Will we qualify for the CL?

[Meanwood Villa]

Does anyone ever change all 11 players? Agreed it will be a  much weakened team but we chucked Man Citeh away last season so maybe we'll do the same.

[Somniloquism]

Last season we had several key players injured and the rest were running on fumes. I suspect Emery had realised that we just couldn’t get anything and took the risk. Totally different scenario for both us AND Citeh this season. They have shown they are beatable there .  AND we have all our players bar one to put out there.

[Meanwood Villa]

I was being slightly tongue in cheek but I think we will see a quite different lineup for that match compared to Newcastle and semi final

[usav]

I was being slightly tongue in cheek but I think we will see a quite different lineup for that match compared to Newcastle and semi final

There will be heavy rotation in the next 2 games - there has to be.

Appalling schedule for us, really unlucky.  We could be out of two competitions and off the pace for a CL spot.  Meanwhile, the French and other countries move games to help their teams.

[Dave]

As cd has alluded to though, where in the calendar would those postponed matches be moved to?

[London Villan]

We have underused quality players in the squad this time round though, Watkins, Malen, Garcia, Barkley, Ramsey, Onana all with limited match time since Christmas.

[Drummond]

Not if we make the FA Cup Final, no. It's probably best to play it as soon as possible just in case of bad weather, freak incident, royal death or whatever and potentially cause a massive backlog later on.

Thankfully HRH didn't have a heart-attack last night.

[Mellin]

We've moved the bar up again and I think we have to now, or we're going to lose momentum. After last night there will be quality players around Europe thinking that is a good place to play my football.

Somehow need to keep moving forward.

[cdbearsfan]

Not if we make the FA Cup Final, no. It's probably best to play it as soon as possible just in case of bad weather, freak incident, royal death or whatever and potentially cause a massive backlog later on.

Thankfully HRH didn't have a heart-attack last night.

That daft Wolves twat off Twitter?

[Drummond]

Not if we make the FA Cup Final, no. It's probably best to play it as soon as possible just in case of bad weather, freak incident, royal death or whatever and potentially cause a massive backlog later on.

Thankfully HRH didn't have a heart-attack last night.

That daft Wolves twat off Twitter?

Err, royal death,,,

[cdbearsfan]

Nah, he's Wolves, not Reading. I'm pretty sure.

[garyellis]

Fairly clear now we need to be above Forest and Chelsea for top 5.

[Brazilian Villain]

Fairly clear now we need to be above Forest and Chelsea for top 5.

I don't think we can look at it that way. We need to beat Newcastle, get within 2 points of them, and hope they come a cropper in their 4 games after Ipswich.

[pauliewalnuts]

We don't need to finish above Newcastle, we need to finish in the top five.

[Brazilian Villain]

We don't need to finish above Newcastle, we need to finish in the top five.

The problem is that if we don't, we'll need to finish above Forest or Citeh. If Spurs don't do us a favour next Monday, then Forest's run-in looks pretty decent with some winnable games. That would just leave Citeh then.