QuoteBosnia got Greece, Turkey and Norway. That would have been better than what we got, but beggars can't be choosers.
NI got Sweden, Spain and Denmark.
Not too pleased.
Don't see how it could be much tougher aside from swapping an already handy slovakia for Ukraine.
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Bosnia got Greece, Turkey and Norway. That would have been better than what we got, but beggars can't be choosers.
NI got Sweden, Spain and Denmark.
Couldve being alot worse, poor Scotland, Greeces group is by far the easiest.
Originally Posted by OwlsFan
It does Italy France and Ukraine is far far harder
To be honest I said it the other day the Czechs have a good few players retiring after the next world cup so no nedved, Poborsky Koller and a couple of others.
Germany are average compared teo the really top teams and I think we should play them early on in Germany and catch them after the World Cup. I think we should play them in their first qualifying game in over 2 years.
I must say considering we were 4th seeds we got a great group and it its fantastic to travel too, not one hard trip and some great cities.
In Trap we trust
So we're going to Germany afterall
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
you gotta feel for scotland. up and coming team with some good young players. and then that! not a terrible draw for us. a bad world cup for germany at home and their confidance wont be too great...anyone know anything bout slovakia?
And tell me exactly how many tournaments Germany have never qualified for ?
Travel - amazing. The Millennium Stadium etc etc
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
Match dates
September 2 - 6, 2006
October 7 - 11, 2006
March 24 - 28, 2007
June 2-6, 2007
September 8-10, 2007
October 13-17, 2007
November 17- 21, 2007
Wales in Croker would be some day out - celtic connections etc!! As would Germany or Czech Rep. but to a slightly lesser extent.....
"Inflatable hammers and Leprechaun suits, & a chorus of "Here we go" or Olé, Olé"....
Never mind traveling and Millennium Stadium we've got Croke Park
Greece and Turkey in group C together should be fun to watch...
Draw could have been worse look at poor Scotland...
You can never write off the Germans!!!
The only other groups I'd prefer to be in are C and G - so I'd say we have the third easiest group. Coming from 4th seeds I'd have taken that before the draw. The Czechs are class, but I don't fancy Germany as hot favourites over us, their recent results are ropey.
I think Wales will be tricky.
Don't know much about Slovakia...
Great to have Big Teams Coming to Fortress BogBall and with the Czech Population in Ireland the atmosphere will be electric and some of us non-suit wearing fans might actually get tickets
really looking forward to this now, any one know have we got the biggest stadium in the group, I thinks we do as it's the fifth biggest in europe
Pretty easy to see what games we will be playing in Croker. It will have to be Germany, Czech Rep and Wales in 2007. They are the only games where you will sell 70,000 and the FAI need to sell it out. Lets face it, realistically speaking, the FAIs main motivation in this campaign will be financial. Qualification will be a bonus.
Playing the big guns away early in the group is our only hope of catching them in a world cup hangover. No point in saving the minnows for 2007 in Croker. Might be better to play them later when qualification will come to crunch time.
Who is this guy, Trapper Tony?
cascarino's delighted with the trip to cyprus ... great weather, good drinking, the craic ... oh and there's a football match as well
"Inflatable hammers and Leprechaun suits, & a chorus of "Here we go" or Olé, Olé"....
Well we are going to be playing this german team and not the teams that qualified for the last 20 tournaments or whatever. I saw scotland play them not too long ago and saw them in the Confederations and they are not great. We also played germany in 2002 and totally outplayed them. They are not the force they were.
In Trap we trust
Agree entirely.....BRING IT ON!!!
I think there are 90 days for fixtures to be agreed in the group.
"Inflatable hammers and Leprechaun suits, & a chorus of "Here we go" or Olé, Olé"....
overall not too bad, remember we were 4th seeds, good trips and some decent teams to see as well. Also expect a few to take points of each other, nothing for us to fear. Hope spring eternal with me anyway
I think Slovakia might do a Latvia who nose-dived in form after Euro 2004. They don't appear to have any better players coming through than what they have now and I think some of their best players are near retirement so we might get them at a good time.
Germany, though, have some good players in their under age teams at the moment and they might be ready in the later stages of the qualifiers, the Czechs will lose at least three of their top players and their manager but they, too, have some nifty under age players coming through.
Wales will be a real bugger of a tie but the vibes coming from the camp is that lots of their players are less than enamoured with Toshack and his methods so that might help us a bit. Will still be a dogfight though.
The Czechs and Germany will take points off one another too.
Cyprus surely will not be as much a problem this time as Staunton will take good lessons from the World Cup qualifiers and all the hassles that attended the second game in particular.
Will San Marino play in Bologna or in that little ground where they played Scotland??? Was it in Bologna they played England where they scored that early goal.
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