adysaint Posted 23 May, 2016 Share Posted 23 May, 2016 Who would you like? Not sure what pot we'll be in but I'll say: Inter Milan Hibernian (nice easy trip) Kairat Almaty (stupidly long trip only likely to take about 200 fans and I want to be one of them) Alternative: AEK Athens as I have a friend there who is big AEK fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fanimal Posted 23 May, 2016 Share Posted 23 May, 2016 Mainz (near Frankfurt); any Spanish team and Fenerbahce for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dangermouth Posted 23 May, 2016 Share Posted 23 May, 2016 The one that we qualify from before winning the thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JxgrSaint Posted 23 May, 2016 Share Posted 23 May, 2016 An easy one made up of teams in countries I'd like a long weekend in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nta786 Posted 23 May, 2016 Share Posted 23 May, 2016 Anything in all honesty, I've saved up hard to make at least one trip this upcoming season. A powerhouse team such as Inter Milan would be lovely, don't want anything in Scotland/UK. I'd love somewhere like Croatia, Cyprus and other holiday destinations to make the most of the rest of the week. Oh, and nowhere 'too' cold, so for example Tromsø and stuff would be a no haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shurlock Posted 23 May, 2016 Share Posted 23 May, 2016 Somewhere iconic Somewhere warm Somewhere hostile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DuncanRG Posted 23 May, 2016 Share Posted 23 May, 2016 Somewhere iconic Somewhere warm Somewhere hostile Pretty much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pangy Posted 23 May, 2016 Share Posted 23 May, 2016 Last time I went to the San Siro the game was called off because a player in the lower league had died on the pitch that day,so I am still owed a gamer there,Saints at the San Siro would be phenomenal,without a doubt one of my top 3 stadiums I have ever been too for atmosphere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wild-saint Posted 23 May, 2016 Share Posted 23 May, 2016 can we get to play celtic if they lose thier CL qualifier? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Without a Halo Posted 23 May, 2016 Share Posted 23 May, 2016 can we get to play celtic if they lose thier CL qualifier? If or When? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrfahaji Posted 24 May, 2016 Share Posted 24 May, 2016 Teams with big enough stadiums that there is at least a remote possibility of getting a ticket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint IQ Posted 24 May, 2016 Share Posted 24 May, 2016 Teams with big enough stadiums that there is at least a remote possibility of getting a ticket. this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jai27 Posted 24 May, 2016 Share Posted 24 May, 2016 Feyenoord! The atmosphere would be fantastic. Beitar Jerusalem would be an interesting one if they stay in the competition. Hertha BSC would be absolutely incredible purely for the trip to the stadium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellify Posted 24 May, 2016 Share Posted 24 May, 2016 Unlikely, but Bilbao or Inter, Tromso and Samtredia or Shirak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Saint Posted 24 May, 2016 Share Posted 24 May, 2016 Teams with big enough stadiums that there is at least a remote possibility of getting a ticket. Completely - although knowing our luck we will get the ridiculous small stadiums and you will need 15 away games for the past 10 years to qualify for a ticket Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scdean Posted 24 May, 2016 Share Posted 24 May, 2016 Somewhere iconic Somewhere warm Somewhere hostile this.. for me: Feyenoord Olympiakos Fenebache (I live in Istanbul) tough group that. keep in mind that many of the Pot 1 teams will come from teams that lose their CL quals (eg Fenebache etc). so much to unfold between now and the draw. Looking at dates i can potentially get to one matchday. I will go whether i get a ticket or not, just for the atmosphere and the occasion. So im hoping that date is an away game (Vittesse sounded amazing.) Of course if we draw one of the Istanbul teams, then im set. Exciting times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladysaint Posted 24 May, 2016 Share Posted 24 May, 2016 Would love an Icelandic team (have any qualified), been before but it was out of season so no football. Hertha Berlin would be a great trip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minsk Posted 24 May, 2016 Share Posted 24 May, 2016 A trip to Belarus would be awesome. Would prefer Dynamo Minsk to Bate (as the Borisov Arena is a good hour away from Minsk - and Dynamo are nowhere near as good a team). Vilnius or Riga would be nice too. Or possibly even somewhere in Ukraine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buctootim Posted 24 May, 2016 Share Posted 24 May, 2016 A trip to Belarus would be awesome. Would prefer Dynamo Minsk to Bate (as the Borisov Arena is a good hour away from Minsk - and Dynamo are nowhere near as good a team). Vilnius or Riga would be nice too. Or possibly even somewhere in Ukraine. I fancy Ukraine too. Lugansk have qualified, but Im not sure whereabouts they are playing their matches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lighthouse Posted 24 May, 2016 Share Posted 24 May, 2016 I fancy Ukraine too. Lugansk have qualified, but Im not sure whereabouts they are playing their matches. It's somewhere in central Ukraine, I forget where now. They also have Olexandria and Poltava in the qualifiers, with a possibility of Shakhtar in the CL playoff. Actually Shakhtar might be alright, as they're playing in Lviv in the far west of Ukraine. Whoever said Tromso, are you nuts? It's freezing a beers are about £11. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buctootim Posted 24 May, 2016 Share Posted 24 May, 2016 It's somewhere in central Ukraine, I forget where now. They also have Olexandria and Poltava in the qualifiers, with a possibility of Shakhtar in the CL playoff. Actually Shakhtar might be alright, as they're playing in Lviv in the far west of Ukraine. Whoever said Tromso, are you nuts? It's freezing a beers are about £11. Good news, I'd never heard of Olexandria and Poltava Lviv / Lvov is supposed to be great. I'd love to go there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebastian firefly Posted 24 May, 2016 Share Posted 24 May, 2016 fiorentina/inter bilbao st etienne schalke or mainz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
View From The Top Posted 24 May, 2016 Share Posted 24 May, 2016 Hearts Gent or Lille Schalke or Mainz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fitzhugh Fella Posted 24 May, 2016 Share Posted 24 May, 2016 Somewhere iconic Somewhere warm Somewhere hostile Pompey fits at least one of those criteria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lickierambert Posted 24 May, 2016 Share Posted 24 May, 2016 Somewhere iconic Somewhere warm Somewhere hostile Inter Monaco Fenerbache (subject to Champions League Play Offs of course) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatch Posted 24 May, 2016 Share Posted 24 May, 2016 An Israeli team would be great, then I could arrange a work trip and make the company pay. A German Team and A team with hot climate and a beach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lighthouse Posted 24 May, 2016 Share Posted 24 May, 2016 Somewhere iconic Somewhere warm Somewhere hostile Lazio? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adysaint Posted 24 May, 2016 Author Share Posted 24 May, 2016 Would love an Icelandic team (have any qualified), been before but it was out of season so no football. Valur, Breiðablik and KR all enter at First Qualifying and would have to win through 4 Two-Legged ties to enter the Group and face Saints. FH will likely come down from Champions League into 3rd Qualifying and may have more of a chance. No Icelandic team has ever made the group stages of either the CL or EL. Stjarnan got close to the EL group in 2014 winning through 3 rounds (including notable victories over Motherwell and Lech Poznan) before losing 9-0 on agg. to Inter Milan in the Play-Off round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northam soul Posted 24 May, 2016 Share Posted 24 May, 2016 Mrs wants a holiday to Montenegro so that would be good as I wouldn't tell her we were playing there until the day. Where shall we visit today love, well I am watching football don't know about you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris27687 Posted 24 May, 2016 Share Posted 24 May, 2016 Bilbao - Lots of reasons, strips, One Club Award, Good Food & Booze. Sassuolo - essentially the Southampton of Italy. Slavia Prague - or some other decent eastern European city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldsarum Posted 24 May, 2016 Share Posted 24 May, 2016 Milan or Bilbao or Schalke Gent or Lille or Rapid Vienna Nice or Slavia Prague or Sloven Brateslava all relatively easy to get to plenty of flights with budget airlines, with Prague and Brateslava dead cheap when you get there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melmacian_saint Posted 24 May, 2016 Share Posted 24 May, 2016 Hearts Gent or Lille Schalke or Mainz. That would definitely beat the record for the most clustered group in the history of european football. Having said that, I wonder what the record is? Not sure anyone would look at that statistic but would interesting to know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suewhistle Posted 24 May, 2016 Share Posted 24 May, 2016 Couldn't afford to go to three games (got to keep some money for later...) but at least the group stages make planning a bit easier. Sassuolo is a tiny, tiny place so that would be good. They don't even play in their own ground (4,500) since they got to Serie A, but at Reggio Emilia - still only 20,000. It's all fantasising until the draw though, so best to avoid wasting too much time on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SO16_Saint Posted 24 May, 2016 Share Posted 24 May, 2016 I can't help but think that whoever we play, we will get hammered. I just can't get my head around that my team, the team I grew up fighting relegation from the early 90s will be playing European powerhouses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 24 May, 2016 Share Posted 24 May, 2016 Would love an Icelandic team (have any qualified), been before but it was out of season so no football. Hertha Berlin would be a great trip. Every UEFA nation has an entrant into the Europa League. Iceland have 3, all in the 1st Qualifying Round. Pretty much every team in Iceland plays in or near Reykjavic as well. With Hertha's coefficient being very similar to ours (theirs is 16.0, ours 16.7) it's very unlikely we'll be in different pots. We're also fairly unlikely to be drawn against Partizan, Mainz or Austria Vienna either, as they're all between 16 and 19. We also can't be in the same group as West Ham (or Man U) in case anyone's wondering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JxgrSaint Posted 24 May, 2016 Share Posted 24 May, 2016 Every UEFA nation has an entrant into the Europa League. Iceland have 3, all in the 1st Qualifying Round. Pretty much every team in Iceland plays in or near Reykjavic as well. With Hertha's coefficient being very similar to ours (theirs is 16.0, ours 16.7) it's very unlikely we'll be in different pots. We're also fairly unlikely to be drawn against Partizan, Mainz or Austria Vienna either, as they're all between 16 and 19. We also can't be in the same group as West Ham (or Man U) in case anyone's wondering. Where do you get all this coefficient info from? I'd be interested to see roughly what the Group Stage pot coefficient boundaries were last year and see who we could get this year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 24 May, 2016 Share Posted 24 May, 2016 Where do you get all this coefficient info from? I'd be interested to see roughly what the Group Stage pot coefficient boundaries were last year and see who we could get this year This one answers that question, http://www.footballseeding.com/european-cups/europa-league-seeding-15-16/ Supporting information from these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%E2%80%9317_UEFA_Europa_League#Group_stage http://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/uefa/seedel2016.html http://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/uefarankings/club/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint IQ Posted 24 May, 2016 Share Posted 24 May, 2016 Inter Monaco Fenerbache (subject to Champions League Play Offs of course) They'd all be top seeds no? Wouldn't be able to draw all of them surely? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JxgrSaint Posted 24 May, 2016 Share Posted 24 May, 2016 This one answers that question, http://www.footballseeding.com/european-cups/europa-league-seeding-15-16/ Supporting information from these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%E2%80%9317_UEFA_Europa_League#Group_stage http://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/uefa/seedel2016.html http://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/uefarankings/club/index.html Much obliged, Mr.9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whelk Posted 25 May, 2016 Share Posted 25 May, 2016 (edited) Pot 1 Florence/Bilbao/St Petersburg/Rome Pot 2 Rotterdam/Moscow Pot 3 Prague/Zagreb/Lille/St Ettienne Any combination would be nice Edited 25 May, 2016 by whelk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldsarum Posted 25 May, 2016 Share Posted 25 May, 2016 Last years seeding Group Stage (48 teams) Pot 1 coef. Pot 2 coef. ------------------------ --- ---------------- ------------------------ --- ---------------- Schalke 04 Ger 111.883 Sporting Braga Por 51.776 Borussia Dortmund *3 Ger 99.883 Fiorentina Ita 49.102 FC Basel @4 Sui 84.875 Lazio @4 Ita 49.102 Napoli Ita 84.102 Anderlecht Bel 47.440 Tottenham Hotspur Eng 84.078 Liverpool Eng 47.078 Ajax @3 Ned 66.195 AZ Alkmaar *3 Ned 46.695 Villarreal Esp 58.999 Viktoria Plzen @3 Cze 41.825 Rubin Kazan *3 Rus 57.099 Club Brugge @4 Bel 41.440 Athletic Bilbao *3 Esp 56.999 PAOK Thessaloniki ** Gre 40.880 Sporting CP Lisbon @4 Por 56.276 Celtic @4 Sco 39.080 Olympique Marseille Fra 55.483 Besiktas Tur 36.520 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Ukr 52.033 APOEL Nicosia @4 Cyp 35.460 Pot 3 coef. Pot 4 coef. ------------------------ --- ---------------- ------------------------ --- ---------------- AS Monaco @4 Fra 31.483 Partizan Belgrade @4 Srb 14.775 Sparta Praha @3 Cze 30.825 Asteras Tripolis Gre 13.380 Fenerbahçe @3 Tur 30.020 CF Os Belenenses *3 Por 12.276 Legia Warsaw ** Pol 24.800 Rosenborg BK * Nor 11.875 Girondins Bordeaux *3 Fra 24.483 Garabag Agdam @3 Azb 11.500 Lokomotiv Moscow Rus 23.099 Molde FK @3 Nor 10.375 Lech Poznan @3 Pol 17.300 Dinamo Minsk ** Bls 9.650 AS Saint-Étienne *3 Fra 16.983 FC Groningen Ned 8.695 Slovan Liberec *3 Cze 16.325 FC Sion Sui 8.375 FC Augsburg Ger 15.883 FC Midtjylland @3 Den 7.960 Rapid Wien @4 Aut 15.635 Skënderbeu Korçë @4 Alb 5.575 FK Krasnodar *3 Rus 15.099 Gabala FK * Azb 2.750 saints co-efficient this season will be 16.756 which is why many of us feel we will be in Pot 3 this year once some. Of the clubs in whelks table have been removed, either because they have qualified for Champions league or the got knocked out in qualifying rounds of Europa league NB Austria Vienna enter Europa lge at 2nd qualifying round, Roma enter 4th qualifying round Champions league Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cabrone Posted 25 May, 2016 Share Posted 25 May, 2016 Feyenoord would be interesting but not too bothered TBH. Some really good teams in there, looks like it's going to be a great adventure next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poohdini Posted 25 May, 2016 Share Posted 25 May, 2016 Fenerbahce or Basaksehir please! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chez Posted 25 May, 2016 Share Posted 25 May, 2016 Should we get Inter will they offer Saints pretty much as many tickets as we want to take? It would be like a dream come true to watch Saints at the San Siro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marc_saint Posted 25 May, 2016 Share Posted 25 May, 2016 Should we get Inter will they offer Saints pretty much as many tickets as we want to take? It would be like a dream come true to watch Saints at the San Siro. The europa league rules are 5%. I think the San siro holds 80,000 so 4,000 tickets. 4000 saints fans in Milan would be awesome Sent from my SM-G928F using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint IQ Posted 25 May, 2016 Share Posted 25 May, 2016 Pot 1 Florence/Bilbao/St Petersburg/Rome Pot 2 Rotterdam/Moscow Pot 3 Prague/Zagreb/Lille/St Ettienne Any combination would be nice The ultimate draw from that is if we would somehow jump into pot 3 then 1 Inter, San Siro. Capacity: 81,277 2 Steaua_București, Stadion Maksimir: Capacity 55,634 or Lille short trip and 50k capacity 4 Hertha Berlin, Olympiastadion berlin: Capacity: 74,475 If not then happy with 1 Inter/Roma/Monchengladbach 2 St Etienne/Lille/ Zagreb 3 Feyenoord Btw you got pot 2-3 mixed up there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint IQ Posted 25 May, 2016 Share Posted 25 May, 2016 The europa league rules are 5%. I think the San siro holds 80,000 so 4,000 tickets. 4000 saints fans in Milan would be awesome Sent from my SM-G928F using Tapatalk Its always half empty isn't it? Just get thousands of us buying tickets next to the away end . That's a f-ing stupid rule but wouldn't expect anything less from the corrupt cretins that ruin..I mean run our game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie Posted 25 May, 2016 Share Posted 25 May, 2016 Based on my experience: Inter is alright. There will definitely be space in San Siro, last time I went was a milan derby last season but still quite a lot of empty seats. Bilbao is in a fantastic part of Spain, was there in March. Such nice weather and a great atmosphere. Nice is also...nice. South France, good level of football. But for me the dream would be Athens Went in Feb during Olympiakos Anderlecht game. Whole city buzzing. And then somewhere in a new culture/bizzare - Khazakstan, Russian, Faroe Islands haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onthemarch Posted 25 May, 2016 Share Posted 25 May, 2016 Tickets are never an issue in Milan. I went there years ago to see Leeds play - the away end was sold out well in advance. Several thousand Leeds fans bought tickets in the home end - but as soon as you came out the metro near the ground all English fans were herded together then marched in the away end. Tickets were irrelevant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farawaysaint Posted 25 May, 2016 Share Posted 25 May, 2016 I want us to get the easiest group possible and progress please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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