AFC 2011 Finals - Qatar - 07th Jan - 29th Jan

[Dirko]

Righto slackers. This thing is on starting today !

Gotta get a thread started for it I reckon !

GROUP A

CHINA P.R. - 87
KUWAIT - 102
QATAR - 114
UZBEKISTAN - 109

GROUP B

JAPAN - 29
JORDAN - 104
SAUDI ARABIA - 81
SYRIA - 107

GROUP C

AUSTRALIA - 26
BAHRAIN - 93
INDIA - 142
KOREA REPUBLIC - 40

GROUP D

DPR KOREA - 108
I.R. IRAN - 66
IRAQ - 101
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - 105

Some seriously shit teams in that lot as shown by the World Rankings. I have highlighted in RED my favourites for the Group Stages.

[Dirko]

GROUP A;

1 - 07 January 2011 19:15 - QATAR-UZBEKISTAN - Khalifa Stadium
2 - 08 January 2011 16:15 - KUWAIT-CHINA P.R. - Al Gharafa Stadium
9 - 12 January 2011 16:15 - UZBEKISTAN-KUWAIT - Al Gharafa Stadium
10 - 12 January 2011 19:15 - CHINA P.R.-QATAR - Khalifa Stadium
17 - 16 January 2011 19:15 - QATAR-KUWAIT - Khalifa Stadium
18 - 16 January 2011 19:15 - CHINA P.R.-UZBEKISTAN - Al Gharafa Stadium


GROUP B;

3 - 09 January 2011 16:15 - JAPAN-JORDAN - Qatar Sports Club Stadium
4 - 09 January 2011 19:15 - SAUDI ARABIA-SYRIA - Al Rayyan Stadium
11 - 13 January 2011 16:15 - JORDAN-SAUDI ARABIA - Al Rayyan Stadium
12 - 13 January 2011 19:15 - SYRIA-JAPAN - Qatar Sports Club Stadium
19 - 17 January 2011 16:15 - SAUDI ARABIA-JAPAN - Al Rayyan Stadium
20 - 17 January 2011 16:15 - JORDAN-SYRIA - Qatar Sports Club Stadium

GROUP C

5 - 10 January 2011 16:15 - INDIA-AUSTRALIA - Al Sadd Stadium
6 - 10 January 2011 19:15 - KOREA REPUBLIC-BAHRAIN - Al Gharafa Stadium
13 - 14 January 2011 16:15 - AUSTRALIA-KOREA REPUBLIC - Al Gharafa Stadium
14 - 14 January 2011 19:15 - BAHRAIN-INDIA - Al Sadd Stadium
21 - 18 January 2011 16:15 - KOREA REPUBLIC-INDIA - Al Gharafa Stadium
22 - 18 January 2011 16:15 - AUSTRALIA-BAHRAIN - Al Sadd Stadium

GROUP D

7 - 11 January 2011 16:15 - DPR KOREA-UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Qatar Sports Club Stadium
8 - 11 January 2011 19:15 - IRAQ-I.R. IRAN - Al Rayyan Stadium
15 - 15 January 2011 16:15 - I.R. IRAN-DPR KOREA - Qatar Sports Club Stadium
16 - 15 January 2011 19:15 - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES-IRAQ - Al Rayyan Stadium
23 - 19 January 2011 19:15 - IRAQ-DPR KOREA - Al Rayyan Stadium
24 - 19 January 2011 19:15 - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES-I.R. IRAN - Qatar Sports Club Stadium

[RoosterMarty]

Great thread!

Anyone got the Australian times for those games?

[Dirko]

16:15 Qatar time = 23:45 Adelaide
19:15 = 02:45

[Zorro]

Great thread!

Anyone got the Australian times for those games?

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

I use this converter Marty, mostly to work out what time Spurs games are on! So the first game against India would be approx 945pm Adelaide time.

[Dirko]

The Aussie Bus looks the best too !!

The cringe-worthy as below

Think twice...umm whaddabout not thinking at all



Princes of Persia ohh gay....



There's only one Jordan I'd come with.....



Righto !! Should have false seats etc etc so the poor bastards can hide and make a run for the border...

[Dirko]

My Aussie team;

GK Mark Schwarzer
B Lucas Neill, Sasa Ognenovski, Luke Wilshire, Matt Spiranovic
C Jason Culina, Harry Kewell, Brett Emerton, Brett Holman
F Josh Kennedy, Tim Cahill


Reserves; Brad Jones GK, Michael Beauchamp, Tommy Oar, Nikita Rukavytsya

[LMA]

With those world rankings it'll be like watching a Zimbabwean version of the KFC 20/20 Big Bash

[Jim05]

Kuwait and qatar will go through from group a.
Why? Because china are utter rubbish and the middle eastern countries always do well in their own backyard.
Plus the afc are crooked and just wait for the dubious penalties awarded to the arab sides

[RoosterMarty]

Great thread!

Anyone got the Australian times for those games?

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

I use this converter Marty, mostly to work out what time Spurs games are on! So the first game against India would be approx 945pm Adelaide time.

Cheers mate, I will bookmark that. When I was using Firefox I was using FoxClocks, an add on which displays various times from around the world at the bottom of your browser. I also used that for EPL as well as NBA. My FireFox is a bit ****** so now I use Chrome and haven't been able to find anything as good as FoxClocks.

Uzbekistan beat Qatar 2-0 in the opening game last night.

[Dirko]

Kuwait and qatar will go through from group a.
Why? Because china are utter rubbish and the middle eastern countries always do well in their own backyard.
Plus the afc are crooked and just wait for the dubious penalties awarded to the arab sides

Uzbekistan 2 def Qatar 0
China 2 def Kuwait 0

[Jim05]

Kuwait and qatar will go through from group a.
Why? Because china are utter rubbish and the middle eastern countries always do well in their own backyard.
Plus the afc are crooked and just wait for the dubious penalties awarded to the arab sides

Uzbekistan 2 def Qatar 0
China 2 def Kuwait 0

Yep blown my money on those 2 games.
Qatar and kuwait looked ordinary.
Still not impressed with china, but they got the job done

[Jim05]

2 upsets this morning.
Japan needing a 90th equaliser to rescue a 1-1 draw with jordan and syria edging saudi arabia 2-1

[Sploosh]

30 minutes into the first half, Australia leading India 2-0.

Cahill scores at 11 mins, Kewell at 25 mins

[Jim05]

Full Time
Australia 4
India 0
Scorers Cahill 11,65
Kewell 25
Holman 45+2

[johntheclaret]

They could cut out all the crap and just let Australia and Japan slug it out for the prize, because sure as eggs is eggs no one else has a cats unless the big two get drawn against each other beforehand

[RoosterMarty]

It is funny how the Aussies pretended to the media that they were concerned about the Indians, "We know how dangerous they can be" was one comment I heard this morning.

Solid win but the real test in the group will come against the Koreans.

[Dogwatcher]

India still has the wood on us - they thrashed us in our most recent meeting with them 7-1.
Back in 1956

I was hoping for a few more goals last night.
McDonald and Burns both blew scoring opps as they were so keen to get on the scoresheet themselves.

[Jim05]

They could cut out all the crap and just let Australia and Japan slug it out for the prize, because sure as eggs is eggs no one else has a cats unless the big two get drawn against each other beforehand

Thats what they said last tournament before australia pathetically crashed out

[Dirko]

They could cut out all the crap and just let Australia and Japan slug it out for the prize, because sure as eggs is eggs no one else has a cats unless the big two get drawn against each other beforehand

South Korea, have a chance. And so do....ummm.....ummmm.....