Theatre of Trees
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Easy 10 said:I agree with your post, but I don't think anyone is calling for groups to be made up of several top-ranking European teams. They just need to be seeded (as they are now), but with less crap teams being included. A top seed and 2nd seed would suffice, with two other teams who have successfully pre-qualified making up a group of 4. So instead of rubbish groups like:
Portugal
Slovakia
Russia
Latvia
Estonia
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
You could cut that down to 4 teams - the top seed (eg Portugal), 2nd seed (eg Russia) plus any other two from the rest, who have pre-qualified for the group. Dunno what the World Rankings are at the moment, but that should be the barometer to ascertain who is a top/second seed.
Simple innit ?
This is the group where Portugal drew 2-2 with Leichtenstein and thumped Russia 7-1. Latvia's rankings would have gone up due to their qualification for Euro 2004 and it seems Slovakia are making a decent fist of qualification at the moment.