Gribz 850 Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 Scotland up to 25th in the rankings now after the France win! That is getting very respectable. NI (46th) go above R of Ire (49th) while Wales are 77th. England are 5th. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmck 117 Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 its great how less meaningless these figures become when you're doing well! 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
juffery 0 Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 All credit to Walter, and I think it's only going to get better. He has several very good young guys still to come into the squad, I'm thinking Scott Brown, Stephen Naismith, Shaun Maloney, Kevin Thomson, Steven Whittiker etc so I think we shold have a positve next few years. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
calscot 0 Posted October 18, 2006 Author Share Posted October 18, 2006 The figures are never meaningless, they affect what kind of qualifying groups we get, which is why we're a fourth seed with France, Italy and Ukraine in our group. Keep this up and we could scrape a second seeding giving us one less giant to kill. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraser54 0 Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 NI tot ake over Ireland in the next couple of years me thinks told you it would happen this year and great nws for scotland 25th in the world is amazing 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geo1873 0 Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 excellent news! well done Wattie! 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon 0 Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 Great stuff 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gribz 850 Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 I wonder if thats NI's best place ever, they are normal around 89th and Wales 101st. With Wales the lowest home nation on 77th i also wonder if thats the best all 5 have been positioned at 1 time. I certainly is since I can remember 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rinogattuso 0 Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 are you sure the world rankings come into play when the euro qualifier draw is made? i was always under the impression your previous qualification record had something to do with it. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beattie 0 Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 It's your past qualifying record. Hence the worry when we were doing so badly that we would again fail to qualify, and fall down a pot for the WC Qualifiers, making it 99% likely we would get a group with three big names in it, and the "best of the rest", making it impossible to qualify. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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