FA Cup or Champs and first three losers league?

[Lineker's Lugs]

At the moment, FA Cup.  If we lose tomorrow I'll convince myself I really wanted top 4 and if we lose on Tuesday I'll convince myself I really love the Europa League.

[cruzFOX]

Just 24 more hours lads so I know I prefer to just focus on the task at hand which is the FA cup final and we want it. we can focus on next week after the weekend. Don't listen to the bias media the footballing gods are watching and will be carefully laying out banana skins for our rivals mark my words!

Destiny is in our hands if we want it badly enough it will happen.

[fuchsntf]

8 minutes ago, Lineker's Lugs said:

At the moment, FA Cup.  If we lose tomorrow I'll convince myself I really wanted top 4 and if we lose on Tuesday I'll convince myself I really love the Europa League.

Wisdom & Nack of clevernes...will always win the day..

Incidently you  forgot, ..  Slip out of all reckoning !!!  then We were Not quite up to it, Tomorrow is Another Day..!!

[Lambert09]

I actually think this is the only time a ‘would you rather’ thread has been started and it’s relevant. 
 

we are playing the same team twice in a row and a win in either achieves the result. 
 

So simply if you had to pick only one, which would you prefer. 
 

Just because the league has been all I think about, even in the build up to a final... I’m going to have to say CL 

[Astleyfox]

5 hours ago, TiffToff88 said:

"Champs and first 3 losers league"

 

Careful you don't cut yourself on that edge

Well It is, innit?

[Fox92]

Winning a trophy is not comparable to finishing top 4.

 

FA Cup all day long. Listen to some of our players speak in the lead up to the game, players like Kasper and Vardy talking aout how they've never played in a cup final.

[murphy]

I would love Champion's League and the potential for growth that would bring, but I'd swap a testicle for the FA Cup. 

 

Sod it, I'd give both.

[murphy]

I'm quite ashamed to admit this but my plan for tomorrow is to watch the first 20 mins or so and then pause the TV and take the dog for a long walk.  When I get back, I will check the result.  If we win, I will watch it in comfort and stress free.  If we lose, the TV goes out the window.

 

I know that I can't watch it live, unless I was there in person.  Watching at home I would be pacing and chewing my fingernails to the bone.  Every Chelsea attack would shred my nerves.

 

I know, it's pathetic.

[KingsX]

This is infesting every thread on here, and I'm beyond bored with it.

 

Do you prioritize a day of intense euphoria?  Followed by a mild (yet lifelong) tail of good feeling?  Good for you!  Can’t argue that.

 

Do you prioritize maximizing the Club’s chances for growth and success?  Via CL funding and attractiveness to players?  Can’t argue that either.

 

NEITHER IS WRONG.  Yet some of the Cuppers are so hard at it, with such intense moral indignation (“I can’t believe you would prefer fourth place”) ... I finally realized, it’s this forum’s version of Virtue Signaling.

 

There’s only three games left; all are critical.  It’s not like Rodgers will be rotating to the far end of the bench in any of them unless someone gets hurt.  We go with everything we’ve got, and the cards will fall without regard to any of our preferences.

[murphy]

47 minutes ago, KingsX said:

This is infesting every thread on here, and I'm beyond bored with it.

 

Do you prioritize a day of intense euphoria?  Followed by a mild (yet lifelong) tail of good feeling?  Good for you!  Can’t argue that.

 

Do you prioritize maximizing the Club’s chances for growth and success?  Via CL funding and attractiveness to players?  Can’t argue that either.

 

NEITHER IS WRONG.  Yet some of the Cuppers are so hard at it, with such intense moral indignation (“I can’t believe you would prefer fourth place”) ... I finally realized, it’s this forum’s version of Virtue Signaling.

 

There’s only three games left; all are critical.  It’s not like Rodgers will be rotating to the far end of the bench in any of them unless someone gets hurt.  We go with everything we’ve got, and the cards will fall without regard to any of our preferences.

 

It's the romantics vs the pragmatists

Dreamers vs accountants

Cavaliers vs roundheads

Byron vs Larkin

 

...I might have laboured the point...

 

I'm an old romantic, dreamy, Byronic laughing cavalier and I shall consider my virtue well and truly signalled.

 

 

[TiffToff88]

1 hour ago, Astleyfox said:

Well It is, innit?

No, it isn't. You make it sound like you have no interest in us playing in the competition if we don't qualify by winning the league. If we finish 2nd-4th would you really consider us to be losers?

[KansasFox]

47 minutes ago, KingsX said:

This is infesting every thread on here, and I'm beyond bored with it.

 

Do you prioritize a day of intense euphoria?  Followed by a mild (yet lifelong) tail of good feeling?  Good for you!  Can’t argue that.

 

Do you prioritize maximizing the Club’s chances for growth and success?  Via CL funding and attractiveness to players?  Can’t argue that either.

 

NEITHER IS WRONG.  Yet some of the Cuppers are so hard at it, with such intense moral indignation (“I can’t believe you would prefer fourth place”) ... I finally realized, it’s this forum’s version of Virtue Signaling.

 

There’s only three games left; all are critical.  It’s not like Rodgers will be rotating to the far end of the bench in any of them unless someone gets hurt.  We go with everything we’ve got, and the cards will fall without regard to any of our preferences.

Maybe I'm just buying into the virtue-signaling, but for me there is a moral hypocrisy.  We are in uproar at the ESL as the pinnacle of greed in the game and how it has devalued competition, but then we would rather have champions league and the money, prestige and players it brings than WIN a competition!  I have heard many in the past mock the Arsenal and spurs of this world of treating top for like a trophy, but now we have fans that would rather have top four than win the most prestigious domestic cup competition, possibly in the world.

Not trying to virtue-signal.  I Just don't get it.

[Astleyfox]

1 minute ago, TiffToff88 said:

No, it isn't. You make it sound like you have no interest in us playing in the competition if we don't qualify by winning the league. If we finish 2nd-4th would you really consider us to be losers?

I would consider that we had done extremely well, but won nothing. If we win the cup, history will say, “Leicester City, FA Cup winners”. If we come fourth, history may record that we probably did ok at Shaktar Donetsk. The money angle isnt my gig, not my money. Im a fan, not an accountant. Its completely possible that we could get both. That would be nice. 

[Stuntman_Mike]

6 hours ago, Astleyfox said:

Dont know whether its already been done, but take your pick. 
   FA Cup every time for me!

 

Oh it's been done.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TO DEATH.

Edited 14 May 2021 by Stuntman_Mike

[Claridge]

Champions leagu by miles for me.

[urban fox]

Not so long ago, our manager had the mantra "one game at a time". Didn't do too shabbily with it.

Lets just do the same, play the game and team in front of us and move on to the next. enjoy the ride

[HankMarvin]

1 hour ago, KansasFox said:

Maybe I'm just buying into the virtue-signaling, but for me there is a moral hypocrisy.  We are in uproar at the ESL as the pinnacle of greed in the game and how it has devalued competition, but then we would rather have champions league and the money, prestige and players it brings than WIN a competition!  I have heard many in the past mock the Arsenal and spurs of this world of treating top for like a trophy, but now we have fans that would rather have top four than win the most prestigious domestic cup competition, possibly in the world.

Not trying to virtue-signal.  I Just don't get it.

Most prestigious domestic cup competition in the world, but look how it’s changed and is viewed now. It started out with the big teams playing second string 11s and over the last couple of years there have been championship teams that have played under 18 teams and virtually concede the tie before a ball is kicked.

Where will the competition be in 10 years time if more and more lower ranked teams adopt the same approach.

Unfortunately this is one of the main reasons the cup has lost its magic.

 

Given the choice of two, I would like the club to qualify for the Champions League, attract a higher calibre of transfer target and maintain sustainable levels of growth.

 

Fingers crossed, the Club can do both.

[PaulW]

3 hours ago, Kitchandro said:

Hang on - you’re talking about ‘competing’ - isn’t ‘winning’ the successful part of competing?

 

People choosing being (most likely) an also ran in a competition over actual success in the form of winning a trophy is beyond comprehension. There is no point ‘competing’ if your aim isn’t to win things.
 

I think people’s perspective has become warped since we won the league. We will not be a top 6 club forever, that status is fleeting. Thinking cups don’t matter because we can be a permanent fixture in Europe is deluded. Champions League money or not, we will eventually find our level again. 

 

Winning something like the FA Cup is pretty much the be all and end all on the pitch. We might never get this opportunity again! Let’s have something to show for competing.

The biggest clubs win trophies.

Well you're a bundle of joy and optimism. 

[STUHILL]

I am truly baffled that any fan would pick anything other than winning the FA Cup for the first time in our history. 

 

The game truly is rotten when even fans would pick money over winning the FA Cup. 

[KansasFox]

36 minutes ago, HankMarvin said:

Most prestigious domestic cup competition in the world, but look how it’s changed and is viewed now. It started out with the big teams playing second string 11s and over the last couple of years there have been championship teams that have played under 18 teams and virtually concede the tie before a ball is kicked.

Where will the competition be in 10 years time if more and more lower ranked teams adopt the same approach.

Unfortunately this is one of the main reasons the cup has lost its magic.

 

Given the choice of two, I would like the club to qualify for the Champions League, attract a higher calibre of transfer target and maintain sustainable levels of growth.

 

Fingers crossed, the Club can do both.

I don't disagree with that.  Guess I'm just clinging to the nostalgia of what it was... unwilling to let go!  It still means as much as at used to for me.

[Gerard]

3 hours ago, murphy said:

I'm quite ashamed to admit this but my plan for tomorrow is to watch the first 20 mins or so and then pause the TV and take the dog for a long walk.  When I get back, I will check the result.  If we win, I will watch it in comfort and stress free.  If we lose, the TV goes out the window.

 

I know that I can't watch it live, unless I was there in person.  Watching at home I would be pacing and chewing my fingernails to the bone.  Every Chelsea attack would shred my nerves.

 

I know, it's pathetic.

 

Really bad choice mate.

 

"The journey is better than arriving".

 

You need to be made to put through the wringer to really enjoy the experience, if you know we win in the end then it's like watching a kids movie when you know everything works out alright in the end. When we won the title I didn't get so much pleasure when they lifted the trophy but the hardship and stress when the outcome was still unknown. If we lose you'll deal with it but don't rob yourself of the moment if we win and we're hanging on to a one goal lead in the last 4 mins of injury time.

[murphy]

7 minutes ago, Gerard said:

 

Really bad choice mate.

 

"The journey is better than arriving".

 

You need to be made to put through the wringer to really enjoy the experience, if you know we win in the end then it's like watching a kids movie when you know everything works out alright in the end. When we won the title I didn't get so much pleasure when they lifted the trophy but the hardship and stress when the outcome was still unknown. If we lose you'll deal with it but don't rob yourself of the moment if we win and we're hanging on to a one goal lead in the last 4 mins of injury time.

I know.  

[Guest ttfn]

3 hours ago, murphy said:

I'm quite ashamed to admit this but my plan for tomorrow is to watch the first 20 mins or so and then pause the TV and take the dog for a long walk.  When I get back, I will check the result.  If we win, I will watch it in comfort and stress free.  If we lose, the TV goes out the window.

 

I know that I can't watch it live, unless I was there in person.  Watching at home I would be pacing and chewing my fingernails to the bone.  Every Chelsea attack would shred my nerves.

 

I know, it's pathetic.

This is a really good example of what it means for this club to be in an FA Cup Final.

 

The Big 6 take this sort of thing for granted, this is our first FA Cup Final for 52 years and our first final of any sort for 21 years. It’s hard to imagine any Chelsea fans are going to be as worked up about their 4th final in 5 years as we will be about our first in 52.

[Vestan Pance]

If we lose tomorrow, do we qualify for the Champions League?

[Pliskin]

Go all in for both....