Official Seedings Thread

[zenokelly]

Austria are terrible I would not be worried by them at all.

I wouldn't be worried about any of the 4th seeds tbh

[Bungle]

Horror group

Holland (They have the players to destroy us in a way in which I don't think Italy or France would.I think Italy are a better team though)
Spain
US
Belgium (They're truly ****e at the moment but they've some outstanding young lads coming through.They'll be much improved in a years time)
Macedonia (Can't see us winning in Skopje)
Montenegro (Far better than any of the other fifth and sixth seeds.I'd expect them to be fourth seeds in no time.They could do a Slovenia if given the right group)

[RogerMilla]

bring on the israel , i say , and i hope we get a really tough group , its time we stood up and stopped hiding from teams. we need to start putting these teams to the sword at home and getting something on the road. and as for the swiss i hope we get in their group if we qualify for the euro champs , revenge would be sweet turfing them out of their own tournament.

[Stuttgart88]

its time we stood up and stopped hiding from teams

Music to my ears

[livehead1]

bring on the israel , i say , and i hope we get a really tough group , its time we stood up and stopped hiding from teams. we need to start putting these teams to the sword at home and getting something on the road. and as for the swiss i hope we get in their group if we qualify for the euro champs , revenge would be sweet turfing them out of their own tournament.

Hasn't done Scotland any harm

[Bungle]

I agree that we play far better against teams when we've nothing to lose. We either qulaify or nearly qualify when we're in really difficult groups and we always have a ****e campaign in the easier groups.

Would love to get Isreal as second seeds, but I suppose we'll have to play alot of these teams in the play offs anyway so it won't make too much of a difference.

[gspain]

Israel would be the ebst 2nd seeds. Decent improving side but very beatable. Fantastic away trip too.

[IsMiseSean]

Fantastic away trip too.

Couldn't agree more, I want an excuse to go back

[Metrostars]

Any chance we could fall to 4th seeds if Slovakia and/or Wales over take us by the end of this Euro 2008 campaign?

[pineapple stu]

No.

Wales are too far behind us. Slovakia might pass us out, but we should still end up third seeds. Three points from the last three games should confirm it.

[Schumi]

No.

Wales are too far behind us. Slovakia might pass us out

Wales and Cyprus are level with Slovakia and each have a game in hand.

[holidaysong]

Where can I find a list of the current seedings?

[pineapple stu]

This should be about right.

		Team	Played	Points	Played	Points	Avg Points
1	A	Germany			8	22	 2.750 
2	A	Holland	12	32	8	20	 2.600 
3	A	Croatia	10	24	9	23	 2.474 
4	A	Sweden	10	24	8	19	 2.389 
5	A	England	10	25	9	20	 2.368 
6	A	Italy	10	23	9	20	 2.263 
7	A	Romania	12	25	8	20	 2.250 
8	A	Czech	12	27	9	20	 2.238 
9	A	Poland	10	24	11	21	 2.143 
10	B	Portugl	12	30	10	17	 2.136 
11	B	France	10	20	9	19	 2.053 
11	B	Spain	10	20	9	19	 2.053 
13	B	Greece	12	21	8	19	 2.000 
13	B	Turkey	12	23	8	17	 2.000 
15	B	Russia	12	23	9	18	 1.952 
16	B	Serbia	10	22	10	16	 1.900 
16	B	Ukraine	12	25	8	13	 1.900 
18	B	Israel	10	18	9	17	 1.842 
18	C	Norway	10	18	9	17	 1.842 
20	C	Denmark	12	22	8	14	 1.800 
20	C	Switz.	10	18			 1.800 
22	C	Scotlnd	10	13	9	21	 1.789 
23	C	Bulgar.	10	15	9	18	 1.737 
24	C	Ireland	10	17	9	14	 1.632 
25	C	Slovak.	12	23	9	10	 1.571 
26	C	Bosnia	10	16	9	13	 1.526 
27	C	Finland	12	16	11	19	 1.522 
28	D	Austria	10	15			 1.500 
29	D	N.Irel	10	9	9	16	 1.316 
30	D	Hungary	10	14	9	9	 1.211 
31	D	Sloven.	10	12	9	10	 1.158 
32	D	Belgium	10	12	10	11	 1.150 
33	D	Albania	12	13	8	9	 1.100 
34	D	Lithua.	10	10	9	10	 1.053 
35	D	Latvia	12	15	8	6	 1.050 
36	D	Wales	10	8	8	10	 1.000 
37	E	Estonia	12	17	10	4	 0.955 
38	E	Belarus	10	10	9	7	 0.895 
39	E	Georgia	12	10	9	7	 0.810 
39	E	Maced.	12	9	9	8	 0.810 
41	E	Cyprus	10	4	8	10	 0.778 
42	E	Armenia	12	7	10	8	 0.682 
43	E	Iceland	10	4	9	8	 0.632 
44	E	Liecht.	12	8	9	4	 0.571 
45	E	Moldova	10	5	9	5	 0.526 
46	F	Malta	10	3	8	5	 0.444 
47	F	Azerb.	10	3	10	5	 0.400 
48	F	Kazakh.	12	1	10	7	 0.364 
49	F	Andorra	12	5	9	0	 0.238 
50	F	Faroes	10	1	9	0	 0.053 
51	F	Luxem.	12	0	9	0	 -   
51	F	Monten.	0	0	0	0	 -   
51	F	San M.	10	0	9	0	 -

Need three more points from the last three games to be assured of finishing ahead of Austria. Don't think anyone further below will jump past us at this stage, so third seed looks about assured at this stage.

[IsMiseSean]

A nice group would be
Czech's
Greece
Wales or latvia
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg

That last pot has some horror away trips, and i expect montengro to be a decent side so hopefully we can avoid them

[RogerMilla]

give me sweden , israel , austria , liechtenstein , malta ,

could we be that lucky ?

[RogerMilla]

dotn give me holland , spain , norn iron , georgia , kazakstan

[Cymro]

I'd rather the Czechs again as top seeds based on current form. And their best players will be past their peak in a couple of years time too.

As long as we avoid France and Spain from the second pot I'm not too bothered. They're all pretty decent sides but we could beat them on our day.

Hopefully Northern Ireland finish the group strongly as I'd love them as third seeds.

We are just about fourth seeds right now and 7 points from our next 3 matches should see us home there. If the unthinkable happens and we go down to pot 5, I'd take Austria from the fourth pot.

If we're 4th seeds, then Liechtenstein would be good from pot 5.

From pot 6 I'll be praying we avoid Borat's men and Montenegro, maybe Azerbaijan too. Anyone else is an excellent chance to get 6 points against.

[Bungle]

I'd rather the Czechs again as top seeds based on current form. And their best players will be past their peak in a couple of years time too.

As long as we avoid France and Spain from the second pot I'm not too bothered. They're all pretty decent sides but we could beat them on our day.

Hopefully Northern Ireland finish the group strongly as I'd love them as third seeds.

We are just about fourth seeds right now and 7 points from our next 3 matches should see us home there. If the unthinkable happens and we go down to pot 5, I'd take Austria from the fourth pot.

If we're 4th seeds, then Liechtenstein would be good from pot 5.

From pot 6 I'll be praying we avoid Borat's men and Montenegro, maybe Azerbaijan too. Anyone else is an excellent chance to get 6 points against.

The Czech u20 team got to the final of the World under 20 world cup where they played very well against a typically brilliant Argie side. Alot of those lads will be blooded in the next year or two and they'll have a top side again by the next world cup.

Fully agree about avoiding Kazakhstan, Armenia, Azerbijan and Montenegro. Absolute nightmare they would all be.

Would hate to get Wales again as fifth seeds. You have an intelligent manager and some excellent prospects like Bale and Gunter. I think your team will come on alot in the next 2-3 years.

[Jerry The Saint]

Just checking if I have this right - Delaney is claiming that moving from fourth seeds to third seeds under Staunton represents progress.

This sounds better than it is if the media don't point out that there will now be nine groups instead of seven.

We were seeded 25th of 52 country for the current Euro qualifiers. We started the current seedings in 22nd place (ie. We had the 22nd best points/game ratio from the last campaign only).

The latest rankings have us in 24th place.

The FAI spin is also making a big deal about being currently placed third, 6 points off qualification and out of contention 3 games early vs. finishing fourth, 3 points off the group winners but being in contention on the final day. Although they are putting themselves out on a limb by even saying this, given that we are closer to 6th than 2nd place right now. Possible exit clause for them, if Staunton fails to exceed our seeded position of fourth

[Bungle]

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/f...name_page.html

This seems to suggest that Fifa rankings may influence the seeding for the next world cup. Either way, I guess we'll know by today or tomorrow where we stand.