A lot of fans are saying the same thing, some of these Europa games you need a plane flight, 12 hours on a bus and 3 days on a camel train to get to the games, then back home in time for a Sunday arvo game to play a team that is pretty fresh.
A lot of UCL games are just a 2 or 3 hour plane flight and we seem to handle UCL better then we handle Europa.
Our record on EPL games straight after some of these games speaks for itself and its been ages since we didn't qualify for Europa.
I think we need to be there and we will. Our transfer window this summer will see another clean out and influx of youngsters who will probabaly all be works in progress so they need the cup games to develop.
I really hope we dont just recruit a heap of 18-20 year olds as we already got heaps, we need some maturity and leadership in the midfield but generally those guys dont come cheap.
I dont see any point in being the youngest team in the EPL if you are perennial Europa qualifiers, at some stage we need to start challenging the top teams and atm we are not consistent enough because we are a team of kids.
