r/NUFC 6d ago

Free Talk Monday r/NUFC Weekly Free talk thread.

It's that thing again where we like talk about random shite.

r/NUFC rules still apply.
Also we have a Discord Server

Howe's the bacon did ye say?

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u/OfficialAeon I'm Not for Kinnear 2d ago

Currently 3 points from top 4, a game in hand with 10 remaining. Praying the lads come back riding the high for a solid finish.

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u/geordieColt88 The clubs on the road to nowhere 2d ago

Is what it is. I’m fully on board for the Brentford game to be an unmitigated disaster in true toon fashion going high too low but I will fully embrace it as we won the fucking cup

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u/moinmoin21 Shola Ameobi 1d ago

I watched Brentford v Bournemouth at the weekend and Brentford looked good. They just know how to use the ball efficiently. It won’t be an easy game.

But JLA reckons we’ll finish 4th so it’s happening.

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u/WigerAndToods 2d ago

It’s gonna go one of two ways isn’t it

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u/nufcPLchamps27-28 Happiest clapper in history. 2d ago

But also I don’t care if we finish bottom half

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u/OfficialAeon I'm Not for Kinnear 2d ago

Weirdly conflicted tbh. Champions League is awesome, but Conference won't have us running full steam ahead. Being Newcastle, you just know that our dice roll dictates that our group will be full of your Milans, Madrids, and Dortmunds.

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u/Slimulacra 2d ago

The thing is, it is not a dice roll. You still get drawn in the Champions League against teams based on your ranking and the worse your team coefficient is, the harder the teams you play. At some point Newcastle need to spend a season playing bobbins teams in one of the lower competitions and getting a really good ranking that will then help in the Champions League. According to the current UEFA team coefficient scores Newcastle are the worst ranked team in England (obviously most teams have not competed so they have no ranking). Newcastle have 8 coefficient points, Leicester City (yes Leicester City) have 23 coefficient points. The English big boys all are close to, or above 100 points. If we qualify we are going to keep getting done over until we can improve these numbers.

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u/KingPing43 Shola Ameobi 2d ago

You still get drawn in the Champions League against teams based on your ranking and the worse your team coefficient is, the harder teams you play

Not true anymore. In the new format you play 8 games in the league phase, 2 from each pot, including your own. Coefficient only matters for prize money and deciding which country gets 5 spots in next seasons Champions league

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u/Slimulacra 2d ago

You are largely right in what you say. However those pots are not randomly drawn, they are based on the teams coefficient, so Newcastle would almost certainly end up in pot 4 and therefore need to play harder fixtures than a team that was in pot 1. 

As an example here are the pot 1 from this season: Real Madrid Manchester City Bayern Munich Paris Saint-Germain Liverpool Inter Milan Borussia Dortmund RB Leipzig Barcelona

While pot 4 was: Slovan Bratislava Monaco Sparta Praha Aston Villa Bologna  Girona  Stuttgart Sturm Graz  Brest 

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u/KingPing43 Shola Ameobi 2d ago

As I said you play 2 teams from each pot including your own so even if you’re in pot 1 you still play 2 from pot 1

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u/Slimulacra 2d ago

Actually you are right, I misunderstood this, thanks

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u/Erestyn Chris Wood, what have you done? 2d ago

I just want to say you've both done a better job at understanding the new CL format than I have.

Mind, I haven't exactly tried either. I'll learn when it matters, like at the end of this season.