All Whites, Ferns, and other international teams

NZ FIFA Ranking

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
el grapadura wrote:
Leggy wrote:
el grapadura wrote:
Leggy wrote:
el grapadura wrote:
I'm sorry, I don't understand. Are you saying that Australia was very good in 2006?


I said pretty good not very good, and they were.
Got through to the next round and were unlucky to lose on a dubious pen. to Italy.


They got very lucky against Japan, put in their place by Brazil, and had a see-saw battle and a draw against a fairly average Croatian team to get to the second round. Won 1 game out of 4 in the entire tournament, thanks to late, late goals against Japan. That's not pretty good - that's OK, but nothing more.


A bit better than the AW's


Obviously, but that hardly makes them 'pretty good' in international football.


If they are ranked in the top 20 they must be pretty good , as there are many teams ranked lower.
What do think is pretty good?

If you are old and wise you were probably young and stupid

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
FIFA ranking is meaningless. There's at least 10 teams ranked below Australia that could absolutely rape them.

Just like there's teams in front of them that Oz could beat quite comfortably.

Like I said, they are an OK side, but nothing more than that. el grapadura2010-04-03 10:17:05
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
el grapadura wrote:
FIFA ranking is meaningless. There's at least 10 teams ranked below Australia that could absolutely rape them.

Just like there's teams in front of them that Oz could beat quite comfortably.

Like I said, they are an OK side, but nothing more than that.


I agree, but the same could be said for the teams 20 to 30 behind the AW"s

If you are old and wise you were probably young and stupid

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I think come World Cup time,we'll see there are atleast three teams ranked higher than the All Whites that they could "absolutely rape"!
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Leggy wrote:
el grapadura wrote:
FIFA ranking is meaningless. There's at least 10 teams ranked below Australia that could absolutely rape them.

Just like there's teams in front of them that Oz could beat quite comfortably.

Like I said, they are an OK side, but nothing more than that.


I agree, but the same could be said for the teams 20 to 30 behind the AW"s


No argument from me there.
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
el grapadura wrote:
FIFA ranking is meaningless.


Michael Glading seems to disagree with you.

NZF chief executive Glading told Sunday News his exact expectation for the national team is "the tough but achievable challenge" of a top 30 Fifa ranking by 2020, and has personally researched and drafted a plan to make it happen.

Source: Stuff.co.nz.
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Edgar wrote:

el grapadura wrote:
FIFA ranking is meaningless.
Michael Glading seems to disagree with you.NZF chief executive Glading told Sunday News his exact expectation for
the national team is "the tough but achievable challenge" of a top 30
Fifa ranking by 2020, and has personally researched and drafted a plan
to make it happen.Source: Stuff.co.nz.


Yeah, well, it's Glading.
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
People say rankings dont mean anything... but we all know they do. f**k being ranked 79 for the next 10 years, its going to do nothing for the game. It'l be used as an excuse to not fund the AWs, and excuse for other teams to not want to play us, an excuse for the nation to not care about football.
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
We are now ranked 78th! Meanwhile of our WC opponents, Slovaka drop 5 to 38, Paraguary drop 7 to 33 and Italy remain 5th. Also, North Korea (grouped with Brazil, Portugal and Ivory Coast and who the TAB give a better chance of winning the tournament than us) slip further to 106th. South Africa also down to 90th, so we are comfortably only 3rd lowest ranked at WC! And Australia slips to 20th.
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Nelsen in his book picks North Korea to get out of the group

www.kiwifromthecouch.blogspot.com

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
What's he been on?
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Mmm that was about my thought. Im thinking it may have been a misprint, from reading the thing doesn't seem like it was proofread or edited that well

www.kiwifromthecouch.blogspot.com

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Reckon a quick job to cash in on the World Cup?
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Absolutely, but good on him. Will be a cool book for 12 year olds not so much for others.

www.kiwifromthecouch.blogspot.com

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
bopman wrote:
Absolutely, but good on him. Will be a cool book for 12 year olds not so much for others.


sounds about right for my reading age....sweet
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Sorry if this is covered elsewhere but this sh*t is seriously going to affect our Fifa ranking.

What is the highest NZ has ever been btw?

At this rate they'll start seeding us in Pot A for the WC draw in 2014- or maybe i 've been on the pot too much

But seriously, i imagine there'll be new ranking after the WC, and we'll be moving

Salmon swim upstream

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Salmon07 wrote:

What is the highest NZ has ever been btw?


47.

Ramming liberal dribble down your throat since 2009
This forum needs less angst and more Kate Bush threads



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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
http://www.yellowfever.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12270

was this thread, may need to be renamed. Actually were 2 others I think. Would be cool to keep all updates in one place to track the history.

Mods?

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
oOh, bagsmine to stay open-Purty Please!

Salmon swim upstream

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
another question, usually do rankings at end of month
will they do 1 end of month or wait till after world cup?

Calling all fans in Japan, come down and support the mighty nix in Osaka

http://www.facebook.com/WellingtonPhoenixClubMembersSupportersGroupOsaka

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
detoxin wrote:
another question, usually do rankings at end of month
will they do 1 end of month or wait till after world cup?


Rankings last updated 26 May 2010, next release 14 Jul 2010.

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
thanks, just noticed it said on fifa website,.... thanks for that tho lol

Calling all fans in Japan, come down and support the mighty nix in Osaka

http://www.facebook.com/WellingtonPhoenixClubMembersSupportersGroupOsaka

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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Could be interesting how high we climb.
In the last five games we have got the following pionts
Australia 0
Serbia 555
Slovenia 0
Slovakia 664
Italy 780
Thats an average of 400 pts (which is also our current ranking pionts)
 
A win/draw with Paraguay should get NZ up inside the top 50.

A dog with a bone :)

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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Friendlies don't count?
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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
You get no points for losing games...
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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Rainman wrote:
Friendlies don't count?
 
Friendlies certianly do count. You get nil points for losing a game.

A dog with a bone :)

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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
You should get points just for being close. Just because.
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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Michael Lawls would like that.

Three for me, and two for them.

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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
nightz wrote:
Could be interesting how high we climb.
In the last five games we have got the following pionts
Australia 0
Serbia 555
Slovenia 0
Slovakia 664
Italy 780
Thats an average of 400 pts (which is also our current ranking pionts)
 
A win/draw with Paraguay should get NZ up inside the top 50.


To move into the top 50 we would have to increase our points by about 200 from 410 to 610.
So given your calculations above and this morning's result, how does this relate to our total points.
Should also be considered that top 50 teams within striking distance of NZ who appeared in the 2006 WC and not 2010 will lose the big points gained there. Poland, Equador and Sweden
Points are calculated on games played over the last 4 years. (Next update 14th July)

We're Forever Causing Trouble

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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Thats another 676 points this morning which gives us an average of 445 pts since the last rankings.
Uiron, you are correct about pts calculated over the last 4 yrs. The weighting is 100% 50% 30% 20%.  Any movement up the rankings is helped by teams above you dropping pts. In the 2 months after the 2006 world cup most the teams ranked 50 to 100 dropped a large amount of points. If that happens again it will help our rise.

A dog with a bone :)

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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
The website that regularly calculates FIFA world rankings is showing our ranking as 55th after the Paraguay game. LInk below. That is close to our best ever - 47th in 2002.

http://www.football-rankings.info/
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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Come on Botswana!
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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
A win wouldve sent us soaring id imagine.

Allegedly

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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Thread going here

http://www.yellowfever.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12270&PN=4

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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
New Zealand will be the best climbers in the next release of FIFA ranking.

FIFA Ranking: July 2010 preview (VI).
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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Take that Mali.
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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Off topic but, France 21st 

Three for me, and two for them.

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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I am hoping that others drop points faster than we do in the coming months, I mean they have more points to drop than we earned four years ago....
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