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Title: Why do Scotland always play the same teams? Post by: Sark79 on September 08, 2007, 08:20:57 AM I am not a massive football fan, it is ok, but I would not threaten a taxi driver to put his foot down so I could get back in time to catch the beggining of a game.
I think Nemesis answered this for me before, however I can't find the PM. Why is that Scotland always seem to play Latvia, Iceland, Lithuania and the Faroe Islands at football? Does this have something to do with rankings or are we very, very lucky in the draw? Title: Re: Why do Scotland always play the same teams? Post by: Ironside on September 08, 2007, 04:44:34 PM i dont care about the draw but that 3rd goal would of graced any game
Title: Re: Why do Scotland always play the same teams? Post by: matt674 on September 08, 2007, 05:09:12 PM I am not a massive football fan, it is ok, but I would not threaten a taxi driver to put his foot down so I could get back in time to catch the beggining of a game. I think Nemesis answered this for me before, however I can't find the PM. Why is that Scotland always seem to play Latvia, Iceland, Lithuania and the Faroe Islands at football? Does this have something to do with rankings or are we very, very lucky in the draw? they want to try and give teams like latvia, iceland, lithuania and the faroe islands an outside chance of being able to qualify for their first big championships......... Title: Re: Why do Scotland always play the same teams? Post by: Ironside on September 08, 2007, 05:11:17 PM I am not a massive football fan, it is ok, but I would not threaten a taxi driver to put his foot down so I could get back in time to catch the beggining of a game. I think Nemesis answered this for me before, however I can't find the PM. Why is that Scotland always seem to play Latvia, Iceland, Lithuania and the Faroe Islands at football? Does this have something to do with rankings or are we very, very lucky in the draw? they want to try and give teams like latvia, iceland, lithuania and the faroe islands an outside chance of being able to qualify for their first big championships......... 2-1 isreal? Title: Re: Why do Scotland always play the same teams? Post by: TightEnd on September 08, 2007, 07:47:29 PM I am not a massive football fan, it is ok, but I would not threaten a taxi driver to put his foot down so I could get back in time to catch the beggining of a game. I think Nemesis answered this for me before, however I can't find the PM. Why is that Scotland always seem to play Latvia, Iceland, Lithuania and the Faroe Islands at football? Does this have something to do with rankings or are we very, very lucky in the draw? random draws aren't they? there was a stage where we drew Poland in five successive qualifying groups and had long runs of Moldova and Austria too Title: Re: Why do Scotland always play the same teams? Post by: matt674 on September 08, 2007, 08:47:09 PM random draws aren't they? there was a stage where we drew Poland in five successive qualifying groups and had long runs of Moldova and Austria too not completely - the nations are still seeded before the draw is made Title: Re: Why do Scotland always play the same teams? Post by: matt674 on September 08, 2007, 08:51:13 PM 2-1 isreal? So long as we beat Slovakia i don't really care about the result at wembley ;) Title: Re: Why do Scotland always play the same teams? Post by: TightEnd on September 08, 2007, 09:24:23 PM random draws aren't they? there was a stage where we drew Poland in five successive qualifying groups and had long runs of Moldova and Austria too not completely - the nations are still seeded before the draw is made of course, random draws once the seeding groups done I meant lol Title: Re: Why do Scotland always play the same teams? Post by: Longy on September 08, 2007, 09:35:26 PM Yeah the number of time England have played Poland in the recent past is remarkable.
We were drawn together in the 86 world cup and then qualifying for major championships in 90,92,94,98,00 and 06. Seeding does drive some factors, how the hell did France and Italy end up in the same group, are Italy in the 2nd seeds for this? Title: Re: Why do Scotland always play the same teams? Post by: thetank on September 08, 2007, 09:37:04 PM or are we very, very lucky in the draw? Eh? (http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2006/07/11/zidane_narrowweb__300x375,0.jpg) Title: Re: Why do Scotland always play the same teams? Post by: matt674 on September 08, 2007, 09:41:44 PM Seeding does drive some factors, how the hell did France and Italy end up in the same group, are Italy in the 2nd seeds for this? Yes, Greece as champions automatically got placed in top group to try give them the easiest possible draw Pool 1: Greece, Netherlands, Portugal, England, Czech Republic, France & Sweden Pool 2: Germany, Croatia, Italy, Turkey, Poland, Spain & Romania Title: Re: Why do Scotland always play the same teams? Post by: Ironside on September 08, 2007, 09:46:16 PM scotlands group at time of the draw had 3 teams in the worlds top 10 in it scotland wont quailfy but to still be in with a shout with 4 games to go is unbelievable
what people forget is although we are in ther fighting we have to play 3 MUCH better teams in out last 4 games Title: Re: Why do Scotland always play the same teams? Post by: Sark79 on September 08, 2007, 11:32:51 PM or are we very, very lucky in the draw? Eh? (http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2006/07/11/zidane_narrowweb__300x375,0.jpg) They are poor teams compared to some of the others Title: Re: Why do Scotland always play the same teams? Post by: scottm on September 08, 2007, 11:52:16 PM I am not a massive football fan, it is ok, but I would not threaten a taxi driver to put his foot down so I could get back in time to catch the beggining of a game. I think Nemesis answered this for me before, however I can't find the PM. Why is that Scotland always seem to play Latvia, Iceland, Lithuania and the Faroe Islands at football? Does this have something to do with rankings or are we very, very lucky in the draw? they want to try and give teams like latvia, iceland, lithuania and the faroe islands an outside chance of being able to qualify for their first big championships......... Neverends 8) Title: Re: Why do Scotland always play the same teams? Post by: thetank on September 09, 2007, 12:02:54 AM They are poor teams compared to some of the others Are you saying that drawing world cup finalists Italy and France when we could have gotten Sweden and Poland instead is inconsequential. That it is more fortunate we drew Georgia and the Faroe Islands and dodged the likes of Azerbaijan and Armenia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_UEFA_European_Football_Championship_qualifying Title: Re: Why do Scotland always play the same teams? Post by: Benny Brox on September 09, 2007, 12:33:24 AM England are far more lucky in their draws. They still seem to struggle to get through even though they get the easisest fo groups every time. I mean look at their group last time, Poland, Greece etc... f*cking easy, then this year they get Israel etc... and still struggle. Oan the Tartan Army, we make a group of death look easy!!!!!
Title: Re: Why do Scotland always play the same teams? Post by: johnbhoy76 on September 09, 2007, 11:06:21 AM Here's an unbiased view on the Scotland & Englands respective draws
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W-tX_Bjbo0 rotflmfao |