Agree we’re not top 4 material, Europe or not. And we shoulda done better after Christmas. Did have Europa games for 2 months so shoulda done better in those games, but we didn’t.Whiskyman wrote: ↑Tue May 17, 2022 5:28 pmIs that really being honest Terry.?terrya1965 wrote: ↑Tue May 17, 2022 3:59 pm At the end of the day,they tried cheat the clubs around them to get top 4,though Spurs and United used Covid too to try and help themselves,when they got new managers in.They give themselves a 2 week break to help the manager to get to know the players.
Arsenal and Arteta just abused it a lot more.
Let's be honest here,if we were not in Europe after Christmas,we'd have pissed that top 4.It was games after Europa that mucked us up..Spurs and Arsenal benefited from that big time,not just less games,but they played their games against us;after it
Arsenal had a clear run and they f*cked it up..Normally I would have cheered Arsenal all the way,but not this time.
Or delusional
Surely it was the home defeats against Man United , Brentford, Southampton & Leeds, not to mention the points dropped at home to Brighton & Newcastle (2 that come easily to mind) which meant we missed out on top 4. And losing or dropping points in games like that should tell us that, although we had another reasonable season, we are most certainly not a top 4 team. Hopefully we might build on this season to try and become one but that's another story. The Europa League, or the Conference, is where we are in European terms at the moment and personally speaking I'd rather be in a competition we have some chance of doing well in rather than just making the numbers up which I fear would have been our situation had we qualified for the CL.
And don't forget we had some very decent results after some of our European games. If memory serves we beat Spurs and had our best result of the season imo, Liverpool, after a Thursday Europa match. Spurs & Arsenal may have benefited from not being involved in Europe but I'm sure you would rather have European matches than not having them.
Honestly never thought we’d get to the semis of the Europa so happily proved wrong and who knows how well we could do in the CL with that in mind. Not saying we’d win the thing or come close to winning it but our Europa efforts show we ain’t no mugs and we give any team a game.