EddardStark Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 Lost 4-0 last night to Costa Rica. This comes after a 2-1 home defeat to Mexico over the weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 Not a great start but they've still got 8 games to play, and even if they finish 4th in the 6 team group they get a play-off. Certainly in a better position than us! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShedTA Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 i'm sure kris boyd will have an opinion on why that is...some more pearls of wisdom... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderer Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 Not a great start, but still early days and will probably get into gear as the group goes on (I doubt that Panama will put up much of a challenge) and the States will probably finish in the play off spot at worst. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McDange Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 Jurgen for Scotland manager... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveyDenoon Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 USA will qualify as will Mexico. The whole thing is designed specifically to ensure they do. It's virtually guaranteed every World Cup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Gills Mcginty Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 14 hours ago, DaveyDenoon said: USA will qualify as will Mexico. The whole thing is designed specifically to ensure they do. It's virtually guaranteed every World Cup. Is that because of the massive TV audiences? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bino's Posted November 19, 2016 Share Posted November 19, 2016 On 16/11/2016 at 0:40 PM, Toepoke said: Not a great start but they've still got 8 games to play, and even if they finish 4th in the 6 team group they get a play-off. Certainly in a better position than us! farce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilser Posted November 21, 2016 Share Posted November 21, 2016 Klinsmann now fired as US coach http://worldsoccertalk.com/2016/11/21/jurgen-klinsmann-sacked-us-soccer-team/ Could do a job somewhere else though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted November 21, 2016 Share Posted November 21, 2016 On Saturday, November 19, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Bino's said: farce It's a bizarre qualification format that sees the top six CONCACAF sides given a bye to the 4th round. Mind you of the 35 CONCACAF teams, all but 7 are outside of the World top 100. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted November 21, 2016 Share Posted November 21, 2016 Putting it into a European perspective, going by the latest FIFA rankings the CONCACAF final group would equate to... Switzerland Poland Croatia Serbia Scotland Israel with 3 of the above qualifying and 4th place in a play off with an Asian team. The preliminary rounds involve a further 29 teams with an average ranking of 155 (Macedonia). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted November 21, 2016 Share Posted November 21, 2016 47 minutes ago, Toepoke said: Putting it into a European perspective, going by the latest FIFA rankings the CONCACAF final group would equate to... Switzerland Poland Croatia Serbia Scotland Israel with 3 of the above qualifying and 4th place in a play off with an Asian team. The preliminary rounds involve a further 29 teams with an average ranking of 155 (Macedonia). We wouldn't qualify out of that group. We'd probably get no more than 4 points. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMcoolJ Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 12 hours ago, Toepoke said: Putting it into a European perspective, going by the latest FIFA rankings the CONCACAF final group would equate to... Switzerland Poland Croatia Serbia Scotland Israel with 3 of the above qualifying and 4th place in a play off with an Asian team. The preliminary rounds involve a further 29 teams with an average ranking of 155 (Macedonia). Excellent post. I feel better knowing we wouldn't qualify from this either! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grim Jim Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 14 hours ago, Orraloon said: We wouldn't qualify out of that group. We'd probably get no more than 4 points. Probably true at the moment, but we have had 8pts from 5 games against that lot under Strachan. (How the feck did we prevent Croatia from scoring?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robroysboy Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 Klinsmann would do a better job than berti. Would be out our price range though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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