Group F (Italy, New Zealand, Paraguay, Slovakia)

[Darkon]

The Italian team is just **** poor isn't it? To old and to little to offer going forward now. All credit to the kiwis for the fight they put up, but still...

[Shaggy]

I actually think Italy are worse than England and France!

[Fernandinho]

its a shame pirlo was injured, he really makes that team when he plays well, I love the way he plays, like Shaka Hislop said once, "It's like when he plays he never breaks a sweat"

[SB]

It's going to be hard to take if the kiwis get more points than us Aussies.

They've never forgotten the under arm bowling episode 30 yrs ago or whatever it was and they friggin wouldn't forget this. Come on aussies

[Fernandinho]

It's going to be hard to take if the kiwis get more points than us Aussies.

They've never forgotten the under arm bowling episode 30 yrs ago or whatever it was and they friggin wouldn't forget this. Come on aussies

haha, was that when it was the last delivery of an ODI and they needed a run to win or something and we bowled and under arm?

[Shaggy]

That was totally disgraceful yet also pretty ****ing funny

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K65_spUU05s"]YouTube- Most disgraceful moment in the history of cricket[/ame]

[SB]

haha, was that when it was the last delivery of an ODI and they needed a run to win or something and we bowled and under arm?

That was totally disgraceful yet also pretty ****ing funny I agree but it was TOTALLY within the rules of the game. They changed the rules straight after though.

YouTube- Most disgraceful moment in the history of cricket

[Fernandinho]

hahahahaha that is brilliant

[Shaggy]

Yep...and TOTALLY against the spirit of the game. They shouldn't need to have a rule to decree you can't bowl underarm FFS

[SB]

Yep...and TOTALLY against the spirit of the game. They shouldn't need to have a rule to decree you can't bowl underarm FFS

I agree. Greg Chappell, the captain, forcing his brother Trevor to do it too. Unforgivable

[Shaggy]

Funny though

[Fernandinho]

I think it was brilliant, I'm sure i wouldnt have been impressed it if happened when i was around

[Zapater]

Haha, I have a lot of kiwi friends (and know many more whom aren't friends) and they have incredible small country syndrome so every minor thing is a really big deal to them. So they take any opportunity to talk themselves up and they'll moan about everything against them as being a major injustice. In their heads they were better than Italy by a mile and should have won comfortably. As i didn't watch it, not sure if Richie Bernard's rant is on that video, but it's so hilarious how he goes off his nut in the post game review.

SB, I had heard that the Australians were quite accepting of NZ's not getting belted, not sure but there was something in one of their papers which said "Australiasia 1 - 1 Slovakia" or something. Around a year ago I lived in Australia for around a year and they seemed to really take the piss out of kiwi's so I was a bit surprised of this ownership.

Hopefully they get knocked out though, I like underdogs but NZ's team is too **** to want to see go further. I don't actually think Italy is in such a crisis. If you look at them, I know it was against a poor team but they had quite a few very good chances, they struck the post and the keeper made some excellent saves. On a different day the goal they conceded would have been given offside and they would have scored 2 or 3. I'd be surprised if they don't qualify, they have a good team but they're just stumbling currently.

[Fernandinho]

we have a very strong rivalry between our nations sporting wise but towards the wider world we come together a lot. probably can get drawn back to the "ANZAC" link during WW1

[SB]

Haha, I have a lot of kiwi friends (and know many more whom aren't friends) and they have incredible small country syndrome so every minor thing is a really big deal to them. So they take any opportunity to talk themselves up and they'll moan about everything against them as being a major injustice. In their heads they were better than Italy by a mile and should have won comfortably. As i didn't watch it, not sure if Richie Bernard's rant is on that video, but it's so hilarious how he goes off his nut in the post game review.

SB, I had heard that the Australians were quite accepting of NZ's not getting belted, not sure but there was something in one of their papers which said "Australiasia 1 - 1 Slovakia" or something. Around a year ago I lived in Australia for around a year and they seemed to really take the piss out of kiwi's so I was a bit surprised of this ownership.

Hopefully they get knocked out though, I like underdogs but NZ's team is too **** to want to see go further. I don't actually think Italy is in such a crisis. If you look at them, I know it was against a poor team but they had quite a few very good chances, they struck the post and the keeper made some excellent saves. On a different day the goal they conceded would have been given offside and they would have scored 2 or 3. I'd be surprised if they don't qualify, they have a good team but they're just stumbling currently.

I think we took part of the praise in that we let them play in our A League competition which helps their players heaps. Smeltz plays in my GC United side and I was hoping he wouldn't have too good a showing at the WC as I'm worried some bigger Club ( hard to imagine a bigger club than GCU ) will come in for him.