Europa League 2025-26

[Somniloquism]

Although pots don't matter much anymore, it would be nice to see our name at the topend.

A good run in the Europa could see us up in the top 15 or so of the club list.

[AV82EC]

Yep one more year of a good European run and we’ll be comfortably in the top 30 possibly top 20 ranking. It’s important for so many reasons.

On reflection you’re right on the pots, ultimately we can draw anyone except Forest/Palace.

[pauliewalnuts]

Not many to call after the first leg of the Champs League although we are on course for both Nice and Fenerbache to drop. Viktoria Plzeň and Lech Poznań probably down to Europa so far.

Nice would be the best away location ever.

[trinityoap]

It would be nice to be able make use of my suite at the Negresco.

[Somniloquism]

In Europa looks like we won't be seeing loads of Polish backs.

[Somniloquism]

Apparently Palace's appeal is being heard tomorrow with the decision on Monday. The Standard seems to be listing their case but if that is it, I think they are fucked. The only argument seems to be that other clubs have done blind trusts in the past and we didn't. Then moaning that they delayed the decision because of Lyon maybe not being in the competition, you know the other team that was in dual ownership.

Someone in the comments mentioned that it was up to UEFA to tell Palace they needed to do something and if there is no correspondance between them talking about this in March or April, then that is UEFA's failing and not the clubs.

[VillaTim]

Any mention of Palace is starting to set off the PTSD . We need to bury this monkey off the back this season , they'll become the new Boro .

[ADVILLAFAN]

In Europa looks like we won't be seeing loads of Polish backs.

Could be 4 Polish teams in the Conference League though.

[Mister E]

Any mention of Palace is starting to set off the PTSD . We need to bury this monkey off the back this season , they'll become the new Boro .

We had a good record against Middlesboro (if that you're referring to).

[cdbearsfan]

Middlesbrough more or less the complete opposite to Palace, for us. We tended to always win there while they had a pretty decent record at Villa Park.

Last eight meetings at Villa:
Villa 1 win, 4 draws, Boro 3 wins

Last eight meetings at Boro:
Villa 7 wins, 1 draw, Boro 0 wins

[ADVILLAFAN]

Didn't we have a poor record at Middlesbrough in the Ayresome Park days?

With Peter Withe lying and saying he always won there, to help instill some confidence in our players.

[cdbearsfan]

We had a bad run against them, home and away, prior to the penultimate game of the 1980/81 season when we twatted them 3-0. One draw and six defeats from the previous seven meetings.

[aev]

Palace lose appeal so we won't lose to them in Europe.

[cdbearsfan]

Villa could probably have waited a day before sending out the email boasting about the return of Friday night football to Villa Park.

[Somniloquism]

Not much of a surprise after reading the supposed Palace defence the other day. It seemed to comprise of "because Palace didn't send any emails between Glassner and Textor in April about the ownership, UEFA were culpable." And "You allowed clubs to have blind trusts previously so not fair on us".