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Offline Sexual Ealing

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #2640 on: May 24, 2025, 01:50:28 PM »
The gods are watching Dave.

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #2641 on: May 24, 2025, 02:00:37 PM »
I feel like we are fighting a two person war to keep all the heretics on here in line, at times.

Offline Sexual Ealing

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #2642 on: May 24, 2025, 02:02:06 PM »
We’ll be rewarded in the afterlife mate. Literal nothingness means nothing can go wrong.

Offline Brazilian Villain

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #2643 on: May 24, 2025, 02:12:05 PM »
I reckon, if we end the season with a solid 69, there will be satisfaction all round.

If we win and don't qualify, it'll be a hard one to swallow.

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #2644 on: May 24, 2025, 02:18:27 PM »
It'll be a massive blow if we don't do it.

Offline Somniloquism

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #2645 on: May 24, 2025, 02:42:57 PM »
Not sure what the pun is about. Anyone want to spit it out?

Offline curiousorange

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #2646 on: May 24, 2025, 03:07:57 PM »
Stop making a meal of it.

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #2647 on: May 24, 2025, 03:10:35 PM »
ManU call us Aston Vanilla as they always lick us.

Offline Monty

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #2648 on: May 24, 2025, 03:11:56 PM »
This thread sucks. I'm just hoping Forest and Chelsea fuck each other.

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #2649 on: May 24, 2025, 03:33:00 PM »
I think the PL has been weaker this season than last, this does not undermine the impact that CL football has had on our league form.
We could and should have more point than we have right now though.
The league has been weaker due to how dire the bottom 3 are and the immense fall off of clubs like Spurz and ManUre

Countered by the improvement of Newcastle and Chelsea.
Arsenal and Citeh have gone backwards.
Overall i think the standard has gone down.
Liverpool won it at a canter.

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #2650 on: May 24, 2025, 03:40:45 PM »
It's more a case of the rest of the league improves each year imo. The PL is far far stronger than any other league. Look at ManU, as funny as it is if you stuck them in any other league there's no chance they'd be at the arse end. And it's why promoted side struggle more than ever, the PL is an obscene money machine that only a small number of clubs outside of it can compete with.

Offline eamonn

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #2651 on: May 24, 2025, 04:20:47 PM »
Yeah - Brentford, Brighton, Bournemouth, Fulham and Palace are the least "mid-table fodder" I can remember the PL having. They all have really good players and top-class managers.

Offline VillaTim

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #2652 on: May 24, 2025, 04:47:53 PM »
I think the PL has been weaker this season than last, this does not undermine the impact that CL football has had on our league form.
We could and should have more point than we have right now though.
The league has been weaker due to how dire the bottom 3 are and the immense fall off of clubs like Spurz and ManUre

Countered by the improvement of Newcastle and Chelsea.
Arsenal and Citeh have gone backwards.
Overall i think the standard has gone down.
Liverpool won it at a canter.
Yep, and it's not even one of Liverpool's better teams of recent years

Offline ez

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #2653 on: May 24, 2025, 04:55:04 PM »
If we don't get champions league there is some level of consolation in being in the europa league and reinforcing our place as a top six club. Seventh place would be disappointing though.

Offline eamonn

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #2654 on: May 24, 2025, 06:29:11 PM »
'tanian has probably crunched the numbers on this - are we more likely to finish 6th or 7th tomorrow?

 


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