FAI...New Manager Hunt continues

[Jim_Murphy_74]

UEFA said it would be an open draw for 2009 play offs. Then realised France was in there, so they changed the rules and made the draw seeded.

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/given-frustrated-by-fifa-seeding-move-1.752483

/Jim.

[Main Street]

UEFA said it would be an open draw for 2009 play offs. Then realised France was in there, so they changed the rules and made the draw seeded.

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/given-frustrated-by-fifa-seeding-move-1.752483

/Jim.

Did Uefa say it would be an open draw for the WC 2010? I doubt it.
The WC 2006 play off draw was seeded.  What is written in their tournament procedures is that they have a meeting a day before the draw and formally decide on the format of the play off draw.
What was different  in the Euro 2000 play off draw  was that they met the day before and said it would be an open draw, but the draw came out exactly as if the  the teams had been seeded.

[BennyCake]

UEFA said it would be an open draw for 2009 play offs. Then realised France was in there, so they changed the rules and made the draw seeded.

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/given-frustrated-by-fifa-seeding-move-1.752483

/Jim.

Did Uefa say it would be an open draw for the WC 2010? I doubt it.
The WC 2006 play off draw was seeded.  What is written in their tournament procedures is that they have a meeting a day before the draw and formally decide on the format of the play off draw.
What was different  in the Euro 2000 play off draw  was that they met the day before and said it would be an open draw, but the draw came out exactly as if the  the teams had been seeded.

Yes they said it was open draw. Then when it looked for certain France would be involved, they changed it to seedings. I definitely remember that.

[michaelg]

UEFA said it would be an open draw for 2009 play offs. Then realised France was in there, so they changed the rules and made the draw seeded.

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/given-frustrated-by-fifa-seeding-move-1.752483

/Jim.

Did Uefa say it would be an open draw for the WC 2010? I doubt it.
The WC 2006 play off draw was seeded.  What is written in their tournament procedures is that they have a meeting a day before the draw and formally decide on the format of the play off draw.
What was different  in the Euro 2000 play off draw  was that they met the day before and said it would be an open draw, but the draw came out exactly as if the  the teams had been seeded.

Yes they said it was open draw. Then when it looked for certain France would be involved, they changed it to seedings. I definitely remember that.

By the same token, I'm fairly confident the ROI will be the hot ball if they beat Slovakia!

[Main Street]

UEFA said it would be an open draw for 2009 play offs. Then realised France was in there, so they changed the rules and made the draw seeded.

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/given-frustrated-by-fifa-seeding-move-1.752483

/Jim.

Did Uefa say it would be an open draw for the WC 2010? I doubt it.
The WC 2006 play off draw was seeded.  What is written in their tournament procedures is that they have a meeting a day before the draw and formally decide on the format of the play off draw.
What was different  in the Euro 2000 play off draw  was that they met the day before and said it would be an open draw, but the draw came out exactly as if the  the teams had been seeded.

Yes they said it was open draw. Then when it looked for certain France would be involved, they changed it to seedings. I definitely remember that.

By the same token, I'm fairly confident the ROI will be the hot ball if they beat Slovakia!

There is no if.
The full hotball draw is tomorrow, even if the winner is unknown, home venue in the final will be decided.

[clarshack]

so how did those hotballs go then 

[clarshack]

as always the case, would have been a lot easier to have went for it earlier against Denmark and get the win instead of having to navigate through this sh*tshow.

[Main Street]

so how did those hotballs go then 

Technical difficulties it must be, we should ask for a redraw, if we lose out then I suppose there's always the compo route.
League A hotballs worked perfect,  with a host guaranteed to have home advantage in the  play off final .
Uefa ain't perfect. Sepp was the master, he made sure FIFA ran a tight ship when it came fixing the draw format for the best possible outcome.

[magpie seanie]

Parrott's immediate future has changed today with the new managerial appointment. He does not have a good track record of developing young players. A loan move would be ideal for him. O'Connor hasn't broken through at Celtic yet, but maybe he will before the season is out. Thought we'd have seen more of Luca Connell at this stage too. Presume he has been injured?

Parrott needs to get out of Spurs.

[Main Street]

From a financial point of view Spurs would be mad to sell him just as a hot prospect with no actual league game time on his cv.

[michaelg]

so how did those hotballs go then 

Genuinely thought they would rig it as per!  The Republic will be deserving qualifiers if they do it with 2 away wins.

[BennyCake]

so how did those hotballs go then 

Genuinely thought they would rig it as per!  The Republic will be deserving qualifiers if they do it with 2 away wins.

There's two rounds of playoffs? WTF?

[dec]

so how did those hotballs go then 

Genuinely thought they would rig it as per!  The Republic will be deserving qualifiers if they do it with 2 away wins.

There's two rounds of playoffs? WTF?

Path B

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Euro_2020_qualifying_play-offs#Path_B

[BennyCake]

so how did those hotballs go then 

Genuinely thought they would rig it as per!  The Republic will be deserving qualifiers if they do it with 2 away wins.

There's two rounds of playoffs? WTF?

Path B

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Euro_2020_qualifying_play-offs#Path_B

What a load of balls.

If Ireland qualify, do they win the Path B trophy?

[seafoid]

so how did those hotballs go then 

Genuinely thought they would rig it as per!  The Republic will be deserving qualifiers if they do it with 2 away wins.

There's two rounds of playoffs? WTF?

Path B

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Euro_2020_qualifying_play-offs#Path_B

What a load of balls.

If Ireland qualify, do they win the Path B trophy?

If they don't they qualify for the Path Etic trophy