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1 hour ago, matty said:

Those rounds are part of the actual tournament

Not really. They are qualifiers. Has Canada played in the actual World Cup tournament if we played in qualifiers? It depends on how technical you want to get

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52 minutes ago, canta15 said:

Not really. They are qualifiers. Has Canada played in the actual World Cup tournament if we played in qualifiers? It depends on how technical you want to get

It very much is about how technical you want to get. I get the logic but it's a part of the tournament and even as a qualifier it's something you have to earn the right to be in. While it might be a nothing thing in the scope of EPL it's massive for say a team in say Poland to reach that stage. Let's be polite (aka Canadian ;) ) and say it is part even if it's a minor thing.

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55 minutes ago, Vince193 said:

The tournament starts proper at the group stage.

According to who? This is what uefa have to say. 

"The 2017/18 UEFA Europa League began with the draw for the first and second qualifying rounds on 19 June 2017 and ends with the final at Stade de Lyon on Wednesday 16 May 2018."

http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/news/newsid=2476574.html

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Sorry don't mean to pile in, but for this tournament you qualify by where you finish in your league the previous season. That is the qualifying for the tournament. The Europa League tournament proper has various stages that have different names - the qualifying rounds get you to a playoff round, which gets you to the group stage, which gets you to the knockout round, which gets you to the final - all of that is the tournament. None of it is qualifying for the tournament.

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The Europa League is a six round competition (ok well, four rounds, a stage and a phase!)

Teams that finish lower in their league table don't have to qualify for the Europa League. Your final league position IS the qualifying. Teams that finish lower begin at a different stage of the tournament. The only thing they are "qualifying" for is moving on/advancing to the next round. At no point are teams not in the Europa League or at any point competing to get into the tournament.

I don't disagree that the competition is easier in the earlier rounds (as they are easier in the group stage compared to the knockout phase), but to say Henry didn't play in a Europa League fixture and was just in a qualifying match is incorrect. Just say he didn't play in the group stage lol. Or if you think the Europa League starts at the group stage (which it does not) just say it only gets good at the group stage!

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1 hour ago, matty said:

The remains of the Cup Winners' Cup, UEFA Cup, Intertoto Cup and something else I'm sure.

SIDE NOTE: They should totally bring back the Intertoto Cup so Europa looks better

then it makes interoto the new europa league

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  • 2 weeks later...

So has anybody heard anything about Henry? He isn't in the line up for today's League Cup match. i thought this would be the one chance he would get at least to see what the West Ham bench looked like. It is almost like he has vanished off the face of the earth. He can't get playing time, isn't loaned out. . . sad really.

:(

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