mack Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 World Cup 2018 World Cup 2018 Russia - 14/6/2018 to 15/7/2018 Qualified Teams & Draw SeedingPot 1: Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Russia Pot 2: Colombia, Croatia, England, Mexico, Peru, Spain, Switzerland, Uruguay Pot 3: Costa Rica, Denmark, Egpyt, Iceland, Iran, Senegal, Sweden, Tunisia Pot 4: Australia, Japan, Morocco, Nigeria, Panama, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South Korea Draw to be held 1 December 2017 For Discussion specific to Australia see the Australian National Team Thread Link to comment
neilando Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 I am hoping for a group with Russia, Peru & Costa Rica, but we will probably get Germany, Spain & Denmark. wswtragic 1 Link to comment
Davo Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 22 minutes ago, neilando said: I am hoping for a group with Russia, Peru & Costa Rica, but we will probably get Germany, Spain & Denmark. Can't get three UEFA countries in the one group. So Germany, Spain and Costa Rica it is then... Link to comment
sonar Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 I'm hoping for Russia/Peru/Egypt/Australia Link to comment
mack Posted November 16, 2017 Author Share Posted November 16, 2017 Russia will fix the draw to have the easiest teams in their group. They'll probably open the cup with a game against Panama. Link to comment
btron3000 Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 Not sure I'd want to play Russia at home, think the refs might somehow favour them... So maybe Poland. Pot 2 - Peru are just ok and are away in Europe. Colombia hot and cold and in Europe. Pot 3 - Costa Rica or the two African teams. Link to comment
Davo Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 Everyone wants Russia out of Pot 1. I think we'll get turned over by any of the others so it doesn't really matter which one. Agree about Pot 2, Peru or Colombia, maybe Mexico, but none of the Europeans in Europe (although there'd be a pile of pressure on England if we drew them). Definitely don't want Spain again. Wouldn't mind Tunisia out of Pot 3, maybe Egypt. Don't want Denmark, or Iceland with the run they're on. Link to comment
luisenrique Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 40 minutes ago, btron3000 said: Not sure I'd want to play Russia at home, think the refs might somehow favour them... Yeah I don't want them at all. Has anyone watched Icarus??? The Russians will stop at nothing to get far in this tournament. Also, South Korea 2002... Denmark are definitely the ones to avoid in Pot 3, Eriksen will absolutely destroy us. That was one of the best hat-tricks I've ever seen. Rest of their team looked pretty good too...they basically play how Ange believes we play in his delusions. From Pot 2 I'd like to avoid Spain, Uruguay and Croatia (and probably England, but it'd be fun). Pot 1 Poland is the obvious choice, although Lewandowski could murder us. A part of me wants to see Messi against Bailey Wright though. Link to comment
SomeGuy1977 Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 7 hours ago, luisenrique said: A part of me wants to see Messi against Bailey Wright though. You are one sadistic puppy wendybr, GunnerWanderer and sonar 3 Link to comment
GunnerWanderer Posted November 17, 2017 Share Posted November 17, 2017 I want the Poms bad. nothing against some of your Pommy forum mob but I've long wanted to play and beat them at the WC. wendybr, Swanderer and sonar 3 Link to comment
sonar Posted November 17, 2017 Share Posted November 17, 2017 9 minutes ago, GunnerWanderer said: I want the Poms bad. nothing against some of your Pommy forum mob but I've long wanted to play and beat them at the WC. I think most Aus supporters agree but I don't think we will beat them, at least not with this team...lol Link to comment
MadKaw Posted November 17, 2017 Share Posted November 17, 2017 I think most poms would like to play Aus too... :-) (I'd be impartial)... Link to comment
GunnerWanderer Posted November 18, 2017 Share Posted November 18, 2017 Yeah kane and dele scare me looks to be a decent English team as they have had since Gazza was running around doing good things Link to comment
btron3000 Posted November 18, 2017 Share Posted November 18, 2017 England are way better than us. The only thing we could hope for would be for them to **** themselves at the thought of losing a WC match to us. This might sound stupid but if we wallop them in the Ashes it’d increase the pressure on them if they played us. So good just reading through those teams. Only 32 nations get this privilege every four years! And this’ll be the last semi-decent one so i’m gonna soak it up. wendybr 1 Link to comment
btron3000 Posted November 18, 2017 Share Posted November 18, 2017 I’d like to see England draw Iceland sonar, wendybr, pseudonym and 2 others 5 Link to comment
luisenrique Posted November 18, 2017 Share Posted November 18, 2017 Yeah in 2006 I would have loved to get England...now, not so much. That said, I wouldn't put a draw against them past us at all, it's exactly the kind of game they usually choke in and we usually lift for. wendybr 1 Link to comment
btron3000 Posted November 18, 2017 Share Posted November 18, 2017 If they got us and Iceland it would be the perfect grouping to trouble their fractured psych. You just know in the buildup the whole country would be going “we really should beat these teams but we’ll probably choke”. Then they’d probably get out of the group, start talking about winning the thing because they’ve got over the banana skins, and promptly go out in the round of 16, either by playing garbage to a small team that gutsed it out of their group and who England should beat, or playing heroically against Germany or another superpower and losing on pens. Can’t wait. Link to comment
luisenrique Posted November 19, 2017 Share Posted November 19, 2017 2010 was the best, it was them, Algeria, Slovenia and USA, and The Sun ran a headline saying EASY (England, Algeria, Slovenia, Yanks) Nek minnit, England draw with the USA and Algeria, narrowly beat Slovenia 1-0, finish 2nd behind the Yanks (lol) and then get smashed by Germany in the next round. bombagol 1 Link to comment
Beer Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 "Yankee Doddle" was another one. Link to comment
mack Posted December 1, 2017 Author Share Posted December 1, 2017 Draw starting. SBS have a stream. https://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/article/2017/12/01/watch-2018-fifa-world-cup-draw-live-stream Lucy Link to comment
btron3000 Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 It’s also on SBS! Two days ago I was thinking of not watching World Cup because of the dodgy ****s running the game. Now here I am at 2am hoping like hell we don’t get Spain who are inexplicably in Pot 2. Football hey. Anyway, Russia... doubt this draw will be rigged... JackDoff 1 Link to comment
mack Posted December 1, 2017 Author Share Posted December 1, 2017 Group A: Russia, Saudi, Egypt, Uruguay Group B: Porgular, Spain, Morocco, Iran Group C: France, Australia, Peru, Denmark Group D: Argentina, Iceland, Croatia, Nigeria Group E: Brazil, Switzerland, Costa Rica, Serbia Group F: Germany, Mexico, Sweden, South Korea Group G: Belgium, Panama, Tunisia, England Group H: Poland, Senegal, Colombia, Japan Carns and wendybr 2 Link to comment
Carns Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 Happy with the draw and our group. Avoided the group of death. Bring on European summer! France will be very tough, Peru and Denmark are not to be dismissed, but it could've been much worse. wendybr 1 Link to comment
btron3000 Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 A and H easiest. Yeah not horrible for us but not easy. Have to beat Peru and see what else happens. Unfortunately we play Peru last so gotta avoid a shellacking in opening game a-la 2010 and be within striking distance for game 3. Smoggy and wendybr 2 Link to comment
mack Posted December 1, 2017 Author Share Posted December 1, 2017 If we finish 2nd in our group we're looking likely to face Argentina in the R16. Link to comment
Wanderboy Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 Without getting ahead of ourselves, we are the obvious outlier in that group that the other 3 will look at us and see a win. I hope we can maybe just throw a spanner into the works and **** them over. Not a bad group tbh. And....geez that was nerve racking watching that!!! wendybr 1 Link to comment
TheFootyofOz Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 Good time to show up I reckon sonar, JackDoff and wendybr 1 2 Link to comment
Smoggy Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 (edited) I watched the RoI v Denmark game, Denmark killed them.......totally ripped them a new one, it was brutal and ruthless. If Denmark take that kind of game to the world cup not only will they get out of the group, they are my tip to shock a few and be that team that comes from nowhere and gets to like the QF's or SF. Denmark have previous when it comes to that when they won the Euro's in Sweden in 1992 when they came in only after Yugoslavia were booted out. I rate Boro's Dane Martin Braithwaite very highly indeed, he on the bench for Denmark these days.France and Denmark to progress you would think. As for England, they avoided Sweden who England always struggle against. A game against Belgium will be just like an EPL game, which will play in England's favour as it being just like an EPL game undid Wales at the Euro's in the only game England won I think. They have to be happy with that group. Australia would have been better in group A or H, going to be a struggle, Australia play France and Denmark then Peru last. Hopefully that last game will mean something. Edited December 1, 2017 by WSWBoro Carns and wendybr 2 Link to comment
Smoggy Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 (edited) 3 hours ago, Carns said: Happy with the draw and our group. Avoided the group of death. Bring on European summer! France will be very tough, Peru and Denmark are not to be dismissed, but it could've been much worse. Not sure there is a group of death this time, Group B with Spain and Portugal together perhaps with Iran going unbeaten in qualifying and Morocco okish... Group F looks hard seeing Germany and Sweden together along with Mexico, zee Germans will at least get a testing in the group stage. Groups A and H are where you would want to be I think and Denmark should deff not be dismissed lol Edited December 1, 2017 by WSWBoro Carns 1 Link to comment
Paul01 Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 27 minutes ago, WSWBoro said: Not sure there is a group of death this time, Group B with Spain and Portugal together perhaps with Iran going unbeaten in qualifying and Morocco okish... Group F looks hard seeing Germany and Sweden together along with Mexico, zee Germans will at least get a testing in the group stage. Groups A and H are where you would want to be I think and Denmark should deff not be dismissed lol Yep according to the Guardian, Group A weakest and Group B strongest. our group considered weak almost with Group H. Groups F and G considered strong. Groups D and E considered balanced. wendybr 1 Link to comment
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