Tim Brown's Ballon D'or picks

Tim Brown's Ballon D'or picks

http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/classic/awards/01/56/60/53/awards_men_player_countries.pdf

I really agree with none of the players he chose. None of them are in the top 3 in the world currently, in fact one of them doesn't even deserve to be put in the top 10 in the world.

Im not even sure what Ricki was thinking with his #2 and #3 picks either

More to the point why isn't Nelsen listed as our captain?

Absolutely ridiculous selections by Brown.

Honestly, I'm starting to wonder if this guy's capable of tying his own shoe laces properly.

LOL Agree with Ricki onl first 2 but not him.

all players are clearly quality and would probably be in the top 25 in the world, but not top 3...

Lolz was he given five seconds to answer? Quick fire vote.

How can you not pick Leo Messi. Like I understand the players he picked are good.. but they're not the BEST. Xavi Alonso? Does he even start for Spain?

Love how the Cameroon coach picked Samuel Eto'o!

Portugal coach picks Ronaldo and then Nani! And so does Nuno Gomes

After seeing Ricki's votes this has started to annoy me.

Did Brown and Herbert decide to just completely take the piss? This is a rather prestigious and serious award, it reflects badly on us as a nation (from a football perspective) when our national captain and coach make horrendous picks.

At least our media man took it seriously. Saves face somewhat.

Get some perspective !!

You clearly failed to read the part in brackets that directly follows the phrase you just bolded.

I did and still think you need some

You don't honestly believe it's alright to treat this award with utter disdain like these two have done do you? Seriously?

Utter disdain.  Seriously ?? 

How do you know they have treated it with disdain?  It could just be that they see something different or judge a player on different measures than the media who might just follow the herd.

Take a look at who they picked. Of the 6 players picked between Brown and Herbert only 1 deserves to even be included in the top 3, let alone win it. If you want me to make it even clearer, Rooney, Muller and Suarez are not fit enough to be included in the current top 10. That is how absurd their picks are.

Well, why don't you go through the list and see what the top 10/15 are? Quite a few votes for both Rooney and Suarez and a few for Mueller.

In the famous quote "opinions are like arseholes...Everyone has one"

Come on News, even you can't talk some sense into this.

Neither Messi nor C. Ronaldo are among the best 3 players in the world are right now? That's just ridiculous.

This would be the same Rooney who has just come off a 9 game barren run for United? Yeah, not a top 10 player.

Did any of the players vote for themselves?

Messi voted for, Xavi, Iniesta and Aguero Sergio.

Wait, whats that? Brown voted for Sergio as well? Clearly neither of these two guys know what they are voting for.Azevo2012-01-11 14:53:15

I think the other question that might be good to ask is being so far away from it all in this part of the world, how often does Brown or watch or play against those players? Not endorsing his picks, just trying to find out perhaps why he ignored everyone elses obvious.

Winner winner chicken dinner.

End of the day you can't b*tch slap a guy for having an opinion that differs from yours. Would you rather he polled the NZ masses and then voted based off the results? Ultimately Buffy the opportunity is bestowed to him because of his position in NZ Football. You may disagree, but I don't think I'd go so far to call it a disgrace because none of those 3 are awful footballers.

Who am I to say who the best player in the world is? Why don't we see what International captains, coaches and media say?

The point is that their votes were not completely ridiculous if you look at how other people voted.
Bullion2012-01-11 15:38:35

Ricki really needs to drop Brown after those shocking picks.

lol at picks.

With all fairness, Tim Brown would probably be well within his rights to turn around and ask every single one of us what we know about international football. I think the answer would be akin to being f**k all and since he is the captain of an international side and none of us (I think) have ever played international football... Ironic. Jeff Vader2012-01-11 22:46:37

What would him playing international football have to do with it? Pele is regarded by some as the greatest player to ever play the game, yet have you seen or heard some of the absolute bullsh*t he comes out with on a regular basis?

And I'd be well within my rights to tell him he obviously doesn't know anything about football if he thinks Rooney is a better choice than Messi.

Silly point. Both Xavi and Iniesta belong in the conversation for the best footballer in the world, and Messi put Kun Aguero as his third choice (which only brings 1 point, and is sometimes used as a sentimental choice to give recognition to a good player from the player's/manager's country, which is what Messi may have been doing here), not his first. And he was hardly going to vote for himself (pointedly, he also voted only for his teammates, both at club and international level).

On the other hand, Brown's choice of Xabi Alonso as number 2 is just plain baffling. Makes you wonder is Brown's ever really seen an international game of football (he could hardly say he's ever played one, despite what the FIFA official statistics tell us).

Another silly point - one can have an opinion that Tim Brown, Ben SigmUnd and Tony Lochhead ar the best three footballers in the world, bit it would just be another stupid opinion.

Just like Brown's.

How about we make a list of people who didn't vote for the best players in the world (in accordance with The subjective list of best players in the world) so in the future the judging panel of the Ballon D'or can disregard them as just people with stupid opinions, Seems totally fair to me, clearly we can't have New Zealands name (from a football perspective) dragged through the dirt by players who have no of knowledge of football.

I'll get started:

1, Brown.

I think that will do it.

Azevo2012-01-12 19:12:06

i think anyone who ever disagrees with buffon II should be arrested

ofcourse everyone can have an opinion, doesnt mean its not completely moronic however

true

seriously, i think that brown and herbert have earned their right to vote and are free to vote for whoever they wish. would probably be a bit long winded for us to poll a vote for them. and we'd probably all vote for george.

whether we agree with their picks or not, at least they didn't do what a lot of national team managers do and vote for their own players that no one has ever heard of.reg222012-01-12 23:28:55