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Assuming 5th place is CL this year (I'm not entirely sure how likely this is at the moment, as I'll be honest I don't quite understand how that stuff works), I think we have a fair chance even with our recent disappointment in form. I think we will lose to L pool, and I personally think we will lose to Arsenal away as well as I think they will be out for blood this time. With that said, I think we need the following to secure 5th place: Get 2 wins out of Vila away, Everton at home, West ham away, and Brighton away. None of those will be easy games though, we struggle against Brighton and West ham home or away, we struggle to Villa away (thrash them at home but this is away), and we just have weird luck against Everton. Still I think winning half of these and losing the other half is doable. Get draws from Chelsea at home, and Manu at home. Some will say that we can easily win at least one of these (probs man u), and maybe they are right but I still think these will be tough games and if we get a win from either of these then all the better. Beat Leicester away, Palace at home, Ipswich at home, and Brentford at home. All games we should in theory be able to win. That would have us ending the league on 64 points which I think will be enough for 5th this season. It would have gotten us 5th last season, and is around double the number of points that got us 5th at the end of the first half of the season.

Honestly arsenal aside we've been pretty dire for quite a few games now. Not that I expected to win this one but make them work for it at least. All the people who think we've got a good chance against Liverpool in the final are in for a shock unfortunately

If Villa beats city...we might just go on to win this.

Fuck man just thought, now I'm gonna have to cheer for spurs tomorrow.

Does Bruno getting a yellow mean he might miss the final or does it need to be a red?

Here if they somehow manage to turn this around we'll be the laughing stock of football fans all around the world

Crazy how I still feel nervous about this. Maybe I'm just a pessimist.

Second screenshot has to be a bot surely, it just keeps repeating the same thing again and again. Dunno about the first. I'm not sure what Instagram is like, but on Facebook I've reported blatantly racist language before and they haven't done a single think about it.

The language is so odd it makes me think it's bots but then honestly most bots these days are more subtle than that. Really awful stuff I hope the true fans can show him support.

Remember when everyone was saying dubravka is better than Pope?

Just in terms of managers within my time I'd say Bobby Robson would remain the GOAT at least for me, then followed by howe and then Keegan (special shout out to benitez as well but not too 3)

Does anyone remember how low we were before we went on this win streak? Seem to recall being like 12th or something like that.

It does being an interesting point though, without the huge overseas fan bases that London and Manchester clubs have (a large part of which is probably down to the location of those clubs) can we ever have the finances to compete even if we do get another stadium? I'd have thought that most revenue comes from sponsorship deals but the new rules have stopped us there.

London has a lot of tourists from around the world who go on holiday to the UK (but only see London) and want to see a football match. It's one of the major advantages London clubs have.

One think that I will say is that we have some tough away games in the second half of the season. City away, Villa away, Brighton away (we never win against Brighton away), Liverpool away, and arsenal away. That's 5 games right there I genuinely can't see us winning.

I'm at the weirdly optimistic stage now where I think its unlikely we don't get top 6 this season. Question is whether we can get top 5 or even top 4 and well I guess we will see as its definitely possible.

I think people overate just how much players care about playing in the CL. Don't get me wrong, some players absolutely do want to play for a team like Real Madrid (if they think they'll actually be played) where they have a genuinely good chance of actually winning the CL and not just participating, but just getting to play in the CL itself isn't the draw people think it is. What I will say though is that if people overrate how much players care about CL football, they underated how much players in today's game care about having a very high salary and this is where I'm worried. We can't really pay isak the same amount that other clubs could due to FFP. I will also say, players want to be in a team where they are doing well as this directly affects their value and how much media attention they get. Thankfully isak is doing well with us at the moment so that's less of an issue.

Fair to see we're gonna have a really hard time catching forest up.

Nee to be wary on the counters if we over commit.

Trips isn't the player he used to be but I reckon we're way tighter defensively with him and his leadership skills.

We should have a pretty tough run after Ipswich (which itself won't be easy as it's away). Villa, man u (away) spurs (away) and then either spurs, Liverpool, man u, or arsenal in the semis. I just really hope that this brutal run doesn't kill our newly found confidence if we have a few poor results in a row.

Am I being overly negative by saying that without Bruno we probably have no chance against any of the remaining sides?

We genuinely aren't playing that badly, were just struggling to finish and Lloyd Kelly made a dumb mistake.

Yeah to be fair I could see us losing to forest. We struggled against them in the cup and only won on pens, and it's a difficult place to play away.

Not too late to start turning things around. In theory the only really difficult games we have until new years would be Villa and Liverpool. But that said there are no easy games in the premier League. Hoping we should do better in the second half of the season with botman back and hopefully a signing.