Quoteiceland would be best id say, then finland
Finland, Iceland, Latvia and Lithuania should be beatable. Sweden wouldn't be too bad either.Originally Posted by Danny
iceland would be best id say, then finland
Collective shuddering among the "eskimo" population of Iceland there.
That really shows the difference between being seeded & unseeded - Drogs look like they should pick up a win & draw at least against most of those 1st round teams
where as Pats & Cork could both do well to get a draw each if they came up against ManCity/Brondby/Copenhagen & will have to hope to both get Finland/Iceland/Lat/Lit to have realistic hopes of progression (IMO)
Fingers crossed for the draw
BTW, should this thread be 'stickied' ?
- we can use it to discuss all eLoI involvement in Europe for the duration of (our involvement)
i do love bjork if that helps ? always did
Ah didnt get this much info. Think it would be nice to avoid Eng/Den/Swe in the first round at least. Man City/portsmouth, Villa (via intertoto) etc would be class to get in the 2nd or last round
"Now jump up there and stuff that son of a bitch in the basket, chief"
Nor Drogs
Hunky Dorys Park - could be worse, we could be going to Old Trafford every other week
Ummmmmmmm. IFKGoteborg 0 Derry City 1
Derry City 1 IFK Goteborg 0
Gretna 1 Derry City 5
Derry City2 Gretna 2
Derry City 0 PSG 0
psg 2 Derry City 0
So if you think Bohs are big read this. http://www.astronomy.ie/perpespective.html
Who I want City to get. Balancing travel with chances of progression.
Travel: Ideal
Progression: Very little chance
Travel: Ok
Progression: Unlikely
Travel: Ok
Progression: Unlikely
Travel: Ok
Progression: Tough
Travel: Ok
Progression: Tough
Travel: Ok
Progression: Tough
Travel: No thanks, Sick of Sweden
Progression: Tough-no element of surprise
Travel: No thanks
Progression: Tough
Travel:Ok
Progression: Good
Travel:Ok
Progression: Good
Travel: Disaster
Progression: V. Good
Travel:Yes please
Progression: V. Good
Travel:Ok
Progression: V. Good
Ranking:
1) Riga
2) Metalurgs
3/4)Finland(either team)
5)Iceland
6) Norway
7)Kalmar
8) Djurgarden
9/10) Nordsjælland/FC Midtjylland
11) Man City
12/13) Copenhagen/Brondby
Not anymore I don't think.
I could see City losing any of their possible first ties. Even the Lithuanians would probably play a better possession game than us.
Pats and Drogs I reckon should do well while Bohs have a pretty easy path.
City definetly have the best bands playing at half-time.
O'Bama - "Eerah yeah, I'd say we can alright!"
G.O'Mahoney Trapattoni'll sort ém out!!
Its the first season I've been very nervous before Europe. Wouldn't guarantee we'd beat anyone and a few of those teams could hammer us.
Does anyone have the league schedule of these countries.
Winter league teams would be easier to challange than summer teams for obvious reasons.
As far as I remember Finland play a summer season?
"Now jump up there and stuff that son of a bitch in the basket, chief"
Thats just what I was thinking!
We've now had 4 years in a row of decent results in Europe (I know last year was the worst of the 4, but that was expected after the implosion of Shels), our rankings have consistently improved, but some people still haven't noticed
Sure, when one of our teams does make that breakthrough into the group stages I'm sure it will be not enough for many begrudgers - if it is the UEFA groups they will belittle the competition, if it's the CL they will jump on ANY bad result to say that we shouldn't be there.
Whatever! (as my kids say)
The main problem has been that the best results havnt been against teams they know.Thats just what I was thinking!
We've now had 4 years in a row of decent results in Europe (I know last year was the worst of the 4, but that was expected after the implosion of Shels), our rankings have consistently improved, but some people still haven't noticed
Sure, when one of our teams does make that breakthrough into the group stages I'm sure it will be not enough for many begrudgers - if it is the UEFA groups they will belittle the competition, if it's the CL they will jump on ANY bad result to say that we shouldn't be there.
Whatever! (as my kids say)
Take the examples of when we have gotten well known teams.
Derry managed to take their season ticket holders to 1600ish because of PSG, Shels got 25k agaisnt deportivo and we sold out the red-star game in 6 hours.
Are they coming back after the one game? No. But if you made the group stages and had 3 games at home against recognisable teams maybe you'd have a better shot. If they got into the habit of going to games regularly even for a few weeks they might come back rather than it just being a once off
Only Danish teams and Man City play Winter Football in the list you can play.
I agree - from the coefficient point of view though, it could be a disaster if they were to make it to the UEFA Cup proper - the sum of our coefficient points would then be divided by 4 instead of by 3. Given that the Intertoto Cup teams go into the 2nd qualifying round, it'd mean that our points could well take a big hit.
However, Bohs beating Hibs in the final round of the competition would arguably do more for the public perception of the league than all the EL teams winning their first round ties.
Foot.ie's entire existence is predicated on the average idiot's inability to ignore other idiots
Who do Bohs play in the next round of the Intertoto?
Either Flykir of Iceland or Riga of Latvia. Probably Flykir because they won 2-1 away in the 1st leg. Bohs won 4-2 away today.
You should get past an Icelandic team. Is it Hibs or some Swedish team after that then?
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