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A lot of this is down to City being good in the second half IMO. We’ll need to be on it on Wednesday. And I can tell I’m going to really hate Palace when we play them. Poor challenges, little kicks, complaining. Step up Big Joe.

Yes, so basically Villa for CL. And Man United / Spurs for Europa.

No, can be 7. Five from league and two European winners.

Wouldn't really work with the UEFA rules anyway.

Rough timeframes. Since Jan 18: Bournemouth (h) - thoroughly dismantled Southampton (a) - good; worst team in the league Fulham (h) - awful second half City (a) - no good Forest (h) - excellent most of first half; poor-ish second half Liverpool (a) - lackluster (for a legitimate reason) West Ham (a) - solid Brentford (h) - ok, not great Leicester (a) - good but they are awful We've gotten enough results to look good in the form table, but the performances haven't been as good as the nine games (all comps) before that. But five of those, including three of the defeats, are firmly in LC excuse territory so you can draw lots of conclusions. If there's one thing worrying me it's that we haven't played a good 90 minutes at home in the league in almost two months. If we can show that next week then I'll be wondering whether we can get 3rd more than if we'll get CL.

Yes, that's the game that was moved for the cup final. 15 games includes our genuinely excellent form in Dec/Jan. I think it's fair to say we haven't looked quite as convincing in Feb/Mar but you can also point to the League Cup as the reason.

For me it's still just fun to look at all the what-ifs as we compete much higher up the table. The only thing that adds stress is the fact that the difference between 5th and 6th could be a true crossroads for the near term future of the club.

The fact it's our third game in a week and we actually get one less day of rest/prep than them is what worries me. After that though we have just one game a week for the rest of the season. I think Eddie will get the players up for a huge CL qualification week.

This is the thing the average big 6 supporter either misses or chooses to ignore. They tie the progress that's been made directly to PSR limits being pushed. Ultimately it doesn't matter if they don't give Howe or Emery proper credit, but I find it infuriating.

They’d be in quite the relegation battle at the moment.

I hope this is as fun as I'm imagining it could be.

"Now that we've won a trophy I don't even care what happens the rest of this season." Three weeks later up 3-0 away: "UNACCEPTABLE SLOP"

Would really like us to put up 4 or 5 here. It's what we would have done a couple years ago. This season it seems as likely we end up holding on 2-1.

Think he's been decent honestly.