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I'll be 48 this July. My eldest isn't far off the age I was when I first set eyes on Phil Craig's version of this board - wasn't it on 'linuxdriven' or something like that? Horrendously unstable at times.

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Rules to live by: If you're disagreeing with me, you're probably a silly cunt.

We lost the fight for youth when Kevin walked out.

Toms a year older than me iirc. I think you're probably right though.

I’m 34. 35 in August. Think Tom might be the same age or slightly older? Genuinely think I might be the youngest regular

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Also agree, CL qualification makes a big difference for us and falling into the Europa League gives us all the burdens of European competition with a fraction of the financial benefits. The only caveat is I could see us winning the EL, which would be pretty special.

I'm in the CL is very very important boat too. The difference between getting CL and not getting CL could be and very likely would be enormous. As OTF mentions it makes Mitch's hot summer extravaganza what we all hope it will be. Also qualifying for the CL next season is likely to be much more difficult with the added burden of more games regardless of which European competition we're in. If we're missing CL this season, we're odds on to miss it next too. But with CL we can potentially recruit more players to help ease the burden of the extra games. I think everything points to CL qualification being an enormously important boost to the club's progress relative to the EL (unless we win it which isn't anywhere near as easy as it sounds).

I was introduced by LM. Another nut job. 🙂

Villa v Spurs has been brought forward 2 days on account Spurs want to avoid it being so close to the Europa League final. Getting ahead of themselves - come on Bodo/Glimt!!

And within seconds, I'm agreeing with him on a different thread! Humans man, there's no logic

This is my position as well. I'd console myself by affirming that at the start of the season I'd have snapped your hand off for winning a major trophy and qualifying for Europa, but there no denying that qualifying for the CL is the only way we can truly resume our team building momentum and enable the hot Mitch summer.

Agree with this, and for all the reasons you state. I'm not CT levels of shitting myself about us having to win every game, but missing out on the CL will be more than a passing disappointment. Especially as it's highly likely that one of Spurs or Man Utd seem set to be in it next season. Having got ahead of both those fuckers at last, we don't need to be giving them the opportunity to get past us again.

i think we can compete for the title while isak is with but it does depend on finishing in the the CL places. We won't be a million miles away from the teams around us if we have a good summer transfer window, boosted by CL money, keep our star players and sign 3-4 new ones who improve the first team.

Based on this evidence, I've amended my opinion to completely agree with Craig. Not that I agreed with Gemmers, but it was close which can't be a good thing.

It'll be a significant impact to how much we've got to spend over the coming windows if we don't make CL. Being in the EL will also impact our ability to return to Europe next season, never mind the CL. I'm not that chilled about not being top 5.

As with everything else, the truth will be the opposite of what you hypothesize.

I think that's definitely the truth.

Barnes, Gordon, Isak, Tonali (and Schär) can all hit a shot from distance which seems to be a recurring weakness of his. I'd be giving them all a license to shoot at will.

And me actually.

I guess the only one who knew what he was trying to say was him.

I don’t want him to leave either but we aren’t going to win the league in Isaks time year so let’s get a boat load of money, flesh the squad out and win the europa league. The world keeps turning.