The Dilemma

[silhillvilla]

FA Cup is more important to me than my wife right now.

That's a given but we are talking important matters, league or cup.

[Tokyo Sexwhale]

Putting it another way, the "dilemma" only exists if you have some sort of fantastical situation, where you're offered the choice by the Genie of the Lamp, The Devil or a Far East betting syndicate.

The real dilemma would be:

If we are not mathematically safe before the Burnley game, should Sherwood rest our best players for the FA Cup?

[puppyfeat]

I'd love to win the cup but it would be no disgrace to lose to Arsenal, who'll be odds on to win/retain it. But staying up means so much more. Relegation will set the club's development back years - even if we bounce straight back (which wouldn't be easy) - and also affect the chances of attracting the kind of buyers we'd like to take over next. It would be very painful to miss out on the money from the new tv deal. Plus I think it's better for the club's status to be one of the founder members of the Premier League that's never been relegated.

[aj2k77]

FA Cup is more important to me than my wife right now.

That's a given but we are talking important matters, league or cup.

At a push, Cup, League, Wife.

[PaulWinch again]

I wouldn't enjoy winning the cup if we were relegated.

[Des Little]

I wouldn't enjoy winning the cup if we were relegated.

Same. We simply have to stay up.

[silhillvilla]

Going to wembley knowing you've been relegated would be far from ideal. We are not Wigan FFS !

[aj2k77]

I'd love to win the cup but it would be no disgrace to lose to Arsenal, who'll be odds on to win/retain it. But staying up means so much more. Relegation will set the club's development back years - even if we bounce straight back (which wouldn't be easy) - and also affect the chances of attracting the kind of buyers we'd like to take over next. It would be very painful to miss out on the money from the new tv deal. Plus I think it's better for the club's status to be one of the founder members of the Premier League that's never been relegated.

We are founder members of the football league and have been relegated. If they changed the set up of the league next season and the Premier League didn't exist anymore it wouldn't mean the past glories and failures are wiped from the records.

The down sides to being relegated would be money and prestige. The upside to winning the Fa Cup, well I can't put it in to words exactly but it is the most famous cup competition in the world. Staying up means financial security.

Winning the Cup means immortality for those involved and a lifetime memory for us fans. You'll never forget the day at Wembley when we took it to Arsenal, beat them on their own patch and lifted that fucking cup aloft for the first time in nearly 60years. In 15 years time you'll have forgotten a relegation, you won't have forgot the Fa Cup.

Sorry I'm in love with the cup this season, the magic is well and truly back for me.

[Diablo]

I wouldn't enjoy winning the cup if we were relegated.

If we do go down. Winning the cup would be a superb consolation! It would certainly pick me up over the closed season.

But any who, we're not going to get relegated (or so I tell myself...continually out loud)

[junxs]

I don't see how ones relevant to the other now. We are in the cup final, its only one game at the end of the season, it has no bearing on anything until the league season is over now. This question should've been asked at round 3 or 4.

Where's the option for staying up and winning the cup?

[silhillvilla]

FA Cup is more important to me than my wife right now.

That's a given but we are talking important matters, league or cup.

At a push, Cup, League, Wife.

At a push ?
Mate you need to get some focus into your life

[Dave P]

This question should've been asked at round 3 or 4.

It was, I just bumped it.

[silhillvilla]

If we get relegated I dont think I could even stomach another trip to wembley. 

[PaulWinch again]

I truly think relegation would kill the joy of the cup final. We need to get out of this position very quickly.