EL ranked 20th in Europe

**Risteard** · 05/03/2007, 5:54 PM

AFAIK, whoever represents Ireland in the Champions League First preliminarys will definately be seeded.
Think that was in the papers after city beat Limassol.

**pete** · 05/03/2007, 6:03 PM

Originally Posted by Risteard

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.

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.

**paudie** · 05/03/2007, 6:18 PM

Originally Posted by Lim till i die

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

Basically, EL clubs earned more points in total with their Euro results in 06/07 than Serbian clubs.

Obviously the other Serbian clubs were crap this season.

**Ebmania** · 06/03/2007, 9:42 AM

Originally Posted by pete

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.

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.

**dcfcsteve** · 06/03/2007, 10:14 AM

Originally Posted by Rossi

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 through

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.

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)......!