I was taking it that physio room were referring to their date of likely to return to match day squad, which seems about right to me. Never said or inferred that Pep was or seemed like a bull shitterPep said yesterday that everyone is fit, and that 30 players trained yesterday, he doesn't seem like a bullshitter to me.
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We owe them one after last season mate, hope we put six past themFirst ame of the season for me and I can't bloody wait
No.Anyone think sane may start with gundogan and vinny on the bench?
I think there's a better chance we sane tomorrow, maybe from the bench. Vinny and gundogan were both serious injuries so best be conservative imoAnyone think sane may start with gundogan and vinny on the bench?
It is a hard group, Barca are the best team the world and Celtic may be a weak team but Celtic vs an English team is a different kettle of fish to Celtic vs a non-English team. If you ignore the English/Scottish thing you do so at your own peril. While I kind of agree with your point on the same countries rule I feel that the tv pairing rule is the underhand way of screwing us over and over again resulting in the same sh*t draws. If anything the guaranteed 16 teams from the big 4 leagues will make it a more level playing field rather than the current very difficult City group everyone will have a difficult group.Coincidences are, by definition, strange. As for the hardest group? Not sure how you arrive at that conclusion. Due to the congestion of teams in pots 1 and 2 from Germany, Spain and England, we were always very likely to get Barca, Madrid or Munich from pot 1. We then drew the lowest ranked team in pot 3 (who we beat home and away last season, with no plan and an apparent no-mark for a manager) and Celtic. It's really not the end of the world.
Rail against the intricacies of the draw and its asinine rules by all means. Personally, I would keep the pots but remove the 'teams playing each other from the same countries' rule. What's wrong with a group of Leicester, City/Arsenal, Spurs and Pot 4? Or Bayern, Dortmund, Borussia and Pot 4?
If you think the draws are bad now wait until there are guaranteed to be 16 teams from Spain, Germany, England and Italy.