My order of preference:
- Hungary
- Bosnia
- Sweden
- Ukraine
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Is it based exclusively on FIFA rankings or are there other criteria? Most recent FIFA rankings before last two round of qualifiers were
24 Ukraine
28 Denmark
30 Bosnia
33 Hungary
34 Norway
45 Sweden
46 Slovenia
54 Éire
UEFA National Team Coefficient.
If it was called Coefficient UEFA National Teams we would have a much better abbreviation.
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Euro 2016 qualifiers best third placed team summary:
Turkey ate Hungary, who dipped in Greece.
Nothing to fear from those four - I’m beginning to believe again.
Hungary - get them and we’ll qualify. The Estonia of this play off.
Bosnia - we’ll have a decent chance.
Sweden - tough but we’d have a chance.
Ukraine - a nightmare trip out there in the middle of winter, horrible place to go. They don’t want foreigners. On a footballing level they are probably a bit better than us. Wouldn’t be impossible to get through. But if we had to go there for the first leg the tie could be over by the time we get to lansdowne.
Are we home first as the unseeded team? Some football journalist type mentioned this the other day but the UEFA website isn’t specific on it.
The team that is drawn out of the hat first are at home in the first leg according to SSN.
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That’s proper fucked up logic.
UEFA don’t do straightforward.
There’s a draw to determine the home/away sequence in each tie.
Each fixture will see a seeded team play against a non-seeded team, with the first side drawn playing the first leg at home
So we’re all in the one hat? UEFA doesn’t mention the number of hats, just that there’s two groups, seeded and unseeded.
Which does indeed make it unclear. And could leave a former footballing great with the possibility of pulling out Ukraine and then Sweden, then Bosnia, then Hungary, before finally finding a non-seed. Or vice-versa.
Put the seeds in one hat, non-seeds in another. Take one out of each hat and stick both in another hat, then draw the two out, first out plays first leg at home.
That’s how I reckon they’ll do it, although that’s probably not contrived enough for them.
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Since when do UEFA, or any world body, use hats for draws??? You mad bastard.
It’s a saying you thick cunt.
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Go shit in your hat, pal.
Nobody shits in a hat anymore. 
Is that an updated table?