Football World Cup Qualifying Draw

[Magrat Garlick]

Owen (3), Heskey, Gerrard.

True...was thinking of another match you surely must have heard about though (unless you ignore a certain club from a northern town who wins a lot...)

 

[Cloete]

what chances do Scottie Parker and Frank Lampard have o making the World Cup Quals squad? To be fair to them, both have been just about brilliant. Especially Parker, he's done a hell of alot for Charlton and is one major reason why their doing so well in the Premiership. Lampard has been brilliant as well, but I don't rate him as much becasue he's with a team of superstars.

Thoughtsd?

 

[Neil Pickup]

Both of them are pretty much certainties to be in the squad for Portugal.

 

[luckyeddie]

The two goals Parker scored against Southampton at the weekend were both sensational strikes.

 

[Cloete]

The two goals Parker scored against Southampton at the weekend were both sensational strikes.

yeah his two goals added up to 50 yards for both strikes! so they were something special!

but i must say southampton's long range shooting was quite brilliant as well. Prutton looks as if he's finally coming through and proving his worth all the hype. Kiely was solid in goal for Charlton to deny the long-ranged shooting of the Saints.

 

[Swanny]

It was a cracking game Sunday, i'm not sure about Prutton yet though. You can't really say hes coming thorugh on the evidence of one game, he hasn't even been in the team most of the season.

Parker and Lampard are good players but i'm not sure either of them are international quality yet. Neither of them would get in the team and I think there will only be room for one of them in the squad for Portugal.

 

[marc71178]

Parker and Lampard are good players but i'm not sure either of them are international quality yet. Neither of them would get in the team and I think there will only be room for one of them in the squad for Portugal.

Lampard is there if fit.

 

[Swanny]

I agree but not so sure this is a good idea. He tends to play well at the top of Chelsea's diamond and far less effective elsewhere. But we already have Scholes there and Dyer is far better. The only option is the left hand side which he may get shunted into if anything (god forbid, we cant' afford another tournament without him) happens to Gerrard.

 

[marc71178]

I'd disagree on Dyer - seems to have gone right off the boil IMO.

 

[Jamee999]

True...was thinking of another match you surely must have heard about though (unless you ignore a certain club from a northern town who wins a lot...)

Hull the best club ever :P

 

[Swanny]

Wash your mouth out young man!!!

Always s*** on the north side of the bridge, de do de do de do de do.

 

[Jamee999]

j/king

 

[Neil Pickup]

j/king

And rapidly diminishing your respectability in some quarters, to boot.

 

[Craig]

With the exceptioon of Michael Owen I dont think England have any really good strikers.

Heskey I dont rate and Rooney is so over-rated it aint funny. He only ever seems to preform for England not Everton. Either that he has to go to a better club then Everton.

He is certainly not better then Obamefri Martins or Rafaal Van Der Vaart.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Bump because I've just realised that either: Guatemala, Trinidad & Tobago, Costa Rica and Jamaica are going to the WC finals...(unless Honduras manage to beat Costa Rica by the odd goal, or Jamaica lose to USA - in which case Panama or El Salvador go through)...also, one of the aforementioned teams play off against Bahrain, Kuwait, North Korea or...wait for it...Uzbekistan.

In the meantime, either Romania, Czech Republic or the Netherlands have to go out, and Spain might play off against France...(far-fetched, but possible)

At least India 1-0-4 (2-18) brings a smile to my face

 

[Simon]

and australia only have to beat the Solomon Islands again (just did them 11-1 on agg) to have a crack at the 5th placed south america side, who at this stage is chilie. I think we most want to avoid Uruguay and Columbia out of the sides that are in that middle part of the table, Chilie or Venezuela wouldnt be a bad match up for us....

 

[Smudge]

I guess our chances flew out the window when we lost to Vanuatu...

 

[Craig]

Did anybody see Portugal's 7-1 trashing of Russia a few weeks ago?

I truely felt for the Russian goalkeeper on that day as he had no chance of stoping the ball on each goal being scored.

I question I have is, should the South American qualifying group be split into two groups of five, and play twice which makes it fairer on big clubs who have heaps of South American players (like Inter aand AC Milan) who have to pay their wages and yet have to travel to the other side of the world and travel some more to another country to play in a WC qualifyer and then go back to Italy or Spain exhausted?

It must get a bit monotomous (sp) after a while.

 

[Cloete]

Did anybody see Portugal's 7-1 trashing of Russia a few weeks ago?

I truely felt for the Russian goalkeeper on that day as he had no chance of stoping the ball on each goal being scored.

I question I have is, should the South American qualifying group be split into two groups of five, and play twice which makes it fairer on big clubs who have heaps of South American players (like Inter aand AC Milan) who have to pay their wages and yet have to travel to the other side of the world and travel some more to another country to play in a WC qualifyer and then go back to Italy or Spain exhausted?

It must get a bit monotomous (sp) after a while.

Yeah I saw it... every goal bar one was absolute quality in that game.

The long distance shooting was superb, some of the best I've seen in a long time!!

ESPN is great

 

[Craig]

Your lucky.

I don't even have it. I had to watch it on The World Game on SBS.

Craig Foster can really be annoying at times. Sometimes you would swear he is Deco's and Barcelona's number 1 supporters.

Maybe he lost a few brain cells when he was playing for Palace and Pompey?