If it's Monday - it must be European Draws Day...

Glentoran get maccabi haifi

Of course they have a chance - even if it is small :D.

Looking at the positives Bohs have been drawn against a team in their off-season and they are playing away from home first.

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Originally Posted by Dodge

Glentoran get maccabi haifi

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Nasty. No chance and a long way to go.

Austrian football isn't too far ahead of Swedish football and LOI teams have a decent record there recently. I wouldn't be writing off Bohs yet

Nice trip for fans too

Janko will probably get a couple of hat-tricks against Bohs

Didn't know Vonlanthen plays for Salzburg.

Edit - didn't know he was Colombian either.

Janko will be long gone by the time that game happens.

Europa League will be here

http://www.uefa.com/live/competition...raw_basic.html

Can he be long gone in three weeks' time?

was in salzburg last summer at euro2008. lovely city and excellent infrastructure. bohs will love it, especially for a few days. excellent irish pub along the river but never saw an irish person behind the bar:D. ryanair fly direct to it also and ya fly over the stadium when landing.

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Originally Posted by thesilverfox

ryanair fly direct to it

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Direct from Stansted though.

So basically they have put the most westerly team and the most easterly team in Europe, that are in the competition, in the same group. ffs

Its not the worst draw for Bohs. Looking at the team there are a few Bundesliga rejects playing for them so they would be a fairly ordinary outfit apart from Janko.

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Originally Posted by Infadel

Its not the worst draw for Bohs.

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It's a tough draw for the stage they're at. Also, Salzburg have Red Bull's millions behind them.

Here's their European record. Not great by any means, but they're very efficient against the lower echelons.

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Originally Posted by redobit

So basically they have put the most westerly team and the most easterly team in Europe, that are in the competition, in the same group. ffs

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Its based on rankings, not region

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Originally Posted by pineapple stu

It's a tough draw for the stage they're at. Also, Salzburg have Red Bull's millions behind them.

Here's their European record. Not great by any means, but they're very efficient against the lower echelons.

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I see what you mean but looking at their squad they seem to make a lot of changes to their team each season and although they do have Red Bull's millions behind them the only players they do attract are form the Czech and Slovak leagues and a few players from the lower placed German Bundesliga.

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Originally Posted by Dodge

Its based on rankings, not region

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So its based on the coefficent then - How is it that they can put malta (the worst of the unseeded teams) in our group.

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Originally Posted by redobit

So basically they have put the most westerly team and the most easterly team in Europe, that are in the competition, in the same group. ffs

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Kazakhstan being in UEFA is a joke. Extra votes for UEFA at the FIFA table seems to be the primary reason, along with the Kazakhs getting the hump with the Asians.

for travel hell, imagine going to Atkobe, Kazakhstan from iceland for that champions league qualifier

It was the only reason. The original proposal was to exchange Kazakhstan for Azerbaijan, in the end UEFA retained both.