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Maybe as part of their marketing of the league the FAI should mention that we are ranked 20th in European competition results in 2006/07 despite all EL teams being unseeded in all rounds.
We're ahead of countries like Poland, Norway, Sweden,Serbia and Austria.
That would be 4 places higher than the national team who are the 24th highhest European country in the FIFA Workd rankings.
therefore more eircom league players should be called up!
One thing wrong with that link
Our fourth team isn't up there (St Pats)
I say we'll comfortably pull away from the Poles when their Co-Eff is programmed in
The list ranks results from the 06/07 Euro season ie Cork city (CL), Derry, & Drogs (UEFA Cup)Quote:
Originally Posted by Réiteoir
While it's a massive improvement I can see how emphasising we finished 20th in one year makes a good marketing campaign.
Exactly, It is the performance for the 06/07 seasons, the real ranking is 35thQuote:
Originally Posted by paudie
http://www.xs4all.nl/~kassiesa/bert/...crank2007.html
You dont get points for the intertoto so ireland will only have 3 teams in europe gaining co-efficient pointsQuote:
Originally Posted by Réiteoir
how the hell are the norths leauge 3rd last with just andorra and san marino behind them??....
Neither Pats nor Drogheda will be seeded in the UEFA Cup but I thnk Derry might be for the first qualifier in the Champions League. Depends on who wins the various lower level leagues
Because they don't take it serious.Quote:
Originally Posted by gilberto_eire
Some of Linfields players went on holiday last year and missed a European game.
Forgive my ignorance of Co-Efficients but how in the hell did we end up ahead of Serbia??
Does anyone remember Cork v Red Star :eek: :ball:
In the overall rankings for the 5 yr period it looks grim, but when you look at the countries in the immediate 10 places above the league all of those countries are overtakeable (is that even a word?).
With 4 good teams in Europe, the potential is there again for this season. Imagine if Derry made the breakthrough!
Just from a barstoolers viewpoint, it has been the improved results in Europe, and the heightened exposure the league has got that has made me interested in the league in general.
Its going to be a good number of years before the eL teams can skip the 1st round so once we move to seeding in the 1st round can expect increased points. If can continue the results from last few years a move into top 30 isn't far away. I suppose the unknown this season is whether Pats can contribute given their inexperience.
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Originally Posted by pete
Don't see why they can't, after all Derry were inexperienced.
20th in Europe isn't as good as 24th in the world. Though it's not a massive amount worse either.Quote:
Originally Posted by Superhoops
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Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
Think you read his quote wrong steve.
Drogheda were considered inexperienced last year and nearly made it to the same round as Derry and could of played against PSV if they had of got throughQuote:
Originally Posted by Krstic
Was it not Ajax?
Derry & Drogs were inexperienced last season so they were unknown entities in europe. The fact they did well means they should be good for progress past 1st round this year. Drogs did have players who had experience with other clubs & Stephen had good (& bad) experience as a Manager. St Pats could very well make the Group Stages but thats doesn't take away the fact they an uncertainty starting this season as few players have played in europe before...Quote:
Originally Posted by Rossi
AFAIK, whoever represents Ireland in the Champions League First preliminarys will definately be seeded.
Think that was in the papers after city beat Limassol.
You can never say for definite as depends who wins the other leagues.Quote:
Originally Posted by Risteard
Derry now have 3.145 ranking club points which last season would easily get them seeded in the CL so I think safe to assume that. Its based on their draw at home to PSG though & not the Limassol result.
Drogs & Pats will get 2.145 ranking points which would have been enough for seeding last season in the Uefa Cup. Its a lot harder to judge this with fair play teams parachuted into the Nothern region & Uefa don't even decide who goes into each region until close to the draw.
IMO seeding makes a much bigger difference in the Uefa Cup than in the CL.
Basically, EL clubs earned more points in total with their Euro results in 06/07 than Serbian clubs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lim till i die
Obviously the other Serbian clubs were crap this season.
Pats will be fine in europe. With are signing and the type of game we play can get some results in europe. Maybe even the same as derry last year if not better. Dont doubt the Saints the Glory days are back.Quote:
Originally Posted by pete
It was Ajax who Start went on to play, but that doesn't mean Drogheda would've got them instead as the draw doesn't work like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rossi
I think Pat will do OK in Europe this year. Certainly no worse than the current Shels team would've, and probably no worse than any other team in the league (especially those that could've had any sort of claim on a Euro spot)......!
Whats the date of the qualifying rounds to be announced does anybody know.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~kassiesa/bert/...endar2007.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by Ebmania