Guest Flying Hippo Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 We were in a dream group last year - the only one we could have qualified from. To get utterly fucked in that group was shambolic. Dream group for potentially qualifying. Awful group for prestige. Getting Stuttgart yet again was bloody miserable 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny 0 Posted August 19, 2010 Author Share Posted August 19, 2010 Dream group for potentially qualifying. Awful group for prestige. Getting Stuttgart yet again was bloody miserable All I cared about. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Flying Hippo Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 All I cared about. Each to their own but for me the CL is about playing some of the best teams in Europe, not desperately hoping to avoid them so we can play 2 extra games after Christmas 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
juffery 0 Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 Each to their own but for me the CL is about playing some of the best teams in Europe, not desperately hoping to avoid them so we can play 2 extra games after Christmas Yup, that's how I see it too. Would much rather see the bug teams than getting mediocre teams that we still can't beat! 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigRFC 0 Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 Yup, that's how I see it too. Would much rather see the bug teams than getting mediocre teams that we still can't beat! If the expectation is that we are going to get humped regardless of who we play then give me the biggest clubs in our group. If the expectation is that we are good enough to even knick 2nd place then give me the easiest teams possible. I'd take a shitey team all the way to the final if it meant we could win it rather than get the hardest possible from the get go. Now I know it isn't going to happen any time soon but one can dream 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Flying Hippo Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 Hoping for an easy group is a poisoned chalice In 6 games against Sturm Gruz, Artmedia Bratislava, and Unirea Urziceni we only won 1 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny 0 Posted August 19, 2010 Author Share Posted August 19, 2010 My view last season was that the money for getting to the last 16 from a realistic group outweighed any sexiness in the glamour ties we could get. I don't know what I want this year. Do we really want to be violated by the likes of Chelsea, Utd, Barcelona or Madrid? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny 0 Posted August 19, 2010 Author Share Posted August 19, 2010 Hoping for an easy group is a poisoned chalice In 6 games against Sturm Gruz, Artmedia Bratislava, and Unirea Urziceni we only won 1 One of those teams were in a group we qualified from... 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Flying Hippo Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 My view last season was that the money for getting to the last 16 from a realistic group outweighed any sexiness in the glamour ties we could get. I don't know what I want this year. Do we really want to be violated by the likes of Chelsea, Utd, Barcelona or Madrid? As one of the above posters said, i'd rather lose to a glamour team than someone like Sevilla or Stuttgart (decent enough sides but who aren't even as big a club as us) 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny 0 Posted August 19, 2010 Author Share Posted August 19, 2010 As one of the above posters said, i'd rather lose to a glamour team than someone like Sevilla or Stuttgart (decent enough sides but who aren't even as big a club as us) If Sevilla trash us 4-1 what would Barcelona or Inter do? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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