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Europa League 2014-15 play off draw

RickyVilla

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Is there any chance of non season ticket holders getting a ticket?!!
Very little I would say unless they do a package, which are not cheap. You could just rock up on the day and try your luck with a tout!
 

Spursidol

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Agreed. Use the kids for the away leg as far as possible.

Agree.

Unde4r HaRry we took a bunch of 18 year ols (and Brad) away to Greece (Panathinaikos ?), and in a very tense atmosphere (lots of flares etc) got a 0-0 draw, which was a decent result given the very young team.

We've got a pretty big squad, which with some promising youngsters is probably giung to be over 30 strong - and its better depth than when Harry was around, so we should be using it, especially in the away legs to rest the first 11 players - and give some of the youngsters (maybe 2 in the team and 3 on the bench) to give some much needed experience of first team football.
 

rabbikeane

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Don't think we'll see too many youth players to begin with.
Looking at who's currently in our starting XI and who is in need of game time,
I reckon we can line up with the following in the play off round:


Vorm;
Fredericks, Dawson (c), Fryers, Davies;
Bentaleb, Sandro;
Paulinho, Chadli, Ceballos;
Adebayor

Fryers alt. Dier
Davies alt. Rose
Ade alt. Kane

Would have all our senior players match fit come september​
 

beats1

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Harry tried that and we went out in the group stage.

First game we need the first team and hopefully seal it wit 3 to 5 goals. In the second leg the guys who need a game and then lets see.
However the kids were very young, the younger players we have now are older and better, back then the players were coming back from this

Kane - 18 - came back from a league 1 loan, in which he did well
Carroll - 19 - came back from good league 1 loan
Livermore - 21 - came back from another poor loan move at leeds
Townsend - 19 - came back from a good loan move at millwall
Fredericks - 18 - didnt look like he would make it
Falque - 21 - came back from Segunda
Rose - 21 - came back from championship but his first season as a LB
Parrett - 19 - came back from a very good league 1 loan

That group actually performed well considering we had two tough teams in Rubin Kazan and POAK. Whereas the season after we had a full strength team and scraped through during the last match. Our youth now is much stronger unless you go down to the U18's. The youth at the moment is:
Cebellos
Mason/Carroll
Bentaleb
Vejlkovic
 

Bobbins

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May 5, 2005
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Big advantage to the lads playing somewhere warm and not too far away in the med, rather than yet another FC Mentalist Dvorak somewhere near Archangel on a plastic pitch.
 

ButchCassidy

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Fun fact: AEL were league leaders going into the final match against second place APOEL, looked likely to win or draw and take home the trophy (and CL berth), but one of their moron fans hit an APOEL player with a firecracker, causing the game to be abandoned and replayed later, where they lost the game and the title 0-1.
 
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SpursManChris

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May 15, 2007
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We are a seeded team and will face
Unseeded teams
I would want Debrecen(since I been reading about arthur rowe) or Hajduk split(bring a back a gem)

Don't want a Cypriot team since I think they could cause a problem
What is 'CC:*Number*' ?
 

EastLondonYid

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Anyone going to Cyprus for the match, lastime we played a Cypriot in 2009 all the Spurs fans met up at 'FINIKOUDES BEACH' that is the main promenade in Larnaca beach front....loads of bars on the strip , we took over 2 bars there then .....hopefully see you there...:)
 
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