U19 European qualification group

pre Madonna wrote: lassassinblanc wrote: Maccatacca wrote: How does the seeding work?  Surely we have one of the best qualifying records and will be 1st / 2nd seed? Assume Armenia are top seeds in group A as hosts.  Almost guaranteed that one team out of Ireland, Norway, Czech Republic and Armenia will be in the semi-finals, let’s hope it’s us.  I think they’ll stick with the squad that qualified for the tournament but expect Parrott and Idah to be drafted in if there’s any injuries.  From Wiki The final draw will be held in spring or early summer 2019 in Armenia.[5] The eight teams are drawn into two groups of four teams. There is no seeding, except that the hosts Armenia are assigned to position A1 in the draw. So an open draw, Look to avoid perhaps two or a group with of the following Spain, Italy and Portugal and we'd have a very good chance of making the semis. A group of Armenia, Czech R, Norway would be the the dream How do you know that wouldn't be the worst draw? How do we know the Czechs and Norwegians aren't the teams to avoid?

awesome run they are on, intrigued to see how they do this summer, tom mohan doing a great job

How does the seeding work? 

Considering the run they have been on, there's a great chance to go far in that tournament, especially with some of the bigger nations missing out.

Why wouldnt Parrott etc not be involved ? No rule against them not playing 

BaileNuisBhoy wrote: Fantastic achievement from the lads..I wonder if Parrott, O’Connor and Idah will be playing in the summer. Surprised to see Armenia there

Holland out, England out, Germany out

mully_85 wrote: how many in the last u21s still are still eligible to play in this tourney?? idah, parrot??

It's a major achievement for this Ireland team to qualify for a finals competition with only 8 teams in it. England didn't qualify and they won the under 17 World Cup winning team with this team 2 years ago, albeit without some of their star players like Sancho, Foden and Hudson-Odoi who have moved up to the full or under 21 teams.

However, Ireland were also without at least 5 of our better players and still won all 3 games, scoring 10 goals and conceding only 1. We really need to consider fast-tracking Idah, Parrott and some of our other better youngsters to the full side. If England with their greater resources are prepared to promote Sancho and Hudson-Odoi to the 1st team then we definitely should be doing this.

Having said this I still want them all to be made available for the under 19 finals this summer.