Dalek2003

The reason is that some self righteous posters always disagree with the poster rather than the post.

Surely post of the week. Says it all. We now need to concentrate on one thing. Making sure we stay in the PL.

Exactly. I think we are in a relegation fight.

Well, I am relieved in a way that we are out of Europe. We clearly were not set up for the venture, a bit like setting out to climb Everest in flip-flops. No, we need to concentrate on keeping clear of the relegation zone. The club makes a tidy profit, board and owner happy and then make some cock and bull statement about ambition in order to keep supporters happy.

mid table ? as high as that ?

Ok, if we lose to Boro then start looking over your shoulder. We are on a nose dive !

I totally agree.

I said that back in August ffs !

Cheaper to get a new manager than rebuild a whole team just for Puel

When it was obvious we needed a striker, we did nothing. No, we have taken a massive gamble and at the end of this season we will lose our Premier League status.

Make no mistake, we are going to have to fight to stay up this year ! Selling our best players year after year, well it is going to catch us this time.

We bneed to concentrate on staying up, never mind Europe.

Not surprised after Saturday.

We need a new striker in January.

Boufal must be injured or unwell.

We need 3 points off one of our close rivals, ie in terms of size and ambition.

You are bang on with that.

17th or above. Very happy. You can keep the Cups.

Ah... just a few hundred metres away.

Because the biggest prize is the PL status. Never lose the punt for the pole.

It's hard to argue with that and everyone knows it. SFC is run to make a profit. That is our ambition. 17th minimum, anything else a bonus and keeps the fans happy.

I've been saying for a long time that we need an early exit from Europe and the Cup.

It's ok to be a 'selling club' if we maintain our premier status. If we lose that we won't attract young players who want first team experience in the PL.

We will have to buy a striker in January when we should have bought one in the summer. We are in big trouble if we do not score goals.

I fear you are right. I called this at the start of the season and was lambasted for such comments. I warned about the fact that we had not invested in the summer to be involved in Europe and was ridiculed. We need to hope we can get to 40 points or we will be in the Championship next year.