Any other demoralized Irish Football Fans out there?

[Kasz216]

zexen_lowe said:

Kasz216 said:

ManusJustus said:

Kasz216 said:

ManusJustus said:
I thought this was about Irish football. But American football makes much more sense because Ireland made the playoffs and is still in the running for the World Cup.

They should have fired Charlie Weis a long time ago, and I'm suprised they didn't.

Yeah, but they're getting screwed by the FIFA.  They always default to seeding whenever a big boy or two stuggles... and ONLY then.

Pot A Team Rank  France 9  Portugal 10  Russia 12  Greece 16

Pot B Team Rank  Ukraine 22  Republic of Ireland 34  Bosnia and Herzegovina 42  Slovenia 49

How exactly is that going to work?  Will higher seeds get to play lower seeds?

A team in Pot A will play a team in Pot B.  They will play each other twice.   The team that wins or wins and then ties, qualifies for the world cup.

If they both tie, or both W&L a tiebreaker will be played on an "even" site.  4 more teams will qualify. 

 

Traditionally there wouldn't be two "Pots" instead it would just be fully random pairings.

However last world cup when Spain was fearing elimination they went with an absolute pairing.  Best vs worst etc because they couldn't be without spain in their minds.

People were generally pissed off about that... so they're doing this... mostly because they can't do without Portugal and one of their big draws.  People are still generally upset.

I think 2 pots of 4 is fair, but it should be the ones that made it better in the group stage, Ukraine is getting screwed because they scored more points and Portugal is getting very benefitiated. But I guess that a Portugal-France match is not very rentable for the FIFA as one wouldn't make it to the WC....let's hope that neither does so they get double-screwed, hehe

Nothing would please me more.  Well ok.  LOTS of things would please me more... i'd be incredibly lame if that was my biggest desire.  Still that would sure make my day.