Euro 2012 Qualifying Group B - General Discussion

[Stuttgart88]

Is that, 3 points from a win being good enough, just a mere theory?It's that kind of thinking that caused the financial crisis.

[geysir]

Are you guys a team now? Eric and Ernie, Cheech and Chong, now we have Poz and Stutz

[paul_oshea]

Why are you jealous geysir :D

I just thought the line matched with the recipient, was quite apt.

[geysir]

Here's me waiting for Stutts to find one example of a win being good enough to get a team into the next round and all I get is some obscure statement, that has Paul rolling on the floor.

[Kingdom]

Are you guys a team now? Eric and Ernie, Cheech and Chong, now we have Poz and Stutz

What about geysir and Kinger?

[geysir]

Seeing as i'm a half blooded Kerryman, I already have the assumption that I would be the senior party.

[pineapple stu]

Does anyone know if the Estonians have any suspensions?
Sergei Zenjov (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Zenjov) is out for the away game.

[DeLorean]

Nearly? :)
At least I can offer a 3 draw example, Chile in 1998

Not to mention Ireland/Holland in 1990!!


Cameroon in '82 as well (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_FIFA_World_Cup#Group_1). First team to be knocked out of the World Cup without losing a game (followed by England later that same tournament)

Followed by a surprisingly unbeaten New Zealand last year.


Here's me waiting for Stutts to find one example of a win being good enough to get a team into the next round

I don't think there is such an example. As I said, Italy in 2002 proved the theory, even if they did conjur up another unnecessary point! One win was good enough for England to secure second spot in their group in 1950 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_FIFA_World_Cup#Group_2)...unfortunately for them only first place qualified.

[Stuttgart88]

Thanks deLorean.

I couldn't find one, Geysir.

I stand by my retort though!

[geysir]

A nearly example still does not rise it above 'in theory a team can go through with a win' whereas we know teams have gone through with just 3 draws.
I have to conclude that in the context of 3 points being good enough, the reference example of a team doing it on the back of 3 draws is the superior one.

[Stuttgart88]

I didn't realise we were in competition. I just said that a team can also go through on 3 points. I understood your statement as your believing that 3 draws is the only way. I had in mind another way.

Claim a moral victory if you want. I've other things to worry about in the real world.

[DeLorean]

A nearly example still does not rise it above 'in theory a team can go through with a win' whereas we know teams have gone through with just 3 draws.

We also "know" that Italy would have went through with just one win, and because we know this...it makes it a fact, not just a theory.

[pineapple stu]

I have to conclude that in the context of 3 points being good enough, the reference example of a team doing it on the back of 3 draws is the superior one.
Would you ever stop? A "superior" example?! They're both perfectly valid examples.

[geysir]

Chill out guys, I thought it was obvious I was not that serious.

[pineapple stu]

You've a lot of work to do on your sense of humour!

[paul_oshea]

Geysir the man, self noted, for his delving into the intricacies of what people really mean when they make statements, yet he remains misunderstood :)

[geysir]

I have no control in how people interpret what I write, or if one post (apparently very very serious) is taken in isolation from other lighthearted posts on the same topic. All I can offer now is a belated clarification, a mea culpa.

[geysir]

You've a lot of work to do on your sense of humour!
Who said I was trying to be funny?

[pineapple stu]

So you weren't being serious and you weren't being funny?

[geysir]

Yes.
Just because someone is not being serious does not mean they are trying to be funny.

[DeLorean]

With over 30,000 posts between ye, it's no wonder familiarity is beginning to breed a bit of contempt. Not to worry, I knew you weren't being fully serious Geysir, but I still wanted to 'win' :)

[Kingdom]

Here Geysir, I think we'll annul the Kinger and Geysir tag-team, how about Benner and Geysir?