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derby1884 Forum Moderator
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2016 12:05 am
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Tonight's attendances would (rightly) suggest that the 'privilege' of seeing the 'big' clubs apprentices in action didn't have the "wee" clubs' fans battering the door down for entry into the ground.
If anything, it's devalued the competition which is a great shame.
Thankfully Port Vale beat our lot. _________________ http://www.flickr.com/photos/derby1884/sets/ |
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Rafehod
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2016 7:10 am
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I think it is more of a showcase to highlight the young british talent locked away in the 'bigger clubs' youth systems that have little chance of breaking into the first team. There are plenty more like Marcus Rashford who simply will never get a chance. He took his chance amazingly well but if he did not score so soon in his career and went 3 appearances with no goals he would have slipped into obscurity and had Manchester United's striker situation not been so dire no one would even know about him apart from a few die hard fans and the Man utd coaching staff.
Devalues the cup? not for me......at the end of the day winning the trophy gives clubs a superb opportunity to get into Europe that is an amazing opportunity for a lot of clubs. If the clubs dont take that seriously, you need to question the clubs ambitions not the trophy itself. |
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bigearl79
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2016 7:29 am
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'at the end of the day winning the trophy gives clubs a superb opportunity to get into Europe'
Europe? Why, does the chairman treat them all to a bargin getaway lol?
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pompeypete Forum Moderator
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2016 12:26 pm
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Rafehod wrote: |
I think it is more of a showcase to highlight the young british talent locked away in the 'bigger clubs' youth systems that have little chance of breaking into the first team. There are plenty more like Marcus Rashford who simply will never get a chance. He took his chance amazingly well but if he did not score so soon in his career and went 3 appearances with no goals he would have slipped into obscurity and had Manchester United's striker situation not been so dire no one would even know about him apart from a few die hard fans and the Man utd coaching staff.
Devalues the cup? not for me......at the end of the day winning the trophy gives clubs a superb opportunity to get into Europe that is an amazing opportunity for a lot of clubs. If the clubs dont take that seriously, you need to question the clubs ambitions not the trophy itself. |
Are we talking about the same cup !!!!
I think steve was on about the "Checkatrade cup" last night which included under 23 teams from the premiership.....
Pompey made 11 changes & so has to pay a £5000 fine
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littlewiggy
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2016 12:32 pm
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2016 1:23 pm
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Rafehod wrote: |
Devalues the cup? not for me......at the end of the day winning the trophy gives clubs a superb opportunity to get into Europe that is an amazing opportunity for a lot of clubs. If the clubs dont take that seriously, you need to question the clubs ambitions not the trophy itself. |
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Rafehod
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2016 4:38 pm
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My Mistake....what a dumbo..
I am thinking of the league cup... what a plonker. Anyway they should give it a European place........right in the middle of sea, what a wasye of bleeding time. |
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derby1884 Forum Moderator
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2016 10:56 pm
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There were 120 Derby supporters at Port Vale last night.
For all I know, we have a burgeoning Supporters Club branch in Burslem.
Anyone Derby fan who gives a damn about maintaining the integrity of the English football pyramid, however, would have steered clear of this fixture.
The club I support may have a far greater revenue stream than Port Vale but that doesn't give them the right to patronise them.
Hopefully this boycott will stay solid until the last of the cuckoos are eliminated from the competition (Derby included). _________________ http://www.flickr.com/photos/derby1884/sets/ |
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DySporting
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Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 10:16 am
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I didn’t like the JPT in its original form but now the competition has been totally devalued.
Looking at the attendances I can’t see how the powers that be can really justify it. Rochdale play Sunderland next week and there are very few Dale fans who intend to go. The attendance will be below 500. |
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littlewiggy
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Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 11:28 am
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The sponsors are getting a bit of online stick too ... (good!) ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37226544
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pompeypete Forum Moderator
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pompeypete Forum Moderator
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Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 4:45 pm
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I hate crowds...............
EFL Trophy is full swing..........
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littlewiggy
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Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 6:02 pm
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I read somewhere that a few of those (ahem) "crowds" were accused of being purposely inflated too.
To try and save a little face.
It'll be interesting to see the attendance figures for the final round of group games, when almost a third of the fixtures could well be dead-rubbers!
And a big "well done" to everybody who shunned these games.
Especially clubs like Wimbledon who practically encouraged their fans not to attend.
I read on our forum that we took 89 fans to Plymouth, and somebody replied ... "Well done to those loyal 89."
Well bloody done I thought, yeah right, I'm thoroughly ashamed of every one of them.
Anyone that supports this competition needs to have a serious word with themselves if they value their club's current status.
Especially a tin-pot outfit like ours. |
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Karb
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Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 8:51 pm
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I must confess i'm tempted to go to Rochdale. We've never played there before and I may never get chance to see us there again |
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derby1884 Forum Moderator
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Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 10:45 pm
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I hope the media don't get the wrong idea and (like The Guardian) start criticising the competition as a whole.
It's a great tournament with a history going back 35 years now but its whole raison d'etre is that it is a knockout tournament for lower division clubs with a Wembley Final as the reward.. Not a plaything for the big boys to utilise for their own sordid financial interests.
I wouldn't want a legitimate boycott to end with the demise of this competition. _________________ http://www.flickr.com/photos/derby1884/sets/ |
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littlewiggy
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Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 11:57 pm
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Pah!
What makes the Football League Trophy so special anyway?
I mean why the heck should it escape scot-free??
It's got a damned cheek if you ask me.
Who the blazes does it think it is?!
Ect, etc.
Let's face it, the Premier League has already killed every other domestic competition stone dead.
So it's only right and proper that this League Trophy malarkey gets unceremoniously stamped on as well.
I personally won't set foot inside a stadium ever again until it's killed the FA Vase too.
Nothing gets on my tits like that one does.
Honestly the sheer brassneck of those non-league upstarts having something that doesn't involve Chelsea's two hundred, stockpiled, on-loan-so-nobody-else-can-have-them, foreigner youngsters makes me ruddy sick to the pit of my stomach.
These grass-roots blackguards and their tin-pot days out at Wembley are everything that's wrong with the bloody game.
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