How depressing is the seeding news?

**Uncle_Joe** · 29/09/2009, 5:01 PM

wow. I could have run with that for months. Cheers Schumi

**OneForTheFuture** · 29/09/2009, 5:10 PM

Tis in the Star today about the liklyhood of this happening to ensure the powerful nations travel to SA

**galwayjames** · 29/09/2009, 5:20 PM

I think we would have a good chance against Germany. In our worst qualifying campaign for 20 years, we drew & only lost 1-0 to Germany. We've got better & Germany have got worse. I think we would lose to Portugal, but I think we could have a chance with france. Until it's confirmed though I hope we get an easy draw.

**shakermaker1982** · 29/09/2009, 5:47 PM

I opened this thread fearing the worst. They won't announce anything until they see how Germany fares in Russia and whether the tanned Ronaldo and his buddies will be needing a nice play off draw.

**Murfinator** · 29/09/2009, 5:58 PM

Germany won't be in the play-offs for a start, they've been top and gone unbeaten all campaign, don't see that changing.

France and Portugal are in dire form, there's no reason we should fear them because of reputation.

**irishbaz** · 29/09/2009, 6:58 PM

To be honest I think its a disgrace we have fantastic support and have fought to finish in second place this should be an even playiing field full stop as everyone is second are there on there merits you just cant announce that now it is an absolute joke in my opinion!! Making sure the so called bigger teams qualify is a cop out if they were that good they would finish first its a discrimiantory approach. Well done UEFA a bunch of clowns

**Lenny82** · 29/09/2009, 7:13 PM

Still no concrete evidence of this. There is no way they could do it at this late stage. They will just fix the draw instead so hopefully, we beat France, Slovenia beat Portugal and Latvia beat Germany and sicken the cheating f*ckers!!!

**philliyk** · 29/09/2009, 7:26 PM

Since some fans have put this on the internet without official confirmation(not that i'm not saying it won't be forecoming) but since drawing with Bulgaria back in March why is no-one asking why no one from the FAI have lobbyed FIFA or UEFA for a definate decision as it was always on the cards we would finish second if we failed to win all remaining games after that match?? As a member of the organisation's(UEFA+FIFA) you would think they would at least enquire & publish an answer for the fans - i'll bet if it was the english or italians in Eire's position(possibly being in a 2nd pot) they would have a definate answer long ago

**geysir** · 29/09/2009, 8:15 PM

Originally Posted by irishbaz

To be honest I think its a disgrace we have fantastic support and have fought to finish in second place this should be an even playiing field full stop as everyone is second are there on there merits you just cant announce that now it is an absolute joke in my opinion!! Making sure the so called bigger teams qualify is a cop out if they were that good they would finish first its a discrimiantory approach. Well done UEFA a bunch of clowns

I think it a disgrace too but I never go to the bother of reading a thread, never question what's written in a post, never try to understand the relevance of what's written in a post, never look for a supporting link to the main story and always believe any old nonsense, what's your excuse?

**Qwerty** · 29/09/2009, 10:31 PM

The evil crony Sepp Blatter strikes again.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2...d-sepp-blatter

"We have decided on seeding the teams into two groups of four, taking the Fifa world rankings into account, with the top four in one pot and the others in another pot," Blatter said. "There will be a separate draw to decide home and away," he added of the two-leg ties to determine four European places at the 2010 finals in South Africa.

I'm going to vote no to Lisbon, it doesn't make sense but I'll feel better

**Colbert Report** · 29/09/2009, 10:46 PM

the procedure for the draw of the play-offs in the European zone, scheduled on 19 October in Zurich, was approved. Teams will be seeded on the basis of the next FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking which will be published on 16 October. A draw will also be conducted to determine the home teams for the first legs

**Noelys Guitar** · 29/09/2009, 10:57 PM

Disgraceful making a decision like that now. I always feel this impacts referees decisions as well. **** them. I don't care who we get anyway as I feel we are better suited against a team that will attack us.

**MeathDrog** · 29/09/2009, 11:04 PM

Needless to say, but this should have been clarified well before the Group started.

FIFA will always suit themselves, and never have the real interests of football at heart. Whatever decision or method they use, it's just to make sure that the teams they want to go to SA do so as smoothly as possible.

FIFA/UEFA - Full of sh*t.

**irishfan86** · 29/09/2009, 11:15 PM

Originally Posted by MeathDrog

Needless to say, but this should have been clarified well before the Group started.

FIFA will always suit themselves, and never have the real interests of football at heart. Whatever decision or method they use, it's just to make sure that the teams they want to go to SA do so as smoothly as possible.

FIFA/UEFA - Full of sh*t.

What exactly are "the real interests of football?" Some would say having the best teams at the major tournaments is in the best interests.

If we can't beat another second placed team, regardless of their reputation, we don't deserve to be in South Africa.

**NeilMcD** · 29/09/2009, 11:29 PM

http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/federa...ns+reached+rio

**EastTerracer** · 29/09/2009, 11:33 PM

FIFA did announce the seeding plan at their executive meeting in Rio today.

http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/federa...d=1109930.html

However, depending on how the groups finish up there might still be a slim chance that we might be one of the four seeded teams.

Sweden, Latvia, Slovenia, Bosnia are all still in the running for 2nd place and we are currently ranked above all of these teams. Two wins could be very important to us as it would improve our ranking and maybe sneak us into one of the top 4 seeds.

However, with Portugal, Czech Rep, Turkey and Greece also in the running for those groups we could also be well down the list. Of the current 2nd place teams Greece would be seeded at the moment along with Russia, Croatia and France.

**irishultra** · 30/09/2009, 12:05 AM

Originally Posted by galwayjames

I think we would have a good chance against Germany. In our worst qualifying campaign for 20 years, we drew & only lost 1-0 to Germany. We've got better & Germany have got worse. I think we would lose to Portugal, but I think we could have a chance with france. Until it's confirmed though I hope we get an easy draw.

bit of a clich�. the german team is getting good. its starting to look like they might have a few proper individually talented youngsters. maby the best individuals they have had for years.