Menzel

I am also curious about this, purely from a data collection perspective

Czechs do the same, everyone stops at a crossing and waits and you can be fined for not doing so.

Going to be a long evening, isn't it?

Good paragraph this. It's a pretty interesting time that we find ourselves in re:Robson and his future. As was pointed out Plan A doesn't work - if it was eye-bleeding stuff that was grinding out results then fair enough, but it's both that and not getting results that is the reality here. Combine this with Robson's comments after every match and the goodwill that was given to him has all but run out. They may be very reluctant to get rid of him, as it will start to get pretty embarrassing pretty quickly if they are seen as picking poor managers and churning through them. On the other hand, there's also a high risk that the club gets utterly humiliated in Europe if things keep going as they are. I don't think anyone seriously expects that we would be getting through a Conference League group, but there's a huge difference between giving it a go and getting battered every week a la Sevco in the Champions League.

this will be a shame.

My Team: Rangers

Is the 'England band' the most tragic thing in world football?

That would be flying from Vienna so sorry to disappoint!

Decided against Frankfurt in the end as I needed a new laptop this weekend and the most cost efficient way is a 13 hour bus. £90 return to Thessaloniki in November though so booked up for that and hope tickets will be available

Could have drawn Czech, Slovak, Hungarian or Slovene teams that are all a few hours away for me and we get that group. Raging.

Steady

Hacken were a beatable team for sure but were favourites to win the tie.

Not to be I suppose. Hoping for either Viktoria Plzeň or Slovan Bratislava if one of those are possible in the conf group.

How many matches take place before the places are decided?

The f**k is going on?!

Hopefully we can get some of those new guys up to speed for the return leg.

Too easy.

It's Hearts who are playing a Greek team, unless I've missed something here.

Settle down, your optimism is infectious!

To be fair it's not like we haven't come back from Gothenburg with a 2-1 win before.

Would love a draw here tbh.

that is superb

A few posts ago you were asking why the BBC didn't ask Caroline Weir to do punditry. You can't really have it both ways here.