retired_Pantora

what random seedings, don't see why the hosts should go in pot 1 just because of being hosts.

mon a group of death, could be a couple of groups of death out of the 4 looking at the pots

retired_brat7

according to the Euro 2008 wiki page - Austria and Switzerland are top seeds due to hosting (Switzerland in Group A, Austria in Group B) Greece are top seeds because they won Euro 2004 - but the rest is a total mystery

could be some great groups though, so maybe that is what the organisers are hoping for

retired_nini59

don't see the point in putting the hosts in the top seeded pot, not like they are going to get easier draws with Italy, Germany, France and Spain in the pots below them, but I'm sure they'll be delighted at avoiding Greece

retired_lbherrera

Groups wanted

A:
Netherlands
Italy
Poland
Spain

B
Greece
Sweden
Portugal
Russia

C
Austria
Croatia
Germany
Turkey

D
Switzerland
Czech
Romania
France


Would all be quite even apart from possibly D.

runronnirun

shared hosting just a nonsense. bad enough when one rubbish team gets a free pass to the tournament, two just daft.

Holland and Portugal have my full support for this, really quite looking forward to it.

retired_zersmiller

Holland was the best in the qualification of the WC + EC tournaments followed by Croatia, Italy, etc.

retired_lbherrera

Actually no:

A

Switzerland
Sweden
Poland
Turkey

B

Austria
Croatia
Romania
Russia

C

Netherlands
Italy
Germany
Spain

D
Greece
Czech
Portugal
France

retired_lbherrera

Oh and Mon Holland for the actual tournament.

retired_layne129

I'll back the Czechs and Holland as ever.

retired_fefecalifornia

i'll be backing whoever england are playing :cool:

eh ?

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