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Debate - World footy rankings 2008 - the Irish question

Authored by: Niels Schønnemann
on Friday, December 19 2008 @ 09:01 pm ACDT

If you want to put this in comparison to any other world sport (which has a world cup), arent the countries based on their performances on the field? And so, if some of a certain country´s players do not play due to personal issues or club issues, their national team does not get a boast on world rankings. They are still compared on what they have brought on the field in the past. In icehockey Denmark has recently had a lot of draftees to the NHL, so they miss out on a lot of the Denmark games at the world cup. And if the Danish team loses because of this (missing the players due to club commitments), we'll still slide down the world ranking scale.
This is in line with most other sports, and so if any player (be he Aussie or not) cant/wont compete because of club commitments or personal issues. They arent counted in.

Debate - World footy rankings 2008 - the Irish question

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Tuesday, December 23 2008 @ 12:20 pm ACDT

I think we do need to try to stick to what Niels is saying. If we wander off to rankings based on too many theoretical conditions then there's no reality to it. How do we judge any of the teams if many of them are mostly made up of players that would be available in theory only? There must be a reasonable belief that they would play.

So as much as I think there is good argument to include Ireland's AFL players, perhaps we should restrict these rankings to players that are either:

1. Amateur, or -

2. Semi pro or pro but only if they have shown an availability to play, e.g. the PNG players on scholarships/working in Queensland who played for PNG in the IC08.

This doesn't exclude ranking Australia as #1, as there is no doubt that there are 1000s of quality footballers in Australia who would jump at the chance to represent their country.

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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