[Albion] Is Europe off the cards now?

[GJN1]

Newcastle and West Ham only have 3 home games left to our 5.

Great! Let's look at those fixtures, shall we?

Arsenal, Chelsea, City, Villa and United.

Home bankers the lot of 'em.

 

[RandyWanger]

Is Europe off the cards now? Yes...

 

[nicko31]

Great! Let's look at those fixtures, shall we?

Arsenal, Chelsea, City, Villa and United.

Home bankers the lot of 'em.

Keep the faith everyone, it starts Saturday

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Another poor performance and more points dropped, thoughts?

No.

 

[Flounce]

NOTHING is off the cards, we are RDZ’s Albion. Dare to dream

 

[Tony Le Mesmer]

Do you not think big money could come in for Mitoma?

Mitoma and Pedro are the two I could see serious interest in, with an outside shout for Perv.

I think Perv has surely played his way out of any possible move away

 

[Jim in the West]

Yes, it’s getting to the stage where we start to look at other teams’ fixtures. I still think we can overhaul West Ham - they may well find themselves distracted by the Europa League qtr final matches, and apart from Kudus, Paqueta and Bowen, I’m not convinced they are particularly good. Newcastle have some horrendous injury issues (even worse than us). Wolves are inconsistent, and are without Neto.
But on the flip side, both Bournemouth and Chelsea could easily overtake us - our games against them are real 6-pointers….

 

[HCxUK]

Funny, if Welbeck buries the chance at the end this is a very different thread. I think we have maybe a 30% shot at finishing top eight.

Obviously our form is pretty rubbish but we have five home games, we’ve lost at home once all season.

Burnley & Bournemouth away are winnable.

I’m sure RDZ, Bloom & the squad think Europe is still on the cards

 

[Swegulls]

Yes.

 

[dazzer6666]

Funny, if Welbeck buries the chance at the end this is a very different thread. I think we have maybe a 30% shot at finishing top eight.

Obviously our form is pretty rubbish but we have five home games, we’ve lost at home once all season.

Burnley & Bournemouth away are winnable.

I’m sure RDZ, Bloom & the squad think Europe is still on the cards

We're about 5/1 for top 7

 

[Giraffe]

Yes, and has been for some time sadly. Mid table obscurity.

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I'm not certain that's the worst thing. We are very poor against sides who choose not to take risks against us. The title contenders will HAVE to take risks to ensure a win. I think we're in for a whole load of very spicy games coming up. agreed, Arsenal will be a bag of nerves Easter Sunday

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[Terry Butcher Tribute Act]

Been off since Mitoma got injured and we didn't sign a winger in January imho

 

[Stat Brother]

Funny, if Welbeck buries the chance at the end this is a very different thread.

If we had 3 points for every time that's been written we'd be wondering if we could stay top.

 

[southstandandy]

No, but I'd be surprised if we made it now.

 

[The Wookiee]

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Burnley & Bournemouth away are winnable.

Aren’t Bournemouth the most in form team in the league at the moment?

 

[Terry Butcher Tribute Act]

Can we stop the injuries excuse thing, it’s getting really boring. All sides have suffered this season and Newcastle and Wolves particularly, quoting two of those teams above, have been just as or more unfortunate than us this season.

Our form for the last six months, a long time, certainly does not give RDZ the right to be making public demands of Tony or be in the running for jobs like Bayern, Liverpool or Barca. He needs to get his head down, turn our form around and prove he is an elite manager as he’s certainly not done that this season.

Can we stop talking about the obvious reason why we're no good because it's boring?

Our squad is so young, thin, the replacements in wide positions aren't up to it, there's too many players like Lamptey, Welbeck, Lallana and Milner who can't do 90. I really fail to see why people are expecting us to be winning games, who other than Gross exactly is going to be scoring the goals and setting them up consistently?

If we played our first eleven every week we'd be challenging. But we can't.

 

[BBassic]

Personally I think I've kinda checked out of this season since Roma away. The hammering we took really took the shine off.

Then we've had all the RDZ will he / won't he stuff. Coupled with our generally miserable form and this relentless injury list meaning we can't ever seem to settle and I'm basically just over it.

We'll finish where we finish and that might be in a European spot. I don't think it will. But it might

 

[Gazwag]

I'm not unhappy that we won't qualify this year, history shows that a team doing Europe for the first time usually suffers in the league that season. It'll mean we have no distractions next season and less Sunday games (maybe).

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

We're about 5/1 for top 7

Newcastle and Chelsea are 11/10. I think the only way we get into Europe is if we win 4 of our remaining games and draw a couple, but realistically 2 of those wins have to be against Newcastle and Chelsea. If the other wins could be against Bournemouth and Man U, then that would be nice

It’s a long shot but there’s a still a small thread of hope.

 

[Giraffe]

I'm not unhappy that we won't qualify this year, history shows that a team doing Europe for the first time usually suffers in the league that season. It'll mean we have no distractions next season and less Sunday games (maybe).

I agree, I don't want Conference for this reason. Lets have a rest from Europe and another good go at the league and maybe one of the cups and try and get back in to Europa again the following season.