I’m not sure but I see Bert Kassies site has Rovers coefficient for next season as 6, on the basis that that they get the minimum this season. That would obviously change should they win a round.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
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I’m not sure but I see Bert Kassies site has Rovers coefficient for next season as 6, on the basis that that they get the minimum this season. That would obviously change should they win a round.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
UEFA have announced that no away fans will be permitted in all upcoming club competitions until at lease the group stages.
For country co-efficient, it's the same as it has been for qualification rounds in the other 2 competitions. 1 point for a win and 0.5 point for a draw.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
https://kassiesa.net/uefa/calc.html
Bit ouch for Sligo, but the rest have dodged some very big hitters in R2.
Rovers play Young Boys of Berne if they get past slovan
Rovers not getting it easy in the draw. Some lucky banker in the ECL R3 draw would be good!Quote:
Originally Posted by placid casual
On the flip side dundalk are getting great draws, even with seeding they've avoided any difficult teams again.
Sligo vs Rosenberg - good luck with that!
Yeah absolutely. R2 has more big sides than easy. Dundalk and Bohs with the best draws they could have asked for out of those groupings. Very fortunate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
Dundalk avoiding Swedish, Hungarians and Slovaks.
Bohs avoiding Portuguese, Belgians, Danes, Scottish.
Sligo had no easy teams in their grouping at all, was always gonna be a tough one.
Ha - Bohs v Dudelange! That'll be interesting.
Rovers v Slovan means a nice 2015 remix while I wait for UCD's next random way of qualifying for Europe...
Bit swings and roundabouts, BATE x2 and Rosenborg albeit getting at minimum a results in those ties. Slovan and Qarabag werent the greatest draws. But the last 2 years its so far so good. Hard to dampen expectations considering our current form with those draws up to QR3 - its th hope that kills ye.
Quandary for owners if we progress again in these 2 rounds, put a season saving run together (HA!!) and qualify for Europe. Cut budget to more appropriate levels which could still be domestically competitive - well it could cause a rethink back to medium longer term thinking by P6, and another year to their ownership, whether that would be good or bad thing fook knows.
Good draw for Dundalk in QR1, but most likely facing Levadia Tallinn in QR2 - who beat De Town home and away in 2018, and Cork City 6-2 on aggregate in 2017.
Dundalk beat Levadia Tallinn in 2018.Quote:
Originally Posted by Demesne Lad
Dundalk beat Tallinn in both legs 2018.Quote:
Originally Posted by Demesne Lad
*as did Cork 2017.
Quite right, lads! I'm awarding myself a yellow card. However, the prospect of getting to QR3 lifts the mood!
We had a similar situation in 2018. We lost to Legia, got a bye in the second round of the Europa League and then lost to Rosenborg. We didnt get the second round prize money. In hindsight I think we would have preferred to play the second round. Probably a chance of a better draw than then eventual one we got, and if we had gone out in the third round having won a tie it would have felt a lot better than getting beaten pretty comfortably (in the end, the Legia tie was pretty close until about half time in the second leg) in both rounds.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buller
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Originally Posted by Demesne Lad
I assume this is a typo from Demesne? Cork City won 6-2 as Nesta points out. Our second ever win both home and away in Europe. Cracking goal from Beattie in Parnu (game was moved from Tallinn) in the first leg and a hattrick from Seanie at home, after we gave up our away goals advantage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
Alas, not a typo but an own goal under pressure (from the dog) by misreading the Wiki entry on Levadia Tallinn.
Back to cleaning the First Team's boots, I suppose.
Cue jokes about Rovers' supporters liking Young Boys ?Quote:
Originally Posted by placid casual
It'll be a local derby seeing as it's all Rovers have on the bench these days anyway (so they tell us)
I assumed you would have gone with Rovers battling against the bsc.Quote:
Originally Posted by EatYerGreens
a coefficient of 6.0 woud have been enough to be seeded this year, so should rovers progress a round and win the league this year their consistency will be rewarded :sQuote:
Originally Posted by Yossarian
on the other hand dundalk's value has dropped from a valuable 10.5 to 8.5. Currently Dundalk should they progress are seeded in *all* three qualifying rounds but 8.5 would not have been enough to be seeded in the 3QR this year...
The lowest seed for 1QR was 2.25 so Bohs/Sligo who are currently on 2.0 should make sure they qualify/progress so that next year or the year after they are able to build.
How are clubs and teams etc not getting their house in order to take advantage of what consistent participation brings..
As a Dundalk fan that stings a bit at the moment!!Quote:
Originally Posted by sparky12345678
Since Rovers got the bye to round 3 of the ECL should they lose to Bratislava they are actually already guaranteed 2 points for this year, so their seeding will be at least 6.5 for next year.Quote:
Originally Posted by sparky12345678
This is kind of one of the best things about the league I think, it's so unbelievably competitive and no team has a god given right to succeed (ala PSG/Juve/Bayern/Celtic). Dundalk and Cork seemed light years away only a couple years ago, now they are so, so far off the pace. Obviously the same 3/4 teams qualifying for Europe every year would be better for our European ranking. But I do really love the jeopardy of this league and how hard it is to have sustained success, which is what makes Dundalk's recent run so impressive.
The draws have been pretty kind to all teams this year so should be quite hopeful.... However the league is utter tripe, so this could end up being an embarrassing year.
Feel free to drag this up when all four teams are in the group stages.
Bohs v Stjarnan in Lansdowne Road.
That's an unusual decision - is it to increase the number of people who can go to the match?
Yes. Hopefully 5,000 crowds at that point .would make for a useful pilot .Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
I heard it was because Bohs fans wanted to see the inside of the Aviva and the FAI in fairness obviously felt sorry for them :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Win a cup after 30 odd years and yiz start lording it:DQuote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
We lost a few there as well :eek: in case youve forgottenQuote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
Aviva or Tallaght to increase numbers that can attend Bohs would bust the budget to use the Aviva. 5k would be enough to cover all season ticket holders + some.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Meh nobody remembers the losing team!Quote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
i remember:cry:Quote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
Bohs have a 100% winning record in that stadium!Quote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
Both Starnan and FH are not up to much this season, though considering Bohs' record in Iceland they might be revisiting that decision to switch venues for the return leg.
Welcome back Geysir! Hasnt been a vintage LoI season either. Fun head to head for the respective leagues though!Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
Id be very surprised if we wonQuote:
Originally Posted by geysir
It's easy to say, but not so easy to do. Other clubs have the same idea, so spend increasing sums of money to make Europe. So you also have to spend more and more each year just to stand still. It all becomes a financial arms race, and things inevitably go wrong at some point for some participants (Shels, Cork, Derry etc).Quote:
Originally Posted by sparky12345678
We've seen what happens when clubs think they can just dominate the league to make continual progress ion Europe.
I wonder if the FAIA has done them a favourable rate on the rent ? They might surprise us.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
I thought selective memory was LoI fans' specialty;)Quote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
Nah Shamrock Rovers FAI would never allow that, exclusive rights on pilot schemes in Tallaght and all that, and its Bohs!Quote:
Originally Posted by EatYerGreens
Away goals rule abolished.
I'm delighted with that tbh i found myself sitting in Tallaght crapping myself every time the opposition came near our goal and i never really felt the opposite to that feeling when Rovers were away from home.
Probably says more about my mental state than the actual rule.