kwhitelaw Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 Looking at the confirmed pots my favored group would be: Croatia Sweden Scotland Luxembourg Andorra Moldova Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davy-hay Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 1 hour ago, kwhitelaw said: Looking at the confirmed pots my favored group would be: Croatia Sweden Scotland Luxembourg Andorra Moldova England is who we want from the top seed. Gives us another 2 derbys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Third Lanark Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 On 11/19/2020 at 5:52 PM, ThistleWhistle said: I'd take Wales and all - Bale and Ramsey are still decent but they're not what they were when they dragged them out of pot 4 obscurity starting over a decade ago. Can see them being in Pot 3 soon depending on how often they can get them out in the next couple of years. Wales have some good youngsters like Brooks and Wilson as well as Bale and Ramsey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weekevie04 Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 Croatia and Denmark are probably the teams from Pot 1, possibly Holland and Germany - on current form - but whoever we get in Pot 1 will be a hard slog. Would certainly take Slovakia, Romania, Turkey, Sweden, Wales, Poland and possibly Austria. Really would like to avoid Switzerland, Serbia (they'll click and they tend to go from horror qualifying campaign to belter, and no doubt will want 6 pts from us), Ukraine have been very good under Shevchenko, and some talented youngsters coming through. Pot 3 - would happily have taken Iceland, NI, Ireland, possibly Finland in our group. Happy to be avoiding Greece (has a 0-0 at home and 2-0 away written all over that) ; Czech Republic ; Norway ; Russia and Hungary. Pot 4 - you could argue Bosnia, Slovenia, North Macedonia, Israel are better or on par with ourselves, Iceland and the two Irelands. There are no easy away games in any of these games. An awfae lot of hard places to go, and even Luxembourg who prop up the bottom of the seedings have improved tenfold of late. Want to avoid Israel though - we really struggle against them and have we no played them enough of late. You'd probably fancy Bulgaria, then again they might have found a new coach, some form by the time this comes around. The old cliché but very true ''No easy games at all in this group'' and arguably its harder than half of the teams in Pot 3. Pot 5 - Andorra, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia would chomp at the bit to have. Probably the Faroes too - who have done very well of late. Armenia would be interesting and our first game against them, but a decent enough side. Cyprus proved hard work as well last time around, so let's avoid them hopefully too. Azerbaijan and Kosovo after decent spells over the past few years, seem to be sliding a bit, but again, probably very decent and difficult away games. Pot 6 -if lucky enough to get a six team group, Malta and Moldova are the two to avoid. Gibraltar did well in their Nations Group and they've really tightened up and improved, Ireland only beat them 1-0 over there and 2-0 in Dublin. Dream Pot probably : Denmark, Wales, Scotland, Luxembourg, Estonia, San Marino No Thanks : Spain, Switzerland, Scotland, Israel, Armenia, Moldova/Malta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThistleWhistle Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 2 hours ago, Third Lanark said: Wales have some good youngsters like Brooks and Wilson as well as Bale and Ramsey. Not sure they're Real or Juve quality though? The other thing for me is apart from Bale and Ramsey Wales seemed to have a decent enough player in each position predominantly in the Premiership. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davy-hay Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 England Wales & Scotland now that's a group! Oh and Isreal 🙄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tartan Chris Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 (edited) On 11/20/2020 at 8:32 AM, Bristolhibby said: I think you are right. Even worse a draw. Looking at the group standings again. Wales were rank and finished below us! Just took 6 points off of us. Crazy! Even Macedonia beat them. Looking back, that group was even worse than the Euro 2008 group of death. At least we had a good team in 2006/2007. J Starting that group with Levein still in charge was the problem, messed up the home games v Serbia and Macedonia right at the start which killed qualification right there. Results after under Strachan were o.k, brilliant double over Croatia and also won in Macedonia which isn't easy. Pretty sure also comfortably leading 1-0 v Wales at Hampden until Snoddy conceded a pen and also got sent off which completely flipped that result. From memory a few were actually pleased with that draw given there was no big hitter (Belgium hadn't qualified for a major tournament for about a decade at that point) and it was expected everyone would take points off each other but the reality is that was the point where it started clicking for Belgium and Croatia are always tough to finish above in qualifying (went out in groups at World cup though so they were in transition a bit). Edited November 29, 2020 by Tartan Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davy-hay Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 Is it on sky sports news? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davy-hay Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 you can stream this draw off the website but i reckon sky sports news will have updates. Previously i've found the draws on via the red button on freeview. (was in a travel lodge one time in the morning with a hangover :-0 ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncan II Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 8 minutes ago, davy-hay said: Previously i've found the draws on via the red button on freeview. (was in a travel lodge one time in the morning with a hangover :-0 ) Nobody gives a flying fuck what you've previously done with your shitey life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davy-hay Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 16 minutes ago, duncan II said: Nobody gives a flying fuck what you've previously done with your shitey life. wow. Why the personal insult? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncan II Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 57 minutes ago, davy-hay said: wow. Why the personal insult? Cos you're one annoying arse and I hope the khunts who run this ban me. I have a thesis to finish. It was either you or that other annoying prick who got it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davy-hay Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 2 hours ago, duncan II said: Cos you're one annoying arse and I hope the khunts who run this ban me. I have a thesis to finish. It was either you or that other annoying prick who got it. Nobody gives a flying fkk what you're doing in your shitey life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncan II Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 19 minutes ago, davy-hay said: Nobody gives a flying fkk what you're doing in your shitey life. Played! 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tartan Chris Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 It's on the BBC website I think. Can randomly remember the 2010 one in South Africa as McLeish f***ed off to Birmingham a few days later. Made sure he waited until he got his free holiday to South Africa first though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davy-hay Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 Looking forward to this. Hope it's England we get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted December 6, 2020 Author Share Posted December 6, 2020 15 minutes to go. Still can't see an obvious link to watch it at FIFA's website?... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 13 minutes ago, Toepoke said: 15 minutes to go. Still can't see an obvious link to watch it at FIFA's website?... I thought it was tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 We got England. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prideothenorth Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 3 minutes ago, Orraloon said: I thought it was tomorrow. So did I Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lairdyfaeinverclyde Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 It is tomorrow 5pm. Somebody on here is up to mischief. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 3 minutes ago, Orraloon said: We got England. Wales and Israel as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted December 6, 2020 Author Share Posted December 6, 2020 So it is... https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/uefa-preliminary-draw-for-fifa-world-cup-2022tm-seeded-teams-confirmed Back to doing the Sunday dinner then... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 Just now, Toepoke said: So it is... https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/uefa-preliminary-draw-for-fifa-world-cup-2022tm-seeded-teams-confirmed Back to doing the Sunday dinner then... You'd better not be a day out with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davy-hay Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 Tomorrow we draw England Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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