I know there's a long long way to go in the season, but I've seen the topic of European football in 2010/11 crop up in a couple of threads, thought I'd start a thread on it.
I know a lot of people like to take it a game at a time, but I'm getting right excited at the prospect at another jaunt across Europe. As I say, there is a long long way to go, but just now we must be looking good. If I'm not mistaken it's 1st and 2nd into the CL (I heard the other day that that might be changing to 1 in the CL, is this right?), 3rd and 4th into the Europa League and either the cup winner/finalist/5th place into the Europa as well, depending on the positioning of the finalists. As Dundee Utd, Celtic, Hibs & Rangers (I think, although I could be wrong about them 4) are all in the Scottish Cup at the moment, it looks very likely that a top 5 finish would see us qualify for European football again.
Rangers and Celtic are looking likely to take the Champions League places. We're 4 points behind Dundee Utd in 4th, 3 behind Hibs in 5th and 7 above Hearts in 6th. What with us playing Hearts at home in 5 days time and the form we're in, I think a win and we could seriously have one hand on the prize. What with Hearts to play us away from home, the league leaders and with an Edinburgh derby pre-split, we must be in with a right good chance of securing a top 5 spot very soon.
Thoughts?
And can a mod fix the typo in the title please.