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My grandmother proudly poops about in her wheelchair. Those two games were implosions of the first magnitude. And we don't need another win to be with Grannie; merely winning these two and getting stuffed 4-0 at Forest would have sufficed.

Sounds like it, but guess other clubs may wise up once they realise Albion would be playing 0-2-8-0 with 7 AMs on the bench.

A match made in Evann, methinks.

You are evidently not a lawyer.

That is largely down to crap teams in bottom 3. The points they don't get are distributed among the remainder so the anti for Europe is raised. Even if Albion had hung on to 2-0 against Leicester and Wolves, the 65 points still would have been insufficient for Europe (and even if we had then...

I guess it is sign of where we are now compared to anything in the club’s history that winning 4-1 at a traditional top 6 club is deemed unsatisfactory. I don’t like the term ‘entitlement’ but gotta say this comes close.

Yes. Happy. New manager and £193m on 9 signings (3 went out on loan) smacked of consolidation season, so to achieve over 60 points with 5th most GS and the team with most scorers is impressive. There always has to be a ‘but’ and mine is the ‘4 point’ but. Never mind 2/6 wins against bottom 3...

The next season was the last time Albion were top placed south coast side until 21/22.

That’s really unfair. It will be much quicker than that.

Love the coincidental contiguity of threads sometimes:

The NSC proper fan Stasi like to show off their self gratifying credentials on many threads. I leave early so know all about them.

Well, surely there are 18 other jokers, so we should be in CL next season.

Curious season when recent form is a poor guide to next games, Brighton being a key example, Winless in 8, followed by 9 wins in 11, followed by no wins in 6, followed by 2 wins in 3. Bournemouth, Fulham and Brentford have all done similar. Brentford had worse away record in League until about...

As I confidently predicted they would by January at the latest. Looks like Nuno is off so they could revert to bottom 6 next season with possibly losing Gibbs-White.

He (or rather a researcher) did explain it: only applies if Chelsea win Conference and fall out of top 5. They qualify for Europa and England has 3 teams in Europa and none in Conference.

Agree. I think his confidence is down and he is opting to pass when he could be more direct. Had a great chance in second half but passed straight to defender instead of burying it. His awareness seems fine; it is his execution that is missing.

My favourite normally as can get direct train from Taunton but marred yesterday by engineering works between Cheltenham and Birmingham, requiring either a scenic 4 hour journey partly through Wales with 4 changes or using rail replacement bus. M5 won that battle and was easy parking in city...

Nah, he's a no for me as no 'e' in his name.

I can’t think of a good reason not to qualify for CL. It allows us to concentrate on the League as winning CL is another route to Europe and arguably the easiest

Quoting a bit out of context. My point was that the season would be defined by the inability to beat crap teams and poor defensive record, not that it is fair to do so, or that I particularly proscribe to that view. My point was that FH could not really be blamed for either so was supporting...