League of Ireland in Europe 2016

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Very, very hard to stop in fairness.

Indeed it's ver easy to stick a flag under a shirt and unfurl it at the game. I hope the club warns people that anyone caught with one of these flags will get a lifetime ban from Oriel Park. Not that a ban will bother attention seeking political nutters who are only at the game to goad Israelis.

Fines for this crap RE flags will be huge

Originally Posted by White Horse

Indeed it's ver easy to stick a flag under a shirt and unfurl it at the game. I hope the club warns people that anyone caught with one of these flags will get a lifetime ban from Oriel Park. Not that a ban will bother attention seeking political nutters who are only at the game to goad Israelis.

Should be safe enough most of the political nutters don't like paying for anything including match tickets ��

Originally Posted by White Horse

Indeed it's ver easy to stick a flag under a shirt and unfurl it at the game. I hope the club warns people that anyone caught with one of these flags will get a lifetime ban from Oriel Park. Not that a ban will bother attention seeking political nutters who are only at the game to goad Israelis.

Yer man from Galway will be down. He seems like loads of craic.

Looks like this is the groupings for the UEFA Youth League Domestic Champions Path draw later. Ajax and Anderlecht the obvious big teams here, with Rosenborg not far behind but all of these clubs you would expect will have very good underage set ups.
http://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/..._UltraWide.jpg

What sort of money is involved in that? I presume it has to be enough to cover Cork's costs anyway - but that could easily be E100k a tie (so not far off real Europe prize money)

It's a really confusing system that UEFA Youth League. 32 teams in the Champions League have their youth teams in group stages. The other 32 teams are in a straight knockout. 8 teams from group stage progress and 8 teams from domestic winners progress and meet in the last 16 of the competition.

The reigning champions Chelsea can't even defend their title seeing as their senior team didn't make it into the CL.

The final is held in Nyon each year in a stadium that would be scoffed at by League of Ireland sides.

Bit of a shambolic competition, to be honest. Smaller clubs giving out as it will cost them a lot of money to participate. Seems set up to benefit large clubs with large academies. There's a surprise.

Originally Posted by White Horse

Bit of a shambolic competition, to be honest. Smaller clubs giving out as it will cost them a lot of money to participate. Seems set up to benefit large clubs with large academies. There's a surprise.

That's probably why Dundalk let Legia win.

Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954

That's probably why Dundalk let Legia win.

Nah, not with seven million to spend

Costs are covered by UEFA for travel and accommodation so not sure why smaller clubs would complain...

HJK Helsinki in the first round. Win that and its Roma or APOEL.

Originally Posted by El-Pietro

Costs are covered by UEFA for travel and accommodation so not sure why smaller clubs would complain...

There is a reimbursement cap on costs that will be covered. Clubs in peripheral areas of Europe with few direct flights are disadvantaged under this scheme.

HJK lost 6-1 on aggregate to Celtic last season.

I'll be interested to see how City match up as they're clearly the best in Ireland by quite a bit this season.

Originally Posted by JC_GUFC

HJK lost 6-1 on aggregate to Celtic last season.

I'll be interested to see how City match up as they're clearly the best in Ireland by quite a bit this season.

Hopefully, they'll do themselves justice. It is right and proper that the best team represents Ireland in these competitions.

No question our U19s are the best on the island. In the Cup final again this year, already wrapped up the southern division. This will be a good test.

Originally Posted by El-Pietro

No question our U19s are the best on the island. In the Cup final again this year, already wrapped up the southern division. This will be a good test.

They will be without Ellis and Donnellan wont they? Ogbene is very good tho he could impress

Originally Posted by ybig

They will be without Ellis and Donnellan wont they? Ogbene is very good tho he could impress

Probably, I guess we might be able to recall them, but I don't know if we'd want to. Of course, the U19s have been without those two for some time now.

Originally Posted by White Horse

Bit of a shambolic competition, to be honest.

The competition didn't even exist, then the NextGen series came along and made a good stab at it. UEFA of course threw a fit and made their own competition to kill off the growing NextGen series.

No surprise that it's halfassed since they were forced into doing it.

Great opportunity for City, and they're clearly the best equipped team in the country. Hopefully they'll gain some good experience.

If Dundalk had made the group phase I dread to think what would have happened to our youth team. They're pretty good by League of Ireland standards, but could have wound up in a group with some of the big guns who go around hoovering up the very best talent from around the world.