- Mar 22, 2011
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Enjoyed reading the article and indeed the replies, some very good points made.
For my tuppence worth, I would definitely prefer 5th to 6th. We should always aspire to finish as high as we can no matter what, why else compete ?
Also I grew up in Ireland with the place awash with Liverpool fans, during a time when they won everything so if we have a chance to finish above them for a second season in a row then lets bloody grab it.
On the Europa league thing, why not ?. Not sure if we have to pre qualify but if we do its the same as champs league, the groups have 4 teams in each so thats 6 games, same as champs lge, there is an extra round in the knockout stages but apart from that there isn't much difference in terms of games played.
It is a bit of a pain playing Thursday and Sunday but we can give some game time to our squad players and maybe blood some youngsters. The quality of opposition isn't as good so there isn't as much distraction, it can be taken as seriously as we want, would love to win it by the way.
One last point to Frosteye... love the optimism and while I think its a bit too much for us you are actually quite right. This weekend will tell a lot, if we win and City don't take max points from Everton, never easy, and we follow it up with a win at Eastlands then there may only be a point or two between us with two games to go. A lot of ifs and buts I know, then again its not that far fetched.
Lets hope the lads give it everything and we'll see where we end up.
For my tuppence worth, I would definitely prefer 5th to 6th. We should always aspire to finish as high as we can no matter what, why else compete ?
Also I grew up in Ireland with the place awash with Liverpool fans, during a time when they won everything so if we have a chance to finish above them for a second season in a row then lets bloody grab it.
On the Europa league thing, why not ?. Not sure if we have to pre qualify but if we do its the same as champs league, the groups have 4 teams in each so thats 6 games, same as champs lge, there is an extra round in the knockout stages but apart from that there isn't much difference in terms of games played.
It is a bit of a pain playing Thursday and Sunday but we can give some game time to our squad players and maybe blood some youngsters. The quality of opposition isn't as good so there isn't as much distraction, it can be taken as seriously as we want, would love to win it by the way.
One last point to Frosteye... love the optimism and while I think its a bit too much for us you are actually quite right. This weekend will tell a lot, if we win and City don't take max points from Everton, never easy, and we follow it up with a win at Eastlands then there may only be a point or two between us with two games to go. A lot of ifs and buts I know, then again its not that far fetched.
Lets hope the lads give it everything and we'll see where we end up.