Sitting in silence maybe ? Many will also need packed lunchies and soft drinks as well. Ive already sorted out my trip to VFB Stuttgart. Nice and easy with the use of a mouse and a small piece of plastic.
Someone edited wiki to include our European competitions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_City_A.F.C.#European_record
The first leg of the second qualifiers is done. Update on the UK & Ireland teams: Sligo Rovers clinched a 2-1 away victory over Norwegian team Rosenborg. Crusaders got trounced 4-0 away by some team with a stupid name. St. Johnston managed a 1-1 draw away against FC Luzern. Linfield beat AIK 1-0 at home where an Englishman featured on either side. Aberdeen and Groningen, probably the toughest tie of the round, ended 0-0 in Scotland. Both are potential banana skins for us, two of the better sides in the 2nd round. Derry lost 1-0 at home against a team I've never heard of, sounds like some Kazakh team or somewhere equally secluded out in that part of the world. Motherwell gave away a late penalty to draw 2-2 at home against Icelandic champions Stjarnan (I'd love a trip to Iceland!) And Dundalk lost 2-0 at home against Hadjuk Split. A quick look at some of the bigger and hopefully avoided sides in the 2nd round: Hapoel Tel Aviv, who are the 2nd biggest club in Israel, got trounced 3-0 away to FC Astana. Zulte Waregem, a tidy Belgian outfit, won 2-1 at home. Tromso drew 0-0 away, another decent outfit. Molde won 4-1 at home, they are a very good side, I think that's actually who Solskjaer was managing and brought all those folks over to Cardiff from. Bursaspor drew 0-0 at home. And Polish side Lech Poznan lost 1-0 away against another team I've never heard of.
Also, I had a look through the coefficients and, assuming we make it through Q3 there are 32 clubs with a higher coefficient that could potentially go into the playoff round (which is a total of 31 ties). It's very unlikely, but it means we could find ourselves having to beat the likes of Inter Milan, Real Sociedad, Lyon in the playoff stage to get into the Europa league proper.
apoel Tel Aviv, who are the 2nd biggest club in Israel, got trounced 3-0 away to FC Astana. Zulte Waregem, a tidy Belgian outfit, won 2-1 at home. Tromso drew 0-0 away, another decent outfit. Molde won 4-1 at home, they are a very good side, I think that's actually who Solskjaer was managing and brought all those folks over to Cardiff from. Bursaspor drew 0-0 at home. And Polish side Lech Poznan lost 1-0 We can't play any of these teams please pay more attention before making yourself look a ****.
Assuming all favourites (higher coefficient teams) win in their qualifiers, and this is completely disregarding all champions league teams that can drop into the playoff rounds and group stage, there's a few nasty unseeded teams we could draw in the playoff round, most notably Saint Etienne, Feyenoord and Torino. We'd also find ourselves in pot 4 in the group stage, which is the lowest ranked pot. Ouch. Let's hope for a few upsets along the way.
FC Astana 3 - 0 Hapoel Tel Aviv Kairat Almaty 1 - 1 Esbjerg fB KF Laci 0 - 3 Zorya Luhansk MFK Kosice 0 - 1 Slovan Liberec Neftchi Baku 1 - 2 Luka Koper AS Trencin 4 - 0 Vojvodina Buducnost Podgorica 0 - 2 Omonia Nicosia Dinamo Minsk 3 - 0 MyPa Atlantas 0 - 0 Shakhter Karagandy Elfsborg 0 - 1 Inter Baku Nomme Kalju 1 - 0 Lech Poznan RoPS Rovaniemi 1 - 1 Asteras Tripolis Atlantas 0 - 0 Shakhter Karagandy Elfsborg 0 - 1 Inter Baku Nomme Kalju 1 - 0 Lech Poznan RoPS Rovaniemi 1 - 1 Asteras Tripolis MORE TODAY
Not sure if this has been posted but these are the seedings. http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/news/newsid=2124491.html
Something is happening to Kazakh football, Karagandy got to the group stages last year and Astana have just beaten a very good team. Weird.
