Debate - World footy rankings 2008 - IC08 placings

Welcome to World Footy News Friday, March 13 2026 @ 10:19 pm ACDT

Debate - World footy rankings 2008 - IC08 placings | 6 comments | Create New Account

The following comments are owned by whomever posted them. This site is not responsible for what they say.

This site requires you to be logged in to post a comment. If you have an account already (or need to create one), please login here.

Debate - World footy rankings 2008 - IC08 placings

Authored by: Adam Bennett - AFL England President
on Wednesday, January 07 2009 @ 08:39 pm ACDT

A ranking is never going to please everyone, so I think you have to go with the IC rankings for now, in lieu of a methodology which allows us to accurately track and calculate precisedly where teams are compared to others.

For example, after the result in 2005 and seeing the teams play in 2008, I'd hope GB vs Japan would be a good match-up for us, but they finished higher, so good on 'em. I think everyone underestimated how good the Nauruans were and I'm sure they would fancy themselves against both the Africans and Irish, though I'd probably go with the current placings for now.

It would be great to see an AFL initiative providing an official system for ranking, or adoption of a system used in another mainstream sport which could be accurately applied to footy to determine rankings, but I suspect this would also require more regular contact between a larger number of international teams.

Happy new year all!
Ads

---
*****************************************
"You don't stop playing because you get old - you get old because you stiop playing."

---
*****************************************
"You don't stop playing because you get old - you get old because you stop playing." - Unknown

RSS news	RSS events
Twitter	Facebook

World Footy News

Search

Translate

User Functions

Events

Featured Sites

Older Stories

Friday 11-Apr

Sunday 30-Mar

Thursday 27-Mar

Friday 21-Mar

Thursday 06-Mar

Wednesday 05-Feb

Tuesday 04-Feb

Socials

Who's Online

Random Image

What's New

Articles last 2 weeks

Comments last 2 weeks

Links last 2 weeks

Advertisements