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What time is the actual draw?

5 but prbs won't start til 15-30 mins into it after a highlights package
who's in the draw footage, Awards, How the draw is done, Introducing a legend to help etc

5pm I reckon

Anyone fancy a game of SHEEP?

Man City could get a group containing Barca, PSG and Dortmund

or Real, Juve and Dortmund.

PSG have been poo so far this year, I've seen their last two games - both goalless draws, with little in the way of exciting football to be honest.

Not always a good thing to get an easy draw.

Didn't someone draw Basle, Benfica and Galati last year

How are City 3rd favourites to win

George Weah full name..

George Tawlon Manneh Oppong Ousman Weah

George Weah! Good player, always looked up to his superior cousin Christopher Wreh

Shakhtar Senseless in Chelsea's group!

Man City guaranteed Milan or Madrid!!

MADRID v City

Man City and Real Madrid! Tasty...

Hopefully Dortmund and Juve will join them and City go out in the group stage.

Ruud and his schexchy footballsch

I hope City do get someone like Dortmund, PSG or Juve

It will be an amazing spectacle

Chelsea, Shakhtar and Juve...

Chelsea vs. Juventus will be a good game!

City,real,Ajax group of death

TheBrahmaBull wrote:City,real,Ajax group of death

Let's get Dortmund in there as well!

United have an easy looking group but then again you mucked it up last year...

Celtic get barce, that could be a huge loss for them!

United v Gala will be tasty

TheBrahmaBull wrote:United v Gala will be tasty

is that the team Gala Applé?

Dortmund, Ajax, Real Madrid, Man City. Can see them going out in the group stages

Happy with Chelsea's group!

City's group will be the one to watch though!

This is a true test for city, if they make it out of the group with ease then they are truly a great side.

I think City will make it. Ajax usually fall in the group, and Dortmund will be 3rd.

Shows what a mockery the CL draw is though, when the side who won the PL is in the 2nd seeds and German Champions are 4th seeds. Yet the teams 2nd, 3rd and 6th in England and 2nd and 3rd in Germany are higher!

Chelsea and Bayern were finalists in the CL last season. They should both be top seeds? Yes, they finished sixth in the league, but if the holders aren't top seeds then there's something seriously wrong? Man City have never done anything in Europe, and neither have Dortmund. If either of them actually get somewhere this season then their seeding next time will be higher.

I'll give you Chelsea and Bayern, but you can't honestly claim Arsenal deserve to be top seeds can you? To a lesser extent the same applies to Man U, but they do have a better claim than Arsenal.

Its the Champions League, yet the French champions are lower than the two sides they finished above! Its all about keeping the elite clubs happy.

You wouldn't possibly be suggesting the CL draw is in favour of the big teams, would you Marky?

Not really Marky, what better way to judge the teams in Europe than how they've performed previously in Europe. Why should performance in a different competition take preference to how they have performed in the competition they are then getting seedlings for?

Here's the method that is used and the current points total:

http://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/uefarankings/club/index.html

It should be based on what's happened in the Champions League predominantly, I completely agree. It's impossible to compare, say, Celtic, with Ajax. Both won their leagues. But how do you say one is better than the other without previous Champions League form?

The Special Juan wrote:You wouldn't possibly be suggesting the CL draw is in favour of the big teams, would you Marky?

Not the big teams, but the powerful teams. Like the sides in the elite Ghowevermanymembersitisnow, can you really say that if Arsenal weren't in that group they would still be top seeds?

And to answer Hero's point, league placing does come into it, as you could be a losing finalist one year, but due to a poor league showing not even be a part of the competition next year. Villareal were above Man City in seedings last year and went on to get relegated!

Carroll is in London to agree a season long loan to West Ham...

Long ball football is returning then for big sam

Michael Turner will make mince meat of him on September 15th at Carrow Road.

Also tonight is when Norwich draw Crawley in the cup!

Fernando wrote:Long ball football is returning then for big sam

I wasn't aware it had left to be fair Nando...

Olly, Carroll will batter your defenders with his gorgeous hair.

sodhat wrote:

Fernando wrote:Long ball football is returning then for big sam

I wasn't aware it had left to be fair Nando...

Olly, Carroll will batter your defenders with his gorgeous hair.

You mean "mane".

The Special Juan wrote:

sodhat wrote:

Fernando wrote:Long ball football is returning then for big sam

I wasn't aware it had left to be fair Nando...

Olly, Carroll will batter your defenders with his gorgeous hair.

You mean "mane".

Whatever you call it, it's glorious.

Michael Turner doesn't get battered. He just batters people even if it means taking people down for blatant penalties

Olly wrote:Michael Turner doesn't get battered. He just batters people even if it means taking people down for blatant penalties

Works for me. Although we don't have someone tricky enough to get taken down generally speaking.

Don't need to be tricky just walk towards him

I can't believe you're a fan of the ponytail soddy. It's horrific; Jesus Samaras next?

Olly wrote:Also tonight is when Norwich draw Crawley in the cup!

If that happens, I'll be gutted. My heart is set on Chelsea away

Marky wrote:My heart is set on Chelsea away

Yes please

Doncaster at home. We always get crap cup draws

Olly, get past them and with no real effort, Norwich are in the last 16 of a major cup competition. Don't complain.

Crawley Town v Swansea should be fun, hope they play the Spaniards as they won't like a cold tuesday night at our place!