Europa league playoff round.

[Azza]

Greeks or the Cypriots will provided the biggest challenge.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Plus the heatwave sweeping Southern Europe and the Med at the moment - still 30 degrees in many places at 10pm. Not useful at all.

So let's have FH Hafnarfjördur please.

Indeed. It will be interesting to see how Koeman manages the squad, as with the brutish start to the PL season, you'd imagine he would want the best team out for those games. Hopefully we'll make a few more additions that give us that depth.

 

[Lanolin]

Couldn't care less about allocations/flights etc at this stage. Just get the easiest draw and get through. Plenty of opportunity for boss days out once we reach the actual competition stage.

 

[Julius Geezer]

Hafnarfjordur purely because it's where the US Marines land in their recapture of Iceland in Tom Clancy's "Red Storm Rising"

 

[toffeeblue9]

I'm in Zante for the playoff. If we draw Panathinaikos, it could be an interesting conversation with the wife...

 

[ToffeeDan]

At least we wouldn't face the cheating Greek ref buyers in the middle of the afternoon.. like 1971 - plus all 4 of the Southern European teams are coastal as opposed to playing Partizan, Osijek, Domzale or Skenderbeu.

But I do notice that the dates might coincide.. 24th August '17 and 24th March '71

 

[TraffordBlue]

Couldn't care less about allocations/flights etc at this stage. Just get the easiest draw and get through. Plenty of opportunity for boss days out once we reach the actual competition stage.

Speak for yourself lol.

I know what you mean though. We need to make it through this round and I am worried about 3 of the teams in our group. We struggled last night. Imagine our team turning up in Athens or Split against a well drilled side with frequent previous European experience..

 

[sam17]

It's alright moaning about who we could potentially play, reality is if you don't play in Europe every season you don't keep up your coefficient and you run the risk of this happening.

As per the last round, if we can't beat any of these, then we may aswell not be in the competition. It's much stronger this year, we have to be able to beat these sides

 

[barneygumble]

I've just got back from Split it's a cracking city and the stadium is really impressive for Croatian standards.

I'd be very happy drawing them, but flights are already very pricey.

 

[Blake]

Based on that link it's Hajduck Split, not Videoton

Ha ha. Good old uefa - two different lists on the same page. I hadn't scrolled to the second list. They've updated the top list now

 

[nikom court]

already to go 2 laptops ready all permutations sorted!

 

[devogue]

Please not Split. Very racist fans.

 

[Abraders]

When is the next qualifier played, does anybody know?

 

[Ring master]

When is the next qualifier played, does anybody know?

Play offs 17th and 24th

 

[barneygumble]

already to go 2 laptops ready all permutations sorted!

Same.

So many permuations.

Jesus, don't everton this up.