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32 minutes ago, Busta Nut said:

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Who would have known we would have had a potentially shite draw. Kazakhstan, Turkey or Macedonia 😂. Could have been Portugal, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria etc etc. 

Pray for Sparta Prague but only a 1 in 4 chance of that coming off. 

Not remotely funny anymore. Thank f*ck I am going to Sligo. 

I do note however the Macedonian side are the lowest ranked seeds if that is any consolation. My money is on Kazakhstan 😂

 

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2 hours ago, Busta Nut said:

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Looking at that the only name that stands out is Sparta Prague (13.500). But let's remember due to the nature of the UEFA awards co-efficient points Lincoln Red Imps have the same as us.

Upon first look Turkey gives you the fear as its is going through a phase where the big three teams are all in turmoil as explained here. Doesn't dispute even the lesser teams have access to decent money for squads due to the crowd sizes and TV audience in a country of 85 million. Istanbul's co-efficient 25.000.

Here's a video worth a look that I mentioned around the Woolery move:

Poland give you the fear because of the perceived success of their national team and again the size of the country but Rakow are 3.175, that seems too low.

In the big scheme of things not a bad draw unless we get the 1 in 2 chance of Prague or Istanbul/Israel (4.875). Astana have oil money and is an arse to get to. Barring a giant killing, the best tie for progression is Valmiera vs Shkendija (Tetovo on Bert's site).

 

3.175 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raków_Częstochowa

20.500 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Astana

 

13.500 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_Sparta_Prague

5.450 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_FK

 

2.000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valmiera_FC

9.000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KF_Shkëndija

 

25.000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/İstanbul_Başakşehir_F.K.

4.875 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maccabi_Netanya_F.C.

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53 minutes ago, Busta Nut said:

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That's a good group. Shkendija/Valmiera is probably the most beatable tie across all groups. Any of the other 3 would be big favourites against Motherwell. Much easier group than Dundee United's. 

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14 minutes ago, Phillips455 said:

Apparently, PAOK are in both group 3 AND 5. So either the seeding have been messed up or PAOK will have to play 2 teams at the same time.

They are. I can see this being redrawn

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9 minutes ago, Busta Nut said:

They are. I can see this being redrawn

Pretty sure there is a pairing thatbhasnt been posted on that list that they accidently put the PAOK piar in. Will wait and see if they change it though.

 

Edit: others have found that the CSKA Sofia vs MGP tie isn't on the list so they must have mistaken that for the POAK Tie. Should be fixed relatively soon.

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57 minutes ago, rowsdower said:

Hope it's group 5 they fix, otherwise United fans that booked flights to where paok is are going to revolt.

The tie that's missing is:

CSKA-Sofia (BUL) vs Makedonija GP Skopje (MKD)

They got their Levski's and the CSKA's mixed up. Probably a copy and paste blunder, as to which group they pop into that's one for UEFA. Summer intern kid getting his jotters.

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1 hour ago, Phillips455 said:

Anyway, it seems that if we are draw with the first 2 ties, we would be seeded for the Play off Round (assuming we even make it that far). The other 2 would leave us unseeded in that case.

 

Info can be found here: https://kassiesa.net/uefa/seedecl2022.html

I thought if we progress by beating anyone we are drawn with in Q3 then we keep our co-efficient regardless of our victory, we don't replace them in their current place in the draw as shown. But when you read the small print (3x) you are right (I think) that the coefficient of the better team from any draw is used because the draw is made before the tie is completed. Suppose it is a small bonus for doing a giant killing (in the case of Astana or Prague).

We are 12th in the Q3 unseeded teams and Villareal, West Ham and Fiorentina enter directly at the Playoff stage with 2 Europa League dropouts (don't understand why Bert has Rapid Wien as "unknown").

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5 hours ago, Kapowzer said:

I thought if we progress by beating anyone we are drawn with in Q3 then we keep our co-efficient regardless of our victory, we don't replace them in their current place in the draw as shown. But when you read the small print (3x) you are right (I think) that the coefficient of the better team from any draw is used because the draw is made before the tie is completed. Suppose it is a small bonus for doing a giant killing (in the case of Astana or Prague).

We are 12th in the Q3 unseeded teams and Villareal, West Ham and Fiorentina enter directly at the Playoff stage with 2 Europa League dropouts (don't understand why Bert has Rapid Wien as "unknown").

Yeah but this is assuming the seeded team win the ties. If, somehow, the unseeded team wins then we would also be unseeded as we.

 

Basically it's either a extremely hard 3rd round and much easier ay off,  or a slightly less harder 3rd Round and a harder Play off.

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2 hours ago, eliphas said:

I'm reading Kevin Twaddle's autobiography now, it's good fun reading the back room stuff about Spenny etc, but the gambling stuff is pretty grim.  

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Assuming the favourites get through each of those ties, the only one I’m guessing we’d have even a slight chance against would be the Macedonian mob. Astana, Basaksehir (who just signed Mesut Ozil) and Sparta would batter us.
Prague is probably the best option for playing a big name and relatively easy travel.

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