Nah, easy teams please, don't mind far flung places, just as long as we get through. Have already said I'd like to play Connah's Quay FC though. :greengrin
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Been messing around looking at flights to some of the potential destinations. We have some very interesting potential journeys, making me think now that a home nation followed by another trip would be better.
Thankfully I've 7 weeks off over the summer with my job so I've no excuse not to jump in the car down to say Manchester or Liverpool, sadly a tricky destination might mean I'm a solo traveller although if its a decent place to get to there will be four or five of us.
By the looks of it, if we do manage to get past the first tie, we could draw one of the losing teams from the champions league Q1 as they would be seeded, who would give us more of a chance of progressing. We could either get Seville or Cork City.
That's what I had presumed until I started looking in to flight prices to some of the possible destinations. Even after doing a connection anywhere in Europe it's still costing £400 to £500 for return flights to the likes of Albania, Moldova, Montenegro and Bosnia.
I'd presume Hibs would charter at least one flight to places like these, but i'm not sure that would be any cheaper. Like someone else above said I'd now prefer somewhere closer to home with a good chance of going through and then take our chances with a further trip in Round 2.
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Polish soccer club ordered to play 8 games without fans
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Monday, May 21, 2018, 10:44 AM
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Lech Poznan has been ordered to play eight games next season without spectators because of rioting and brawling by fans.
It's to include 3 Europa league matches. Not sure if away fans are allowed
A couple of years ago, Manchester City drew CSKA Moscow in the CL Group Stages and plenty of supporters booked flights and accommodation. Then CSKA were ordered to play behind closed doors. No away fans were alllowed.
The bungling UEFA did allow around 500 of the CSKA ‘Ultras’ to attend the match.
From Bert Kassies' site:
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Although the regulations no longer require the use of regional groups (as used before 2009), until now UEFA still uses some kind of regionalization in the first qualifying rounds. At first the clubs are divided into seeded and unseeded teams, and then the seeded and unseeded teams are split into regional groups. The general approach seems to use the North/Central/South scheme, but no specific rules are known.
If we were to retain most of our players and have them all in on the first day of pre-season training then I'd fancy our chances of catching Burnley cold.
As it is I don't know what our midfield or forward line will look like, so it is hard to say.
In all likelihood they'd spank us and we'll still be guddling about trying to get our squad together in late August.
What's the chances we'll get Poznan? Is it possible now that it's likely we'll be seeded?
Poznan are in the first qualifying round as well, seeded with a coefficient of 7.000.