Northern Sold
1:55 Tue Feb 16
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I went to every replay with Ipswich in 86... great laugh but fucking cold
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13 Brentford Rd
1:21 Tue Feb 16
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Blimey Honest steady on.
The obvious motive behind this is greed and the so called "big clubs" keeping the status quo.
The worst kept secret in football is their plans to operate a closed shop European super league cartel which alshould be opposed and boycotted at every level.
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El Scorchio
11:55 Tue Feb 16
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Ludo- that is true, but I think you do get an added bit of drama and tension when the first tie has ended in a stalemate- there's already a certain something brewing between the teams and just an extra something intangible. It just seems to mean that little bit more.
But you are right, of course- if the ties were just midweek night games you could still have the same cracking atmospheres that we've had for those two replays.
Would be horrible to lose those FA cup weekends for 3rd 4th and 5th rounds though. They are something truly special for the lower league clubs, and later in the competition, it's nice when (almost) all other football stops and there's that extra buzz and focus on the quarter and semi finals.
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ludo21
11:53 Tue Feb 16
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And FA Cup 3rd Round weekend in January is the best football weekend of the year.
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ludo21
11:50 Tue Feb 16
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El Scorchio 11:11 Tue Feb 16
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If there is any magic left in football, it's in nights like last Tuesday, and the Everton replay last year.
Playing Devil's Advocate, a midweek FA Cup tie with no replay would surely create just as many, if not more, nights like last Tuesday.
Personally, I'm a traditionalist.... leave it as it is.
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11:17 Tue Feb 16
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Right about the European games. A lot of them are meaningless, not very well supported as attendances demonstrate and not avidly watched on TV.
Back in the day when there were just league and FA cup games every match had a meaning and purpose.
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Lily Hammer
11:15 Tue Feb 16
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The big boys want to take the Cup more seriously purely because it gets you into Europey, which if you win, gets you into the Champion's League.
CL would be better if it were Champions only. EUFA should eb a huge knock out comp from the start.
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El Scorchio
11:14 Tue Feb 16
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Comma- or leave it up to each club competing in Europe whether they want to enter the league cup or not. Don't change the format of any competitions, just give them the choice. FA cup entry should remain mandatory. None of this bollocks like when Man U went halfway across the world to play in that nonsense tournament instead.
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El Scorchio
11:11 Tue Feb 16
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If there is any magic left in football, it's in nights like last Tuesday, and the Everton replay last year.
Would be a tragedy to take that away.
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i-Ron
11:08 Tue Feb 16
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The Champions League should change to a knock out comp from the start. This league stuff is nonsense. Same for the Europa. Straight to a 2 leg fixture and knock out.
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11:03 Tue Feb 16
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We have one more cup competition than comparative European countries. Release the Premiership clubs from the League Cup and it frees up a small amount of fixture congestion.
Then if we want to avoid FA cup replays make each round sudden death after 120 minutes with a penalty shoot out.
Oh and insist that all competing teams play their first teamers as a majority.
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Honest Hammer
11:00 Tue Feb 16
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13 Brentford Rd 8:53 Tue Feb 16
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Fuck me - we agree on something.
BANG ON - this Champions League fucking nonsense.
EUROPEAN and UEFA CUP please.
Then they actually mean something.
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Buster
10:56 Tue Feb 16
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It will be a massive kick in the bollocks to football if they ever made the FA Cup a midweek competition.
The greatest cup competition in the world, it's no wonder it's continuously being devalued when the FA clearly stopped giving a shit about it years ago.
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Marston Hammer
10:37 Tue Feb 16
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Reducing the number of prem clubs would be a terrible decision.
Apart from brining back the UEFA cup as a straight knock out (+ no champions leagues teams) I'd it pretty much as it is.
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Any Old Iron
10:35 Tue Feb 16
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The only clubs who will have been agitating for this will be the usual suspects who play in the Chumps League and the Europa cobblers.
This 'crowded' fixture list has only come about since the advent of these newish competitions and so has no bearing whatsoever on 90% of English clubs fixtures. If there are any changes needed they should be made in the European competitions.
The 'suits' are the ones responsible for this non-issue and should keep their meddling fingers away from the domestic calendar.
The only changes I'd make is to stop clubs going off on money making marketing jaunts, and end the ten day shut down for meaningless international friendlies.
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13 Brentford Rd
8:53 Tue Feb 16
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Scrap the UEFA league and Champions league as both are shit and involve too many games and return them to the cup knockout competitions that they were.
Very simple really when take the GREED out of the decision.
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Johnson
8:49 Tue Feb 16
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How many clubs organise exhibition games halfway across the world during the season?
This thread is ridiculous.
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norwich hammer
8:47 Tue Feb 16
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When you think of some of the replays in the past its nonsense to think that they will be no more,3-4 replays some of them 😳
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Johnson
8:43 Tue Feb 16
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And a replay in the cup most certainly can be converted to an entry in a balance sheet.
It's an extra game, therefore more money for all. You really haven't thought this through.
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mentor
8:40 Tue Feb 16
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Its just to appease clubs playing in Europe. Fuck 'em, I say.
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Johnson
8:36 Tue Feb 16
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So you're complaining about suits messing with the game and your alternatives are to mess with the game even more?
AND you seem to think that English football starts and stops with the Premierleague.
Nice one Oxbore.
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