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forget about the 7-1 now. Costa Rica ended up CTing us, which i'm pretty unhappy about. it puts us in an annoying situation where we'll have to try and win against Germany or Hungary, hoping that Hungary won't end up screwing us over with a CT of their own...

i would have prefered to attack inside, but if 3 bigmen all get injured the saterday before the game, then good luck on the inside attack. Though luck having Marchoul, Hemerijckx and Ballaert all injured... This is one of those games where things just don't go the way you like em to go...

Revo

i was out monday, as i had warned you before.

my logic was plain and simple. I put the best defender on the the guy who was the most dangerous. Yet i can't help but find it extremely frustrating that Costa Rica got 1/4th of the points from FT's...

As for princeton, the starter would have been easy at the PF. but we didn't have a back up, and you and i both know that Freire ( despite the weekly psy that the NT pay in order to get Freires boxing issues under control) fauls out way to fast. So i had no alternative their.

Likewise, LI/LP with Lahure, Fleeton and Mees, who all are faul happy, was too risky. i don't understand the CT part, and i'm pretty annoyed with it. As for the line up, all that was to be explained, was written in a mail. If i were to explain any more, i'd have to write down to much info about the NT's players, which i'd rather not do. If you were satisfied by the line up, so be it. I'm pretty sure i had every angle covered defensifly, but the thing that was the real killer was the zone defence. I really was hoping to avoid that 3-2 zone, but i would have played 3-2 aswell if my opponent loses 3 bigs on saterday.

Revo

with our victory over our German neighbours, we now virtually have secured a spot ammongst the top 16 in the KO stages.

Even with a loss against Hungaria, our last opponent, our goal average should be better than anyone comming from a 5-2 record, meaning that in the worst case scenario, we'd end up on the 16th spot, and thus have HCA in our first game of the KO stages.

So all that needs to be done, is avoid a huge defeat against Hungaria, and we'll have made our first goal for this season ( being having HCA during the first round of the KO stages) unfortunately, injuries really have hurt our GS lately, so the remaining 2 spots will most likely be filled up shortly with a few extra players to full up the gaps in our NT squad.

Revo

Very hard but marvellous !...
Congratulations !

after double OT, Belgium have beaten Hungaria to claim a 7-1 record in the Consolation tournament, their best preformance in teh consolation tournament by far.

The loss against Costa Rica is even more regretfull now, since it would have put at the second or 3rd spot. Yet, it still doesn't guarantee us of an easy opponent.

We'll be ending 6th or 7th, depending on Argentina's result against Japan later on this evening.

As for our opponent, their are alot of possibilities. Uruguay, Georgia (Sakartvelo), Bulgaria or Moldavia seem to be the biggest probabilities, but maybe we'll still see some upsets on that position. I sure hope to avoid a big caliber team in the first round (at this stage, their are no more weak teams, but some teams are more equal than others.... euhm, i mean stronger than others ;)

We had some insane ratings in our last game, and the mismatch on SF spot really gave us the edge against a very strong Hungaria, who almost defeated us on our home court despite only being able to field 1 of their 300k+ C's ( Raffay and Tasi weren't in good shape). Altho, same can be said from our team, since our NT has been batteling alot of injuries lately on the big guy's...

By tomorrow morning, we should know our fixure for the KO 32 round, where we are sure to have HCA. Let's hope it's a good one so that we can get into the KO 16 round, which Belgium hasn't been able to do yet in it's long history of consolation tournaments...

Revo

Great win! Looks like the outside players felt like winning yesterday ^^
Croatia is a hard opponent though...

Last edited by Laur3ns at 1/3/2012 5:49:53 AM