in the REAL competition, Congratulations to Scotland for their achievement this international week.
This rubbish nations league stuff needs to end. its pointless and boring. what exactly is there to play for. an ultra complex stupid qualifying route to just exactly what?
England v ireland
England v iceland.
who gives a stuff.
lets get back to meaningless glamour friendlies and ACTUAL qualifiers to actual tournaments.
Let me be CRYSTAL clear, "in February 2012 it was agreed between UEFA and the European Club Association (ECA) that the international friendly schedule would be reduced from 12 to 9 matches a year with the August round of international friendlies in the UEFA confederation abolished from 2015
The aspiration to eliminate friendlies in favour of a more competitive tournament has been welcomed by many football commentators."
Reality: International teams insert a THRID game into the week and keep the friendlies and the extra tournament.
not only are elite players flogged to death but the true horror of this rubbish is the small teams get faff all out of it and the 3 or 4 big European teams will share a big slush fund.
the FA took 8million out of the last nations league and that vanished into the usual slush funds.
disgraceful. Can't believe fans fall for this rubbish.
comment by moreinjuredthanowen (U9641)
posted 13 minutes ago
in the REAL competition, Congratulations to Scotland for their achievement this international week.
This rubbish nations league stuff needs to end. its pointless and boring. what exactly is there to play for. an ultra complex stupid qualifying route to just exactly what?
England v ireland
England v iceland.
who gives a stuff.
lets get back to meaningless glamour friendlies and ACTUAL qualifiers to actual tournaments.
Let me be CRYSTAL clear, "in February 2012 it was agreed between UEFA and the European Club Association (ECA) that the international friendly schedule would be reduced from 12 to 9 matches a year with the August round of international friendlies in the UEFA confederation abolished from 2015
The aspiration to eliminate friendlies in favour of a more competitive tournament has been welcomed by many football commentators."
Reality: International teams insert a THRID game into the week and keep the friendlies and the extra tournament.
not only are elite players flogged to death but the true horror of this rubbish is the small teams get faff all out of it and the 3 or 4 big European teams will share a big slush fund.
the FA took 8million out of the last nations league and that vanished into the usual slush funds.
disgraceful. Can't believe fans fall for this rubbish.
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Read back your first two paragraphs
Reality: International teams insert a THRID game into the week and keep the friendlies and the extra tournament.
=========
This is only a reality because of COVID though. The play-offs had to be completed over the last two breaks, hence the 3rd game. It is not the norm.
This rubbish nations league stuff needs to end. its pointless and boring.
=======
It has actually been proved to be popular across Europe. It gives nations competitive games that traditional qualifying rarely does. It has given meaning to the minnows who would normally spend 2 years getting hammered.
in the REAL competition, Congratulations to Scotland for their achievement this international week.
======
Not sure of your understanding, but the play-offs that allowed Scotland to progress were formed by the Nations League results.
Personally prefer the Nations League to "traditional qualifying" - which tends to be a cakewalk for the top seeds and damage limitation for 2 or 3 teams per group.
in the REAL competition, Congratulations to Scotland for their achievement this international week.
This rubbish nations league stuff needs to end
----------------------
Brilliant. Could easily pass for a Barry comment that.
Does anybody care about international football anymore?
The World Cup is great, Euros is good. Everything is drab.
comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 3 minutes ago
Does anybody care about international football anymore?
The World Cup is great, Euros is good. Everything is drab.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Copa America >>>>> Euros.
Although it will be interesting to know how you would pick the teams who play in the World Cup and Euros. Invite only?
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 3 minutes ago
Does anybody care about international football anymore?
The World Cup is great, Euros is good. Everything is drab.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Copa America >>>>> Euros.
Although it will be interesting to know how you would pick the teams who play in the World Cup and Euros. Invite only?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Only invite those who qualified for next year's euros from now on. It's a good reflection of what teams consistently qualify and therefore deserve to be there going forward.
Seems fair Barry.
Maybe use France 98 qualifiers for future World Cups?
comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 17 minutes ago
Does anybody care about international football anymore?
The World Cup is great, Euros is good. Everything is drab.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Personally prefer it to the CL if I’m absolutely honest. Love big international tournaments has a magic about it, the CL has become really stale these days
comment by Busby (U19985)
Does anybody care about international football anymore?
The World Cup is great, Euros is good. Everything is drab.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
International tournaments are the best part of football by far.
I still dont understand whut Nations League is.
Just seems 2b that Italy play Poland every game.
Does anyone really care about this "competition"?
San Marino have gone two games without defeat for the first time in their history. Nations League bringing light to the minnows of football in these dark times.
comment by #LiquidGenius (U20571)
posted 4 hours, 45 minutes ago
comment by Busby (U19985)
Does anybody care about international football anymore?
The World Cup is great, Euros is good. Everything is drab.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
International tournaments are the best part of football by far.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The World Cup perhaps
Nations league is the best thing that ever happened to scotland. No more meaningless friendlies, it means every game we play has an importance. Tomorrow if we win we will go into a world cup play off. I'll say no more.
comment by Busby (U19985)
comment by #LiquidGenius (U20571)
comment by Busby (U19985)
Does anybody care about international football anymore?
The World Cup is great, Euros is good. Everything is drab.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
International tournaments are the best part of football by far.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The World Cup perhaps
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The World Cup especially, but also the Euros.
They're mainstream events. People who never usually watch football watch the games.
With club football, no one who isn't already a football fan actually cares.
Even the big UCL and PL games don't have any kind of aura or mystic about them anymore. Club football just feels stale and irrelevant nowadays. That's partly why the big clubs are trying to create a super league.
comment by Donny The King van de Beek (U10026)
posted 2 hours, 49 minutes ago
San Marino have gone two games without defeat for the first time in their history. Nations League bringing light to the minnows of football in these dark times.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
comment by bigfingers (U9540)
posted 21 minutes ago
Nations league is the best thing that ever happened to scotland. No more meaningless friendlies, it means every game we play has an importance. Tomorrow if we win we will go into a world cup play off. I'll say no more.
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World Cup?
Didnt even know qualfcation had begin 4 that?
My understanding is that there are only 2 WC qualifying play-off places available through the NL and nothing will be guaranteed after the conclusion of these matches.
It works better with the Euros than it does with the WC.
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 1 minute ago
My understanding is that there are only 2 WC qualifying play-off places available through the NL and nothing will be guaranteed after the conclusion of these matches.
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Yeah that’s my understanding though I think if the a groups pan out as expected scotland might find themselves with a good chance of a play off spot, as the a lister bu guns will have qualified? Fack knows, it is confusing. Though I’d be better to see someone like wakes, Scotland,or Austria etc at the WC rather than Panama or Honduras etc.
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posted on 14/11/20
in the REAL competition, Congratulations to Scotland for their achievement this international week.
This rubbish nations league stuff needs to end. its pointless and boring. what exactly is there to play for. an ultra complex stupid qualifying route to just exactly what?
England v ireland
England v iceland.
who gives a stuff.
lets get back to meaningless glamour friendlies and ACTUAL qualifiers to actual tournaments.
Let me be CRYSTAL clear, "in February 2012 it was agreed between UEFA and the European Club Association (ECA) that the international friendly schedule would be reduced from 12 to 9 matches a year with the August round of international friendlies in the UEFA confederation abolished from 2015
The aspiration to eliminate friendlies in favour of a more competitive tournament has been welcomed by many football commentators."
Reality: International teams insert a THRID game into the week and keep the friendlies and the extra tournament.
not only are elite players flogged to death but the true horror of this rubbish is the small teams get faff all out of it and the 3 or 4 big European teams will share a big slush fund.
the FA took 8million out of the last nations league and that vanished into the usual slush funds.
disgraceful. Can't believe fans fall for this rubbish.
posted on 14/11/20
comment by moreinjuredthanowen (U9641)
posted 13 minutes ago
in the REAL competition, Congratulations to Scotland for their achievement this international week.
This rubbish nations league stuff needs to end. its pointless and boring. what exactly is there to play for. an ultra complex stupid qualifying route to just exactly what?
England v ireland
England v iceland.
who gives a stuff.
lets get back to meaningless glamour friendlies and ACTUAL qualifiers to actual tournaments.
Let me be CRYSTAL clear, "in February 2012 it was agreed between UEFA and the European Club Association (ECA) that the international friendly schedule would be reduced from 12 to 9 matches a year with the August round of international friendlies in the UEFA confederation abolished from 2015
The aspiration to eliminate friendlies in favour of a more competitive tournament has been welcomed by many football commentators."
Reality: International teams insert a THRID game into the week and keep the friendlies and the extra tournament.
not only are elite players flogged to death but the true horror of this rubbish is the small teams get faff all out of it and the 3 or 4 big European teams will share a big slush fund.
the FA took 8million out of the last nations league and that vanished into the usual slush funds.
disgraceful. Can't believe fans fall for this rubbish.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Read back your first two paragraphs
posted on 14/11/20
Reality: International teams insert a THRID game into the week and keep the friendlies and the extra tournament.
=========
This is only a reality because of COVID though. The play-offs had to be completed over the last two breaks, hence the 3rd game. It is not the norm.
This rubbish nations league stuff needs to end. its pointless and boring.
=======
It has actually been proved to be popular across Europe. It gives nations competitive games that traditional qualifying rarely does. It has given meaning to the minnows who would normally spend 2 years getting hammered.
in the REAL competition, Congratulations to Scotland for their achievement this international week.
======
Not sure of your understanding, but the play-offs that allowed Scotland to progress were formed by the Nations League results.
posted on 14/11/20
Personally prefer the Nations League to "traditional qualifying" - which tends to be a cakewalk for the top seeds and damage limitation for 2 or 3 teams per group.
posted on 14/11/20
in the REAL competition, Congratulations to Scotland for their achievement this international week.
This rubbish nations league stuff needs to end
----------------------
Brilliant. Could easily pass for a Barry comment that.
posted on 14/11/20
Does anybody care about international football anymore?
The World Cup is great, Euros is good. Everything is drab.
posted on 14/11/20
comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 3 minutes ago
Does anybody care about international football anymore?
The World Cup is great, Euros is good. Everything is drab.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Copa America >>>>> Euros.
Although it will be interesting to know how you would pick the teams who play in the World Cup and Euros. Invite only?
posted on 14/11/20
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 3 minutes ago
Does anybody care about international football anymore?
The World Cup is great, Euros is good. Everything is drab.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Copa America >>>>> Euros.
Although it will be interesting to know how you would pick the teams who play in the World Cup and Euros. Invite only?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Only invite those who qualified for next year's euros from now on. It's a good reflection of what teams consistently qualify and therefore deserve to be there going forward.
posted on 14/11/20
Seems fair Barry.
Maybe use France 98 qualifiers for future World Cups?
posted on 14/11/20
comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 17 minutes ago
Does anybody care about international football anymore?
The World Cup is great, Euros is good. Everything is drab.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Personally prefer it to the CL if I’m absolutely honest. Love big international tournaments has a magic about it, the CL has become really stale these days
posted on 14/11/20
comment by Busby (U19985)
Does anybody care about international football anymore?
The World Cup is great, Euros is good. Everything is drab.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
International tournaments are the best part of football by far.
posted on 14/11/20
I still dont understand whut Nations League is.
Just seems 2b that Italy play Poland every game.
posted on 14/11/20
Does anyone really care about this "competition"?
posted on 14/11/20
San Marino have gone two games without defeat for the first time in their history. Nations League bringing light to the minnows of football in these dark times.
posted on 14/11/20
Nations League
posted on 14/11/20
comment by #LiquidGenius (U20571)
posted 4 hours, 45 minutes ago
comment by Busby (U19985)
Does anybody care about international football anymore?
The World Cup is great, Euros is good. Everything is drab.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
International tournaments are the best part of football by far.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The World Cup perhaps
posted on 14/11/20
Nations league is the best thing that ever happened to scotland. No more meaningless friendlies, it means every game we play has an importance. Tomorrow if we win we will go into a world cup play off. I'll say no more.
posted on 14/11/20
comment by Busby (U19985)
comment by #LiquidGenius (U20571)
comment by Busby (U19985)
Does anybody care about international football anymore?
The World Cup is great, Euros is good. Everything is drab.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
International tournaments are the best part of football by far.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The World Cup perhaps
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The World Cup especially, but also the Euros.
They're mainstream events. People who never usually watch football watch the games.
With club football, no one who isn't already a football fan actually cares.
Even the big UCL and PL games don't have any kind of aura or mystic about them anymore. Club football just feels stale and irrelevant nowadays. That's partly why the big clubs are trying to create a super league.
posted on 14/11/20
comment by Donny The King van de Beek (U10026)
posted 2 hours, 49 minutes ago
San Marino have gone two games without defeat for the first time in their history. Nations League bringing light to the minnows of football in these dark times.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
posted on 14/11/20
comment by bigfingers (U9540)
posted 21 minutes ago
Nations league is the best thing that ever happened to scotland. No more meaningless friendlies, it means every game we play has an importance. Tomorrow if we win we will go into a world cup play off. I'll say no more.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
World Cup?
Didnt even know qualfcation had begin 4 that?
posted on 14/11/20
My understanding is that there are only 2 WC qualifying play-off places available through the NL and nothing will be guaranteed after the conclusion of these matches.
posted on 14/11/20
Its to complicated
posted on 14/11/20
It works better with the Euros than it does with the WC.
posted on 14/11/20
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 1 minute ago
My understanding is that there are only 2 WC qualifying play-off places available through the NL and nothing will be guaranteed after the conclusion of these matches.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yeah that’s my understanding though I think if the a groups pan out as expected scotland might find themselves with a good chance of a play off spot, as the a lister bu guns will have qualified? Fack knows, it is confusing. Though I’d be better to see someone like wakes, Scotland,or Austria etc at the WC rather than Panama or Honduras etc.
posted on 14/11/20
Wales*
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