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Post by Square on Dec 5, 2013 18:54:53 GMT
So tomorrow see's the World Cup group stages drawn. Coverage starts at 4.30pm on BBC2. Expect your usual drawn out nonsense as every single stipulation and rule is read out 50 times by some smart looking fella and a bit of eye candy who wonder's what the hell she's doing. Highlights will include some poor old ex footballer struggle to open the water tight balls due to his arthritis. Pots are as followed: The sharper characters here will realise Pot 2 is one short and Pot 4 is one over. As such one team from UEFA's non seeded batch will be moved over to Pot 2 at the start of the draw, something each nation will want to avoid as it is very likely to lead to a tougher group. This nation will also definitely draw one of the South American seeded teams from Pot 1 (Brazil, Argentina, Colombia or Uruguay) to avoid the possibility of 3 European nations in one group. Best case scenario for EnglandObviously depends if England are the unlucky side from pot 4 to be moved into Pot 2, but assuming they are not an easy looking group may look something like: England, Switzerland, Honduras and Algeria.And the worst?Again, dependent on what Pot England ultimately end up in. If they stay in Pot 4: England, Brazil, Ivory Coast, USA looks pretty tasty.If England are moved to Pot 2: England, Brazil, USA, Netherlands.
Tbh I think we're due a tough group. We had it pretty easy in 2006 and 2010 so chuck a harder team in there and, if we get through, we might not look so shellshocked when we play someone half decent in the knockouts.
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Post by JM on Dec 5, 2013 19:03:09 GMT
I reckon we'll get a decent draw anyway.
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Post by sween on Dec 5, 2013 19:06:44 GMT
Got a feeling it'll end up being Brazil, England, USA, France or something. Tbh I hope we end up with a reasonably challenging group. In SA we nearly managed to fuck up an easy one playing shit football then imemdiately got dicked on when we played a decent team.
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Post by Star of Spurs on Dec 5, 2013 19:06:45 GMT
I see UEFA are such big fans of the false 9 they've started implementing it into group stages.
Our group will be Germany, Nigeria & Mexico.
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Post by Gobble Gobble on Dec 5, 2013 20:02:59 GMT
If England are moved to Pot 2: England, Brazil, Ivory Coast, Netherlands.If in pot 2, we cannot play Ivory Coast so imagine the worst case scenario would probably be the USA instead.
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Post by Square on Dec 5, 2013 20:05:26 GMT
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Post by Pole Land on Dec 5, 2013 20:25:50 GMT
In the rehearsals this afternoon England were in Group E alongside Spain, Ivory Coast & South Korea. Wouldn't be too confident with a draw like that. Group A was boss though, Italy were drawn into Pot 2 and ended up with Brazil, France & Australia.
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Post by #FreeBTS on Dec 5, 2013 20:29:29 GMT
Pedro Pinto's normally on board for these isn't he? Any other listeners of The Guardian's Football Weekly podcast will know he's a good guy.
Anyway, I'll be handing out bans to anyone I see uttering the phrase 'group of death' or calling anyone 'dark horses'.
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Post by Maskya Yoshida on Dec 5, 2013 20:31:06 GMT
Group A was boss though, Italy were drawn into Pot 2 and ended up with Brazil, France & Australia. That's a group of death for Australia, then again I could see them as the dark horses.
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Post by #FreeBTS on Dec 5, 2013 20:39:20 GMT
Seriously, when I hear Garth Crooks inevitably call 4th-in-the-world Belgium, with some of the best players in Europe, dark horses, I'm no longer paying my TV licence fee (I don't have one).
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Post by danielbuggery on Dec 5, 2013 23:19:27 GMT
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Post by jaffers on Dec 5, 2013 23:24:09 GMT
Get the lingering feeling we will be drawn with Brazil.
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Post by Solitario on Dec 5, 2013 23:32:31 GMT
Fully hoping for a Switzerland, Algeria, Honduras, Greece draw. Fuck challenges, give me our first ever world cup knockouts instead.
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Post by Square on Dec 5, 2013 23:53:53 GMT
Just for the hell of it - here's my prediction. We end up staying in Pot 4 and draw: Uruguay, Ghana & Mexico.
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Post by #FreeBTS on Dec 5, 2013 23:58:53 GMT
I'd kinda love to see us play Brazil, imagine how good that'd be as an opening game. One hard team, someone alright and someone we should be beating.
Brazil, Nigeria and Iran would be good.
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