Should Australia be Excluded from the World Cup?

[Blaze]

Yes imo.

It would be good for the game.

 

[Richard]

Haha, this sounds familiar!

Might be great to play a World Cup wivvout 'em, sure, but sadly it's not gonna happen and we all know it.

 

[Perm]

Good idea, let somebody else win it.

 

[Richard]

 

[Neil Pickup]

We could call it the Johnsons Paint Cup.

 

[Richard]

Why couldn't you just have voted "Yes", eh?

 

[Prince EWS]

I considered splitting up the states as an idea, but NSW would go through undefeated anyway so it'd be a useless one.

 

[age_master]

The world cup is here to decide who is the best.

 

[irfan]

Haha. Awesome thread. I definitely would like to see what would happen if Australia was excluded from thumping and annihilating everybody.

There's a bracket of 6-8 teams below Australia that could beat each other on any given day.

We could have this World Cup (excluding Australia)

And an Australian Cup (All the states battle each other like usual except all the intl players are permanent members of their respective states)

 

[NUFAN]

I know this isn't serious - but in general people should appreciate the class of the Australian side over the past decade and reliaze the best players from around the world step up against the Aussies.

Look at Michael Vaughan decent Test player, but everyone was saying he was up there with Tendulkar and Lara just cause he had a good series against Australia!

One of the Aussie states would make the semis of the World Cup IMO..

In saying all this, Australia don't have the Cup won, still 2 huge matches to go.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

This is a waste of bandwidth.

 

[Evermind]

I answered "Yes".

They should let Australia A play instead. That'd be much better.

 

[NUFAN]

I answered "Yes".

They should let Australia A play instead. That'd be much better.

What would the Australians do?

Perform bad so they get to play in the World Cup..

Other countries should develop their game to be at Australia's level, rather then want Australia out of the Cup. It would be a very hollow victory, that is for sure.

 

[nightprowler10]

No irrelevant third option? Gutted...

 

[Prince EWS]

No irrelevant third option? Gutted...

I think all of the answers are pretty irrelevant tbh.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Impressive as Oz have been there's no doubt in my mind that if certain teams played their strongest XIs against them might make for slightly more even contests at least.

 

[pasag]

Yes imo.

It would be good for the game.

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Dammit. 'Yes' was winning by miles and now.....

 

[Matt79]

I voted no. I don't think the problem is Australia. The problem is everyone else. Seriously, I'm so fed up with all the other teams being so consistently rat ****. Why the hell can't India and Pakistan get their bloody act together? Its really not that hard! Why are NZ and SL playing silly buggers playing second string teams against us? Why are England so reliably dire (apart from say one series every two decades)? What the hell do the West Indies think they're doing? Do you all realise these previously proud teams are becoming jokes? Its being going on for the best part of two decades and its ruining the sport.

 

[Dick Rockett]

Why are NZ and SL playing silly buggers playing second string teams against us?

Both Bond and Oram were out for injury/illness reasons. Other than that we were full strength.



Which is embarrassing.