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Post by countygroundhotel on Mar 29, 2017 8:45:07 GMT
Shaun Harvey still believes the changes have been a success. I truly hope that clubs come to their senses & vote against this monstrosity and then vote to get rid of Shaun Harvey. EFL Trophy 'Success'
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Mar 29, 2017 9:08:55 GMT
"We didn't actually fine clubs for playing younger players. We fined them for not playing enough senior ones."
Guy's a Dam twat.
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Post by Marshy on Mar 29, 2017 9:08:57 GMT
Shaun Harvey still believes the changes have been a success. I truly hope that clubs come to their senses & vote against this monstrosity and then vote to get rid of Shaun Harvey. EFL Trophy 'Success' This competition is a complete joke, how can they say it's been a success when the average attendances have dropped from over 3,000 to 1,400 up to the semi finals from the previous year? Do we have to enter this next year, I suppose we do and a massive fine would come our way if we stuck 2 fingers up to them?
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Post by wiaww on Mar 29, 2017 9:32:17 GMT
In a way I almost admire him; to stick by your guns in the face of such catastrophic failure is bordering on impressive. His self-belief must be boundless.
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Post by Marshy on Mar 29, 2017 9:35:21 GMT
In a way I almost admire him; to stick by your guns in the face of such catastrophic failure is bordering on impressive. His self-belief must be boundless. More like Dam delusional!
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Post by Jomo on Mar 29, 2017 9:47:58 GMT
Not sure I can think of anyone in football that I consider more of a d**khead than this man. Possibly Lansdown, possibly the Snake, but this man really is indescribably...there are no words.
His disdain for lower league clubs is a disgrace.
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Post by inee on Mar 29, 2017 9:49:54 GMT
In a way I almost admire him; to stick by your guns in the face of such catastrophic failure is bordering on impressive. His self-belief must be boundless. Yup he's footballs version of the war criminal bLair
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2017 9:52:10 GMT
The boycott was going so well until Sunday's final.
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Post by garystash on Mar 29, 2017 10:14:14 GMT
"We didn't actually fine clubs for playing younger players. We fined them for not playing enough senior ones." Guy's a f**king twat. I was going to quote this too - I can't even begin to articulate how I feel about those two sentences.
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Post by socrates on Mar 29, 2017 10:21:52 GMT
In a way I almost admire him; to stick by your guns in the face of such catastrophic failure is bordering on impressive. His self-belief must be boundless. It's not self belief, it's money.
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Post by wiaww on Mar 29, 2017 10:40:51 GMT
In a way I almost admire him; to stick by your guns in the face of such catastrophic failure is bordering on impressive. His self-belief must be boundless. It's not self belief, it's money. Whatever his motivation (I'm inclined to agree with your money theory ), the fact that he has the nerve to get up and continue to claim that the "revamp" was a success is fairly impressive. The man literally has no shame.
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Post by Centenary Gas on Mar 29, 2017 10:53:36 GMT
He's hardly going to admit his idea was a complete failure
Up to the league chairman to vote this crap out in the summer
As for Oxford fans going, pfft. Can quite honestly say if Rovers had reached the final I would of had absolutely no interest in going.
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Post by philbemmygas on Mar 29, 2017 11:05:56 GMT
"We didn't actually fine clubs for playing younger players. We fined them for not playing enough senior ones." Guy's a f**king twat. I was going to quote this too - I can't even begin to articulate how I feel about those two sentences. I think one word sums up those two sentaences succintly - Bollox
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Post by Gas_Quarters on Mar 29, 2017 11:06:11 GMT
The boycott was going so well until Sunday's final. I think the reason for such a big crowd is simply because of the fact that Coventry are a big club that are simply enjoying their big day out in such a poor time for the club and Oxford are reasonably supported as well. Having said that, the final has always drawn a decent crowd because it is a cup final at Wembley. Even our final at the Millennium back in 07 drew a big crowd. Would've been interesting to see the support if an academy team had made it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2017 11:19:30 GMT
Not sure why he believes he can dictate that football league clubs have to play senior players when a prestigious tournament like the FA Cup is used as a training match to the top clubs without any repercussions.
I'm not sure if there are any real winners in all of this (apart from one of the finalists of course), but it certainly isn't football league clubs in general.
An already mickey mouse cup has now been downgraded to Goofy status.
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Post by Jomo on Mar 29, 2017 11:19:59 GMT
I know I'm preaching to the choir here but the fact is that putting academy teams into a competition for well-supported Senior teams, is basically a middle fingers to the lower league clubs. It's their way of saying that the lower leagues aren't important. The chairmen MUST act and vote against this and any other notion of academies in senior competitions from now on.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2017 11:30:20 GMT
Earlier on in the season how would anyone have known our 'normal/senior' starting XI anyway?
For example Manse is a senior player but not a regular starter this season.
Next season lets really put out a senior team with people like Parkin, Yates, Stewie, DC and Chris McClean
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2017 11:34:22 GMT
The boycott was going so well until Sunday's final. I think the reason for such a big crowd is simply because of the fact that Coventry are a big club that are simply enjoying their big day out in such a poor time for the club and Oxford are reasonably supported as well. Having said that, the final has always drawn a decent crowd because it is a cup final at Wembley. Even our final at the Millennium back in 07 drew a big crowd. Would've been interesting to see the support if an academy team had made it. The Cov approach is 'our club is fecked so we'll drag everyone down with us before we go'. I'm sure a lot are part timers though. The Oxford approach is even more ridiculous given they got there last year and have been Wembley a few times.
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Mar 29, 2017 12:02:27 GMT
The Wembley final has nothing to do with the new format, in any case.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2017 12:08:56 GMT
The Wembley final has nothing to do with the new format, in any case.
The format is not even needed anyway, any decent youngster from bigger clubs will already be on short/long term loan playing in league games where other players actually give a sh**
This one should be scrapped altogether. Im still proud of myself for never having gone to a Leyland Daf/JPT/EFL game even though I missed a couple of finals in the process.
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