UEFA Europa Conference League - Alkmaar, Legia and Zrinjski

[kippaxvilla2]

We are not seeded yet as Ferencvaros dropped out of the CL last week I think.  We are in pot 3 unless and until Juve get the boot or one of the other seeded teams drops out in the next qualifying round I think!

[Lastfootstamper]

It’s either really complicated as a qualification process or I no longer have the time and patience to understand how things work.

Just think of it like the third round Cup draw. We'll be in it, fuck knows who we'll be playing, but it's definitely our year.

[tomd2103]

It’s either really complicated as a qualification process or I no longer have the time and patience to understand how things work.

Just think of it like the third round Cup draw. We'll be in it, fuck knows who we'll be playing, but it's definitely our year.

Won’t be like that.  We can’t draw Manchester United away.

[Small Rodent]

I just want Legia Warsaw or Pogon Szczecin and I will be H&V city guide for a ticket!

[eamonn]

When's the draw?

Auguest 7th.

Thanks. Where's the final?

Athens.  Keep up - everyone's booked their hotel room there already!

[Toronto Villa]

It’s either really complicated as a qualification process or I no longer have the time and patience to understand how things work.

Just think of it like the third round Cup draw. We'll be in it, fuck knows who we'll be playing, but it's definitely our year.

So we are out before the group stages. Great.

[charlatan]

It’s either really complicated as a qualification process or I no longer have the time and patience to understand how things work.

Just think of it like the third round Cup draw. We'll be in it, fuck knows who we'll be playing, but it's definitely our year.

Won’t be like that.  We can’t draw Manchester United away.

Or Stevenage at home

[Toronto Villa]

Stevenage at home was another sliding doors moment for us. Massively shit at the time but ultimately became the platform for our recovery and how we performed the rest of the season.

[Risso]

Stevenage at home was another sliding doors moment for us. Massively shit at the time but ultimately became the platform for our recovery and how we performed the rest of the season.

Er, no.

[purpletrousers]

I just want Legia Warsaw or Pogon Szczecin and I will be H&V city guide for a ticket!

Now that has got me thinking!

Who on here is in a town/ near a club in Europe who would be our wo/man in the know/on location/local correspondent/guide/translator? I guess there are a bunch that can drop down from the other completion/s too?

Not that I’m likely to get out of childcare for a trip that I can’t afford but I can but fantasise…

[Toronto Villa]

Stevenage at home was another sliding doors moment for us. Massively shit at the time but ultimately became the platform for our recovery and how we performed the rest of the season.

Er, no.

In your opinion. In mine it gave Emery valuable info about some of the players he had at the club and who he could trust. It didn’t shock me he didn’t rotate the side much outside of need for most of the remainder of the season. We don’t need to relitigate the game. In the right hands, bad things can teach and educate and lead to good things.

[Risso]

A ‘sliding door’ moment is something that happens that completely changes the course of events. All it changed was that we weren’t in the FA Cup any more. Had we beaten Stevenage, we could just have easily gone on and still had the excellent season it ended up being. Of course he didn’t rotate the team much after, just like he didn’t before. He simply picked a team he thought would get past a lower league team, and it backfired. He surely didn’t need to see how shit Olsen was again after his display in the League Cup.

[Brend'Watkins]

Stevenage at home was another sliding doors moment for us. Massively shit at the time but ultimately became the platform for our recovery and how we performed the rest of the season.

Er, no.

In your opinion. In mine it gave Emery valuable info about some of the players he had at the club and who he could trust. It didn’t shock me he didn’t rotate the side much outside of need for most of the remainder of the season. We don’t need to relitigate the game. In the right hands, bad things can teach and educate and lead to good things.

The one area he has yet to address and needs to be addressed quickly is the back up keeper. They appear to be very relaxed about it. Maybe they’re all over it but there isn’t a sign anywhere that they are. To me it’s such a problem area that if Martinez is out for a few weeks we will be screwed.

[VillaTim]

we will get Man Utd A

[Dogtanian]

Stevenage at home was another sliding doors moment for us. Massively shit at the time but ultimately became the platform for our recovery and how we performed the rest of the season.

Er, no.

In your opinion. In mine it gave Emery valuable info about some of the players he had at the club and who he could trust. It didn’t shock me he didn’t rotate the side much outside of need for most of the remainder of the season. We don’t need to relitigate the game. In the right hands, bad things can teach and educate and lead to good things.

The one area he has yet to address and needs to be addressed quickly is the back up keeper. They appear to be very relaxed about it. Maybe they’re all over it but there isn’t a sign anywhere that they are. To me it’s such a problem area that if Martinez is out for a few weeks we will be screwed.

Is there nothing to be said for just finding someone with abnormally large hands who is prepared to windmill up and down the goal line for 90 minutes in the early rounds?