England

[FullerMagic]

[lawrieleslie]

Have little interest in the EUFA Nations League because of its disruption of the domestic league programme. But I thought I’d take a look at how it’s organised. You need a fucking degree in football administration to understand how it works. Thought I found a simple explanation but sadly further confused the issue…..."There are four "divisions": League A, B, C (with four groups of four nations) and D (with two groups of three). League A is the strongest and League D the weakest. In League A, the top two teams in each of the four groups will go through to two-legged quarterfinals, to be played in March." Fair enough there is presumably promotion and relegation from each division but how that works is anybodies guess because each division has 4 groups and do you carry the points gained to the next division . I looked at the A Division which is supposedly the strongest and see it contains Israel & Scotland. Also there is some tenuous link to World Cup finals qualification . Who the flying fuck thought up this madness

[lordb]

Nov 17, 2024 12:37:55 GMT lawrieleslie said:

Have little interest in the EUFA Nations League because of its disruption of the domestic league programme. But I thought I’d take a look at how it’s organised. You need a fucking degree in football administration to understand how it works. Thought I found a simple explanation but sadly further confused the issue…..."There are four "divisions": League A, B, C (with four groups of four nations) and D (with two groups of three). League A is the strongest and League D the weakest. In League A, the top two teams in each of the four groups will go through to two-legged quarterfinals, to be played in March." Fair enough there is presumably promotion and relegation from each division but how that works is anybodies guess because each division has 4 groups and do you carry the points gained to the next division . I looked at the A Division which is supposedly the strongest and see it contains Israel & Scotland. Also there is some tenuous link to World Cup finals qualification . Who the flying fuck thought up this madness

You've over complicated it
Team tops a group B goes up to group A
Points don't carry over,new season (edition) starts
There's no extra disruption to the league program as Nations League replaced friendlies
If they get rid of the Nations League they will just bring back friendlies

[lawrieleslie]

Nov 17, 2024 12:51:59 GMT lordb said:

Nov 17, 2024 12:37:55 GMT lawrieleslie said:

Have little interest in the EUFA Nations League because of its disruption of the domestic league programme. But I thought I’d take a look at how it’s organised. You need a fucking degree in football administration to understand how it works. Thought I found a simple explanation but sadly further confused the issue…..."There are four "divisions": League A, B, C (with four groups of four nations) and D (with two groups of three). League A is the strongest and League D the weakest. In League A, the top two teams in each of the four groups will go through to two-legged quarterfinals, to be played in March." Fair enough there is presumably promotion and relegation from each division but how that works is anybodies guess because each division has 4 groups and do you carry the points gained to the next division . I looked at the A Division which is supposedly the strongest and see it contains Israel & Scotland. Also there is some tenuous link to World Cup finals qualification . Who the flying fuck thought up this madness

You've over complicated it
Team tops a group B goes up to group A
Points don't carry over,new season (edition) starts
There's no extra disruption to the league program as Nations League replaced friendlies
If they get rid of the Nations League they will just bring back friendlies

Thanks for that. Presumably the competition is over 4 seasons and this is the last season before quarter finals in March 25. England in League B Group 2 can no longer qualify for the quarter finals as it’s the top 2 teams of League A groups 1-4 that will make it. Surely that means that games in League B,C & D this season are pointless as were games in League C&D the season before and League D the season before that as none of these teams would make it to League A. What a clusterfuck of a competition.

[lordb]

Nov 17, 2024 15:17:38 GMT lawrieleslie said:

Nov 17, 2024 12:51:59 GMT lordb said:

You've over complicated it
Team tops a group B goes up to group A
Points don't carry over,new season (edition) starts
There's no extra disruption to the league program as Nations League replaced friendlies
If they get rid of the Nations League they will just bring back friendlies

Thanks for that. Presumably the competition is over 4 seasons and this is the last season before quarter finals in March 25. England in League B Group 2 can no longer qualify for the quarter finals as it’s the top 2 teams of League A groups 1-4 that will make it. Surely that means that games in League B,C & D this season are pointless as were games in League C&D the season before and League D the season before that as none of these teams would make it to League A. What a clusterfuck of a competition.

No it's every season
We went down last season,win today and we go up

[FullerMagic]

Cannon and Moran on the bench

[lordb]

Liveramento starts