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

[insect]

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.

Don’t worry about it. Your not interested remember 🙄
BTW you missed a cracking game against Greece 😘

[humbersidepotter]

Nathan Collins Captain! Good to see how far he's gone

[JoeinOz]

Gwarn England. Let's see Carso off in style

[JoeinOz]

Good play 🙂

[JoeinOz]

Bello is important

[JoeinOz]

Laboured corner

[JoeinOz]

Ireland defending with two banks of 29

[Mr_DaftBurger]

Bellingham looks rayte up for eet!

[JoeinOz]

Should've booked him for diving

[foxysgloves]

Nov 17, 2024 16:56:23 GMT humbersidepotter said:

Nathan Collins Captain! Good to see how far he's gone

He’s been brilliant so far.

[JoeinOz]

Ireland fans making more noise than England's

[foxysgloves]

There’s more than a whiff of Pulis Stoke about Ireland.

Hard not to admire their structure and determination so far.

[thisisouryear]

Jones is looking good so far

[JoeinOz]

Lester 78/79
Anfield 08/09

If you know you know.

[thehartshillbadger]

Our young full backs don’t look quite at the level required at the moment

[thisisouryear]

How's that a foul?

[thehartshillbadger]

Festy is feisty. He’s a bloody unit n all

[thisisouryear]

We can't attack these at pace with Kane so it's gonna be hard to create anything

[lordb]

Nov 17, 2024 17:40:24 GMT thisisouryear said:

We can't attack these at pace with Kane so it's gonna be hard to create anything

Given how deep Ireland are defending pace isn't the key

Playing it much much quicker is

If Toney was about that might be interesting

[JoeinOz]

Ireland getting confident

[GrahamHyde]

Not very good, is it?

Gordon just isn't up to scratch I'm afraid.

[crouchpotato1]

England need to change some faces at half time because the Irish are really comfortable

[lordb]

Nov 17, 2024 17:44:46 GMT GrahamHyde said:

Not very good, is it?

Gordon just isn't up to scratch I'm afraid.

Prefer Eze on the left
Gordon on the right would be better for him but he'd be about 5th choice for that