skybluesteve76
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Too right! What a ball ache getting down there.
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Too right! What a ball ache getting down there.
skybluesteve76
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Lets be realistic tho, we won't get to Wembley. We will more than likely lose tomorrow.
Otis
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Thing is, we are not in the Premier or the Championship.
Had we been in the Prem then you could say we had a chance of the FA Cup perhaps. In the Championship. then maybe at least a good run in something.
In League One the only chance of a trophy in reality is this! For us this is the trophy to go for. It's not to be sniffed at. We are not bottom 4 and we are not top 6. We are relatively safe in this league and this is a competition we need to take very, very seriously.
Had we been in the Prem then you could say we had a chance of the FA Cup perhaps. In the Championship. then maybe at least a good run in something.
In League One the only chance of a trophy in reality is this! For us this is the trophy to go for. It's not to be sniffed at. We are not bottom 4 and we are not top 6. We are relatively safe in this league and this is a competition we need to take very, very seriously.
WillieStanley
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Yeah... let's not bother then. :facepalm:
In fact... give the reserves a run out
skybluesteve76
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If I keep my feet on the ground I can't go into a blind rage when let down by this football club yet again
Sky Blue Sheepy
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No problem with people being overly excited about the Tottenham game - I've never got to see us play many Premier League teams away as I've only been a supporter since 2004/05 so, for me, this, Arsenal and the Chelsea games were extremely exciting and I can't wait; Sheffield Utd on the other hand I watched us play 2 or 3 times - the 0-0 against them they year they went down still sticks in my memory...
However I can fully understand that these same people should be at least turning up tomorrow for most of the reasons mentioned above! (I will be there!)
However I can fully understand that these same people should be at least turning up tomorrow for most of the reasons mentioned above! (I will be there!)
Paxman II
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The game tomorrow should be more exciting for us all surely!
Yeah, nice to have an away day in London, but this game tomorrow could lead on to London on a much bigger stage.
Went to my daughter's drama yesterday and they were all creaming themselves over the Spurs game. Not a single mention of the Sheff Utd JPT match.
As I say, tomorrow is 100 times more important.
We had the same thing with the Chelsea cup game a few years back. That week we had the league game on the Tuesday that could have pushed us into the top 6 with a win and a few days later, the Chelsea game. Hardly anyone bothered with the league game and everyone turned up for Chelsea.
And remember, the game tomorrow is only a fiver!
Got to be honest O. This game tomorrow in the JPT is not important to me at all. I want us concentrating on the league and nothing else. We have a clear opportunity to get among the play offs and that is the most important thing above all else. having a trophy in the cupboard that noone will ever remember as ever being significant (even if we win it) would mean absolutely nothing compared to diging our way out of this league.
As for the FA Cup at Spurs? What a romantic return to White Hart Lane the scene of a relegation battel we survived and a former cup finalist of our greatest ever achievement to date. darn right I cream over it. It's the best we can get while suffering the dross where we are at the moment. Couldn't care less about the score either. But even then the most important game for us is the next league game...no doubt about it. And yes people are entitled to see us play against more talented footballers given the chance.
I don't want us to win at all cost tomorrow and come off the pitch with injuries as we seek a win on Saturday. I'm almost embrassed to say we should be thinking and trying to be in a better place rather than creaming as you put it over some mickey mouse trophy. Can't wait for Saturday!
Otis
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Each and every to their own, but i think you are underestimating the impact of any potential trophy. This club has been starved of success for over 25 years.
Any supporter under 30 probably isn't going to even remember the FA Cup win of 87.
We get to the final of the JPT and you just watch how many people will be wanting tickets.
The league is the priority of course, but we are 10 points adrift of 6th place and with the almost certainty that DMC will be leaving us shortly I don't see where there is any 'clear opportunity.'
Bet you a pound to a shilling MR will be talking up the importance of this cup game tomorrow. This match is without any shadow of a doubt our most important game of the season. Win tomorrow and we simply have a great chance of going all the way. That would be a tremendous shot in the arm to the club.
Any supporter under 30 probably isn't going to even remember the FA Cup win of 87.
We get to the final of the JPT and you just watch how many people will be wanting tickets.
The league is the priority of course, but we are 10 points adrift of 6th place and with the almost certainty that DMC will be leaving us shortly I don't see where there is any 'clear opportunity.'
Bet you a pound to a shilling MR will be talking up the importance of this cup game tomorrow. This match is without any shadow of a doubt our most important game of the season. Win tomorrow and we simply have a great chance of going all the way. That would be a tremendous shot in the arm to the club.
Blue Maniac
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I'm not one to disagree with Otis, but I'm not sold on the importance of the JPT at all. When we were in it in 08-09, we went out in round three to Rotherham and I couldn't have been less upset. Our squad had far more important and interesting things to concentrate on, as yours have now. Coventry are well in with a shout of being in the playoff picture and the dubious attraction of an ultimately meaningless day out at Wembley should not be allowed to affect that. I'd suggest the league is thousands of times more important.
Otis
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I couldn't have been that bothered had we been knocked out either, but we are at the stage now that if we can get past Sheff Utd tomorrow then the light is at the end of the tunnel.
Win this one and we are just two fixtures away from Wembley and the difference with the Sky Blues of course is as I have said, we have been totally starved of any success for so, so long.
Start of the season I was indeed calling it a tin (paint) pot cup and a total distraction, but with the way the season has panned out and the need for the whole club to be given a boost, then I think this trophy has now taken on a great importance.
Win this one and we are just two fixtures away from Wembley and the difference with the Sky Blues of course is as I have said, we have been totally starved of any success for so, so long.
Start of the season I was indeed calling it a tin (paint) pot cup and a total distraction, but with the way the season has panned out and the need for the whole club to be given a boost, then I think this trophy has now taken on a great importance.
stupot07
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Rotherham was the league (Carling) Cup, this is the first time we've competed in the JPT as its only leagues one and two.
Otis
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Rotherham was the league (Carling) Cup, this is the first time we've competed in the JPT as its only leagues one and two.
Think the clue's in the name, Stu.
'He' is not 'we!'
coundonskyblue
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I am going tomorrow, not that fussed about the Spurs game to be honest. I've seen us lose to them before in my younger days.
Paxman II
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I fear it may be acedemic tomorrow anyway I'm afraid. Sheff Utd also know a Wembley trip is on the cards if they win so being as they look the strongest team in this league for me I doubt we will beat them. Just hoping we off the pitch with no injury worries, no sending off, and confidence not destroyed...we need to win Saturday.
shy_tall_knight
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I was gonna start a thread Sunday but didnt want to get shouted at
Been looking back and both McGoldrick and Bailey played so, should be full strength tommorrow
This was the hardest game out of the hat we couldve got, so win this and 90 minutes from Wembley we are... PUSB
Nooooooooooooooooooooo win this we are in the Northen Section semi final, which is a single game, win that then there is a 2 leg area final. Win that then we go to Wembley.
So we are 4 games from Wembley, in both the JPT & FA cup as the semi finals in the latter are also played at Wembley.
Otis
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But Spurs are historically a very strong cup team and you have to just wonder how much of a hindrance the JPT is to a Sheff Utd who really do have such a great chance of automatic promotion. You look at the two teams tomorrow and you would have to say that this competition is much more important to us than it is to Sheff Utd. Spurs on the other hand must be rubbing their hands with glee at the prospect of a home fixture against a lower mid table League One side in their favourite competition.
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melbourneskyblue
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TBH the JPT aint worth a :jerkit: so i couldnt care less about the result
The fact that some people are actually excited about the chance of winning the poxy thing just shows how low things have gone....its kinda embarrassing
PUSB
The fact that some people are actually excited about the chance of winning the poxy thing just shows how low things have gone....its kinda embarrassing
PUSB
Otis
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Yeah.
If we get to Wembley us supporters should just not buy any tickets and not turn up and then refuse to accept the trophy should we win it, despite the competition bringing in a wad of money into the club and creating a feel good factor throughout the city.
Fook the poxy thing!
If we get to Wembley us supporters should just not buy any tickets and not turn up and then refuse to accept the trophy should we win it, despite the competition bringing in a wad of money into the club and creating a feel good factor throughout the city.
Fook the poxy thing!
melbourneskyblue
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Yep fook it indeed.
'feel good factor' lol thats a joke....it aint no 87' FA cup so lets try not to make it out to be please.Infact other clubs we used to mix it with probably find it amusing that we're even competing in the poxy cup
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'feel good factor' lol thats a joke....it aint no 87' FA cup so lets try not to make it out to be please.Infact other clubs we used to mix it with probably find it amusing that we're even competing in the poxy cup
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Lee
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Baginton
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its a day out at Wembley, can't knock that, how many players in our squad done that, how many supporters been there??
The FA cup isnt all it used to be, how many clubs outside the top 6 won it since '93 when the premier league started? not many...
Make the most of 'any' Wembley appearance, they dont come along very often!
The FA cup isnt all it used to be, how many clubs outside the top 6 won it since '93 when the premier league started? not many...
Make the most of 'any' Wembley appearance, they dont come along very often!
Otis
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Yep fook it indeed.
'feel good factor' lol thats a joke....it aint no 87' FA cup so lets try not to make it out to be please.Infact other clubs we used to mix it with probably find it amusing that we're even competing in the poxy cup
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Lee
Fact is of course we don't mix it with the other clubs we used to mix it with! It may be embarrassing but this is an embarrassing league for us. It's embarrassing to be playing Carlisle and Leyton Orient and Bury every week, but that's just the way it is.
For the Premier League you have the Champions League and the Europa Cup, as well as the domestic trophies.
For the Championship you have the league and a possible slim chance of success in the domestics.
For League One and Two you have the league, next to no chance at all in the domestic competitions and then the JPT.
We are where we are and I think we need to get rid of this snobbery. Yep, it's not a prestigious trophy, but we are where we are and it is what it is and what it is a trophy and after 25 years of nothingness we should embrace any chance whatsoever for any amount of glory, no matter how tiny that may be.
Hope all these people turning their noses up at it do not then go on to moan about wanting tickets to the final should we get there.
I remember the Simod Cup. Yep, tin pot, but I was there. It was a chance of Wembley and had we got there it would have created a great deal of excitement.
Can't see how this is any different.
Astute
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Otis
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Changed my outlook too.
To be truthful, first two weeks of the season I kept going on to the BBC Championship tables to see where we were, before realising I was looking at the wrong league.
Now I don't even look at the Championship results. No idea who's top and who's bottom.
To be truthful, first two weeks of the season I kept going on to the BBC Championship tables to see where we were, before realising I was looking at the wrong league.
Now I don't even look at the Championship results. No idea who's top and who's bottom.
covcity4life
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im different,i dont keep too much of an eye on the champioship since we went down
i dont mind league one as long as we keep our good form up
leicester had the time of their life down here,it doesnt have to be depressive
i dont mind league one as long as we keep our good form up
leicester had the time of their life down here,it doesnt have to be depressive
covcity4life
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where we would be if not for an inept manager
robins has going upwards, if we dont do it this year we should be challenging next(if we exist)