WJC: WJC 2025 Division 2A

[licanin]

Not going to lie, I'm not very convinced. Obviously, we are big favorites but I'm not expecting an easy game at all.

With our best players here it would be 60-40 Lithuania. For me, this is not about Lithuania winning, it's about how much.

Even as croatian, from purely sporting perspective it would be better that Lithuania goes into D1B, they have almost all best player eligible for next year, while we are slowly getting into "D2A relegation territory". Next year we should still be safe-ish, but after that, I can't see us staying in D2A, despite (Bela)Rus still out.

 

[Tryamkin]

here by the request of @EdJovanovski

 

[EdJovanovski]

I'm sick to my stomach

 

[HungryFrank]

Even as croatian, from purely sporting perspective it would be better that Lithuania goes into D1B, they have almost all best player eligible for next year, while we are slowly getting into "D2A relegation territory". Next year we should still be safe-ish, but after that, I can't see us staying in D2A, despite (Bela)Rus still out.

you only need to beat Spain and Netherlands to stay in this division in current format, plus Romania has occasional breakdowns, so in my opinion it is not outside of realm of possibility, but you know better.

 

[Marky1999]

Romania beat Croatia 6-4, what a shock! Lithuania can take the game vs Croatia to OT.

 

[SoundAndFury]

Yeah, the game of a tournament, what a turnaround. But Croatia did get flat out outplayed by Romania in 2 periods which I take great comfort in.

 

[aquaregia]

Should I hope that GB lose to Romania tomorrow in the hope that this is finally the straw that gets Grubb sacked?

 

[ozo]

Should I hope that GB lose to Romania tomorrow in the hope that this is finally the straw that gets Grubb sacked?

Absolutely. His reign of terror must end.

 

[SoundAndFury]

Should I hope that GB lose to Romania tomorrow in the hope that this is finally the straw that gets Grubb sacked?

I wanted to say "don't you think he has done enough to get himself fired already?" but realized he has a laundry list of excuses: Croatia had home crowd advantage, Lithuania just very strong, that food poisoning bug going around just unlucky, etc. So yeah, I guess your course of action might be the best.

 

[SoundAndFury]

Well, that's a good start.

 

[aquaregia]

2-1 in the end seems a bit kind to GB there, with Romania taking better advantage of their PP we could have lost by a few more easily and not had much cause to complain.

Got no idea what our team's meant to be being coached on on offence at all.

Embarrassing scenes in the aftermath too.

 

[ozo]

After game extras were redundant of course, but I sure was entertained by the last few minutes of the game.