(11-05-2025, 05:47 PM)Paplane Wrote:

(11-05-2025, 05:36 PM)Sausage Roll Wrote:

(11-05-2025, 05:33 PM)Plymouth red Wrote: Hopefully man city can beat palace.

It should not feel like this but why does finishing in the conference cup feel more like a punishment than a reward. Perhaps it will feel different if we were in it

It's perspective isn't it? If we'd been mid-table all season and put on a storming finish to clinch seventh we'd all be hailing a brilliant campaign.

Sausage, I know we've had a joke of late about my insecurities,  but this constant churn of positivity at a hugely negative moment of our season seems just as ridiculous as you found my glass half empty commets.

(11-05-2025, 05:51 PM)Redgirl Wrote: I think we’re all gutted after today, I don’t think it’s a case of bottling it I think the players are totally knackered. I think where we are is probably about right, we’ve been incredibly lucky with injuries in the first half of the season but our lack of transfer activity in the January window has come back to haunt us. We do not have the strength in depth to cover any injuries or players that need resting, not buying has probably cost us a CL place.

(11-05-2025, 05:57 PM)Sausage Roll Wrote:

(11-05-2025, 05:47 PM)Paplane Wrote:

(11-05-2025, 05:36 PM)Sausage Roll Wrote:

(11-05-2025, 05:33 PM)Plymouth red Wrote: Hopefully man city can beat palace.

It should not feel like this but why does finishing in the conference cup feel more like a punishment than a reward. Perhaps it will feel different if we were in it

It's perspective isn't it? If we'd been mid-table all season and put on a storming finish to clinch seventh we'd all be hailing a brilliant campaign.

Sausage, I know we've had a joke of late about my insecurities,  but this constant churn of positivity at a hugely negative moment of our season seems just as ridiculous as you found my glass half empty commets.

:Funny:

I'm not just saying it for the sake of it, I genuinely think it's true. If we'd been 10th until May and won a few on the spin to finish in a European place we'd all be delighted. Of course because we're dropping into 7th place it feels worse.

Even I'll be a bit gutted if we only end up in the Conference League now but if Man City win the FA Cup or we manage to finish 6th (or higher of course) then I'll consider it an excellent season because my expectations were nowhere near that before the season started.

(11-05-2025, 06:25 PM)Paplane Wrote:

(11-05-2025, 05:57 PM)Sausage Roll Wrote:

(11-05-2025, 05:47 PM)Paplane Wrote:

(11-05-2025, 05:36 PM)Sausage Roll Wrote:

(11-05-2025, 05:33 PM)Plymouth red Wrote: Hopefully man city can beat palace.

It should not feel like this but why does finishing in the conference cup feel more like a punishment than a reward. Perhaps it will feel different if we were in it

It's perspective isn't it? If we'd been mid-table all season and put on a storming finish to clinch seventh we'd all be hailing a brilliant campaign.

Sausage, I know we've had a joke of late about my insecurities,  but this constant churn of positivity at a hugely negative moment of our season seems just as ridiculous as you found my glass half empty commets.

:Funny:

I'm not just saying it for the sake of it, I genuinely think it's true. If we'd been 10th until May and won a few on the spin to finish in a European place we'd all be delighted. Of course because we're dropping into 7th place it feels worse.

Even I'll be a bit gutted if we only end up in the Conference League now but if Man City win the FA Cup or we manage to finish 6th (or higher of course) then I'll consider it an excellent season because my expectations were nowhere near that before the season started.

Thats a bit like saying you should be happy to be beaten in a play-off semi final. No, when you qualify for the play-offs, you're sole aim should be to win it.

Our players wont have been congratulating themsleves earlier, the dressing room will have been filled with disappointment and anger.

(11-05-2025, 06:29 PM)Sausage Roll Wrote:

(11-05-2025, 06:25 PM)Paplane Wrote:

(11-05-2025, 05:57 PM)Sausage Roll Wrote:

(11-05-2025, 05:47 PM)Paplane Wrote:

(11-05-2025, 05:36 PM)Sausage Roll Wrote: It's perspective isn't it? If we'd been mid-table all season and put on a storming finish to clinch seventh we'd all be hailing a brilliant campaign.

Sausage, I know we've had a joke of late about my insecurities,  but this constant churn of positivity at a hugely negative moment of our season seems just as ridiculous as you found my glass half empty commets.

:Funny:

I'm not just saying it for the sake of it, I genuinely think it's true. If we'd been 10th until May and won a few on the spin to finish in a European place we'd all be delighted. Of course because we're dropping into 7th place it feels worse.

Even I'll be a bit gutted if we only end up in the Conference League now but if Man City win the FA Cup or we manage to finish 6th (or higher of course) then I'll consider it an excellent season because my expectations were nowhere near that before the season started.

Thats a bit like saying you should be happy to be beaten in a play-off semi final. No, when you qualify for the play-offs, you're sole aim should be to win it.

Our players wont have been congratulating themsleves earlier, the dressing room will have been filled with disappointment and anger.

Not sure that's a valid analogy. We still have the tangible achievement of European qualification for next season. Losing in the playoffs means you have nothing. Of course it's not the competition we really want to qualify for but it is still an achievement. 

I wonder what Villa thought about making the Conference League the season after they only just stayed up?

(11-05-2025, 09:35 PM)Paplane Wrote: Do we get europa league if we finish 7th and City beat Palace?