World Cup 2022 (Featuring Australia!)

[wendybr]

Is Trent Buhagiar ready for a Socceroos call up?

He can shoot f**ken!

[GunnerWanderer]

Hahaha Wendy need to see it more than one game 

[pseudonym]

Turns out that the architecture firm who helped design the stadiums for Qatar is run by ... Albert Speer Jnr

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-complicated-architecture-of-albert-speer-jr

[pseudonym]

Chris Beath and Shaun Evans will referee matches at the World Cup

 

[Unlimited]

35 minutes ago, pseudonym said:

Chris Beath and Shaun Evans will referee matches at the World Cup

 

So if a woman referees a World Cup match in Qatar, does she need to cover her knees and arms or can she wear the same thing the male referees wear?

[Carns]

1 hour ago, Unlimited said:

So if a woman referees a World Cup match in Qatar, does she need to cover her knees and arms or can she wear the same thing the male referees wear?

Considering all the other laws that will be bent for them to host a World Cup this is minor in comparison.

Money talks.

[WSWJACK]

Scotland v Ukraine tomorrow morning, nice touch by the jocks to hand out song sheets for the Ukraine national anthem so the home crowd can join in, classy move.

[Sithslayer1991]

2 hours ago, WSWJACK said:

Scotland v Ukraine tomorrow morning, nice touch by the jocks to hand out song sheets for the Ukraine national anthem so the home crowd can join in, classy move.

This game is pretty a Scottish thing to happen in world cup campaign. Majority of the world would probably be backing Ukraine for the win and Scotland kinda in the middle of it. I guess that's just Scotland, looking forward to the game at 5am

[Smoggy]

Slava Ukraini 

[Smoggy]

That’s the Mad Jocks dispatched…now for the sheep shaggers 

[Sithslayer1991]

Wales vs Ukraine. Scotland going down the only way Scotland knows how.

[WSWJACK]

3 hours ago, Smoggy said:

That’s the Mad Jocks dispatched…now for the sheep shaggers 

Oi   .................... leave NZ out of this !

[WSWJACK]

Agh last World cup were in Sweden 1958, been waiting all my life to see Wales in World cup 

After seeing the emotion and commitment (and football skill) from this Ukrainian team, I will humbly wait another 4 years if i have to, but there will be no Bale in four years time.

[Smoggy]

1 hour ago, Sithslayer1991 said:

Wales vs Ukraine. Scotland going down the only way Scotland knows how.

Happy for Ukraine, sad for Scotland. But also happy England won't have to face Scotland in a major tournament again. Those are horrible games that Scotland usually play out of their skin in, they should have beaten England in the last Euro's.

Edited June 2, 2022 by Smoggy

[Smoggy]

6 minutes ago, WSWJACK said:

Agh last World cup were in Sweden 1958, been waiting all my life to see Wales in World cup 

After seeing the emotion and commitment (and football skill) from this Ukrainian team, I will humbly wait another 4 years if i have to, but there will be no Bale in four years time.

The old Duncan Edwards days eh..or did he die in the plane crash before the 1958 WC..think it was before. They had a good team back then, the last 3 or 4 years has been the best for Wales since.

He was actually English...thought he was Welsh for some reason lol  Need to brush up on my football history.. 

Edited June 2, 2022 by Smoggy

[WSWJACK]

1 hour ago, Smoggy said:

The old Duncan Edwards days eh..or did he die in the plane crash before the 1958 WC..think it was before. They had a good team back then, the last 3 or 4 years has been the best for Wales since.

He was actually English...thought he was Welsh for some reason lol  Need to brush up on my football history.. 

Think Busby's assistant and right hand man was the welsh guy, can't remember his name.

John Charles led the line in Sweden, Wales went out in the Quarters to Brazil 1-0 Pele scored in his first world cup.

We lost out in the 80s to Romania (Hagi their talisman) , Bodin missed the penalty, if he had scored we were through to Mexico 

good team back then as well, Southall, Ratcliffe, Saunders, Rush & Hughes up front managed by Yorath

[Wobblies]

21 minutes ago, WSWJACK said:

Think Busby's assistant and right hand man was the welsh guy, can't remember his name.

Jimmy Murphy asst mgr, used to play for West Brom.

[Smoggy]

Congrats to Wales, first World Cup since 1958 is some achievement.

Going to need the mute button for all the extra Robbie Savage commentary though.

Edited June 5, 2022 by Smoggy

[marron]

Putin's cheque is in the mail

[WSWJACK]

On 06/06/2022 at 7:40 AM, marron said:

Putin's cheque is in the mail

[WSWJACK]

Ha sobered up now, didn't make it to work yesterday 

commiserations to Ukraine and congratulations to the Welsh team, either team could have won by two or so, Hennesey the welsh keeper outstanding performance.

Think England would have preferred Ukraine to either Scotland or Wales, yes?

 

[WSWJACK]

[Smoggy]

6 hours ago, WSWJACK said:

Ha sobered up now, didn't make it to work yesterday 

commiserations to Ukraine and congratulations to the Welsh team, either team could have won by two or so, Hennesey the welsh keeper outstanding performance.

Think England would have preferred Ukraine to either Scotland or Wales, yes?

 

Definitely. Tournament games against any home nation are horrible for England. They are better avoided.

[Smoggy]

Take out the individual Gazza brilliance from Euro 96, I am struggling to think of a truely classic England v Scotland or Wales game.  They usually don’t live up to the hype.

Edited June 7, 2022 by Smoggy

[Davo]

13 hours ago, Smoggy said:

Take out the individual Gazza brilliance from Euro 96, I am struggling to think of a truely classic England v Scotland or Wales game.  They usually don’t live up to the hype.

The England v Wales game in Euro 2016 was pretty good. 1-0 down and Woy brought Vardy and Sturridge on at half time.  Vardy equalised early and Sturridge scored a 92nd minute winner.

[WSWJACK]

15 hours ago, Smoggy said:

Take out the individual Gazza brilliance from Euro 96, I am struggling to think of a truely classic England v Scotland or Wales game.  They usually don’t live up to the hype.

Tend to agree, the build up and focus by the media tends to put the players in a defensive frame of mind I believe, hence try to win yes, but do not lose the over riding thought on the player's mind.

[sonar]

How do we think we'll go in our group. ?

Will we be on fire or turn into a dumpster fire. ?

Who will be in the squad...?

Any bolters from the A league or U23. ?

 

[Smoggy]

7 minutes ago, sonar said:

How do we think we'll go in our group. ?

Will we be on fire or turn into a dumpster fire. ?

Who will be in the squad...?

Any bolters from the A league or U23. ?

 

Very hard, Denmark are a quality side, as are France obviously. If Australia managed 4 points that would be successful I feel. Anything above 4 points phenomenal.

[Carns]

30 minutes ago, sonar said:

How do we think we'll go in our group. ?

Will we be on fire or turn into a dumpster fire. ?

Who will be in the squad...?

Any bolters from the A league or U23. ?

 

If Arnie doesn't pick on form and rejuvenate the squad a bit they'll be there simply to make up the numbers. It's likely he'll stick to what he always does and play favourites and conservatively.

As far as bolters, all depends on how players start the new season. It'll only be 3-4 months until the World Cup so players really should be picked if they're in form at the time, but we wait and see what happens. Maybe some U23 players get moves if they impress at the current tournament? They've already done better than we have before.

[mack]

We were hot trash that entire qualification campaign.

We're up against the reigning champions France, one of the Euros semi-finalists Denmark, and Tunisia are still above us in the rankings and they just destroyed Japan and Chile in a friendly tournament.

Getting a point would be an achievement.