Allegedly these are the confirmed pots for the draw

Pot 1 
Netherlands (5 team group)
Croatia (5 team group)
Spain (5 team group)
Italy (5 team group)
Denmark
Portugal
Belgium
Hungary
Switzerland
Poland

Pot 2
France
Austria
Czech Republic
Englandshire
Wales
Israel
Bosnia-Hercegovina
Serbia
Scotland
Finland

Pot 3
Ukraine
Albania
Norway
Slovenia
Republic of Ireland
Iceland
Montenegro
Romania
Sweden
Armenia

Pot 4
Georgia
Greece
Turkey
Kazakstan
Luxembourg
Azerbaijin
Kosovo
Bulgaria
Faroe Islands
Northern Macedonia

Pot 5
Slovakia
Northern Ireland
Gibraltar
Cyprus
Lithuania
Estonia
Latvia
Moldova
Belarus
Malta

Pot 6
Andorra
San Marino
Liechtenstein

So......

Poland, Scotland, Armenia, Faroe Islands, Malta, Andorra?

1 hour ago, tom_widdows said:

Allegedly these are the confirmed pots for the draw

Pot 1 
Netherlands (5 team group)
Croatia (5 team group)
Spain (5 team group)
Italy (5 team group)
Denmark
Portugal
Belgium
Hungary
Switzerland
Poland

Pot 2
France
Austria
Czech Republic
Englandshire
Wales
Israel
Bosnia-Hercegovina
Serbia
Scotland
Finland

Pot 3
Ukraine
Albania
Norway
Slovenia
Republic of Ireland
Iceland
Montenegro
Romania
Sweden
Armenia

Pot 4
Georgia
Greece
Turkey
Kazakstan
Luxembourg
Azerbaijin
Kosovo
Bulgaria
Faroe Islands
Northern Macedonia

Pot 5
Slovakia
Northern Ireland
Gibraltar
Cyprus
Lithuania
Estonia
Latvia
Moldova
Belarus
Malta

Pot 6
Andorra
San Marino
Liechtenstein

So......

Poland, Scotland, Armenia, Faroe Islands, Malta, Andorra?

Aye that seems to be best option plus I could sell trip to Malta game as a family holiday. 

7 hours ago, Jute said:

Aye that seems to be best option plus I could sell trip to Malta game as a family holiday. 

But then you'd have to take your family. Unless you sell it as a scouting mission prior to the family holiday?

I hope we get another crack at Croatia after we made an arse of the first attempt last summer.

4 hours ago, RicoS321 said:

But then you'd have to take your family. Unless you sell it as a scouting mission prior to the family holiday?

Fair point but no chance I get away on my own so it’s trade off I have to make.

1 hour ago, Jute said:

Fair point but no chance I get away on my own so it’s trade off I have to make.

It's a big Island I suppose.

Hungary the best option from group 1

Slovenia from group 3 (hopefully as a double with Hungary, not far to travel between the two)

A trip to the faroe islands then Malta for Rico

Andorra is nice.

Edited September 28, 20223 yr by donsdaft

Spain

scotland

norway

georgia

cyprus

 

Could have been better but against that, it xertsinly could have been an awful lot worse

If we can somehow control Haaland then second is ours for the taking.

1 minute ago, BigAl said:

Could have been better but against that, it xertsinly could have been an awful lot worse

If we can somehow control Halland then second is ours for the taking.

Haaland is good but he is not a one man team. 
Haaland with Man. City - 
Haaland with Norway - 
Everyone was panicking about Norway in the playoffs for Euro2020 but they got dumped by the serbians.
World cup qualifying they lost 3-0 at home to the turks and could only manage a 0-0 at home to Latvia so as I see if they are on par with scotland in terms of erratic performances.

Georga and Cyprus are usually the type of games which will trip up Clarke & Co

That is probably about as tricky a draw as we could have got.  

Fixtures

 

Ignore the fixtures.

 

7 hours ago, tom_widdows said:

Haaland is good but he is not a one man team. 
Haaland with Man. City - 
Haaland with Norway - 
Everyone was panicking about Norway in the playoffs for Euro2020 but they got dumped by the serbians.
World cup qualifying they lost 3-0 at home to the turks and could only manage a 0-0 at home to Latvia so as I see if they are on par with scotland in terms of erratic performances.

Georga and Cyprus are usually the type of games which will trip up Clarke & Co

Can't agree with you there Tom

Imagine only scoring 21 times in 23 appearances for your country 🤔

12 hours ago, BigAl said:

Can't agree with you there Tom

Imagine only scoring 21 times in 23 appearances for your country 🤔

The key to containing Haaland is containing the rest of the team and in that regard I'm not particularly concerned about Norway. If Haaland scores once in each game - which, as you mention, is more or less his record - I'd back us to score at least twice anyway.

They really do faff about with these things. 100minute programme with 90minutes of bullshit.
I might have less issue with it if the hosts and audience was more akin to your average football crowd as opposed to a room full of suits.

Group A
Germany
Scotland
Hungary
Switzerland

Group B
Spain
Croatia
Italy
Albania

Group C
Slovenia
Denmark
Serbia
Englandshire

Group D
Poland/ Estonia/ Wales/ Finland
Netherlands
Austria
France

Group E
Belgium
Slovakia
Romania
Israel/ Iceland/ Bosnia/ Ukraine

Group F
Turkey
Georgia/ Luxembourg/ Greece/ Kazakstan
Portugal
Czech Republic

 

Edited December 2, 20232 yr by tom_widdows

I’m very happy with that, three teams that are hit and miss much like scotland, and Germany who are not consistent. Opening game against the hosts with the pressure definitely on them. Very interesting/exciting!

Happy enough with the draw. Could definitely have been a lot worse. Only complaint is the games being Munich, Cologne and Stuttgart is going to mean a bit of travelling for fans.
 

I am lucky enough to be guaranteed tickets via Scotland Supporters club so now just to decide how to work this. 

21 minutes ago, Jute said:

 

I am lucky enough to be guaranteed tickets via Scotland Supporters club so now just to decide how to work this. 

I can help you with that Jute 

I'll buy them off you at face value mate 😉

44 minutes ago, BigAl said:

I can help you with that Jute 

I'll buy them off you at face value mate 😉

I was more meaning how I break to my wife and Bairn that I am fucking off to Germany for 10 days. 
 

In all fairness wife has already said she will only go over for last two games. Just a question of if I go out for first game and stay out or if I head back after the game then go back with her. 

43 minutes ago, Jute said:

I was more meaning how I break to my wife and Bairn that I am fucking off to Germany for 10 days. 

 

Aye had a fair idea fit you meant 😉

As draws go, that's fucking brilliant. All perfectly beatable and Germany are no where near where they were of years gone by. Very jealous of those able to make it across. Looking forward to watching as much as I can. 

Edit: Hopefully Wales don't make it 👍

Look at those ticket prices. Germany v Scotland prices on the right, the other two group games on the left.

The majority of the tickets available to Scotland fans are actually category 1 and 2 going by the stadium plans. €600 for a football match is crazy - opening game or not. I'd be expecting hospitality for that price. 

France 98 I managed to get tickets to Scotland v Morocco, and that was category 1, upper deck, front row, pretty much on the half-way. Brilliant tickets, and they felt expensive at £48. Even accounting for inflation that's less than £90 today.

Edited December 4, 20232 yr by Panda

The jump in price from fans first category and category 3 for opening game is outrageous. Won’t be paying €190 if I can’t get a Fans First one. 

The Euros and World Cup are just corporate money spinners these days. "Fans first" is a completely weird concept. You simply can't have "fans first" if that's how you treat people who are not deemed fans. That a stadium should have anything but a minority of seats available (maybe this is the case) to those who are not fans is fucked up. Good to see Germany's fan-owned, egalitarian model is thrown out the window at international level, ensuring that ordinary German fans can't afford to watch their side. That's what the game's about. I went to the World Cup in Germany in 2006, and I'm sure the prices were expensive but reasonable (maybe €40?).

Did anyone get tickets then?

I got for all three Scotland games.