World Cup 2014 Qualification

jamescd

Uruguay, England, Italy in the same group. That's England out so

Super-Rush

Suarez to destroy England.

Agent Coulson

Luis Suarez to become an even bigger hate figure in England now lol

Cake Man

France will be delighted with that

Nalz

France jammy flucks again

ArmaniJeanss

Good old France.

kksaints

Argentina have an easy group.

DDC1990

I think Collins hasn't watched Uruguay in a while if he thinks Italy and Uruguay is a favourable draw for England!

castletownman

There goes Geoff Hurst's knighthood. Going by the doom and gloom already from BBC

GTR63

Dempsey wrote: »

Nice, England get a tough group

Peter Collins doesn't think so.

mike65

Group A Brazil-Cameroon-Mexico-Croatia
Group B Spain-Chile-Australia-Netherlands Group of Death 1
Group C Columbia-Ivory Coast-Japan-Greece
Group D Uruguay-Italy-Costa Rica-England Group of Death 2
Group E Switzerland-Ecuador-Honduras-France
Group F Argentina-Nigeria-Iran-Bosnia
Group G Germany-Ghana-USA-Portugal
Group H Belgium-Algeria-Korea-Russia

Alonso77

Does Peter Collins even watch football? hasnt a clue

inforfun

Deleted User wrote: »

Don't think they can beat Chile and Australia?

Australia > Yes

Chile > not really
I rate them quite high.
Arguably the best team after Argentina and Brasil in S America since they changed coach.

kksaints

mike65 wrote: »

Group A Brazil-Cameroon-Mexico-Croatia
Group B Spain-Chile-Australia-Netherlands Group of Death 1
Group C Columbia-Ivory Coast-Japan-Greece
Group D Uruguay-Italy-Costa Rica-England Group of Death 2
Group E Switzerland-Ecuador-Honduras-France
Group F Argentina-Nigeria-Iran-Bosnia
Group G Germany-Ghana-USA-Portugal
Group H Belgium-Algeria-Korea-Russia

I'd have group G as a group of death aswell. USA and Ghana arent exactly easy opponents.

mike65

mike65 wrote: »

Group A Brazil-Cameroon-Mexico-Croatia
Group B Spain-Chile-Australia-Netherlands Group of Death 1
Group C Columbia-Ivory Coast-Japan-Greece
Group D Uruguay-Italy-Costa Rica-England Group of Death 2
Group E Switzerland-Ecuador-Honduras-France
Group F Argentina-Nigeria-Iran-Bosnia
Group G Germany-Ghana-USA-Portugal
Group H Belgium-Algeria-Korea-Russia

How do you make that out? For Group B Chile are no great shakes and Australia are absolutely terrible. For Group D Costa Rica are rubbish and England are quite poor.

Smithwicks Man

England out in the group stage

Smithwicks Man

Deleted User wrote: »

How do you make that out? For Group B Chile are no great shakes and Australia are absolutely terrible. For Group D Costa Rica are rubbish and England are quite poor.

Chile are good which makes 2 very good teams and 1 good team

England are ****e yes but they're not that ****e. Costa Rica are decent

mike65

Deleted User wrote: »

How do you make that out? For Group B Chile are no great shakes and Australia are absolutely terrible. For Group D Costa Rica are rubbish and England are quite poor.

You clearly no little about Chile these days. No pushovers.

dfx-

C is going to be a fascinating group. All out attack of Japan, all out 'solidity' of Greece, anaemic Ivory Coast and Columbia..

E, F, H not so much.

roanoke

B and D (and G) are definitely the toughest.

Even though Chile convincingly beat England recently I'd still think England would have rather got Netherland's draw rather than their own.

castletownman

Looking forward to Groups C and G. We were one ball off from Messi v Ronaldo too

I am pie

inforfun wrote: »

Australia > Yes

Chile > not really
I rate them quite high.
Arguably the best team after Argentina and Brasil in S America since they changed coach.

Netherlands will get past Chile, too loose at the back, have very very ordinary CBs even with their new coach they are conceding far too many. Colombia are a better side and have an easier group. They'll go further.

Smithwicks Man

Smithwicks Man wrote: »

Chile are good which makes 2 very good teams and 1 good team

We might as well agree to disagree right now :P

England are ****e yes but they're not that ****e. Costa Rica are decent

It's a fair enough draw as far as I can see. If England were better then it would be a group of death.

Colombia are the dark horses and have a nice group

mike65

mike65 wrote: »

You clearly no little about Chile these days. No pushovers.

Give me a price.

inforfun

I am pie wrote: »

Netherlands will get past Chile, too loose at the back, have very very ordinary CBs even with their new coach they are conceding far too many. Colombia are a better side and have an easier group. They'll go further.

Chile will rip Holland apart on the counter, just like they did England and to a lesser degree, Spain.

The order of which the matches are played might favour Holland somewhat. First Spain, you better have that one out of the way so you know what you need to do (win 2x most likely)

ebbsy

Round of 16 could be very tasty. Brazil v Spain/Holland anyone ?

Agent Coulson

Manchester City and Belgium captain Vincent Kompany on twitter
"England.. Awww."

Turtyturd

In before Messi doing it at the WC doesn't count because they got an easy group.

jester77

Anyone know what time we will have to set the alarms for?

inforfun

jester77 wrote: »

Anyone know what time we will have to set the alarms for?

No need to set the alarm. You ll just go to bed late.

You'll just need a second alarm to get up for work in the morning!

Smithwicks Man

jester77 wrote: »

Anyone know what time we will have to set the alarms for?

Italy vs England is at 2am Irish time anyway.

2am is the latest a game will kick off with games starting at around 5pm 7pm 9pm 11pm as well I think

srfc19

inforfun wrote: »

No need to set the alarm. You ll just go to bed late.

Not if you're living in China, 3 and 7 in the morning by the look of it!!

I'm going to be groggy for a month!!

England's first game is at 2am, that's the only kick-off I can see at the time.

CorsendonkX

kksaints wrote: »

I'd have group G as a group of death aswell. USA and Ghana arent exactly easy opponents.

Me too, Klinsmann in charge of the USA who score goals against Germany. Ghana the second top African seed.

Agent Coulson

jester77 wrote: »

Anyone know what time we will have to set the alarms for?

The BBC said England vs Italy was 2am

jester77

inforfun wrote: »

No need to set the alarm. You ll just go to bed late.

the only time I've seen so far is Eng-Ita @ 2:00. That will be 3:00 for me, I'll not be waiting up that long

titan18

Agent Coulson wrote: »

The BBC said England vs Italy was 2am

Saturday night/Sunday morning too so not a work day

inforfun

jester77 wrote: »

the only time I've seen so far is Eng-Ita @ 2:00. That will be 3:00 for me, I'll not be waiting up that long

Weekday or weekend?

Cant be arsed to look it up

Turtyturd

Thought group matches had 3 set kick off times?

TheMilkyPirate

Hope England don't bring any Norwich players to the finals!

Andersonisgod

Just saw betting odds flash across my screen on RTE, Spain are the 4th favourites?!? A group of players who have won the last 3 major tournaments (an accomplishment that is unprecedented) and who could probably field a second team that would be feasible World Cup winners. Ridiculous.

Psychedelic

What are they on about lots of travel involved for England, do they not have domestic flights in Brazil? They're not going to be stuck on some crappy bus for 12 hours anyway.

764dak

The draw is disappointing. There are too many rematches from past World Cups.

TheMilkyPirate

Andersonisgod wrote: »

Just saw betting odds flash across my screen on RTE, Spain are the 4th favourites?!? A group of players who have won the last 3 major tournaments (an accomplishment that is unprecedented) and who could probably field a second team that would be feasible World Cup winners. Ridiculous.

What are you complaining for? Better odds for you!

Put your money where your mouth is

TheMilkyPirate

TheMilkyPirate wrote: »

What are you complaining for? Better odds for you!

Put your money where your mouth is

Yeah surely that's the most ridiculous complaint ever!

Those pesky odds are too damn high!

PurpleSt4in

Im bored so Last 16;

Brazil Netherlands
Spain Mexico
Colombia England
Italy Greece
Switz Bosnia
Argentina France
Germany Russia
Belgium Ghana

Delighted with the Group D draw, that's a tasty enough one. Suarez against all the English fellas will be interesting to say the least.

Think Switz placement in Pot 1 could see them through to the QF here if they are solid. France's last few outings have been embarrasing at major tournaments. If Switz get through first, they'd be most likely up against Nigeria/Bosnia in the last 16.

I think Group G is probably the Group of Death. Group G is the only one where I honestly think any team can qualify from. I've expected Germany and Ghana, but Ronaldo turning up would shake things up and USA I would imagine be the banana skin.

Blegium's wonderkids have a nice draw, I'm rooting for them to make semi's provided they're at full fitness.

Turtyturd

The outrage....must resist urge to write strongly worded letter.

Dempsey

The bookies arent in the habit of loosing money. Spain are those odds for a reason