Euros qualifying draw

[celticknight]

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Ireland getting France and Netherlands though, poor sods.

Northern Ireland might have a crack at 2nd in their group though, if they get their act together. Finland and Slovenia are hardly anything to be feared.

[Des Parrot]

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Armenia …. well there’s a travel challenge!

[Kind of Blue]

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Turkey the only unfavourable one really. Mercurial team, one of the toughest in that pot. Armenia, one of the more favourable from pot 3 you’d have to say. Latvia, fine for that pot. Croatia a very good side but not as daunting as some of the others in pot 1.

[the other bob wilson]

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An ageing Croatia, Armenia, Turkey, Latvia - I think that could be a lot tougher.. The Turks are dangerous fourth seeds, but, I can see their games with Armenia being real grudge matches where I can see the pair of them taking points off each other.

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

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We should finish ahead of Turkey shouldn't we? We beat them in the last Euros, not playing that we'll. (No guarantees obviously.)

[the other bob wilson]

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We should finish ahead of Turkey shouldn't we? We beat them in the last Euros, not playing that we'll. (No guarantees obviously.)

Remember how the Turks were many peoples dark horses ahead of the Euros? Some of the stuff I read beforehand about them was frightening and yet they were probably the worst team in the competition. I think the description of them as “mercurial” above is spot on, in that if they get a bit of momentum behind them, I’d say they could win the group, but it’s far more likely that they’ll under achieve again.

[City123]

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Turkey and Croatia will be confident of top two in our group but I fancy our chances of a play off spot. Cracking draw for NI, shows how seedings don’t tend to mean much. Typical now that are a second seed!

Why? We battered Turkey last time we played them and they've just lost to the Faroe Islands! We should be confident of top 2.

That's an ageing Croatia side as well, we've avoided the proper big hitters from pot 1. Very good draw for us

[Rjk]

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mhkitaryan retired from international football earlier in the year, so Armenia really is a great draw.

[WJ99mobile]

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What a fantastic group as a travelling fan from my point of view

All places I’d love to go

[City123]

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An ageing Croatia, Armenia, Turkey, Latvia - I think that could be a lot tougher.. The Turks are dangerous fourth seeds, but, I can see their games with Armenia being real grudge matches where I can see the pair of them taking points off each other.

I wonder if some of their older stars may retire after this World Cup?

[the other bob wilson]

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I wonder if some of their older stars may retire after this World Cup?

In a way, we might be better off with them not doing that because they’ve usually got plenty of good, young talent coming through.

[Canton Kev]

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A decent group by all accounts. The worst team from pot 3 and not one of the top teams from pot 1.
Turkiye isn’t great but they’re pot 4 for a reason.

Couple of fun away days.

[caerkid]

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Would prefer Wales' group to any other home nation (including England for a change). With all the talk of aging players in this thread though I do donder how many Wales players will be left for this campaign mind!

[Monster munch]

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Will take that draw all day long. Riga away for the Latvia game will be a fun one!!

[darran1927]

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I wonder if England will give up their spot to Ukraine