Asunto: National Team

Get better soon Mangol. You have done an excellent job this season and I know we all appreciate the community involvement you have done so far.

Look after yourself, mangol. Appreciate your efforts with the NT this season.

Thank You guys :)

All the best Mangol & wishing you a full recovery.
Our health is far more important than SK.

So today's match ended our theoretical chances to advance to WC. Nevertheless draw 2-2 against Nederland is a good result in my opinion :) 3rd place is ours boys :)

Been a good campaign. Just need to finish it off against Ireland :)

Trust panopoulos to score twice today. Couldn’t hit a thing on Sunday :@

With Belgię losing against UAE there are still tiny bit of chances we advance. I would say 0.0001% XD

In next round Ireland is winning against Belgię and in last one Nederlands is winning with them like they've done in first round. In the same time we win both matches. Totally unrealistic, but in Poland with IRL NT we love this type of calculations XD
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Sounds like a “go for it” scenario…. Attack !!!
:D

Australia WC advance conditionals:
- W12 - Australia wins against Ghana - DONE (5:0)
- W12 - Ireland wins against Belgie
- W13 - Australia wins against Ireland
- W13 - Nederland wins against Belgie
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België - Ireland 1:5

We are still in game, but this results scares me. Next week in poker terms will be Double or nothing :)

Australia WC advance conditionals:
- W12 - Australia wins against Ghana - DONE (5:0)
- W12 - Ireland wins against Belgie - DONE (5:1)
- W13 - Australia wins against Ireland
- W13 - Nederland wins against Belgie

Wow that's a crazy win for Ireland. That was definitely the least likely of the above scenarios to occur.

Got to be in with a chance and here we are going in to the final round with a chance.

Great work

Today at 12:59 server time two important matches in group O will take place simultaneously.
Nederland vs Belgie and Ireland vs Australia. On my side all the preparations are set and done. Whatever the result will be, I would say this run was more lucky that previous attempt :)

Conditional chart:
- Ireland win against Australia -> Ireland end up at 3rd place and Australia at 4th
- Ireland draw against Australia -> Australia ends up at 3rd place and Ireland at 4th place
- Australia win against Ireland:
* Nederland lose against Belgie -> Belgie takes 2nd place and Australia takes 3rd place
* Nederland draw against Belgie -> (Unless Australia wins with 23+ goal lead) Belgie takes 2nd place and Australia takes 3rd place
* Nederland win against Belgie -> Australia advance to WC and takes 2nd place and Belgie end on 3rd place

Nederland - Belgie 3:3
End of hopes for us :(

On our match we won 1:4. After 0:2 lead and red card for our best Myburg, I closed match and directly checked result.

Sadly for us worst case scenario happened, where team with better goal difference will advance for world cup.

Tomorrow I'll prepare some stats and I'll share my thoughts, but right now I know that this NT was able to get into WC :)

3rd place is a big accomplishment, so all I can say is. AUSIE! AUSIE! AUSIE! OI! OI! OI!. Now, You can present me a shoey :D

Was a great season and will help gain is ranking. Equal 2nd is way beyond where I thought we’d be capable of getting. No doubt the manager of Ireland will be making conspiracy theories again about being targeted :p. Fact is their insistence on never using 5 defenders and then following that up with terrible defensive placements is a recipe for disaster.

I still think you had our mids too far from our defs and too close to our strikers but I’m not going to be too critical with a 4-1 result. The defensive corner placement was awful though and lucky we didn’t give away too many corners.

So thoughts gonna be shared today :)

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First of all, I'm proud of this result. Taking third place and losing WC qualification only by goal difference is a huge accomplishment in my opinion :) If one of You told me at the beginning of this campaign that I'll get 3rd place and I'll lose WC participation by 'slight' difference, I would have told You that You are a mad man :) (maybe there is a better word for that, but I'm afraid of forum ban)
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History wise:
- last time Australia NT took 3rd or above was in S60 (coach K@rol)
- other 3rd place or above (30 seasons back only):
* agbell79 (S52)
* MITCHCLAN (S50)
* MrCopy (S46)
* midyat (S44)
* panter (S42)
- last time Australia was in WC was in S13 with experienced coach cometer (but with different account) taking a reins of it :)
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Ranking wise:
- when I took Australia NT - 61th place with 1,388.85ranking points
- Currently (before match with Ireland will be calculated) 59th place with 1,477.99 ranking points (should be close to 1500 after tomorrow's update)
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Now a bit of my nagging and self-loathing.

1 goal difference in favor of Australia in any match against Nederland would grant WC qualification - this is why self-loathing should come in.

First half of WCQ I played like I was playing it with Nippon. Tactic wise -> very defensive with a counter winger, which worked fine against slightly better teams with RNG involved against much stronger teams (I believe cometer can say something about it, since we had 5 games). Unfortunately, in match against Nederlands, they scored their third goal at 81 minute, so this time RNG was on their side.

Second half I decided to take more aggressive approach, and match against UAE (BTW their result is amazing in this season) was a first sign of what gonna come sooner rather than later. But then in match against Nederlands I basically throw a towel against them with using 'defensive tactics' in first half (we scored and have a much better field presence after playing this 5-3-2 without winger).

Special place for matches against Belgie. I have no fucking idea, how Australia can dominate Ireland 4:1 while playing 60 minutes without one player, that won against Belgie 5:1 using same staring eleven and tactics, and in the same time Australia lose 0:4 and 0:5 against Belgie. Those two matches are biggest downfalls of this WCQ in my opinion (not that we deserved a win or something)
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Final thoughts

I've gave my best to this NT and I was close to finish a Cinderella story. Unfortunately, older sister was chosen by a prince ;)
To whomever will be taking this NT after me: You have a lovely community, that is heavily focused at their NT and takes a pride in it. Don't disappoint them. With a bit of luck in draw (and maybe getting enough ranking points to be drawn from 3rd pot) next WCQ season is Australia time to shine :)

Tomorrow I'll prep stats from this WCQ :)
AUSIE! AUSIE! AUSIE!
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