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Offline ChicagoLion

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #150 on: December 30, 2024, 02:19:48 PM »
We are going to need around 40 points from 20 games.  Two points a game is going to be a very big ask.
Unless there is fundamental change to the way we are playing I don’t see it. This does not look like a team that can keep opposing teams from scoring and we are not prolific at the other end either.

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #151 on: December 30, 2024, 02:35:09 PM »
We are going to need around 40 points from 20 games.  Two points a game is going to be a very big ask.
Unless there is fundamental change to the way we are playing I don’t see it. This does not look like a team that can keep opposing teams from scoring and we are not prolific at the other end either.

I'm not sure the "we need forty points / two points per game" thing is necessarily true though. Leicester finished fifth with 62 points, and this season feels more than ever that most of the top ten teams are going to be very bunched up.

Or in other words, if we need to be getting two points per game to finish fifth then so do all those other teams who also aren't doing that at the moment.

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #152 on: December 30, 2024, 02:36:57 PM »
Another way of looking at it, if there are ten teams competing for one or two places, at least one or two of them are bound to go on a lengthy winning run. I wouldn't expect the required points total to be much lower for finishing fifth than previous seasons.

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #153 on: December 30, 2024, 03:06:13 PM »
Another way of looking at it, if there are ten teams competing for one or two places, at least one or two of them are bound to go on a lengthy winning run. I wouldn't expect the required points total to be much lower for finishing fifth than previous seasons.

But that required points total is anywhere from 62 to 75 (in the last fifteen years or so, I couldn't be bothered to go back any further). Which is quite a big range of what the team finishing fifth needs to do.

Offline kippaxvilla2

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #154 on: December 30, 2024, 08:01:52 PM »
No.

Offline Demitri_C

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #155 on: December 30, 2024, 08:14:14 PM »
Lock the thread =[

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #156 on: December 30, 2024, 08:26:33 PM »

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #157 on: December 30, 2024, 08:46:47 PM »

Offline Olneythelonely

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #158 on: December 30, 2024, 08:53:21 PM »
Lock the thread =[

Why?

Because he wets his pants at the first sign of adversity?

Offline Demitri_C

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #159 on: December 30, 2024, 08:57:16 PM »
Lock the thread =[

Why?

Because he wets his pants at the first sign of adversity?

You crying again

Someone get him a tissue

Offline Olneythelonely

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #160 on: December 30, 2024, 08:59:16 PM »
Lock the thread =[

Why?

Because he wets his pants at the first sign of adversity?

You crying again

Someone get him a tissue

Ha. You’re the one that wants to close the thread, you wally.

Offline Smirker

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #161 on: December 30, 2024, 09:08:34 PM »
70 points should be enough for the CL and that's assuming 5th doesn't qualify for it.

To finish with 70 we need to be two or three wins better in the second half of the season. Easily doable.

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #162 on: December 30, 2024, 09:52:47 PM »
No

Offline Demitri_C

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #163 on: December 30, 2024, 09:52:59 PM »
Lock the thread =[

Why?

Because he wets his pants at the first sign of adversity?

You crying again

Someone get him a tissue

Ha. You’re the one that wants to close the thread, you wally.

You heard  of tongue and cheek you lemon 😂

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #164 on: December 30, 2024, 09:54:08 PM »
You heard  of tongue and cheek

Don't think anyone has ever heard of that.

 


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