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Bumble wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2026 9:18 am We're all fed up of saying 'let's target next year.' Always looking way off into the future when things will hopefully fall right for us.

We have three games left to get 9 points and hopefully secure a European spot.

No more excuses.

It's there for us to try and achieve, but I also think if we don't it's just because we aren't good enough.

We've played the entire season with Jake as an RB, Grealish has missed half the season, we've had Beto and Barry rotating up front, McNeil playing regularly, no Branthwaite for most of the season, and Mykolenko at LB.

I think if we finish in a European spot it's an incredible achievement, but just being in the mix for it has probably been a gross overachievement in itself.

If the other leagues stopped today then the teams from the big 5 leagues in the conference next season would be Freiburg, Celta Vigo, Como and Monaco. They're the toughest teams you're going to play.

Hope we qualify for it, win it and get in the Europa where we'd be one of the favourites as well.

Shogun wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2026 9:26 pm If the other leagues stopped today then the teams from the big 5 leagues in the conference next season would be Freiburg, Celta Vigo, Como and Monaco. They're the toughest teams you're going to play.

Hope we qualify for it, win it and get in the Europa where we'd be one of the favourites as well.

We all know a 45 year old Alvaro Morata will tear Tarkowski a new one and rattle in a hat trick as we slump out to Como…

Qualifying Play-offs, first leg: Palace 1-0 Fredrikstad (21st August)
Qualifying Play-offs, second leg: Fredrikstad 0-0 Palace (28th August)

League Phase
Matchday One: Dynamo Kyiv 0-2 Palace (2nd October)
Matchday Two: Palace 0-1 AEK Larnaca (23rd October)
Matchday Three: Palace 3-1 AZ Alkmaar (6th November)
Matchday Four: Strasbourg 2-1 Palace (27th November)
Matchday Five: Shelbourne 0-3 Palace (11th December)
Matchday Six: Palace 2-2 KuPS (18th December)

Knockout rounds
Play-off round, first leg: Zrinjski Mostar 1-1 Palace (19th February)
Play-off round, second leg: Palace 2-0 Zrinjski Mostar (2-0 agg., 26th February)

Round of 16, first leg: Palace 0-0 AEK Larnaca (12th March)
Round of 16, second leg: AEK Larnaca 1-2 Palace (2-1 agg. a.e.t., 19th March)

Quarter-final, first leg: Palace 3-0 Fiorentina (9th April)
Quarter-final, second leg: Fiorentina 2-1 Palace (4-2 agg., 16th April)

Semi-final, first leg: Shakhtar Donetsk 1-3 Palace (30th April)
Semi-final, second leg: Palace 2-1 Shakhtar Donetsk (5-2 agg., 7th May)

Fiorentina, Shaktar and Larnaca are no mugs like

If we qualified for the conference league and made the right signings I'm confident we'd deffo win it.

We have the best set of fixtures compared to the rest of our rivals for European places.

Barring our unfortunate recent post 90mins meltdowns we’d be comfortably in the box seat so if we learn from that no reason why we can’t be targeting 9 pts from the next 3 games.

Go and get 9 points and let’s see what we’re saying

Take that draw. Interesting our last two games are the same as Chelsea but with the fixtures inversed. Fulham/Bournemouth is a tough one to know what to want. Wolves getting something at Brighton would be nice but very unlikely.

Shogun wrote: ↑Sat May 09, 2026 1:56 pm Take that draw. Interesting our last two games are the same as Chelsea but with the fixtures inversed. Fulham/Bournemouth is a tough one to know what to want. Wolves getting something at Brighton would be nice but very unlikely.

Brighton won already

weimaranerblues wrote: ↑Sat May 09, 2026 2:09 pm Brighton won already

No surprise. Wolves and Burnley are basically gimmes at this point.

Fulham-Bournemouth draw is best I think.

Think we'll need a few favours from City and !! ,

A Fulham equaliser would be massive here

Fuck me cross bar still rattling