Conquer Club

AndyDufresne wrote:Nope. That topic is dedicated to generalities, man. This is a specific topic.

Serbia wrote:The World Cup deserves a separate topic.

oVo wrote:I watched Real Madrid's relentless offense in the second half as a lethargic Atletico surrendered the equalizing goal in the 93+ minute.

Serbia wrote:I watched the second half as well. Real was just unreal, and deserved the result they got.

JBlombier wrote:Apart from all previous comments, I'd like to join kuthoer's (does anyone know what his username means in Dutch, btw?) opinion.

The Netherlands for the win.

AndyDufresne wrote:I am appointing the following committee with the following two tasks:

Committee Members:

• betiko
• Serbia
• nietzsche

Task #1: Determine the validity of this current topic's existence outside of the Football topic.
Task #2: Determine whether iAmCaffeine's urine dispensing constitutes a hate crime, and whether or not his posting in this topic should be strictly verboten.

Findings Due: June 11th, 2014


--Andy

2dimes wrote:

TA1LGUNN3R wrote:Did you see that ludicrous display last night?

-TG

What's Wenger doing sending Wollcott in that early?

nagerous wrote:

2dimes wrote:

TA1LGUNN3R wrote:Did you see that ludicrous display last night?

-TG

What's Wenger doing sending Wollcott in that early?

Is that an IT Crowd reference? If so... kudos.

Belgium are definitely my dark horses, not seen much of them live before but can't wait to see Kompany, Hazard, Lukaku et al in action.

England's chances? I'm hoping we reach the knockouts, don't hold much hope past that, if Germany/Spain/Brazil/Argentina or whoever don't knock 4 past us, then they'll surely beat us in penalties,

betiko wrote:

nagerous wrote:

2dimes wrote:

TA1LGUNN3R wrote:Did you see that ludicrous display last night?

-TG

What's Wenger doing sending Wollcott in that early?

Is that an IT Crowd reference? If so... kudos.

Belgium are definitely my dark horses, not seen much of them live before but can't wait to see Kompany, Hazard, Lukaku et al in action.

England's chances? I'm hoping we reach the knockouts, don't hold much hope past that, if Germany/Spain/Brazil/Argentina or whoever don't knock 4 past us, then they'll surely beat us in penalties,

Let's not make a huge fuss about belgium. They are quarter finalist material, nothing more, and it's already not too bad.

Gillipig wrote:

betiko wrote:

nagerous wrote:

2dimes wrote:

TA1LGUNN3R wrote:Did you see that ludicrous display last night?

-TG

What's Wenger doing sending Wollcott in that early?

Is that an IT Crowd reference? If so... kudos.

Belgium are definitely my dark horses, not seen much of them live before but can't wait to see Kompany, Hazard, Lukaku et al in action.

England's chances? I'm hoping we reach the knockouts, don't hold much hope past that, if Germany/Spain/Brazil/Argentina or whoever don't knock 4 past us, then they'll surely beat us in penalties,

Let's not make a huge fuss about belgium. They are quarter finalist material, nothing more, and it's already not too bad.

Well they're in one of the easiest groups so they might make it to the first round just because of that, and if they're even more lucky they could make it through that round, very much depending on who they face of course, If they draw germany for example they're screwed. But all in all Belgium shouldn't be taken seriously, I would be mightily surprised if I'm sitting there in front of the televison and get blown away by how well they play.

European countries usually struggle when the WC is played in South America, with that in mind I'm still going to pick Spain as the winner.

A real bummer for me personally that Sweden isn't in this World Cup either, we've missed two world cups in a row now. Stinks extra much given the history of success Sweden has had in previous World Cups.
We're still ranked number 10 on the FIFA World Cup all time rankings but it's pretty clear that Sweden's time is in the past. And it's not going to change anytime soon, we don't have any good players except one who has visions of grandeur that puts Maradona to shame. Not the type of player you build a dedicated and hardworking team around exactly. And the rest just suck, a 38 year old central midfielder who had his prime ten years ago is the second best player on the team. On second thougth I'm almost glad we didn't make it so we didn't have to embaress ourselves on the worlds biggest stage.

betiko wrote:

Gillipig wrote:

betiko wrote:

nagerous wrote:

2dimes wrote:

TA1LGUNN3R wrote:Did you see that ludicrous display last night?

-TG

What's Wenger doing sending Wollcott in that early?

Is that an IT Crowd reference? If so... kudos.

Belgium are definitely my dark horses, not seen much of them live before but can't wait to see Kompany, Hazard, Lukaku et al in action.

England's chances? I'm hoping we reach the knockouts, don't hold much hope past that, if Germany/Spain/Brazil/Argentina or whoever don't knock 4 past us, then they'll surely beat us in penalties,

Let's not make a huge fuss about belgium. They are quarter finalist material, nothing more, and it's already not too bad.

Well they're in one of the easiest groups so they might make it to the first round just because of that, and if they're even more lucky they could make it through that round, very much depending on who they face of course, If they draw germany for example they're screwed. But all in all Belgium shouldn't be taken seriously, I would be mightily surprised if I'm sitting there in front of the televison and get blown away by how well they play.

European countries usually struggle when the WC is played in South America, with that in mind I'm still going to pick Spain as the winner.

A real bummer for me personally that Sweden isn't in this World Cup either, we've missed two world cups in a row now. Stinks extra much given the history of success Sweden has had in previous World Cups.
We're still ranked number 10 on the FIFA World Cup all time rankings but it's pretty clear that Sweden's time is in the past. And it's not going to change anytime soon, we don't have any good players except one who has visions of grandeur that puts Maradona to shame. Not the type of player you build a dedicated and hardworking team around exactly. And the rest just suck, a 38 year old central midfielder who had his prime ten years ago is the second best player on the team. On second thougth I'm almost glad we didn't make it so we didn't have to embaress ourselves on the worlds biggest stage.

Ah come on, don't criticize zlatan, you should be ashamed of yourself. Zlatan has all the rights to play the diva whenever he wants. he deserves it and isn't really serious about it when he does. The world cup will miss zlatan.

regarding belgium: no they don't play well. They just have a bunch of good players this year and have pretty good results, but they are not a beautifull team to watch, they are in fact quite boring.

I can't really think of a team that play a nicer football than germany these past few years....

betiko wrote:well playing for Paris Zlatan has a special status and he is delivering more that he has ever delivered. He is the team's superstar and all other stars that has ego problems just need to know that whatever they say/do, zlatan is the star and they need to shut up. Even Ancelotti last year knew that. If you treat him well, he will be at 100%, and given his talent you want to have him at 100%.
The rest of the swedish team is half shit, so obviously everythng had to work around zlatan. You guys are a bit crazy to talk about zlatan. no one says anything to zlatan here. He's even got his own verb in the french dictionary now.

Gillipig wrote:

betiko wrote:well playing for Paris Zlatan has a special status and he is delivering more that he has ever delivered. He is the team's superstar and all other stars that has ego problems just need to know that whatever they say/do, zlatan is the star and they need to shut up. Even Ancelotti last year knew that. If you treat him well, he will be at 100%, and given his talent you want to have him at 100%.
The rest of the swedish team is half shit, so obviously everythng had to work around zlatan. You guys are a bit crazy to talk about zlatan. no one says anything to zlatan here. He's even got his own verb in the french dictionary now.

No you're wrong, the rest of the Swedish tema is COMPLETE shit! We don't have any good players. You're a neutral observer here, can you even name a single player on the Swedish national team except Ibrahimovic? You shouldn't, because none of them have big roles in successful teams.
There are some people here that think Zlatan is beyond criticism but they are also a lot of people who recognize that as good as he is individually, he's not a team player and not a very good captain.
Can you believe this though, Sweden's coach, Erik Hamren, failed to qualify to two WC's in a row and still get's to keep his job! This guy must give great blowjobs, I can think of no other reason to keep him around.

AndyDufresne wrote:I am appointing the following committee with the following two tasks:

Committee Members:

• betiko
• Serbia
• nietzsche

Task #1: Determine the validity of this current topic's existence outside of the Football topic.
Task #2: Determine whether iAmCaffeine's urine dispensing constitutes a hate crime, and whether or not his posting in this topic should be strictly verboten.

Findings Due: June 11th, 2014


--Andy

betiko wrote:

Gillipig wrote:

betiko wrote:well playing for Paris Zlatan has a special status and he is delivering more that he has ever delivered. He is the team's superstar and all other stars that has ego problems just need to know that whatever they say/do, zlatan is the star and they need to shut up. Even Ancelotti last year knew that. If you treat him well, he will be at 100%, and given his talent you want to have him at 100%.
The rest of the swedish team is half shit, so obviously everythng had to work around zlatan. You guys are a bit crazy to talk about zlatan. no one says anything to zlatan here. He's even got his own verb in the french dictionary now.

No you're wrong, the rest of the Swedish tema is COMPLETE shit! We don't have any good players. You're a neutral observer here, can you even name a single player on the Swedish national team except Ibrahimovic? You shouldn't, because none of them have big roles in successful teams.
There are some people here that think Zlatan is beyond criticism but they are also a lot of people who recognize that as good as he is individually, he's not a team player and not a very good captain.
Can you believe this though, Sweden's coach, Erik Hamren, failed to qualify to two WC's in a row and still get's to keep his job! This guy must give great blowjobs, I can think of no other reason to keep him around.

I actually can name a few because they play/have played in france: Ola Thoivonen is actually a very decent forward now playing for Rennes, Johan Elmander was a pretty good attacker delivering good passes for Toulouse, kim kallstrom had his good days in Lyon now injured at arsenal, christian wilhemson played for nantes and he was total shit, looks like now he is playing in the MLS; the rest to tell the truth I don't really know them.
And Zlatan won the trophy of the best scorer, the best in assists and the MVP of the league for the second consecutive year. He really deserved it, and I am a marseille fan so I'm not supposed to say it. It's really a pleasure to watch him play in our league and it's really a shame that his team didn't qualify. Portugal has a way more ballanced and talented team, they deserved to go through; I would've prefered to see sweeden rather than greece to tell the truth.

Timminz wrote:I thought this was the world cup thread.

If you guys want to talk about non-world cup teams, there's another thread for that.

Timminz wrote:I thought this was the world cup thread.

If you guys want to talk about non-world cup teams, there's another thread for that.

Serbia wrote:

Serbia wrote:The World Cup deserves a separate topic.

I for one am looking forward to it. I don't see any way the US gets out of the group. The other team I'm pulling for, England, also has a very tough draw. Brazil as hosts are huge favorites. Germany, Spain, Argentina, all solid.

Underdogs I'm interested in (other than the US) are Bosnia (obviously), Belgium and Uruguay. Belgium is interesting because they're actually good this year. Uruguay could have a shot at going far, if Luis Suarez is healthy, which is obviously a huge question right now.

Bollocks.

I forgot Croatia. I'll be pulling for them as well.

betiko wrote:

Timminz wrote:I thought this was the world cup thread.

If you guys want to talk about non-world cup teams, there's another thread for that.

We re talking about an "almost world cup team" with one of the top 5 players in the world that didn't make it in the playoffs. So as soon as the US is eliminated in the quarterfinals, it will be absolutely prohibited to talk about them in this thread?
As far as i m concerned the world cup hasn t started and I don t see the problem to talk about the teams that didn t make it.
Like what happened to canada? I didn t follow the concacaf qualifiers.

Sackett58 wrote:

Serbia wrote:

Serbia wrote:The World Cup deserves a separate topic.

I for one am looking forward to it. I don't see any way the US gets out of the group. The other team I'm pulling for, England, also has a very tough draw. Brazil as hosts are huge favorites. Germany, Spain, Argentina, all solid.

Underdogs I'm interested in (other than the US) are Bosnia (obviously), Belgium and Uruguay. Belgium is interesting because they're actually good this year. Uruguay could have a shot at going far, if Luis Suarez is healthy, which is obviously a huge question right now.

Bollocks.

I forgot Croatia. I'll be pulling for them as well.

From a historical stand point Croatia being in a group with Brazil, Mexico and Cameroon they wouldn't stand a chance. How are Cameroon and Mexico now?

sempaispellcheck wrote:

betiko wrote:

Timminz wrote:I thought this was the world cup thread.

If you guys want to talk about non-world cup teams, there's another thread for that.

We re talking about an "almost world cup team" with one of the top 5 players in the world that didn't make it in the playoffs. So as soon as the US is eliminated in the quarterfinals, it will be absolutely prohibited to talk about them in this thread?
As far as i m concerned the world cup hasn t started and I don t see the problem to talk about the teams that didn t make it.
Like what happened to canada? I didn t follow the concacaf qualifiers.

Fixed.

sempai