Certainly don't see us as a potential winner this year. Nowhere near. Could probably do with the game for the (once again) new team though.
Newcastle could win it, with a trailing wind. But won't.
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Didn't we beat Newcastle a couple of years ago at home in the early rounds of the Carling Cup? Maybe longer than 2 years actually..
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Was that the year we went out to Arsenal? Newcastle were also a Championship side with the Spanish waiter weren't they?
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2018 (and away in 2017).
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We absolutely could. At the very least I'd like is to aim for the last 4.
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I know there's an air of optimism around the club, but that's to not be in a relegation battle (much). Winning things is cloud cuckoo land.
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Yes, 2018 it was - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq2FWBRyjq0.
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It's a competition that teams better than ours don't take seriously until the last 8.
You people who were obsessed with going balls out for Cups when we were in the Champ and want to bail on them now we're in the Prem have your heads on backwards.
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I'm not saying we bail, just think we aren't good enough to win. Never thought that in Championship either but beating some big names then was fun.
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The last 11 have been shared between Man City, ManU, Liverpool and Chelsea - I'd guess that was the point at which the big 6 could pick two teams of internationals, so could swap out most of their first 11 with only a small drop off in quality. Also the two legged semi-final increases the difficulty in getting to a final (as we found two years ago).
I expect Nuno to put out a decent team but we'll only have played two games and he'll definitely want to give games to any of his core 15-18 that haven't started either of the first games. Which seems like a reasonable approach.
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Rotating a few of the core 15-18 is different to playing kids and reserves like the 3rd choice keeper.
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Nuno is not a man for cup competitions going on his record at Wolves.
One FAC SF apart, in four FAC and four LC appearances under Nuno, they exited at the first hurdle three times, second game once and third round three times.
And Forest were not exactly fun to watch in the FAC last season (replay win at Blackpool AET, replay win on penalties at home to Bristol City and poor last-minute home defeat to Man U) -
Yeah but Wolves are shit.
He picked strong teams and talked up the FA cup last season.
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Excellent. I shall now attempt to shoe horn in this response wherever pissible while remaining tenously in context for the rest of tbe day.
No one will have a clue what I'm on about obviously, but Wolves are shit.
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Here we go with the polarised nonsense, projecting your limited thought process on others. Assuming you are not intentionally trolling.
Nobody is bailing on anything. But non-idiots can also hold in parallel the recognition that we are probably not in the top ten sides in the country, and bumping into a couple of those will probably end our interest. As the relatively narrow band of recent cup winners demonstrate.
You are not psychologically well grounded, as a sportsman, if you set a completely arbitrary illogical target. Last four? Who are we playing? We will be doing well to do that if we are drawn against villa, manure, Liverpool, and man shitty consecutively.
You aim to be the best that you can be today. You aim to win your next game.
What you seem not to grasp is that includes cup games, rather than exclude them. Process and confidence on an ongoing basis being much more important than uncontrollable arbitrary future goals.
Very modern of you. I believe the current handbook is:
- Set unrealistic expectation.
- Whine like a bitch when the thing that was never going to happen, doesn't happen.
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And yet we were sh!t in it.
