BBO Discussion Forums: Unofficial Pre FIFA World Cup 2010 Thread - BBO Discussion Forums

Jump to content

  • 17 Pages +
  • « First
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • Last »
  • You cannot start a new topic
  • You cannot reply to this topic

Unofficial Pre FIFA World Cup 2010 Thread

Poll: Who is you favorite team for winning the World Cup? (52 member(s) have cast votes)

Who is you favorite team for winning the World Cup?

  1. Brazil (7 votes [13.46%])

    Percentage of vote: 13.46%

  2. France (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  3. Argentina (11 votes [21.15%])

    Percentage of vote: 21.15%

  4. Nigeria (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  5. Italy (2 votes [3.85%])

    Percentage of vote: 3.85%

  6. USA (7 votes [13.46%])

    Percentage of vote: 13.46%

  7. Spain (12 votes [23.08%])

    Percentage of vote: 23.08%

  8. Netherlands (7 votes [13.46%])

    Percentage of vote: 13.46%

  9. Germany (3 votes [5.77%])

    Percentage of vote: 5.77%

  10. Portugal (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  11. Chile (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  12. England (2 votes [3.85%])

    Percentage of vote: 3.85%

  13. Portugal (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  14. Cameroon (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  15. Mexico (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  16. Ghana (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  17. Serbia (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  18. Uruguay (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  19. Cote d'Ivoire (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  20. Other (1 votes [1.92%])

    Percentage of vote: 1.92%

Vote Guests cannot vote

#141 User is offline   gwnn 

  • Csaba the Hutt
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 13,027
  • Joined: 2006-June-16
  • Gender:Male
  • Interests:bye

Posted 2010-June-15, 13:41

:o
... and I can prove it with my usual, flawless logic.
      George Carlin
0

#142 User is offline   jjbrr 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 3,525
  • Joined: 2009-March-30
  • Gender:Male

Posted 2010-June-15, 14:00

i wish i could watch the games :o work is so brutal

i enjoy experiencing the world cup vicariously through obscure water cooler posts, however.
OK
bed
0

#143 User is offline   cherdanno 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 1,640
  • Joined: 2009-February-16

Posted 2010-June-15, 17:03

matmat, on Jun 15 2010, 08:25 AM, said:

Hanoi5, on Jun 15 2010, 08:21 AM, said:

Justice served. Another out of zone goal.

I don't particularly feel like either goal was offside, but I might not have seen very many replays.

The goal by slovakia was clearly offside.
(I don't know whether you can watch it from the US but the replay on
http://www.sportschau.de/sp/layout/jsp/kom...99514#mbContent shows it clearly.)
"Are you saying that LTC merits a more respectful dismissal?"
0

#144 User is offline   gwnn 

  • Csaba the Hutt
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 13,027
  • Joined: 2006-June-16
  • Gender:Male
  • Interests:bye

Posted 2010-June-15, 17:15

what's the definition of offsides? I don't remember. I remember someone saying once that a ray of light needs to fit between the defender and the attacker...

aha wikipedia:

wikipedia said:

"nearer to an opponent's goal line" meant that "any part of his head, body or feet is nearer to his opponents' goal line than both the ball and the second-last opponent (the last opponent typically being the goalkeeper). The arms are not included in this definition."


so it was offside!
... and I can prove it with my usual, flawless logic.
      George Carlin
0

#145 User is offline   cherdanno 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 1,640
  • Joined: 2009-February-16

Posted 2010-June-15, 17:34

I agree though that generally the officiating has been great (I think I didn't like the USA-England referee but don't remember why).
"Are you saying that LTC merits a more respectful dismissal?"
0

#146 User is offline   junyi_zhu 

  • PipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Full Members
  • Posts: 536
  • Joined: 2003-May-28
  • Location:Saltlake City

Posted 2010-June-15, 18:15

Codo, on Jun 14 2010, 12:43 PM, said:

Good news: a Dainsh player scored first
bad news.... wrong direction...

Good news: Australias next games will be easier.
Bad news: They looked horrible yesterday.

Good news: 4-0
Bad news: we need 6 more wins and the opponents may improve...

Netherlands looked quite like traditional Germany and Germany looked quite like traditional Netherlands....

Still, anybody else here root for N Korea? I'll support N Korea, then if it got eliminated, I'll probably try Argentina...
0

#147 User is offline   gwnn 

  • Csaba the Hutt
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 13,027
  • Joined: 2006-June-16
  • Gender:Male
  • Interests:bye

Posted 2010-June-15, 18:32

I like N Korea, N Zealand, USA and Germany. at least one of them is bound to win the world cup ;)
... and I can prove it with my usual, flawless logic.
      George Carlin
0

#148 User is offline   Cascade 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Yellows
  • Posts: 6,766
  • Joined: 2003-July-22
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:New Zealand
  • Interests:Juggling, Unicycling

Posted 2010-June-15, 19:45

gwnn, on Jun 16 2010, 12:32 PM, said:

I like N Korea, N Zealand, USA and Germany. at least one of them is bound to win the world cup ;)

And I was telling my friend before the game last night that I wasn't sure that NZ had a team that could go all the way.
Wayne Burrows

I believe that the USA currently hold only the World Championship For People Who Still Bid Like Your Auntie Gladys - dburn
dunno how to play 4 card majors - JLOGIC
True but I know Standard American and what better reason could I have for playing Precision? - Hideous Hog
Bidding is an estimation of probabilities SJ Simon

#149 User is online   helene_t 

  • The Abbess
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 17,204
  • Joined: 2004-April-22
  • Gender:Female
  • Location:Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Interests:History, languages

Posted 2010-June-16, 02:51

http://www.legofussball.eu/
The world would be such a happy place, if only everyone played Acol :) --- TramTicket
0

#150 User is offline   vuroth 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 1,459
  • Joined: 2007-June-03
  • Gender:Male

Posted 2010-June-16, 06:47

I voted with my head, but ♥ Chile.
Still decidedly intermediate - don't take my guesses as authoritative.

"gwnn" said:

rule number 1 in efficient forum reading:
hanp does not always mean literally what he writes.
0

#151 User is offline   Fluffy 

  • World International Master without a clue
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 17,404
  • Joined: 2003-November-13
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:madrid

Posted 2010-June-16, 14:14

lol, was a funny match, reminds me of the match against USA, just that USA is 100 times better than switzerland.

With Luis Aragones this wouldn't had happened, just like he did against Italy, if the opponents are defending well, then we should better defend ourselves, any Italian coach would have got a 0-0 from that match, but the spannish dudes want to smash all opponents O_o.
BridgeGod: my personal website with interactive problems and articles
0

#152 User is offline   Codo 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 6,373
  • Joined: 2003-March-15
  • Location:Hamburg, Germany
  • Interests:games and sports, esp. bridge,chess and (beach-)volleyball

Posted 2010-June-17, 05:48

Come on Gonzalo, this goal was a joke, this could have happened to any team of the world, even to the inventors of the catenaggio.

The Switzerland played well, really good defence to stop your spectaculare offense. And of course they had so much luck. Spain was my favourite before the WC and this game did not change my POV.

To me Argentina, Germany and Spain made the best games in the first round. Despite the fact that Brazil won and Italy, France and England scored a draw. Spain played MUCH better then they did.
Kind Regards

Roland

Sanity Check: Failure (Fluffy)
More system is not the answer...
0

#153 User is offline   Fluffy 

  • World International Master without a clue
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 17,404
  • Joined: 2003-November-13
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:madrid

Posted 2010-June-17, 06:04

yeah but we need something extra on offence or all that ball handling will be worth nothing. Of course if we happen to score soon the match is almost over.
BridgeGod: my personal website with interactive problems and articles
0

#154 User is offline   jjbrr 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 3,525
  • Joined: 2009-March-30
  • Gender:Male

Posted 2010-June-17, 10:25

Experience the world cup for yourself from the comfort of BBF
OK
bed
0

#155 User is offline   Aberlour10 

  • Vugrapholic
  • PipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 2,018
  • Joined: 2004-January-06
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:At the Rhine River km 772,1

Posted 2010-June-17, 10:31

There are new emoticons on BBO, I hoped for one with VuVu but there isn't <_<
Preempts are Aberlour's best bridge friends
0

#156 User is offline   gwnn 

  • Csaba the Hutt
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 13,027
  • Joined: 2006-June-16
  • Gender:Male
  • Interests:bye

Posted 2010-June-18, 08:02

Found this nice article about the German multicultural team.

http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2890/world-...squad-should-be
... and I can prove it with my usual, flawless logic.
      George Carlin
0

#157 User is offline   gwnn 

  • Csaba the Hutt
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 13,027
  • Joined: 2006-June-16
  • Gender:Male
  • Interests:bye

Posted 2010-June-18, 08:44

lol @ kfay and jjbrr.
... and I can prove it with my usual, flawless logic.
      George Carlin
0

#158 User is offline   kfay 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 2,208
  • Joined: 2007-July-01
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Michigan
  • Interests:Science, Sports

Posted 2010-June-18, 08:49

gwnn, on Jun 18 2010, 09:44 AM, said:

lol @ kfay and jjbrr.

u are dead
Kevin Fay
0

#159 User is offline   jjbrr 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 3,525
  • Joined: 2009-March-30
  • Gender:Male

Posted 2010-June-18, 08:54

what'd i do? did we lose or something?
OK
bed
0

#160 User is offline   Aberlour10 

  • Vugrapholic
  • PipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 2,018
  • Joined: 2004-January-06
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:At the Rhine River km 772,1

Posted 2010-June-18, 09:05

:rolleyes:
Preempts are Aberlour's best bridge friends
0
  • 17 Pages +
  • « First
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • Last »
  • You cannot start a new topic
  • You cannot reply to this topic

25 User(s) are reading this topic
0 members, 25 guests, 0 anonymous users