Too early? :tongue: So this is what it feels like,up this high. The air is so clean!
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Too early? :tongue: So this is what it feels like,up this high. The air is so clean!
I know a good book you could read to get you in the mood in the meantime. :) [/shameless plug]
Hope it goes better for ye than the last couple of ties! Thor and TNS, eh? :p
Is it the first time a LoI club has qualified for Europe while still being in Europe? Or did Cork do it a couple of years back when they were in the Youth League too?
One things for sure, every granny in Austria wiĺ be hoping bohs don t come to town.
Heard Pats are looking at getting Bohs kicked out for pulling out of the leinster senior😁
A Bohs fan thinking of themselves as being like UCD? There's a first anyway!
Not a very good source i think :)
Dundalk ...................................1,380,000
Finn Harps................................. 775,000
Cork............................................75 0,000
Waterford.................................. 425,000
Rovers .....................................2,450,000 Double the Dundalk Budget , Bradley out :)
Turns out Ollie Horgan has been doing a **** poor job after all my defence of him , time for change
I think it's not budgets, but estimated market values of the squads according to transfermarkt.com. Which is absolutely useless for smaller leagues, because you only have nonzero estimated values for players who once played in one of the bigger leagues, and even those estimates would often be a few years old, i.e. from the time when they were still in those bigger leagues.
Is this the first time for Bohs in Europe since that fateful summer's day in the clean air of Iceland?
The other month I phoned up a company in Akureyri (home of Thor) and asked to speak with Siggi, the receptionist replied 'which Siggi? Siggi Paul, Siggi Jon, Siggi Mar or Euro Siggi?' I said who's Euro Siggi? then the kronur dropped, it was the very same Siggi who scored the hattrick plus 2 assists v Bohs and apparantly has been branded Euro Siggi in honour ever since.
So first three rounds of CL/EL to be one leg.
Draw to determine who gets home advantage, neutral venues if the match can't be hosted.
Draws on 9/10th August, matches on week of 17th August.
More details to come, but at least we've got some idea of how things will work. The away team may get more money to off-set travel costs, for example.
Could actually be better for LoI in terms of progressing. You'd have to think there'll be a better chance over one leg than two.
There will be no chance for LOI clubs if they have no competitive games beforehand.
When is the draw lads?
I see Bohs are to use Lansdowne if drawn at home.
Any reason why?
If it's for distancing, surely Dalymount being used for league matches means it's fine for the EL.
Unless the FAI want a match there so they can plan for the NL matches in September?
Bohs have done it because uefa have said they'll reverse ties if the away team has a stadium more suited to allowing social distancing procedures. Dundalk are considering asking the same.
https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2020...ubs-in-europe/
Very messy for the clubs involved.
Gavin Bazunu in the Manchester city champions league squad. Pretty impressive, obviously doing well
Any clause activated by the like?
Doubt it for being named in a squad but if he gets game time you'd have to hope so
Not a good draw. Away to potentially the best non seed in the pot
NK Celje (Slovenia) vs. Dundalk. I would have said they were the ones to avoid in that pot.
As Slovenia isn't on our green list, I assume the match will be moved to Hungary or Greece: https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2020...ce-or-hungary/
Presume the Europa League draws are at 12?
Edit - wiki says it's tomorrow at 12. No pots up as yet though, it seems
Probably the toughest or second toughest draw Dundalk could’ve got but they’ve got 0 players that are full internationals so at least that’s something. By comparison Norrköping that Pats played last season had 17 full internationals in their squad. I think if the pre-lockdown Dundalk turn up on the night they have a good chance of going through
Compared to the Faroes or Estonia (two other countries in the pot) it's obviously a tough draw, especially for the first round.
But they've not won a European tie in 15 years. They've not even been in Europe in the last five seasons, and this is their CL debut as they'd never won the league before. It's arguably the kind of tie LoI ties should be aiming to be a bit confident going into.
That's it. I actually thought the Finnish were tougher possible opponents - they ran Legia Warsaw close last season and Copenhagen the season before.
People seem to be basing NK Celje's strength purely on them winning the Slovenian league a couple of weeks ago, finishing above Maribor. They finished 5th in the previous 4 seasons, so maybe there has been a big squad overhaul?
No European pedigree at all. If we're serious about group stage football, and that's why the owners are here and what the club keep talking about, then we should be winning this tie, no excuses.
Dundalk off to Slovenia then.
Up North Glentoran at home to HB Torshavn and Coleraine Home to La Forita(San Marino)
2 kind draw's for the Irish league teams,Dundalks post lockdown form will have to improve if they are to progress,looked very flat since the restart .
In fairness, they only had kind draws available to them. 3 Faroe teams or the San Marino team.
Gas thing is both NI sides were unseeded - I presume because the Faroese and Sammarinese teams have picked up extra coefficient points at the preliminary stage, which the IL sides have skipped before now.
Similarly in the other pool, the Andorran and Gibraltar sides were seeded over the Montenegro and Kosovan sides. So effectively it all balanced out with everyone really on the wrong side of the pools.