TheScarf Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 20 minutes ago, Marshmallo said: Yeah Bruce, I bet Spain, Belgium, Germany, England and France would struggle big time against *checks notes* Jamaica and Honduras. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmericanFan Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 3 hours ago, TheScarf said: I take it the US resulted are weighted less, seeing as apart from Mexico and Canada, they play utter jobbers all the time? Think you mean Mexico and Costa Rica, as Canada is a jobber. CONCACAF road games in certain places are tougher than everyone else around the world thinks, but you're right, it's pretty pish for the most part. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnoustie Young Guvnor Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 4 hours ago, TheScarf said: Yeah Bruce, I bet Spain, Belgium, Germany, England and France would struggle big time against *checks notes* Jamaica and Honduras. Realistically these 'hotshot' European would absolutely piss CONCACAF. Laughable comment. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 Just now, Carnoustie Young Guvnor said: Realistically these 'hotshot' European would absolutely piss CONCACAF. Laughable comment. Without even conceding a goal too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnoustie Young Guvnor Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 15 minutes ago, TheScarf said: Without even conceding a goal too. Aye they would absolutely skoosh it. Scotland would qualify from that group. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charger29 Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 Pretty sure they note that it’s a projection based on expected results as well?They've got a few different ranking posts on their twitter page by the looks of it. The one posted to here was just the rankings at that moment in time and had some errors in it. We're on 1438 currently, not 1441. If we win tonight I'll ask on one of the ranking simulation sites before the next set of games, to see if someone knows roughly the results we'd need for pot 2. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuttonDressedAsLahm Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 1 hour ago, charger29 said: They've got a few different ranking posts on their twitter page by the looks of it. The one posted to here was just the rankings at that moment in time and had some errors in it. We're on 1438 currently, not 1441. If we win tonight I'll ask on one of the ranking simulation sites before the next set of games, to see if someone knows roughly the results we'd need for pot 2. Ideal. I’m presuming that four wins would probably not be enough (and the likelihood is ridiculously small!) At this stage, a guaranteed EC playoff and Pot 2 draw for the EC would be more than sufficient 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charger29 Posted October 15, 2020 Share Posted October 15, 2020 Well we're certainly getting closer to pot 2. Just as we've decided to start winning, everyone above us has decided to start losing.Winning the three games would give us a very good chance now. We might even be able to get away with 2 wins and a draw if it's true that Ireland are playing (losing to) England in a friendly next month. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pie Of The Month Posted October 15, 2020 Share Posted October 15, 2020 I think we'd need 3 wins to be honest. A win over Serbia in 90mins would be massive. Accoding to football-rankings it would get us up to 1460 with the 2 Nations League games to go. Slovakia playing Northern Ireland at the same time ideally would go to penalties in that situation so the winner gets less points. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmericanFan Posted October 15, 2020 Share Posted October 15, 2020 22 hours ago, TheScarf said: Without even conceding a goal too. Getting a bit ridiculous here. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pie Of The Month Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 Ireland's friendly against England confirmed and if they lose it will most likely drop them down into pot 3. Daft from them to take a friendly and if they were obliged to then attempting to organise a more winnable game would've been more sensible. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charger29 Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 Ireland's friendly against England confirmed and if they lose it will most likely drop them down into pot 3. Daft from them to take a friendly and if they were obliged to then attempting to organise a more winnable game would've been more sensible. As Romania have done. They've now got a home game vs neighbours Belarus which they should win.Norway were due to play Israel but it hasn't been confirmed yet I don't think. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blootoon87 Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 Ireland's friendly against England confirmed and if they lose it will most likely drop them down into pot 3. Daft from them to take a friendly and if they were obliged to then attempting to organise a more winnable game would've been more sensible. Were San Marino free? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 Did Wales and Romania not do this around 2013-2014? Arrange loads of friendlies they knew they'd win so their ranking points shot up and both ended up in pot 2 for the 2016 Euros qualifiers? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blootoon87 Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 Did Wales and Romania not do this around 2013-2014? Arrange loads of friendlies they knew they'd win so their ranking points shot up and both ended up in pot 2 for the 2016 Euros qualifiers?I seem to remember we did the opposite a few years ago and played a friendly against Qatar which somehow impacted negatively on our rankings and we either missed out on going up a pot, or went into a lower one. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forameus Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 2 hours ago, Blootoon87 said: 2 hours ago, TheScarf said: Did Wales and Romania not do this around 2013-2014? Arrange loads of friendlies they knew they'd win so their ranking points shot up and both ended up in pot 2 for the 2016 Euros qualifiers? I seem to remember we did the opposite a few years ago and played a friendly against Qatar which somehow impacted negatively on our rankings and we either missed out on going up a pot, or went into a lower one. We also went through a period of doing what seemed like everything in our power not to play friendlies. Didn't we have most of an international break where they just fucked off to Mar Hall for a "training camp"? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pie Of The Month Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 3 hours ago, TheScarf said: Did Wales and Romania not do this around 2013-2014? Arrange loads of friendlies they knew they'd win so their ranking points shot up and both ended up in pot 2 for the 2016 Euros qualifiers? It was the opposite. Wales purposefully didn't play any friendlies. They avoided them for 18months around the time they also started to win qualifiers and went from bottom seeds to top in the space of a few years. The only reason they ended up in the bottom pot too was some student from the Faroe Islands noticed Wales and Faroe Islands were on the same rankings points but Wales were above them and calculated the points out to extra decimal places and it turned out the Faroes should be above them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
true_rover Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 Ireland's friendly against England confirmed and if they lose it will most likely drop them down into pot 3. Daft from them to take a friendly and if they were obliged to then attempting to organise a more winnable game would've been more sensible. Assume they were obliged to do so but there will have been a limited number of teams that were available given that most would have had their friendly fixed up before the playoff semi finals. England have only become available because New Zealand dropped out of a game with them. Did Wales and Romania not do this around 2013-2014? Arrange loads of friendlies they knew they'd win so their ranking points shot up and both ended up in pot 2 for the 2016 Euros qualifiers?I'm sure Italy and the Netherlands did themselves out a top seed in recent qualifiers (maybe even finals?) by playing lowly ranked teams in friendlies. Italy played San Marino and it cost them points due to the way the ranking points were averaged. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donathan Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 As Romania have done. They've now got a home game vs neighbours Belarus which they should win.Norway were due to play Israel but it hasn't been confirmed yet I don't think. Think you need a geography lesson 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charger29 Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 Think you need a geography lesson More like glasses. The only reason I said that was because I looked at a map and saw Bulgaria to the south. Could have sworn it said Belarus though. Edit: I guess geography lessons would have helped too. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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