Pata Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 HJK. Europa League First time ever. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trumpet Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Hull out Bet Pardew is texting Bruce congratulating him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Feel bad for Hull. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Legia Warsaw tonight Wow. They went the whole hog there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbnufc Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 HJK. Europa League First time ever. Well they have had group stage of the Champions League before! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasper Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 HJK Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pata Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 I know but it was 16 years ago. I was twelve and couldn't appreciate it properly, remember being pissed off as every TV game was just HJK and not the big teams. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 I don't get teams like Hull throwing the EL, like they did in the first leg. I mean, I understand UEFA itself shits on this competition, but a team like Hull won't have many chances of having European nights. You gotta give something to your fans. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 I don't get teams like Hull throwing the EL, like they did in the first leg. I mean, I understand UEFA itself shits on this competition, but a team like Hull won't have many chances of having European nights. You gotta give something to your fans. The attitude of English football towards that competition absolutely stinks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trumpet Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Some potentially interesting groups in EL tomorrow. Hull had the chance to be grouped with 3 former European giants in Inter Milan, Monchengladbach and Partizan Belgrade, but threw it away to focus on a 3PM kick off vs. Burnley. Inter, Wolfsburg, Everton, Krasnodar looks like the toughest possible group. Would also love to see Copenhagen, Celtic, Legia, HJK Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flip Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Elfsborg sent out of the EL by conceding a last second goal to Rio Ave. Unbelievably lucky goal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pata Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 http://www.therottersclub.net/gallery/gifs_misc/data/images1/100077_o.gif Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flip Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Typed out the goal situation then regretted it then just hit enter for no reason whatsoever and left. Thought it was going to be ignored, but of course you're here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Some potentially interesting groups in EL tomorrow. Hull had the chance to be grouped with 3 former European giants in Inter Milan, Monchengladbach and Partizan Belgrade, but threw it away to focus on a 3PM kick off vs. Burnley. Inter, Wolfsburg, Everton, Krasnodar looks like the toughest possible group. Would also love to see Copenhagen, Celtic, Legia, HJK I think we should be looking to beat a decent amount of the teams in Pot 1, tbf. Unlucky to have just fallen into Pot 3. Potential for some decent games though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFEE Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Legia Warsaw tonight It's embarrassing when clubs in England deem themselves as having the best fans of the world when others do things like this, things we can only dream of. f***ing statement or what. http://i.imgur.com/HXBleR6.jpg Yeah but their banner was fire proofed... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beren Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Legia Warsaw tonight It's embarrassing when clubs in England deem themselves as having the best fans of the world when others do things like this, things we can only dream of. Fucking statement or what. http://i.imgur.com/HXBleR6.jpg In all fairness, Newcastle's effort was handicapped by having tens of thousands of morons for fans waving at Pardew and calling HBA a lazy flair player, while I imagine all of Warsaw's fans were all pulling in the same direction. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 I don't get teams like Hull throwing the EL, like they did in the first leg. I mean, I understand UEFA itself shits on this competition, but a team like Hull won't have many chances of having European nights. You gotta give something to your fans. I sort of get it, to be honest. It is the very fact that UEFA took a perfectly decent competition like the UEFA Cup, and butchered it, producing this absolute joke of a format. Now, maybe I am different on this because I can remember watching my club play in, and win, the European Cup (*obligatory mention*) so am tainted by this, but when we played in the final format of the UEFA Cup and then the EL under O'Neill, it had just been reduced to such a parody that it became boring. It started too early - I remember sitting in blazing July sunshine, watching us play Odense, and seemed to drag on forever, pointless fecking group matches against the likes of Mentalist Kharkiv or FC Boobtube of Slovenia. It just went on and on and on, and excited nobody. UEFA created that format thinking they'd have a television oriented second tier competition to cream it in from, but what they got was something that so few people wanted to see on telly, Channel 5 won the rights. Channel 5 don't win the rights to anything other than Big Brother and Home and Away. The excitement of potential European glory should be there for the likes of Hull, you're definitely right there, but if you look at the way they treat the competition, I honestly think it is down to UEFA butchering it in the first place. Incidentally, do Celtic now drop into the Europa League, effectively getting a third chance at European glory? How can you take that seriously? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
54 Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 I don't get teams like Hull throwing the EL, like they did in the first leg. I mean, I understand UEFA itself shits on this competition, but a team like Hull won't have many chances of having European nights. You gotta give something to your fans. I sort of get it, to be honest. It is the very fact that UEFA took a perfectly decent competition like the UEFA Cup, and butchered it, producing this absolute joke of a format. Now, maybe I am different on this because I can remember watching my club play in, and win, the European Cup (*obligatory mention*) so am tainted by this, but when we played in the final format of the UEFA Cup and then the EL under O'Neill, it had just been reduced to such a parody that it became boring. It started too early - I remember sitting in blazing July sunshine, watching us play Odense, and seemed to drag on forever, pointless fecking group matches against the likes of Mentalist Kharkiv or FC Boobtube of Slovenia. It just went on and on and on, and excited nobody. UEFA created that format thinking they'd have a television oriented second tier competition to cream it in from, but what they got was something that so few people wanted to see on telly, Channel 5 won the rights. Channel 5 don't win the rights to anything other than Big Brother and Home and Away. The excitement of potential European glory should be there for the likes of Hull, you're definitely right there, but if you look at the way they treat the competition, I honestly think it is down to UEFA butchering it in the first place. Incidentally, do Celtic now drop into the Europa League, effectively getting a third chance at European glory? How can you take that seriously? Yep, although they would have dropped down to the Europa anyway, even if the result against Legia stood. Legia actually went though to the group stages today, I hope they draw and beat Celtic. It would be hilarious. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdckelly Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 I don't get teams like Hull throwing the EL, like they did in the first leg. I mean, I understand UEFA itself shits on this competition, but a team like Hull won't have many chances of having European nights. You gotta give something to your fans. I sort of get it, to be honest. It is the very fact that UEFA took a perfectly decent competition like the UEFA Cup, and butchered it, producing this absolute joke of a format. Now, maybe I am different on this because I can remember watching my club play in, and win, the European Cup (*obligatory mention*) so am tainted by this, but when we played in the final format of the UEFA Cup and then the EL under O'Neill, it had just been reduced to such a parody that it became boring. It started too early - I remember sitting in blazing July sunshine, watching us play Odense, and seemed to drag on forever, pointless fecking group matches against the likes of Mentalist Kharkiv or FC Boobtube of Slovenia. It just went on and on and on, and excited nobody. UEFA created that format thinking they'd have a television oriented second tier competition to cream it in from, but what they got was something that so few people wanted to see on telly, Channel 5 won the rights. Channel 5 don't win the rights to anything other than Big Brother and Home and Away. The excitement of potential European glory should be there for the likes of Hull, you're definitely right there, but if you look at the way they treat the competition, I honestly think it is down to UEFA butchering it in the first place. Incidentally, do Celtic now drop into the Europa League, effectively getting a third chance at European glory? How can you take that seriously? tend to agree with most of that with one additional bit is the fact champions league losers get into it, why? They lose and get rewarded with a spot in the europa league? Am I supposed to take this thing seriously when UEFA are all but calling it the losers tournament? It has no merit of its own its just champions league lite for those not good enough to get into the real tournament. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggs Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 It's actually a very good tournament one it gets to the quarters Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segun Oluwaniyi Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 I don't get teams like Hull throwing the EL, like they did in the first leg. I mean, I understand UEFA itself s***s on this competition, but a team like Hull won't have many chances of having European nights. You gotta give something to your fans. I sort of get it, to be honest. It is the very fact that UEFA took a perfectly decent competition like the UEFA Cup, and butchered it, producing this absolute joke of a format. Now, maybe I am different on this because I can remember watching my club play in, and win, the European Cup (*obligatory mention*) so am tainted by this, but when we played in the final format of the UEFA Cup and then the EL under O'Neill, it had just been reduced to such a parody that it became boring. It started too early - I remember sitting in blazing July sunshine, watching us play Odense, and seemed to drag on forever, pointless fecking group matches against the likes of Mentalist Kharkiv or FC Boobtube of Slovenia. It just went on and on and on, and excited nobody. UEFA created that format thinking they'd have a television oriented second tier competition to cream it in from, but what they got was something that so few people wanted to see on telly, Channel 5 won the rights. Channel 5 don't win the rights to anything other than Big Brother and Home and Away. The excitement of potential European glory should be there for the likes of Hull, you're definitely right there, but if you look at the way they treat the competition, I honestly think it is down to UEFA butchering it in the first place. Incidentally, do Celtic now drop into the Europa League, effectively getting a third chance at European glory? How can you take that seriously? tend to agree with most of that with one additional bit is the fact champions league losers get into it, why? They lose and get rewarded with a spot in the europa league? Am I supposed to take this thing seriously when UEFA are all but calling it the losers tournament? It has no merit of its own its just champions league lite for those not good enough to get into the real tournament. I really don't get this complaint. The tournament exists explicitly as one for teams not good enough for the Champions League. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki679 Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 I don't get teams like Hull throwing the EL, like they did in the first leg. I mean, I understand UEFA itself s***s on this competition, but a team like Hull won't have many chances of having European nights. You gotta give something to your fans. I sort of get it, to be honest. It is the very fact that UEFA took a perfectly decent competition like the UEFA Cup, and butchered it, producing this absolute joke of a format. Now, maybe I am different on this because I can remember watching my club play in, and win, the European Cup (*obligatory mention*) so am tainted by this, but when we played in the final format of the UEFA Cup and then the EL under O'Neill, it had just been reduced to such a parody that it became boring. It started too early - I remember sitting in blazing July sunshine, watching us play Odense, and seemed to drag on forever, pointless fecking group matches against the likes of Mentalist Kharkiv or FC Boobtube of Slovenia. It just went on and on and on, and excited nobody. UEFA created that format thinking they'd have a television oriented second tier competition to cream it in from, but what they got was something that so few people wanted to see on telly, Channel 5 won the rights. Channel 5 don't win the rights to anything other than Big Brother and Home and Away. The excitement of potential European glory should be there for the likes of Hull, you're definitely right there, but if you look at the way they treat the competition, I honestly think it is down to UEFA butchering it in the first place. Incidentally, do Celtic now drop into the Europa League, effectively getting a third chance at European glory? How can you take that seriously? tend to agree with most of that with one additional bit is the fact champions league losers get into it, why? They lose and get rewarded with a spot in the europa league? Am I supposed to take this thing seriously when UEFA are all but calling it the losers tournament? It has no merit of its own its just champions league lite for those not good enough to get into the real tournament. I really don't get this complaint. The tournament exists explicitly as one for teams not good enough for the Champions League. Doesn't mean it should be the consolation prize for teams that get knocked out of the CL though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Lille and Wolfsburg, fuck off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbnufc Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Shite draw for Spurs so far, tips to Turkey and Serbia Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Actually, to be fair, a lot of these groups look a lot stronger than I'd expected. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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