Anyone worried about the potential "Qualifier"

[lancs blue]

The chances are that we won't have a high enough ranking to be seeded in that round. Arsenal were seeded this season but they've been in the CL every year for fuck knows how long.

 

[sput the wonder pig]

looking even further.. does the loser of the said qualifier go into the europa league or is that it !!! nuffin

 

[marco]

looking even further.. does the loser of the said qualifier go into the europa league or is that it !!! nuffin

i thought chumps lge failures droped into uefa/europa after the group stages so i'm not sure we would even go into that

 

[MadchesterCity]

I will file that worry in the folder marked if and when

 

[Balti]

One step at a time. Lets see if we can get 4th spot first and go from there.

 

[lancs blue]

looking even further.. does the loser of the said qualifier go into the europa league or is that it !!! nuffin

i thought chumps lge failures droped into uefa/europa after the group stages so i'm not sure we would even go into that

Yes we would drop into the Europa League group stages, as Celtic did after losing to Arsenal this season in the final CL qualifier.

 

[sput the wonder pig]

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if we lose the play off we go into europa leage group stage

 

[JoeMercer'sWay]

we'd be in the best placed section, which at the moment would consist of.

Play-Off Round
Sevilla
Manchester City
Palermo
Bayer Leverkusen
Auxerre

3rd Qualifying Round
Zenit St. Petersburg(confirmed as Russian season over).
Dynamo Kyiv(or Dinamo Kiev for ITV people)
Vaslui(Romania, though they're 5 teams within 2 points of each other in the race for Champions League qualification)
Braga(Portugal)
Ajax
Fenerbahce
Greece have play-offs for the spot which will be between Panathinaikos/Olympiakos, Aris, AEK Athens and PAOK.
FC Basel
Belgium have playoffs between the top 6, the current leaders are Anderlecht and the runners-up are Club Brugge, and they are miles ahead of the rest in the league.
Celtic.

The 10 3rd qualifying round teams would play-off over 2 legs, the 5 winners would face the 5 play-off qualifiers over 2 legs for places in the group stages.

I may add that in every league the top of the tables are extremely tight, so it's really going to be interesting.

 

[uwe282828]

The main thing is we can purchase players of that standard inthe summer to improve the squad and we also break up the sky four by stopping Liverpool from getting the champs league money.not worried at all by failing to qualify if we get there.

 

[kcmcfc]

I have definitely thought about it. Right now I just hope we have something to worry about in August.

 

[bluenova]

Play-Off Round
Sevilla
Manchester City
Palermo
Bayer Leverkusen
Auxerre

3rd Qualifying Round
Zenit St. Petersburg(confirmed as Russian season over).
Dynamo Kyiv(or Dinamo Kiev for ITV people)
Vaslui(Romania, though they're 5 teams within 2 points of each other in the race for Champions League qualification)
Braga(Portugal)
Ajax
Fenerbahce
Greece have play-offs for the spot which will be between Panathinaikos/Olympiakos, Aris, AEK Athens and PAOK.
FC Basel
Belgium have playoffs between the top 6, the current leaders are Anderlecht and the runners-up are Club Brugge, and they are miles ahead of the rest in the league.
Celtic.

Looking at those teams I'd guess neither us nor Spuds would be seeded - could be interesting! At least it's better than the UEFA qualifying games we played :)

 

[Royaloak]

Potential trip to Seville in August? - sounds fucking great.

 

[JoeMercer'sWay]

Play-Off Round
Sevilla
Manchester City
Palermo
Bayer Leverkusen
Auxerre

3rd Qualifying Round
Zenit St. Petersburg(confirmed as Russian season over).
Dynamo Kyiv(or Dinamo Kiev for ITV people)
Vaslui(Romania, though they're 5 teams within 2 points of each other in the race for Champions League qualification)
Braga(Portugal)
Ajax
Fenerbahce
Greece have play-offs for the spot which will be between Panathinaikos/Olympiakos, Aris, AEK Athens and PAOK.
FC Basel
Belgium have playoffs between the top 6, the current leaders are Anderlecht and the runners-up are Club Brugge, and they are miles ahead of the rest in the league.
Celtic.

Looking at those teams I'd guess neither us nor Spuds would be seeded - could be interesting! At least it's better than the UEFA qualifying games we played :)

yeah, we'd be one of the lowest seeds I think, though our UEFA Cup quarter-final last season may help.

Realistically we could end up going away to St. Petersburg, Seville or Kyiv for a qualifier, and that is nasty, certainly a step up from anything we've previously faced.

That's if we get there.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Did I see Fenerbahce in there as a possible opponent? What are the chances of history repeating itself?

 

[sput the wonder pig]

Looking at those teams I'd guess neither us nor Spuds would be seeded - could be interesting! At least it's better than the UEFA qualifying games we played :)

yeah, we'd be one of the lowest seeds I think, though our UEFA Cup quarter-final last season may help.

Realistically we could end up going away to St. Petersburg, Seville or Kyiv for a qualifier, and that is nasty, certainly a step up from anything we've previously faced.

That's if we get there.

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about the play offs being seeded !!!

 

[lancs blue]

Potential trip to Seville in August? - sounds fucking great.

Alternatively a trip to Palermo, Italian Mafia HQ! ;-)

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I thought seeding depended on the country coefficient, not the team.

 

[lancs blue]

I thought seeding depended on the country coefficient, not the team.

It's worked out as a combination of both team coefficient and country coefficient.

 

[squirtyflower]

Did I see Fenerbahce in there as a possible opponent? What are the chances of history repeating itself?

please god no
apart from memories of 68 the temperature in mid august would be too stifling for our players

 

[GOATERS HEAD GROOVES]

As my old man says it will be a nice problem to have.