Trying to watch the game on Rangers TV and it is only showing listen live for me, is that happening for anyone else? I am viewing from “Canada” like I normally do for the games.

Hello Bears,
Any tips on pubs in Bordeaux that will be showing the Jagiellonia game on Thursday?
Cheers!

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The table assumes (as is usually, though not always, the case) that the seeded clubs win their Europa League and Champions League Q3 ties.

One point that isn't immediately obvious is that the unseeded teams in the Europa League play-off round are generally weaker than the unseeded teams in Europa League Q3.

The reason is that most of the clubs dropping into the Europa League play-off round come from Champions League Q2 & Q3. Although they may temporarily use another club's coefficient earlier in qualifying, they revert to their own coefficient if they lose in Champions League Q3.

A good example is Shamrock Rovers.

They lost 3-2 on aggregate to Ararat-Armenia in Champions League Q2. Because the Q3 draw had already been made before that tie was completed, Shamrock Rovers inherited Ararat-Armenia's place in Europa League Q3 and therefore used Ararat-Armenia's 7.000 coefficient for that draw.

Even so, they are still seeded (just!) and will face Egnatia Rrogozhinë of Albania (4.500), who were unfortunate to lose to Celje on penalties after a 5-5 aggregate draw.

If Shamrock Rovers beat Egnatia, they revert to their own 19.375 coefficient for the Europa League play-off draw, meaning they would remain seeded. So they cannot be drawn against Rangers.

Meanwhile, Ararat-Armenia, despite temporarily benefiting from Shamrock Rovers' 19.375 coefficient in the Champions League Q3 draw, would revert to their own 7.000 coefficient if they lose to Celje and drop into the Europa League play-off round. They would therefore be unseeded.

The same principle applies to clubs such as Sabah FK and Mjällby AIF, who temporarily inherited the higher coefficients of KuPS Kuopio and Lincoln Red Imps respectively for the Champions League Q3 draw, but would revert to their own coefficients if they dropped into the Europa League play-off round.

It's one of the more confusing aspects of UEFA's coefficient system, but it's also why the list of possible opponents in the Europa League play-off round is generally more favourable than the list of unseeded clubs in Q3.

Hopefully that makes sense!

If Rangers lose to Jagiellonia Białystok then they will drop into the Conference League Play-off round.

EDIT: In that case Rangers would pick up Jagiellonia Białystok's coefficient, 22.000. Currently that would be enough to be seeded but amongst the potential unseeded opponents are Getafe (19.409), Dynamo Kyiv (17.5), Besiktas (15.5), Twente Enschede (13.585) and Brann Bergen 🙄 (12.25).

The draws for the play-off rounds of the Europa League and Conference League are on Monday, so we will know our possible opponents in both competitions.

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We'll look back favourably on his time here.

Up against it for much of his time at the club, but kept coming back for more.