Tulloch Gorum Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 Excellent result! Glad they're getting some well-earned recognition these days, credit to all involved on the park and off it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigkillie Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 5 hours ago, JamesM82 said: I was thinking that myself. If they do the draw on the same basis as last time (one pot of seeds, then split by geography), then Scotland would get one big hitter (USA, Germany, France, England), one Asian or African team and one from the Americas. Scotland would be in the pot of unseeded European teams (Spain, Italy, Norway) and wouldn't play them in the group. New Zealand are more than likely to qualify, as there is one full place available from Oceania. Scotland beat them 2-0 twice in March. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43303979 True, but it's not like the guys who are (sometimes) picked from Scottish teams outside Celtic or Rangers are made of money. e.g. Shinnie, Souttar and O'Donnell in the present squad. FIFA changed the men's World Cup draw procedure away from that in this year's tournament, and instead adopted the (IMO fairer) approach of having four seeded pots, but ensuring that that each group had no more than two European teams and no more than one team from any other confederation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Im_Rodger Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 Well done to the women! Can see Shelley Kerr getting a gig at a professional mens team in the near future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonS Posted September 6, 2018 Author Share Posted September 6, 2018 6 hours ago, craigkillie said: FIFA changed the men's World Cup draw procedure away from that in this year's tournament, and instead adopted the (IMO fairer) approach of having four seeded pots, but ensuring that that each group had no more than two European teams and no more than one team from any other confederation. Women's football is still pretty undeveloped in places like Africa so this is a great opportunity to be the first Scotland team (age-grade excepted) to play a knock-out match. In the FIFA rankings we're 21st, but we might be going up from that after the two wins. There are 11 UEFA members ahead of us, but of them Iceland are out, and only one of Netherlands, Switzerland and Denmark will be going. There are already 12 countries currently ranked higher than us who have qualified, so unless there's some major movement in the rankings, it looks like we're nailed-on to be a third seed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig fae the Vale Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 There's a real chance of qualification for the second round if it's an even somewhat favourable draw. I'll only be able to swing a week off in June, but as soon as the draw is made that holiday to France will be getting planned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlandmagyar 2nd Tier Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 12 hours ago, Im_Rodger said: Well done to the women! Can see Shelley Kerr getting a gig at a professional mens team in the near future. McLeish out Kerr in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesM82 Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 Footnote: this is the chance Switzerland missed in stoppage time that would have qualified them for the World Cup, and put Scotland into the playoffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dysartrovers Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 Footnote: this is the chance Switzerland missed in stoppage time that would have qualified them for the World Cup, and put Scotland into the playoffs. What a save Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesM82 Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 8 minutes ago, dysartrovers said: 11 minutes ago, JamesM82 said: Footnote: this is the chance Switzerland missed in stoppage time that would have qualified them for the World Cup, and put Scotland into the playoffs. What a save (Peter) Schmeichel-esque Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab B Nesbit Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 Well done to Shelley and her team the Euros and now a World Cup ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honest_Man#1 Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 6 hours ago, JamesM82 said: Footnote: this is the chance Switzerland missed in stoppage time that would have qualified them for the World Cup, and put Scotland into the playoffs. Maybe being harsh here but whilst it’s a good save, it looks like their striker takes an age to actually hit it. Should have slotted that away with ease. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mantis Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 Me and the missus looking forward to it. Had a terrific time at the Euros last year criss-crossing the Netherlands and everybody telling us “Amshterdam ish not Holland!” Don’t fancy criss-crossing France so much though. Staying in one corner is fine, don’t think France has any poor bits anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesM82 Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 https://www.fifa.com/womensworldcup/organisation/ticketing/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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