I believe that Australia is in the Asian region of qualifying - Asian Cup etc

Oceania only has 0.5 qualifying spots - so we cant have two!!

I know we are in Oceania and no in Asia...but the football world is a weird one

It would be funny if Australia and New Zealand were in the same group

to me it dont make a diffrence, im here to support england, but i aint planing on getting my hopes up unless we get the not so good teams, i.e Australia and New Zealand

Now the pair of you are just being unfair. A few weeks ago, when I placed Australia in the "Asian" section, I was moaned at because Australia is not Asian. Now I'm being moaned at for placing them in Oceania. Damn you both

Just can't win with these Southerners

How about next time I place Australia in "Oceania but they qualified in Asia" and New Zealand "Oceania but they only made it because Australia qualified in Asia, but they are also Oceanian"?

lol

Australia will surprise everyone, like they did in the last world cup, apart from the silly penalty!

But i don't know about New Zealand though :S

Edited at 01:49 Tue 17/11/09 (GMT)

ahah it wasnt last years world cup nick it was the last world cup ;),

new zealand could do okay

that is what i meant to say

na i find them 2 teams funny to watch, although england run around like headless chickens we somehow bundle the ball over the goalline alot

I find it highly ironic that Australia moved from the OFC to the AFC in order to qualify easier for World Cups (you can question me on that one) - which they did with great ease in the end - but then New Zealand themselves qualified from the OFC qualifying zone, which implies that Australia (undoubtedly the superior team) would have done so anyway against Bahrain had they stayed put. So instead, for the first time, we have 2 teams from (geographic) Oceania.

Of course, had Australia not been in the Asian qualifying zone, Jordan would have been in the third group of seeds rather then second for round 3 of the qualifiers, and might have qualified for round 4 rather than been one place outside, and who knows? Maybe they might have made it to South Africa. Or maybe Bahrain would have qualified automatically, instead of finishing in a play-off place (third place) in their round 4 group behind runaway group winners... Australia.

C'mon you boys in green!!!!

Make the french all scared and stuff!!!

ahahh clooney <3, australia did it also to be able to have aleague teams in the asian champions league, all in all just a smart move to get australian football to a better quality

Agreed. But the fact that they qualified for the World Cup in the style they did proves that they're a better team that one (in general) that's only considered worthy of a playoff against another team after becoming the top team in their zone. So it was the right move overall.

I've got a good feeling about tonight!!

good enough to put a couple thousand on them!

Not quite that good lol...but I put 80 on us to go through at 8/1, so yeah...lol

that seems like i good deal!

I think Holland might win their first ever major competition this time round. Looking extremely intimidating.

Algeria are going to the World Cup after defeating Egypt 1-0 in Sudan.

Greece are 20 minutes away from securing their place, as they currently lead 1-0 away to Ukraine, after a 0-0 draw in the first leg.

Bosnia Herzegovina vs Portugal (0-1), France vs Republic of Ireland (1-0) and Slovenia vs Russia (1-2) take place very soon, and the final match of this long qualification process takes place in a few hours in Uruguay, who have a 1-0 lead against Costa Rica going into this final game.

Just think, unless there is a very long penalty shootout, this time tomorrow we will have our 32 teams

0-1 to Greece it is, Salpigidis after 31 minutes or thereabouts, so they qualify for their second ever World Cup. Ukraine were proverbially "all over them" in the last 10 minutes + 4 minutes (give or take) or stoppage time, but the final ball was always poor and they suffered wide after wide.

So there's one team today that has won away from home... Can lightning strike twice?

ROBBIE KEANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!