stevegrant

In reality, probably **** all. As long as people aren't acting like ****s, they'll let everyone in.

Channelling your inner MLG there?

168 before I got bored. Only obvious ones I missed were Jack Cork and Jason Puncheon. I did get Jakobsson though

This should be double figures, really. Just depends how much we take our foot off the pedal later in the game.

Cedric's the only one of the four named who's likely to be playing regularly, I'd have thought. Personally I'd like Gazzaniga to be given as much pre-season game time as possible just to ensure he's up to speed. U21 games throughout the season aren't going to keep him sharp if required.

If anybody is genuinely waiting for club-organised travel rather than doing it themselves then they're seriously cutting their nose off to spite their face - it's going to cost a lot more than booking it straight away yourself would have done, and it's probably not going to be particularly convenient. And that's assuming the club is actually able to offer anything at all.

The kickoff times for the group stage onwards are fixed by UEFA at 19:00 and 21:05 CET (18:00 and 20:05 UK time), but the times for the qualifying rounds are up to the home club to determine. Eredivisie midweek games tend to kick off at 20:00 local time, I don't see why Vitesse would want to change that, really.

Thanks for the info. Does Arnhem do what I've seen in a lot of European cities where local buses are free when you have a match ticket? If not, how much are the buses? I'll need to get back to the train station straight after the game for a train back to Amsterdam.

There's loads in block L7M. L7L mostly sold out.

UEFA regulations say you only have to offer 5% of capacity to away fans, and from the photos it looks as if those fences are pretty much fixed.

Ticketing will surely be done on last season's away attendance record. No idea what the cutoff would be to be guaranteed, but the 3000 allocations tended to go to 5+ aways, so would expect this one to be 8+ initially, probably with only one-day windows for each group.

ITV don't have the rights anymore, BT Sport have exclusive coverage, but as far as I'm aware, the contract only starts from the playoff round. Some of the Scottish sides have been on Premier Sports in the early rounds, not sure if there's scope for ITV to pick up our game or not. Both of West Ham's home games have been on the club's YouTube channel.

Literally no ****s given about the remaining friendlies now the draw's been done

The pitch rolls in under the stand, and the roof's retractable.

Evening Eredivisie games kick off at 8pm local time, so it should be fine. Last train back to Amsterdam is around midnight.

See the European Tour sticky...

You seem surprised that a spike in demand would see the prices increase. Why do you think loads of us were booking stuff within 15 minutes of the draw?

****ing terrible draw

Aberdeen probably heading to Kazakhstan

No, every team's coefficient is fixed for the duration of the competition to the figure calculated at the end of last season, so ours will remain at 16.078 for the duration of this season, but will be higher next season unless every English team gets buggered in both competitions this season. How much higher largely depends on our own performance. If we get knocked out in 3Q, we only get 1 coefficient point of our own, 1.5 for playoff round elimination, and then we get 2 points per group stage win and 1 point for a draw (with a guaranteed minimum of 2 points). Extra points then awarded for quarter-final, semi-final and final participation. Doesn't look like you get anything for being in the first two knockout rounds.

It's a separate draw for that round, there's less chance of us being seeded in that stage unless there are a few shocks in the third qualifying round or there are no shocks at all in the Champions League 3rd qualifying round - losers from that get parachuted into the Playoff round for the Europa League. The draw for that one is a "proper" draw, I think, so there's no pre-drawing of pots to make it quicker.

The draw is noon UK time, 1pm CET.

I actually could have cashed-out a profit on the Hampshire win at one point. Put a fiver on at 9/1 at the break, at one stage the return was £12. Should have taken it

116 all out, FFS

Always the case this close to the game. Could have probably got £60-70 or so on fixture release day.