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Offline Risso

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Re: 2024
« Reply #45 on: January 02, 2024, 07:03:26 PM »
Winning an FA cup isn't going to attract better players to the club, finishing in the top 4 would though.  I'm way past 40 and as much as I'd love to see us lift the FA cup I find that I'm less excited by the competition as each year goes by. Domestic cups have given way to the European ones.  That's the way it is now.

Imagine if we win win the FA Cup AND finish top 4 though. It doesn't have to be one or the other.

Offline Steve67

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Re: 2024
« Reply #46 on: January 02, 2024, 07:35:39 PM »
Winning an FA cup isn't going to attract better players to the club, finishing in the top 4 would though.  I'm way past 40 and as much as I'd love to see us lift the FA cup I find that I'm less excited by the competition as each year goes by. Domestic cups have given way to the European ones.  That's the way it is now.

Imagine if we win win the FA Cup AND finish top 4 though. It doesn't have to be one or the other.

Can I be greedy and throw the Conference Cup in there too?

Offline Proposition Joe

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Re: 2024
« Reply #47 on: January 02, 2024, 07:41:17 PM »
When a kid, I used to play a lot of the game 'Risk' and soon learnt that if you 'spread to thinly across the board' you can end up winning feck all. 

It didn't work for Hitler either.

Haha, no it didn't. In Risk I like to turtle and then go on a rampage, not sure how that translates to football though.

Offline Lastfootstamper

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Re: 2024
« Reply #48 on: January 02, 2024, 07:42:51 PM »
Go for everything and see what happens. I'm not going to be around forever, so can we hurry up and win some stuff, please.

Online PaulWinch again

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Re: 2024
« Reply #49 on: January 02, 2024, 07:43:10 PM »
I’d like to see us win it, but not an either or for me. The two finals I’ve seen us in we’ve been poor. Top 4 and win it.

Offline Proposition Joe

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Re: 2024
« Reply #50 on: January 02, 2024, 07:44:48 PM »
I’d like to see us win it, but not an either or for me. The two finals I’ve seen us in we’ve been poor. Top 4 and win it.

Top 4 and FA Cup will do very, very nicely thank you.

Offline jon collett

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Re: 2024
« Reply #51 on: January 03, 2024, 10:32:59 AM »
We got close to the double in 1990!

Online eamonn

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Re: 2024
« Reply #52 on: January 03, 2024, 11:28:31 AM »
Winning an FA cup isn't going to attract better players to the club, finishing in the top 4 would though.  I'm way past 40 and as much as I'd love to see us lift the FA cup I find that I'm less excited by the competition as each year goes by. Domestic cups have given way to the European ones.  That's the way it is now.

Imagine if we win win the FA Cup AND finish top 4 though. It doesn't have to be one or the other.

Can I be greedy and throw the Conference Cup in there too?

And the Birmingham Senior Cup that Dave Cooper covets.

Offline RamboandBruno

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Re: 2024
« Reply #53 on: January 03, 2024, 10:25:23 PM »
Winning an FA cup isn't going to attract better players to the club, finishing in the top 4 would though.  I'm way past 40 and as much as I'd love to see us lift the FA cup I find that I'm less excited by the competition as each year goes by. Domestic cups have given way to the European ones.  That's the way it is now.
Winning it started this whole Man City bandwagon off, so as well as the nostalgia for some of us oldies, it could also be the start of something

 


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