Zappa6995 3,792 Posted August 25, 2022 Share Posted August 25, 2022 Financially yes but stopping the 10 was imperative Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwerty 3,792 Posted August 25, 2022 Share Posted August 25, 2022 3 hours ago, Sparkle said: Nothing is better than the 55 56 Kaydubya11 and heathen fish boy 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkfalcons 2,396 Posted August 25, 2022 Share Posted August 25, 2022 55 imo to stop the 9 and a half in a row DiamondDan and BallochBear 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NixonRFC 1,580 Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 I would say it was less about 55 and more about stopping their 10, protecting our history, that being said that's just the parochial nature of football, being a good European team in the Champions League is where its at, it's what makes you look like a serious football club. geneva_ger 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheKingObv 10,860 Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 15 minutes ago, NixonRFC said: I would say it was less about 55 and more about stopping their 10, protecting our history, that being said that's just the parochial nature of football, being a good European team in the Champions League is where its at, it's what makes you look like a serious football club. 🥴 DiamondDan 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cr3_bear 15,545 Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 We weren’t exactly spilling on to the streets and overtaking George square for Wednesday night which kind of gives you the answer. I know there was lockdown and restrictions back then but even if their wasn’t I think we would have still seen Glasgow being overtaken for 55 regardless. Wednesday night was massive and amazing. It can’t be compared to the emotional release 55 brought out in us all though. geneva_ger 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moody Blue 10,036 Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 Can’t we just enjoy both? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RockwellGers 15,319 Posted August 26, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted August 26, 2022 5 minutes ago, Moody Blue said: Can’t we just enjoy both? NO! We all must choose. And then argue. Kaydubya11, theredhandofNewcastle, Blueshoff and 3 others 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrangeRab 3,399 Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 55 was bigger both for what it meant and financial and longer term implications. Because if we hadn’t got 55 I don’t think this qualification would have been possible for starters. Or the Seville run. And honestly the gap after might have meant it could have been several years before we could have won the league. This felt so sweet though. Seville was so gutting. Part of that was because of the prize of the Champions league. It’s really softened the blow for me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloUSAGers 1,434 Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 3 hours ago, OrangeRab said: 55 was bigger both for what it meant and financial and longer term implications. Because if we hadn’t got 55 I don’t think this qualification would have been possible for starters. Or the Seville run. And honestly the gap after might have meant it could have been several years before we could have won the league. This felt so sweet though. Seville was so gutting. Part of that was because of the prize of the Champions league. It’s really softened the blow for me. All of this is correct. Without 55 none of the rest happens. The thing about 55 is for the rest of Europe it showed RFC could win a title in a two team backwater league. Seville and now the CL has restored RFC as a club to be reckoned with in Europe. Five years ago after Progress our UEFA coefficient was 0.250. Today it is 54.000, 28th in Europe and 24th in the CL. Our coefficient is higher than Milan’s, by a fair bit. We are seasoned European battlers and a pedigreed European team again. Nobody wanted to draw us yesterday. Nobody would have preferred drawing us rather than a team that went out of all three European competitions last year, the third to Bodo/Glimt. geneva_ger 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Butler 23,188 Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 Based on the fact that 55 was pretty much in the bag months in advance, I'd say that Helicopter Sunday surpasses it for sheer Yassness. Laudrupsleftfoot and RockwellGers 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrLaudrup 5,073 Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 I think as a club we have to constantly revise our goals but should always be moving forward so comparison is not always helpful. At the time, 55 was imperative. It laid a marker down the we were back as a club and stopped the 10. But we move on and achieve new goals. It was clear from last year that we are a Champions League club. The run to the final was outstanding and when we didn’t qualify automatically by winning it raises the spectre of another year in the Europa league. We should be there every year but this qualification is so important for us, financially yes but also shows the progression, improvement and journey is continuing. ZZed and geneva_ger 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZZed 4,558 Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 I think each was an step to proving to ourselves that we were hitting the mark as winners. 55 proved we were good enough to win the league, the fall out from them was heaping joy apon joy. Us getting progressively better each year in Europe showed us we were getting better against the better European sides, and was objective verification to us of our improvement against better clubs than in Scotland. Each step was vital and propelled us forward to the next step. We are now in the Champions League and we need to keep moving forward as the job is not done yet. geneva_ger 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geneva_ger 9,682 Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 2 hours ago, Monkey Butler said: Based on the fact that 55 was pretty much in the bag months in advance, I'd say that Helicopter Sunday surpasses it for sheer Yassness. I take it you went for option 2? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockwellGers 15,319 Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 2 hours ago, Monkey Butler said: Based on the fact that 55 was pretty much in the bag months in advance, I'd say that Helicopter Sunday surpasses it for sheer Yassness. Didn't read the main point really but liking for use of the word Yassness. On occasion I will scream yass, often accompanied by an aggressive punching of the air. The screaming of the yass and the punching of the air are an established combination, occurring almost exclusively whilst viewing football contests. Kaydubya11 and Monkey Butler 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geneva_ger 9,682 Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 Did we play a kind of diamond shape against PSV? There was maybe a wee bit where they played through our middle but we seemed to correct that in the 2nd half. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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