Think we're right to be optimistic and confident going in to this competition, but i've detected a bit of an arrogance from our fans lately how we're going to stroll through certain games. May just be the excitement of getting back in Europe, and I also feel confident of doing well, but we need to show the tournament respect as fans as well.
If not, it will only end in disappointment as we have all known before.
5-1 defeat in Bucharest, 5-0 and 3-0 on our trips to Lisbon. I know we are a completely different side now to the one we put out in Bucharest, and from the weakened team we put out at Benfica but there are still some very good and experienced teams that are going to be in the competition. Added to that there will be the CL dropouts.
Even a side like Celtic would be very difficult to get past. We are a far better team than them, but their atmosphere could play a part up there if we got them.
Can't wait for the draw now. My preference would be:
Pot 1: Inter/PSV/Lille/Copenhagen
Pot 2: PAOK/Celtic/Monchengladbach
Pot 4: Not arsed as all the teams look [Poor language removed] and the allocations are so low so will be hard to make that one.