Decent crowd .
Brighton are not likely to attract Premiership sofa watchers in thier droves .
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Decent crowd .
Brighton are not likely to attract Premiership sofa watchers in thier droves .
I'm going down for the first time in ages on Saturday, took me about 25 minutes to get the tickets online because the system is so shite!
Attendances for cup games have been poor for years. Not sure why the club don't just do tickets for £5, or at least some creative deals (like u16s go free with paying adult) to get a more people in.
I think the fact that the Blackburn game was a quarter final is also significant! We had just over 8.5k for the previous round against Leicester.
It's interesting that a winnable quarter final in the league cup attracted a lower crowd than 2 league games. 4 seasons before when we reached the FA cup final, we played Norwich and Leicester in the league at home with the Wolves 5th round game somewhere in between. More people watched the FA cup tie than the two league games.
7,002 at Newport’s game against Southampton this evening. County getting a bigger crowd than City. Strange times indeed.
So discussing attendances (which are a matter of fact) is "having a pop at the club and its fans"?
You're a very strange man, Stockholm. Distinctly odd. But credit to you, at least you've managed to post a couple of messages without mentioning Sam Hammam, AA or his message board. It makes a change.
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I think the tournament has had its day.
No idea but do other countries of 2 cup competitions?
Apparently, France did have a league cup which began in 1993, but it was suspended indefinitely in 2020 due to fixture congestion.
Not if it's used as a bridge between U23's football and the league.
Most clubs have big enough squads to take a serious run at FA Cup and their league (Champions League club definitely have enough to run at three competitions) leaving League Cup as chance to experiment or bring players through.
Portugal has two cup competitions - the Taca de Portugal (FA Cup) and the Taca da Liga (a league cup for the top two divsions).
I've long said it should be a football league only competition. It would mean a lot more.
How excited can Man City's fans be when they win it four times in a row, and five times in the last six? Or six out of the last eight?
If it's only for football league clubs, then fans who rarely get to Wembley will have a proper chance of seeing their team win a trophy. And let's face it, that is basically every club in the football league.
If an EFL club wins the current competition, they go into the Europa Cup. If Premier League teams were banned from entering, then it is very likely that European qualification for the winners would be removed. Also teams outside the top six in the Prem can currently go for European qualification by winning it. To alter its current format would therefore cause more harm than good - so in my opinion, leave it alone.
Is qualifying for Europe the most attractive part of it?
I'd imagine if you asked fans of championship clubs (wonder where we could find any) if they would rather have a miniscule chance of winning it and getting into Europe, or a realistic chance and no Europe, I bet they'd choose the latter.
I don't think my suggestion will happen. Not because of this, but because it'll be deemed less attractive for sponsors without a glamour final. But it would surely breathe life back into a competition that no one gives a shit about any more.
Is that true?
The last time fans were able to attend games, the crowds for the quarter finals of the EFL Cup were as follows:
17,342 - Middlesbrough v Burton Albion
24,644 - Leicester v Manchester City
40,432 - Chelsea v Bournemouth
59,016 - Arsenal v Tottenham
Those attendances don't suggest to me that nobody gives a shit about the League Cup any more.
It's always been a competition that has sat below the league and the FA Cup in the pecking order for most fans, but I don't think things are any different in that respect to how they were ten or twenty years ago.