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Lightning tournament opening and seedings

Authored by: Cam Homes
on Tuesday, July 05 2011 @ 04:44 pm ACST

Sorry Guy's, the ONLY a goal a minute is not a criticism of the playing standards of France & India but a criticism of the AFL organisers actually matching the very best teams against a newcomer like France and sticking it into India again by pitting them against New Zealand (poor buggers are still probably shell shocked from the 200- zip shellacking they got last time).

The IC is supposed to be showcasing International Footy but to have matchups like that do absolutely squat. They used "discretion" in deciding who was gunna play who for some matches, why in the hell not for these? I sincerely hope these guys go well in the comp, and they can hold their heads up high at the end of the day, but jees, it's hard to do that when you have been completely smashed like India was last time around.

200 points is 33 goals in 4x15min quarters, ONLY a goal every two minutes!

Last time they really didn't have any idea of the relative standards of the newcomers so that could be used as an excuse. They can't use that as an excuse this time. Sorry, I still believe it is dumb to have match ups like that!!!!!!

Cam

Lightning tournament opening and seedings

Authored by: Cam Homes
on Thursday, July 07 2011 @ 03:21 pm ACST

Howdy All

I have crunched some numbers and if there are no upsets and no 40 point win matches then after the seeding rounds the world ranks would look like this.

NO IC BONUS applied as these are all shortened matches.

I have South Africa defeating Denmark, Japan defeating Fiji and Ireland and USA being triumphant over Great Britain and Canada again respectively. I think all would expect that the rest of the matches will go the way of the higher ranked nation.

Obviously there will be some 40 pt wins so the winners will recieve slightly higher rates.

Australia
PNG 53.89
NZ 53.84
Ireland 48.89
Nauru 47.50
USA 46.95
South Africa 45.46
Denmark 42.87
Samoa 41.85
Great Britain 40.66
Canada 39.60
Sweden 39.06
Germany 37.37
Japan 35.76
Finland 29.02

Tonga 41.06
Croatia 40.60
Israel/Palestine 37.87
Fiji 37.12
France 35.95
Iceland 35.64
Timor Leste 34.76
China 33.80
India 28.33

Spain 28.00

Only changes are SA climbing above Denmark and Canada rising above Sweden and Fiji, France and Timor Leste joining the Provisional Ranks.

Matches that could see a different outcome are Japan v Fiji, Canada v USA, Ireland v GB or a real dark horse Timor Leste v GB.(Timor Leste have been learning the ropes for the last several years from Aussie Peace Keeping forces, so could well be a surprise packet).

The odds are stacked up against any other upsets but we pundits could all be wrong.

Please! remember there are a number of big ifs and the ranks are no means set in stone.

Cam

Lightning tournament opening and seedings

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Thursday, July 07 2011 @ 04:21 pm ACST

And remember, these are our unofficial rankings.

I would be very surprised if Timor Leste beat GB. They have only been playing for a short time and I'd expect a team very small in stature, whereas obviously it's better to have a good mix with key position players. In fact if they won I'd say it would be the biggest upset in IC history.

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

Lightning tournament opening and seedings

Authored by: Cam Homes
on Thursday, July 07 2011 @ 04:43 pm ACST

I did say a real Dark Horse! But they could surprise a few teams, considering the set up in East Timor, playing against and coached by a large expat force over there for about 3 or 4 years now. A small stature would work against them tho'.

I reckon they might do quite well in the 2nd half of the comp.

Cam

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

Lightning tournament opening and seedings

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Friday, July 08 2011 @ 10:06 am ACST

I reckon they'll properly try to follow the fast running style of PNG, but PNG has a much bigger and longer established program. Always interesting to see what style a brand new team brings to the competition.

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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