World Cup draw

[DeNiro]

I'd take the Czechs again. Greece as well. I've a feeling we'll get England. Scotland would be a good draw.

[Red&White Rover]

Greece
Scotland
Republic of Ireland
Moldova
Austria
Andorra

would be the ideal one IMO.

[Fergie's Son]

Anyone know if the draw will be online or not? Not being shown here in the US on live TV.

[zenokelly]

http://www.rte.ie/sport/
you will see the link to the draw page. I don't know if the same is in the US

[Fergie's Son]

http://www.rte.ie/sport/
you will see the link to the draw page. I don't know if the same is in the US

ROI only. Perhaps FIFA might have it.

[eekers]

yep fifa have it

http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/prelimi...%20with%20fifa

european draw will be about an hour into it as the other regions are being drawn first

the draw format:

Top seeds - Pot A; Bottom seeds - Pot F
The teams in Pot F are placed in position 6 (of Groups 1 to 8);
the teams in Pod E in position 5;
etc
the teams in Pot A in position 1.

Groups are filled starting with Group 1 and ending with Group 9

[tetsujin1979]

Praise Jesus:
Czech Republic
Bulgaria
Republic of Ireland
Moldova
Kazakhstan/Azerbaijan
Faroe Islands

Why do you mock me, O Lord?
Italy
Turkey/Sweden
Republic of Ireland
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Georgia
Estonia

[eekers]

a lot of people fancy the bulgarians
they only lost one game in qualifying for euro2008 (away to holland) and got 25 points
their record is scary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgari..._football_team

[dodgycanadian]

ya bulgaria seems to be a team on a rise, definately wouldnt fancy them...

[HolylandsMan]

Pot A
Italy
Spain
Germany
Czech Republic
France
Portugal
Netherlands
Croatia
Greece

Pot B
England
Romania
Scotland
Turkey
Bulgaria
Russia
Poland
Sweden
Israel

Pot C
Norway
Ukraine
Serbia
Denmark
Northern Ireland
Republic of Ireland
Finland
Switzerland
Belgium

Pot D
Slovakia
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Hungary
Moldova
Wales
FYR Macedonia
Belarus
Lithuania
Cyprus

Pot E
Georgia
Albania
Slovenia
Latvia
Iceland
Armenia
Austria
Kazakhstan
Azerbaijan

Pot F
Liechtenstein
Estonia
Malta
Luxembourg
Montenegro
Andorra
Faroe Islands
San Marino

Football wise

Greece
Scotland
Cyprus
Azerbijan
Andorra

Trip wise

Spain
Andorra (for the double header week away)
England
Wales (for another double header week away)
Riga (cos we need one Eastern European outpost with cheap booze!)


Nightmare

Italy
England
Bosnia
Albania
Montenegro

[Bungle]

Unless you mean away games!!

I meant to say in competitive games!

[SUB of the day]

Draw not in any TV listings for Sunday, tried all SKY BBC ITV RTE EUROSPORT........nothin....whats the story?

[eirebhoy]

Draw not in any TV listings for Sunday

It's on ITV, BBC (Red Button) and of course SSN.

[backstothewall]

Want

Greece
Israel
Ireland
Hungary
Azerbaijan
Luxembourg

Don't Want

Germany
England
Ireland
Bosnia
Albania
Montenegro

I don't like the look of Pot E at all. theres a lot of difficult trips and horrible hotels in there. Austra or Iceland wouldn't be a bad draw, there are no great draws and no easy games in there

[SuperDave]

Draw not in any TV listings for Sunday, tried all SKY BBC ITV RTE EUROSPORT........nothin....whats the story?

live streaming on fifa.com

[mypost]

Want

Greece

Can't understand why people want Greece. These are the current Euro champs, who have once again finished top of their qualifying group. As hard as Croatia, and Portugal imo.

Alternatively, if people want "emergency sun"....

[Stuttgart88]

Can't understand why people want Greece. These are the current Euro champs, who have once again finished top of their qualifying group. As hard as Croatia, and Portugal imo.

Alternatively, if people want "emergency sun"....

greece got 31 points too. Why do people want Bulgaria too? The fewer Eastern Yurp teams the better.

[eekers]

Czechs and the Israelis (difficult trip but 3 points at home)

[Noelys Guitar]

No matter who we end up with it will be dubbed the Group of Death by the press. I want the best team of the first seeds. Don't care who we get of the 2nd seeds. And the toughest of 4/5/6/7. I want a scrap for the 2 spots. No underestimating of teams.

[SuperDave]

No matter who we end up with it will be dubbed the Group of Death by the press. I want the best team of the first seeds. Don't care who we get of the 2nd seeds. And the toughest of 4/5/6/7. I want a scrap for the 2 spots. No underestimating of teams.

yeah, a strong fourth seed who have a great home record is good for the group, in that they might take some points off the top two seeds as well as us (cos no matter who they are, for us to get three points away from home to them would be an achievement).

but don't forget in 2002 everyone outside the top three seeds lost to the top three seeds home and away. and in the 2006 campaign the same was true of the 5th and 6th seeds. so we'd want hardass fourth seeds, but fifth (and sixth) seeds we will beat home and away.