Euro 2012 draw Sunday 7th February from 11 a.m.

Sherifu

We get Russia from pot 1.

Mint Sauce

russia

:eek:

darkskol

its..............Russia

Sir Oxman

Oooh RUSSIA! Thats not a bad group

PHB

I must say, I think we can win that group.

IMO Slovakia are the best team in the group (after us of course).

Chardee MacDennis

russia, thats not a bad group tbh, nightmare for travel...

Can we afford to travel to Russia?

Mitch Connor

Russia - not too bad a draw to be fair. we should be able to get results vs them to be honest.

Headshot

Ill take Russia


we have a very good group

Kev_ps3

Is it top 2 qualify?

Mint Sauce

antodeco wrote: »

Trap was beside him

missed that, it was like delaneys head was filling my TV screen

darkskol

winners, best runner up and then playoff for other 2nd spots

Vokes

Apart from the travelling, that group aint half bad. All our home games are definitely winnable.

Helix

Kev_ps3 wrote: »

Is it top 2 qualify?

no

16 teams go into the finals for 2012

BOHSBOHS

lol we can afford to get there ...but can we afford all the police bribes/"fines"!!!

Headshot

England have a hard enough group

Mint Sauce

Kev_ps3 wrote: »

Is it top 2 qualify?

winner and best runner, up, remaining runners up go into play off

darkskol

not the worst group we could of got but travel is a nightmare.

Trampas

could have been worse. i think we will take that

Frisbee

Would have liked to avoid Russia, although at the same time thank god we avoided Kazakhstan and Israel.

Group I: Spain, Czech Republic, SCOTLAND Lithuania, Liechtenstein
Group H: Portugal, Denmark, Norway, Cyprus, Iceland
Group G: ENGLAND, Switzerland, Bulgaria, WALES, Montenegro
Group F: Croatia, Greece, Israel, Latvia, Georgia, Malta
Group E: Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Hungary, Moldova, San Marino
Group France, Romania, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Belarus, Albania, Luxembourg
Group C: Italy, Serbia, NORTHERN IRELAND Slovenia, Estonia, Faroe Islands
Group B: Russia, Slovakia, REPUBLIC OF IRELAND, FYR Macedonia, Armenia, Andorra
Group A: Germany, Turkey, Austria, Belgium, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan

big_show

Hiddink is on the way out at Russia right?! if so i can see us taking them

Eire-Dearg

Very good group for us, all very winnable especially at home. Travelling is going to be a bitch though, but if we can beat the likes of the lower three teams on their own turf and knick draws in Slovakia and Russia it'll be grand.

Sir Oxman

Scotland and the North got tough groups.

abouttobebanned

A load of crappy 5pm kick offs to "look forward" to. That group has as much romance as a holocaust.

thee glitz

Frisbee wrote: »

Would have liked to avoid Russia, although at the same time thank god we avoided Kazakhstan and Israel.

They're probably the worst top tier team, they lost out on a world cup spot to Slovenia.

So 4 groups have 5 teams and 5 groups have 6 teams.

Just noticed that now

Chardee MacDennis

ugh ronnie whelan...

Headshot

Frisbee wrote: »

Would have liked to avoid Russia, although at the same time thank god we avoided Kazakhstan and Israel.

your a mod now frisbee

fair play

Vokes

Wow, Northern Ireland have really got it in the neck.

Horrible group for them.

abouttobebanned

abouttobebanned wrote: »

A load of crappy 5pm kick offs to "look forward" to. That group has as much romance as a holocaust.

don't watch them then.

Spiritoftheseventies

antodeco wrote: »

Trap was beside him

boring draw. Why wasn't Charleze Theron at draw. Outrageous

big_show

BastardPrince wrote: »

ugh ronnie whelan...

Whats Ronnie on about? in college and RTE wont work behind the proxy

Cake Man

Not the worst group but a lot of travelling. Macedonia are a good bit better these days. Slovakia be tricky but nothing special so I reckon we could get 4pts from them.
We'll prob drop points in some of thoses away games but the group is winnable again!

BastardPrince

BastardPrince wrote: »

ugh ronnie whelan...

Can he sneak in an anti-Rafa tirade?

PHB

Group C is a horrible horrible group.

Northern Ireland haven't got a chance.

abouttobebanned

rarnes1 wrote: »

don't watch them then.

Ooooooooohhhh are you my sister? You sound like her

Headshot

Trap needs to get a few more players in now

abouttobebanned

abouttobebanned wrote: »

Ooooooooohhhh are you my sister? You sound like her

Can you hear me through your laptop?

Chardee MacDennis

big_show wrote: »

Whats Ronnie on about? in college and RTE wont work behind the proxy

apparently we've a very good record against all these teams... dont remember playing russia in the last decade or slovakia or andorra in fact...

he's basically talking through his hoop as usual...

Frisbee

thee glitz wrote: »

They're probably the worst top tier team, they lost out on a world cup spot to Slovenia.

They're better than Croatia anyway.
It's the travel that is a pain, and if it comes down to them needing to beat us I'm sure it will be played in some backwater stadium as far east as they possibly can.

Also, Slovenia are fairly decent.

mike65

Nice easy one for Englerland, could put out the U-21 team for a few of them.

Cake Man

Anyone know when they will announce the fixtures for those games, or will that be later after the World Cup?
Would be nice to get one or two handy games first to get the ball rolling like last campaign, hopefully it won't be away to Russia or Slovakia first game!

Chardee MacDennis

Frisbee wrote: »

They're better than Croatia anyway.
It's the travel that is a pain, and if it comes down to them needing to beat us I'm sure it will be played in some backwater stadium as far east as they possibly can.

Also, Slovenia are fairly decent.

if trap has any sense (and gets his way of course) we'll open away to russia and finish at home to them.

Krusader

Not a bad draw for us, Bit of travelling though would have preferred England than Russia

Chardee MacDennis

Cake Man wrote: »

Anyone know when they will announce the fixtures for those games, or will that be later after the World Cup?
Would be nice to get one or two handy games first to get the ball rolling like last campaign, hopefully it won't be away to Russia or Slovakia first game!

fixtures have to be agreed in the next 30 days...

parasite

BastardPrince wrote: »

apparently we've a very good record against all these teams... dont remember playing russia in the last decade or slovakia or andorra in fact...

he's basically talking through his hoop as usual...

we played slovakia for euro 2008

Vokes

So looking at the Slovakia squad, the only players im familiar with are Skrtl, Karhan, Weiss and Hamsik.

Anyone familiar with any of their strikers? They seem a bit goal-shy at international level.

Mint Sauce

Cake Man wrote: »

Anyone know when they will announce the fixtures for those games, or will that be later after the World Cup?
Would be nice to get one or two handy games first to get the ball rolling like last campaign, hopefully it won't be away to Russia or Slovakia first game!

it will be before the world cup, think they have 30 days of discussions to sort that out

mike65

mike65 wrote: »

Nice easy one for Englerland, could put out the U-21 team for a few of them.

Yeah, their group is a doddle. They'll win it by a huge margin.