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Originally posted by battye
Seems silly to do it 6 years before the event. Who knows what might happen, Hong Kong might become the next Australia in 2009, but didn't qualify for it now!
(Won't happen though  )
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true. a team that qualifies now may deteriorate to the level where their players might find it very difficult to stand up to the big boys, whereas a team that improves drastically at the end of that period might lose out on the chance of generating an upset or two because they never qualified.