[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Part of the problem is we don't imo. It's not solely geography, but some neighbourly voting is inevitable when they're going to be very close culturally. It's not impossible to do well though, it was only a few years ago we came 5th the only time we actually put the effort in and had Jade Ewen. Australia did very well despite having no geographical or political ties with most of Europe. It says a lot that even countries like Ireland and Malta only gave us a point each last night, most of the problem was with the act. Germany and Austria had the same problem - two countries who have won it very recently (Austria last year obviously) but this year got 0 points because they did not put forward a good enough act.

It's true that we do have to work harder than most countries to do well but we just resign ourselves to defeat every year by not trying hard enough and then we moan when we only pick up a few points.

This.