LOI in Europe 2018

The short answers

1. No.  But you don't want a conversation, otherwise you might risk conversing with foreigners.

2.  It's a measurement of prestige.  Prestige has a high value among many, many LoI FCs.

F91 Diddelenge/ F91 Dudelange success in 2018 is indirect measurement in relation to UCD AFC of 2015.

I made a list of informal UEFA Club competition measuresments that I have been exposed to over the years.  With Lo Scienziato's 'c**k measuring' comment in mind I can show you if you like.

So you're basically saying that LOI fans look at how far the teams who knocked them out go in the tournament as a way to feel good about being knocked out if that team goes far, except you're choosing to say it in the most convoluted, ridiculous way possible. Are you typing a foreign language into google translate to get this rubbish? A legitimate measurement of what by the way?

Anyway, see Dudelange from Luxembourg, who UCD (and their apologists) knocked out a few years back, knocked out Legia and Cluj to get to the group stage 

the who has a bigger cock contest has begun..... 

The distance the direct victor over a LOI team goes into the tournament is a legitimate measurement.
 

This will almost certainly happen in some format, those lads are only concerned about selling TV rights, and the EL in its current format is probably too bloated for them to attract what Uefa would define as decent TV money. Tightening it up a bit and reducing the lower quality teams in it would probably help them from that point of view. 

As usual, it will be sold to the minnow associations as something positive, but it is hard to know whether it is or not. In one sense, it won't be a lot different for Irish teams who will still be playing lads from Luxembourg, Lithuania, Slovenia etc, but there will probably be reduced money for it, while the chances of repeating what Shamrock Rovers or Dundalk did in relatively recent years evaporate completely. 

The whole notion of cup football & being able to draw anyone, like Shams V Spurs or Dundalk V Zenit in the EL or Cork V Bayern back in the day will be a thing of the past. Given where our domestic game is at the moment, its probably not too much of a bad thing in general as our teams will play others on something of a level playing field, but in the bigger picture, now that the CL has effectively been ringfenced for the very elite clubs, it is mainly further ringfencing by shutting off entry to the tier below that. 

Presumably it will have a similar relationship with the EL as the EL does with CL, in that the winners get to play in the following years higher competition, but I don't think that will be a concern for followers of Irish LOI teams. 

They've already shut the door on the CL and now they'll do the same for the EL where it'll be Sassuolo Vs. Bournemouth instead of a semi-decent chance for domestic champions to compete at a higher level.

And then unfranked  by  Zenits’ 8-1 !!!