No FA cup replays (5 Viewers)

[fernandopartridge]

To appease the 4/6 cash and resource rich teams regularly involved in European competition, one of the revenue raising and interesting traditions of the game is being abandoned.

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[SkyblueDad]

No team has to go into the FA Cup competition, they know the rules if it doesn’t suit don’t enter.

 

[skybluecam]

It is sad.

Always loved small teams battling it out at home to try and get that lucrative replay

 

[Nick]

Madness, what about the small clubs playing for a replay away at a big ground?

I'm sure that the top 4 will still be able to go to Dubai and America for friendlies.

 

[skybluecam]

Good thing we’ve got more room in the calendar for mid table prem clubs to wallop Latvian farmers in the conference league though!

 

[Otis]

Madness, what about the small clubs playing for a replay away at a big ground?

I'm sure that the top 4 will still be able to go to Dubai and America for friendlies.

And what about the reverse. Getting a really famous away draw at say Goodison Park or Anfield or Old Trafford and then bringing them back to your tight, pokey little ground with really basic changing rooms

 

[Ian1779]

To appease the 4/6 cash and resource rich teams regularly involved in European competition, one of the revenue raising and interesting traditions of the game is being abandoned.

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I would hope therefore that non-PL teams get to pick if fixture is home or away.

 

[blunted]

Another example of trashing decisions in favour of the big clubs

 

[Terry Gibson's perm]

Good you don’t have them in the important games at the end why bother at the beginning.

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

I would hope therefore that non-PL teams get to pick if fixture is home or away.

That has always been my thought. A team in a lower division gets to choose whether they play the fixture home or away.

 

[Offhegoes]

Remember when BBC and ITV had pre match coverage from 9am.
it was a national event, whether you liked football or not.
Now it’s one of 2 cup competitions . Oh, you get to play at Wembley. Even if you’re semi finalists. Game will kick off at 5.20pm just so the EPL games are all done with.
The embarrassing big up of the FA Cup by the BBC doesn’t help.
Give the FA Cup winners, Champions League qualification guaranteed.
that would be interesting…..

 

[oscillatewildly]

I'm amazed they still do the football bit at all. I don't think we're far away from the balls being drawn from the bag for each tie then a coin tossed to decide the winner - Work through the rounds, bit of a build up for the semi's then just crack on to the final.
It should still be televised of course because that's a tradition associated with the competition.

 

[ccfc1234]

Appeasement of elites with too much power, at the expense of the rest (of the pyramid) sad really. Surely the solution is they play their u21s and take their chances with the talent they have used their vast riches to acquire, often from the lower leagues.

 

[MalcSB]

I'm amazed they still do the football bit at all. I don't think we're far away from the balls being drawn from the bag for each tie then a coin tossed to decide the winner - Work through the rounds, bit of a build up for the semi's then just crack on to the final.
It should still be televised of course because that's a tradition associated with the competition.

And they could move some coin tosses, say for local derbies, to a Friday evening at short notice to retain authenticity.

 

[CV22SBA]

The competition is dead anyway. Even championship teams don’t take it seriously. Last seasons final didn’t even sellout. I loved it in the 80s & 90s but it’s pointless now.

 

[ccfc1234]

The competition is dead anyway. Even championship teams don’t take it seriously. Last seasons final didn’t even sellout. I loved it in the 80s & 90s but it’s pointless now.

If that is your view it's a shame. There has been many shocks in front of sell out crowds that will live long in the memory and folklaw of clubs. No other football competition has the potential to do that.

Some of the fans of the super elite clubs do take it less seriously, especially with the cost of living and semi finals of champions league games to attend etc. But for clubs like us a good cup run is a route to prize money that could make big difference to our summer spending power. The EFL cup in that respect is slightly different.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

The competition is dead anyway. Even championship teams don’t take it seriously. Last seasons final didn’t even sellout. I loved it in the 80s & 90s but it’s pointless now.

Yes I’m sure if by some miracle we made the final we wouldn’t sell out.

Semi finals shouldn’t be at Wembley in any case

 

[HuckerbyDublinWhelan]

I mean we say the big 4/6 clubs - but Robins hasn’t took a cup game seriously in years.

remember when we got beat by Birmingham in our league one winning we had annoying replays all the way through

 

[skybluejelly]

Although I don't agree with it ..it might be better for the smaller clubs ..as we know if it goes to the lottery of penalties..it's all down to pot luck

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[Seymour_East]

Still have this:

 

[SBT]

A shameful act of cultural vandalism to appease a handful of big clubs who quite obviously won’t stop moaning about the competition regardless.

 

[Gynnsthetonic]

Still have this:

Love this!

 

[fernandopartridge]

A shameful act of cultural vandalism to appease a handful of big clubs who quite obviously won’t stop moaning about the competition regardless.

Next it'll be "clubs knocked out of the Champions League group stage get an automatic bye to the FA cup quarter finals"

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[Skyblueweeman]

Good old UEFA - ruining the game for years.

 

[Ccfcisparks]

Could you not combine the Caraboa and FA Cup and the winner gets one of the extra places we are being allocated for the Champions League, runner up Europa/Conference league?

Would incentivise it for most teams then.

 

[CV22SBA]

Yes I’m sure if by some miracle we made the final we wouldn’t sell out.

Semi finals shouldn’t be at Wembley in any case

Of course we would but we're one of the clubs not to take it seriously. Play the first team against Wrexham and we proceed to the next round.

More than half championship teams were knocked out in the third round last season.

 

[ccfctommy]

Everyone moans about this and the 'trashing of the FA Cup' and our third round game vs Bristol rovers at home will get 10k tops.

Same around the board. It's not what it once was.

 

[oscillatewildly]

Still have this:

I think this is the model that the FA are using in the reformatting of the competition.

 

[Terry Gibson's perm]

I hope Wrexham get St Trinians and get beaten in a really boring game. I wonder who Man Utd will play on the tv this year are they still on their long tv run.

 

[fernandopartridge]

Everyone moans about this and the 'trashing of the FA Cup' and our third round game vs Bristol rovers at home will get 10k tops.

Same around the board. It's not what it once was.

TBF in 87 the gate against lower league Bolton was 12k which I assume had a couple of thousand Bolton in.

 

[rob9872]

Competition was ruined the year Man Utd chose to play tye World club Cup instead.

 

[ccfctommy]

TBF in 87 the gate against lower league Bolton was 12k which I assume had a couple of thousand Bolton in.

Maybe so but those were different times. It would be great for the competition for teams like Newcastle, Spurs or even Everton to win it, but sadly the league prioritised that much that the FA Cup is an unwelcome distraction.

 

[Gynnsthetonic]

TBF in 87 the gate against lower league Bolton was 12k which I assume had a couple of thousand Bolton in.

I'm sure there was more than than that, it was freezing and I was standing on the Kop, the Bolton end was packed their fans were being ejected every few minutes, most were pissed as farts

 

[fernandopartridge]

Could you not combine the Caraboa and FA Cup and the winner gets one of the extra places we are being allocated for the Champions League, runner up Europa/Conference league?

Would incentivise it for most teams then.

No no no no no

The problem starts from making everything subservient to the Champions League

The opposite needs to be done, one qualifier for the Champions League only and that's the league winner

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[COVKIDSNEVERQUIT]

Give the FA Cup winners, Champions League qualification guaranteed.
that would be interesting…..

And the losing finalists in the Conference league.