I think the tournament has had its day.
No idea but do other countries of 2 cup competitions?
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I think the tournament has had its day.
No idea but do other countries of 2 cup competitions?
Only Scotland and Wales as far as I'm aware. Seems to be a British thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hilts
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hilts
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).
Germany dabbled with a second cup competition and which involved just 6 clubs but did away with it after three seasons -so it's a 'nein' from Deutschland.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman
By the way, I wonder if more people partook of jus de vache when the Milk Cup was around.
I've long said it should be a football league only competition. It would mean a lot more.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hilts
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by lardy
Is qualifying for Europe the most attractive part of it?Quote:
Originally Posted by dml1954
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?Quote:
Originally Posted by lardy
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.
Certainly by the time you reach the latter stages people care about it, over the years the early rounds seem to have become a little less important.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman
I'm sure that teams at this level never used to play so many reserves in the EFL games - some of the bigger premier league clubs yes, but that was it - but perhaps that is my poor memory.
We even saw West Brom sending the reserves out against Arsenal the other day.
Don’t some clubs include these games on their season tickets.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman
May be the case with Boro as that crowd is exceptional in comparison to most similar fixtures
You've lost me. You reckon 17,342 was exceptional for a League Cup quarter final? Middlesbrough had 21,985 for their last Championship home game before the cup tie (Blackburn) and 30,341 for their next Championship game (Sheffield Wednesday).Quote:
Originally Posted by Lawnmower
I think it picks up around the quarter finals, I don’t think it’s very interesting before that unless there’s an interesting tie like a local derby or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
Irrespective of who we play this Cup doesn't just doesn't have the interest.
Id forgotten the League Cup used to be 2 legs. Remember losing 1 nil at home to the Jacks and turning it around winning 2 nil at their place. If I remember Boyle and Wheeler scoring.
Apologies Mr Rothmans, it was just a figure of speech. I didn't mean the entire competition is being held in totally empty stadiums.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman
Yes your just posting this thread as a dig even bringing Newport having a bigger crowd.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman
You stopped supporting the club but hang around like a bad smell of shit.
I will only mention the above when the club bashers make threads having a go at the club/owners for the very same things they kept quiet about under a previous owner.
Hypocrites..
Nevermind Sugar you have a sticky i bet you got the tissues or wank sock out :hehe:
You are clearly a deeply disturbed individual. An extremely sad one, too. Very odd indeed. And thick as shit to boot.Quote:
Originally Posted by stan butler
I'd genuinely like to meet you, Stockholm. It would be interesting to see what someone who posts the kind of weird nonsense you post actually looks like. It would also be interesting to learn how old you are given the hopelessly juvenile nature of most of your contributions. Actual age I mean, as opposed to mental age.
Maybe you could say that about you pal the club basher and his obsession?Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman
Some fans are forever having a go at the current owner for things they didn't say a word about under a previous one.
You would like to meet me? Walesonline would probably turn up aswell because you like a bit of attention :hehe:
Now run along joking fan
Yes, I'd like to meet you for the reasons I've already mentioned. I doubt Walesonline would turn up, though. After all, I can't imagine you're especially photogenic.Quote:
Originally Posted by stan butler
Why do you continually post about AA and his message board on here? What's the point? Nobody else does, just you. It's very weird behaviour. If you're that bothered about him, why not post on his board? Or message him?
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Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman
Or i could just make a blog threatening messageboard wars and calling people names :hehe::facepalm:
http://lonegunmanwatcher.blogspot.co...ne-gunman.html
I'll leave it at that i don't need to say anything else because there's nothing worse or as gringeworthy as that blogspot :facepalm:
Have a nice day :biggrin:
:hehe::hehe::hehe::hehe::hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by stan butler
That blog is a spoof set up in 2011 by a West Ham fan in a bizarre attempt to intimidate me. It failed, so he gave up on it pretty quickly.
You'd have to be exceptionally dull to think it was set up by me. But it seems you fell for it.....
Gringeworthy?!?
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