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

[Drumcondra 69er]

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.

It's an awful draw for us. Artificial pitch to boot, loads of money pumped in by Red Bull. They were one of about 3 or 4 I didn't want to get so gutted really. Only positive is we're home second leg. If we win we'll be the highest ranked non seeded team again so of all the bigger teams in it it was a bad one from that point of view as well. At least they're winter football and we're home 2nd leg I suppose.

[pineapple stu]

Plus you have to give money to Red Bull Salzburg.

[Dodge]

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

They split the seeds up into pots so basically the top 8 seeds are seperated, then the next 8 go into those pots, then the next 8 etc etc

So you could have a pot with one fo the 8 seeds, one of the 9-16, one of the 17-24, one of 25-32, and one of the 33-40 and so on.

Thats the way it was for us in the first round last year, and it looks that way here

[Duggie]

red bull - tough draw. hardly a european force but they would be a different class to bohs. cant see them progressing.

[sligoman]

Draw started:

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

[pineapple stu]

Great stream actually. makes a change frmowatching live blurry Eurosport in previous years.

Assume we don't know when they get to Sligo's pot?

[gustavo]

Vlaznia

[pineapple stu]

Albania it is...

Edit - that's not too bad logistically. Assuming they play in Shkoder, it's almost on the border with Montenegro. Fly to Dubrovnik and drive, or fly via Vienna to Podgorica.

[HarpoJoyce]

Shroder.
They will love it. Its not the capital for a start.

Plenty of different routes to get there aswell.

[Real ale Madrid]

i thought it wasnt starting until 1330 CET?

[Boo_Boy]

So much for 12 f'n 30.

Wen't to pee and and its already done.

[pineapple stu]

Distillery off to Georgia.

[brendy_éire]

i thought it wasnt starting until 1330 CET?

Thought that too.

Distillery off to Georgia.

[Dodge]

i thought it wasnt starting until 1330 CET?

Me too.

regardless. Its not a mountain for Sligo to climb so fingers crossed for them

[Duggie]

albanian's will be tough enough id say. napoli beat them 8-0 over 2 legs last season. hard to know really.

[pineapple stu]

After they'd knocked out a Slovenian side though. Another tough draw.

(Those Bert Kassies links don't work. Go to his site and click on search; it'll show up their European history, excluding the TotoToto Cup.)

[holidaysong]

At least it's not Kazakhstan!

[Fester]

Randers v Linfield ...... Danish Trip..

[HarpoJoyce]

Two Albanian sides due to play at home on 09th July (mid-week) in the second leg. I don't know if this is enough to make a change to the home ties as they have been drawn though..

[Real ale Madrid]

meanwhile, linfield have a 20% chance of drawing a danish team called randers fc.

I bet that would throw a few of the less literate types in the village, who would turn up expecting to see the scottish champions.....

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