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6 minutes ago, The Black Bra said:
Brilliant draw if you ask me. Glamour games against Portugal, good chance of not being relegated back down straight away!
You know, in our 150 year long history, we have never been relegated. England on the other hand.........
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7 minutes ago, DesiScotsman said:
This is what I seen online:
World Cup qualifying starts in 2025, and the 12 European group winners will automatically qualify.
Twelve runners-up will then enter play-offs, but there will be four other spots, which will be taken by the four best-ranked Nations League group winners who have not finished first or second in regular qualifying.
This means teams who are unlikely to finish top or second when qualifying starts can still make the World Cup via a good Nations League campaign.
Key phrase here is "group winners", something to aim for.
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It may be too soon to know, but I'll ask regardless - What are the requirements to get a World Cup playoff spot via the Nations League?
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If we do win our group, we would have a World Cup play off in the bag. Ok, calm down
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Just now, Orraloon said:
We could win that group. I'd settle for second place though.
A2 - Italy, Belgium, France, Israel - Glad we avoided this one
A3 - Germany, Netherlands, Hungary, Bosnia and H - glad we avoided this one as it would have been too similar to our EURO's group
A4 - Spain, Denmark, Switzerland, Serbia - This is the other group I wouldn't have minded.
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Nice - Portugal, Croatia, Poland.
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The draw is on now, our pot will be drawn last, they are going from the top seeds down, so we will be able to have some excitement which groups we would prefer to avoid.
2024/25 UEFA Nations League: League phase draw | UEFA Nations League | UEFA.com
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1 hour ago, Ally Bongo said:
MetLife Stadium in New Jersey will host the 2026 World Cup final on 19 July, while Azteca Stadium in Mexico City will stage the opening group game on 11 June.
Mexico is one of three countries co-hosting the expanded 48-team tournament along with USA and Canada which will last a record 39 days.
The tournament will last 10 more days than the 2022 edition in Qatar.
In total, 16 cities have been chosen including Monterrey and Guadalajara in Mexico, and Vancouver in Canada.
Boston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York, Houston, Seattle and San Francisco make up the US contingent.
Only one city, Guadalajara, will not host a knockout game.
The quarter-finals will be held in Los Angeles, Kansas City, Miami, Boston, with the semi-finals in Dallas and Atlanta, while Dallas will host a record nine matches.
The new format will feature 12 four-team groups, a last-32 knockout round for the first time and a record 104 matches will be played.
The tournament hosts will play the group stage in their own countries, with the US staying on the West Coast with two games in LA and one in Seattle.
Canada will play one group stage game in Toronto followed by two in Vancouver while Mexico will play twice at the Azteca and once in Guadalajara.
Teams are likely to face a large amount of travel between games.
The shortest distance between a quarter-final and a semi-final venue is just over 500 miles from Kansas City to Dallas while the longest - between Los Angeles and Atlanta - is just under 2,200 miles.
Thanks I was looking for some info concerning the first and second round make up. I am glad to see the first round is groups of 4, hearing about groups of three didn't feel too exciting somehow. It makes comparisons to earlier years possible for a start. I so hope we will make it, I am within driving distance of three stadiums(two within 4 hours), 4 if I include Atlanta, I may have to host a few of you if your coming over.
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Christie may be getting subbed off. Getting treatment on his right leg. Actually, seeing the replay looks like a hard knock, I reckon he'll be back up
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Robbo on at 69 minutes against some midtable also-rans.
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Just looked at the Blackburn Wrexham match report and I noticed Sam Gallagher among the goals, so I went to read about him. Did we perhaps miss an opportunity with him? He's never been prolific but wondered if his qualities might have been useful for us.
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26 minutes ago, syecosse said:
Calvin Ramsey has joined Bolton for the reminder of the season on loan.
Thats a good move, he will get game time and he will experience some pressure with them pushing for automatic qualification.
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Any news on Tierney?
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I've spent quite a bit looking for how the seeds with be handled for the qualification pots - and I cannot find any confirmation that the Nations League will be used for seeding. The only thing I can find is of course mention of the Nation League in relation to the Play Offs. I have read a bunch of worry in depth UEFA and FIFA rule and policy document.
Our first qualifiers are March 0f 2025, but I cannot find any confirmation of the qualification draw. If Qatar was anything to go by the draw wont happen until November. The Nations league fixtures apart from the relegation and promotion matches will all be concluded the 19th of Nov so I would take a guess the draw wont happen until 27th of November.
My conclusion is there is no confirmation nations League will definitely have a bearing on the World Cup seeding, my gut says FIFA rankings will decide the pots as usual. With 12 groups we need to be ranked 24 or higher, currently we are 19 to be seeded in pot 2.
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3 hours ago, Caledonian Craig said:
Precisely. Means we avoid the likes of France, Spain, Belgium, Portugal and other tough opponents. But knowing our luck we will draw,England from secondcseeds.
We could avoid England get a fantastic group like this
Scotland, Iceland, Luxembourg, Faroe Islands and Malta
Finishing 3rd in the Nations League will not be easy, ultimately avoid France from Pot 3 unless we landed "weaker" pot 1 and 2 teams like getting Croatia(!!) from pot 1 and getting Hungary or Denmark in pot 2...and then taking care of business - this is our best chance. We could get a similar group to our Euros group and get Hungary and Switzerland again.
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1 hour ago, Orraloon said:
There will be 12 World Cup groups.
Thats even better, if we finish 3rd or above in our Nations League we are seeded 1st for the WC qualifiers.
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I have chewing over the implications of the Nations League and might have the wrong understanding. If there are 10 UEFA qualification groups for the World Cup again, and the Nations League determines seeding for the draw, we are at worst guaranteed to be seeded 2nd (1-10 are seeded first, and then 11-20 are seeded 2nd). This would mean all those who finish 1st and 2nd and the top 2 3rd places teams are seeded in pot 1.
If World Cup qualification groups were to be drawn today, we would have one of the following in our group as the top seeds.
Spain, Croatia, Italy, Netherlands, Denmark, Portugal, Belgium, Hungary, Switzerland and Germany.
We would avoid France, Poland, Israel, Bosnia & H, Austria, Serbia, England, Wales and Czech Republic as they would be in pot 2 with us.
So much to change, but the point is we must treat the Nations League seriously as finishing a strong 3rd could mean we are seeded in Pot 1, and 2nd guarantee's that we are.
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I find his situation heartbreaking and I'm not even the guy battling with the injuries. Could you imagine how he is feeling right now. On his day, he is one of the World's best in his position but to be hindered with so much setbacks. I can't see him playing beyond 30, it's so tragic.
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3 hours ago, dan cake said:
If Shankenstein goes to Ibrox the press will want him as first choice up front , Ryan Gauld 😆
I feel we need different options in attack when we need to change it up. I feel if we need to defend a lead, we have players in the bank to help that out but in attack we don't have a Shaun Maloney, or Ben Doak to come and present something else. The MLS season starts in March so timing might not be great for him, June is too late to bring new faces in.
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So that's four friendlies pre-tournament - 2 in March and 2 in June so if any new faces are to show March is the time to do it. I would like Shankland to be given more minutes, Hardie called up and/or Tommy Conway. I also want to get over the drama that will come with Ryan Fraser so let's get that out the way, as IMO he should definitely be back in the squad.
Dominic Hyam and Josh Doig also in there. I can't escape Ryan Gauld, call him up and give him a chance.
If it were me in charge, the squad for the March games would be 26 players at least, anything less is a missed opportunity.
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On 12/23/2023 at 2:08 AM, BryanBlessed said:
Bad news that as a run of form may have meant he'd force his way into Clarke's plans. Hopefully, Dykes and Adams come into some kind of form.
This is really disappointing for Stewart but reading what Russell Martin said, I would feel a lot of encouragement from my Manager and will look to repay that once this injury(s) are behind me.
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The Germany one is very nice, it would appear those triangles on the sides for us a given along with the type of collar.
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Other than the Umbro sleeves I really like the 96 one.
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I love it
Tactics and Formations
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I'd like to start a thread to discuss tactics and Formations. Right now to me, it seems unlikely we will have all of our best players available and I'd like to consider the implications of not having Hickey, Tierney or some others.
Some of you have a better mind for this than I do and I'm interested to see what you come up with if we have to or could end up playing 4 at the back, two pivots, traditional wingers etc. Come up with a few starting 11's and explain what scenario it prepares us for. Of course, feel free to chip in with what you think is our best 11 if everyone is fit.
Thanks