We jus hadda win all.
TALK DONE
Cosign to the power of 2009!
4 Cup Finals to go and 12 points up for grabs!
5+12=17 points
With 17 points in the bag we earn ourselves an automatic spot regardless of results for the other teams!
Alternatively let’s say we draw one of our away games and win the other 3 games (including this one on Saturday away to Honduras) we will be in 4th place rather than in 3rd place because of a -4 goal difference. So we need to score at least 5 goals and not concede any during our remaining games to change our -4 goal difference into a +ve GD. This would see us still ending up 3rd in the table with an automatic spot if on equal points with one of the other teams after our final game!
So those are our two scenarios for an automatic qualification spot!
3rd scenario if we don’t make up that goal difference is that we end up in 4th place after the final game and have to play-off against a South American team and will need to win the play-off to qualify. But who are the likely candidates we would have to play-off against and how likely are we to win such a play-off considering we won't be playing a Bahrain standard team this time round?
Thanks RF for the Simulator, using it has given me renewed confidence that T&T can still grab one of the automatic qualification spots in at least two different scenarios!
Socapro allyuh love tuh set up allyuh self yes! imagine we going to honduras and beating them wid dat weak defence and shakey midfield.
i wouldn't love nutten better , but the reality iz, we did not prepare for this hex et all! i would rather have preperation down than tuh ah tee, than not have it while hoping and fantasize about clinching ah spot, those is the things that big disappointment is made of.
i for one would be totally suprised if T&T even pull off a draw in any of these two upcoming matches. the reality is, our coaches and our federation was asleep for the pass three yrs, and they did nothing but jerk off and power tripped for the whole time.
when we was a$$ing around , these other federations was putting things in place and doing their home work in order to compete with a possible tough concacaf group.
we on the other hand was locked into ah money dispute followed by the threat of suspending our football, and ah special advisor who have ah whole heap on his plate, whom also has his political agender, which often spills over into the football causing regular disputes and beefing between him and the sports minister.
there was also chaos with the coaching staff, with the firing of rijsbergen and the implementation of the plague himeself(pancho) who sat on our heads for 15 months getting nothing done!
it was so many factors in the negative, and it continues with russell latapy who's not picking the players that could make an impact while insisting on lesser talented unfit players! now you tell me how does a team really survive all that strife and go on to do well, that's damn near to imposible my friend!
as for me, i rather play the law of averages and take the advice of my old school teacher Mr Bridges when he used to say, and ah could still see the cigarette sutt coming from his mouth when he was saying it, "
IF YUH FAIL TO PREPARE , THEN!! PREPARE TOO FAILLLL"! that man was scary boy, yuh could only imagine the fear that went through our little hearts, the same fear i feel when ppl like jack warner and oliver camps are incharge of anything that involve ppl's emotions and livelyhood.