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No I don't want to be in it, as thing stand. With Chelsea and Man United retooling and, Leicester and Wolves eleven as they are, I don't see us competing at all. I also don't agree that 'we can win it' we clearly have a divergence in our perception of our squad and management. One trophy under ENIC kind of indicates why I feel the way I do. Love optimist but a season of pragmatic building is in my honest opinion the best bet we have. Saturday Wednesday recovery periods the only hope we have of keeping our best eleven fit and taking enough points to return to the top table.
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They have easier fixtures than Leicester and are playing better than Leicester. Not sure why this is difficult to understand.We can't catch up to the Man Utd or Wolves teams that could be 5 points in front of us, but we can catch up to a Leicester team who could be 8 points clear of us?
Makes no sense.... We're supposedly not good enough to win the EL (and overcome the farmers that many ridicule it for comprising), but we are good enough to usurp 2 other members of the 'big six' + Wolves & Leicester and bag top 4 or better?
(Should we throw the domestic cups too? Afterall they'll require a cup run, possible 2 games a week scenarios and likely require us to beat at least 2 of the remainder of the top 8 teams.)
Even if you're right and we are good enough for a crack at the EPL; EL would be a great tool for developing our fringe players..... As it was last time(s) we were in it.
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If we are trying to build the team up wouldn't having Europa League games to get minutes for guys like Tanganga, Sessegnon, Parrott, Skipp, Cirkin, Gedson be a positive?
I agree that if we were already a strong side with a set rotation competing for top 4 or a title perhaps playing in the Europa League could be seen as taking away from that but with where our squad is and the needs we have having Europa as a chance to see what we have with some guys should be a good thing.
I agree that if we were already a strong side with a set rotation competing for top 4 or a title perhaps playing in the Europa League could be seen as taking away from that but with where our squad is and the needs we have having Europa as a chance to see what we have with some guys should be a good thing.
Not that I think we have any chance, but can I just say Leicester City hahahahaha folding like a pack of cards they are. Can’t stand them or their muggy supporters either
OK, let's assume the season finishes
Liverpool
City
Chelsea and United 3rd or 4th.
Here is the mini-league for 5th place.
It would be delicious if Arse-nal were to beat Leicester and Wolves. And then Chelsea to beat Wolves last game to present us with 5th and possible ECL next season.
Of course we need to win every game but if you can't dream....
Liverpool
City
Chelsea and United 3rd or 4th.
Here is the mini-league for 5th place.
| LEICESTER | WOLVES | SPURS | |
| Thu 2 July | |||
| SHEFF UTD | A | ||
| 04-Jul | 04-Jul | Mon 6 July | |
| PALACE (H) | ARSE-NAL(H) | EVERTON | H |
| 07-Jul | 08-Jul | Thu 9 July | |
| ARSE-NAL (A) | SHEFF U (A) | BOURNEMOUTH | A |
| 12-Jul | 12-Jul | Sun 12 July | |
| BOURNEMOUTH (A) | EVERTON (H) | ARSE-NAL | H |
| 15-Jul | 15-Jul | Wed 15 July | |
| SHEFF UNITED (H) | BURNLEY (A) | NEWCASTLE | A |
| 18-Jul | 18-Jul | Sat 18 July | |
| SPURS (A) | PALACE (H) | LEICESTER | H |
| 26-Jul | 26-Jul | Sun 26 July | |
| MAN UNITED (H) | CHELSEA (A) | PALACE | A |
It would be delicious if Arse-nal were to beat Leicester and Wolves. And then Chelsea to beat Wolves last game to present us with 5th and possible ECL next season.
Of course we need to win every game but if you can't dream....
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Leicester losing 2-0 at Goodison at half time. Like I said last night, they’ve been imploding since Christmas. If we beat them at home, we should finish ahead of them.
Getting ahead of one of Chavs, Man U and Wolves is the tricky bit. Chavs still have to play Wolves though and go to Anfield.
If we win our last 6 games, I’d be confident of Top 5, even 15 or 16 points. The problem is it’s nearly 18 months since we’ve strung 4 consecutive league wins together. 9 or 10 points from last 6 is more indicative of what we’ve been Accumulating points wise last 18 months.
Getting ahead of one of Chavs, Man U and Wolves is the tricky bit. Chavs still have to play Wolves though and go to Anfield.
If we win our last 6 games, I’d be confident of Top 5, even 15 or 16 points. The problem is it’s nearly 18 months since we’ve strung 4 consecutive league wins together. 9 or 10 points from last 6 is more indicative of what we’ve been Accumulating points wise last 18 months.
I've watched nearly every premier league game and while Woolwich and Wolves have been lucky in a lot of their results
United and Chelsea are just simply playing good football and look capable of winning every game.
Considering we were already behind them we simply cannot compete.
So unless we somehow scrape 5th which would require us to be basically spotless , it ain't gonna happen.
Transfers needed in summer + a pre-season and a fresh start should hopefully close the gap
United and Chelsea are just simply playing good football and look capable of winning every game.
Considering we were already behind them we simply cannot compete.
So unless we somehow scrape 5th which would require us to be basically spotless , it ain't gonna happen.
Transfers needed in summer + a pre-season and a fresh start should hopefully close the gap
I wonder how we would fare with just the EPL and domestic cups on our plate rather than any European football on top of that...
Cant imagine we'd be signing anyone if that was the case aside from loans or more N'whatevers.
Could be a riiiight pickle next season
Cant imagine we'd be signing anyone if that was the case aside from loans or more N'whatevers.
Could be a riiiight pickle next season
We were competing just fine against Man U and well on the way to collecting all three points until they were awarded a dodgy late penalty. They’ve steam rolled Sheffield United and Brighton since. They’ll have some tougher assignments ahead.
All we can do is focus on ourselves, winning at Bramall Lane tomorrow night.
I wouldn’t rule out the Spammers picking up something against Chavs tonight.
Very prescient on my part, if I may say so! Spammers beat Chavs 3-2.
They have had a hard time picking themselves up after a bad result this season, let’s hope this is the start of a bad run for them and an epic run by us.So we can catch Leicester but thinking about catching Chelsea, who couldn't score from open play and conceded 4 goals against West Ham are uncatchable.....
Am I right in thinking we are 6 points off them if we win tomorrow?