Europa League draw friday 12.30

[cdbearsfan]

Is there any kind of seeding in this round?  There are loads of teams I don't fancy playing at this stage - Juve, Liverpool, Citeh, any Spanish, German, French or Russian team, etc.

TNS would be perfect!!

I've stopped being lazy and looked it up.  Turns out we're seeded and there aren't too many unseeded teams I fear (or have heard or for that matter)!

Have you heard of Rapid Vienna or Trabzonspor?

[JUAN PABLO]

Qarabag please..Heskey even might score

[Archie]

 Sibir Novosibirsk
 Tavriya Simferopol

I feel sorry for the stadium announcer if we draw either of them!

Ah, ah, nice touch mate.
I also would like to play Celtic. . .

[Proposition Joe]

We face one of the following (if the seeding on Wiki is correct)...

Unseeded Teams

 Maccabi Tel Aviv (Palestine)
 

Your addition or do they list like that on the UEFA site? ;-)

[pauliewalnuts]

Gent would make for a good away leg.

[Bottom Right 89]

Omonia - bet their ground stinks.

Remember the last minute away goals defeat to Trabzonspor? That registered about an 8.9 on the seat slamming and kick the holte gates scale.

[Irish villain]

Didn't realise the final is in Dublin. What an incentive. Is it at the new Lansdowne Road stadium?

Yes, don't worry it's not in Dalymount park!

[stevenjos]

Can we get someone good and get knocked out?

It would mean that we dont have to play lots of games with the same 12 players. We don't have to think we can compete in it only to throw it away because we are playing stoke. And we dont have to waste money on tickets, shit food and drink!

Cool.

[eliotpollak]

We face one of the following (if the seeding on Wiki is correct)...

Unseeded Teams

Maccabi Tel Aviv (Palestine)

Isn't the removal of anything Jewish a little bit 1930s?

[Dave Clark Five]

What are the chances of us playing Celtic with the Manager changing clubs between the two legs?

[frank]

Bratislava would be a great trip. Winnable game, and a lovely city.

[cdbearsfan]

We face one of the following (if the seeding on Wiki is correct)...

Unseeded Teams

Maccabi Tel Aviv (Palestine)

Isn't the removal of anything Jewish a little bit 1930s?

The old myth that opposition to the State of Israel makes one anti-Semitic. Yawn.

[cdbearsfan]

Bloody double posts.... rubbish internet connection

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Didn't realise the final is in Dublin. What an incentive. Is it at the new Lansdowne Road stadium?

Yes, its the new AVIVA stadium. However because of Uefa regulations it cannot be marketed using this name for the final. details here:-

http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/news/newsid=919828.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviva_Stadium

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Do the extra officials come into effect straight away or is that only in the Group Stage?

Extra officials will not be used in the play off round being drawn today but will be used from the group games onwards.

http://www.uefa.com/uefa/footballfirst/matchorganisation/refereeing/news/newsid=1506902.html#uefa+welcomes+ifab+referee+trial+decision

The experiment will apply to all UEFA Champions League matches from the play-off round next month until May 2012; all UEFA Europa League matches from the forthcoming group stage (starting in September 2010) until May 2012; and the 2010 and 2011 UEFA Super Cup games between the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League titleholders.