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Lunatic:
^the seeding is smart. It goes by FIFA ranking.
Top 4 seeds play bottom 4 seeds (draw)
Russia
France
Greece
Portugal
will play
Ukraine
Ireland
Bosnia
Slovakia
This is smart. Do U really wanna see Portugal playing France and Bosnia playing Slovakia? It's better this way.
Invincible:
--- Quote from: Lunatic 63 on October 14, 2009, 03:43:13 PM ---^the seeding is smart. It goes by FIFA ranking.
Top 4 seeds play bottom 4 seeds (draw)
Russia
France
Greece
Portugal
will play
Ukraine
Ireland
Bosnia
Slovakia
This is smart. Do U really wanna see Portugal playing France and Bosnia playing Slovakia? It's better this way.
--- End quote ---
It takes away the chance of 1 of those countries being able to make it when they rarely ever go to finals. I think its bullshit. Theres aready a couple of teams going to that World Cup that have no chance (North Korea and either New Zealand or Bahrain) so why would it matter which teams qualify? Its not every World Cup that Bosnia has a chance as big as this to qualify and the World Cup only comes around every 4 years.
Lunatic:
^But Portugal & France have performed pretty well in the last few tournaments. Last 3 major tournaments, Portugal were final 8 teams; 2 of which final 4, and finals. France were finalists in the last WC. So just because there are a couple of teams going that have no chance, they should try and send more of them? I don't think so. If they can beat Portugal or France, they deserve to be there.
That's nobodies fault but Bosnia.
No Compute:
Yeah but why should Portugal and France etc. have it easy, there should be a level playing field and the decision to seed the draw when qualifying is well under way is bullshit and clearly FIFA shitting it because the World Cup may have ended up missing a few so called big teams.
Invincible:
--- Quote from: Lunatic 63 on October 14, 2009, 04:04:20 PM ---^But Portugal & France have performed pretty well in the last few tournaments. Last 3 major tournaments, Portugal were final 8 teams; 2 of which final 4, and finals. France were finalists in the last WC. So just because there are a couple of teams going that have no chance, they should try and send more of them? I don't think so. If they can beat Portugal or France, they deserve to be there.
That's nobodies fault but Bosnia.
--- End quote ---
But by saying that, you could also say its France's and Portugals fault for not making it through the group stages. They were the top seeds in their respective groups so they have already been given the best chance of qualifying. So basically what I'm saying is why should the lower seeded teams suffer just because the 1st seeded teams couldn't make it through their groups?
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