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11-25-2007, 12:40 PM
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Re: Official World Cup 2010 Qualifying Thread
I'm pretty happy with Scotland's draw. Holland haven't been anything special, and hopefully they won't improve much in the next year or so. There were much stronger teams than Norway in pot 3 that I'm glad we've avoided (especially Serbia), and I'm fairly confident of taking 12 points from our fixtures with Iceland and Macedonia.
A couple of years from now I hope I'm not looking back at this post wondering how I could be so over-confident. 
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11-25-2007, 12:49 PM
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Re: Official World Cup 2010 Qualifying Thread
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so how many teams get in? how many games do they play? [/ QUOTE ] "The format for the European qualifying competition for the FIFA World Cup 2010™ was decided upon and will consist of eight groups of six teams, and one group of five. The nine group winners will qualify directly and the best eight runners-up will play home and away play-off matches for the remaining four places. The nine groups containing the 53 UEFA member associations will be competing for the 13 places made available to Europe in the final tournament."
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#5
11-25-2007, 01:11 PM
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Re: Official World Cup 2010 Qualifying Thread
Anyone know how they calculate the "best 8" of the 9 runners up? It can't just be on points, since that would be unfair against group 9. Is it something like how many points they get v 1st, 3rd and 4th in the group?
Not that it matters since we'll win our group... but just in case.
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#6
11-25-2007, 01:13 PM
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Re: Official World Cup 2010 Qualifying Thread
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Anyone know how they calculate the "best 8" of the 9 runners up? It can't just be on points, since that would be unfair against group 9. Is it something like how many points they get v 1st, 3rd and 4th in the group? Not that it matters since we'll win our group... but just in case. [/ QUOTE ] It's best v 1,3,4 & 5.
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#7
11-25-2007, 01:16 PM
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Re: Official World Cup 2010 Qualifying Thread
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[ QUOTE ] Anyone know how they calculate the "best 8" of the 9 runners up? It can't just be on points, since that would be unfair against group 9. Is it something like how many points they get v 1st, 3rd and 4th in the group? Not that it matters since we'll win our group... but just in case. [/ QUOTE ] It's best v 1,3,4 & 5. [/ QUOTE ] ty - makes sense. England v Scotland playoff would be fun.
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#8
11-25-2007, 02:08 PM
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Re: Official World Cup 2010 Qualifying Thread
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I'm pretty happy with Scotland's draw. Holland haven't been anything special, and hopefully they won't improve much in the next year or so. There were much stronger teams than Norway in pot 3 that I'm glad we've avoided (especially Serbia), and I'm fairly confident of taking 12 points from our fixtures with Iceland and Macedonia. A couple of years from now I hope I'm not looking back at this post wondering how I could be so over-confident. [/ QUOTE ] As a Norwegian, we are pretty happy with facing Scotland, as well [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] We're not happy with being in the third seeding group, though, as we were just moved down from the second group. We just missed the Euros cut, mainly because of huge goalkeeping errors in the two games against Turkey. I think group 9 is fairly open. Holland isn't very strong these days, we'll see in the Euros. Unless they improve, Holland/Scotland/Norway could all take the group. I'm also worried about how they rank group runner ups. I read that they supposedly rank them by average points/game. However, that isn't really fair either as our group runner up would get two games less against the easiest opponents.
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#10
11-25-2007, 02:37 PM
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Re: Official World Cup 2010 Qualifying Thread
CONCAF qualifying is more confusing then UEFA.
For example Domininca plays Barbados in a home and home then the winner plays a home and home vs the USA and the winner will be one of 4 teams in group 1. Then the top 2 teams in each group get though to the final qualifying stage. Group 1 Dominica/Barbados vs. USA Turks and Caicos Islands/S. Lucia vs. Guatemala Bermuda/Cayman Islands vs. Trinidad and Tobago Aruba/Antigua and Barbuda vs. Cuba Group 2 Belize/St. Kitts and Nevis vs. Mexico Bahamas/British Virgin Islands vs. Jamaica Dominican Republic/Puerto Rico vs. Honduras Canada vs. St Vincent and Grenadines Group 3 US Virgin Islands/Grenada vs. Costa Rica Suriname/Montserrat vs. Guyana El Salvador/Anguilla vs. Panama Nicaragua/Netherlands Antilles vs. Haiti Canada has a tough draw, and the US will likely play down in Havana which will be interesting to say the least.
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