League cup 3rd round
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Neville with a nice burn on the Blueshite.
Our relationship with this competition has always been weird. For ages, no matter how well we did elsewhere, we'd generally bomb out of this really quickly. Then we suddenly seemed to work out how to win it without disrupting our season, so we went on a run where we seemed to win it amazingly regularly. Then we reverted to bombing out. Then with Roy and Ged we won it again but only by making it look way, way too hard. Then we won it with Kenny, also by making it seem like the hardest challenge in world football. Now we're back to bombing out. Take it away - it bores me.
It can be a useful way of giving the players who need game time a runout or two, but I agree it has all the allure of a fried cowpat.
I've long thought that all teams in European competition should play the 'B side' or players who haven't played more than X a month of games (which would cover established players returning from injury) with at least 6 of those being below 23.
Not only would that give other sides a better chance at progression, it'd help bed in those players with competitive football at the bigger sides too.
Not only would that give other sides a better chance at progression, it'd help bed in those players with competitive football at the bigger sides too.
Fully agree with that in many ways, but then I suppose the counter argument is that the lower league clubs who do depend on cash from this competition are going to need that even more this season.
I think that’s false. You can’t expect to get a decent tie when you’re a lower league team. You’ve got more chance of losing to a league 1 side than getting a tie at Anfield.
I get that point and it's a good one. But without fans, or many fans, will they get that much? If it's TV money, I'd give it all to them and let the big clubs play their kids. But if Sky et al behave in the ridiculous way they did over the post-lockdown league games, they'll probably claim a refund, the bastards.
They won’t announce that till the second round has been completed
That devalues the competition even more. I didn’t think that was possible.
Why are all the draws happening before the current round is done?
I assume for publicity as this competition has gone from irrelevant to nuisance in most peoples eyes
Probably cos they had to do it during the hours Morrisons let them do the live draw on Market Street & whenever Shane Ritchie was available.
It’s because how quickly the fixtures are coming round. It gives clubs some preparation time to organise logistics.
Least plausible reason I have read on here yet
Yep. And just to make the third tier European competition sound even more feeble, they have named it the Europa Conference League.
In practice the League Cup winners don't often get into Europe anyway.
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