dcmk Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 If Chelsea lose later on and we win our match. That 5th Champions League spot looks more achievable than a few weeks ago. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colos Short and Curlies Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Just now, dcmk said: If Chelsea lose later on and we win our match. That 5th Champions League spot looks more achievable than a few weeks ago. Don't even need to go back that far, just compare it to Tuesday and it looked like we had next to no chance Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stifler Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 21 hours ago, Guillaume said: So would that trickle down with the Europa and Conference spots? Could 8th or even 9th be a European place? 8th is very likely a European place in anyway, it depends on who wins the FA Cup, but the favourites should all finish within the top 7 regardless. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattoon Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 14 minutes ago, dcmk said: If Chelsea lose later on and we win our match. That 5th Champions League spot looks more achievable than a few weeks ago. Preferably a draw as Everton are ahead of us too, we do need Leeds to win too and it looks good providing we bury the Mackems tomorrow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcmk Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 6 minutes ago, Mattoon said: Preferably a draw as Everton are ahead of us too, we do need Leeds to win too and it looks good providing we bury the Mackems tomorrow. Yeah a draw works out too but Chelsea's GD is crazy compared to ours. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexf Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Win tomorrow and we have a decent chance of finishing 7th. At a stretch 6th if Chelsea lose. But it will be tight now between us Brentford, Everton and Brighton. Lose tomorrow and I think bottom half finish unfortunately. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 16 minutes ago, alexf said: Win tomorrow and we have a decent chance of finishing 7th. At a stretch 6th if Chelsea lose. But it will be tight now between us Brentford, Everton and Brighton. Lose tomorrow and I think bottom half finish unfortunately. Quite a big swing based on one game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenlau88210 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 8 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said: Quite a big swing based on one game. Welcome to the minds and hearts of most football fans, haha Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stottie Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 20 hours ago, Froggy said: There's apparently some weird way for 7th place to get into the CL, involving Liverpool and Villa winning the European Cups but finishing in specific positions. I'm confused by it all now. Its actually not that confusing. Villa as sixth or seventh winning Europa, Liverpool as sixth or seventh winning CL. Top 5 being other teams. Competition winners will get a place regardless of where they finish in the league. If Forest win Europa and get relegated, a team in the Champo will be in the CL. The possibility of Spurs doing that vanished earlier this week. It gets more complicated when qualification places get bumped down the league. I mentioned it earlier in the thread but it sounds like there is a cut off at eighth. Some UEFA rule says eighth can get Conference League but cannot get a Europa place. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superior Acuña Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Here I love a late surge to save a season me. Remember 7th under Roeder in 06? That was class. Win tomorrow and I'll be buzzing for the rest of the season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoreboard82 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 (edited) 1 hour ago, madras said: The perfect storm has happened before to reach the champions league. We needed about 4 results to go our way and a GD swing of about 5 goals and it happened......Mackems and Boro relegated on that final day as well. My liver still bares the scars of that day. If Carlsberg did football days. What a day that was. A dream day. It seemed like our game had been finished for ages, was it 5-0 v Forest?, while we waited on other results coming in. It was just cheers and jubilation over and over again as one by one each result fell into place. Think Liverpool lost, at Sheffield Wed maybe 🤔. Then the icing on the delicious cake was the mackems and Boro going down. I can remember being in the Irish bar opposite the station and everyone going outside to sing let's all laugh at Sunderland as a London train came in. Think they might have been at Wimbledon that day. Fantastic 😄 Edited March 21 by Scoreboard82 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 (edited) 32 minutes ago, Scoreboard82 said: If Carlsberg did football days. What a day that was. A dream day. It seemed like our game had been finished for ages, was it 5-0 v Forest?, while we waited on other results coming in. It was just cheers and jubilation over and over again as one by one each result fell into place. Think Liverpool lost, at Sheffield Wed maybe 🤔. Then the icing on the delicious cake was the mackems and Boro going down. I can remember being in the Irish bar opposite the station and everyone going outside to sing let's all laugh at Sunderland as a London train came in. Think they might have been at Wimbledon that day. Fantastic 😄 I'd love to know what the odds were on that accumulator. Yeah the Mackem game finished very late, we were in The Forth and down a pint before they finished. I think it was their Premier Passions season. Ive always mused thats where Gervais and Merchant got the idea for The Office from, dead pan embarrassment as comedy in a documentary setting. Edited March 21 by madras Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superior Acuña Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 (edited) 38 minutes ago, Scoreboard82 said: If Carlsberg did football days. What a day that was. A dream day. It seemed like our game had been finished for ages, was it 5-0 v Forest?, while we waited on other results coming in. It was just cheers and jubilation over and over again as one by one each result fell into place. Think Liverpool lost, at Sheffield Wed maybe 🤔. Then the icing on the delicious cake was the mackems and Boro going down. I can remember being in the Irish bar opposite the station and everyone going outside to sing let's all laugh at Sunderland as a London train came in. Think they might have been at Wimbledon that day. Fantastic 😄 Liverpool drew away at Sheff Wed and Arsenal won by 2 goals. We won by 5 (5-0). Les Ferdinand's last game/goals :'-( We started the day level on points and GD with Arsenal and behind Liverpool by 2 points. We finished ahead of both of them on GD. A week earlier we'd been 3 points behind Arsenal and 5 behind Liverpool, but beaten Arsenal at Highbury while Liverpool lost. Edited March 21 by Superior Acuña Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guillaume Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 1 hour ago, alexf said: Win tomorrow and we have a decent chance of finishing 7th. At a stretch 6th if Chelsea lose. But it will be tight now between us Brentford, Everton and Brighton. Lose tomorrow and I think bottom half finish unfortunately. Exactly what I think, that rest of the season will be determined by tomorrow. We can't afford yet another missed opportunity. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NWMag Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Been a great day for us Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superior Acuña Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Good for catching higher up positions, but Everton are no mugs and well in the mix. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guillaume Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Season starts or finishes tomorrow for us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Icarus Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Funny how compressed it is again. Must win tomorrow and we're right in amongst it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nufc123 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 4 minutes ago, Guillaume said: Season starts or finishes tomorrow for us. Big game Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 At this point it feels like we need to win just to keep up. Still think a point isn't the end of the world given all the context and to close off this insane quarter, but could do with three given everyone else's results. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decky Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Win tomorrow and 5th is back on. It would be fucking insane if we got CL again after this league campaign. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRC Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 (edited) 1 minute ago, Decky said: Win tomorrow and 5th is back on. It would be fucking insane if we got CL again after this league campaign. Lose tomorrow and it’s looking awful though. Crazy how tight things are Edited March 21 by TRC Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nufc123 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 1 minute ago, TRC said: Lose tomorrow and it’s looking awful though. Crazy how tight things are Losing is not an option. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRC Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Just now, nufc123 said: Losing is not an option. 3 weeks before another game too. Would be horrendous Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaj Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Really do think we have a chance IF we win tomorrow. This is the last game of this period of playing what feels like every other day. If we can win we are then back to playing mostly once a week with a number of players returning and some others hitting form. I believe we can do this! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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