Asunto: Competition Fights Back

U21: Australia 2 - 4 USA

Hopefully we win but I think USA have too much class a bit like Czech Republic.

Dave - Go jump in the lake

Australia 3 - 2 Austria

USA lost to Indonesia a couple of weeks back.. I'd be disappointed if we didnt win truth be told!

U21 NT - Australia 3-2 USA
Senior NT - Australia 3-2 Austria

USA look marginally better personnel wise (especially up front), but their tactic seems fairly standard.

Well like I said I hope we do win, but from what I've seen they're slightly better skilled than us and only need to fix up tactically. Assuming they don't fix up their relative weakness in tactics we should win.

Indonesia isn't something to laugh about, they'd be much closer to our strength in U21 form then in Senior form. U21 teams are going to introduce a slightly different rank then previously.

U21 NT - Australia 2-1 USA
Senior NT - Australia 2-1 Austria

U21 NT - Australia 2-2 USA
Senior NT - Australia 2-2 Austria

Round 4 Points - Very late but now here:

Correct results for this round were:
Australia U21 8 - 0 Tunis U21
Australia 16 - 0 Ghana

U21 Ladder: (u21 comp player)
1) Minkee - 17 points
2) fantum - 16 points
3) sx890410 - 14 points
4) cometer - 13 points
5) Achmid - 10 points
6) uberfurious - 9 points
7) naphtali - 9 points
8) jkhtong1 - 8 points
9) vivski - 7 points
10) ss16 - 6 points
11) snappa - 4 points
12) borkos007 - 3 points
13) Tigermaster - 3 points
14) oowie - 2 points

Senior Ladder: (senior comp player)
1) Achmid - 12 points
2) ss16 - 12 points
3) snappa - 12 points
4) vivski - 11 points
5) sx890410 - 10 points
6) naphtali - 10 points
7) Tigermaster - 10 points
8) fantum - 9 points
9) Minkee - 8 points
10) uberfurious - 6 points
11) borkos007 - 6 points
12) jkhtong1 - 4 points
13) cometer - 3 points
14) oowie - 3 points

Overall Ladder:
1) fantum - 30 points
2) Minkee - 29 points
3) Achmid - 27 points
4) vivski - 27 points
5) sx890410 - 27 points
6) naphtali - 22 points
7) snappa - 20 points
8) ss16 - 19 points
9) cometer - 19 points
10) uberfurious - 17 points
11) Tigermaster - 16 points
12) jkhtong1 - 14 points
13) borkos007 - 11 points
14) oowie - 7 points

Pairings for round 4
fantum v vivski
jkhtong1 v oowie
cometer/Tigermaster v Achmid
naphtali v borkos007
ss16 v Minkee
sx890410 v snappa
*Note: uberfurious submitted tips after the deadline and therefore misses the bonus points, although did score points for the Senior game the day after.

Round 5 points up later this evening.

before I put round 5 points up, just informing everyone this round is Australia v Eesti and Australia U21 v Republica Dominicana U21. Hoping to use the Australia v Eesti as a 2nd string game keeping all the players free for the return leg against Osterreich next week.

so are eesti using 2nd XI as well?

I'm going to discuss with them about that. I've raised it before though.

Seniors: Australia 2-5 Eesti
U21: Australia 5-0 Dominican Republic

Seniors: Australia 2-4 Eesti
U21: Australia 6-0 Dominican Republic

Seniors: Australia 2-4 Eesti
U21: Australia 6-0 Dominican Republic

Seniors: Australia 3-6 Eesti
U21: Australia 5-0 Dominican Republic

Seniors: Australia 1-5 Eesti
U21: Australia 5-0 Dominican Republic