From: Raja, The Great on
On Jul 1, 8:47 am, JCQ <zelig9...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 1, 12:07 am, Starcade <darkstar7...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Oh dear God, no...
>
> > If anything, that's 24 too many.
>
> > Mike
>
> They should lower it to 24 and keep the same amount of teams from
> South America. I also like how it was in 1982 where only the
> semifinals on had any chance of penalties deciding the matches. There
> are only about 6 or 7 good teams in the world. 24 is more than enough
> for a world cup.

Swiss beat Spain and they didnt even make it to 2nd round. Serbs beat
Germany and they didn't even make it to 2nd round. So I think you are
wrong here.
From: JCQ on
On Jul 1, 7:00 am, "Raja, The Great" <zepflo...(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> Swiss beat Spain and they didnt even make it to 2nd round. Serbs beat
> Germany and they didn't even make it to 2nd round. So I think you are
> wrong here.

I don't think so. There will always be upsets. I also didn't say that
the Swiss and Serbs shouldn't be there. 24 teams is plenty of room for
them. I wouldn't even mind 32 that much. Just don't like the knockout
stage starting at 16 and I see no practical way of changing that when
you have 32 teams.
From: Raja, The Great on
On Jul 1, 9:05 am, JCQ <zelig9...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 1, 7:00 am, "Raja, The Great" <zepflo...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Swiss beat Spain and they didnt even make it to 2nd round. Serbs beat
> > Germany and they didn't even make it to 2nd round. So I think you are
> > wrong here.
>
> I don't think so. There will always be upsets. I also didn't say that
> the Swiss and Serbs shouldn't be there. 24 teams is plenty of room for
> them. I wouldn't even mind 32 that much. Just don't like the knockout
> stage starting at 16 and I see no practical way of changing that when
> you have 32 teams.

You can always change that. Just the teams which top the 8 groups
advance. This way you might have more interesting group games with no
goal-less draws.