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Post by manulike on Apr 7, 2021 19:23:32 GMT
We made Mexico drop out of the top ten, no wonder they were so fired up after going behind. Hopefully, we will do the same to France in June ;-) |
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Post by allezlesrouges on Apr 7, 2021 21:01:57 GMT
To be consistently top 20 is a fantastic achievement. Not many "small" countries ahead of us. I place us 4th in the punching above our weight category, only behind; Denmark, Uruguay, Croatia
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Post by insertname on Apr 7, 2021 21:15:14 GMT
Yeah I think we all knew that being top 10 was a false position based purely on gaming the system, ironically by not playing games.
17th seems fair on current form and it’s an achievement to be impressed with when put into the context that there are 100+ countries in the rankings vs the size and available resources of Wales.
There’s a lot of be positive about at the moment. When Giggs first took over if you’d been told there would be qualification for 2020, promotion in the nations league and a WC play off more or less in the bag you’d have needed to be revived by smelling salts. Never mind 17th in the world. It’s quite a run of success at the moment. And to think people have still been complaining! 😂
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Post by underwood on Apr 8, 2021 8:15:41 GMT
I have almost taken for granted the fact that we are in the top 20 of world football, but none of us should really.
It’s a true reflection of the generation of players we’ve had over the past 6 or 7 years.
In that time we have barely lost a competitive fixture, I can only count 9 defeats since the start of qualification for Euro 2016 & only two of those ultimately cost us, Portugal & the Republic of Ireland.
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Post by erasedcitizen on Apr 8, 2021 8:26:51 GMT
I have almost taken for granted the fact that we are in the top 20 of world football, but none of us should really. It’s a true reflection of the generation of players we’ve had over the past 6 or 7 years. In that time we have barely lost a competitive fixture, I can only count 9 defeats since the start of qualification for Euro 2016 & only two of those ultimately cost us, Portugal & the Republic of Ireland. Look at those teams below us, how many of those do you think would dispose of us easily? I don't think there's any, and all of these sides I feel we could take 4 points off if we were put in a home/away scenario with them. There's no doubt about it in my mind, we are where we are on merit. |
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Post by conwy10 on Apr 8, 2021 12:27:05 GMT
I personally love that we’re top 20. I just feel we had our moment and don’t excitedly seek out the rankings or nervously calculate where we are. We’ve been top 10, we’ve been above England... they were unreal achievements for me but now I just get a feeling of ‘fair play lads’.
I’d get more excited seeing say Andorra sky rocket to the top 100 than seeing Wales move up 3 to 14th which makes me feel bad as a Wales fan. I’ve got more interest in seeing the Cymru Prem increase it’s coefficient because I know the National Team are doing well
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Post by CrackityJones on Jun 29, 2023 9:19:08 GMT
Down 9 places to 35th in the rankings. Ouch
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Post by jbt95 on Jun 29, 2023 10:38:23 GMT
Down 9 places to 35th in the rankings. Ouch 35th in the world is still top sixth. Crazy really. |
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Post by fiveattheback on Jun 29, 2023 11:09:01 GMT
Biggest drop, but still the 17th highest European side, it's what the top 20 who are pot 1 and 2? Essential we don't drop any further for World Cup qualifiers and end up in pot 3
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Post by paj on Jun 29, 2023 11:28:26 GMT
Pot 3 is the inevitable outcome unless we see improvement quickly.
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Post by jimexotic on Jun 29, 2023 12:08:06 GMT
We have to stop this slide, this current crop aren't good enough to get out of a World Cup qualifying group with two semi decent sides in. This is really starting to feel like the end is coming and another decade of dross. Years of building foundations seems like it's all doing to waste,"get tight, put your body on the line, er, yma o hyd" isn't enough, especially if we're not even getting tight and close enough to put bodies on the line. This time next year I don't want to have watched a Euros that we shouldn't have qualified for whilst sliding further and watching Republic of Ireland overtake us.
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Post by jbt95 on Jun 29, 2023 12:17:52 GMT
Biggest drop, but still the 17th highest European side, it's what the top 20 who are pot 1 and 2? Essential we don't drop any further for World Cup qualifiers and end up in pot 3 It’ll be top 24 as 12 groups next time out |
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Post by underwood on Jun 29, 2023 12:18:03 GMT
This will be Page’s true legacy.
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Post by jbt95 on Jun 29, 2023 12:19:30 GMT
Pot 3 is the inevitable outcome unless we see improvement quickly. 13-24 UEFA will be pot 2, 12 groups. Plus nations league we wiIl be top speed in group. WCQ draw will be after the group phase of that. |
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Post by allezlesrouges on Jun 29, 2023 13:49:00 GMT
Armenia home defeat will have hurt our rank a lot. To be honest, I also think that result will have a psychological impact on us. Our home form has been so good since 2014-15. The only sides who have beaten us at home since then are exclusively Pot 1 sides, with the only anomaly being the Ireland game
Losing to Armenia makes us look beatable, and will dent the players confidence too
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Post by jimmytaff on Jun 29, 2023 15:58:52 GMT
Armenia home defeat will have hurt our rank a lot. To be honest, I also think that result will have a psychological impact on us. Our home form has been so good since 2014-15. The only sides who have beaten us at home since then are exclusively Pot 1 sides, with the only anomaly being the Ireland game Losing to Armenia makes us look beatable, and will dent the players confidence too Definitely. It will put some nerves back into the fanbase too. We're in the beginning of a vicious circle having been in a virtuous circle for 8 years or so. We need to nip it in the bud but I'm not sure we have the tools to do that without bold thinking and Page and the FAW seem a bit bereft of that at the moment. |
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Post by aberbeeg on Jun 29, 2023 20:16:35 GMT
Armenia home defeat will have hurt our rank a lot. To be honest, I also think that result will have a psychological impact on us. Our home form has been so good since 2014-15. The only sides who have beaten us at home since then are exclusively Pot 1 sides, with the only anomaly being the Ireland game Losing to Armenia makes us look beatable, and will dent the players confidence too Definitely. It will put some nerves back into the fanbase too. We're in the beginning of a vicious circle having been in a virtuous circle for 8 years or so. We need to nip it in the bud but I'm not sure we have the tools to do that without bold thinking and Page and the FAW seem a bit bereft of that at the moment. It all has the feeling of the FAW being rabbits in headlights and Page being a dead man walking. I think the FAW having given Page that CRAZY contract took their eyes off the ball and thought qualifying would be a given. |
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Post by jimexotic on Jun 29, 2023 20:54:59 GMT
Armenia home defeat will have hurt our rank a lot. To be honest, I also think that result will have a psychological impact on us. Our home form has been so good since 2014-15. The only sides who have beaten us at home since then are exclusively Pot 1 sides, with the only anomaly being the Ireland game Losing to Armenia makes us look beatable, and will dent the players confidence too 100% man and I believe what kick started all of this was the Nations League. Now don't get me wrong, I love the Nations League and I enjoyed our experimental 6 games but what it did was bring a losing mentality and I say this because of things like the two late goals to lose at the death twice against Holland and the toothless 1-0 home defeat to Poland who admittedly stretched gamesmanship to the limit but still, we were starting to show signs of being a soft touch again. I'll be honest, one thing for me as a Wales fan which I have always wanted to shake off is that, in my head, we've never had a team that if we go a goal down I have much belief in us coming back. Euro 2016 against Belgium, when they scored I thought it was curtains. That was the best Wales side of my living memory and I honestly thought we were done. Right now if we concede I don't see anything other than a defeat and the results speak for themselves. We are on a truly disastrous run and it all started with the Nations League, losing, coming last became acceptable, "it's okay, we've qualified". I know we had a ridiculous schedule to navigate but it took an edge off us that we never got it back and I'm starting to think that unless something drastically changes it's only going to get worse and the thing with Wales is the worse things get the harder it is to come back from. |
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Post by highbury06 on Jul 1, 2023 5:40:19 GMT
I have almost taken for granted the fact that we are in the top 20 of world football, but none of us should really. It’s a true reflection of the generation of players we’ve had over the past 6 or 7 years. In that time we have barely lost a competitive fixture, I can only count 9 defeats since the start of qualification for Euro 2016 & only two of those ultimately cost us, Portugal & the Republic of Ireland. LoL it was the 2 Serbian + 1 Georgia matches that we conceded a goal after leading, and that Austrian fixture (2-2 after leading twice) that costed us. If we have won any of them, we could have ended up directly qualified. Instead, we would end up being the worst 2nd place and missing out on the playoffs if we end up 0-0 against Ireland. Thats why we had to attack and got punished by the irish |
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Post by manulike on Oct 23, 2023 14:31:56 GMT
Any updates after Sep/Oct 3 wins / 1 draw?
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Post by underwood on Oct 23, 2023 14:40:10 GMT
We’ll get a lot of ranking points for beating Croatia.
I expect us to be back inside the top 30 & almost certainly back above Scotland after they’ve been put back into their box by the big guns.
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Post by morg on Oct 23, 2023 15:17:17 GMT
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Post by welshrover on Oct 23, 2023 15:45:20 GMT
Just auto directs to "download cleaner" |
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Post by jbt95 on Oct 23, 2023 16:15:25 GMT
Any updates after Sep/Oct 3 wins / 1 draw? We global said we will be 28th when the next update is (due on Thursday). |
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Post by morg on Oct 23, 2023 16:28:12 GMT
Don't know how accurate this is? Just auto directs to "download cleaner" Oops sorry. Have deleted that then! Showed us at 28th place with 1528 points which sounds about right. |
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Post by manulike on Oct 23, 2023 19:26:20 GMT
Nice to be ahead of Serbia and Poland ;-)
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Post by cynonvalley on Oct 23, 2023 20:54:23 GMT
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Post by manulike on Oct 23, 2023 22:03:11 GMT
Neh. Must be run by a Scotsman - has them at 24th  |
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Post by welshrover on Oct 23, 2023 22:49:13 GMT
Neh. Must be run by a Scotsman - has them at 24th I didn't know the Electric Light Orchestra were interested in football! |
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Post by CrackityJones on Oct 26, 2023 8:27:11 GMT
Up to 28th since the last window
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