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Hockey: Australia beats India 8-0

For me win or defeat in game does not matter. All what matters is how our young team played under hostile atmosphere and great pressure that too with teen kids in the team :)

Cmon Jana...Kids or no kids..they were national players selected by the Pakistan Hockey federation to represent their country.

So its not India's fault that they had to face kids.(though they were hardly 3 or 4 kids in the team).

Also Indian team was much more in-experienced than those world beating Aussies.

It was the Indian team that deserved to win that day and nothing can be taken from them.

Thats why you did not see any frustrated comment from my side atleast and majority of Pakistani members over that defeat unlike frenzied comments by Indians over the win ;)

Of-course a win over Pakistan is much much more emotionally important than a Gold medal and there is no denying it.

But not everyone reacted in a frenzy.Read my comment that day,

http://www.defence.pk/forums/members-club/75991-hockey-mens-group-match-20-pakistan-vs-india-14.html#post1194022
 
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NEW DELHI, Oct 14, 2010 (AFP) - Australia's legendary coach Ric Charlesworth on Thursday said India must get rid of bureaucracy if they are to match the hockey powerhouses of the world.

"During my time, the Sports Authority of India (SAI) was a problem," said Charlesworth, who worked as a technical consultant for India for eight months in 2008-09 before an acrimonius fallout with the country's administrators.

"It would be better if the game in India is privatised because bureaucracy is a problem. I think their current coach (Jose Brasa) is also having the same problem as me."

Charlesworth had frequent run-ins with the mandarins of Indian hockey during his short stint but proved his expertise back home by guiding Australia to an almost invincible status in about two years' time.

The former striker, who won the World Cup as a player in 1986, said the Indians were not short on talent and had improved in the course of the tournament.

"I think Brasa is doing a good job. They are playing a good game tactically. There are gaps in their game which every coach has to plug," he said.

"But they have played with effervescence and the way they came back against England, it was really commendable. I have always said that India have a lot of talent. They just need to plan better and develop a strategy."

Charlesworth said his team was now eyeing gold at the 2012 London Olympics.
"The main goal of the team is to do well in London. The gold here (in the Commonwealth Games) is a brick in the wall.

"If you would ask me, we were not technically sound throughout the 70 minutes in the game against India today. Technically, we did not do the things the way we wanted to in the first 15-20 minutes.

"We were sloppy for some periods in the second-half. It was tough to play out there in the heat. If you play back-to-back matches in these conditions, cumulatively it weighs you down."

Brasa said India was happy to finish second behind a team like Australia.

"Australia are a much, much better team," said the Spaniard. "They are two to three steps ahead of every other team in the world. I think to be second behind Australia is a good result.

"We were tired after tough games against Pakistan and England. They came out fresh. We were killed by their first goal, our morale went down.

"We made mistakes but after all we are humans, not aliens."
 
For me win or defeat in game does not matter. All what matters is how our young team played under hostile atmosphere and great pressure that too with teen kids in the team :)

Thats why you did not see any frustrated comment from my side atleast and majority of Pakistani members over that defeat unlike frenzied comments by Indians over the win ;)

We cheered Pakistan whenever we could...
but India vs Pakistan is different...you'd know that...
The Pakistani contingent was cheered...we don't hate Pakistan as you might believe...
 
indian players might became over happy after defeating Pakistan...!!!!
and surely they beacne overconfident
the same problem which pakistani players have :hitwall:
 
indian players might became over happy after defeating Pakistan...!!!!
and surely they beacne overconfident
the same problem which **** players have :hitwall:

whether confident or over confident, last thing is you have to beat Aussies in Final.
 
Its a shame that people were leaving the stadium after the first half , the indians were still getting silver and they did a good job in getting there

I also found out i like watching hockey during these games:) shame theres no Mainstream domestic league in australia that i can watch on tv.

grats to my team:)
 
lol.......... indian hockey team is the worst team out of top 12 teams i think
but for some reasons they are beating Pakistan nowadays.... they defeated us in World Cup, they defeated us here too

but in overall matches scenario we were better than India... and surely would not lose with so much humiliation.... this was a final afterall......... not a warm up game
 
lol.......... indian hockey team is the worst team out of top 12 teams i think
but for some reasons they are beating Pakistan nowadays.... they defeated us in World Cup, they defeated us here too

but in overall matches scenario we were better than India... and surely would not lose with so much humiliation.... this was a final afterall......... not a warm up game

Statics says India was second best team after Australia not only in hockey but on overall result.
 
Statics says India was second best team after Australia not only in hockey but on overall result.

Do stats really matter to India haters:no:

I was talking about Indian Hockey team, not Common Wealth games...... If you wear your glasses and read my post again, i said they performed well in World cup and Commonwealth games - but besides both tournaments they are ranked very low in international ranking

They only win in major tournaments nowadays
 
I was talking about Indian Hockey team, not Common Wealth games...... If you wear your glasses and read my post again, i said they performed well in World cup and Commonwealth games - but besides both tournaments they are ranked very low in international ranking

They only win in major tournaments nowadays

LOL we even defeated England/Malaysia/Pakistan, we were in the finals remember and we are ranked 8 and you people are ranked 12th. We got a drubbing in the finals no doubt about that probably the players couldn't handle the expectations but we are better than you both in Hockey and Cricket, those days are long gone when you people had superior teams in both the games than us
 
LOL we even defeated England/Malaysia/Pakistan, we were in the finals remember and we are ranked 8 and you people are ranked 12th. We got a drubbing in the finals no doubt about that probably the players couldn't handle the expectations but we are better than you both in Hockey and Cricket, those days are long gone when you people had superior teams in both the games than us

About the bold part this might help...

Hockey Team Rankings
:)
 

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