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The 2022 World Cup

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I would have thought that a basket case like Essendon should have been given Qatar.

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    Allahu akbar Argentina.🤣

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    31 minutes ago, dl4e said:

    Allahu akbar Argentina.🤣

    I'm loving the SBS coverage and all things Qatar World Cup

    The best of the best on show!

    Denmark/Tunisia on later (so we're hoping for a draw) ... although, it would take a minor miracle for the Oz to advance to the 2nd round

    But ya neva know!

    Australia vs France 6.00am tomorrow

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    Anyone got a live feed of the game anywhere? Im half way up a mountain in the Swiss Alps and YOUTUBE subscription is not covering this game !

     

    FU Rupert

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    16 minutes ago, Wadda We Sing said:

    Anyone got a live feed of the game anywhere? Im half way up a mountain in the Swiss Alps and YOUTUBE subscription is not covering this game !

     

    FU Rupert

    yeah we have a live feed in the office Wadda...we've shut shop for the next two hours lol, we started well with Goodwin scoring the first goal and now down 2-1 as I type.

    Enjoy the Alps.

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    8 minutes ago, Dee Zephyr said:

    yeah we have a live feed in the office Wadda...we've shut shop for the next two hours lol, we started well with Goodwin scoring the first goal and now down 2-1 as I type.

    Enjoy the Alps.

    Thanks mate...i forgot i had a VPN and now watching sbs On Demand live stream

    Cheers doc

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    10 hours ago, Macca said:

    I'm loving the SBS coverage and all things Qatar World Cup

    The best of the best on show!

    Denmark/Tunisia on later (so we're hoping for a draw) ... although, it would take a minor miracle for the Oz to advance to the 2nd round

    But ya neva know!

    Australia vs France 6.00am tomorrow

    Smashing it Macca. The streams are good, video quality exceptional. If I can just make one suggestion they need a timeline bar option during live games so you can scrub back a few minutes if you want to see a great goal again but I'm not going to complain too much about a free service!

    Socceroos brought the fight early but a few defensive errors really cost us. Have to feel for Atkinson going up against the quality of Mbappe for as long as he did. 

    Questionable coaching from Arnold, we let them play with it in our half too much and made the subs far too late. 

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    4 hours ago, layzie said:

    Smashing it Macca. The streams are good, video quality exceptional. If I can just make one suggestion they need a timeline bar option during live games so you can scrub back a few minutes if you want to see a great goal again but I'm not going to complain too much about a free service!

    Socceroos brought the fight early but a few defensive errors really cost us. Have to feel for Atkinson going up against the quality of Mbappe for as long as he did. 

    Questionable coaching from Arnold, we let them play with it in our half too much and made the subs far too late. 

    Atkinson had an extremely rough evening, Mbappe paired with T.Hernandez were brilliant on that wing, they had a great connection. 

    Questionable coaching and Arnie go arm in arm.  Think the smarter plan instead of a 4-1-4-1 would have been a 5-3-2 or similar.  

    France too good, were always going to be too good, we just let them roll over us. Onto Saturday!

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    1 hour ago, roy11 said:

    Atkinson had an extremely rough evening, Mbappe paired with T.Hernandez were brilliant on that wing, they had a great connection. 

    Questionable coaching and Arnie go arm in arm.  Think the smarter plan instead of a 4-1-4-1 would have been a 5-3-2 or similar.  

    France too good, were always going to be too good, we just let them roll over us. Onto Saturday!

    France were always going to beat us comfortably if they were switched on (and they were)

    But we can gain points against Tunisia & Denmark if all goes well

    Lets assume that France win all their 3 encounters (and they should) ... if we got a win and a draw from our remaining 2 games we'd advance to the knockout stages

    It's a big ask (as we're just an average outfit) but it's soccer and in soccer, upset results can and do happen

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    Having watched the Tunisia vs Denmark game, I am not sure I have the confidence you do @Macca

    Denmark have also beat France twice in the last 8 months, will be curious to see how that games goes this weekend. 

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    4 minutes ago, roy11 said:

    Having watched the Tunisia vs Denmark game, I am not sure I have the confidence you do @Macca

    Denmark have also beat France twice in the last 8 months, will be curious to see how that games goes this weekend. 

    I'm not confident, more so observing what can happen in the sport.  We just have to defend well and score once or twice in 2 games.  We don't have to play great

    No one gave us much of a chance of even making the world cup as Peru were hot favourites in the last phase and we limped through the group stages in Asia

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    All really good posts and thoroughly agree with all of the above.......I only have 1 question....

    IS ARNIE THE RIGHT GUY!??

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    With my family having one foot in the Australian camp and the other in the Japanese camp, we still have hope of at least one of the two getting beyond the group stage. Japan were absolutely magnificent against Germany and so should be in the box seat to progress. My oldest son even bought himself a Japan guernsey for the occasion 😁

    Apart from that game and the Korea v Uruguay game, I’ve found most games to be pretty uninspiring.

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    8 hours ago, hardtack said:

    With my family having one foot in the Australian camp and the other in the Japanese camp, we still have hope of at least one of the two getting beyond the group stage. Japan were absolutely magnificent against Germany and so should be in the box seat to progress. My oldest son even bought himself a Japan guernsey for the occasion 😁

    Apart from that game and the Korea v Uruguay game, I’ve found most games to be pretty uninspiring.

    Really?  Uninspiring?

    Did you watch Brazil play the other day?  Or the Dutch a few days ago?

    I find soccer to be a much better game than footy to watch.  Open, clean skills and easy on the eye

    And it's the world cup where there's a lot riding on each game.  So the tension and anticipation is also a huge factor

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    29 minutes ago, Macca said:

    Really?  Uninspiring?

    Did you watch Brazil play the other day?  Or the Dutch a few days ago?

    I find soccer to be a much better game than footy to watch.  Open, clean skills and easy on the eye

    And it's the world cup where there's a lot riding on each game.  So the tension and anticipation is also a huge factor

    I didn’t see either of those games, but of the games I’ve see, yep, uninspiring. I’m afraid that for me, soccer ceased to be the ‘beautiful game’ years ago when diving became a blight on the game and totally ruined it for me; so maybe my view of these games is tainted.

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    4 hours ago, hardtack said:

    I didn’t see either of those games, but of the games I’ve see, yep, uninspiring. I’m afraid that for me, soccer ceased to be the ‘beautiful game’ years ago when diving became a blight on the game and totally ruined it for me; so maybe my view of these games is tainted.

    Diving has always been part of soccer but there is way less of it these days anyway.  VAR can red card players for diving these days.  And leagues like Serie A retrospectively ousts the divers

    I watch a fair bit of soccer and there is nowhere near the amount of diving going on

    As per AFL, what about all the flopping and playing for free kicks in that sport?  It's as bad as it's ever been and getting worse

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    2 hours ago, Macca said:

    Diving has always been part of soccer but there is way less of it these days anyway.  VAR can red card players for diving these days.  And leagues like Serie A retrospectively ousts the divers

    You're on the wrong thread HT.  You're not a fan of the sport so why are you here?

    I’m not on the wrong thread at all. This is a thread about the World Cup which is watched by both dedicated and merely interested football watchers, all of who are entitled to an opinion and have the right to express that opinion. Sure, I’m not exactly a fanatic when it comes to the round ball game, but I have watched and followed it for over 50 years, so I’m not exactly totally lacking knowledge of the game.

    If VAR is so successful in eliminating diving and human error (ref’s decisions) from the game, then how on earth did Ronaldo earn a penalty kick in the game against Ghana?  Even Rooney and Figo believed that wasn’t a penalty and that Ronaldo had milked it, so why didn’t it go to a full review? Why isn’t a full VAR review made for any penalty awarded (it’s not as if it will use up too much match time)?  

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    6 minutes ago, hardtack said:

    I’m not on the wrong thread at all. This is a thread about the World Cup which is watched by both dedicated and merely interested football watchers, all of who are entitled to an opinion and have the right to express that opinion. Sure, I’m not exactly a fanatic when it comes to the round ball game, but I have watched and followed it for over 50 years, so I’m not exactly totally lacking knowledge of the game.

    If VAR is so successful in eliminating diving and human error (ref’s decisions) from the game, then how on earth did Ronaldo earn a penalty kick in the game against Ghana?  Even Rooney and Figo believed that wasn’t a penalty and that Ronaldo had milked it, so why didn’t it go to a full review? Why isn’t a full VAR review made for any penalty awarded (it’s not as if it will use up too much match time)?  

    Who cares about all that stuff anyway?

    You take the good with the bad and get on with it

    You sound like all those hundreds of 1000's  footy fans who can't stop moaning about umpiring decisions

    We are a country of whingers ... worse than the poms

    And your lack of knowledge on diving is astonishing.  You obviously don't watch a lot of soccer.  You're out of touch, HT

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    17 minutes ago, Macca said:

    You sound like all those hundreds of 1000's  footy fans who can't stop moaning about umpiring decisions

    Absolutely wrong about that as I NEVER whine about umpiring decisions in AFL. However, being the low scoring game that football is, penalties can have a much bigger bearing on the outcome of a game than AFL umpiring decisions could ever have.

    21 minutes ago, Macca said:

    And your lack of knowledge on diving is astonishing.  You obviously don't watch a lot of soccer. 

    So, the likes of Rooney and Figo are out of touch?

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    18 minutes ago, hardtack said:

    Absolutely wrong about that as I NEVER whine about umpiring decisions in AFL. However, being the low scoring game that football is, penalties can have a much bigger bearing on the outcome of a game than AFL umpiring decisions could ever have.

    So, the likes of Rooney and Figo are out of touch?

    It all evens itself out ... whinging about referees or umpiring decisions is one of the more pointless things anyone can ever do.  In any sport

    Flopping & ducking in footy is far worse than diving might be in soccer.  And there is way less diving these days anyway

    But how would you know?  You told us that you don't watch the sport

    Hey HT,  you started the whinging when you said that the world cup is uninspiring

    Is it uninspiring to you because you don't like soccer? 

    For true soccer fans, it is anything but uninspiring.  You're on your own on this thread (unless another hater joins in)

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    For those of who aren't 'uninspired' by the world cup, the England/USA game this morning was fascinating! 

    A nil-all draw but the Americans really took it up to England and dominated a lot of the match. Unlucky not to snare the 3 points.  It was a good nil-nil!

    And the Netherlands fell away 3/4's of the way through their game against Equador and we're lucky not to lose the game

    But both England & Holland sit on top in their groups and both should advance to the 2nd round.  Unless ..........

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    4 hours ago, Macca said:

    But how would you know?  You told us that you don't watch the sport

    Hey HT,  you started the whinging when you said that the world cup is uninspiring

    Is it uninspiring to you because you don't like soccer? 

     

    You failed to read the part where I said I had been watching the sport for over 50 years?  Saying that I’m not a fanatical follower of the sport (as you obviously are) does not equate to me not watching or me hating the sport.

    Is it not possible to find the games in a particular event (the World Cup) uninspiring and still enjoy watching the sport generally?  It’s hardly whinging to state my opinion of the games I’ve watched… I note you’ve conveniently ignored the fact that I stated that I enjoyed the Japan v Germany and S Korea v Uruguay games.

    Perhaps you need to accept the fact that you’re not the only one whose opinion matters. I found some games uninspiring, you didn’t… fine.

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