Could have been better, could have been worse. You can imagine all the Belgian fans saying bollox, not Wales again!!
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Good news we are in 5 team group?
Could have been better, could have been worse. You can imagine all the Belgian fans saying bollox, not Wales again!!
Should we fear Belgium? We took four points off them in qualifying for 2016 and then beat them in the quarter finals.
Have the FAW done anything to counter the activity whereby those who are high up on the list for away tickets continue purchasing them even when they don't attend (in order to protect their place in the pecking order over the longer term)? I believe that the English FA ensure that it doesn't happen by distributing the tickets in the away locations before the games.
Belgium won't be pleased to be meeting us again, but, realistically, we'll be going for second place and I don't think we've got a bad draw there - if we can get our big players on the pitch more than we often do, we can definitely get into the Play Offs.
so do the top 2 qualify for the world cup ?
It obviously was a problem. I went to the Albania friendly where tickets were about a fiver. Though the Wales allocation sold out the end was half-full.
The last qualifying campaigns had smallish stadia so there was an issue with limited allocations that people not travelling might harvest the points. In Croatia and Hungary there were checks of the name on the ticket against an original passport. People were turned away who had their mate's tickets.
In Slovakia and Azerbaijan there was a 100% ticket collection in a hotel in the destination with potential sanctions and loyalty point loss where the tickets weren't collected.
We have a play off place guaranteed already through our Nations League heroics.
So it's 1st place or nothing, we don't need to play for second.
We're basically in the playoffs already anyway. Can afford to play a little gung-ho against Belgium.
Think that England will get through regardless of who they've drawn, so not too concerned about them. A few on here believe Scotland have an easy draw. Not too sure about that. Denmark are way better than them and Austria and Israel will make it a tough ask to qualify. Good luck to them though.
I am aware that it goes on but I have no idea how widespread it is. As someone who is keen to attend more away games (but can't always get tickets) it was a legitimate question and was about something that other football authorities make efforts to counter.
Try re-reading my missives in a more relaxed 'tone', old fruit.....