So assuming Uruguay and Mexico progress tomorrow the pots with a mixture of geographic and seeding splits will be:
1 Spain, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Belgium, Uruguay and Switzerland
2 Japan, Australia, South Korea, Iran, Mexico, Honduras, USA, Costa Rica
3 Nigeria, Ghana, Algeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ecuador, Chile and France
4 England, Netherlands, Portugal, Greece, Croatia, Bosnia, Russia, Italy
The big question. Who will it be? Gisele or Adriana?
http://www.thefreekick.com/board/index.php?threads/world-cup-2010.10509/page-4
Switzerland are top seeds? WTF :rolleyes:
That can’t be right.
Belgium. Switzerland and Colombia top seeds while Italy and Holland are fourth seeds.
[quote=“farmerinthecity, post: 862785, member: 24”]That can’t be right.
Belgium. Switzerland and Colombia top seeds while Italy and Holland are fourth seeds.[/quote]
Pots 2. 3 and 4 are arranged geographically. France are the spare European team.
[quote=“farmerinthecity, post: 862785, member: 24”]That can’t be right.
Belgium. Switzerland and Colombia top seeds while Italy and Holland are fourth seeds.[/quote]
Colombia are rightfully in the top seeds.
[quote=“mickee321, post: 862796, member: 367”]WTF @Rocko
a new low
at least lets get a group prediction thread going, this is embarrassing[/quote]
Mate, we always keep draw predictions on a separate thread from the draw itself. It’s how we roll.
That doesn’t answer my question though.
I would presume Belguim are rightfully there as well.
This is the first time they’ve qualified for a WC or Euros since 2002.
Holland reached the last World Cup final, Italy reached the final of Euro 2012 and England invented football so all should clearly be seeded.
[quote=“Sidney, post: 862815, member: 183”]This is the first time they’ve qualified for a WC or Euros since 2002.
Holland reached the last World Cup final, Italy reached the final of Euro 2012 and England invented football so all should clearly be seeded.[/quote]
Ya but have they not weighted it a littler more to the qualify results as well as geographical reasons?
The Swiss are always seeded and always get piss easy groups despite being shit. It helps when you have FIFA in your own back yard.
England, Italy and Holland all topped their group. Holland ran away with theirs.
Ya but is there much difference between groups 1 & 4? There is always 2 strong teams per group anyway. Can’t see why anyone would be that bothered about it.
I kind of see your your point re putting France in with the African qualifiers but it is a very big statement by FIFA.
Pot 1 is based on the rankings.
They say there’s a heavy bias towards results of conpetitive matches, but Switzerland attained their ranking in large part due to results in friendlies, while Holland got 28 points out of a possible 30 in qualifying and still aren’t seeded.
I find it all quite baffling to be honest. Ireland moved up in the seedings for the next European qualifiers off the back of a poor qualifying campaign, while Uruguay only finished fifth in qualifying and are seeded first for the World Cup.
[quote=“Sidney, post: 862880, member: 183”]Pot 1 is based on the rankings.
They say there’s a heavy bias towards results of conpetitive matches, but Switzerland attained their ranking in large part due to results in friendlies, while Holland got 28 points out of a possible 30 in qualifying and still aren’t seeded.
I find it all quite baffling to be honest. Ireland moved up in the seedings for the next European qualifiers off the back of a poor qualifying campaign, while Uruguay only finished fifth in qualifying and are seeded first for the World Cup.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/oct/17/england-seeded-switzerland-world-cup-draw-friendlies[/quote]
Ireland moved up the seedings because there will be more teams qualifying so they’ll have more groups and more seeds. Our ranking went down.
Raymond Verheijen‏@raymondverheije6m
A detailed analysis of the WC2014 schedule shows that nobody wants to be Brazil’s opponent in the opening game on Thu 12 June in Sao Paulo.
Raymond Verheijen‏@raymondverheije2m
After the opening game vs Brazil this team has to fly 3,880 km to Manaus for game 2 before a 4,508 km flight to Recife for game 3. Crazy.
[quote=“chewy louie, post: 870018, member: 1137”]Raymond Verheijen‏@raymondverheije6m
A detailed analysis of the WC2014 schedule shows that nobody wants to be Brazil’s opponent in the opening game on Thu 12 June in Sao Paulo.
Raymond Verheijen‏@raymondverheije2m
After the opening game vs Brazil this team has to fly 3,880 km to Manaus for game 2 before a 4,508 km flight to Recife for game 3. Crazy.[/quote]
Hey look, a Dutch guy is amazed that some countries are bigger than the postage stamp sized country he comes from.
His distances are off btw.