2010 World Cup draw: live blog

It was in South Africa.... I thought it was ok but then I timed my viewing to miss the first hour.

europe may be the supposed home of style and stylish design......well, ikea and lego,........but, sheesh, the FIFA WC draw was a fine example of all the lack of style that normally is constrained to Eurovision. The old Tattslotto draw on a Saturday night had more style, and at the end of it all, Denmark got screwed over, so, not happy Jan. (pronounce as you please!!).

A tough group for the Aussies, but it could have been tougher, we are playing teams with similar style to our own, tough physical teams, maybe all with more technique. But we don't have the skillful latin sides to contend with, which I think we tend to struggle against, especially with our aging side with it's lack of pace. If we can sneak 2nd & England wins their group, we face another physical side in the next round. Interesting, though we have no Guus this time & I feel not as strong a side as in 06, I think as shown in the qualifiers, the Socceroos are a tough, experienced side, though slighly boring, are able to get results. I'm alot more confident as the teams in our group are not going to play us off the park, ala a Brazil, Spain, Italy & even France & Portugal on their good days.

I think you could call Group G the group of Death with Portugal, Brazil & Ivory Coast in it.

First places in groups France, Argies, England, Germany, Holland, Italy, Brazil, Spain Second places more difficult to call. Group A - Mexico, Group B - South Korea? Very difficult to call - any one of the three could manage it. Group C - USA Group D - Serbia/Ghana tough-out Group E - Denmark/Cameroon tough-out Group F - Slovakia Group G - Portugal Group H - Swiss - boring

happy we're playing such a tough group... Germany especially. I'd have been disappointed in something like groups F or C. If we're to improve, we need to be challenged at these tournaments. There'll all the sort of team we struggle to play against. But then if we get a point first up against Germany, there's still a chance to get to the final 16 again. Either way, we'll be progressing as a football nation whether we get past the group or not.

Keep on dreaming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Australia could face England in round of 16 though!!

Actually I got Serbia's form mixed up with Slovenia's or Slovakias. Looks a very tough group for Australia.

Germany, Ghana, Australia, Serbia A tough group but not impossible for Australia to qualify. The last full strength match between Australia and Ghana was an evenly match performance with Australia drawing 1-1 (Australia were controlling the match before Grella was injured and substituted and they equalised). There was also the 1-0 win over Ghana at home in a 2nd string XI. This is a must win match and since Australia has a reasonable record against them, It's not impossible to hope for a reasonable result against them. Serbia and Germany are both teams hard teams but it could have been worst and we avoided the killers in Spain, Brazil for the seeds and France and Portugal for the European.

Yes G looking like the group of Death - the others are quite balanced, although Italy probably ended up with the very best group as a seeded team. H ends up being our Spanish colonial group. With Australia's group - you'd conclude it's a tougher group than four years ago - Ghana replaces Japan - on their own continent, and a quality team - we will be hoping that both Germany and Serbia fail to acclimatise coming out of a European summer.

A is also very tough - hard to see the hosts existing that, which would be a shame. They'd need to at least beat uruguay and get something against Mexico and maybe France

My take Italy got blessed france being in group A makes the draw balanced. No real Group of Death but some tough groups. USA v ENGLAND opening game in Group C . FIFA are loving that. Australia are going to find it hard in Group D.

Final groups - Group A: South Africa, Mexico, Uruguay, France Group B: Argentina, Nigeria, South Korea, Greece Group C: England, United States, Algeria, Slovenia Group D: Germany, Australia, Serbia, Ghana Group E: Netherlands, Denmark, Japan, Cameroon Group F: Italy, Paraguay, New Zealand, Slovakia Group G: Brazil, North Korea, Ivory Coast, Portugal Group H: Spain, Switzerland, Honduras, Chile

B, D, E, G - the toughest, and we're among them Chile v Spain - some nice football awaits

Italy, England,fairly comfy

3 possible top 4 teams in the one group. If there is a group of death that is the one.

Feels tough but really, not that much tougher than getting Paraguay. If we play well we can make it through, can't ask for more than that.

Brazil, Portugal and Ivoy Coast - looking forward to that!

G for Group of Death?