Will we qualify for the CL?

[cdbearsfan]

Having only two possible opponents also makes draws much more boring than they should be. It also makes it more dull knowing who you will play in each round. I would just do a new draw each round with the highest remaining teams seeded and the lowest remaining seeds not seeded. Pretty simple and makes it worth finishing, say, third rather than fourth as it could affect your seeding later on in the tournament.

Genuinely mental that anyone would be more excited by playing Man U than Real Madrid, Barcelona or even fairly recent opponents like Bayern Munich or Juventus, tbh.

[eric woolban woolban]

Back when it was a straight two legged knockout affair, in the 78-79 season defending champions Liverpool were knocked out of the first round by Nottingham Forest, who went onto win it that season.

[Flamingo Lane]

You'd hope that Everton will be fired up for the game v Chelsea this weekend, given the different nature of the punishments meted out to the two clubs by the PL. Everton have hardly turned their new home into a fortress though, as yet.

Dwight McNeill is as thick as pigshit so i doubt he could join the dots plus he wanted to move to Palace in January. I doubt the rest of them give a fuck, either.

I was thinking more that the Everton fans would get them up for it.

[Somniloquism]

Back when it was a straight two legged knockout affair, in the 78-79 season defending champions Liverpool were knocked out of the first round by Nottingham Forest, who went onto win it that season.

And even then, you were drawn out in brackets and knew your potential opponents all the way through to the final. I suspect UEFA do it like that partly because I think the charter calls for club representatives to be present at the draws and especially back in the day, travel was limited and expensive.

[cdbearsfan]

Back when it was a straight two legged knockout affair, in the 78-79 season defending champions Liverpool were knocked out of the first round by Nottingham Forest, who went onto win it that season.

That was rubbish, too. Forest could have won the league and then been knocked out of Europe without ever leaving England. Nonsense.