Touches,
Very good post...from the time I read it I know nuff man will get vex and say you talking $hit. If you weren't posting for a long time, you would have been accused of waggonism and AWATT would have dropped nuff tickets on yuh a$$.
There is a difference between optimism and pure daydreaming/wishful thinking. Right now as I see it is licks from england 4-1 (yorke scoring and having a great game to prove to his former coaches that they made a mistake), losing 2-0 to sweden and drawing 1-1 with paraguay because paraguay was disenchanted from the serious licks they get from england and sweden.
However,deep down these teams will underestimate us, they are all saying they respect us and are not going to take us lightly but at the end of day them thinking we barely beat a $hit team (bahrain) to make it. Also with Beenhakker in charge, some luck, the players being mentally tough, extremely fit and minimizing the silly mistakes, the results can be better.
So my optimistic outlook is ah 3-1 cutarse from England, 0-0 or 1--1 with sweden and ah 1-0 win over paraguay...for ah 3rd place in the group behind England and Sweden.
I hope I am wrong and the team can pull off ah 2nd place andmake the second round. As for the forumites who posting that we getting 7pts and winning the group...please think about France the defending WC champions in the last WC and ask yuhself if we playing in the WC for the first time or are we playing in the Digicel Cup.