jamesk

Maybe you lads should start you own thread in the off topic section.

yeah...a lot of talk, but no results. not since the 60s anyway.

anyway, let's not get mad at each other. we'll be happy to go to Lisbon, to enjoy the good weather, food and hopefully a good result. At home, we should win them all..

Those will actually come in handy after the match. There will be alot of tears to wipe... Seriously you guys dont expect this will be a walk in the park?

We are clearly one of the top 5 teams in this competition. We can clearly win this thing, if you really expect to win in Lisbon, go watch the game Benfica 4 - 0 Portsmouth.

 

We beat the current cup holders Shaktar Donetsk by 2-0 in one of the first games of the pre-season. They had far more preparation than we did, we won 4 pre-season tournaments, including Ajax's tournament. We beat AC Milan for the Eusebio Cup.

 

You people need to wake up...

 

Anyway I hope we can enjoy great football when we meet on the pitch, and may the best win.

I'm sure most Evertonians are happy with this draw. Probably it would be better to play against teams from other countries but hey, it's not like we're playing Porto or Olympiacos. We're playing benfica and AEK. oh well...that's why we play this competition and not the Champions League, i suppose...

oh dear, oh dear, why are you talking about friendlies? they don't mean anything. i just did some last year checking and I'm sure you want to do better than last year. It would be difficult, as you might agree. When the time comes, I'm sure we will be able to do well

And lots of nice handkerchief....

yeah! :-) that too. we'll exchange with our nice souvenirs courtersy of Luis Saha...just to name one ;-)

It's their offense you need to worry about...

Cardozo, Saviola, Aimar, if they're on a good day, they can be pretty mean to defenders...

oh dear... can you give us some (official game) references on that mighty power?

I fear much more our trip to Athens in that respect...

Group H

Steaua Bucarest

Fenerbahce

Twente

Sheriff Tiraspol

 

Would have liked to be in this group instead of Fenerbahce... But all in all, not a bad draw. One of the best groups i think. Big hopes of going through to the next round.

sure, it's the best one. but ours is accessible. it's nice to be able to visit cities like athens and lisbon...these cities have no strong football, but i'm sure we'll find good weather, good food & drinkin' :-)

Not so bad a draw I suppose, but could still be some tricky games. Does anyone know who we'll be playing first, and whether it'll be home or away?

actually it's a good draw.

benfica was a big team back in my grandfather's days, not anymore. don't like to play greek teams, but this one should be ok. bate borisov? could be worse!

it's a good draw and we should target the top spot in our group.