Based on our 3rd place finish for last season we should ideally be looking to match that once again. Failing that at least be competing for a European slot.
A long way to go but our form (bar the Rangers game) is currently bottom six standard. Not going to get any easier with the packed schedule and injuries/suspensions piling up.
Hypothetically, would we be willing to trade a place in the top 6 for a cup win? I'd say yes, these opportunities don't come around too often (three cup wins in my lifetime).
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Thread: Cup win for bottom six?
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25-11-2021 10:10 AM #1
Cup win for bottom six?
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25-11-2021 10:12 AM #2This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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25-11-2021 10:14 AM #3
Yip, top six not being funny happens most years.
Cup wins (3 in my lifetime, and I’m 41).
J
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25-11-2021 10:15 AM #4
I'd like a nice day out in December, but if that means loads of pish days at Easter Road & beyond for the rest of the season then pass.
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25-11-2021 10:17 AM #6
A bottom six finish is under no circumstance acceptable, cup win or not.
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25-11-2021 10:18 AM #7
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Cup win all day long.
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25-11-2021 10:22 AM #8
The 2 shouldn't be mutually exclusive.
If I had to choose one then it would be a cup win. However in a non hypothetical scenario we can do both and very much should be finishing in the top 6.PM Awards General Poster of The Year 2015, 2016, 2017. Probably robbed in other years
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25-11-2021 10:25 AM #9
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Bottom six should be sackable for a club our size.
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25-11-2021 10:30 AM #10
There’s no reason we shouldn’t be aiming for both tbh. We shouldn’t have to sacrifice top 6 for a cup, especially when we are already in the final of one.
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25-11-2021 10:34 AM #11
I'd choose cup win. Though, if we win cup, I'd imagine it would be a nice catalyst for the rest of our season so can't see them being exclusive.
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25-11-2021 10:35 AM #12
Sad that it’s came to this.
Exactly the mentality I think Gordon wants a distant memory.
Time to splash the cash Ron
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25-11-2021 10:36 AM #14
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25-11-2021 10:43 AM #16This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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25-11-2021 10:44 AM #17
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25-11-2021 10:44 AM #18
I'd a cup win for an 8th/7th placed finish.
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25-11-2021 10:44 AM #19
By next Wednesday night we could be sitting bottom of table never mind bottom 6,
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25-11-2021 10:44 AM #20This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote"...when Hibs won the Scottish Cup final and that celebration, Sunshine on Leith? I don’t think there’s a better football celebration ever in the game.”
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25-11-2021 10:49 AM #21
Keeping in mind this is only a Hypercritical Question (or sumfin)...
Then yes
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25-11-2021 11:01 AM #22
If we win the league cup in December we'll remember it for the rest of our lives.
I'm not sure anybody will remember finishing 3rd last season.
Cup win it is.
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25-11-2021 11:35 AM #27
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I remember having this conversation on here after the St Johnstone cup final last season. Many poster saying they would happily take St Js league position for a cup double. I then went on to talk about how that would mean accepting losses like last night if we were to end in a similar league position as St Johnstone last season.
I think don't see why we can't achieve both, however this season I fear it will be tough unless we can recruit well in January and plug the gaps left from the summer transfer window.
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25-11-2021 12:14 PM #28
I think I probably would considering we would have beaten Rangers and Celtic on our way to winning the cup but finishing in the bottom 6 would be an embarrassment for us.
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25-11-2021 12:28 PM #29
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No brainer for a football fan in my opinion. The glory and memory of winning a cup versus the difference between finishing 5th or 6th and 7th or 8th?!
Also as a note to those pointing it out… everyone knows it’s possible to have both. It’s a hypothetical question.
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25-11-2021 12:35 PM #30
Finishing bottom 6 is a failure IMO, losing cup finals isn't. I wont to win the cup but winning it and finishing 8th is not a good season to me.
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