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    Posted: December 13 2015 at 10:21
Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

According to the FIFA Rankings (for whatever that's worth) it's group D (Spain, Czech Republic, Turkey, Croatia) closely followed by E (Belgium, Italy, Republic of Ireland, Sweden) and F (Portugal, Iceland, Austria, Hungary). There is only 2.5% between the combined ranking points so it's essentially a crapshoot. As usual I think France's ranking is a bit false as they didn't have to play qualifying so didn't get that points benefit. Group A is more comparable to B & C. 

Combined FIFA Ranking Points - D - 4121, E - 4066, F - 4016, B - 3835, C - 3790, A - 3644

I'm reasonably happy with England's draw, it was inevitable we'd get one of the Home Nations and the one we wanted to avoid is clearly Wales, I'm just glad we missed Italy who were clearly the strongest team in pot 2. Sweden with Zlatan are also extremely dangerous. 

The beauty this tournament is there are no bad teams, the lowest ranked is 38th in a tournament with 24 teams in it & 12 of the top 20 teams in the world are here. Biggest shock is still that Netherlands are there.


Clap  should be a lot of fun. All of the teams, the 'blue bloods' seem to have flaws or major red flags (like Spain), I sure don't see a clear favorite.  Pretty much wide open to any number of teams winning it.
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Originally posted by Tuzvihar Tuzvihar wrote:

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love that.. Germany Poland Ukraine..  random draw? My ass LOL 

Yeah! LOL A very "neighbourly" group to be sure!

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Family immigrated here to the states from the Ukraine, of Polish Ancestry, yet with a German surname. So who to root for...not the Germans.. not the Ukrainians..  so it is the Poles! 


Poles from Ukraine with German surname? Wacko Yeah, we were all mixed-up here. Smile


I think I had told you years ago when we first met here. My grandfather immigrated here (via South America) from a village in 1912 that was (with the partitions of Poland in the late 18th century) within the Russian border. The village he came from is lost to time I suppose.  My grandfather passed away in the late 70's and all I remember him telling me as it no longer existed, it was wiped off the map by the events of the next few years. Be it WW1 or the revolution. He (we) still had family there. God knows what happened to that branch of the family. Ignorance is bliss there my friend.

As far as the German surname.. yeah.. I suppose we did get a german in the family woodshed at some point LOL Of course my mother married an Irishman so I got a completely bland and flavorless last name.. and one I completely enjoyed as a kid as it naturally fit the punchline of all the jokes the kids threw at me.  Then again.. I grew to enjoy Scary Berry.
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According to the FIFA Rankings (for whatever that's worth) it's group D (Spain, Czech Republic, Turkey, Croatia) closely followed by E (Belgium, Italy, Republic of Ireland, Sweden) and F (Portugal, Iceland, Austria, Hungary). There is only 2.5% between the combined ranking points so it's essentially a crapshoot. As usual I think France's ranking is a bit false as they didn't have to play qualifying so didn't get that points benefit. Group A is more comparable to B & C. 

Combined FIFA Ranking Points - D - 4121, E - 4066, F - 4016, B - 3835, C - 3790, A - 3644

I'm reasonably happy with England's draw, it was inevitable we'd get one of the Home Nations and the one we wanted to avoid is clearly Wales, I'm just glad we missed Italy who were clearly the strongest team in pot 2. Sweden with Zlatan are also extremely dangerous. 

The beauty this tournament is there are no bad teams, the lowest ranked is 38th in a tournament with 24 teams in it & 12 of the top 20 teams in the world are here. Biggest shock is still that Netherlands are there.


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funny... one of my coworkers is of pure German stock... blond hair blue eyed.. he was a Christian from Syria that got the hell out of that place with his wife and kids and came here... and spoke English with an arabic accent.  Messed up sh*t man. He is a trip...
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

love that.. Germany Poland Ukraine..  random draw? My ass LOL 

Yeah! LOL A very "neighbourly" group to be sure!

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Family immigrated here to the states from the Ukraine, of Polish Ancestry, yet with a German surname. So who to root for...not the Germans.. not the Ukrainians..  so it is the Poles! 


Poles from Ukraine with German surname? Wacko Yeah, we were all mixed-up here. Smile
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randomly drawn? my ass LOLWink
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

hah!!  Poor Poland..  will they ever escape being grouped with Germany LOL


I asked the same question. Why are we never drawn to a group with France, Spain or Italy for example? Seems like a conspiracy! LOL
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love that.. Germany Poland Ukraine..  random draw? My ass LOL  While Italy is my adopted home country and my primary rooting interest Group C is the one has the genealogical interest for me. Family immigrated here to the states from the Ukraine, of Polish Ancestry, yet with a German surname. So who to root for...not the Germans.. not the Ukrainians..  so it is the Poles! 
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hah!!  Poor Poland..  will they ever escape being grouped with Germany LOL

some really interesting brackets there Bartek.

toughest.. I'm going against the common thought (which is E) and saying it is D.  Spain better be on top of its game or it isnt making it out of that group. All 4 are valid knockout stage teams where E has one relative cake walk.
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http://c.files.bbci.co.uk/3383/production/_87178131_groups.jpg

Well, what do you think? Which group is the toughest (the "death group") and which one's the easiest? Which one's the most interesting?


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this can't go on. we can't stop all activities just because of some threat now. if we do the terrorists will have won indeed. this hysteria has to stop


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Yes, a match that was scheduled between Spain and Belgium in Brussels was cancelled last night too because of security reasons. 
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in case no-one noticed: the match between Germany and the Netherlands that was supposed to take place in Hanover this evening was cancelled due to a bomb threat. the spectators were evacuated


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Alright!! Our national team played two last matches this year (friendly games) with two teams that will play on European Championship next year. After 4:2 with Iceland on Friday today we beat Czech Rep. 3:1.

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Here I see people talking about their countries making it to big competitions while my country has just been suspended from the FIFA. And we almost had a AFC CUP final with two Kuwaiti teams. That's not gonna happen now. Gotta love Kuwait, man. 
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