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Offline cdbearsfan

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #3600 on: February 24, 2026, 05:55:43 PM »
They're only +1 in terms of points gained after 85 minutes. We are +5.

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #3601 on: February 24, 2026, 06:20:13 PM »
Well if you contrived your predictions to think of almost the worse case scenario, then its really easy to see why we'd be 6th in the next 3 games. As all of a sudden we're apparently awful, so awful a point is the limit of our ambitions from Wolves away and Chelsea at home.

Mentally weak.

You know we're not the players, right? The fans can be as mentally weak as they like if the team's good (cf. all the teams that win things and their shitty fans).

You can be as mentally strong as you like (and I have no doubt you are) but it means fuck all if Watkins tries to control a long ball on his left tibia.

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #3602 on: February 24, 2026, 06:29:48 PM »
Chelsea have a dificult list of fixtures, we will finish above them.

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #3603 on: February 24, 2026, 07:19:09 PM »
Sounds selfish but I'd be disappointed if we didn't finish third. We've been there for so long.

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #3604 on: February 24, 2026, 08:28:02 PM »
Well if you contrived your predictions to think of almost the worse case scenario, then its really easy to see why we'd be 6th in the next 3 games. As all of a sudden we're apparently awful, so awful a point is the limit of our ambitions from Wolves away and Chelsea at home.

Mentally weak.

You know we're not the players, right? The fans can be as mentally weak as they like if the team's good (cf. all the teams that win things and their shitty fans).

You can be as mentally strong as you like (and I have no doubt you are) but it means fuck all if Watkins tries to control a long ball on his left tibia.

Now you come to mention it, I had been wondering why the Villa had not paid me in a while.

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #3605 on: February 24, 2026, 08:48:35 PM »
Sounds selfish but I'd be disappointed if we didn't finish third. We've been there for so long.

Doesn’t sound particularly selfish, I imagine everyone on here wants that.

Offline Richard E

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #3606 on: February 24, 2026, 08:54:09 PM »
Sounds selfish but I'd be disappointed if we didn't finish third. We've been there for so long.

Even if we finish second? Or first?

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #3607 on: February 24, 2026, 10:59:39 PM »
The mood music isn't brilliant.

But it looks to me like we're unbeaten in 3 in the league, 5 points from 9. Kind of form that would be comfortably enough to get us home.

We'll be competitive in our big head to heads - we always are - against Chelsea, United, Liverpool, City. There's at least one win in there, if not a couple.




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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #3608 on: February 24, 2026, 11:06:07 PM »
I think we'll do it, but only just.

After last year, and with pretty much our entire midfield currently missing, 'only just' would be good enough.

Just frustrating that barring injuries and one almighty dropped bollock at Old Trafford, we'd be looking at our third consecutive season of CL qualification.

 


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