Orraloon Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 15 hours ago, Caledonian Craig said: Right I think this is how the seeding pots will look now that the Nations League fixtures are complete:- POT 1 Croatia Denmark Spain Portugal Italy Hungary Netherlands Belgium Switzerland Poland POT 2 England Wales France SCOTLAND Bosnia H. Israel Serbia Austria Czech Republic Finland POT 3 Iceland Sweden Romania Republic of Ireland Slovenia Albania Montenegro Armenia Ukraine Norway POT 4 Georgia Greece Turkey Kazhakstan Luxembourg Azerbaijan Kosovo Bulgaria Faroe Islands North Macedonia POT 5 Slovakia Northern Ireland Cyprus Belarus Lithuania Gibraltar Estonia Latvia Moldova Malta POT 6 Andorra San Marino Liechtenstein I think I would prefer to avoid Sweden, Norway and Ukraine from Pot 3 and Turkey and Kazakhstan from Pot 4. Apart from that I'm not too fussy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Pete Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 16 hours ago, Hendricks said: We could draw Hungary as our Pot 1 seed in the Euro draw next week too. We could but we might not play them until next June. Their good run of form could also be over by then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Pete Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 8 hours ago, Tartan Chris said: Euro 2008 qualifiers smashed them first game 6-0, felt like every attack was a goal. Then away game was reasonably comfortable IIRC. Rather have that than having to trek to Kazakhstan again. Georgia are improving and that is pretty bogey away trip for this nation. North Macedonia also lurking in pot 4 and qualifying for a euros is very realistic for them these days as they proved last time. Interesting that you chose to go back 15 years instead of looking at the away game last year where we struggled to a 0-1 win. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErsatzThistle Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 (edited) 5 minutes ago, Texas Pete said: Interesting that you chose to go back 15 years instead of looking at the away game last year where we struggled to a 0-1 win. Our players looked uncomfortable on that bouncy plastic pitch of theirs. I think they'd have preferred that old muddy field where we played them in previous games under Brown, Vogts and McLeish. Edited September 28, 2022 by ErsatzThistle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Pete Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 1 hour ago, ErsatzThistle said: Our players looked uncomfortable on that bouncy plastic pitch of theirs. I think they'd have preferred that old muddy field where we played them in previous games under Brown, Vogts and McLeish. Plastic pitches shouldn’t be allowed in international football. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceudmilefailte Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 1 hour ago, Texas Pete said: Plastic pitches shouldn’t be allowed in international football. Shouldn't be allowed in club football outside of Iceland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Pete Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 4 minutes ago, ceudmilefailte said: Shouldn't be allowed in club football outside of Iceland. Top flight clubs aye. I can understand lower league clubs using artificial surfaces. I don’t even think Icelandic top flight clubs have an excuse as their national stadium has a grass surface. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caledonian Craig Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 We should maybe look to avoid being drawn in Groups A, B, C or D. That will contain the four seeds who are through to the Nations League semi-finals - Italy, Spain, Netherlands and Croatia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romanticscot Posted September 30, 2022 Author Share Posted September 30, 2022 4 minutes ago, Caledonian Craig said: We should maybe look to avoid being drawn in Groups A, B, C or D. That will contain the four seeds who are through to the Nations League semi-finals - Italy, Spain, Netherlands and Croatia. For me, I want a reliable top seed who will thrash everyone else, I think I am more focused on who comes from pot 3. Normally I'd want Belgium but for some reason I think they are on a slide, that might be ignorance of their current squad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caledonian Craig Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 6 minutes ago, romanticscot said: For me, I want a reliable top seed who will thrash everyone else, I think I am more focused on who comes from pot 3. Normally I'd want Belgium but for some reason I think they are on a slide, that might be ignorance of their current squad. Yes...point taken. I'd say Belgium are ones who come closest to a team likely to walk away with a group. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supersub Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 Ideally I'd go with Switzerland, Armenia, Faroes, Gibraltar and Andorra Some dangerous looking sides in pots beneath us who I'd like to avoid i.e Norway, Sweden, Turkey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caledonian Craig Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 42 minutes ago, supersub said: Ideally I'd go with Switzerland, Armenia, Faroes, Gibraltar and Andorra Some dangerous looking sides in pots beneath us who I'd like to avoid i.e Norway, Sweden, Turkey. Yes but Faroe Islands are no mugs now either. We toiled to win 1-0 against them with a late goal just last year and last week they beat Turkey. From Pot 4 I would much sooner take Azerbaijan, Kosovo or even Luxembourg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Pete Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 2 hours ago, Caledonian Craig said: Yes but Faroe Islands are no mugs now either. We toiled to win 1-0 against them with a late goal just last year and last week they beat Turkey. From Pot 4 I would much sooner take Azerbaijan, Kosovo or even Luxembourg. Luxembourg and Kosovo have had some decent results recently as well. Whichever pot 4 team we get won’t be easy. I just hope we avoid Slovakia. What a pot 5 team that would be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 39 minutes ago, Texas Pete said: Luxembourg and Kosovo have had some decent results recently as well. Whichever pot 4 team we get won’t be easy. I just hope we avoid Slovakia. What a pot 5 team that would be. I haven't seen them, but they must pretty shit at the moment. They lost at home to Azerbaijan and lost home and away to Kazakhstan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Pete Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 19 minutes ago, Orraloon said: I haven't seen them, but they must pretty shit at the moment. They lost at home to Azerbaijan and lost home and away to Kazakhstan. They obviously can’t be great but they could get their act together in the next 6 months. I’d rather have Gibraltar from pot 5 as we know they’ll definitely be shite next year. Remember when we got Wales from pot 6? Or was it 5? Can’t remember but it didn’t work out too well for us Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotlad Posted October 1, 2022 Share Posted October 1, 2022 18 hours ago, Texas Pete said: They obviously can’t be great but they could get their act together in the next 6 months. I’d rather have Gibraltar from pot 5 as we know they’ll definitely be shite next year. Remember when we got Wales from pot 6? Or was it 5? Can’t remember but it didn’t work out too well for us I think it was pot 5. We got Macedonia from pot 6 and Belgium from pot 3 in the same group (World Cup 2014 qualifiers). Nae wonder we struggled! 🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caledonian Craig Posted October 1, 2022 Share Posted October 1, 2022 19 minutes ago, scotlad said: I think it was pot 5. We got Macedonia from pot 6 and Belgium from pot 3 in the same group (World Cup 2014 qualifiers). Nae wonder we struggled! 🤣 I didn't help that we had a much weaker squad back then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted October 1, 2022 Share Posted October 1, 2022 31 minutes ago, scotlad said: I think it was pot 5. We got Macedonia from pot 6 and Belgium from pot 3 in the same group (World Cup 2014 qualifiers). Nae wonder we struggled! 🤣 Wales were the pot 6 team when they beat us home and away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotlad Posted October 1, 2022 Share Posted October 1, 2022 3 hours ago, Caledonian Craig said: I didn't help that we had a much weaker squad back then. Indeed. To be honest though, I wouldn't fancy our chances of finishing much higher in a group featuring those teams now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotlad Posted October 1, 2022 Share Posted October 1, 2022 3 hours ago, Orraloon said: Wales were the pot 6 team when they beat us home and away. You might well be right. It was a stinker of a group, that's for sure. Possibly the hardest I've ever known us have! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted October 1, 2022 Share Posted October 1, 2022 38 minutes ago, scotlad said: You might well be right. It was a stinker of a group, that's for sure. Possibly the hardest I've ever known us have! It wasn't really. We were just shit. Wales were still shit at that time even though they beat us twice. Macedonia weren't really up to much. We beat Croatia home and away but it was too late by then. Belgium were the only really good team in that group and even they weren't at their peak yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted October 1, 2022 Share Posted October 1, 2022 8 hours ago, Orraloon said: Wales were the pot 6 team when they beat us home and away. 4 hours ago, scotlad said: You might well be right. It was a stinker of a group, that's for sure. Possibly the hardest I've ever known us have! We had the most Scotland campaign ever, beating the top seeds home and away, yet losing to the bottom seeds twice. I doubt that feat has ever been matched! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calum83 Posted October 1, 2022 Share Posted October 1, 2022 seeding doesnt mean that much some teams drop down a pot after a bad campaign then get better again. i want spain and andorra in the group and make it double away header. as for the rest im happy with anyone always a bounce where ever we go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auchinyell Sox Change Posted October 2, 2022 Share Posted October 2, 2022 5 hours ago, calum83 said: seeding doesnt mean that much some teams drop down a pot after a bad campaign then get better again. i want spain and andorra in the group and make it double away header. as for the rest im happy with anyone always a bounce where ever we go Kind of sums up how we ll happily put up with crap as long as theres a good time on offer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ger intae them Posted October 2, 2022 Share Posted October 2, 2022 3 hours ago, Auchinyell Sox Change said: Kind of sums up how we ll happily put up with crap as long as theres a good time on offer Ah put a smile on your fizzer….. if life’s not about a good laugh what is it about. (cue the usual happy clapper blah blah) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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