Europa league

[Mr_Grieves]

Agreed. Still annoyed we didn't have Stevie May for last round. Bloody Alex Neil !

Its nae Alex Neil's fault that we didn't play enough pre-season friendlies before the European games.

[Pacman1903]

Since Champions League failures have been allowed in

18 of 36 finalists have been drop outs and 7 of them have won it. Getting rewarded for failure is bizarre in my eyes.That's 18 places in a final for teams that

a-deserve it more and

b-could cause an upset, we will never see the likes of Aberdeen, Magdeburg, Dinamo Tblisi, IFK Gothenborg etc winning a Euro trophy again because of the way European fitba is set up. Its not designed for us lesser teams.

The Champions League gets berated and quite rightly so but the Europa league is as equally as b@llocks. The only thing it has that makes it more favourable than the CL is the knockouts are not made up of the same teams over and over again

[RedStarTorphins]

True, but with the new European seeding calculations, consistent qualification for QR3 or PO rounds, will gradually move us in to the seeding rounds for QR3 and PO rounds, where we may get favourable draws to go through.

Maribor just qualified for the Champions League and I though we were the better team over the two legs last year.

Were not that far away, keep plugging away with the consistency and hoping for favourable draws.
If we maintain or better our recent European results over the next 5 years, we will be in a decent position to be seeded to qualify.
We just need to keep the patience

It's a bit optimistic if you think we would get near the group stages if we're starting the likes of O'Connor, Reynolds, Considine etc in the starting X1.
I'm not necessarily criticising the club, it's maybe where we are in terms of budget.
But it's highly unlikely.