World Cup draw thread

Spiritoftheseventies

Happening soon at a tv near you. For anyone who is tuned into draw. Hope french get to final and lose on penalties. That would be great.

mike65

BBC 2 from 5.15

Spiritoftheseventies

can hardly wait

everdead.ie

live on rte.ie at 5:45

tvnutz

Will this be one of those really annoying draws that drags out for blood ages? i.e. draw the teams from Pot 1,have some sort of annoying cheesey entertainment thingy and about half an hour later we get the next pot drawn.

greendom

bayviewclose wrote: »

Happening soon at a tv near you. For anyone who is tuned into draw. Hope french get to final and lose on penalties. That would be great.

I'd imagine a humiliating ko in the group stages would be more rewarding; more 2002 than 2006 I would have thought. Personally speaking, as a French supporter I would be delighted with the team reaching 2 successive WC finals - not going to happen though.

MagicMarker

Wow, looks like one giant party on Sky News!! Certainly sets the precedent for the World Cup!!

Spiritoftheseventies

Hope Bill is hosting RTE Coverage.

shiibata

Can South Africa be drawn against any of the other African teams in pot 3 or are they kept apart

manutd

If not near a TV use this,
http://www.fifa.com/live/competitions/worldcup/finaldraw/index.html

Spiritoftheseventies

MagicMarker wrote: »

Wow, looks like one giant party on Sky News!! Certainly sets the precedent for the World Cup!!

Not like Sky News to go into overkill

MagicMarker

shiibata wrote: »

Can South Africa be drawn against any of the other African teams in pot 3 or are they kept apart

They're in Pot 1, they can be drawn against any team in the other pots.

MagicMarker

bayviewclose wrote: »

Not like Sky News to go into overkill

What? Did they stage the carnivalesque backdrop did they?

D2D

Blatter can't remember which city the WC kicks off at. For a president, he's not that smart

baalthor

shiibata wrote: »

Can South Africa be drawn against any of the other African teams in pot 3 or are they kept apart

Just read on aertel that they won't have any other African teams in their group.
Bet France get the SA group the jammy ****ers.

Lord Trollington

Have to admit, its a bit hard to watch knowing we should be and deserve to be in it.

There's no excitement in the draw for me.

Fratton Fred

The new world cup ball, made by Adidas, is the roundest ball ever made!

Marketting people are geniuses are they not. Imagine coming up with a round football.

Spiritoftheseventies

baalthor wrote: »

Just read on aertel that they won't have any other African teams in their group.
Bet France get the SA group the jammy ****ers.

Hope they are drawn in group D

Royale with Cheese

Ugh, sick of all this traditional African music already.

Lord Trollington

A group of death i'd like to see : England,Mexico,Ivory Coast and France/Portugal

MagicMarker

Royale with Cheese wrote: »

Ugh, sick of all this traditional African music already.

greendom

whycliff wrote: »

Have to admit, its a bit hard to watch knowing we should be and deserve to be in it.

There's no excitement in the draw for me.

Wouldn't say you deserve to be in it - more you don't deserve to be not in it. Ireland deserved a penalty shoot-out to try and get to SA - that's what you were deprived of, not a place per se.

shiibata

baalthor wrote: »

Just read on aertel that they won't have any other African teams in their group.
Bet France get the SA group the jammy ****ers.

I thought I had read that before alright somewhere, just was not sure.
Since the seedings were made and france left out, I have always felt FIFA are gonna stick France in SA group, thus avoiding all big guns.

Its not gonna be group of death anyhow
South Africa
Pot 2 (handy enough teams)
Chile/Paraguay/Uruguay
Happy European team, probably France:mad:

Spiritoftheseventies

MagicMarker wrote: »

What? Did they stage the carnivalesque backdrop did they?

Was being Ironic. They invented the word

Lord Trollington

greendom wrote: »

Wouldn't say you deserve to be in it - more you don't deserve to be not in it. Ireland deserved a penalty shoot-out to try and get to SA - that's what you were deprived of, not a place per se.

Over the 2 legs we played the better football,created the better chances and deserve to be in it, but thats an arguement for another day.
Irrespective of the handball incident.
This is about the Draw.

Spiritoftheseventies

whycliff wrote: »

Over the 2 legs we played the better football,created the better chances and deserve to be in it, but thats an arguement for another day.
Irrespective of the handball incident.
This is about the Draw.

Yes we have discussed the Irish french game to death. Lets move on

greendom

whycliff wrote: »

Over the 2 legs we played the better football,created the better chances and deserve to be in it, but thats an arguement for another day.
Irrespective of the handball incident.
This is about the Draw.

Fair enough, but it wasn't me who brought it up

Spiritoftheseventies

greendom wrote: »

Fair enough, but it wasn't me who brought it up

Anyway Group D could be a tough group to get out of

eagle eye

I'd like to see this group. Brazil, Ivory Coast, Mexico, France.

greendom

bayviewclose wrote: »

Anyway Group D could be a tough group to get out of

The way France played against Ireland in the 2nd leg, any group would be tough to get out of

Lord Trollington

greendom wrote: »

Fair enough, but it wasn't me who brought it up

My comment was in relation to the draw and the fact that i have no real interest in it.
In your post you never commented on teh draw.
You were the one who brought up we deserved not to not be in it... blah blah blah...penalties...blah blah blah

baalthor

shiibata wrote: »

I thought I had read that before alright somewhere, just was not sure.
Since the seedings were made and france left out, I have always felt FIFA are gonna stick France in SA group, thus avoiding all big guns.

Its not gonna be group of death anyhow
South Africa
Pot 2 (handy enough teams)
Chile/Paraguay/Uruguay
Happy European team, probably France:mad:

Yea, it's the group we would have wanted ... sob ... :-(

greendom

whycliff wrote: »

My comment was in relation to the draw and the fact that i have no real interest in it.
In your post you never commented on teh draw.
You were the one who brought up we deserved not to not be in it... blah blah blah...penalties...blah blah blah

Right....

Lord Trollington

baalthor wrote: »

Yea, it's the group we would have wanted ... sob ... :-(

If i'm being correct here,we dont deserve to not be in the draw.

Wipe those tears and prepare for England ending up in the group of Death

That_Guy

whycliff wrote: »

If i'm being correct here,we dont deserve to not be in the draw.

Wipe those tears and prepare for England ending up in the group of Death

*hands tools*

Build a bridge.

FlawedGenius

Imagine how excited wed all be now!:( Fcukin depressing.
I dont think theres any possible group of death for England. Maybe France would be tricky for them:rolleyes:

everdead.ie

That fifa site doesn't seem to have video so use
http://www.rte.ie/live/
if you wanna watch it

Mr.Nice Guy

Excitement building now. Look how crazy they're getting in Pyongyang:

Jam-Fly

Jaysus, the size of yer wan :eek:

Le King

Hope France get the group of death

That_Guy

WTF is this crap?

everdead.ie

Is this the eurovision:rolleyes:

That_Guy

Osu wrote: »

Hope France get the group of death

If Step Ladder isn't careful she'll bloody fall on him. :eek::eek::eek:

greendom

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Excitement building now. Look how crazy they're getting in Pyongyang:

Apparently, the games will be shown over there after the game has finished, and only if N Korea win. Also no commentary, military music will be played to as an accompaniment

newbie2

WTF is this sh!t ??

Jam-Fly

Btw, if France do end up in South Africa's group, I will actually be infuriated.

It's completely unjustified, completely emotional, no logic or evidence, but it would look like Platini rigging it again.


I'd imagine the group of death will be the one that consists of France and/or Ivory Coast. They're definitely the two stand out teams from the other pots.

Redzer7

Imagine how many posts would be posted if we were in the draw :O, there would be a great sense of buzz around the place, Heres to qualifying for 2014 Keep the flags flying high .

That_Guy

Oh George Hamilton commentating on this.

What are the chances he'll say "It's there" at any stage?

That_Guy

Do FIFA write their own lines?

Jam-Fly

"And in a huge shock, Sepp Blatter announces Ireland will take part in the World Cup 2010 as the 33rd team playing in France's group....!!!"




if only

Frisbee

Come on already....