Europa Conference League Draw & General Chat

[KrefelderFox666]

54 minutes ago, Rain King said:

Carabao only gets you into the Conference Leage now doesn't it?

Yes.

 

Winning Europa Conference League = Europa League next season

Winning Carabao Cup = Europa Conference League next season

[Mike the Metal Ed]

1 hour ago, KrefelderFox666 said:

To get a bit of excitement I have looked at our potential oppositions and flight options. Belgrade and Qarabag are a no go, Tel Aviv/PAOK not bad, Randers, Prague and Bodo decent.

 

The only thing with Bodo is that their ground is only made for 5,000 fans so we would get 300-400 tickets max. Ticket office will take 250 so probably 100 for the rest!

Are Baku and Belgrade a no go for any other reason than being a bit of a pain to get to? As there are flights, just not especially direct ones.

[Mike the Metal Ed]

Of course, we're definitely going to draw bloody Slavia again, so it doesn't matter.

[Paninistickers]

1 hour ago, KrefelderFox666 said:

To get a bit of excitement I have looked at our potential oppositions and flight options. Belgrade and Qarabag are a no go, Tel Aviv/PAOK not bad, Randers, Prague and Bodo decent.

 

The only thing with Bodo is that their ground is only made for 5,000 fans so we would get 300-400 tickets max. Ticket office will take 250 so probably 100 for the rest!

I'd imagine the ticket office would be delighted with only 300 tickets - all held back for the ultra elderly women and insane

 

 

[MalletFox]

16 hours ago, Crashtoasted said:

0-1 loss over 2 legs against a team that you couldn’t place on a map. Cannot wait 

Absolutely no chance we only concede 1 goal over 2 games! 🤣

[KrefelderFox666]

40 minutes ago, Mike the Metal Ed said:

Are Baku and Belgrade a no go for any other reason than being a bit of a pain to get to? As there are flights, just not especially direct ones.

Both just flights for me personally. Belgrade is all stopover with very limited direct flights and not cheap. Baku was £400 upwards for flights.

 

Belgrade might be a bit tasty as their fans are probably similar to Prague/Warsaw calibre. Wouldn't put me off though.

 

Although looking again, Belgrade is not too bad. Probably a bit too much for me. Wednesday to Friday are direct flights and I am sure if someone is flexible with when to leave and return, then it should be doable. Personally I would probably miss it.

Edited 10 December 2021 by KrefelderFox666

[bovril]

Randers would be cool just for an away game in our ancestral homeland

[Outfox the Fox]

2 hours ago, KrefelderFox666 said:

To get a bit of excitement I have looked at our potential oppositions and flight options. Belgrade and Qarabag are a no go, Tel Aviv/PAOK not bad, Randers, Prague and Bodo decent.

 

The only thing with Bodo is that their ground is only made for 5,000 fans so we would get 300-400 tickets max. Ticket office will take 250 so probably 100 for the rest!

And Vitesse Arnhem could be qualifiers (and that gives a double bonus, with Spurs not winning the Rennes game and going out!), a trip there would be good. 

Edited 10 December 2021 by Outfox the Fox

[CosbehFox]

31 minutes ago, KrefelderFox666 said:

Both just flights for me personally. Belgrade is all stopover with very limited direct flights and not cheap. Baku was £400 upwards for flights.

 

Belgrade might be a bit tasty as their fans are probably similar to Prague/Warsaw calibre. Wouldn't put me off though.

 

Although looking again, Belgrade is not too bad. Probably a bit too much for me. Wednesday to Friday are direct flights and I am sure if someone is flexible with when to leave and return, then it should be doable. Personally I would probably miss it.

Fairly sure, Wizzair do Belgrade direct from Luton and they are very prone to a sale from time to time. 

Baku would mean 4 or 5 days off work. 

[Stadt]

We’ve had 6 European campaigns ever, if you’re turning your nose up at this you’re a div. 

[KFS]

1 minute ago, Stadt said:

We’ve had 6 European campaigns ever, if you’re turning your nose up at this you’re a div. 

I think once we get over the initial shock as a fan base about how we ballsed this up so badly, we’ll be on board with this. By Feb we should have our first team defence back and hopefully a new manager. 

[Scanchez]

WELL UP FOR THIS

[erlee]

 

[cruzFOX]

Beggars cant be choosers but if we don’t sort the mess out we’ll drop out of this conf too!

[Beliall]

i would trade being able to defend corners and salvaging our season for this competition right now. brodge doesnt even know what it is so im not expecting us to be in it long

Edited 10 December 2021 by Beliall

[KrefelderFox666]

1 hour ago, Stadt said:

We’ve had 6 European campaigns ever, if you’re turning your nose up at this you’re a div. 

I am hoping to do as much as I can while we have the chance to be in Europe. Not sure how many more we will get in the near future.

 

Just need to watch finances, that is the only limiting factor.

[KrefelderFox666]

1 hour ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

Fairly sure, Wizzair do Belgrade direct from Luton and they are very prone to a sale from time to time. 

Baku would mean 4 or 5 days off work. 

Yes they do but looks like only 3 flights a week (Monday, Friday and Sunday). However, always chances some airlines may clock on and put an extra flight on if they can.

[Tom12345]

18 hours ago, StanSP said:

Let's win this one then... 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You know we will get knocked out next round.

[Dan]

I agree we're not "above" this competition because we've been a joke in Europe and it's not like we're historically punching well above it anyway, but when the manager makes those kinds of comments it's hardly going to get people interested. I think we'll lose in the next round anyway - providing Rodgers is still in charge he'll clearly throw it anyway. Or claim he has when PAOK beat us.

[CosbehFox]

17 minutes ago, KrefelderFox666 said:

Yes they do but looks like only 3 flights a week (Monday, Friday and Sunday). However, always chances some airlines may clock on and put an extra flight on if they can.

Yeah they’ve scaled back then. I looked when we could have drew Red Star and they were daily (including when we flew out to Warsaw on a Wednesday)

[Harry - LCFC]

I'm angered we messed up our group so badly, but I'll probably go to the Round of 32 in this provided we don't draw Qarabag.

 

Rodgers and the squad won't take it seriously I expect.

Edited 10 December 2021 by Harry - LCFC

[Craig]

They need to take it seriously as this is the only way we get Europa League football next season.

 

We are in it because we don’t deserve to be in the Europa at present.

We’re not above it (just like when some turned their noses up at the Europa League), so we should go and try to win it.

 

 

 

[BroughtonFox]

Do we find the dates of the games on Monday as well?

[VLC86]

1 minute ago, BroughtonFox said:

Do we find the dates of the games on Monday as well?

Home is 17/2 and away 24/2 apparently 

[VLC86]

Been scouting out all flights for this. Qarabag and Belgrade are the only 2 without direct flight, Randers you would fly into Copenhagen and Bodo might be a bit of a pain if you don’t like long train journeys.