Ocular Patdown Required Posted July 22 Share Posted July 22 (edited) 2 hours ago, Pizzo said: Never ideal coming up against a team who's well into their season, regardless of form. Agree with this. I think one of the reasons the Scottish teams (aside from the OF) tend to struggle in these qualifying rounds is that a lot of the potential ties are against teams that play their seasons over the summer period, and tend to be more match-sharp when the qualifiers are played. Killie v Nomads in 2019, Motherwell against Sligo a couple of seasons ago etc Not saying it's the only reason why this happens but I believe it's one of the main ones. Edited July 22 by Ocular Patdown Required 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C4mmy31 Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 Hopefully we sell out the 200 or so seats left in the Moffat Stand today and it'll be a full house of home fans for Thursday night. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigkillie Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 15 hours ago, Ocular Patdown Required said: Agree with this. I think one of the reasons the Scottish teams (aside from the OF) tend to struggle in these qualifying rounds is that a lot of the potential ties are against teams that play their seasons over the summer period, and tend to be more match-sharp when the qualifiers are played. Killie v Nomads in 2019, Motherwell against Sligo a couple of seasons ago etc Not saying it's the only reason why this happens but I believe it's one of the main ones. The Welsh league runs at the same time as us, they don't play summer football. The reason smaller Scottish teams have struggled in qualifying rounds is more about losing a fair chunk of the team that was successful the previous year and then not having their replacements in place yet. That's not been a problem for us, and wasn't for McInnes at Aberdeen either, and they generally got through their ties against smaller clubs. For every example of a Scottish team losing to a smaller summer league team, you can also find an example of them losing to a smaller winter league team (as you have in your post above) and also of them beating fairly decent summer league teams (eg St Johnstone & Hearts v Rosenborg). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NFL12 Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 I got a text saying that’s us sold out for Thursday? True, anyone know? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NFL12 Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 Killiefc.com saying sold oot now. Didnae see it at first. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizzo Posted July 24 Share Posted July 24 850 Belgians coming I heard. Should be a decent atmosphere. Let's hope the "big crowd, poor result" curse doesn't strike. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AW saint Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 All the best Killie. Hope you guys smash it tonight 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
effeffsee_the2nd Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 On 22/07/2024 at 21:30, Ocular Patdown Required said: Agree with this. I think one of the reasons the Scottish teams (aside from the OF) tend to struggle in these qualifying rounds is that a lot of the potential ties are against teams that play their seasons over the summer period, and tend to be more match-sharp when the qualifiers are played. Killie v Nomads in 2019, Motherwell against Sligo a couple of seasons ago etc Not saying it's the only reason why this happens but I believe it's one of the main ones. Jesus Christ, not this pish getting trotted out again? who are Scottish teams playing that are well into their season in July? There are something like 11 nations in eufa that play a summer season, less than what there was 10- 15 years ago. Denmark , Russia, the Baltics and central Europe all switched to winter, Ireland is the exception going the other way. Other than Ireland, all the remainder are inside the artic circle. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizzo Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 Good wee buzz about rhe town today. Spoke to a few Belgians and they were all sound. Some arrived at 10 today after a 15 hour bus journey and are going back straight after the game. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizzo Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 1 minute ago, effeffsee_the2nd said: Jesus Christ, not this pish getting trotted out again? who are Scottish teams playing that are well into their season in July? There are something like 11 nations in eufa that play a summer season, less than what there was 10- 15 years ago. Denmark , Russia, the Baltics and central Europe all switched to winter, Ireland is the exception going the other way. Other than Ireland, all the remainder are inside the artic circle. Valur of Iceland. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
effeffsee_the2nd Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 1 minute ago, Pizzo said: Valur of Iceland. That's hardly alot tho is it? CCOM thread for this, Scottish teams typically do not play European qualifiers against teams halfway through their season, they may of course, but the chances are they won't 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevieKTID Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 6 minutes ago, Pizzo said: Good wee buzz about rhe town today. Spoke to a few Belgians and they were all sound. Some arrived at 10 today after a 15 hour bus journey and are going back straight after the game. Yeah I spoke to loads of them earlier and as you said all very friendly, quite a few of them wearing kilts. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludo*1 Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 How was Ben Chrisene for you lads? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Der Panzer Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 All the best tonight lads 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizzo Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 1 hour ago, Ludo*1 said: How was Ben Chrisene for you lads? Very decent. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FTOF Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 Good luck tonight and I hope you get a decent result. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coventry Saint Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 8 minutes ago, FTOF said: Good luck tonight and I hope you get a decent result. This. Good luck for tonight lads. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C4mmy31 Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 9 hours ago, effeffsee_the2nd said: That's hardly alot tho is it? CCOM thread for this, Scottish teams typically do not play European qualifiers against teams halfway through their season, they may of course, but the chances are they won't We're guaranteed to play a team half way throu their season if we drop into the conference league. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marco44 Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 Tomorrows friendly Annan Athletic v Kilmarnock has been cancelled 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aDONisSheep Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 Didn't get a chance before, but enjoy yer Euro adventures. I don't know anything about Cercle Brugge (or see the match last night) so I'm just going to say we'll done, and go get a result on their patch. All the best. aDONis [Insert - I remember when McInnes used to take us on Euro adventures smilie] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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