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Post by Goose on Apr 18, 2024 10:26:51 GMT
FA cup replays to be scrapped because of the expanding champions League.
Again looking after the wallets of the rich and forgetting everyone else in the pyramid. The number of clubs which I suspect are still in business due to the replays in guessing will be enormous...
Very sad
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Post by SleepyGas on Apr 18, 2024 10:30:03 GMT
Not sure about the "increase support for grassroots football" tagline.. surely if scrapping replays helped at grassroots level they would be scrapping them below 1st round proper.
Just pandering to whiny Premier League teams AGAIN and it's the lower or non league clubs that will suffer AGAIN
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Post by chewbacca on Apr 18, 2024 10:31:50 GMT
Not sure about the "increase support for grassroots football" tagline.. surely if scrapping replays helped at grassroots level they would be scrapping them below 1st round proper. Just pandering to whiny Premier League teams AGAIN and it's the lower or non league clubs that will suffer AGAIN I'd like to actually know what "Grassroots Football" is, in my opinion very few if any grassroots clubs have made the first round proper. |
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Post by yattongas on Apr 18, 2024 10:42:56 GMT
Not sure about the "increase support for grassroots football" tagline.. surely if scrapping replays helped at grassroots level they would be scrapping them below 1st round proper. Just pandering to whiny Premier League teams AGAIN and it's the lower or non league clubs that will suffer AGAIN I'd like to actually know what "Grassroots Football" is, in my opinion very few if any grassroots clubs have made the first round proper. Tier 9 and below ? |
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Post by clovis on Apr 18, 2024 10:48:47 GMT
Sad day indeed. But inevitable given the currently rich clubs’ desire to ringfence themselves from the others. If they could find a way to play each other four times a season and no one else they would do so, and keep all the money. The attempt to dress it up as benefiting the grass roots is pitiful. I think they think we are all too stupid to realise what they are doing.
I’ve little time for any of them. May a plague of locusts descend on all of them.
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Post by chewbacca on Apr 18, 2024 10:54:36 GMT
I'd like to actually know what "Grassroots Football" is, in my opinion very few if any grassroots clubs have made the first round proper. Tier 9 and below ? It's an interesting question because that level had and continues to have some big, big clubs in. It just seems like the FA throw the word "Grassroots" about any football bellow the national league which, it isn't at all. |
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Post by DrFaustus on Apr 18, 2024 11:33:05 GMT
Pure cowardice by the FA. Kowtowing to the money men and so called big clubs.
Next step will be seeding.
Absolute bag of sh**e.
UTFG and FTFA. 🏴☠️
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Post by Tilly's Thighs on Apr 18, 2024 11:57:31 GMT
It's an interesting question because that level had and continues to have some big, big clubs in. It just seems like the FA throw the word "Grassroots" about any football bellow the national league which, it isn't at all. Just shows how far removed the FA hierarchy have become from the real "grassroots". I see that Bath City's total home attendances this season were the highest since 1970. I think that people are returning to support their local clubs, having become disenfranchised with the Premier League. |
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Post by eric on Apr 18, 2024 12:02:10 GMT
Pure cowardice by the FA. Kowtowing to the money men and so called big clubs. Next step will be seeding. Absolute bag of sh**e. UTFG and FTFA. 🏴☠️ Would seeding in the early rounds be a good idea - ensuring the lowest ranked clubs in the competition get a decent pay day against a top Prem side? Even more so if the lower ranked team could choose whether they play home or away? |
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Post by amgas on Apr 18, 2024 13:09:41 GMT
Don't understand why the no replays applies from 1st round - most clubs upto the third round would be happy with the extra revenue from replays.
Can't help but think that getting rid of them and playing all games on weekend means less weekday games to show on evenings on the likes of BBC/ITV which means the FA cup TV rights are worth less and people get to see less football on TV unless they buy into the premiership/champions league pay TV subscription model.
In recent years the FA cup has been one way of getting your football fix on normal TV and is a good advert for lower league football.
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Post by The Equaliser on Apr 18, 2024 13:13:32 GMT
Not sure about the "increase support for grassroots football" tagline.. surely if scrapping replays helped at grassroots level they would be scrapping them below 1st round proper. Just pandering to whiny Premier League teams AGAIN and it's the lower or non league clubs that will suffer AGAIN Basically The FA saying “here’s a few breadcrumbs, aren’t we amazing looking after the little guys” As so many things nowadays, they don’t realise how patronising its is, they’re blatantly rubbing our noses in it and couldn’t give a monkeys what we think. Greed is King and it’s getting worse not better. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2024 13:28:19 GMT
The FA Cup is a shadow of what it used to be and in the main the TV coverage of matches is farcical.
Both BBC and ITV would rather show two Premiership clubs playing each other than a proper minnows versus giant clash.
I always thought there should be an unwritten rule that the lowest ranked club in the competition get guaranteed TV coverage -
No replays is scandalous for the smaller clubs and as DR F said - at some point ranking could take place to ensure the biggest fattest plastics reach the final stages every year.
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Post by A Source (aka Angry Badger) on Apr 18, 2024 13:51:01 GMT
Wouldn't surprise me if someone at the FA said it was for environmental reasons and keeping travel down until the expansion of champions league was mentioned so had to look for another way to justify this.
Is there much interest in the league cup these days? If anything they could have scrapped that and left the FA cup alone.
Apart from champions league (with runner ups in) the other european conpetitions are a joke. Woohoo, a cup for average top division teams.
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Post by gas2 on Apr 18, 2024 14:30:10 GMT
The fa cup is dead now r I p
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Post by gas2 on Apr 18, 2024 14:30:26 GMT
The fa cup is dead now r I p
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Post by The Equaliser on Apr 18, 2024 15:18:09 GMT
The fa cup is dead now r I p Tell that to Coventry City supporters! (Who I wish every bit of luck to on Saturday) 🤞🏾 Tbf I think the F A Cup has had a bit of a resurgence the last few years, I’m certainly enjoying it again. |
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Post by rememberhalifax on Apr 18, 2024 15:21:49 GMT
A sad day indeed. Part of the magic of the FA cup was earning a home replay after drawing away at a big club or drawing at home and visiting one of the iconic stadiums for a replay, a fans and players dream but they don't count anymore. This will be dressed up as 'good for grass roots and all the other usual nonsense they spout but its 'greed' pure and simple, excuse the language buts its a bloody disgrace!!
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Post by gassince1957 on Apr 18, 2024 15:32:38 GMT
Of course, this MIGHT have worked well for Rovers this season. So the Norwich away game was drawn and goes to penalties .... oh, hang on, maybe not so good! But seriously, IF we'd beaten Norwich on penalties, then Liverpool away would have made us loads of cash. I'm still totally against the idea though and it's just about pleasing the Premier League teams and only 6 or 7 of them play in the European cups anyway, so the replays hardly affect the 13 other teams. I'd go for "if you're in a European cup competition, you can't play in the FA Cup and replays will be as they always were".
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Post by bidefordgas on Apr 18, 2024 15:36:59 GMT
Struggling to understand how no replays benefits the likes of Bristol Rovers.
Quite clearly it benefits the big boys with their European football.
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Post by peterparker on Apr 18, 2024 16:04:23 GMT
EFL clubs should pull together and threaten to not enter the competition
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