St Pats Opponents in the CL

losthorizon

St Pats will be drawn against one of the following opposition

Steaua
Celtic of Scotland
Bate Borisov (Belarus)
Dinamo Zagreb
Ludogorets Razgrad (bulgaria)
Maccabi Tel-Aviv
Sheriff Tiraspol (Moldova)
NK Maribor (Slovenia)
A Polish Team
A Serbian Team
Slovan Bratislava (slovakia)
FK Aktobe (Kazakhstan)
FK Ventspil (Lativa)
Garabag Agdam (Azerbaijan)
HJK Helsinki (Finland)
and either a Georgian or Hungarian team

Thats a fairly hard group of opponents for just a 2nd Qualifying Round (LOI clubs get a bye through the first round because of their ranking).

DerekDGoldfish

Oh the stress of wondering if we will get the Azerbaijan or the Kazakhstan team

kksaints

Its usually regionalised so hopefully we wont be gracing Aktobe or Garabag(?) with our presence. Someone on the Saintsforum had a guess out what teams would be in the region. The teams that were suggested were Celtic, Slovan Bratislava, Ventspilis, Helsinki, Sparta Prague and the Polish Team.

Truthfully its gonna be very tough. Ventspilis and Slovan Bratislava would possibly be the easiest of that group and probably the easiest of all the teams in the draw but as long as we play to our best we have a chance.

NIMAN

Is the Europa League regionalised too?

If so, how come Derry got Trabzonspor last year, now thats a trip and a half.

Augmerson

Best of luck lads, hope ye do LOI proud!

The_Kew_Tour

Looking forward to Pats playing tica taka cause all they do is moan about others.

dreamers75

Celtic FC (SCO)
Sparta Prague (CZE)
Legia Warszawa (POL)
ŠK Slovan Bratislava (SVK)
FK Ventspils (LAT)
HJK Helsinki (FIN)

Most likely be in that pot if last years grouping is repeated.

Dont think I will need to book days off for the next round.

dfx-

losthorizon wrote: »

St Pats will be drawn against one of the following opposition

Wherever is furthest away

Frankie Lee

Probably not the best time to be visiting Tiraspol either.

losthorizon

kksaints wrote: »

Its usually regionalised so hopefully we wont be gracing Aktobe or Garabag(?) with our presence. Someone on the Saintsforum had a guess out what teams would be in the region. The teams that were suggested were Celtic, Slovan Bratislava, Ventspilis, Helsinki, Sparta Prague and the Polish Team.

Truthfully its gonna be very tough. Ventspilis and Slovan Bratislava would possibly be the easiest of that group and probably the easiest of all the teams in the draw but as long as we play to our best we have a chance.

CL Isn't regionalism.

major bill

Draw Celtic..have the game in the Aviva and milk it for all its worth, best outcome cause Pats will struggle to beat most of them teams.

smileyj1987

major bill wrote: »

Draw Celtic..have the game in the Aviva and milk it for all its worth, best outcome cause Pats will struggle to beat most of them teams.

In fairness the aviva should be open to any team in the LOI who want to use it for a European game . The fai should let them use it and pay any costs associated and let the clubs pocket the money .

dan1895

smileyj1987 wrote: »

In fairness the aviva should be open to any team in the LOI who want to use it for a European game . The fai should let them use it and pay any costs associated and let the clubs pocket the money .

Ya know who the FAI are right?

SantryRed

They'd definitely give Ventspils and Helsinki a game. Have to fancy their chances.

Paully D

Celtic would be great.

Lovely Bloke

Paully D wrote: »

Celtic would be great.

How would having essentially two away games be "great"?

NIMAN

Cos they would lift a pile of money.

Captain Havoc

major bill wrote: »

Draw Celtic..have the game in the Aviva and milk it for all its worth, best outcome cause Pats will struggle to beat most of them teams.

They do though, there just hasn't been a need since Shels played Deportivo. I know Rovers would have filled it for the spurs game but that would have meant having to play PAOK and Rubin Kazan in an almost empty Aviva.

dreamers75

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

How would having essentially two away games be "great"?

17 teams or so we can get, realistically we will be beaten by almost every one of them ( And we Irelands European Team) but we wont win over 2 legs.

So if thats the case is paying 120k to travel to China to lose a better option than receiving maybe 300k for 25k people in the aviva (tv rights inc).

On the forum we have our how much it will cost thingie and realistically i can afford 4 possibles (finland,poland, latvia, prague) Scotland there is a fcuking bus to Edinburgh from O connell street every night.....did not know that.

Celtic gives us 2 away games, puts all pats fans together for 2 games vs Ireland. We know what to expect this time, i would prefer that.


ps i think we would beat them, only team i think we would beat out fo the 17

AgileMyth

dreamers75 wrote: »

On the forum we have our how much it will cost thingie and realistically i can afford 4 possibles (finland,poland, latvia, prague) Scotland there is a fcuking bus to Edinburgh from O connell street every night.....did not know that.
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Slovakia is cheap too.

sports_mad_lad

When is the draw lads?

dreamers75

sports_mad_lad wrote: »

When is the draw lads?

Monday 11am onwards

major bill

dreamers75 wrote: »

17 teams or so we can get, realistically we will be beaten by almost every one of them ( And we Irelands European Team) but we wont win over 2 legs.

So if thats the case is paying 120k to travel to China to lose a better option than receiving maybe 300k for 25k people in the aviva (tv rights inc).

On the forum we have our how much it will cost thingie and realistically i can afford 4 possibles (finland,poland, latvia, prague) Scotland there is a fcuking bus to Edinburgh from O connell street every night.....did not know that.

Celtic gives us 2 away games, puts all pats fans together for 2 games vs Ireland. We know what to expect this time, i would prefer that.


ps i think we would beat them, only team i think we would beat out fo the 17

What???


It would be a decent time to get Celtic, first competitive game for the new manager potential Banana skin for them.

dreamers75

major bill wrote: »

What???

Seriously!!

http://www.buseireann.ie/inner.php?id=250#Dublin - Glasgow - Edinburgh

dreamers75

Well **** that

St Patrick's Ath ‏@stpatsfc 1m
We have been placed in group 3 for the Champions League draw tomorrow. We will face one of these 6 sides

kksaints

Thats a balls of a group. Helsinki or Warsaw possibly beatable and possibly Qarabag but that involves a trip to central Asia.

dreamers75

kksaints wrote: »

Thats a balls of a group. Helsinki or Warsaw possibly beatable and possibly Qarabag but that involves a trip to central Asia.

Dont think any are beatable 4/6 I could go to.

kksaints

dreamers75 wrote: »

Dont think any are beatable 4/6 I could go to.

Not sure on the Azeri team but Finnish football wouldnt be that strong and Polish football wouldnt be great either and their league only starts on the 18th of July. They are still very tough but I would rather our chances against them then the top three teams, we wont beat any of the top three anyway. Personally I would prefer to avoid Steaua most of all.

No trips for me.:(

HSAJT

Would give St. Pats outside chance against AZE/FIN, can't see them getting by any of the other sides.

dreamers75

HJK in season and top.

Others had decent runs in Europa last season we could get seriously spanked by legia zagreb steaua(again)

Ciaran ‏@BackPostHeader 11m
I reckon if Pats got into the group stages UEFA would put us in the Asian Champions League.

Funny

HSAJT

Yeah, I know what you are saying. That can be a problem playing Scandinavian teams compared to most other leagues that are only in preseason. Should give teams a slight edge in terms of fitness (at least in theory)

Boots234

Legia Warsaw

smackbunnybaby

Boots234 wrote: »

Legia Warsaw

That'll potentially draw a massive crowd!

dreamers75

Waiting to confirm if we are switching dates (which we should) and where it it will be.

/hovers over ryanair website