A high PL placing or a cup?

Cup, without a doubt. For the majority of people on this page we have never seen our team lift a trophy.it's something I desperately want to see before I die.

 

Depends. I'd take top 4 over a cup any day of the week.

Football (tragically) affects my day to day mood and if Newcastle are in a high PL place then that means we're winning which can only be a good thing for those around me.

 

Me too!

And me! I'm feeling your pain.



ACS, these guys are BOTH right. So why, oh why are you torturing us with this poll? Why do we have to choose? Whay can't we have both?

 

(strokes pussy again)

 

A League and Cup double would do me. I'm easy pleased.

 

My name is Obi Wan, former Jedi Knight and ex-member of the Jedi Order.

 

Anything less than a quadruple is a total failure next year tbh.

 

So I see

 

Seeing as it is approaching the proper hour for hypothetical questions, I feel qualified to offer my thoughts (seriously, about this time my girlfriend usually tells me to shut the **** up about space/aliens/god/life/what would happen if a man had a knife to her throat and told me I had to pleasure him to set her free (along with multiple situations like this, what can I say, I'm a planner)...

Last season was unbelievable for me personally, because having started with a ST in the championship year knowing we had the base of a good side, I'd seen us deliver what I thought we could back then. If I could choose another fifth for us, I would take it, but actually winning something is another level and would be the ultimate realization of the "hope" rather than "thought". However, as others have said, depending on how far we went down in league position would define the level of the success really. The "hope" is that we'd make top 6 and win something, whereas I could quite easily think we stood a chance of winning a cup if we sacrificed the league...

Am I making sense? "Hope" is not normally a rational manifestation, or perhaps more accurately a "realistic" opportunity, whereas thought is the opposite, unless you are waiting in line for a Jeremy Kyle show appearance, in which case being logically sound is not your first concern... No that bucktooth wench isn't going to learn unless you sleep with her Elephant-like best friend... Anyway, a supporter is a fan, a "fanatic", whose actions are not, by definition, judged on sound logical components, but instead visceral experience. So hoping>thinking.

Therefore, if I hope for a trophy because I think it's the most unrealistic of the two options, then it's got to be the one I'd plump for in a trophy vs high league place scenario. Of course, this will work out differently depending on the cultural and intellectual processes to which we are all individually endowed, so one man's hope could be another man's certainty (thus we reach the answer of existence and pinnacle of life, Not606..... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH IT's BEAUTIFUL). Of course the elements of subjectivity could be stripped and stripped and stripped down til we have a more transparent or unbias answer, but that would be based on subjective interpretation of data so we're screwed.

Anyhooo... I fancy a trip to Wembley...

 

depends if the cup has a nice big chocolate egg in it

 

I would love to see us get to Wembley and win a cup.

 

It's all about the league, the domestic cups have no meaning for me.

Anyone can win a cup and get nowhere just ask Middlesbrough, Portsmouth and Birmingham. Winning a cup means nothing! Finishing in the Top 6 is everything for progression and prolonged success.

 

A very reasonable point, but I take it you haven't taken the stadium tour yet?

"At this point you would probably expect us to take a quick visit to the club museum and see all the lovely trophies we have won down the years, but we haven't got any, so here's a bust of Sir Bobby...."

As much as I see that side of the coin and agree to an extent, a cup'd be brilliant and is a symbol of success which lasts longer than league positions

Will anyone remember Everton were decent top 7 for ages in one hundred years time (taking aside any notions of us hating football by then, the sadness of us surviving with a new wonder drug + plastic surgery and viagra, or the possibility we'll all be floating round space)? Probably not, except the anoraks of the age.

 

Cup win all day long but thankfully the two are not mutally exclusive.

 

I'd class myself as a modern fan. I'd love to win a cup and write our clubs name in history but the real progression in football is money and at the moment the only real way to earn that is via the league.

Do you think any good propect players gave a **** that Middlesbrough or Birmingham won the Carling Cup or Portsmouth the FA Cup. No, players don't want a one season wonder in Europe they want to know they're going to be challenging year in year out. Give me league position over any stupid meaningless cup anyday!!

 

We could just win the prem, then we get the best of both worlds

 

Look!!!!! here it is gents

We will win **** all but well enjoy it anyway

 

I'll always pick a high finish in the Premier League - the higher we finish, the more money we make. The more money we make, more is invested in the squad. The more invested in the squad means a better quality team. A better quality team means more chance of winning a trophy and maintaining a high league position.

Repeat to fade...

 

I wish you would relocate from my monitor you antagonist prick

 

So the whole point of higher league position is to one day win a trophy? So what you actually want is the trophy, you just aren't as lazy/impatient as us lot who'd want it now?