The Europeometer™ (2024/25) - NUFC Qualify for Conference League (at least)

[mikejaxer]

18 minutes ago, GeordieDazzler said:

We play Man United in the between their season defining Lyon games and we also play Villa immediately after they play PSG and immediately before they play City and then the Semi final. Hopefully means we should have legs on both.

I stopped putting stock in that sort of stuff when we got beat by City 4-0 when the game was sandwiched between their Real Madrid CL matches. Means fuck all.

[Erikse]

2 hours ago, GeordieDazzler said:

I do wonder with City if they would ask for any points deduction to be applied to this season and use the shallower schedule (if no Europe) next year to get some legs back into the team.
 

A big part of their drop off this year was the fact that some of their players had essentially done three years straight with minimal breaks. 
 

 

 

 

Rodri probably played too many games, but mosy of their key players dropped off due to age. It created a domino effect on the rest of the players. Their singings has been meh aswell.

 

 

Edited 11 hours ago by Erikse

[The College Dropout]

1 hour ago, jack j said:

Palace got 4 games in the next 11 days before the cup semi 3 days after that

Surely there minds will be elsewhere/ and using their squad

True. They’re deservedly also need to maintain their momentum. 

[The College Dropout]

1 hour ago, mikejaxer said:

I stopped putting stock in that sort of stuff when we got beat by City 4-0 when the game was sandwiched between their Real Madrid CL matches. Means fuck all.

Nah it’s important. We were just shit that day.  Man U will rotate and not give a fuck. 
 

Not going to think about City’s charges.  But if they get found guilty they will have a multi year sanction for multi year breaches.  A relegation and a points deduction that will make returning to the PL not a formality.  I suspect it’s why they gave Haaland the super long contract. He’ll have to stay. 

[MagPar]

City won't be relegated, one of their many lawyers will find some loophole or other.

 

I've got two teams to worry about,I'm Scottish with English blood in me so I really love Newcastle, but I also really love Dunfermline who are in a totally different predicament. We're currently in the championship relegation play-off position, the team 3 points below us have over the past 6 weeks found some amazing form closing a ten point gap and we can't buy a goal for love nor money. We had 7500 fans at home on Saturday which was more than 4 spl crowds but we lost to the team 1 point below us. If we had won we'd now be 4 points ahead of that ugly playoff but now we could very easily finish bottom which is obviously instant relegation. It's still in our hands though,barely. 

 

There is a slight chance the team that beat us (Hamilton Academical) could be deducted 6 points but I'm not counting my chickens. 7500 might seem laughable to English teams but it's a huge amount for a Scottish Championship team. Our best striker is like Mr Glass from the Unbreakable Trilogy. 

 

To top it off,our most hated rivals who got promoted last season from league 2 are a few points away from back to back promotions.

 

I'm trying my best to not think about Newcastle/Dunfermline  until ten minutes before kick off. It's more stressful thinking about Dunfermline though as we should be in the SPL, not scrapping away at the bottom of the Championship trying to avoid the drop. 

 

Mone the Pars 

Mone the Toon

 

Ps Thanks dad for bringing me up to be a Pars supporter. 

 

 

 

Edited 10 hours ago by MagPar
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[Jonas]

My first away game was at Dunfermline, pre-season 1990.  0-0 draw. Halcyon days.

But seriously, bloody loved it.

[ryanegg]

2 hours ago, MagPar said:

City won't be relegated, one of their many lawyers will find some loophole or other.

 

I've got two teams to worry about,I'm Scottish with English blood in me so I really love Newcastle, but I also really love Dunfermline who are in a totally different predicament. We're currently in the championship relegation play-off position, the team 3 points below us have over the past 6 weeks found some amazing form closing a ten point gap and we can't buy a goal for love nor money. We had 7500 fans at home on Saturday which was more than 4 spl crowds but we lost to the team 1 point below us. If we had won we'd now be 4 points ahead of that ugly playoff but now we could very easily finish bottom which is obviously instant relegation. It's still in our hands though,barely. 

 

There is a slight chance the team that beat us (Hamilton Academical) could be deducted 6 points but I'm not counting my chickens. 7500 might seem laughable to English teams but it's a huge amount for a Scottish Championship team. Our best striker is like Mr Glass from the Unbreakable Trilogy. 

 

To top it off,our most hated rivals who got promoted last season from league 2 are a few points away from back to back promotions.

 

I'm trying my best to not think about Newcastle/Dunfermline  until ten minutes before kick off. It's more stressful thinking about Dunfermline though as we should be in the SPL, not scrapping away at the bottom of the Championship trying to avoid the drop. 

 

Mone the Pars 

Mone the Toon

 

Ps Thanks dad for bringing me up to be a Pars supporter. 

 

 

 

 

If you say your username in a Leicester accent it sounds like magpie🤣

[TRon]

2 hours ago, MagPar said:

City won't be relegated, one of their many lawyers will find some loophole or other.

 

I've got two teams to worry about,I'm Scottish with English blood in me so I really love Newcastle, but I also really love Dunfermline who are in a totally different predicament. We're currently in the championship relegation play-off position, the team 3 points below us have over the past 6 weeks found some amazing form closing a ten point gap and we can't buy a goal for love nor money. We had 7500 fans at home on Saturday which was more than 4 spl crowds but we lost to the team 1 point below us. If we had won we'd now be 4 points ahead of that ugly playoff but now we could very easily finish bottom which is obviously instant relegation. It's still in our hands though,barely. 

 

There is a slight chance the team that beat us (Hamilton Academical) could be deducted 6 points but I'm not counting my chickens. 7500 might seem laughable to English teams but it's a huge amount for a Scottish Championship team. Our best striker is like Mr Glass from the Unbreakable Trilogy. 

 

To top it off,our most hated rivals who got promoted last season from league 2 are a few points away from back to back promotions.

 

I'm trying my best to not think about Newcastle/Dunfermline  until ten minutes before kick off. It's more stressful thinking about Dunfermline though as we should be in the SPL, not scrapping away at the bottom of the Championship trying to avoid the drop. 

 

Mone the Pars 

Mone the Toon

 

Ps Thanks dad for bringing me up to be a Pars supporter. 

 

 

 

 

 

A bit left field but surprisingly touching.

[MagPar]

26 minutes ago, ryanegg said:

If you say your username in a Leicester accent it sounds like magpie🤣

It's meant too,it's a play on words but with a truth to it.

[Displayname]

Fantastic assist!
 

Hey, this isn’t the match thread..

 

 

Edited 7 hours ago by Displayname

[Skeletor]

[t00nt00n313]

For those interested I jotted out what I see as the most likely scenario of us getting CL football. 

 

Assuming we don't get any points away to arsenal, away to villa and away to brighton, we can get CL if the following happens.

 

If chelsea don't win 5 out of 6 from the following (meaning that them getting 2 draws would suffice for us in this scenario):

 

Forest h (final game of season)

 

 

Man u h

 

 

Fulham a

 

 

Everton h

 

 

L pool h

 

 

Ipswich h

 

 

 

And we beat:

 

 

 

ipswich h

 

 

palace h

 

 

Everton h

 

 

Man u  h

 

 

 

And also we win vs Chelsea at home 

 

 

 

(So us to win 62.5% or 5/8 of our games inc chelsea all of which are home games)

 

 

 

We would get cl assuming villa also don't get 6 wins and a draw from their 7 games which is unlikely for Villa.

 

Should also probably caveat that this assumes 5th place is cl.

 

 

Edited 5 hours ago by t00nt00n313

[Decky]

You'd like to think at worst we'll finished 7th now but win the next two and I think we'll finish above Chelsea, Forest and Villa. Reckon we'll beat Chelsea at home. 

[TBG]

 

 

 

[Dr.Spaceman]

I reckon Everton will be one of them annoying draws

[BlazeT44]

Just now, Decky said:

You'd like to think at worst we'll finished 7th now but win the next two and I think we'll finish above Chelsea, Forest and Villa. Reckon we'll beat Chelsea at home. 

 

Crazy to think it's well within reason to finish 3rd.

 

Man City without Haaland and Chelsea focussed on the ECL... 

 

I keep waiting for Forest to have a blip but that doesn't seem to happen 

[Wolfcastle]

Lot of easy games for the other contenders this coming weekend. Will probably have to make do with maintaining the status quo.

Everton troubling Forest is the best bet

[Decky]

1 minute ago, BlazeT44 said:

 

Crazy to think it's well within reason to finish 3rd.

 

Man City without Haaland and Chelsea focussed on the ECL... 

 

I keep waiting for Forest to have a blip but that doesn't seem to happen 

 

Kinda hoping they burn out a bit in fairness.  But win our next two and we're a point behind them.

[jack j]

Sounds spoilt but we've left a few goals out there toneet

Hopefully doesn't cost us

5 wins and a draw in the last 8 cheers

[ramirez]

We could catch forest but I think it would be a big effort as they have easier fixtures. I think it’s about 50% cl, 40% Europa and 10% conference league at this stage

[STM]

We've only one less win than Arsenal and we've got a cup in the bag. Not too shabby.

[TRon]

3 minutes ago, ramirez said:

We could catch forest but I think it would be a big effort as they have easier fixtures. I think it’s about 50% cl, 40% Europa and 10% conference league at this stage

 

 

Think we'll catch them tbh.

[midds]

2/5 to finish top 5 with PP if anyone is interested. Bookies think it's highly likely, doesn't mean much in real life but it's a canny indicator 

[Displayname]

2 minutes ago, STM said:

We've only one less win than Arsenal and we've got a cup in the bag. Not too shabby.

If we win against them we only need to catch up 4 points in the other games to pass them. Didn’t think that was a possibility.

[The Prophet]

3 minutes ago, midds said:

2/5 to finish top 5 with PP if anyone is interested. Bookies think it's highly likely, doesn't mean much in real life but it's a canny indicator 

 

The bookies effectively has it as a two horse race between ourselves and Chelsea. As you say, they're not usually far off.