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The Dopeman
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 Posted - 2014/02/23 : 20:12:51
just saw the group scotland got germany, gibraltar, republic of ireland, georgia & poland
felling pretty confident we can qualify for it not seen scotland in a major tournament in years
what sort of group did your country get n how do you expect they will do?
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wong
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Posted - 2014/02/23 : 20:17:35
england should qualify but will no doubt make it difficult for themselves as per usual
Group E: England, Switzerland, Slovenia, Estonia, Lithuania, San Marino
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djDMS
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Posted - 2014/02/23 : 20:17:41
Couldn't have picked England's group better myself!
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Torpex
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Posted - 2014/02/23 : 20:32:49
Ha! All pushovers! Gibraltar tho... :(
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The Dopeman
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Posted - 2014/02/23 : 20:53:26
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Originally posted by djDMS:
Couldn't have picked England's group better myself!
it would be better if england had germany and we got san marino lol germany have so many brilliant players england should have no problems tho...then again it's england after all like wong said they always seem to make it hard for themselves
scotland should finish 2nd no doubt gordon strachan is the best manager we've had since walter smith took charge for a year
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The Dopeman
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Posted - 2014/02/23 : 20:54:41
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Originally posted by Torpex:
Ha! All pushovers! Gibraltar tho... :(
lol pretty confident not worried about germany at all?
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latininxtc
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Posted - 2014/02/24 : 02:04:21
Maybe y'all should stop having England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland compete separately and just compete together as Great Britain or United Kingdom just like in the Olympics. Maybe y'all might actually win one of these.
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The Dopeman
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Posted - 2014/02/24 : 02:08:52
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Originally posted by latininxtc:
Maybe y'all should stop having England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland compete separately and just compete together as Great Britain or United Kingdom just like in the Olympics. Maybe y'all might actually win one of these.
i've always thout it should be that way all the best players playing for britain/UK National team (whatever you want to call it) and england,scotland,wales & northern ireland being used to give other players a chance to get some international experience
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latininxtc
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Posted - 2014/02/24 : 02:32:37
Correct me if I'm wrong, but are all 4 of those nations run under one same government??? If so, technically they're not individual countries and all 4 shouldn't even be allowed to compete separately.
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Elipton
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Posted - 2014/02/24 : 03:17:55
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but are all 4 of those nations run under one same government??? If so, technically they're not individual countries and all 4 shouldn't even be allowed to compete separately.
They're all run by the same government, but the government has very little say over what goes in Scotland NI and Wales. They each have their own assemblies which act as governments. Scotland has it's own government, but it's represented by London. They have their own parliaments and so on and so forth. I prefer it as 4 nations, but I don't understand why we enter the Olympics as Team GB.
It may be because the association that runs our Olympic team is one that operates throughout the United Kingdom, whereas in, say, football, we have a Welsh FA, an English FA and a Scottish FA. They all run their own national teams.
It may also be down to regional slots allocated for the Olympics, but I don't know much about that
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latininxtc
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Posted - 2014/02/24 : 06:00:57
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Originally posted by latininxtc:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but are all 4 of those nations run under one same government??? If so, technically they're not individual countries and all 4 shouldn't even be allowed to compete separately.
They're all run by the same government, but the government has very little say over what goes in Scotland NI and Wales. They each have their own assemblies which act as governments. Scotland has it's own government, but it's represented by London. They have their own parliaments and so on and so forth. I prefer it as 4 nations, but I don't understand why we enter the Olympics as Team GB.
It may be because the association that runs our Olympic team is one that operates throughout the United Kingdom, whereas in, say, football, we have a Welsh FA, an English FA and a Scottish FA. They all run their own national teams.
It may also be down to regional slots allocated for the Olympics, but I don't know much about that
That pretty much sounds like how the US is run; a central US government with each state having its own legislature and government. They have their own court system, their own representatives and senate and governor, which is like the president of that state. They are welcome to make their own laws provided they don't interfere with the rights of individuals and entities that are protected by the constitution that governs the whole country, and also as long as it isn't deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
They really should just do a team GB or UK in every int'l event such as Euro Cup or World Cup.
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Torpex
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Posted - 2014/02/24 : 11:50:52
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Originally posted by The Dopeman:
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Originally posted by Torpex:
Ha! All pushovers! Gibraltar tho... :(
lol pretty confident not worried about germany at all?
Nope, not at all!
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The drunken scotsman
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Posted - 2014/02/24 : 12:02:53
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Originally posted by latininxtc:
Maybe y'all should stop having England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland compete separately and just compete together as Great Britain or United Kingdom just like in the Olympics. Maybe y'all might actually win one of these.
Never going to happen. A lot of Scottish people don't like the English, although I've never understood it myself. In football, scots refer to the English as 'The Auld Enemy'. Anyway we could be completely independent of the UK by September
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Posted - 2014/02/24 : 12:49:36
Estonia... We will fail. I think.
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latininxtc
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Posted - 2014/02/24 : 14:26:33
lol Scotland sounds like the Texas of the British empire.
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don_simon3000
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Posted - 2014/02/24 : 16:23:06
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Originally posted by The Dopeman:
just saw the group scotland got germany, gibraltar, republic of ireland, georgia & poland
felling pretty confident we can qualify for it not seen scotland in a major tournament in years
what sort of group did your country get n how do you expect they will do?
like always, germany gets an easy group. 
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