If we finish in the CL places, we should make a donation to UEFA for booting us out of that third rate car crash of a cup
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It's a poster child for why if you qualify for the EL you build a squad capable of it, West Ham have 0 natural centre forwards in the entire team, they weren't built for this at all. Leicester were rubbish all season long and their best form was actually pretty recent, don't think it's a case of them prioritising the cup at all.
What PL position do you think we would be in if we were still in the combined counties conference trophy?
No idea.
I think we'd have won it under Conte if we played strong sides though, and since we look likely to only get EL football anyway, winning the conference league achieves that but also ends our trophy drought.
Tier below the Audi cup
You get EL for it and there's been some very decent teams in the latter stages, teams like Roma who are a big club yet going all out for it. It's not a tournament I was excited to be involved in, but once you are it's a chance to get your hands on silverware.
People don’t pay £1.5K for a ST to scuttle around in this pissfest
I’m surprised at Leicester this season, but West Ham are where they should be in the league. They aren’t a particularly good team outside of set pieces. Personally I’m desperate for Spurs to win any trophy, so I wanted us to have continued in the ECL. Obviously getting chucked out has benefited our top 4 push but coming 5th would be a lot worse than 7th/8th and winning ECL (Europa football by winning it plus a trophy).
Neither are we and rarely have when we've been in it over the last 20 years. It's a long old slog that takes its toll
“IF”
I would hope we would play a rotated side for the earlier stages, if they weren’t good enough then so be it. Please don’t compare us to West Ham, our first 11, squad and manager are far superior to them. Leicester is a valid point. I also never mentioned finish 5th if we were in the latter stages of ECL, I mentioned 5th as that’s where I predict we finish this season.
We’ve got more chance of winning the CL than Europa League too. We’ve never done well in the Ropey, even when we’ve had a stellar side we underperformed and drifted out of it
It’s made for second tier shit like Mark Nobile and co
Yet we managed 4th and a CL final.
Deuterz
(ref our convo in this thread last night about Trophies) - See; the above is the kind of wanky attitude that these bitter fuckers truly have about these trophies and our much condemned drout....Basically only winning the EPL or CL would stop the pissing and moaning... For a few weeks at least.... Until Man City pip us to a player we wanted and then the tears would begin rolling all over again.
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Basically only winning the EPL or CL would stop the pissing and moaning... For a few weeks at least.... Until Man City pip us to a player we wanted and then the tears would begin rolling all over again.
Yeah that's never been my position. It's why I'm relatively calm about the end of this season. If we qualify for CL great, unexpected and helps us in the market, if we don't then cool, let's have a real go at the Europa League as one of the favourites.
It's a great trophy, those big European nights are still the best feeling in football. Yeah the CL is bigger but its monopolised by the same handful of ultra strong/wealthy teams and despite our near miracle, I don't expect us to win it ever.
I'd do back-flips over an EL win...... I'd have happily celebrated an ECL trophy too.
On a similar front; European qualification is always better than no Europe.
......I still vividly remember how good it felt to finally be back under Big Martin.
Yeah the ECL would definitely register less but still, the opportunity to knock out Jose’s Roma for example? Brilliant. Would’ve been awesome.
We’re not above these kind of trophies, the big ones are hoovered up, yes long term the aim should be to get as close as we can to that but meanwhile let’s get some in the cabinet and give the fans some memories.
Better to be lucky than good.As we have seen the last few games they don´t have to be close to good. The F.A. the PL, and Sky will do everything in their power to help them!
Let#s hope this has a "Manager of the Month effect"
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this may be 5th best season ever . not like a great history of success. The last 15 years have been excellent compared to what came before