FIFA World Rankings

Chardee MacDennis · 13-09-2006 5:40pm #1

well we've managed to drop to 43rd in the world rankings, i suppose thats whats happens when you dont qualify for a tournament in 4 years. we were 12th in january 2005.

Necronomicon · 13-09-2006 6:03pm

Well England, a team that couldn't hit a barn door at the World Cup, leap-frogged Italy, the World Cup winners. So I wouldn't take too much from the rankings.

Atlas_IRL · 13-09-2006 6:46pm

ye thats a joke how the hell are england 4th they just played Andorra and Macedonia and they move to 4th?

Xavi6 · 13-09-2006 7:02pm

The system is a joke but we all know Ireland are a disaster now and deserve to be where they are - way behind Scotland with Northern Ireland slowly creeping up behind.

therecklessone · 13-09-2006 8:55pm

Necromomicon wrote:

Well England, a team that couldn't hit a barn door at the World Cup, leap-frogged Italy, the World Cup winners. So I wouldn't take too much from the rankings.

Conveniantly ignoring the fact that Italy drew with Lithuania and lost To France in the same period. France jumped 2 places to 2nd (on the back of two wins), Argentina held their ground at 3rd, and England jumped 2 places to 4th.

The French dropped 3 places to 5th, losing more ranking points than England gained from their wins.

http://www.fifa.com/en/mens/statistics/index/0,2548,121949,00.html?articleid=121949

Its a poor system, but lets not lose sight of recent results.

Necronomicon · 13-09-2006 9:53pm

therecklessone wrote:

Conveniantly ignoring the fact that Italy drew with Lithuania and lost To France in the same period.

Well I guess it's a debate on whether or not two results justify the jump in places....not in my opinion.
I do think England are already a better team than they were under Sven, but with the greatest respect to Andorra and Macedonia, I don't think 6 points against them merrits the jump up the rankings.

But meh, the FIFA rankings have been talked about plenty of times here before, I don't think many take them as gospel.

Pigman II · 13-09-2006 10:01pm

If we're listed as 43rd then the fifa rankings may finally be begining to work.

astrofool · 13-09-2006 10:25pm

How about instead of complaining about this every few months, people come up with their own system, and maybe apply it to a few teams to see if they can come up with anything better.

The whole point behind the FIFA system is for it to be opinion neutral.

eirebhoy · 13-09-2006 10:32pm

Pigman II wrote:

If we're listed as 43rd then the fifa rankings may finally be begining to work.

I'd actually love to see where you'd be if we won the world cup. You're worse than Dunphy.

Kone · 15-09-2006 1:53pm

It's a ****ty system, we are bad but are we that bad?

Vokes · 15-09-2006 2:04pm

Its a new system, isn't it? Ireland's position seems about right given their results in competitive games.

And 'techincally' Italy didn't beat France at the WC, so im sure that has a bearing on things

Kone · 15-09-2006 2:18pm

SofaKing wrote:

And 'techincally' Italy didn't beat France at the WC, so im sure that has a bearing on things

Officially it was a draw, just like Ireland V Romania in 1990.

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