Wasn't it Ned Beatty who got it up the ass instead of Burt Reynolds?

ursus arctos wrote:

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They are the best team in Montenegro, but that isn't a very high standard. They are likely to have some young guys looking to attract interest from richer clubs, however.

Ger, Santa Coloma are one of the titans of Andorran club football. You might still be able to get a game in their league.

Bitch

Hieronymus of Hesselink wrote:

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Dinamo Zagreb have just sold their entire central midfield to Spurs and Dynamo Kiev, so you should get off lightly. If you had drawn them ten years ago you would be in deep shit.

I see they have a player from the Ivory Coast called Diddy.

No. Really? cue several hundred thousand Glaswegian schoolboy jokes.

gerontophile wrote:
[quote]ursus arctos wrote:

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Ger, Santa Coloma are one of the titans of Andorran club football. You might still be able to get a game in their league.

Santa Coloma beat Maccabi Tel Aviv 1-0 in the first leg of their Uefa Cup match last season ... not that I'm doubting ger's footballing ability or anything!

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Wasn't it Ned Beatty who got it up the ass instead of Burt Reynolds?

It was, Burt saved him. Though I think it could have been Burt's canoe.

gerontophile wrote:

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Rangers will have a tough game against Kaunas (apologies to any Santa Coloma fans, but I have never heard of them).

Perhaps it will be good practice for their all new forward line? (AMMS to thread)

Woof woof, you called.
Kaunas are Hearts reserves and even with Rangers ability to go from the sublime to the ridiculous in Europe I'd expect us to beat them and I expect them to beat the Andorrans. Although it would be just like us to go from Euro final one season to out in the first round the next.

Rangers played Kaunas a few years ago.

Beat them 4-1 at Ibrox, but it was a tight encounter until Billy Dodds scored twice in the dying minutes. I think the Lithuanians had a couple of men sent off. The second leg was 0-0 and by all accounts a wretched game.

Rangers should beat them again this time, but there are some fearsome teams lying in wait in the 3rd round. Their best hope is to get someone like Slavia Prague or Vitoria Guimaraes.

I was surprised to see that Turkey and Belgium still get the same total number of CL slots (2), in the same rounds (Q2 and Q3).

This is despite Fenerbahce's recent impressive record and Belgian clubs' unremitting awfulness of the last few years.

Fenerbache reaching the quarter final last year wouldn't have counted towards this years allocation of teams. The way that the UEFA coefficients are set up means that it takes quite a long time for change to happen one way or the other. Although, if Russian clubs continue to do well in Europe they will be the fourth strongest league in Europe before long.

How the hell does it work that the champions of Croatia - a club who knocked Ajax out of the UEFA Cup last season by winning in Amsterdam and who finished mid table in the group stages of the tournament - end up in the first qualifying round?

Just our friggin' luck

I guess they've been squeezed out to make way for 4 English teams, 4 Italian teams, 4 Spanish teams, 3 German teams, etc. which only goes to further emphasise what a thoroughly grubby affair
this 'Champions League' malarky really is.

Just to let you know the mighty Blues versus Dinamo Zagreb is live on Sky Sports tomorrow night.

I noticed that. How did they manage to swing that?

Llanelli won 1-0, Jorge on the mic and John Hartson speaking Welsh

congrats to LLanelli.

Quag: who are the 'Mighty Blues'? (great name... I direct you to 'Film and TV' thread)

Impact Substitute,

The IFA (the Northern Ireland FA) proactively negotaited the rights to show matches involving Irish League teams during negotations with SKY to buy the rights for the NI team.

gerontophile ,

the Might Blues are my beloved Linfield, of South
Belfast.
Unfortuately we could be playing the big game on Wednesday with no strikers on the clubs books: we sold two strikers during the close season, our twenty goal a season forward is on his holdays ( his wife is a teacher so it is difficult for his family to go on a summer break at any other time) and our other twenty goal a season forward is in frantic negotiations with Stockport County over a move there (with several other SPL and football league clubs waiting in the wings, ready to pounce.)

Regarding my username, I have recently discovered Family Guy and have been captivated by it: I love the surreal aspect to it and the way that the makers of it have managed the frankly incredibly feat of being able to take what the people responsible for the Simpsons did and better it.