Irlandos Posted October 13, 2003 Share Posted October 13, 2003 Latvia v Turkey Scotland v Netherlands Croatia v Slovenia Russia v Wales Spain v Norway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerr Posted October 13, 2003 Share Posted October 13, 2003 We probably picked the easiest team! :lol: I say 3 goals in Latvia and 4 in Istanbul! :lol: Spain Norway clash will be an interesting one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irlandos Posted October 13, 2003 Author Share Posted October 13, 2003 The Croatia - Slovenia clash should be a good one among former compatriots. I see no real contests in the other groupings! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elastonpappou 13 Posted October 13, 2003 Share Posted October 13, 2003 Latvia v Turkey Scotland v Netherlands Croatia v Slovenia Russia v Wales Spain v Norway I see Turkey, Holland, Croatia, Russia and Spain getting through to the finals...Any thoughts????? Shame that Norway has to play against Spain. They are both good teams..... ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yourikis Posted October 13, 2003 Share Posted October 13, 2003 SCOTLAND COULD GO THROUGH HOLLAND ARE NOT AS GOOD AS THEY ONCE WERE :tdown: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irlandos Posted October 13, 2003 Author Share Posted October 13, 2003 @Yourikis, They will have Kluivert and Van Nistelrooy in the front line. Forgetting everything else, how do you counter that? With Jackie McNamara? :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yourikis Posted October 13, 2003 Share Posted October 13, 2003 @Yourikis, They will have Kluivert and Van Nistelrooy in the front line. Forgetting everything else, how do you counter that? With Jackie McNamara? :huh: Knowing wee Dick Advoccat by the time we play them he will have fallen out with most of his stars and we will be playing Holland BPS Pressley will have Van Nistellroy in his pocket IF he plays Kluivert ,Ricksen and Davids have already fallen foul of the Little General and Van looks like being next. :tup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maw21 Posted October 14, 2003 Share Posted October 14, 2003 is it just me or does luck always weild Turkey an easy draw? anyone remember their WC group and subsequent draw....???? how about this EURO group they finished second in??? and Latvia??? :huh: im not trying to incite controversy with the turks on this board...but its just something ive noticed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irlandos Posted October 14, 2003 Author Share Posted October 14, 2003 It's not just Turkey! It seems UEFA seeded these teams when no one was looking! Very suspicious! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The2ndMouse Posted October 14, 2003 Share Posted October 14, 2003 When Korea can surgically and infront of the whole world to see, remove ITALY, PORTUGAL and SPAIN from a world cup then anything is possible! We knew things were never 100% clan in football nomatter what level it was played or organised at, but now we know that reliability is the eal tale grannies ahould say to little children for them to go to sleep! ;) why not call tem "payoffs" instead of Playoffs! :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elastonpappou 13 Posted October 14, 2003 Share Posted October 14, 2003 SCOTLAND COULD GO THROUGH HOLLAND ARE NOT AS GOOD AS THEY ONCE WERE :tdown: I hope so mate, I will be supporting Scotland this time cause its the only team that Greece can actually beat in Portugal :P :P :P (Just kidding, I dont think that we can beat ANY team in the way we play......) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOHNNY Posted October 14, 2003 Share Posted October 14, 2003 I think the draw was definitely a case of the old hot and cold balls being brought out. As for our game with the Netherlands, I hear Archie Gemmell is getting the call up. He'd certainly be more of a threat than his son Scott. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAOKARA Posted October 14, 2003 Share Posted October 14, 2003 It's not just Turkey! It seems UEFA seeded these teams when no one was looking! Very suspicious! ill second that! its kinda strange... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightsurfer Posted October 14, 2003 Share Posted October 14, 2003 They said teams have not been seeded....... But many of you suggest.. that things are not clean...... So which draw or draws.. makes this visible ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerr Posted October 14, 2003 Share Posted October 14, 2003 is it just me or does luck always weild Turkey an easy draw? anyone remember their WC group and subsequent draw....???? how about this EURO group they finished second in??? and Latvia??? :huh: im not trying to incite controversy with the turks on this board...but its just something ive noticed. You create your own luck! ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irlandos Posted October 14, 2003 Author Share Posted October 14, 2003 They said teams have not been seeded....... But many of you suggest.. that things are not clean...... So which draw or draws.. makes this visible ?? @nightsurfer,If I were asked by UEFA to seed the teams they would be something like this: 1. Spain 2. Holland 3. Turkey 4. Russia 5. Croatia ------------------ 6. Norway 7. Scotland 8. Slovenia 9. Wales 10. Latvia Look at the pairings. It seems that someone did just that and picked one seeded and one unseeded team per match! :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightsurfer Posted October 16, 2003 Share Posted October 16, 2003 Hmmmm.......I see ... behind your argumentation there is a logic If true... why take they the risk...to stand at the end as liers......? As the truth always....comes to light.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightsurfer Posted October 18, 2003 Share Posted October 18, 2003 This is the official ranking: 1. Sweden 2,388 2. Chech Rep. 2,333 3. England 2,313, Spain 2.313 and Italy 2,313 6. Turkey 2,222 7. Germany 2,187 8. Netherland 2,167 9. Croatia 2,125 10. Danemark 2,056 and Russia 2,056 12. Bulgaria 1,889 and Slovenia 1,889 14. Scotland 1,813 15. Switzerland 1,611 16. Greece 1,563 17. Norway 1,333 18. Lettland 1,250 19. Wales 1,222 So as per this ranking Russia has taken the best draw.... ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irlandos Posted October 18, 2003 Author Share Posted October 18, 2003 :o Just as I thought!!! These scoundrels did seed the teams despite their assurances that they didn't!!! The odds that this happened by accident must be enormous!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irlandos Posted November 15, 2003 Author Share Posted November 15, 2003 SCOTLAND COULD GO THROUGH HOLLAND ARE NOT AS GOOD AS THEY ONCE WERE :tdown: Scotland has taken the first leg of their playoff game v. Holland 1-0! :o Is Dick Advocaat's job in trouble? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irlandos Posted November 15, 2003 Author Share Posted November 15, 2003 Russia dominated in Moscow but couldn't break through for the goal. Russia - Wales 0-0. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irlandos Posted November 16, 2003 Author Share Posted November 16, 2003 The results in summary: Russia - Wales 0-0 Scotland - Holland 1-0 Croatia - Slovenia 1-1 Latvia - Turkey 1-0 Spain - Norway 2-1 It looks as if all 5 teams that UEFA "seeded" could be eliminated by Wednesday! :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irlandos Posted November 16, 2003 Author Share Posted November 16, 2003 Btw, the odds that this draw happened by accident is: 1 - (4/9 * 3/7 * 2/5 * 1/3) = 2.53% not quite as astronomical as I had thought! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziaka Posted November 17, 2003 Share Posted November 17, 2003 Quite an interesting set of results. It could be very interesting this Wednesday as all the games are still up for grabs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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