Bobby Russell's Lovechild Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 If Bosnia get beat tonight ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caledonian Craig Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 No it wont be as Slovakia will beat Malta and so finish above us in the group. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Russell's Lovechild Posted October 7, 2017 Author Share Posted October 7, 2017 (edited) Oh hell, right I'm giving up! Head is hurting too much! Edited October 7, 2017 by Bobby Russell's Lovechild Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 If news starts to come through of an amazing Maltese performance then we might get 2nd with a draw, highly unlikely though. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoonTheSlope Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 I've gave myself an aneurysm trying to work out everything. Let's just win tomorrow then take it from there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 1 hour ago, Bobby Russell's Lovechild said: Oh hell, right I'm giving up! Head is hurting too much!  At least you had a couple of minutes of optimism. I wouldn't be surprised if the Slovakia v Malta game stayed at 0-0 for 60 minutes or so, just to tease us though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottincarlisle Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 It would be worse if Slovakia score early & we leave it late. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 35 minutes ago, DoonTheSlope said: I've gave myself an aneurysm trying to work out everything. Let's just win tomorrow then take it from there If Bosnia win tonight we will need to bang in a few goals as well to boost our GD. C'mon Belgium. I have now convinced myself that IF Bosnia beat Belgium AND we beat Slovenia we will go out on GD. I need something to boost my confidence. I might need to have a few pints before the Bosnia game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 2 minutes ago, scottincarlisle said: It would be worse if Slovakia score early & we leave it late. Not for me. I would rather not have that false hope. I am just going to assume Slovakia will beat Malta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Pete Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 7 hours ago, Toepoke said: If news starts to come through of an amazing Maltese performance then we might get 2nd with a draw, highly unlikely though.  I doubt we’d get a playoff if we somehow get second with a draw. It will be touch and go with a win as it is. If we don’t win and Slovakia beat Malta then they will be very lucky to get a playoff with their points total. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bino's Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 we want the Slovaks to score a couple early so the heart goes completely out of the Slovenes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borojock Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 1 hour ago, Bino's said: we want the Slovaks to score a couple early so the heart goes completely out of the Slovenes agreed this would be nice get the fans and players down a bit early on while were beating 3 - 0 sounds good to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Russell's Lovechild Posted October 7, 2017 Author Share Posted October 7, 2017 (edited) 8 hours ago, Orraloon said:  At least you had a couple of minutes of optimism. I wouldn't be surprised if the Slovakia v Malta game stayed at 0-0 for 60 minutes or so, just to tease us though.  I'm a postie and I was trying to work it out in my head whilst working/walking! Edited October 7, 2017 by Bobby Russell's Lovechild Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duncan Blackheart Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 If Greece beat Cyprus, a draw won’t be enough, even if we do manage to finish second. However, a win will still do it, as the most amount of point Greece can get in the second placed table is 13, as their last game is against Gibraltar who will finish bottom of that group. Well, I think so anyway, but im not trawling through all those results again to double check. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu101 Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 33 minutes ago, Duncan Blackheart said: If Greece beat Cyprus, a draw won’t be enough, even if we do manage to finish second. However, a win will still do it, as the most amount of point Greece can get in the second placed table is 13, as their last game is against Gibraltar who will finish bottom of that group. Well, I think so anyway, but im not trawling through all those results again to double check. Wish I'd tried harder in maths in school Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Pete Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 39 minutes ago, Duncan Blackheart said: If Greece beat Cyprus, a draw won’t be enough, even if we do manage to finish second. However, a win will still do it, as the most amount of point Greece can get in the second placed table is 13, as their last game is against Gibraltar who will finish bottom of that group. Well, I think so anyway, but im not trawling through all those results again to double check. No need to double check. We are guaranteed a playoff if we win. Don’t think there’s any point in worrying about what happens if we draw as Slovakia will not fail to beat Malta. In the unlikely event Malta do scrape a draw and we draw with Slovenia then we can’t really have any complaints if we end up as the worst runner up. We should have beaten Lithuania at home and we’d be in the playoffs already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainmac1 Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 Just to clarify this. As things stand If we both draw tomorrow we will be out. Greece are beating Cyprus and their last game is home to Gibraltar. They would finish on 19 points and we would be on 18. So we would be the worst 2nd place team. We have to win no matter what. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordyA88 Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 14 minutes ago, Texas Pete said: No need to double check. We are guaranteed a playoff if we win. Don’t think there’s any point in worrying about what happens if we draw as Slovakia will not fail to beat Malta. In the unlikely event Malta do scrape a draw and we draw with Slovenia then we can’t really have any complaints if we end up as the worst runner up. We should have beaten Lithuania at home and we’d be in the playoffs already. That's the annoying thing for me. Lithuania at home and the England game. If we had won either a draw would be enough tomorrow. It's win or bust now. No point worrying about anything else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Pete Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 11 minutes ago, GordyA88 said: That's the annoying thing for me. Lithuania at home and the England game. If we had won either a draw would be enough tomorrow. It's win or bust now. No point worrying about anything else. If we had won either we wouldn’t even need a draw tomorrow for second place. Ok so a defeat tomorrow might not have been enough for a playoff but we’d be in a much better position. Even worse is if we had won both, we would be on the same points as England with an outside chance of winning the group tomorrow. We didn’t though do let’s just win this game tomorrow and take our chances in the playoffs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 17 minutes ago, GordyA88 said: That's the annoying thing for me. Lithuania at home and the England game. If we had won either a draw would be enough tomorrow. It's win or bust now. No point worrying about anything else. Swings and roundabouts, we could have beaten Lithuania and England but drawn with Slovenia and Slovakia. In terms of late luck we're probably up at the moment. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Pete Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 (edited) 16 minutes ago, Toepoke said: Swings and roundabouts, we could have beaten Lithuania and England but drawn with Slovenia and Slovakia. In terms of late luck we're probably up at the moment.  Very true. We should remember that if it wasn’t for a very late own goal on Thursday we would be as good as out now. We could also have lost to England and Lithuania at Hampden. Edited October 7, 2017 by Texas Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottincarlisle Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 1 hour ago, Texas Pete said: Very true. We should remember that if it wasn’t for a very late own goal on Thursday we would be as good as out now. We could also have lost to England and Lithuania at Hampden. And 0-0 v Slovenia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 3 hours ago, iainmac1 said: Just to clarify this. As things stand If we both draw tomorrow we will be out. Greece are beating Cyprus and their last game is home to Gibraltar. They would finish on 19 points and we would be on 18. So we would be the worst 2nd place team. We have to win no matter what. So are slovakia and Slovenia officially out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 8 minutes ago, todd said: So are slovakia and Slovenia officially out? Slovenia are out. Slovakia are on a wing and a prayer...  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Bongo Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 (edited) 10 minutes ago, todd said: So are slovakia and Slovenia officially out? Not technically Slovenia would need to beat us and Slovakia would have to lose to Malta edit - even then they would lose out on best second place teams Slovakia too would probably lose out on that score if Slovenia beat us Edited October 7, 2017 by Ally Bongo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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