League Cup group section

[OnwardsandUpwards 834]

9 minutes ago, WadeWilson said:

Me too actually. I had forgotten we were in it due to all the palaver of police, politics and pitch invasions.

It may just be the only chance we get to sample the group stages, so I am game for it; bizarre bonus point penalty shoot-outs, the lot.

Must say it needed something done and this structure has its merits.It also allows for a bit of squad rotation.Not a bad thing to get everyone up to match fitness for the league.

Personally  it also opens up more chances for me and other Bears not able to attend every game the opportunity to maybe fit in another game to our schedule.

[ForeverAndEver 71,526]

July should used for friendlies and pre season tours, not games against Morton etc.

Shite.

[ianb1547 3,767]

Playing each other in the group once.......how do they work out home/away...and against which team are you home or away?

bloody stupid...... there's no other group comp (for clubs) that does it this way.

 

[Poetry_In_Blue 1,043]

Never mind it's only for one season,  the following season we will be in the CL qualifications.

 

[Corky True Legend 2,682]

24 minutes ago, ianb1547 said:

Playing each other in the group once.......how do they work out home/away...and against which team are you home or away?

bloody stupid...... there's no other group comp (for clubs) that does it this way.

 

Copying the old UEFA Cup format. Luck of the draw as to who you get home/away.

[ForeverAndEver 71,526]

30 minutes ago, ianb1547 said:

Playing each other in the group once.......how do they work out home/away...and against which team are you home or away?

bloody stupid...... there's no other group comp (for clubs) that does it this way.

 

Uefa Cup was like that.

[ianb1547 3,767]

I don't remember any of the old uefa formats having a group where teams only played each other once. It tended to be a straight-forward draw. (but you seem fairly sure ...so I'll stand corrected)

 

yup...i'm talking crap....Season 2004-5  groups of 5...2 home 2 away

[Drunk and disorderly. 14,462]

5 hours ago, MuirhouseBear said:

Be good to see who we get but the only interesting game that we could possibly have is v Motherwell. 

How do they decide who plays at home and who plays away? 

We are selected to play at home by default and the diddy teams away and their 50 supporters are left to rage about it.

[falwheel 222]

Wow. It's just like the Champions League, only with shit teams (excluding Rangers), stadiums and plastic pitches.

[Brackley 1,401]

Guaranteed we will be away to the premier league team. 

[ranter 136]

Total fix way they are doing it. Surely if its seeded the fixtures could be set out before draw.      Team1 v Team 4, Team 3 v Team 2 on matchday 1 in each section. And other matchdays also preselected by seedings. A lot easier than stitching it up and then trying to convince us we've not been stitched up.

[siddiqi_drinker 14,635]

10 hours ago, BF2 said:

The draw will be watched by millions worldwide.  You can already feel the tension.  Buzzing for it!

Oh well at least the draw is not being conducted by the SFA else we could have been drawn alongside Bayern Munich, The Dallas Cowboys, Pittsburgh Penguins and Miss Uganda.

[Cameltoe 52]

Bet they use solid baws and ours is heated up so they feel it.

[DMax399 3,710]

I fancy coming up aginst Hibs in the final.............

[K.A.I 36,183]

Hoping we draw Ibiza away

[Blueshoff 11,844]

11 hours ago, BLUEDIGNITY said:

Tenderhooks bud ! ?

It's actually tenterhooks 

[BEE 4,880]

9 hours ago, ForeverAndEver said:

July should used for friendlies and pre season tours, not games against Morton etc.

Shite.

Not much chance of us drawing them!

[BLUEDIGNITY 33,647]

9 minutes ago, Blueshoff said:

It's actually tenterhooks 

Who am a to argue with the tenterhooks polis !  

[ForeverAndEver 71,526]

48 minutes ago, BEE said:

Not much chance of us drawing them!

May have made an arse of that  

[GMac 1,405]

4 years trying to get out of the lower leagues and we end up with matches against Edinburgh City and East Stirling. 

[Canabear 4,558]

15 hours ago, BF2 said:

"That concludes the draw for group 1, which contains Arsenal, Rangers, Rangers and Switzerland"  

Seriously I can't believe they're televising this.

We are back that's why.

[Blueshoff 11,844]

8 hours ago, BLUEDIGNITY said:

Who am a to argue with the tenterhooks polis !  

Just don't do it again ?

[Jambo 28]

Edinburgh City away will do me. Them being promoted into the league set-up means that will be another stadium that I havent been to.

Im sure Meadowbank holds something like 7,500 as-well.

[wully 47,437]

I am away on holiday the middle of July so expect a stealth thread so I do not miss out on all the excitement.

[ForeverAndEver 71,526]

Hopefully Airdrie and Queen's Park are two of the group 3 teams.