Donathan Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 Pros of a Wales win: - Cardiff could be an all time great away day for the tartan army - Chance to knock a rival out of the world cup - Avoids the players having to go into a hostile overseas environment Pros of an Austria win: - Wales are a bogey team - Took 4/6 point off them in the main qualifying including winning in Austria - Lower world ranking than Wales I’ll lean Austria purely because I fancy our chances of winning there slightly more than in Cardiff. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pie Of The Month Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 (edited) Austria by miles. I'd say Vienna would be a better trip than Cardiff. More tickets, better chance of getting a home end ticket for those who don't make the points criteria and a better place to go plus Bratislava isn't far for cheap flights and a cheap place to stay if doing it on a budget. If they put out Wales then we get the Welsh trip at the end of the month without any pressure on it too. Plus I'd fancy our chances of getting a result against them more. Edited March 16, 2022 by Pie Of The Month 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 Austria are gash so them Although pumping the leek shaggers would be deliciouser. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accies1874 Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 Unfounded reasoning but I don't like facing a team we've recently got a big result against. Is the humongous striker back for them now too? On the flipside, I'd get a ticket for Austria but would be quite tight for Wales so who knows. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 Yes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
latapythelegend Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 I'd rather play Wales. They aren't what they were 3/4 years ago and on paper we do have a much stronger squad. I always got the impression Austria weren't too arsed about the qualifiers as they were in the play off anyway. They have essentially been gearing up to these play offs for a year and a half. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nessies long lost ghost Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 I don't think Wales are as good as they used to be I think Scotland would have a better chance against them 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambomo Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 Austria. Wales are the kind of team who aren’t great but the whole drama of it being a home nation just adds pressure to an already massive game and it’s the kind of game they’ll be massively up for - I still think they might be marginally better than Austria. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accies1874 Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 Austria. Wales are the kind of team who aren’t great but the whole drama of it being a home nation just adds pressure to an already massive game and it’s the kind of game they’ll be massively up for - I still think they might be marginally better than Austria.Tbf we've more than shown over the past 15/16 months that we can get "massively up for" huge pressure matches. Czech Republic and the first half v Israel might be the only exceptions and even they weren't capitulations. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 Neither. Austrian - Welsh war please 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 It means nothing to me. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 It means nothing to me. I see what you did there....... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donathan Posted March 16, 2022 Author Share Posted March 16, 2022 3 hours ago, accies1874 said: Tbf we've more than shown over the past 15/16 months that we can get "massively up for" huge pressure matches. Czech Republic and the first half v Israel might be the only exceptions and even they weren't capitulations. Croatia as well. We had a home game where a win would take us to the knockout stages and we got utterly rinsed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambomo Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 3 hours ago, accies1874 said: Tbf we've more than shown over the past 15/16 months that we can get "massively up for" huge pressure matches. Czech Republic and the first half v Israel might be the only exceptions and even they weren't capitulations. Oh yes, I do agree - I didn’t mean to suggest we couldn’t play high pressure games. More I just see these as a potential banana-skin for any team really. Between a choice of mega-high pressure or just super high-pressure, then I’d always go with the lesser pressure match 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accies1874 Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 Croatia as well. We had a home game where a win would take us to the knockout stages and we got utterly rinsed. Croatia were just much, much better. I wouldn't put it down to the team/Clarke freezing or anything unlike the other two. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red23 Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 (edited) Take Bale and Ramsey out and that team is utter rank. What they really need is a few heavy, soul crushing defeats to wipe out the confidence they have carried from euro 2016 to this day. Goalkeepers: Hennessey, A Davies, King Defenders: B Davies, Rodon, Cabango, Ampadu, Mepham, N Williams, Norrington-Davies, Roberts, Gunter Midfielders: Levitt, Ramsey, Colwill, Morrell, Vaulks, Allen, Wilson, Williams, S Thomas Forwards: Bale, Johnson, Harris, James, Matondo Edited March 16, 2022 by red23 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordopolis Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 Israel 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forameus Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 From an actual progression perspective, it's a tough one. I'd be inclined to say Austria as we've already proved we can beat them in Vienna, albeit a potential final is probably going to be a completely different atmosphere to that second gear game we played what seems like 300 years ago. Wales give me the fear. Not because I don't think we can beat them - we absolutely could - but just that feeling that no matter how well we play, it's a derby that we could well f**k up. But...I would fucking love to put them out. Wales by a whisker. Probably because given I won't be travelling for it, I won't need to be in Glasgow watching them celebrate if we do lose. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insert Amusing Pseudonym Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 17 hours ago, accies1874 said: 18 hours ago, Donathan said: Croatia as well. We had a home game where a win would take us to the knockout stages and we got utterly rinsed. Croatia were just much, much better. I wouldn't put it down to the team/Clarke freezing or anything unlike the other two. I would put Croatia about 80% down to Clarke making an absolute arse of it that day tbh. We played long ball football giving the ball away repeatedly and let Modric play unhindered in the hole. Yes they were better than us but not to the level we showed that that day 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuttonDressedAsLahm Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Wales probably have the weaker players, but they've been greater than the sum of their parts for years. Take Bale and Ramsey out, and they drop a few rungs further down the ladder. Austria have better players, but are a worse team. I'd rather play Wales, but that's probably my naivety speaking. I always expect them to be awful, and they somehow often aren't. That said, they've had some really poor performances in the last year again mediocre teams. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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