Will we qualify for the CL?

[Smithy]

Last season we won back-to-back league games (or better) 7 times across the season.  This season we've only done it 3 times.  If we're going to get into the top 5, that has to change.

We need to string a few wins together, to get away from this stop-start league season we're having, and there is no better opportunity to start getting back-to-back wins than tonight.

[Brazilian Villain]

This is the point of the season where my brain starts to implode with all the different possibilities. There's an argument that 5 points could be better than 6, if the 6 meant losing to Brighton. Or losing tonight, a draw against Brentford and beating Brighton might even be better than winning the first two, depending on other results.

I can see some logic to that but would be more on board if we were playing Brighton and Bournemouth next. As an aside, Palace are slight favourites tonight unlike the Brentford game where we're favourites.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Newcastle seem to have decent fixtures remaining. Although they are still in both domestic Cups, so hopefully take their eye off the ball a bit.

[eamonn]

When Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote "Nothing is so beautiful as Spring!", I'm pretty sure he was referring to the prospect of an away win at Crystal Palace which starts a 10 game winning run to properly start a season that, up to now, hasn't properly got going.

Any relation to Robert?

Oh Manley, you came and you gave without taking!

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Newcastle seem to have decent fixtures remaining. Although they are still in both domestic Cups, so hopefully take their eye off the ball a bit.

A bit? I'm hoping Liverpool beat them so convincingly in the League Cup Final they head into a tail spin as heads drop and are lucky to avoid relegation.

[AV82EC]

Newcastle seem to have decent fixtures remaining. Although they are still in both domestic Cups, so hopefully take their eye off the ball a bit.

A bit? I'm hoping Liverpool beat them so convincingly in the League Cup Final they head into a tail spin as heads drop and are lucky to avoid relegation.

I'm still convinced we're going to meet Newcastle in the Cup Final and it'll be a "Battle of the 60+ year hoodoos".

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Newcastle seem to have decent fixtures remaining. Although they are still in both domestic Cups, so hopefully take their eye off the ball a bit.

A bit? I'm hoping Liverpool beat them so convincingly in the League Cup Final they head into a tail spin as heads drop and are lucky to avoid relegation.

I'm still convinced we're going to meet Newcastle in the Cup Final and it'll be a "Battle of the 60+ year hoodoos".

Ha! I thought exactly that last season. It would be fun but I'd prefer the thin skinned, passive-aggressive horse punchers get knocked out it the next round (see post above). My prediction for this season is a repeat of the 1957 Cup Final.

[AV82EC]

Newcastle seem to have decent fixtures remaining. Although they are still in both domestic Cups, so hopefully take their eye off the ball a bit.

A bit? I'm hoping Liverpool beat them so convincingly in the League Cup Final they head into a tail spin as heads drop and are lucky to avoid relegation.

I'm still convinced we're going to meet Newcastle in the Cup Final and it'll be a "Battle of the 60+ year hoodoos".

Ha! I thought exactly that last season. It would be fun but I'd prefer the thin skinned, passive-aggressive horse punchers get knocked out it the next round (see post above). My prediction for this season is a repeat of the 1957 Cup Final.

I'd be happy with that. I think the only way we get rid of this hoodoo is revisiting the scene of the crime in 1957 against the same opponents and putting it to bed. I think they're the team who've knocked us out the most in the intervening 60 odd years so it would be nice to round it out like that.

[Brazilian Villain]

When Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote "Nothing is so beautiful as Spring!", I'm pretty sure he was referring to the prospect of an away win at Crystal Palace which starts a 10 game winning run to properly start a season that, up to now, hasn't properly got going.

Any relation to Robert?

Oh Manley, you came and you gave without taking!

We studied his poetry (Hopkins not Manilow) for the Leaving Cert. I don't recall enjoying it much.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Newcastle seem to have decent fixtures remaining. Although they are still in both domestic Cups, so hopefully take their eye off the ball a bit.

A bit? I'm hoping Liverpool beat them so convincingly in the League Cup Final they head into a tail spin as heads drop and are lucky to avoid relegation.

I'm still convinced we're going to meet Newcastle in the Cup Final and it'll be a "Battle of the 60+ year hoodoos".

I wouldn't mind that.

Just don't want the scummy Manc clubs in the Final again, hoovering up all the trophies.

[PaulWinch again]

Bye bye too 5. I don’t say it lightly back that second half was a disgrace of a performance.

[Rigadon]

Nah. 

[aj2k77]

No chance, rubbish.

[Smirker]

Blown it tonight.

[Pete3206]

Nope