George Baldock was also playing for the MK Dons side which beat Man Utd 4-0 in the League Cup a few years ago.

16 hours ago, The Rising Sun said:

Borat as manager 

On 30/08/2024 at 20:33, Simplymo said:

The Conference League is six games, with sides playing three games at home and three away. Teams who finish in the top eight will qualify automatically for the last 16, while those who place ninth to 24th will compete in a two-legged knockout play-off for the chance to join them. Whoever finishes 25th or lower will be eliminated.

who we are playing is above but when will be decided on saturday. Theres a list of dates already out but i cant find it atm.

Basically they have until Saturday to match the "who" with the "when" so that there isn't any issues like travel or match conflicts, etc

 

Chelsea

3 October: Gent (H)

24 October: Panathinaikos (A)

7 November: FC Noah (H)

28 November: FC Heidenheim (A)

12 December: FC Astana (A)

19 December: Shamrock Rovers (H)

Loads of Sunday games coming up then FFS. 

Trains are always bolloxed

On 30/08/2024 at 15:43, bisright1 said:

Going to be interesting to see who is on the plane to Noah and Astana. 

As if I'm running things, we're taking our worst 15 players and keeping the best at home. 

I think it's ridiculous those clubs are in European competitions. 

Not at all, that's what this competition was setup for. It's ridiculous that we're in this level of competition.

Embarrassment of the highest level, even worse if we don't walk it. 

18 hours ago, Ukraine Bolt said:

Not at all, that's what this competition was setup for. It's ridiculous that we're in this level of competition.

Embarrassment of the highest level, even worse if we don't walk it. 

I mean clubs/countries that are absolutely 100% in Asia shouldn't be in UEFA. 

We shouldn't be flying 11 hours to play a team. 

On 09/09/2024 at 18:37, The Rising Sun said:

Loads of Sunday games coming up then FFS. 

Trains are always bolloxed

At least they’ll be on tv.

Oh no sorry I forgot about The FA’s ridiculous bullsh*t blackout rule again.

3 hours ago, bisright1 said:

I mean clubs/countries that are absolutely 100% in Asia shouldn't be in UEFA. 

We shouldn't be flying 11 hours to play a team. 

Armenia is Europe and the UN considers Kazakhstan as partly in Eastern Europe, like Turkey. It’s a long way, I agree, but there’s no reason to exclude these countries.

5 hours ago, bisright1 said:

I mean clubs/countries that are absolutely 100% in Asia shouldn't be in UEFA. 

We shouldn't be flying 11 hours to play a team. 

Well NOAH is a home game so shouldn't be an issue and half of Kazakhstan is in Europe. We'd have to ban Turkish teams and Russian teams (prior to the war) from European competitions too.

We shouldn't be flying 11 hours because we shouldn't be in this situation, qualify for CL and this wouldn't an issue. 

Edited September 11, 20241 yr by Ukraine Bolt

4 hours ago, RMH said:

Armenia is Europe and the UN considers Kazakhstan as partly in Eastern Europe, like Turkey. It’s a long way, I agree, but there’s no reason to exclude these countries.

Kazakhstan should be in asia. I don't think a sliver of the population technically maybe being in Europe is enough. 

Armenia sure although I do think geographically they are also in Asia. 

1 hour ago, Ukraine Bolt said:

Well NOAH is a home game so shouldn't be an issue and half of Kazakhstan is in Europe. We'd have to ban Turkish teams and Russian teams (prior to the war) from European competitions too.

We shouldn't be flying 11 hours because we shouldn't be in this situation, qualify for CL and this wouldn't an issue. 

Half of Kazakhstan isn't in Europe. 15% is. 

And we aren't playing in that 15%. We are playing on the eastern end of Kazakhstan. Where most people live. 

And I thought the same when United played them in the Europa league. And if I had paid attention when they played in the champs league. 

Edited September 11, 20241 yr by bisright1

Stop with the slander of most glorious nation of Khazakstan.

53 minutes ago, bisright1 said:

Kazakhstan should be in asia. I don't think a sliver of the population technically maybe being in Europe is enough. 

Armenia sure although I do think geographically they are also in Asia. 

Half of Kazakhstan isn't in Europe. 15% is. 

And we aren't playing in that 15%. We are playing on the eastern end of Kazakhstan. Where most people live. 

And I thought the same when United played them in the Europa league. And if I had paid attention when they played in the champs league. 

Only 3% of Turkey's land mass is in Europe. 

39 minutes ago, Ukraine Bolt said:

Only 3% of Turkey's land mass is in Europe. 

Geographical coincidence. Only 3% of my arse fits on my office chair.

23 hours ago, bisright1 said:

Kazakhstan should be in asia. I don't think a sliver of the population technically maybe being in Europe is enough. 

Armenia sure although I do think geographically they are also in Asia. 

Half of Kazakhstan isn't in Europe. 15% is. 

And we aren't playing in that 15%. We are playing on the eastern end of Kazakhstan. Where most people live. 

And I thought the same when United played them in the Europa league. And if I had paid attention when they played in the champs league. 

Someone is going to be delighted to know that we’re going to play against Astana in Almaty, which is further east than Astana 

9 minutes ago, RMH said:

Someone is going to be delighted to know that we’re going to play against Astana in Almaty, which is further east than Astana 

Meh. If the game were to be transferred to Brentford for some inexplicable reason that's a lot further east going the long way round.

Good thing we will likely send our C team to that one...

Last year on the same date Almaty was minus 20 degrees. The stadium has no roof. 

Can we just elect to forfeit the game and not bother? 

1 hour ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Good thing we will likely send our C team to that one...

Yeah that turned out to be a smart call.

Can't believe uefa have allowed the game to be played that far away, it's approx 250 miles from the Chinese border, closer to Shanghai than London. 

Just win the opening 4 games, no great distance to go there, then send our youth team and management there.

1 hour ago, axman2526 said:

Just win the opening 4 games, no great distance to go there, then send our youth team and management there.

I'm not sending maresca!

3 hours ago, timetowaste said:

Can't believe uefa have allowed the game to be played that far away, it's approx 250 miles from the Chinese border, closer to Shanghai than London. 

Yeah , but on the other hand , don't they have to travel a long way when they play their away games in Europe? 

I didn't realise it was that far away though.

As ridiculous as when we played Arsenal in Baku in the Europa final. . And gave them a right old tonking! Seems like another world looking back now.

3 hours ago, axman2526 said:

Just win the opening 4 games, no great distance to go there, then send our youth team and management there.

We couldn't even win both our qualifying games! 

On 11/09/2024 at 13:00, bisright1 said:

Kazakhstan should be in asia. I don't think a sliver of the population technically maybe being in Europe is enough. 

Armenia sure although I do think geographically they are also in Asia. 

Half of Kazakhstan isn't in Europe. 15% is. 

And we aren't playing in that 15%. We are playing on the eastern end of Kazakhstan. Where most people live. 

And I thought the same when United played them in the Europa league. And if I had paid attention when they played in the champs league. 

I worked with a Brighton supporter at the time of Brexit.

He thought that if we left Europe it meant that our football clubs wouldn't be allowed to play in the European competitions!

 

On 12/09/2024 at 21:21, The Rising Sun said:

I worked with a Brighton supporter at the time of Brexit.

He thought that if we left Europe it meant that our football clubs wouldn't be allowed to play in the European competitions!

 

After long negotiations well into the night, Britain agreed not to take the easy way out of footballing competitions and to just lose on penalties.

Edited September 14, 20241 yr by Valerie