Europa League Play Off Draw - Monday

cutsy123 · Post by **cutsy123** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 12:59 pm

Olympiakos Away more than likely

piston broke · Post by **piston broke** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 12:59 pm

Olympiakos or Lucerne. Away first

Claretmatt4 · Post by **Claretmatt4** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 12:59 pm

Olympiakos

tim_noone · Post by **tim_noone** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:00 pm

or Lausanne memories of 67!

Claretpants · Post by **Claretpants** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:00 pm

olympiacos get in

KeighleyClaret · Post by **KeighleyClaret** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:00 pm

Or Lucerne.

Whitgord · Post by **Whitgord** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:00 pm

Or Lucerne

AGENT_CLARET · Post by **AGENT_CLARET** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:00 pm

or fc luzern a ground that hold 17,000, olympiacos holds 32,000

gandhisflipflop · Post by **gandhisflipflop** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:01 pm

Avoided the 2 sides i didnt want. Braga and zenit. Didnt draw the side i wanted feyernoord but this is a tough draw.

KeighleyClaret · Post by **KeighleyClaret** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:01 pm

Good draw that. Avoided a few decent sides but Olympiacos is a tough one. At least its away first.

KeighleyClaret · Post by **KeighleyClaret** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:02 pm

4 threads on the same subject hardly necessary.

claretdj · Post by **claretdj** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:02 pm

Another tough game, but @ least we are @ home in the 2nd leg!

dermotdermot · Post by **dermotdermot** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:02 pm

Complicated this. I thought that if we beat the team from Istanbul, we would be in the Europa League.

Hibsclaret · Post by **Hibsclaret** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:02 pm

Dodgy draw alert....

Every one of the seeded teams of the 5 is at home first.....

They could at least use non see through pots and perhaps have 2 people dipping their hands in....

quoonbeatz · Post by **quoonbeatz** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:02 pm

gutted. hope we make the group stage.

tim_noone · Post by **tim_noone** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:03 pm

I stand corrected sorry.....

Dyched · Post by **Dyched** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:05 pm

Let’s make this thread into this

tim_noone · Post by **tim_noone** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:05 pm

cutsy123 wrote:Olympiakos Away more than likely

CrosspoolClarets · Post by **CrosspoolClarets** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:08 pm

Unlike the Turks I cannot see why Olympiacos are one of the favourites - their squad is not full of expensive players and they only finished 3rd in a poor league. I fancy beating them more than beating Istanbul B, which with their pace I'm pessimistic about, but we'll see. It's their first competitive game.

Luzern would be great though. The first leg is before I fly to Portugal on holiday so I was hoping we would be at home second, which we are.

dsr · Post by **dsr** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:08 pm

tim_noone wrote: or Lausanne memories of 67!

Lausanne and Lucerne are different places.

Nonayforever · Post by **Nonayforever** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:08 pm

A trip to Greece would be brilliant.

Dyched · Post by **Dyched** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:10 pm

Looking at about £300 return flights.

chekhov · Post by **chekhov** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:11 pm

What's happened to all the obscure far-away non-entities we were going to have to beat in order to waltz through into the group stages?

chekhov · Post by **chekhov** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:12 pm

Dyched wrote:Looking at about £300 return flights.

Have you booked already??

Spijed · Post by **Spijed** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:13 pm

Dyched wrote:Looking at about £300 return flights.

Greece or Switzerland?

jake145 · Post by **jake145** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:13 pm

Olympiacos actually have the same owner as Forest.

But they haven't been the same force they have been in recent years. They are in a bit of a crisis at the moment, I would say the Istanbul side would be a tougher game.

Eyres_11 · Post by **Eyres_11** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:13 pm

chekhov wrote:Have you booked already??

makes me laugh, everyone jumping on and searching for the flights just makes them increase in price due to them being popular.

We've to beat the Turkish side yet in any case.

Dyched · Post by **Dyched** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:14 pm

Spijed wrote:Greece or Switzerland?

Greece

Dyched · Post by **Dyched** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:14 pm

Eyres_11 wrote:makes me laugh, everyone jumping on and searching for the flights just makes them increase in price due to them being popular.

We've to beat the Turkish side yet in any case.

You mean we have to beat Istanbul first? Well I never

Spijed · Post by **Spijed** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:18 pm

And they have to beat Lucerne

AGENT_CLARET · Post by **AGENT_CLARET** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:19 pm

quick look at flight lol

Greece £560
Switzerland £220.............fingers crossed Luzern fc get through

FactualFrank · Post by **FactualFrank** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:20 pm

I love Greece, so would quite fancy away to Olympiacos.

chekhov · Post by **chekhov** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:20 pm

Okay, I'm feeking a bit better now we've established that Olympiakos are actually quite sh!t. And I'm sure that Luzern can't be up to much, I mean, what has Swiss football ever done?

AGENT_CLARET · Post by **AGENT_CLARET** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:21 pm

Eyres_11 wrote:makes me laugh, everyone jumping on and searching for the flights just makes them increase in price due to them being popular.

We've to beat the Turkish side yet in any case.

I think people are just having a laugh, lighten up

chekhov · Post by **chekhov** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:27 pm

FactualFrank wrote:I love Greece, so would quite fancy away to Olympiacos.

To be honest I'd rather us play a team somewhere that I didn't like.
The victory would be that much more satisfying.

chekhov · Post by **chekhov** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:28 pm

AGENT_CLARET wrote:quick look at flight lol

Greece £560
Switzerland £220.............fingers crossed Luzern fc get through

Wonder who the favourites are in that tie...

Down_Rover · Post by **Down_Rover** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:32 pm

Greece or Switzerland then

Claretmatt4 · Post by **Claretmatt4** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:34 pm

Via Berlin its around £280... Bit over my budget, bad timing at the end of the month too!

Selby Claret · Post by **Selby Claret** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:35 pm

AGENT_CLARET wrote:quick look at flight lol

Greece £560
Switzerland £220.............fingers crossed Luzern fc get through

Its only 13h in a car to Lucerne - just a thought

Claretmatt4 · Post by **Claretmatt4** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:35 pm

Eyres_11 wrote:makes me laugh, everyone jumping on and searching for the flights just makes them increase in price due to them being popular.

We've to beat the Turkish side yet in any case.

What do you expect people to do? Should we have voted for an ambassador to do one search on behalf of everyone?

Eyres_11 · Post by **Eyres_11** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:43 pm

Claretmatt4 wrote:What do you expect people to do? Should we have voted for an ambassador to do one search on behalf of everyone?

Wait until at least we have a good chance of getting there.

Rileybobs · Post by **Rileybobs** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:47 pm

Just booked flights and accommodation in Athens. Hotel is next to the Parthenon so the club better make this the official meeting point and put shuttle buses on from there or I won’t be happy.

chekhov · Post by **chekhov** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:48 pm

Claretmatt4 wrote:What do you expect people to do? Should we have voted for an ambassador to do one search on behalf of everyone?

Do we have a diplomatic presence in each of the potential host cities?

summitclaret · Post by **summitclaret** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:53 pm

Yes it's krbfc

dsr · Post by **dsr** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 2:26 pm

Rileybobs wrote:Just booked flights and accommodation in Athens. Hotel is next to the Parthenon so the club better make this the official meeting point and put shuttle buses on from there or I won’t be happy.

Good news: Baskasehir are putting on shuttle buses. Bad news: they're going to Lucern.

karatekid · Post by **karatekid** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 2:50 pm

chekhov · Post by **chekhov** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 3:03 pm

summitclaret wrote:Yes it's krbfc

I like KRBFC but surely he's the wrong person to send down there?

chekhov · Post by **chekhov** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 3:08 pm

karatekid wrote:Gutted , i'll be in greece until........................23 august , when I fly home in the morning.

Would have loved to watch the game in a taverna.

Look on the bright side karatekid. If we get knocked out by Basaksehir you can feel less gutted!

edison · Post by **edison** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 3:17 pm

I;d prefer Lucerne

houseboy · Post by **houseboy** » Mon Aug 06, 2018 3:36 pm

burnleytom wrote:Similarly in Pot 3, M. Tel-Aviv would be a seed, and Bordeaux would not?

Surely France’s co-efficient is better than Israel’s?

Ah, but Israel have to be favoured in everything now, didn't you know? It's a wonder their teams haven't got by's to the group stages at least and then given a 3 point start.