I can't begin to express my disappointment. Wow, can't believe we lost. I got ahead of myself, when I heard the Dutch lost and we got up 2-0 I was thinking Gold.
Cmon Opals, please...
Cmon Opals, please...
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kookaburras are olympic duds. year after year they screw it up, how can they be 2-0 and then lose it. they threw a certain gold because they cant handle the big one. the writng was on the wall when they could only draw with GB!
the Rudd factor stikes again!!BEen a great Olympics for our teams...been on the wrong end of a swag of thrillers.
Poop I say.
BEen a great Olympics for our teams...been on the wrong end of a swag of thrillers.
Poop I say.
the Rudd factor stikes again!!
They didn't perform even when there was money there...the man has some explaining to do if he doesn't pump some money in!!!
its been the story of the olympics for australia.
The problem is though, the 90s Men's Hockey Team was arguably the best in history, and continually choked.Look at the teams Olympic record and you have to say it is our best performing Olympic team. If you have a look at their international record you would have to say that maybe they have been the most consistent international Australian sporting team in any sport, even more than our cricketers.
You're not alone. I thought it was Shane Bourne I was listening to as well.It's probably just me, but I keep thinking Shane Bourne is commentating - one of the blokes really sounds like him.
Don't watch games with European teams. They play the eleven man defence and hope for the one-off breakaway goal at some point. Catch an India game if you can.I struggle to watch hockey at the best of times, but it would be nice to see a goal every now and then.
Watching that bronze medal play off last night where the Kookaburras smashed the Dutch you can't help but feel they were the best team in the Olympics. Stuffed up being 2-0 up and not defending well enough. Shades of the socceroos at the MCG v Iran in 1997.
Good to see that they held their spirits and got the bronze. The teams of 1984 and 1988 couldn't come back from the disappointment of missing the gold medal game.
Look at the teams Olympic record and you have to say it is our best performing Olympic team. If you have a look at their international record you would have to say that maybe they have been the most consistent international Australian sporting team in any sport, even more than our cricketers.
They have only not made a world cup or champions trophy semi final on a few occasions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_national_field_hockey_team
Their Olympic record since that first medal in Tokyo with only once missing the semis.
64 Bronze
68 Silver
72 5th
76 Silver
80 Hockey federation boycotted Moscow. A team was picked but never went
84 4th
88 4th
92 Silver
96 Bronze
00 Bronze
04 Gold
08 Bronze
Meh, the way they run international hockey tournaments now the preliminary matches don't really matter. Bottom line is you have to finish top four in your group, then win three sudden death games.Not much has changed in 8 years.
- Still a dominant force
- Number one for the most part
- Trophies adorning the cabinets
- Australia's best sporting team by far
- Under performing in Olympics....... so far....
Still not out of it. Can still win gold. Spain beat them the last 2 Olympics I think
Meh, the way they run international hockey tournaments now the preliminary matches don't really matter. Bottom line is you have to finish top four in your group, then win three sudden death games.