Toepoke Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Saw some of the footage from Hampden when England came out the hat, one guy may have been Bonny78 going by his reaction... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caledonian Craig Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 , one guy may have been Bonny78 going by his reaction... I don't want to know what he was doing. I DO NOT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
86glebestreet Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 London Underground are planning a strike but won't announce the date until fixtures are announced tomorrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Just thinking...this could be shitey. We might have to cheer England on at some point if we need them to beat someone for us. Last time that happened didn't end too well for us. I was happy to cheer on england at Euro 96 and to be fair they did the business unlike us..... We should have thrown men forward to get another but broon wanted to make safe what we had.... And most English guys I knew wanted us to go through ahead of the dutch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonzo Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 (edited) England always get an easy group so let's make this wan hard fur them.but these games ur o,er a year away we've got mair pressin engagements tae think aboot Edited July 25, 2015 by bonzo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giblet Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 England Slovakia Scotland Slovenia Latvia Kazakhstan I'd take that Pretty close! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radian_13 Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Group A what s disaster for them haha! We got a decent group could have been a lot worse:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintlyscot Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Good draw for us. I think we will be extemely competitive in that group. Groups A and I are hellish diffucult. Easy travelling for us an aw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotlad Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 (edited) Could have been worse. It won't be easy but we ought to capable of beating Lithuania and Malta home and away, as well as taking four points from Slovakia and Slovenia. It is a shame we drew England though. Aside from the sideshow that will accompany our games against them, in recent years they have breezed through the qualifiers. Their squad is young and improving and I can see them beating us home and away. A lot of our better players are ageing. Hopefully some of our promising younger players - like Stuart Armstrong, James Forrest, Ryan Gauld, Tony Watt - can make the step up. Edited July 25, 2015 by scotlad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Pretty remarkable that it's taken til 2018 to draw England in a qualifying group. Slovakia another first for us, not too many left unplayed now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tartanpar Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 Pretty remarkable that it's taken til 2018 to draw England in a qualifying group. Slovakia another first for us, not too many left unplayed now... Andorra, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Albania, Kazakhstan and Montenegro will be the only UEFA teams left for us to play after we play Slovakia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 Andorra, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Albania, Kazakhstan and Montenegro will be the only UEFA teams left for us to play after we play Slovakia. Unbelievably we've never had competitive games against Hungary and Turkey either... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewelk Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 Meant to be a bunch of football fans on here yet some still believe we'll spank Slovakia because it's a perceived 'eastern european diddy country'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bino's Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 Meant to be a bunch of football fans on here yet some still believe we'll spank Slovakia because it's a perceived 'eastern european diddy country'. we wont spank them but we can beat them at home and draw away which will do fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 Meant to be a bunch of football fans on here yet some still believe we'll spank Slovakia because it's a perceived 'eastern european diddy country'. Agreed that's a tough trip. We've actually played a couple of qualifiers in Bratislava before (v Czechoslovakia) and lost both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caledonian Craig Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 I am not saying we'll spank Slovakia but are they any better than Croatia? In our last campaign we beat Croatia home and away and that is the positive mindset we have to take into these kind of matches. Besides it could have been worse in that we could have had France or Italy from the second seeds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 Aye, if we had made Pot2 and pulled Slovakia from Pot3 we wouldn't have been too disappointed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caledonian Craig Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 Aye, if we had made Pot2 and pulled Slovakia from Pot3 we wouldn't have been too disappointed... Exactly so lets not go making mountains out of molehills (not you Toepoke but others). The way I see it is that England will be ruthless against the other teams in the group so that can surely only help us. Their strength is in qualifying but like Ian Rush pointed out their problems come in finals. I see England beating most teams in our group soundly so as long as we take care of our side of the fixtures then a play-off spot is a real possibility. Agreed I'd sooner have done without all the crap that goes with England/Scotland fixture but I'd sooner take them than Holland, Germany and Spain so beggars can't be choosers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 Slovakia 6 wins out of 6 in Euro qualifying. With wins over Spain and Ukraine. Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Away wins in Ukraine, Belarus and macedonia. There are no mugs. They are in pot 2 on merit. I'm with you, this might not be as easy as some folk seen to be thinking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PASTA Mick Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 Away wins in Ukraine, Belarus and macedonia. There are no mugs. They are in pot 2 on merit. I'm with you, this might not be as easy as some folk seen to be thinking. I don't think anyone has said it will be easy. It's simply a better team for us than France or Italy would have been. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 Pretty remarkable that it's taken til 2018 to draw England in a qualifying group. Slovakia another first for us, not too many left unplayed now... We were in the same group as England for the 1968 EC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caledonian Craig Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 Away wins in Ukraine, Belarus and macedonia. There are no mugs. They are in pot 2 on merit. I'm with you, this might not be as easy as some folk seen to be thinking. I haven't seen anyone saying it would be easy. Heck no groups are easy for us now hence we haven't qualified since 1998 but give me England over Germany, Spain and Holland (from Pot 1) and Slovakia over Italy, France and Czech Republic (from Pot 2). From Pot 4 we could have got Norway, Ireland, Montenegro or Turkey but I am glad we got Slovenia. Also from Pot 6 we avoided Georgia, Kazakhstan and Luxembourg so lets not go complaining or moaning about the draw we got. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonny78 Posted July 26, 2015 Author Share Posted July 26, 2015 i telt ya we'd get engerland. bring it on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caledonian Craig Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 i telt ya we'd get engerland. bring it on If we finish below England you'll never hear the end of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonny78 Posted July 26, 2015 Author Share Posted July 26, 2015 we won't we'll be top Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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