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Although i love to see us compete for everything we can in cup competitions I'm beginning to think it may be to our advantage if we where dumped out of the cups. At this moment our squad is very thin and what we have are far too inexperienced to fight on all fronts so it may be better to concentrate on the league table and get as high as we possibly can to lure a better quality of player. I know this always divides us but i honestly feel it will be better for us this year at least?.

I thought he was only concentrating on the league?Prefer the cups nowadays cant get excited by competing for 7th 8th 9th even 10th place.Dont think the current manager signs players he has never worked with before so wouldnt expect too much quality im afraid.

good point there Lain, as I've said before if we're in something I always want us to win it, and you indicate a similar view yourself also. However as you say, given the squad is very thin with a number of very young and inexperienced players, this defeat might not be the worst thing that could happen to us. The league table has to be our priority and if it meant getting higher up the rankings I'd happily sacrafice every thing else, even the Europa, if but with a heavy heart!

Annefield you put it better than me tbh, i know its early days at the moment and we were all fed up after wednesday but i think we have to choose to start somewhere and i think we should prioritise the league. We really need to walk before we can run here and all these cups are simply a distraction to the real bread and butter,im not sure how well we can do in the table but at least we can say we aimed all our efforts and albeit small resources at the main event, then we will see the wood for the trees and can root out the dead wood so to speak.

Exactly Lain, that puts it in a nutshell, couldn't agree more.

29 if I'm not mistaken...

The problem I find with this is even when we we had no europa last season which drains a lot of the players playing thursday-sunday, and with 7 days rest compared to 3 or 4 to those involved in europe we still struggled. Going out of those cups is not going to make us better believe me, I would rather stay in them and I really hope Rodgers takes the europa cup seriously after we leave the group because its a very prestigious cup to me and it would do wonders if we can win that.