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Rook said:
GO VILLIANS!!!!!! I'd happily give up 5th if you relegate them.
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I would'nt. I am almost certain that if we finish 6th, we have an extra qualifying round to reach the Europa League. Anyone have some kind of link as to who plays what depending on final league placings??
 

parkendmaster said:
Best link i could find mate:

UEFA Europa League 2009?10 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hopefully we will win and Newcastle will lose.
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Cheers for that mate. It is interesting to see that 5th and 7th played Premier League teams are stated but nothing for finishing 6th. I heard on Radio City last week, the commentator saying finishing 5th has a significance as there would be an extra qulaifying round if finishing 6th. Although that link is useful, without saying what happens to the 6th place team, i still remain in the dark.
 
steevie said:
Cheers for that mate. It is interesting to see that 5th and 7th played Premier League teams are stated but nothing for finishing 6th. I heard on Radio City last week, the commentator saying finishing 5th has a significance as there would be an extra qulaifying round if finishing 6th. Although that link is useful, without saying what happens to the 6th place team, i still remain in the dark.
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But I'm sure the team that qualifies via the FA cup doesn't have any qualifying rounds, which should mean regardless of whether we finish fifth, we're sorted.
 
Nebbiolo said:
But I'm sure the team that qualifies via the FA cup doesn't have any qualifying rounds, which should mean regardless of whether we finish fifth, we're sorted.
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Quite true mate, that is the part i failed to mention. Problem is though, we have to win the FA Cup first, which i am sure we will do. (y)
 

But surely in the European scenario we have already won the F.A.cup , with Chelsea already in the Champions league? Still cant believe how Villa threw europe away this season....they even entered the Inter toto........!!!!
 
Found it thanks to parkendmaster's link.

Aston Villa and Everton qualified through league position. If Everton fail to win the FA Cup, 5th placed team in the Premier League 2008-09 will enter the group stage and 6th placed team in the league will enter the play-off round.

Play-off Draw held on 7 August 2009; First Leg: 20 August 2009 Second Leg: 27 August 2009

Group Stage: Matchday One 17 September 2009.
 
It'll just be like the Uefa cup when everyone had to play a qualifier to get to the group stages. So no biggy IMO if we just get 6th.

Remember, we finished 5th last year and had to play Liege to qualify for the group stages. Add's an extra two games, but that hasn’t changed for a few seasons now.

Be nice not to have the extra games and get 5th but I wouldn’t be crying if we got 6th.

I just want that effing FA Cup!
 
Rugby Toffee said:
But surely in the European scenario we have already won the F.A.cup , with Chelsea already in the Champions league? Still cant believe how Villa threw europe away this season....they even entered the Inter toto........!!!!
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That's what I thought, RT.
 

kenada_blue said:
It'll just be like the Uefa cup when everyone had to play a qualifier to get to the group stages. So no biggy IMO if we just get 6th.

Remember, we finished 5th last year and had to play Liege to qualify for the group stages. Add's an extra two games, but that hasn’t changed for a few seasons now.

Be nice not to have the extra games and get 5th but I wouldn’t be crying if we got 6th.

I just want that effing FA Cup!
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We all want the FA Cup mate. (y)

However failure to win it and finishing 5th, after a bit of studying, we then have the prospect of having to face Valencia, Villarreal, Lazio, Zenit St Petersburg, Benfica, Ajax or Besiktas just just ensure a long stay in Europe. So you see, finishing 5th is a bigger deal than you may think. Also finishing 5th would ensure Europa League qualification meaning the lads would be more relaxed for the final. A good run in Europe is essential for us, just look how the Liege defeat affected us early on last season compared to the previous season where we done really well in the UEFA Cup.
 
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steevie said:
We all want the FA Cup mate. (y)

However failure to win it and finishing 5th, after a bit of studying, we then have the prospect of having to face Valencia, Villarreal, Lazio, Zenit St Petersburg, Benfica, Ajax or Besiktas just just ensure a long stay in Europe. So you see, finishing 5th is a bigger deal than you may think. Also finishing 5th would ensure Europa League qualification meaning the lads would be more relaxed for the final. A good run in Europe is essential for us, just look how the Liege defeat affected us early on last season compared to the previous season where we done really well in the UEFA Cup.
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True. Like, I said I'd prefer not to have it but if it happens, it happens. Those teams, plus AC Milan, were all in this years Uefa cup..so if we get em, we get em.

I do like the way the 2 finalists this year were teams we beat last year.
 
Why many secretly hope for Newcastle relegation - including me - mirror.co.uk
Why many secretly hope for Newcastle relegation
In an age where our society is said to be dumbing down it is reassuring to know that this week there are millions of people who have had nothing but mathematics on their mind.
The fact that their mental number crunching – addition, subtractions, variables, endless possibilities – has been done in the name of football is neither here nor there. Sesame Street had a giant yellow bird helping people to count, and no one got sniffy about that.
I am, of course, talking about the stresses brought about by the prospect of relegation.
At least for fans of West Bromwich Albion, the anguish is over. Middlesbrough must also suspect that the game is up. Then again, if they score something like 120 goals at the weekend there is still a chance that they might save themselves.
And while there’s still this chance, their fans will still suffer.
But, really, the true suffering that is brought about by mathematics and football is being endured by fans of Newcastle, Hull and Sunderland, the three teams who still have a real chance of both staying up and going down. In fact, if the supporters of these clubs had dedicated their lives to mathematics the way they’ve dedicated this week to the subject, they could all work for NASA.
In a little over 48 hours we will know the worst. Many of us suspect that the trap door will open on either the club from East Yorkshire or Wearside. But many of us, I’m sure, hope that it will be Newcastle United that gets sunk.
Before members of the Toon Army get hysterical here, please let me explain – it’s nothing personal. It’s just that yours is the biggest club in trouble. To see you go down would be… well, it would be funny. But more than that, it would offer hope that at least some parts of Premier League are not so predictable they may as well have been scripted by Disney.
There is also all that crap that certain people throw out about supporters of the Toon being – cough – “the best fans in the world”. If this is true, and you have no glory hunters within your ranks, then it won’t matter if there’s no glory to be hunted, will it? If you’re the best fans in the world then you’ll go and see your team in whatever division they find themselves, right?
I bet it doesn’t look like this from inside the city limits, but the season-long scream of hubris and incompetence, high farce and low morals, panic and hysteria that has wafted out of St James’ Park has only one logical ending – and relegation is it.
Anything else would feel like a Hollywood ending tacked on to the final reel of a Ken Loach film.
So I’m sorry, but I hope Newcastle United get it this Sunday. Theirs has been the only interesting story in a Premier League that is, come the final reckoning, entirely predictable. I want to see this story reach its logical conclusion. If Manchester City were in this jam, I would want them too to be relegated (even more so because they’re stinking rich rather merely filthy rich). But since it’s the Toon that are in the frame, it’s they that will have to do.
I, and most every neutral in the country, wishes you the worst of luck come Sunday teatime.
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Before members of the Toon Army get hysterical here, please let me explain – it’s nothing personal. It’s just that yours is the biggest club in trouble. To see you go down would be… well, it would be funny
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LOL. Nothing clever, or intelligent. Just the truth. It would be funny.


Is that an official article? Can they get away with just ripping into a club? LOL.
 

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