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Authored by: Cam Homes
on Friday, August 19 2011 @ 09:41 am ACST

Thanks Aaron.

It will be interesting to see how France goes against Fiji and China then, give us a bit better idea of their standard!

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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Authored by: Rod Shaw
on Wednesday, August 17 2011 @ 03:29 pm ACST

I think that the games will struggle to be total 20 goal+ blow outs that I believe the top nations are capable of as the coach's will rotate their squads a bit in the last quarters. Imagine if they didn't! I also think those countries that can get a proportion of their players involved in weekly Australian footy prior to the tournament and/or with strong junior development programmes involving numbers of their players coming to Australia/playing against Australians should be head and shoulders above the rest. Results so far suggest this to be the case.

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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