Asian Cup qualifiers

[The Fonz]

Was having a look at our table and draw for the Asian Cup qualifiers.

Next match is Wednesday August 16 at Aussie Stadium, Sydney against Kuwait and should be huge.

These were exactly the meaningful types of matches we never had while in Oceania. One after will be two weeks later at Adelaide Oval against Lebanon.

Top two make it through and should we beat Kuwait we would be virtually there.

 

[roostersgal4eva]

im going to the Adelaide game

id guess it would be maily the a-leauge players - valcanis, ross, costanzo mby

would our WC players play in the Asian Cup when we qualify?

 

[The Fonz]

would our WC players play in the Asian Cup when we qualify?

100%

 

[DB10]

Well of course they would.

It's a confederation cup, why wouldn't they play in it? That'd be like none of the top line European or South Americans playing in the European Cup or the Copa America.

All but one or two (eg: Kewell) will play in the remaining qualifiers because they're on FIFA approved dates, unlike the Bahrain game where the match was played on a non-FIFA date.

 

[roostersgal4eva]

nice

would any of our united playes get a gig mby in adelaide- Valcano would be in the mix and didnt they have a bigger sqaud before the cut it down for bahain and had ange and ross there too

oh imagine the posibilites

 

[MagpieScouser]

will sbs have the rights to these games?and will they show them at fed square?

 

[DB10]

SBS have the rights to every Australian NT game.

 

[SeymourLions]

nice

would any of our united playes get a gig mby in adelaide- Valcano would be in the mix and didnt they have a bigger sqaud before the cut it down for bahain and had ange and ross there too

oh imagine the posibilites

i doubt they will be biased to the city the game is played in. The likes of skoko, elrich, etc, kilkenny, patafta and a few of the young guns like troisi, jamieson, williams i think would all be their, our B team is starting to look very good.

 

[Unwritten_Law]

SBS have the rights to every Australian NT game.

When does the Foxtel deal kick in?

Saudi Arabia were a disgrace this morning. Asia might end up losing a WC spot. Iran have been average also and Japan are likely to finish bottom of our group. Hopefully the financial influences and the China factor hold sway.

 

[SeymourLions]

When does the Foxtel deal kick in?

Saudi Arabia were a disgrace this morning. Asia might end up losing a WC spot. Iran have been average also and Japan are likely to finish bottom of our group. Hopefully the financial influences and the China factor hold sway.

the a-league

 

[Unwritten_Law]

http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,18875133-5001023,00.html

The Daily Telegraph understands that FoxSports has beaten all other commercial networks in a bidding war that secures almost all international games and the local A-league competition to the television network.

The megadeal amounts to an increase in the sport's annual TV income of more than 20 times on this season's contract, for which Fox paid just $750,000 to show the A-League alone.

The new deal will include all Socceroos and club games here, bar the next two World Cups.

Has the situation changed since?

 

[Deledinho]

I despise Foxtel. Very very much. That is all.

*backs away and breaks a chair*

 

[xyakks]

So in this new confederation, who are the big teams other than Japan/Suadi Arabia/Iran/China?

 

[Sco]

So in this new confederation, who are the big teams other than Japan/Suadi Arabia/Iran/China?

Syria and Indonesia

 

[Presti_is_god]

So in this new confederation, who are the big teams other than Japan/Suadi Arabia/Iran/China?

Korea

 

[Sir_Adrian84]

Thailand, and Uzbekistan are also suppose to be ok, so are some of the smaller middle eastern countries like bahrain.

 

[CharlieG]

If Saudi Arabia is the third-best team in Asia at the moment, then going on the parts I saw of their matches, Australia has just become a permanent World Cup participant.

 

[MagpieScouser]

the best thing about beating japan was now we are going to be a seeded team when the asian qualifying begins which means we will not be in the same group as japan,korea,iran etc

if we dont have a direct ticket now to every world cup then ronaldos skinny

 

[The Fonz]

the best thing about beating japan was now we are going to be a seeded team when the asian qualifying begins which means we will not be in the same group as japan,korea,iran etc

if we dont have a direct ticket now to every world cup then ronaldos skinny

And what is even better than that is that every stage is round robin as opposed to knockout so we can afford to lose one of two games along the way.

Korea and Iran both qualified after finishing second in their groups - Korea with 10 and Iran 13 points out of a possible 18. The teams which finished third were Uzbekistan and Bahrain with 5 and 4 points respectively.

Japan who we smashed actually topped their group with 15 points.
Saudi Arabia topped the other group with 14.

All in all - think we are going to be ok.

 

[Munga]

If Saudi Arabia is the third-best team in Asia at the moment, then going on the parts I saw of their matches, Australia has just become a permanent World Cup participant.

I love the confidence, but take out the Hiddink, Neeskins and Arnold team and half the squad retiring....who knows what we'll look like in a few years.
But still, we should be winning these comps from now on.

 

[DIG]

And what is even better than that is that every stage is round robin as opposed to knockout so we can afford to lose one of two games along the way.

Korea and Iran both qualified after finishing second in their groups - Korea with 10 and Iran 13 points out of a possible 18. The teams which finished third were Uzbekistan and Bahrain with 5 and 4 points respectively.

Japan who we smashed actually topped their group with 15 points.
Saudi Arabia topped the other group with 14.

All in all - think we are going to be ok.

Yep - our WC qualifying path is definitely so much better now. And like you say even if we have a shocker one day and drop a match or two, being round robin instead of knockout we can still be ok.

 

[MagpieScouser]

and just say we start off slowly we can always bring back the big guns to steady the ship,bring on vietnam and laos!

 

[Mike_B]

Yep - our WC qualifying path is definitely so much better now. And like you say even if we have a shocker one day and drop a match or two, being round robin instead of knockout we can still be ok.

I'm still glad that we qualified through the minefield of Sth American playoffs and now have passed the group stage so that nobody can say that we made the move because we couldn't do it any other way.