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we miss 2nd round qualification by 2 points

UL. Fantastic effort though.
You've had a good first competitive season and here's hoping England kicks on next season with the reinforcements en route from the Juniors.

Hope so. Lets win home advantage again

Bad luck though

Crap... A tiny bit of luck more and we were in :(

Oh well, you did a good job and the two damn points should not shade that...

I'm also kind of guilty. I've been on hols and as a consequence managed poorly the game shape of my players, including Hobson :(

/elboss

That really sucks. :(

wow

this game belongs into the how did I loose thread!!!

Almost all stats we are better than our opponent except 3FG. I guess we lost the game here...

They had 8 - 16 and we had 2 - 16... :(

we overperformed for another season lets hope we can do that again next season. Great job waggy!!!

I have failed the English community. I set the dream as winning the world championship, & the target as qualifying for the 2nd round of European qualifying. Todays loss to Serbia sees those goals shattered. /the ladder hasn’t been updated yet, but this is how it finished:

Bosnia w:5 l:1
Serbia w:4 l:2 + 37
England w:4 l:2 + 35
Turkey w:4 l:2 + 32

3 more points today, or 3 less by Serbia would’ve seen us qualify.

We were expecting a CT from Serbia so their higher effort level wasn’t a surprise. That last quarter was torture to watch, with us being into the 2nd round for all but the final few minutes where we couldn’t hit a shot. While it is frustrating playing a majority of the game without your offensive focus due to injury, and falling a few points short of qualifying in the process, I am not going to blame our loss today on Paris playing 13 minutes as it doesn’t change the final result, and the only thing it achieves is increasing the frustration I am feeling right now

We move onto the consolation tournament, which is no consolation at all compared to where we want to be, but we will go as far as we can. It will be good next season to add a couple of the current u21’s who will play a vital role in strengthening the current team.

I apologise again for letting you down, but we still have work to do with a fresh batch of draftees being created in a couple of months to scout through & updates of tracked players required for the future of the England NT.

The difference was the effort level which is not reflected in the team ratings.

I have failed the English community.

Goddammit you did not.

You went 4-2 and lost out on friggin' PD.

I notice they put in more effort into the game. Would it have cost England anything to CT that one or were you just thinking that you should be able to get by with normal?

There is no enthusiasm reset before the 2nd round so it while we may have qualified, it would've been embarassing in the next round going in with little to none enthusiasm. We were a bees dick away as it stands.