Village Idiot Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 Time to beging the title defense The draw is this Sunday, probably after a gruelling and cruelly drawn out ceremony. Pot One: Spain, Germany, Holland, Italy, England, Croatia, Portugal, France, Russia. Pot Two: Greece, Czech Republic, Sweden, Switzerland, Serbia, Turkey, Denmark, Slovakia, Romania. Pot Three: Israel, Bulgaria, Finland, Norway, Republic of Ireland, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Pot Four: Slovenia, Latvia, Hungary, Lithuania, Belarus, Belgium, Wales, FYR Macedonia, Cyprus. Pot Five: Montenegro, Albania, Estonia, Georgia, Moldova, Iceland, Armenia,Kazakhstan, Liechtenstein. Pot Six: Azerbaijan, Luxembourg, Malta, Faroe Islands, Andorra, San Marino. Amusing to see Liechtestein *not* in pot six. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazza ladra Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 Surprised that Slovenia are in Pot 4-- they've qualified for 2 of the last 3 World Cups. And then, Russia, who have qualified for one are in Pot 1. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gash Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 I feel sorry for whoever get Bosnia from that pot 3. Very strong. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 That's all I have found about the seeding process: The UEFA co-efficients are decided by taking into consideration a team's performance in the 2006 World Cup finals and preceeding qualifying campaign, Euro 2008 and the preceeding qualifying campaign and 2010 World Cup qualifying, though UEFA do stress that "more recent results are given greater consideration". Croatia is a somewhat surprising top seed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stephen927 Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 I hope we get a challenging group, teams like Turkey and Bulgaria who won't lie down and give us something to think about. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foluwashola Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 Should qualify with ease even if we get the most difficult group possible to be honest. Hope we get the jocks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MKSC Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 Romania, Austria, Cyprus, Liechtenstein, San Marino. 10 wins out of 10, shirley. In terms of away destinations how about: Sweden, Republic of Ireland, Cyprus, Iceland, Malta. Nowhere that you are likely to get attacked and some nice places to visit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thespence Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 Would like us to get:Turkey (have previous), Scotland (old enemy), Wales (the neighbours),Iceland (mums go & they got a load of our £££'s) & Malta (Gary Neville has a Soccer School there). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stephen927 Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 Turkey would be a fiery affair, we need something like that tbh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest schmuck Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 Pot 5 and 6 (and the lowest ranked from pot 4 if my maths is correct) should really have to pre-qualify to make one pot, we don't even smash these teams any more, they're just grinding processions to the inevitable 2-0 win, UEFA make far more competitive teams qualify for the Champions League so why not these? I hope we get some proper games Czech Republic, Serbia or Turkey and at least one of the home nations would be pretty juicy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 Seeding is pretty stupid. Should be done on past performances in the competition/qualification surely? Given that we failed to qualify in the 2008. Would guarantee us one pretty exciting game (which England games rarely are) n all but at least we can't get Croatia & Russia so we'll face some new teams. A decent group: England, Turkey, ROI, Wales, Montenegro, Faroes An easy group: England, Czech Rep, Austria, Wales, Liechtenstein, San Marino Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stifler Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 I would love to get Scotland. Other then that I don't really care, though staying away from Denmark is a good idea, we don't have a good record against them sincethe World Cup in 2002. Staying away from Serbia would also be good since we play them in the group stage of the World Cup. To be honest though, every possibility that we have we should be able to beat both home and away despite some games away from home being rather tricky. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foluwashola Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 I would love to get Scotland. Other then that I don't really care, though staying away from Denmark is a good idea, we don't have a good record against them sincethe World Cup in 2002. Staying away from Serbia would also be good since we play them in the group stage of the World Cup. To be honest though, every possibility that we have we should be able to beat both home and away despite some games away from home being rather tricky. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenBartonCentrePartin Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 Never gonna happen, but it'd be mint if as a one off UEFA decided to have, England, Scotland, Wales, NI, Rep of Ireland and one other chucked in a group. Would make qualification far more exciting and I reckon it'd psych the other 'home nations' up a bit more as they'd all love to get one over on us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nazza06 Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 Genuinely think Scotland would have beaten England in the 2008 qualifiers at Hampden and maybe got something at Wembley. There was a real sense of Unity under Mcleish and the match atmosphere was out of this world, whilst England were shakey to say the least. Glad not to have seen England in the 2010 WC qualifiers as that would have been even more embarrassing than it was. Hopefully things will change under Levein and unity will bring us up to another level again but very worried if we met England at the moment we would get pumped. Having said that, the intensity at Hampden when the big nations turn up could shake up any side. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heron Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 France will win the next one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LesPaul Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 Would love to play England. Probably get trounced but it would be nice to see the two teams play. Providing ye don't decide to trah our stadium again Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stifler Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 I would love to get Scotland. Other then that I don't really care, though staying away from Denmark is a good idea, we don't have a good record against them sincethe World Cup in 2002. Staying away from Serbia would also be good since we play them in the group stage of the World Cup. To be honest though, every possibility that we have we should be able to beat both home and away despite some games away from home being rather tricky. Sorry, I meant Slovenia. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foluwashola Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 I would love to get Scotland. Other then that I don't really care, though staying away from Denmark is a good idea, we don't have a good record against them sincethe World Cup in 2002. Staying away from Serbia would also be good since we play them in the group stage of the World Cup. To be honest though, every possibility that we have we should be able to beat both home and away despite some games away from home being rather tricky. Sorry, I meant Slovenia. Slovakia and Slovenia confuse me, they are basically the same country Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdckelly Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 for roi i'd like portugal and greece please out of the top 2 seeds the rest, don't care Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shak Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 Hope Ireland get France. Can't wait until they expand the tournament to 24 teams, be nice to go to one of these things while I'm still at a good age for it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEMTEX Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 Who cares, it's world cup fever time. Ask me again in August. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 Turkey would be a fiery affair, we need something like that tbh. We need a piss-easy draw tbh. In the real thing, i agree entirely - you need someone decent in your group otherwise, once you come up against the big guns, you're under-prepared. That's how i see it anyway and that's why i was quietly disappointed with our World Cup draw. But in terms of qualifiers, who gives a fuck. Just need to get through. And besides, the last Turkey affair was a fucking farce (but a cracking game, my first England one). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 Hope Ireland get France. Can't wait until they expand the tournament to 24 teams, be nice to go to one of these things while I'm still at a good age for it. Are you in the squad at the moment or hoping to play your way in? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaizero Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 Croatia, Switzerland, Cyprus, Liechtenstein and San Marino would do me just fine. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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