Since you boys like numbers so much here's a few more!

World Cup record
1930 to 1962 – Did not enter
1966 - Did not qualify
1970 - Did not qualify
1974 - Round 1
1978 to 2002 - Did not qualify
2006 - Qualified

Confederations Cup record
1992 - Not invited
1995 - Not invited
1997 - Runner Up
1999 - Did not qualify
2001 - Third Place
2003 - Did not qualify
2005 - First Round

Record in World Cup Finals 1974
v East Germany in Hamburg, 0-2
v West Germany in Hamburg, 0-3
v Chile in West Berlin, 0-0

England v Socceroos
Played 14, Enlgland wins 11, Australia wins 1, Draws 2 :D :D :D :D

I Know its been a abit disappointing but lets just say we are there. Its been along road but we are here.

I guess from an english understanding it must always be good to be in the world cup...... but dont bragging rights go to the champions or nations that have won a world cup (with more than 6 nations in it ). It must be disappointing to have such an awesome team and make all these comps but never win one :lol:

The aussies are proud to be participating in such an event and dont worry we will turn some heads at this world cup. AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE ........

Here is another figure for ya last meeting Australia 3 - England 1 in a friendly with an english full squad you must hate us hey. :wink:

Love ya work though champ , hope all is well , counting down the days.

Tw

Your'e right, you have made it and good luck which is more than I can say for Scotland, Wales, N. Ireland and Eire! Well, it least the only way is up for Australia now with zero goals in the world cup :D

As for the 1-3, typical of you lot, brushing over the 11 England victories and remembering your solitary victory against an experimental England team with 18 different players used!

103 days to go :lol:

Hey Safcineurope your only as good as your last performance with the aussie and that was a loss 3 - 1.Fair crack though 11 - 1 but we have had the last laugh in our game together...for the moment :lol: ,18 good players not just experimental.

103 days to go cant wait for it.Cant it already be here i dont think i can last , need beer and lots of it and a world cup football game to enjoy.

Good having a good old banter with ya mate , you are never shy of abit. Stinging on a response from berni and the team hope all is good.

Speak soon...until next post.

Tw

TW, I saw some of your posts and other peoples for that matter re: tickets. If I were you I would be very wary of buying any sort of ticket! I've done a lot of research and if I were you I would wait until after the first match of England or Australia to see exactly what the security arrangements are going to be for entering the stadiums! Do a google search for world cup tickets and RFID (this is the microchip that is implanted into the ticket) and you will see how stringent arrangments are. I've got a TST for all the games and I've told all my mates to wait until after the first England match before they pay 200-500 quid for tickets. Hopefully, it will be scaremongering which is normally the case for big competitions but I've got a feeling that this time it's going to be different with all the paranoia regarding the war on terrorism and all the rest of it.

Greatly appreciated for the heads up champ , in your experiance is it best after the first game to go through people at the ground ? Is it worth it ?

Thanks for the heads up once again.

Tw

Whats different between this and the tickets in Portugal or France?

Weren't these same chips used in Portugal but never checked? How do you confirm the identity of 60,000 people within a 20 minute period?

Have a look at the tickets forum, a guy I think is called Bezza has just posted an article from www.bbc.co.uk regarding online tickets for WC2006! I bought all of my tickets for France and Portugal and loads of other matches off touts but they did not have RFID, it's only been commercially viable in the last year or so. Check it out for yourself and do some research. There will be 2 ticket checks in Germany, the first perimeter will be a simple ticket check just to confirm that you have tickets and the second check is where it gets difficult. FIFA and the German authorities are aiming to check 50-60% of punters to make sure their photo ID corresponds to the info on the ticket. In addition, if you buy a stolen ticket (which is quite common) all the original owner has to do is log on to FIFA's website and cancell the ticket electronically. When the punter with the stolen ticket approaches the turnstile (within 15 feet) the steward will see a warning to say that the ticket has been flagged and the punter will be refused entry. Like I say if you don't believe me check it out for yourselves, all the info is on the net. When I was in New York recently I was in a hostel with 2 Hamburg fans and they were telling me that the German authorities are scared shitless of English, German, Dutch and Polish fans going bezerk and are paranoid about Al Qaida and all the ' Mohammed cartoon' bollocks. Therefore, security is of paramount importance! Who knows it may all turn out to be nonsense like previous tournaments but my mates are waiting until after me and a couple of others have been to the Paraguay match to check everything out!

Right, so thats only 40,000 ticket holders to check in 20 minutes, thats 200 ticket holders every minute that need to be verified for ID purposes before they are allowed in. I'll put money on the fact that this doesn't happen.

Well, first of all nobody has mentioned 40,000 fans. If you could actually read I wrote 50-60% of fans. Which considering the capacities of the stadiums is around 20-30,000. But then again it's still a lot of people to get through, hopefully it is all bollocks because the last thing I want to do when I'm out on the lash is carry my passport around!

There will be so many tickets changing hands if they stop people getting in the grounds they will play to empty stadiums. It will only happen once.

Instantly the worst world cup on record and the most violent

It will not happen, buy your tickets and you will get in

Exactly, i haven´t heard of a single case of people being rejected entry with genuine tickets.

I´ve seen some drunk dutch guys who were not allowed to enter after they couldn´t produce IDs.