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"I don't think it can be like this. Other countries have their own leagues. I would like to see a southern Australian league � India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand - or the Indian Ocean league, if you like to call it, with international teams or a couple of teams from each (of these) countries. That's an interesting prospect," Charlesworth said. "But I don't think you would get a league like this (HIL) anywhere else. I think India is a unique environment with its capacity to support something like this. In our country there are other games much bigger than this (hockey). We will get drowned out by them," added the Australian, who had coached his country's women's outfit successfully in two World Cups and as many gold medals in the Olympics. His team member and countryman Mathew Swann agreed. "I do agree (with the concept of the five-nation league), in lifting the standard of hockey in the southern hemisphere," said Swann. Talking about his team's dismal show which saw it lose 10 out of 11 games played so far to get knocked out of the semifinal reckoning, Charlesworth said his top strikers Glenn Turner and Saari Faisal have not delivered which was hugely disappointing. "We scored 20 goals and 16 of them have been corners. It's clear we haven't finished well up front. We have two very good strikers (Glenn) Turner and (Saari) Faisal, international goal scorers, who haven't scored any goals yet. That's disappointing and at the other end I don't think we have played as well as we could. Summing up further he said, "We have had 30 goals scored against us, 20 of them in my opinion were savable. We haven't done well in that area, that's something which is disappointing." "I am not relieved (that it has ended), but a little disappointed. We have not played well enough, that's pretty clear. We got a good start, made a save on the line. We were pretty much in control for a lot of the game but they got a corner against one of our players and scored. That was sloppy," he added about yesterday's 0-1 loss to the Wizards. Oltmans was pleased that his team won but felt they should have scored more goals. "In today's match there was only one team that deserved to win. The only (disappointing) thing is so far we don't close the game early enough. Today, we had enough chances to score may be 2-3-4 goals even but we missed a penalty stroke, missed some corners and a few real good open chances. We have to improve." (MORE)