Bill S Preston Esq.
Just doesn't shut up
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For balance, I'm all for it. Increased jeopardy with no possibility of a second chance. Show up or ship out.
Not a bad idea. And increased possibility of a team outside the top seven earning European football.I’ve often thought this.
Or make it just for everyone not in any sort of European cup. So all prem teams are in 2 cups, but non in 3. Could be played same midweeks as European games which would help the fixture schedule.
Scrapping replays is fine.
IF.
The non Premier league/Championship sides chose whether the tie would be played at home or away.
That’s a fair point, but I would take it a step further.
In 3rd and 4th round games, if drawn against a lower league team, the Premier league club will automatically have to play away from home
In the last 20 years it’s been won twice outside the big boys (blues and Swansea) it’s absolutely finished as a competition. No one takes it seriously including managers, players or fans. Attendances are woeful, tv figures are woeful.Why would you want to get rid of the League Cup as a Wolves fan?
What does that benefit us? If we won the League Cup next year it would be the best day out/moment for a generation of fans. It would be remembered forever and give us European football.
You want to scrap that potential so Man City and Man United can play Porto and Salzburg in the Club World Cup? Or play each other in an extra Champions League group game?
Yes, this would be a problem. Like years ago when small teams decided they couldn't play at home and played away deliberately. It generates the cash, I remember Burton Albion playing at Old Trafford as a non-league team, transformed the finances in one game. Would further guarantee progress for the big clubs though.Think the point is to give the lower team the financial opportunity of playing at a Liverpool or Man Utd etc. ie they want to play away..
That’s a fair point, but I would take it a step further.
In 3rd and 4th round games, if drawn against a lower league team, the Premier league club will automatically have to play away from home.
Depends which teams though.Bettter for the smaller sides to play away against Premier League sides because of the gate receipts etc.
I like the German model where the team lower in the League when the draw is made gets to play at home. (Here, we could amend it so that the home team could opt to play away if they wanted to for a bigger payday).Scrapping replays is fine.
IF.
The non Premier league/Championship sides chose whether the tie would be played at home or away.
Has been suggested before but then teams will probably complain they got a harder draw than a lower seeded side .I like the German model where the team lower in the League when the draw is made gets to play at home. (Here, we could amend it so that the home team could opt to play away if they wanted to for a bigger payday).
Can't be done at the moment as UEFA regulations say you have to qualify through the league.Personally I’d scrap the league cup. Or make it champ and below only. We don’t need two cups.
As a pay off, give the fa cup winners the champions league place.
It’ll never happen.
Or keep the league Cup for the championship and league one and two.In the last 20 years it’s been won twice outside the big boys (blues and Swansea) it’s absolutely finished as a competition. No one takes it seriously including managers, players or fans. Attendances are woeful, tv figures are woeful.
Re your last paragraph, point me where I said any of that?
Scrap the tedious league cup and keep the FA cup replays.
I think a certain media darling German manager has a lot to answer for.'The current format, which has no replays from the Fifth Round onwards, has been extended throughout the "Competition Proper" in light of changes to the calendar driven by the expanded UEFA competitions.'
In other words, the Big/Sky 6 don't want them.
Indeed.I think a certain media darling German manager has a lot to answer for.
Too late for him to worry about though .I think a certain media darling German manager has a lot to answer for.
The weekend is surely Saturday and Sunday. Even Friday and Monday isn’t the weekend.There is a line in the press release that says that games will be played exclusively on weekends, a few lines further they say about an extended weekend for the 4th round with games being played between Friday and Wednesday, since when have Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday been classed as a weekend ?
I’ve just seen this suggestion on Twitter, and I think it’s brilliant:-
If a draw after 90 minutes, the lowest placed team in the league pyramid goes through, if you are an "elite" team and can't beat a minnow after 90 you don't deserve to go through.
About time. Replays hurt the top players too much
No extra time should be next. Straight to pens
It is a little bit of a joke. It has advantages and disadvantages if anything beneficial to bigger clubs putting out a stronger side…. Are they hoping for less injuries? They need to space the games out make the season longer not shorter but hey ho. Having more warm weather games would reduce injuries. Cold weather muscles tighten quickerThe next step will be to go straight to penalties, get rid of that tiring 90 minutes beforehand…
I would imagine that the original idea meant team from a lower division, rather than the same division.Thats fine until top of the league City draw 1-1 with 2nd placed Liverpool, should Liverpool just go through cos theyre lower?
Moving the final forward to within the league season will only exacerbate congestion, so it isn't about that. This (along with the decision being taken behind the backs of the EFL) is the final mask-off moment from the FA and the Premier League. They have made it crystal clear they resent the Cup, they don't care who knows it, and openly seek to tarnish its luster by having it play second fiddle to the final league day.And it’s pure bull**** to move the final to the weekend before the Premier League ends. They use the excuse of giving players at least three weeks off to re-energise but then fail to mention the world-wide tours and friendlies these tired players have to play in. The FA Cup should ALWAYS be the last game of the season.
It's not the first time the FA Cup was only available via subscription TV.And from 25-26 the FA cup will no longer be entirely free to air with TNT securing the rights in a 4 year deal.
Much worse. We haven't seen anything yet.they are just capitalists behaving as such. there is worse to come.