Yes/No?

[Dominus Maximus]

So 5th is right around the corner. The reward is a place in the Europa League. We will enter in the fourth qualifying round. One knock-out round before the group stage. Last season we played 14 times in this competition but went out early.

 

Europa League seeding - 4th Q

 

Europa League seeding - Group Stage

 

from http://www.xs4all.nl/~kassiesa/bert/uefa/seedel2010.html

 

Positives

 

That's seven extra home games for revenue

It can serve as a more advanced reserve match scenario for youngsters and Joe Cole.

 

Negatives

 

Seven extra away games. The team could go to Scotland, France or Germany, but it could also end up travelling to the Ukraine or Armenia on a Thursday.

Games pile up. It could potentially put a serious damper on our quest for fourth next season.

 

Tottenham doesn't want in. Harry said so himself. They lost to Blackpool yesterday.

 

But the question is, do you want in?

[RP]

What a ridculous question.

[smithdown]

Spurs should be banned if they are deliberately losing matches.

 

But they drew anyway so...

[Swan Red]

our quest for 4th next season?

 

f*** that

[Rich Gobey]

Jallow with his/her finger on the pulse...

[Rimbeux]

Dont buy into the 'Arry line, he's just spinning the potential of finishing 6th as a blessing.

[magneto]

Do I want Liverpool to finish as high as possible and play in a competition which may bring us extra revenue?

 

Let me think about it.

[Gerry]

In case you haven't figured it out yet Jallow, the correct answer is of course yes.

Edited May 8, 2011 by Gerry

[badtodabone]

we should always be pushing to finish as high up the league as we can, if we finish 5th and get uefa league we should be pushing to win it as we should always with every trophy we compete in

[Benzo-13]

f***ing fourth next season is a poxy outlook..

[Eiler99]

Of course.

[Swan Red]

so the two people that voted no either voted no because they'd prefer us finish fourth which makes sense or they voted no wanting Liverpool to not win one of our final 3 games which doesn't

[Tones]

Of course we want to be in Europe. We have a big european history. Why wouldnt we want to be there?

[Gunga Din]

  On 08/05/2011 at 11:10, Rimbeux said:

Dont buy into the 'Arry line, he's just spinning the potential of finishing 6th as a blessing.

 

Yep, Europe is massive, especially with a crop of young talented players coming through. the game time and big game experience will be vital. and i'm not talkng about the Hodgson approach of throwing them all in and then blaming them when they lose, but putting maybe 3 or 4 in with the first team during the group games, which we should be able to negotiate handily enough without players like Gerrard, Carra and Reina.

[John am Rhein]

mixed feelings about this because the UEFA cup has become a bit of a nonsense and thursday games are a pain in the ass, but on balance Yes is still a better option than No

[owenthomas]

Aldo was spinning this same s*** line last week after the Newcastle game.. what's wrong with some people? ok, i understand that there's some rubbish games at rubbish times but it's a trophy and LFC - as a certain saying goes - exists to win trophies.. we should want to be in this competition and we should want to win it..

 

in addition, next season there is no 'quest for fourth' or hope to get back into the Champions League places - there is only a wish to win the league..

 

EDIT: by the way, listening to Aldo while driving home after the match is enlightening.. i'm quoting him here when he said "i don't want the distraction of the Europa League because you don't want to be playing in a competition where you've got meaningless games on a Thursday and then having to pick yourself up for the Sunday's league game.. then if you manage to get yourself out of the league into the knockout stages you've got the chance of getting knocked out in the quarters an all that.... no.. [at this point he realises what he's just said]... y'know.. if you win that though you've got the semi's and then hopefully the final.. might even win it.. but.. y'know.. we've got to be looking to push on in the league, getting back into the Champions League places.............."

 

he's fkin mad lar..

Edited May 8, 2011 by owenthomas

[Sion]

Don't really mind either way.

Plenty of negatives to worry about if we do get it. But European football is European football.

[stressederic]

If we can't cope with a league campaign alongside some European matches then we're in a seriously bad way. There would be no point in qualifying for the Champions League either as the same thing would happen again.

 

We should be looking to finish as high up the table as possible and qualifying for a European competition. We should then be looking to win that competition.

[Rory Fitzgerald]

Who knows what our squad will look like come August - hopefully its well staffed to take on the challenge - and the extra cup games could serve to spread the opportunities around rather than burn out the same group of players.

[Tones]

  On 08/05/2011 at 11:56, stressederic said:

If we can't cope with a league campaign alongside some European matches then we're in a seriously bad way. There would be no point in qualifying for the Champions League either as the same thing would happen again.

 

We should be looking to finish as high up the table as possible and qualifying for a European competition. We should then be looking to win that competition.

 

Exactly. If Europa League will stop of getting top 4. Then getting into top 4 and playing in the CL would stop us getting top 4 the next year surely?

[David Hodgson]

  On 08/05/2011 at 11:50, Sion said:

Don't really mind either way.

Plenty of negatives to worry about if we do get it. But European football is European football.

 

There no negatives. If we think it will in any way hamper our prospects in the league then we simply play a 2nd team in it.

[Epic Swindle]

I'd rather do without the Europa but I want to finish 5th. It would be a huge psychological boost.

 

  On 08/05/2011 at 12:06, David Hodgson said:

There no negatives. If we think it will in any way hamper our prospects in the league then we simply play a 2nd team in it.

 

There's more to it than though. It hampers preparitions badly. Sometimes we're not getting back until Friday night. You can say the same about the CL but it's a different mentality. Thursday-Sunday really takes the edge off.

[Montse]

Would we go straight to the league or have to play a qualifier in early July or whenever?

[Sion]

  On 08/05/2011 at 12:06, David Hodgson said:

There no negatives. If we think it will in any way hamper our prospects in the league then we simply play a 2nd team in it.

 

Travel time/fatigue. If you think whoever in charge will take a completely different 20 man match squad on Thursday to Sunday then you're dreaming.

Sunday games are crap

The actual quality of the games are crap

6 o'clock kick offs

 

But some decent aways and a chance to win something.

 

Like I said, not bothered either way.

[Tommy Cockles]

It amused me hearing a Spurs fan the other day saying they want to finish 6th rather than 5th.

 

One half decent season in the CL & you think the EL is beneath you. Vintage Tottenham.