Group 1

Hamburg - German TV money but a strong side
Everton - English TV Money and a team we'd 'know', we'd have a crack off them but having to deal with Everton Irish at the cross :rolleyes:
PAOK - A pain in the whole to get to, won't give us TV money, won't be a name the general public will reognise, though not in their season yet anyone bar this shower.
Auxerre - French TV Money, cheap to get to, I think we'd have a shot (no better than Nantes anyway)
Prague - the 'fun' trip but from TV, full house, getting through point of view, difficult

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Originally Posted by Peadar

Are they the same PAOK that beat Arsenal 2-1 on aggregate in the first round of the 1997/98 UEFA Cup?
They were called PAOK Salonika or something but these guys are listed as PAOK FC. Anyone know?

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They play in Thessaloniki which is in Northern Greece on the Aegean seas.
Salonika could be the anglicised form of Thessaloniki?

After thinking about it, Hamburg or Auxerre would be the best draws for us.

We would have a shot at getting a result, good TV money, easy to get to both. A step up in class again, but we could be confident of doing ourselves proud.

Don't want the hassle of local "Evertonians" disgracing our city,
Greeks have the highest rating, Slavia are a class act.

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Originally Posted by Peadar

Are they the same PAOK that beat Arsenal 2-1 on aggregate in the first round of the 1997/98 UEFA Cup?
They were called PAOK Salonika or something but these guys are listed as PAOK FC. Anyone know?

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Here you are Peadar. www.paokfc.gr The site's in English and Greek.

Slavia Prague-Cork City. Ties to be played 15th and 29th of September.

crackin chance to get thru to group stages

Good chance! :)

I think they finished either 2nd or 3rd in the Czech Republic last year. They went out of the CL qualifiers mid-week. That's all I know bout them.

I don't know lads. Its going to be tough. I know Sparta Prague have made the CL group stages before but what about Slavia. I must research their Euro record. It's going to be tough going by their coefficient.

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Originally Posted by superfrank

Slavia Prague-Cork City.

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Could be a lot worse!
[SIZE=7]C'mon City![/SIZE]

They 4-1 on agg against Anderlecht in the CL prelim round

AFAIK they are a homeless club in dire financial trouble - who lodged a complaint with uefa cause they lost their seeding in the cl qualifiers to make room for Liverpool.....

Tricky tie i reckon. Skillfull team. Hopefull they'll underestimate us though. Czech airlines fly to prague from cork. Praszky beer are giving away free flights too if you buy a six pack down the offy. Next door offys anyway. Have to do a bloody tiebreaker though.

Home and away losses against a Belgian team. All the draws are tough but football wise this one's the best

Slavia Prague (Cze) V Cork City

Dinamo Bucharest (Hun) V Everton

Hibernian V Dnipro (Ukr)

Middlesborough V Xanthi (Gre)

Bolton V Lokomotiv Plovdiv (Bul)

Are we away first? On the 15th?

yup - away 15th

Already posted this somewhere else:

Slavia's Euro results in the last 5 years:

2004/05 UC Q2: Dynamo Tbilisi (GEO), 3-1 & 0-2*

2003/04 UCL Q2: Leotar Trebinje (BIH), 2-1* & 2-0
Q3: Celta Vigo (ESP), 0-3* & 2-0
UC R1: Sartid Smederevo (SCG), 2-1* & 2-1
R2: Levski Sofia (BUL), 2-2 & 0-0*

2002/03 UC R1: Excelsior Mouscron (BEL), 2-2* & 5-1
R2: Partizan Belgrade (SCG), 1-3* & 5-1/aet
R3: PAOK Thessaloniki (GRE), 0-1* & 4-0
R4: Besiktas Istanbul (TUR), 1-0 & 2-4*

2001/02 UCL Q3: Panathinaikos Athens (GRE), 1-2 & 0-1*
UC R1: Servette Geneva (SUI), 0-1* & 1-1

2000/01 UCL Q2: FK Shamkir (AZE), 1-0 & 4-1*
Q3: Shakhtyor Donetsk (UKR), 1-0* & 0-2/aet
UC R1: Akademisk BK Copenhagen (DEN), 3-0 & 2-0*
R2: OFI Heraklion (GRE), 2-2* & 4-1
R3: NK Osijek (CRO), 0-2* & 5-1
R4: 1.FC Kaiserslautern (GER), 0-0 & 0-1*

*=away match

Cork City to play Slavia Prague


Damien Richardson's Cork City have drawn Czech side Slavia Prague in the UEFA Cup first round in today’s draw in Monaco.

City will play the away leg first on September 15 before taking the Czech’s back to Turner’s Cross on September 29.


Read more at www.breakingnews.ie

The Slavia home leg must be played during daylight hours as the floodlights in the cross arent up to 1st round proper standards

I hate daytime games tbh,theres always a more subdued atmosphere no matter how big a game it is,hands up those who've been to a derry noon kick-off on a sunday :D

I think its time we bucked the trend with this 1