O/T F.A cup

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Steve.R

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Leicester 10 changes and Derby 8 for the fourth round replay tonight follows nearly every team putting weak sides out in the last round.
If nobody wants to play in this cup shouldn't we just bin it?
 
tigerincanada said:
Mebbe not but I reckon winning a properly challenged FA Cup might be comparable to finishing a distant fourth. After all, they call it the Champions League not the Also Rans League
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Winning 6 games where you could meet teams from a lower division in every round is not going to ever win a place in the Champions League decided on 38 games. Our FA might consider , though I doubt it as clubs wouldn't vote for it by a large enough majority, but EUFA wouldn't.

Maybe they should scrap the European League and bring back the Cupwinners Cup. Of course they won't,far more games and money to be extracted from TV deals not to mention a second chance for any of the big clubs who **** up in the. Champions League.
 
A complete new design of the comp is needed, like this:
R1 48 league 1 and league 2 sides, plus 40 non league = 88 teams, 44 games
R2 44 winners, plus 24 Championship sides = 68 teams, 34 games
R3 34 winners, plus 10 Premier League sides, ie those who finished 11 to 17 inc the previous season and the three promoted from the champ = 44 sides, 22 games
R4 22 winners, plus 10 Premier League sides ie those who finished 1 to 10, the previous season = 32 sides, 16 games
R5 last 16
and so on..
No replays..Drawn games go to pen shoot out.
FA Winners play the team that finished fourth in the Prem for a Champions league place.
 
The FA Cup was the most valued cup competition , with all it's history. It's still probably watched in many countries. Is there any European place of any kind on offer now? Part of specialness went when replays no longer decided games, that showed how it was no longer thought important.
 
Chazz Rheinhold said:
Any **** team with a **** manager and a nice easy draw can nearly win the Cup. They shouldn't represent us in the champions league. FACT
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If every paricipating club took the competition seriously with full strength teams, as used to be the case, the cream would rise to the top in most instances and be equipped to participate in the CL. The occasional "minnow triumph" such as the Jim Montgomery/Ian Porterfield/ Sunderland experience of 1973 simply adds to the beauty of the competition and would add interest to the CL.
 
You'd think by now Savage's agent would have told him that other pundits treat him like a needy or special needs kid, and that he needs to make a sea change in terms of improving his insight, analysis and presentation.
 
tigerincanada said:
If every paricipating club took the competition seriously with full strength teams, as used to be the case, the cream would rise to the top in most instances and be equipped to participate in the CL. The occasional "minnow triumph" such as the Jim Montgomery/Ian Porterfield/ Sunderland experience of 1973 simply adds to the beauty of the competition and would add interest to the CL.
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Cup winning history show that isn't necessarily the case going back to when teams really did want to win the Cup.

Why would our Cup winners add interest to the CL? All the other countries would have no interest in whether our Cupwinners were in the CL.

As for Cupwinners being equipped for the CL, in 39 seasons our clubs only won it 8 times despite a lot of countries not taking their Cup competitions as seriously as ourselves and some pretty weak teams being in it.
 
Excellent game.
Good to see the passion for the FA Cup is alive and well.
 
PattyNchips2 said:
what a ****ing YAWN!
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Castro's Coffin said:
Cup winning history show that isn't necessarily the case going back to when teams really did want to win the Cup.

Why would our Cup winners add interest to the CL? All the other countries would have no interest in whether our Cupwinners were in the CL.

As for Cupwinners being equipped for the CL, in 39 seasons our clubs only won it 8 times despite a lot of countries not taking their Cup competitions as seriously as ourselves and some pretty weak teams being in it.
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Whatever.
 
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