Vic said:
Utterly confused. Of that list of non-seeded teams, when do we find out which group we're in? Before the draw or as part of it?
"Draw format: The 74 clubs are divided into seven groups for the draw – five of ten teams and two of 12. Within the seven groups an equal number of sides will be seeded and unseeded in accordance with the club rankings established at the beginning of the season. A ball will be taken from each of the bowls containing seeded and unseeded teams, and placed in a large empty bowl in the middle where they will be shuffled. The first club drawn will play its first match at home and sides from the same association cannot be drawn against each other."
no, no, no. the pots and seedings are the Group Stages, which is the round after the play-off round. The play-off round draw is tomorrow and is a straight 2-legged knockout, where 1 seeded team is put in a bowl with a non-seeded team and then 1 ball of the 2 is picked at random to select who is home in the first leg. The winners in the play-off round plus the losers in the Champions League play-off round(the round that Spurs enter) go into the groups, ok? and we can get Motherwell or any other non-seeded team in a 2 legged knockout match if we draw them tomorrow.