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I watched the 2nd half v Canada. We passed the ball brilliantly. No silly dribbles and excellent decision making once inside the D. However, Canada were terrible, so I wouldn't read too much into this result, except it may help us with GD. Belgium destroyed Germany 6-0. We will struggle against both...

Overall, a disappointing show. Failed to beat Pakistan twice and were well beaten by Germany. We make too many unforced errors, tackle poorly (resulting in cards or PCs) and don't finish clinically. We lost 6-1 to Germany in a 4 nation tournament recently, so this can be considered progress :p At th...

Good win in the final. However, we have definitely regressed under this coach. Selections continue to handicap us. No drag flicker at the Asian games being a prime example of this stupidity. Rani Ramphal has been dropped for no clear reason.

did China send their 2nd rung players for this championship? if they haven't, from 0-4 drubbing @ Asian games to 2-1 now is good turn around! Yes. Only 4 of the Asian Games' team sent to the ACT. Korea have sent a young experimental team. We played very well today, but we have to factor in the numb...

Firstly, thank you to Saffron Lenin for his posts. This tournament is always good to watch as the results can be unpredictable and the play is not so regimented/robotic as seen in modern senior hockey. Lots of skills on display as well as mistakes. I watched our game v Malaysia. We dominated but str...

Last min to go in hockey match.... we lead 2-1

1 min is too long for our hockey teams.

They hold on. Good to win a bronze at least. Need changes in the women's set up. New coaching staff, refresh the squad and for goodness sake, select a drag flicker. Idiotic stuff

Kabaddi
The rule goes in our favour 4-1

This farce reminds me of the 2002 CWG women's final when the very 'sporting' English team stayed on the pitch despite our winning goal being perfectly legal. Officials at that match were as stupid as this lot.

Is it officially over now?

5:15 pm. Don't the Iranians have to pray soon?

ssp, your thoughts on who should be dropped from this team and who should be brought in for the next big tournament? I always enjoy those. But, the win seems to have moderated you. A tournament win is the best way to stop my rants! Always Our selections are still stupid. The competition here could ...

Very pleasing finish to a tournament which we dominated, apart from a short period in Q2 of the semi. Standards in Asia are falling generally. Korea were always going to be our biggest threat followed by Malaysia. The former have an ageing squad (including two 39 yr olds) the latter are even worse t...

May be having this world class athletes, will spur our athletes to greater achievements and high quality spinach.

Good to see us winning v Korea. I was a bit nervous about this one. Japan 3-2 up v China with just 1 min to go. They hold on.

Big game for the women v China tomorrow. Need 2 big results from them.

I watched a replay of the Pakistan game. Pakistan were terrible. Reminded me of the our performances v Australia over the last 40+ years. Men v boys. Clueless in midfield and defence, aimless dribbling with no outcomes. We had so much space and time. Pakistan's biggest ever defeat. Today we thrashed...

So, who are the worst players still there in the team in your opinion? In order, or partial order. Let's have a poll. :-) Mandeep wins by a country mile! Others that don't really deserve selection (in no particular order) are Shamsher, Varun Kumar, Lalit, Jarmanpreet & Mandeep Mor (not picked h...

Yes, Karthi + Dilpreet in for Lalit and Mandeep. I'd also drop Shamsher and bring back Simranjeet (a big star at Tokyo and 2016 JWC) and move out Varun Kumar and play Manpreet in defence and get Vishnukanth into midfield. Pawan Rajbar for Gurjant. So 5 poor selections. That's better than usual!