LOI In Europe 2020

Too early? So this is what it feels like,up this high. The air is so clean!

Originally Posted by ger121

Too early? So this is what it feels like,up this high. The air is so clean!

Exactly what the Waterford lads felt.

I hope Bohs admin has improved

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?

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😁

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

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?

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?

Funny enough. When I think of us in Europe, with a small budget, playing style and maybe progressing a round, I think about UCD that year they put out Dudelange. That book is actually on my list.

A Bohs fan thinking of themselves as being like UCD? There's a first anyway!

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

A Bohs fan thinking of themselves as being like UCD? There's a first anyway!

Speaking of FIRST 😁😁😁

Originally Posted by ger121

Too early? So this is what it feels like,up this high. The air is so clean!

The 2020-21 Champions League thread has been live on Dundalk Talk for several weeks ;-)

Worth mentioning the Swedish league briefly. With two games to play the top four are level on points, incredible stuff.

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

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?

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?

Rovers and Dundalk were still playing group games when the season ended so they have done it. In 2017 we qualified extremely early but I believe we were knocked out of the qualifiers before we officially qualified.

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

A Bohs fan thinking of themselves as being like UCD? There's a first anyway!

Everyone eventually finds their level.

Originally Posted by EatYerGreens

Everyone eventually finds their level.

Some still live in blissful ignorance. But you'll soon realise that

Never too early, love it
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Originally Posted by bennocelt

Never too early, love it
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Some very interesting (budgetary) figures there...

Any idea of source?

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.

Originally Posted by Couch Potato

Heard Pats are looking at getting Bohs kicked out for pulling out of the leinster senior😁

We'll definitely find a technicality somewhere

Originally Posted by ger121

Too early? So this is what it feels like,up this high. The air is so clean!

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.