European Championship 2008: The Draw (dec 2nd)

retired_Fit · 12-03-2007, 01:42 PM

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Originally posted by irish2101:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by Razzler:
<BLOCKQUOTE>As usual the groups are very unbalanced. Group C is the group of death and the other groups only have 1 big team each

Always going to be the way with the joint hosts thing and Greece (albeit, holders) all seeded.

Nothing particularly mouth-watering outside of Group C, Spain get Sweden again and Romania and the Dutch that just qualified together. </BLOCKQUOTE>
italy and france also just qualified together, that group is weird, all four teams came from 2 groups. </BLOCKQUOTE>

Forgot about Italy and France being in the same group as well. Crotia should get through that group and then someone will snap up Bilic and England will play Croats with a new manager and they'll someone new in as well

retired_Fit · 12-03-2007, 01:43 PM

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Does it really matter if the hosts are ****?

Not if there is only 1 host. 2 **** hosts in a 4 group tournament is a bit rubbish. No one really wanted to be 'the other' top seed in this

retired_khabmth · 12-03-2007, 01:56 PM

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Originally posted by PMLF:
As usual the groups are very unbalanced. Group C is the group of death and the other groups only have 1 big team each. :thdn:

And as usual you haven't got a clue.

Czech and Croatia not big? Get a grip.
Sweden/Russia/Greece I can agree with not being "big" names but they are still in the top 25 in the world, just as Turkey and Poland. Actually all teams bar the hosts are in the top 25 in the world (well according to the not so great FIFA ranking at least.

Angell555666 · 12-03-2007, 01:59 PM

The Swiss aren't that bad. Sure they would of qualified if they weren't hosts.

retired_jdupont · 12-03-2007, 07:31 PM

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Originally posted by Mr Wallin:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by PMLF:
As usual the groups are very unbalanced. Group C is the group of death and the other groups only have 1 big team each. :thdn:

And as usual you haven't got a clue.

Czech and Croatia not big? Get a grip.
Sweden/Russia/Greece I can agree with not being "big" names but they are still in the top 25 in the world, just as Turkey and Poland. Actually all teams bar the hosts are in the top 25 in the world (well according to the not so great FIFA ranking at least. </BLOCKQUOTE>

Czechs and Croatia big?

When it comes to being big teams, they are way below Portugal, Germany, Holland, Netherlands, Italy, France and Spain (and England too, if they had qualified for the tournament).

They are 2nd tier teams, regardless of FIFA's ranking (which nobody takes seriously anyway).

retired_zersmiller · 12-03-2007, 09:13 PM

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Originally posted by PMLF:
When it comes to being big teams, they are way below Portugal, Germany, Holland, Netherlands, Italy, France and Spain (and England too, if they had qualified for the tournament).

:p

retired_jdupont · 12-03-2007, 09:16 PM

The Netherlands are so good that deserve to be mentioned twice.

retired_monica90 · 12-03-2007, 09:24 PM

Come on the Dutch.

retired_gozadera2007 · 12-03-2007, 09:46 PM

Portugal or Holland winning will do me fine.

Love Spain to win as well as I've put money on them, but that clearly will not happen.

retired_khabmth · 12-03-2007, 09:49 PM

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Originally posted by PMLF:
Czechs and Croatia big?

When it comes to being big teams, they are way below Portugal, Germany, Holland, Netherlands, Italy, France and Spain (and England too, if they had qualified for the tournament).

They are 2nd tier teams, regardless of FIFA's ranking (which nobody takes seriously anyway).

So clearly just believing he hype rather than facts.

Croatia clearly bigger than england both in FIFA ranking, in actual play (beat them home and away) and they also actually have a WC medal in the last 30 years.

England has a great league but their national team is waay worse, don't confuse them.

European Championship 2008: The Draw (dec 2nd)

Grab a beer, sit back and relax.

European Championship 2008: The Draw (dec 2nd)