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Hope for a Bournemouth win next, but unfortunately forest have a gimme at home to Leicester next.

It's got to be driving people insane this...2 fanbases are going to get their balls clipped at end of this, and then Man United or Spurs will get in the champions league.
 
Hope for a Bournemouth win next, but unfortunately forest have a gimme at home to Leicester next.

It's got to be driving people insane this...2 fanbases are going to get their balls clipped at end of this, and then Man United or Spurs will get in the champions league.


Optimistic it’ll bee Chelsea. Good draw for Forest, home win for them next, whatever happened they’ve got something to play for vs Chelsea which is great for us……IF we beat them.
 
The target is still 69 points if we can get gd over Chelsea anyway. I can't see Newcastle getting 70 and even 69 will be hard.

Hopefully 2 of the other clubs slip up and that number will reduce.
 
Hope for a Bournemouth win next, but unfortunately forest have a gimme at home to Leicester next.

It's got to be driving people insane this...2 fanbases are going to get their balls clipped at end of this, and then Man United or Spurs will get in the champions league.

Yes and no. We've won a trophy and will have european football, Chelsea are probably going to win and trophy and get european football and Forest are likely to get some form of european football. Think all those teams would be ok with that really. I could see Villa being unhappy if they miss out as they've invested a lot and it would probably feel like a step back.
 
We can potentially on gd, but 69 is the current required number, but that could change if villa and forest slip up.

If we beat Chelsea and they then win their final two games, they could finish ahead of us on GD but that means that they have beaten Forest who would finish below us..Villa can finish level with us if they win all 3 and we lose to Arsenal..but they would still finish behind us on GD.

Beat Chelsea and we can afford to lose to Arsenal as long as we beat Everton.

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Yes and no. We've won a trophy and will have european football, Chelsea are probably going to win and trophy and get european football and Forest are likely to get some form of european football. Think all those teams would be ok with that really. I could see Villa being unhappy if they miss out as they've invested a lot and it would probably feel like a step back.

Once the dust settles but when you're in a battle and have your insides removed while on the cusp of victory it'll be a painful experience
 
If we beat Chelsea and they then win their final two games, they could finish ahead of us on GD but that means that they have beaten Forest who would finish below us..Villa can finish level with us if they win all 3 and we lose to Arsenal..but they would still finish behind us on GD.

Beat Chelsea and we can afford to lose to Arsenal as long as we beat Everton.

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Didn't we miss out on champions league on the final day to Chelsea in Bobbys last full season?
 
I want Europa instead of CL. I think we could win the Europa cup. I want to see us get into the habit of winning cups.
 
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I want Europa instead of CL. I think we could win the Europa cup. I want to see us get into the habit of winning cups.

I'm a bit torn too. I do want us to get Champions League (for the money and prestige) but if we have to settle for a smaller european cup it certainly has it's merits.
 
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I'm a bit torn too. I do want us to get Champions League (for the money and prestige) but if we have to settle for a smaller european cup it certainly has its merits.

I think the prize money of the CL has been allowed to get wildly out of control. UEFA are ultimately ****ing useless, like FIFA, like the PL. There should be a much better diversification of funds, that the winners of the Europa League will earn about a quarter of that of someone like Milan who went out so early is mindlessly stupid. But football has just become a microcosm for capitalist greed played out to the public.

The EL winners shouldn’t be going into the UCL. There shouldn’t even be an ECL. Money will destroy this game.
 
Both the champions league and the Europa league will ruin Newcastles Premier league season, but the EL more so, and for less money.

I'm not going to pretend I'd prefer EL, but I agree, it's a competition Newcastle could very will win, if they keep their best players and add a few more.

Unfortunately I've reached the conclusion that failure to land the CL, will see Isak and potentially other players wanting moves, so we will be an unknown force again.
 
Both the champions league and the Europa league will ruin Newcastles Premier league season, but the EL more so, and for less money.

I'm not going to pretend I'd prefer EL, but I agree, it's a competition Newcastle could very will win, if they keep their best players and add a few more.

Unfortunately I've reached the conclusion that failure to land the CL, will see Isak and potentially other players wanting moves, so we will be an unknown force again.

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We have a game in hand not the other way around. if we were behind with games in hand that would be different. What I said was that games in hand don't count until you've won them.

Ragardless you should know the drill by now.
But surely they are not games in hand then - so they don't count either.
 
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