World Cup Draw

[fox58]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/9551624.stm

Group H ENGLAND, Montenegro, Ukraine, Poland, Moldova, S Marino


Jocks n Taffs drawn together, both Republic and Northern Ireland face tough games

 

[lanxfox jnr]

Easy group IMO, we should qualify, but as we're England we'll finish last

 

[jb5000]

Remember last time we were in the same qualifying group as San Marino?

 

[Mawsley]

Wales manager Gary Speed said: "It's obviously a tough draw. It's a really tough group, but it could have been worse. There are no weak teams in the group. It's one of those groups where everyone can beat anyone."

I want 2lbs of the drugs that Speed is on.

 

[MidlandsFox]

I want 2lbs of the drugs that Speed is on.

He's not gonna be honest and say "we're gonna get hammered in every game, like we did against England at home, and not qualify for another tournament, and I'll probably get sacked being the shite manager I am and end up managing a team struggling in League One" is he?

 

[Graz]

Looking at the rest of the draw, we seem to have by far got the easiest group.

Spain and France in the same group, and it's the small group... not sure if that effects them both qualifying?

 

[pork pie fox]

Looking at the rest of the draw, we seem to have by far got the easiest group.

Spain and France in the same group, and it's the small group... not sure if that effects them both qualifying?

No it doesn't affect them Graz. There are 9 groups and the 8 best runners up go into 4 play-offs for the 4 remaining spaces. These 8 teams are calculated based on their games against the teams finishing 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th in their groups so as not to disadvantage teams in the smaller group.

 

[glyn]

Given that we (Wales) were a bottom seed I'm fairly happy with the draw. Unlikely to qualify, but with a bit of form we could take points off most of those teams.

 

[Miles Away]

I've gone so far beyond caring about this England side. It will take an almighty sea change for me to get excited about them again.

Easy group, which we will walk before shitting ourselves in the group stage, limping through and then getting the piss taken out of us by, oh I don't know, let's say Sweden in the knockout rounds.

Yawn.