Men's hockey competition

[GermanShepherd]

Who do you think will be the medallists and the finshing order ?

I say : Gold: Australia
Silver: Germany
Bronze: Spain

4th Holland
5th Pakistan
6th India
7th Argies
8th Korea
9th Great Britain
10th New Zealand
11th South Africa
12 Egypt

 

[Sudeep]

Pakistan could be a surprise winner (ie. in the top three)

 

[GermanShepherd]

Pakistan could be a surprise winner (ie. in the top three)

Could be. With Sohail Abbas in their side and the recent rule change favouring penalty corner takers, they are dark horses.
Argentina with Jorge Lombi could be the surprise packets in the other pool.

 

[marc71178]

Didn't GB win a tri-series involving Pakistan a while back?

We don't get much coverage over here, but I thought that they did?

 

[nibbs]

at the commonwealth games New Zealand beat Pakistan 7-1. theyøve been imporving all the time recently and you never known if we can get some things to go our way we might do our selves proud

 

[age_master]

Australia

 

[GermanShepherd]

The loss of captain Paul Gaudoin in midfield is going to hurt Australia big time.

In light of this, I'll revise my original prediction and say that Australia won't win gold -- More likely Germany.

 

[Anna]

I think pretty much anyone could win this on the day. If GB sort themselves out in time they're in with a shot.

 

[Protea]

I think SA have improved a lot lately. All I know is our u/21s are really good. We had a three-game series with Aus this past weekend and drew 1-1 with the last game being a draw. I don't think we'll manage a medal this Olympics though.

P.S: Look out for Denzel Dolley.

 

[Cloete]

Speaking of SA Hestra Cloete should have a good chance of winning the high jump. I'm pleased to have my name attached to a possible gold medalist

 

[Protea]

Jacques Freitag, too, if he goes. He had some sort of injury to his ankle and he wasn't sure if he was going to make it or not. Both are IAAF High Jump champions.

 

[GermanShepherd]

I think pretty much anyone could win this on the day. If GB sort themselves out in time they're in with a shot.

You're the first Briton I know who thinks GB's mens hockey team can win a medal.


Personally I think a more realistic goal for Great Britain would be a top 6 finish.

 

[GermanShepherd]

This should IMo be India's starting lineup for their first game against Holland:
(3-1-3-3-1) formation.


Prabjhot Gagan Ajit Singh Adam Sinclair

Dhanraj Pillay

Igance Tirkey Rasquinha Vikram Pillay

Xalco Dileep Tirkey(c) Sandeep Singh

Chauhan (gk)

What do you guys think ?


PS: Some recent results before the Athens Games

India 3 Germany 3
Spain 7 NZL 2
Spain 5 Great Britain 1

Spain looking in great form.

 

[Son Of Coco]

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESS!

Congratulations to the Aussie mens Hockey team, and in particular Nathan Eglington who went to good old Kingscliff High School, for winning gold.

Much deserved after years of near misses.

 

[Waughney]

Yes, well done to Australia.

 

[Simon]

good to see us get our 17th gold and break the dutch hockey winning streak at the olympics

 

[age_master]

top game too

great to see such a happy bunch of players, plenty of whom have played in the previous (and the atlanta olympics too) get rewarded