Champions League - PSG

[LeeB]

We didn't. Windows 95 ushered that in.

Nah, I definitely had dial up pre Windows 95, I had it with Windows for Workgroups, or 3.1 as I think it was called.

All that fucking about with winsock.dll. What a nightmare that was.

A reminder that Microsoft were using the kind of twattish terminology that has now become commonplace a long, long time ago.

[Dave]

On the topic of squads...

List A
On List A, no club can have more than 25 players. This means that they are genuinely limited to naming two full starting 11s and then three extra players. Within this, eight places are reserved exclusively for "locally trained players" and no club may have more than four "association-trained players" listed in these eight places on List A. The list must directly specify which players qualify for this, so there is no confusion.

List B
However, on List B, a club can register an unlimited number of players if they are born on or after 1st January 2003, for the 2024/25 season. Moreover, since their 15th birthday, the player must have played for the club for an uninterrupted period of two years, or a total of three consecutive years. He can have a maximum of one loan period to a club from the same association for a period not longer than one year. Each club must also have at least two goalkeepers on List A, and three after combining List A and B.

So unless we make an unlikely late move for Grealish, our "locally trained players" are only going to be just Ramsey and Philogene, so we'll only have a squad of 23?

Four "association-trained players" is easy. Third goalkeeper can come from List B, so Emi, Olsen (or Gauci) and Zwych.

So nineteen players (assuming no new signings) from:

Cash (association trained)
Konsa (AT)
Mings (AT)
Watkins (AT)
Barkley (AT)
Rogers (AT)
Diego Carlos
McGinn
Pau
Digne
Iling-Junior
Duran
Tielemans
Onana
Buendia
Ned
Barrenechea
Maatsen
Bailey
Kamara

Presumably Kamara is the one who doesn't make the cut?

[Risso]

It'd be a big risk not to include Kamara. Risky to include him as well I guess, but when he's back he's the sort of player who could make a huge difference.

[Dave]

Yeah. Ned or Barrenechea are probably next in the queue to be cut, with Bogarde on List B to step in if an emergency arises.

[AV84]

Didn't we have two squad cut offs in the Conference? One for the group stages and then we named another for the knockouts? If that's the case Kamara is the obvious one to leave out for the first selection. 

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Young Boys, Salzburg, and Sparta Prague progress through to the League phase.
Galatasaray, Malmo, and Dynamo Kyiv eliminated.

Four more qualifying matches tomorrow and we will know the 36 teams for the draw on Thursday.

[Demitri_C]

Sorry if this has been covered so Thursday are all the fixtures drawn? Or just some?

[Richard]

Sorry if this has been covered so Thursday are all the fixtures drawn? Or just some?

We will know our 8 opponents on Thursday and then by Saturday apparently the order and dates we play them.

[Demitri_C]

Sorry if this has been covered so Thursday are all the fixtures drawn? Or just some?

We will know our 8 opponents on Thursday and then by Saturday apparently the order and dates we play them.

Thank you Richard👌

[Brazilian Villain]

Sorry if this has been covered so Thursday are all the fixtures drawn? Or just some?

It's live on BBC RB1 if you want to follow the excitement of the computerised draw with your host, Jermaine Jenas.

[eamonn]

We didn't. Windows 95 ushered that in.

Nah, I definitely had dial up pre Windows 95, I had it with Windows for Workgroups, or 3.1 as I think it was called.

All that fucking about with winsock.dll. What a nightmare that was.

I meant on a mass-market level, prior to Windows '95, even dial-up internet was just not a thing in households and the majority of offices still used the phonelines for faxing more than waiting for an Alta Vista page to load.

[PeterWithesShin]

[Dogtanian]

My Speccy used to scream like it was being tortured.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Think TNT are covering draw on their YouTube channel too.

Doesn't start until 5pm tomorrow.

[KNVillan]

Think TNT are covering draw on their YouTube channel too.

Doesn't start until 5pm tomorrow.

Also on Amazon Prime

League Phase Draw Show. Check it out now on Prime Video!
https://watch.amazon.co.uk/detail?lcid=amzn1.dv.gti.37ea67fc-d411-4f9f-9390-df4c1893afd6&ref_=atv_dp_share_lv&r=web