Apart from disagreeing with Champions League third place finishers joining at the knock out stages I think the current UEFA Cup set-up is more exciting than the older one.  No more losing at the first hurdle to a Skonto Riga or Bohemians and the adventure being over before it`s even started.  To watch six different sides from Europe like we did makes all the hard work in the previous season worthwhile.  OK we`re not winners but the memories are more important right? 

There is still plenty of scope to lose to the likes of Cunto Riga in the prelim or 1st Round. Thankfully we absolutely humped that Ukranian lot last season to get to the round robin.

Do you think Europe would stop becoming a treat if we qualified each year for the competition?

No sir.

Do you think Europe would stop becoming a treat if we qualified each year for the competition?

 

It would stop becoming a treat if we qualified for it every year and got pumped out by shite Irish teams every year. fortunately that doesn't happen very often so... no  

FATJIM,

          Of course I would have liked to see us go further but Aberdeen rarely string two wonderful performances together in order to compete in a competition with the big boys as hard as the UEFA Cup is. 

a competition with the big boys as hard as the UEFA Cup is. 

 

Oooo-er matron . . . .

 

Funster.

Are Hearts the only other Scottish team to have played in the UEFA Cup group stages?  Who did they have in their section I`ve forgotten?

 

Feyenoord, Schalke, FC Basel and Ferencvaros. They finished stone last in the group, having lost to Feyenoord, Schalke and Ferencvaros, but won in Switzerland against Basel. This all happened in the 2004-05 season, the first UEFA Cup to have a group stage. Rangers played in the group stage as well that season, but failed to qualify even with six points in a group containing AZ Alkmaar, Auxerre, Grazer AK and Amica Wronki.

Swaddon,

              Cheers for the info!  Some would say The Jamboes were in a Group Of Death themselves eh?  Sides from Germany, Holland, Hungary and Switzerland are no mugs.  It`s amazing what you forget!

 

SeeBass

Good money to be made if we could make it.

As KGB says, a lot of siller to be had if we can get into it. I can't see it happening at Aberdeen in the next couple of years, tough, we don't have the calibre of player that got us into Europe last time any more.

Platini's cap of 3 teams from the "big" leagues will mean Europa will get some better quality sides too.

we don't have the calibre of player that got us into Europe last time any more.

 

 

What's so funny? We don't.