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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2018 21:09:41 GMT
Which idea is more asinine?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2018 21:30:03 GMT
48 teams in the world cup is just stupid. 32 teams is enough.
World Cup in Qatar is also stupid. M
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Post by staggerstag on Jul 15, 2018 21:30:13 GMT
Qatar Airways stewardesses have been prominent throughout Russia 2018, even being paraded as a backdrop on the presentation stage after the Final today. Official Partner of FIFA. World Cup staged there in 2022. 48 teams = loads more revenue. You don't need me to bleat on about it. It's crystal clear. It's FIFA. It's money. I voted both equally.
QA contract ends in 2022 after the World Cup. No surprise there then.
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Post by NJtoTX on Jul 15, 2018 21:51:27 GMT
Will they call them the Qatarfinals?
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jul 15, 2018 22:12:53 GMT
While tempted to pick equally dumb, i find the 48 team concept marginally more asenine of the two so I picked 48 teams.
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Post by Raimo47 on Jul 15, 2018 22:44:48 GMT
Qatar. I will probably watch NHL instead.
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Post by Excellent Bulletproof Vest on Jul 15, 2018 23:39:56 GMT
Competitively 48 teams makes as much sense as scrapping the group stage altogether and just making it straight knockout.
The format they've chosen makes it worse. It is inevitable that the final group games will have two teams entering into matches with a single outcome being mutually beneficial.
There's no way of doing this without ruining the competition.
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Post by OrsonSwelles on Jul 15, 2018 23:57:27 GMT
Is it safe to assume 12 groups of 4? Top 2 (24 total) go through from each. Top 8 first place teams get a bye into a second knockout stage while the remaining 16 play in a first knockout stage. Such a setup would guarantee that a game like France-Denmark's effort won't happen.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jul 16, 2018 0:04:51 GMT
Nope 16 groups of 3. Top 2 go through to a 32 team stage. 12 groups of 4 also suggested, but still with a round of 32. Basically the old 24 team format only twice as big.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jul 16, 2018 1:32:13 GMT
You forgot the obvious one...
WC 2022 will be played November & December. Never mind where it's played, that'll be fcuked on the calendar alone.
WC Final match played a week before Christmas yes? Does not compute.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2018 8:07:10 GMT
Qatar. A country with zero footballing heritage. Stadiums built by slave labour. The obvious corruption and bribery involved in Qatar winning the bid. The fact that it cannot be held in summer without killing players.
The whole tournament is an overt farce and human rights disgrace.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Jul 16, 2018 17:39:12 GMT
When the 2022 World Cup was awarded to Qatar, I was the only one on the old boards who didn’t think it was a bad thing. I liked the idea of the World Cup going to a region of the world that had never hosted any of the two biggest sporting events before, I believed their promises that they would have a solution for the heat problem (something involving a stadium-wide ventilation system combined with a cooling mist of some sort), and I figured that if they were willing to spend an outrageous fortune building stadiums that were never going to be used again, that was their problem. Of course if I had known that they would use slave labour to build the stadiums, my opinion would have been different.
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Post by bluerisk on Jul 16, 2018 18:05:32 GMT
I intend to boycott them both for different reasons. It worked quite well for this WC: Only Turkey II's prolonged torture and humiliation (15 min), the final dealing with the Russians (5 mins), and enjoying the Brits get their kicks (5 min).
Since I couldn't care less about Qatar I could cut these five minutes, the Brits might get kicked out in the group stage, and Turkey II might not even qualify for it.
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Post by bluerisk on Jul 16, 2018 18:06:57 GMT
When the 2022 World Cup was awarded to Qatar, I was the only one on the old boards who didn’t think it was a bad thing. I liked the idea of the World Cup going to a region of the world that had never hosted any of the two biggest sporting events before, I believed their promises that they would have a solution for the heat problem (something involving a stadium-wide ventilation system combined with a cooling mist of some sort), and I figured that if they were willing to spend an outrageous fortune building stadiums that were never going to be used again, that was their problem. Of course if I had known that they would use slave labour to build the stadiums, my opinion would have been different. That's why I gave a damn about the Blood Games of Beijing. |
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Post by mangekyoalleluia on Jul 16, 2018 18:15:59 GMT
48 nations is mythically stupid.
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Post by OrsonSwelles on Jul 17, 2018 1:06:42 GMT
Nope 16 groups of 3. Top 2 go through to a 32 team stage. 12 groups of 4 also suggested, but still with a round of 32. Basically the old 24 team format only twice as big. I like my setup better. |
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jul 17, 2018 1:28:58 GMT
So do I, but it's not one that FIFA are considering.
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Post by bluerisk on Jul 17, 2018 14:43:48 GMT
Nope 16 groups of 3. Top 2 go through to a 32 team stage. 12 groups of 4 also suggested, but still with a round of 32. Basically the old 24 team format only twice as big. I like my setup better. It is, but the main problem remains: the lack of quality within these groups. |
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