Is there a match tonight then?

[Pat Vegas]

[7evens]

We have other fish to fry, even though for the past eight seasons, this has served up our best chance of silverware. http://www.awimb.com/images/smiley_icons/ohwell.gif

[PSRB]

I don't count it as a proper trophy anyway

[Maravilloso Marvo]

[Monty91]

reserve match.

I don't consider a competition that the majority of teams do not take seriously is a competition worth putting much effort into winning.

[7evens]

I refuse to recognise their silverware with any genuine validity.

[7evens]

I hope that in the spirit of competition, both sides allow their second strings a run out.

[redgunamo]

the last time in a season either side of league titles.

I suppose I'm just trying to say that winning it wouldn't necessarily do us any real harm and maybe it could do us some good.

[Monty91]

you've persistently said is past it to stay, and your only response was that he "got lucky" over the Ozil transfer?

Why are you so content to put your faith in a manger who you consider past it, but who got lucky over a single transfer? Given your previous insistence that he needed to go, is this not quite a bizarre reason for a u-turn?

[PSRB]

to the Capital One Cup.....

[redgunamo]

Or are you foreseeing a time in the future when we will decide we want to win absolutely everything again?

[PSRB]

it's also the stick I use to beat the spurs fan at work when he bangs on about our 8 years without a trophy, take out the League cup and it's over 20 years since they won anything

[Monty91]

[Maravilloso Marvo]

credit company going up first.

[7evens]

The highly illogical but sanguine view that after 17 years, and a consistancy of groundhog seasons in recent years, that perhaps it was time for a new face.

I'm not sure this was such a marginalised view.

The fact AW is enjoying something of a renaissance is a nice bonus but I've been around too long to see that as resounding vote of confidence at the end of October.

[redgunamo]

Anyhoo, they are financially doped :vsign:

[redgunamo]

[redgunamo]

From Wiki: Recently, in response to Arsène Wenger's claim that a League Cup win would not end his trophy drought, Alex Ferguson described the trophy as "a pot worth winning".

[redgunamo]

[redgunamo]

winning lots of other, bigger stuff.